The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-26
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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 not exactly the same, are wins:
envy is the rottenness of the bonep
WhcrG envy and strife is, there is con-
fusion and every evil work; Jealousy Is
the rage OF man" Ny hearers, If this evil
passion is IN any Ct your souls, cry
nightly vi 10 God for its expulsion. That
which has downed kings and emperors,
and apostles, and reformcrs, and ministers
Of religion, and thousands OF good men
and 7omen, is too mighty for you to con-
tend against unaided. The evil has 50
many roots Of guch infinite convulsioI
t1at nothing but the energy of Omnipo"
tence can pull it out. Tradition says that
when Moses lifted up his hand to pray
was all encrusted with mamma, and nc
SCORER do you pray than you are helped.
Away with tlfe accursed. stenchful, black.
ening damLing crime Of jealousy. Allow
it to stay and it will eat up and carry of
all the religion you can pack into your
soul for the next half-century. 1t win do
You more ham than it does any one il
leads You to- assail 1t will delude you
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 back. Ec honey-bee rather than
q spider; be a dove rather than buzzard.
sutely 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 straightforward successes. Jeal-
ousv entertained will not only bedwarf
your soul, but it will fatten your skull,
bemean your eye, put plnchedness OF look
about your nostril. give bad curl to the
lip. and cxpel from your face the Divine
image In which you were created. " hen
YOU hear a man or woman abused drive in
on the defendants side. Watch for ex-
ccllencics IN others rather thanfor defects,
morning glOries instead of nightshade. II
some one is more beautiful than you,
thank God that you have not so many per-
lis # vanity to contend with. If some one
has more wealth than you, thank God that
you have not so great stewardship to an
ever for If some one is higher up in So
cial position, thank God that those who
are down need not fear fall. If some
than YOU. thank God there are not so many
to wish for the Fastening On of your obse-
quies.
Substitute for jealousy an elsYatlng
emulation. 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 Congratulations for others into
Ot,r 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
filed upwith helptuiness for others, work
and evmpathy for each others misfortunes,
and our arffie be full of white mantles to
cover mp the mistakes and failures of 9TH
ers If an evil report about some one
comes to us, let us pat on the most taVOra-
bic construction, as the RhOne enters Lake
Lemau foul and comes out crystalline.
Do not build so much on the transitory diff
ferences of this world, for soon it will
make no difference to us whether we had
ten million dollars or ten cents, and the
ashes into which the tongue of Demos
themes dissolved are just like the ashes
into which the tongue of the yeriest stan1-
merer went.
If You are assailed By jealousy, make 10
answer. Take it as a compliment, fo'
people are never jealous of failure.
Until your work is done you are lnEulnsT~
able. Remember how our Lord behaved
under such exasperatjons. Did they not
try TO catch Him in his word: Did they
rht call Him the victim of lntoXicants?
Did they not misinterpret Him from the
winter of the year 1 to the spring of the
wear 33-that is, from His first infantilc
~. 1ag nr
Yet He answered not a word. But so far
from demolishing either His mission or
His good name, after near nineteen CEN
turies He outranks everything under the
skies, and is second TO none above them,
and the archangel makes salaam at His
footstool. Chrlst'S bloody antagonists
thought that they had finished Him when
thev wrote over the cross His accusation
in three anguages-Hebrew, Greek and
Latin--nOt realizing that they were by
that act introducing Him to all nations,
since Hebrew is the hOliest language, and
Greek the wisest of tongues and Latin the
widest spoken.
You are not the first man who had his
faults looked at through a microscope and
and his virtues through the wrong end OF
| a telescope. Pharoah had the chief butler
and baker endungeOned, and tradition
saws that all the butler had done was TO
allow a fly in the Kings cup, and all the
| baker had done was TO leave gravel in
| the Kings bread. The world has the habit
| of making great ado about what you do
wrong and forgetting to say any thing
| about what you do right, but the same God
will take care of you who provided for
Merlin, the Christian martyr, when hid
| den from his pursuers in hay-mO IN
| Paris, and a hen came and laid an egg
| close by him every morning, thus keeping
| him from starvation. Blessed are they
that are prosecuted, although persecution
| is severe cataplasm. Ointment may
smart the wound before healing it. What
| a soft pillow to dire on if when We leave
| the world we can feel that, though thou
| sand people may have wronged US, we
| have wronged no one; or, having made
enviOus and jealous attack on others, we
have repented of the sin and as far as
possible made reparatiOn. The good res
olution of Timothy Poland in his quaint
but exquisite hymn, entitled ''Most Any
Day." we might we'll unanimously adoTE
Wen keep all right and good within,
| Our work will then be free from sin;
| Upright Wen walk through thick and thin
Straight on our way.
Deal just with all; the prize Wen win
Most any day.
When he who made all things Just right
Shall call us hence 10 realms of light
Be it morn, or noon, or cen, or night,
We will obey;
Wen be prepared TO take our flight
Most any day