The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1888-04-19
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.

DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.
"JEALOUsYD THE SUBJECT OF SUM-
DAY MORNINGS DISCOURSE.
It Combines All That Is Obnoxious in
the Human Race and In the Brute
Creation--It Pierces and Encircles the
Earth with Its Raging Fire.
BROOKLYN, April 15.-The hymn sung
by the congregation in the Tabernacle
this morning begins:
No more let human blood be split, 81
Vain sacrifice for human guilt.
Professor Henry Eyre Brown rendered
the second sonata in e minor by Ritter
Having expounded passages of Scripture
in regard to the behavior of Jacob and
Esau, the Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage, D.
D., preached on the subject of Jealousy
taking his text from Proverbs vi, "a.
Jealousy is the rage of man." He
said:
Some subjects religious teacher
touches thousand times, now coming
on them from one direction, now from
another. But here is 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.
monstraus sand diabolical, TINT has for
ages walked and crawled the earth. It
combines all that is obnoxious in the
races human, quadrupedal, ornitholog-
ical, reptilian and insectile, horned,
tusked, hoofed, fanged, stinged; the eye
of a basilisk, the tooth Of an adder, the
jaws of crocodile, the crushing folds of
an anaconda, the slyness Of 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 insti-
tuition, in every drawing room levee, in
every literary and professional circle.
1t whispers, it Misses, it lies, it
debauches, it blasphemes, it damns.
My text names it when 1t says
Jealousy is the 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 pro-
fessional, or political recognition. It is
the shadow of other peoples success. 1t
is the shiver in our pocketbook because
it is not as fat as some one else's pocket
book. 1t is the twinge in our tongue be-
cause it is not as eloquent as some one
else's tongue. It is the futter in our
robes because they are not as lustrous as.
some one else's robes. 1t is the earth
quake under our house because 1t is not
as many feet front and deep as our
neighbor's 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 detractions and bank
ruptcies and crimes and woes of the
human race.
1t was antediluvian asTmuch as it is
postdiluvian. It 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 been ac-
cepted and yours rejected" And Cain
picked up the stick as though just to
walk with it, and while Abel was watch
ing some bird in tho tree top, OF gazing
at some waterfall. down came the blow
it's echo in all the fratricides, matricides,
uxoricides, homicides, infanticides, and
regicides of all ages and all nations.
This passion of jealousy 30 disturbed Cal
igula at the prominence of some of the
men of his time, that he cut much ad-
mired curl from the brow of Cincin-
natus, and took the embroidered collar
from the neck Of Torquatus, and had
Ptolomaeus killed because Of his purple
robe, which attracted too much attention.
After Columbus had placed America as
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 be-
cause his music was too popular. Jeal-
ousy 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 An
tony against Cicero. Tberius exiled an
architect because of the fame he got for
beautiful porch, and slew poet for his
fine tragedy. That set Saul in rage
against David. How graphically the
Bible puts it 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 attempt anything great?
will grind you under my heel. Twill ex=
terminate you, I will, you miserable
homunculus. Crouch, crawl, stink into
that rathole. / will teach those 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 for
getting him and putting his literary ad-
miration on Bacaulard d'Arnaud, the old
infidel leaped out of his bed and danced
the floor in q maniacal rage, and ordered
his swiftest horses hooked up to carry
him to the Prussian palace.
That despicable passion of jealousy led
Napoleon l to leave in his will a be-
quest of 5000 francs TO the ruffian who
shot at Wellington when the victor OF
Waterloo was passing through Paris.
That stationed the grouty elder brother
at the back door of the homestead when
the Prodigal Son returned, and threw q
chill on the family reunion while that
elder brother complained, sayingi 'eWho
ever heard of giving roast veal to such a
profigate?' Aye, that passion rose up and
under the darkest. cloud that ever shad-
owed the earth and amid the loudest
thunder that ever shook the mountains
and amid the widest flash 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 dele.
gate, and stopped not until there was nc
power left in hammer or bramble OF
javelin to hurt the dead Son of God.
That passion of jealousy, livid, hungry
unbalked, RACES on, and it now pierces
the earth like fiery diameter and en-
circles it like fiery circumference. Il
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