Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-04-21
!. DR. DR.. TllLlIAGE'S SERMON.
5l"'JEALoUsYu The SUBJECT OF SUM-
DAY MORNINGS DISCOURSE.


DAY MORNINGS DISCOURSE.
|sIt Combines All That IN Obnoxious In the
Human Race and In tho.Isruto Creation.
:. It Forces and Encircies the Earth with
I Z lis Raging Fire. =
] e BROOKLYN, April 15.-The hymn sung by
tho congregation in the Tabernacle this
morning begins:
3, II No more let human blood bc split,
Vain sacrifice for human guilt.
s. Professor Henry Eyre Brown rendered. the
Second sonata in z minor by Ritter. Hav-
/ ing expounsled passages Of Scripture in
regard to tho behavior of Jacob and Esau,
Rev T. Do Witt Talmagc, D. D., preached
on the subject of Jealousy taking his text
from Proverbs vi, "a: Jealousy is the rage
OF a nian.n He said:
ONE subjects religious teacher touches
1000 times, now coming on them from one
direction, now from another. But here is
SSiblo theme that for some reason is left tee
sst6Fally alone, This morning, asking your
.prayers and insthe strength Of God, want
to grapplc it.
D There is all old sin, hnggard, furious, mon
strous md dabolical, that has for ages
walked and crawlcd the earth. 1t combines
MI that is obnoxious in the races human,
ouadrupedal, pathological, rcptilian and
insectilo, horned, tusked hoofcd, fanged,
stinged; the eye of basilisk, the tooth OF an
adder, tho jaws OF crocodile, tho crushing
folds of an anaconda, the slyness OF scor-
pion, the tongue of cobra, and the coil OF
the worm that never dies. 1t is i'll every
community, in every church, in every lcsis-
lntive hall, in every monetary institution, in
every drawing room leyee, in every literary
aud professional CIRCLE 1t whispers, it
misses. it lies, it debauches, it blasphemes,
it dumns My text names it when it says
Jealousy is the rage of Il man" 1t is gller
nc tho superiority of others; their superiority
III talent or wealth or benuty or elegance OF
virtue OF social or professional or political
recognition. It is the shadow Of other peo-
ples success. It is the shiver III our pocket
book because 1t is not as fat as some ono
else's pocket book 1t is the twinge in our
tongue because it is not as eloquent us some
one else's tongue. 1t is the iiutter IN our
robes because they are not as lustrous as
some one else's robes. 1t is the earthquake
under our house because it is not as many
feet front and deep as our neighbours house.
It is the thunder of other peoples popularity
souring the milk of our kindness 1t is tho
father and mother both Of one-half of the
discomfort and outragcs and detractions and
H., Nd n
human race
1t was antediluvian rs much as it is post
l4diluvian. It put rough stick in the hands
of tho 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 slcll-
flee has been accepted aud yours rejected. F"
And Cain picked up the stick Us though JUST
TO walk with it, and while Abel was watch
ing some bird in tho tree top, or gazing at
some waterfall, down came tue blow OF inc
first assassination, which has had its echo IN
l5nll the fratricides, mntricides, uNorlcldcs,
shomicides, infanticides and regicides OF OIL
ages and all nations. Thispassion OF jealousy
so disturbed Caligula at the prominence OF
some of tho men Of his time that hc cut a
much admired curl from the brow OF Cincin-
ss,atus, and took tho embroidered coilar iron
Etle -.---r--.-ad-i1nd Ptolomaeus
! Elisa pprule rnhc wh;nf=;s-7--
! trncted too much attention. After Columbus
| had placed America ns gem IN tho Spanish
crown, jealousy. set OH the Spanish cour-
tiers to deprecinte his achievement, and
aroused auiInositics till the great discovcrer
/ had his heart broken. Urged OH by this bad
passion, Dionysius 1ayed Plato because ne
was wiser than himself, and Philo1enius be-
cause his music was too popular. Jealousy
nude Korah lie about Moses, and Succoth
dcprcciate Gideon.
Jealousy mnde the trouble between jacob
and Esau That hurled Joseph into the pit.
That struck tho twenty three fatal wounds
| into Julius Caesar That banished Aristides.
That fircd Antony against Cicero. Tiberius
exiled all architect because of the fame he
got for beautiful porch, and slew poet for
his flne tragedy. That set Saul in n rage
against David. How graphically the Bible
puts it when it says; saul eyed David" 1t
seems to take possession OF both Dyes and
makes them flash and burn like two port
holes of hell aSaul eyed David.n That is
he looked at him rs much as to say: You
little upstart, how dare you attempt anything
grcatl I will grind you under my heel. l
will externinate you, will, you miserable
hoiaunculus Crouch, crawl, stink into that
rat hole. will teach those women TO sing
some other song, instead of "Saul has slain
lis thousands but David his tens Of thou
sands" When Voltaire heard that Frederick
the Great was forgetting him and putting his
literary admiration on Bacaulard dArnaud,
tho old inlidcl lelped out of his bed and
danced tho floor i'll maniacal rage, and
ordered his swiftest horses hooked up to carry
him to tho Prussian palace.
That dcspicable passion of jealousy led
Napoleon tic First to leave in his will be-
qncst of 5000 francs to the ruflian who shot
at Wellington whom tho victor at Waterloo
was passing through Paris. That stationed
tho grouty elder brother at the back door Of
tic homestead when the prodigal son re-
turned, and threw q chill on the family re-
union while that elder brother complained
saying: "NVho ever heard of giving roast
veal to such pronigateln Ay, that passion
rose up and under the darkest cloud that
ever Swallowed the earth and amid the loud
est thunder that ever shook tho mountains,
and amid the widest fash of lightning that
over blinded or stunned tho nations, hung up
ontwo pieces of rough lumber back of Jeru-
salem the kindest, prirest, lovingest nature
that heaven could delegate, aud stopped not
;-I;..SS,s.I there was no power left in hammer or
Lramble or javeliu to hurt the dead son of
GOD
That passion of jealousy, livid, hungry,
unbalkcd, RACES on, and it now pierces the
earth like fiery diameter and cncircles it
like fiery circumference. 1t wants both
hemispheres 1t wants the heavens. 1t
would, if it could, capture hepalace of God,
md dethrone jehovah, and chain the Al
mighty in eternal exile, and after the demo-
lition of the universe would cry: Satisfied
at last, hero I anil Alone, the undisputed
and everlasting 1, Ne, Mine, Myself" That
passion keeps ell Europe perturbed. Nations
jealous OF Germany, of England, of Russia,
MD tl,nSn inn lni,s of each other, and I'll of