Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-04-27

Yea; look at the clerical profession.
am sorry TO say that IN matters OF
Jealousy 1t Is no better than other pro-
fessiOns. There are now In all de-
nominations a great many young clergy
men who have a faculty for superior
usefulness But they are kept down
and kept back and crippled by older
ministers who look askance at these
rising evangeIists. They are snubbed.
They are jOstled. They are patrOnizing-
~ advised. 1t is suggested to them
that they had better know their place.
If here and there one with more nerve
and brain and conservation and divine
force 60 past the seniors, who want to
keep the chief places, the young are
advised in the words of scripture: Star
~ at j erichO till their boards are grown"
They are charged with sensational
ism. They are compared to rockets
that go up In a blaze and come down
sticks, aud the brevity Of their career
Is jubilantly prOphesied. If it be de-
nomination with bishops, a bishop is
implOred to sit down heavily on the
man who VIII not be nodded; or, if a
denomination without bishops, some Of
the older men with nothing more than
their own natural heaviness and thee
logical aVOirdupOis are advised to
hatten out the innOvatOr. In confer
ences and presbyteries and associations
and conventions there is often seen the
most damnable jealousy. Such eccle-
siastical tyrants would not admit that
jealousy had any possession of them,
and they take on q heavenly air and
talk sweet oil and sugar-plums and
balm of a thousand flowers, and roll up
their eyes with an air of unctiOus
h.,
destruction of those over whom they
pray and shuttle. There areEcases where
ministers of religion are derelict and
criminal, and they must be put out
But IN the majority Of cases that 1 have
Witnessed in ecclesiastical trials there
is a Jealous attempt to keep men from
SURPRISING their theological fellows,
and, as at presidential elections in
country places, the people have a bar
becue-WhIch IS q roasted OK round
which the people dance with knives,
cutting off a slice here, and pulling out
q RIB there, and saving off a beefsteak
yOnder, and having a high time-sO
most of the denominations Of Christ
ians keep on hand a barbecue in
which some minister is roasted, while
the church courts dance around with
their sharp knives of attack, and one
takes an ear, another a hand, another a
foot, and it is hard to tell whether the
ecclesiastical plaintiffs Of this world or
the demons of the neither world most
enjoy it. Albert Barnes, than whom
no man has accomplished more good in
the last thousand years, was decreed to
sit silent for year in the pew of his own
church while some one else occupied
his own pulpit, the pretended Offense
ho4 h. hi
atonement, but the real offense the fact
that all the men who tried him put to-
gether would not equal one Albert
Barnes.
Yes; amid all professions and bust
nesses and occupations and trades, and
amid all circles needs to be heard what
God says in regard to envy and jeal-
Ousy, which, though not exactly the
same, are twins. Envy Is the rotten
ness of the bone" Where envy and
strife is, there is confusion and every
evil work. Jealousy is the rage of a
man" My hearers, if this evil passion
is in any OfyOur souls, cry nightly unto
God for its expulsion. That which has
dOWned kings and emperOrs and apOs-
ties and refOrmers and ministers Of re-
hgiOn and thousands of good men and
women, is too mighty for you tOlcOntend
against unaided. The evil has so many
roots of such infinite cOnYOlutiOn that
nothing but the enginery of OmnipO-
tence can pull it out. Tradition says
that when Moses lifted up his hand to
pray it was all encrusted with mama,
and no sooner do you pray than you are
helped. Away with the accursed, |
stenchful, blackening, damning crime
of jealousy. Allow it to stay and it
III
you can pack into your soul for the
next half century. 1t viii do you more
harm than it does anyone it leads you
to assail. 1t viii delude you with the
idea that you can build yourself up by
pulling somebody else down. You viii |
make more out of the success of others
than out Of their misfOrtunes. Speak |
well Of everybody, Stab no man in the |
back. Be a hOney-bee rather than a
spider; be a dove rather than a buzz |
zard. Surely this world is large /
enough for you and all your rivals. God |
has given you a work to do. Go ahead /
and do it. Mind your own business. /
In all circles, in all businesses, in all !
professions, there is room for straight |
forward successes. Jealousy enter /
tanned viii not only bedwarf your soul |
but it viii fatten your skull, bemean |
your eye, put pinchedness of look about /
your nostril, give a bad curl to the lip, /
and expel from your face the divine |
image in which you were created. |
When you hear man or woman /
abused, bride IN on the defendants /
side. Watch for excellences in others |
rather than defects, morning glOries /
instead of nightshade If someone is /
more beautiful than you, thank God /
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vanity to contend with. If someone /
hos rlnEa ERaaIth than Won thnnk God |