The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-04-27
HUMANITY'S CURSE.
D.. Talmaae on the Bad Effects Of
Jealousy.
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In late sermon on Jealousy" Rev. T.
De Witt Talmax4 d. D., took for bis text
Proverbs vi 81: "Jeslousy Il the age Of
man" He said:
Some subjects religious teacher touch
es thousand times, now com ng on them
from one direction, now from another. But
here 10 Bible theme that for some reason
is left teetotally alone. This morning, ask
ing your prayers and In the strength Of
God, I want to grspple 1t.
There is an old sin, haggard, furious
INDUSTRIOUS and diaboli cal, that has for
ages walked and crawied the earth. 1t
combines all that il obnoxious In the races
human, quadrupedal, ornithologIcal, reptil-
ian and insectile, horned, tusked, hoofed,
Hanged, stinged; the eye Of basilisk. the
tooth OF an adder, the jaws OF crocodile,
the crushing folds Of an anaconda, the sly
ness cf scorpion, the tongue Of cobra
and the coil OF the worm that never dies.
1t Is In every community, in every church,
in every legislative hall, In every monetary
Institution, in every drawing-room levee,
IN every literary and professional circle. 1t
whispers, it Kisses, it lies, it debauches, it
olasphemes 1t damns.
My sex: names 1t when 1t says jealousy
10 Ike rage OF Q man." It is grief at the
superiority Of others; their superiority in
TALENT or wealth, or beauty, or elegance,
or virtue, or social or professional or polit-
ical recognition. It IL the shadow Of other
peoples success, II Is the SILVER in our
p0cketbook because It Is not rs fat as some
one else's pocketbook. 1t is the twinge in
our tongue because it 10 not rs eloquent rs
some one clse's tongue. Il - the hutter in
our robes because they are not rs lustrous
as some one else's robes. 1t 10 the earth
quake under our house because it Is not as
many feet front and deep Is our neighbor's
house. It ID the thunder of other peo-
pies popularity souring the milk Of our
kindness. It is The father and mother both
OF one-hslf Of the discomfort and outrages.
and detractioDA and bankruptcies, and
crimes and wees Of the human race. 1t
was antediluvian Is much as it Is p0stdilu-
vian. 1t put . rough stick in the hands of
the first boy that was ever born and said
to him: "Now, Cain, when Abel Is looking
the other way crush in his skull, for his
sacrifice has Deen accepted and yours re-
iected" And Cain picked up the stick As
though just te walk with it, and while Abel
was watching some bird In the tree-top. or
gazing at some waterfall, down came the
blow Of the first assassination, which has
had its echo in all the fratricides, matri-
cides, uxoricides, homicides, infantlcides
and regicides Of all ages and all nations.
This passion Of jealousy SO disturbed
Caligula at the prominence Of some OF the
men Of his time, that he cut o much ad-
mired curl from the brow Of Cincinnatus,
and took the embroidered collar from the
neck Of Torquatus, and had Ptolomacus
killed because Of his purple robe, which At
\ CcIs
bus had placed America rs Q gem in the
Spanish crown, Jealousy set on the Span
ism courtiers to depreciate his achieve
ment, and aroused apimosities till the great
discoverer had his heart broken. Urged
on by this bad passion, Dionysius flayed
Plato because he was wiser than himself,
and Philoxenius because his music was too
popular. Jealousy made Korah lie about
Moses and Succoth deprecated Gideon.
Jealousy made the trouble between Jacob
and Esau. That hurled Joseph into the pit.
That struck the twenty three fatal wounds
into julius Cesar. That banished Arts
tides. That fired Antony against Cicero.
rlberius exiled An architect because Of
the fame he got for . beautiful porch, and
slew poet for bis fine tragedy. That set
Saul IN . rags against David. How
graphically the Bible puts it when It says:
saul eyed David" It seems to take pos.
session Of both eyes and makes them flash
and burn like two portfolios Of hell. ''Saul
eyed David" That Is. he looked at him
40 much Is to say: "You little upstart,
how dare you attempt any thing greaterl
will grind you under my heel. will ex-
terminate you, will, you miserable no.
munculus. Crouch. crawl. stink into that
rat-hole. l will teach those women to sing
some other song, instead Of saul has slain
his thousands but David his tens Of thou
sands"
When voltaire heard that Frederick the
Great was forgetting him ami putting his
literary admiration ON Bacaulsrd d. Arnaud,
the old infidel leaped out Of his bed and
danced the door in Q maniacal rage, and
ordered his swiftest horses hooked up to
carry him to the Prussian palace. That
despicable passion Of jealousy led Napo-
leon !. to leave in his will . bequest of 8, 00O
francs to the r,lfiisn who shot ut yelling
ton when the victor Of Waterloo was pass.
ing through Paris. That stationed the
grouty elder brother at the back door Of
the homestead when the Prodigal Son re-
turned, and threw . chill ON the family
reunion while that elder brother CON-
planned, saying: "Who ever heard Of
giving roast veal to such . profigate"
Aye, that passion rose up and under the
darkest cloud that over Swallowed the earth
aud amid the loudest thunder that ever
shook the mountains, and amid the widest
fash Of lightning that ever blinded or
stunned the nations, hung up on two pieces
Of rough lumber back Of Jerusalem the
kindest, purest, lovingest nature that
Heaven could delegate, and stopped not un-
til there was NO power left in hammer or
bramble or tavelin to hurt the dead Son Of
God.