The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-05-03

WS' Auo,o were ialthIul physicians thuu
sacrificed their other practice aud sacrificed
their health for all time in fidelity to that
deathbed. nrs, Bliss and Hamilton and Az.
new went through anxietes and tolls and
fatigues such as none but God could appre.
ciate. Nothing pleased many of the medical
| profession. The doctors in charge did moth
| ing right, We who did not see the case knew
better than those who agonized over it in the
SICK room for many weeks. l, who never had
anything worse than a runround on my
thumb, which seemed to me at the time was
worthy all the attic -Aion of the entire medical
fraternity, had my own ideas as to how the
President ought to no treated And in pro.
portion as physicians and laymen wore lgnor'
ant OF the case they were sure the treatment
practiced was mistake Aud When in post
mortem the bullet dropped out of different
part of the body from that in which it was
supposed to have been lodged, about 20, 900
people shouted: ~ told YOU So" '"There, |
knew it all the time" There are some doc.
tors in all cities who would rather have the
patient die under the treatment of their own
schools than have them get well under some
other patty.
Yea; look at the clerical profession. | nm
sorry to say that in matters of jealousy it is
no better than other professions There are
now IN all denominations great many young
clergymen who have a faculty for superior
usefulness. But they arc kept down and kept
back and crippled by old ministers who
look askance at these rising evangelists.
They are snuhbed. They arc iostled They
are patronizingly advised It is suggested
to them that they had better know their
place III here aud there one with more nerve
and brain and conservation and divine force
go past the seniors who want to keep the chief
places, the young are advised in the words of
Scripture: "Tarry at Jericho till their boards
are grown" They are charged with sensa-
tonalism They are compared to rockets that
go up in blaze and come down sticks, and
the brevity of their career is jubilantly proph
esied, If it be IA denomination with bishops,
bishop is imp!orcd 10 sit down heavily on
the man who will rot be nodded; or il
denomination withou. bishops, some of the
older men with nothing more than their own
natural heaviness and theological avoirdu-
pois are advised to fatten out the innovator.
In conferences and presbyteries and associa-
tions and conventions there is often seen the
most damnable jieaousies. Such ecclesias-
tical tyrants would not admit that jealousy
had any possession of them, and they take
on n heavenly air, and talk sweet oil and
sugar plums and balm of a thousand flowers,
aud roll up their eyes with an airof unctuous
sanctity when they simply mean the destruc-
ton of those over whom they pray and
shuttle. There are cases where ministers of
religion are derelict and criminal, and they
must be put out
But in the majority OF cases that | have
witnessed in ecclesiastical trials there is
jealous attempt to keep men from SURPRISING
their theological fellows, and as at the presi
dental elections in country places the people
have barbecue-which is roasted OK,
round which the people dance with knives,
cutting off slice here, and pulling out rib
there, and saving q beefsteak yonder, and
having high time-so most of the denomi-
nations of Christians keep on hand barbe-
cue in which some minister is roasted, while
a n r<a 1n, md p,tl, tbn,r
sharp knives of attack and one takes finger,
another hand, another foot, and it is
hard to tell whether the ecclesiastical plain
tiffs 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 1000 years, was decreed to
sit silent for year in the pew of his own
church Wholesome one else occupied his pull
pit, the pretended offense that he did not
believe in limited atonement, but the real
otfense the fact that all the men who tried
him put together would not equal one Albert
Barnes.
Yes, amid all professions and business
and occupations and trades. and amid all
circles, needs to be heard what God says
in regard to envy and jealousy, which,
though rot exactly the same, are twins:
Envy is the rottenness of the bone"
"Where envy and strife is, there is confusion
and every evil work. Jealousy is the rage
"a "a iii'i' A. hculoio, IL UIllS Evil pdSSiOU
is in any Of your souls, cry nightly unto
God for its expulsion That which has downed
kings and emperors and apostles and re-
formers and ministers of religion and thou
sands of good men and women, is too mighty
for you to contend against unaided The evil
has SO many roots, of such infinite convolu.
tion, 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, backening, damning
crime of jealousy. Allow it to stay and It
will eat up and carry off all the religion you
tan pack into your soul for the next half
century. 1t will do you more harm than it
does any one it leads you to assall. 1t viii
delnde you with the idea that you can buili
yourself up by pulling somebody else down.
You will make more out of the success OF
others than out OF their misfortunes Speak
well of everybody. Stab no man in the bacb
Be honey bee rather than a spider; bs
dove rather than buzzard.
Surely this world is large enough for you
and all your rivals. God has given you
work to- do. Go ahead and do it. Mind
your own business. In all circles, in all bust
nesses, in all professions there is room for
straightforward successes. Jealousy enter
tanned will not only bedwarf your soul but
1t VIII tlatten your skull, bemean your eye,
put pinchedness Of look about your nostrl,
give bad curl to the lip, and expel from
your face the divine image in which you
were created. When you hear man or wo-
man abused, drive in on the defendants side
Watch for excelences in others rather than
than for defects, morning glories instead of
nightshade. II some one is more beautiful
than you, thank God that you have not so
many perils of vanity to contend with. II
some one has more wealth than you thank
God that you have not so great stewardship
to answer for. Ii some one is higher up IN
social position, thank God that those who
are down need not fear fall If some one
gets higher Off q in Church or State than
you, thank God there are not so many to
wish for the fastening on of your obsequies
The Duke of Dantzig, in luxurious apart
inonts, was visited by plain friend, and to
keep his friends from jealousy the Duke said
You can have all | have if you will stand
twenty PAGES off and let me shoot at you a
huhds ell times" mo, no" said his friend.
WELL" said the Duke, "to gain all my
honors faced on the battle field more than
thousand gurishots fired not more than ten
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A minister of q small congregation com.
palned to Il minister of large congregation
about the sparseness of his attendants 'Ah,"
said the one of large audience, my son, you
will find in the day of Judgment that you
had quite enough people for whom to be held
accountable"
Substitute for jealousy an elevating emua
ton. Seeing others good, let us try to be
better. Seeing others industrious, let us
work more hours Seeing others benevolent,
let US resolve on giving larger percentage Of
our means for charity. May God put con-
gratulations for others in our right hand
and cheers on our lips for those who do brave
and useful things Life is short at
the longest; let it all be filled up
with helpfulness for Others work
and sympathy for each others misfort-
unes, and our arms be full of white mantles
to cover up the mistakes and failures of
Others. Ii an evil report about some one
come to US. let us put on it most favorable
construction, as the Rhone enters Lake Leman
foul and comes out crystalline Do not build
so much on the transitory differences of this
world, for soon it will make no differences to
US whether we had $4,000, 600 or ten cents,
and the ashes into which the tongue Of
Demosthenes dissolved are just like the ashes
Into which the tongue Of the veriest STAN
Snerer went
If you are assailed by jealousy make no
answer. Take it as a compliment, for people
are never jealous of failure. Until your
work is done you are invulnerable. Remem-
her how our Lord behaved under such exas-
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