Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-16
DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.
JEALOUSY" THE SUBJECT OF SUM-
DAY MORNINGS DISCOURSE.


1t Combines All That Is Obnoxious in the
Human Race and in the Brute Creation.
1t Pierces and EpcIrcIes the Earth with
It's Raging Fire.
BRooKL IN, April l5.-The hymn sung by
the cong egation in the Tabernacle this
morning legins:
No more let human blood be split,
Vain sacrifice for human guilt
Professor Henry Eyre Brown rendered the
Second sonata in Z minor by Ritter. Hav-
ing expounded passages of Scripture in
regard to the behavior of Jacob and Esau,
Rev. T. De Witt Tslmage, 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
1000 times, now coming on them from one
direction, now from another. But here is n
Bible theme that for some reason is left tee
totally alone. This morning, asking your
prayers and in the strength Of God, want
10 grapple it.
There is an old sin, haggard, furious, mon
strous and diabolical, that has for ages
walked and crawled the earth. 1t combines
MI that Is obnoxious in the races human,
ou,drupedaI. ornitholoCical. reptilian and
ins.stile. horned, tusked, hoofed. fanged,
s.ipged. the eve of basilisk, the tooth of an
adder. the laws of q crocodile the crushing
fills of an anaconda. the slyness of q scor-
pion the tongue of a cobra, and the coil of
the worm that never dies, 1t is in every
community, in every church, in every legis-
latiye hail. in every monetary institution, in
every drawing room levee, in every literary
and professional circle. 1t whispers, it
bisses il lies. it debauches, it biasphemes,
il damns. NV text names it when it says
Jealousy is the rage of a man. 1t is grief
MT the superiority of others; their superiority
in talent or wealth or beauty or elegance or
virtue or social or professional or political
recognition. 1t is the shadow of other peo-
pies success. 1t is the shiver in our pocket
book because 1t is not as fat as some one
elss's pocket book. 1t is the twinge in our
toncue because it is not as eloquent as some
one elss's tongue 1t is the fiutter in our
robes because they are not as lustrous as
under our house because it is not as many
feet front and deep as our neiShbors 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
and crimes and woes of the
human race
It was antediluvian as much as it is post
dillvian 1t 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 sacri
fee has been accepted 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 the tree top, or gazing at
some waterfall, down came the blow Of the
first assassination, which has had its echo in
all the fralricides, matricides, uxoricides,
infanticides and regicides Of all
ages and all nations This passion of jealousy
So disturbed Caligula at the prominence of
some of the men of his time that he cut a
much admired curl from the brow of Cincin-
natus, and took the embroidered collar from
tao neck of Torquatus, and had Ptolomaeus
killed. because OF his purple robe, which at
tracted too much attention After Columbus
had placed America as a gem In the Spanish
crown, jealousy set on the Spanish cour-
tiers to depreciate his achievement, and
aroused animos,ties 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. Jealousy
made Korah lie about Moses, and Succoth