Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-04-27
A TALmAGE SERMON.
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Vain sacrifice Tor human guilt"
Prof. Henry Eyre Brown rendered
the second sonata in E minor, by Ritter.
Having expounded passages Of scripture
N regard to the behavior of Jacob and
Esau, Rev. T. De Witt Talmage
preached on the subject of Jealousy"
taking his text:
Jealousy is the rage of man. -
Prov. vi, "a
He said:
Some subjects a religious teacher
touches a thousand times, now coming
on them from one direction, now from
another. But here is a bible theme
that for some reason is left teetotally
alone. This morning asking your
prayers and in the strength of God,
want to grapPle it.
There is an old sin, haggard, furious,
mOnstrons, and diaboHcal, that has for
ages walked and crawIed the earth. It
combines all that is obnoxious in the
races human, quadrupedaI, ornitholog-
zeal, reptilian, and inseetile, horned,
tuslled, hoofed, fanged, stinged; the
eye of a basilisk, the tooth of an adder,
the jaws of a crocllodiIe, the crushing
folds of an anaconda, the slyness of a
scorpion, the tongue of a cobra, and
the coil of the worm that never dies.
1t is in every community, in every
church, in every Legislative hail. in
svery monetary institution, in every
drawing-room levee, in ever literary and
professional circle. It whispers, it
Kisses, it lies, it debauches, it bias
phemes, it damns My text names it
when it says Jealousy is the rage of a
man" 1t is grief at the superiority of
others; their superiority in talent, or
wealth, or beauty, or elegance, or vir-
tue, or social or professional or political
recognition. 1t is the shadow of other
peoples success. It is the SILVER in
our pocket-book because it is not as fat
as someone else's pOcket-bOOk 1t is
the twinge in our tongue because it is
not as eloquent as someone else's
tongue. 1t is the fiutter in our robes
because they are not as IustrOus as
someone else's robes. 1t is the earth
quake under our house because it is not
as many feet front and deep as our
neighbours house. 1t is the thunder of
other peoples popularity sOuring the
milk of our kindness. 1t is the father
and mother both of one-half of the
discomfort, and Outrages, and detrac-
tlOns, and bankruptcies, and crimes,
and woes of the human race.
1t was antediluVian as much as it is
pOst-diluvian. It put a 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
been accepted and yours rejected"
And Cain picked up the stick, as though
Just to 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 fratri-
cides, matricides, uxoricides, hOmi-
cides, infanticides, and regicides of all
ages and all nations, This passion of
jealousy so disturbed CaIigula at the
prominence of some of the men of his
time that he cut the much admired
curl from the brow of Cincinnatus and
took the embroidered collar from the
neck of TOrquatus and had PtoIomaeus
killed because Of his purple robe, which
attracted too much attention. After
Columbus had placed America as a gem
IN the Spanish crown jealousy set on
the Spanish cOurtiers to depreciate his
achievement, and aroused animOsities
till the great discOverer had his heart
broken. Urged on by this bad passion,
Dionysius fayed Plato because he was
wiser than himself, and Philoxenius
because his music was too popular.
Jealousy made KOrah lie about Moses, .
and Succoth depreciate Gideon.
Jealousy made the trouble between
Jacob and Esau. That hurled Joseph
into the pit. That struck the twenty
three fatal wounds into julius Caesar.
That banished Aristides. That fired
Antony against Cicero. Tiberius ex-
lied an architect because of the fame he
got for beautiful porch aud slew
poet for his fine tragedy. That set
Saul in rage against David. How
graphically the Bible puts 1t when it
says: Saul eyed David" 1t seems to
take possession of both eyes, and make
them flash and burn like two portfolios
of hell Saul eyed David" That
IS, he looked at him as much as to say
You little upstart, how dare you at
tempt anything great? 1 viii grind
you under my heel. Twill exterminate
YOU, I VIII, you miserable homunculus.
Crouch, crawl, stink into that rat hole.
viii teach these women to sing some
other song instead of Saul has slain
his thousands but David his tens of
thousands" When Voltaire heard that
Frederick the Great was forgetting him
and putting his literary admiration on
Bacaulard dArnaud the old infdel
leaped out of his bed and danced the
floor in a maniacal rage, and ordered