The Nicodemus cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Graham County, Kan.) 1887-1888, 1888-04-20
JEALOUSY.
DIR. TALMAGE's SUNDAY DISCOURSE,
The Great Divine Grapples an
Old Sin.

A~e9 11uAAd1-4I DeDaucheS IT Bias
phemes, 1t Damns-veriiy1 It is the Rage
of Man.
Special to tRe Kansas City Times.
BROOKLYN, April 15:-The hymn sung BY
the congregation in the Tabernacle this morn
ing begins
mo more let human blood be split
Vain sacrifice for human gilt"
Professor Henry Eyre Brown rendered the
Second Sonata in E minor by Ritter Having
expounded passages Of Scripture in regard to
Inc oahavior of Jacob and Esau, the Rev, T.
Dewitt Talmage, d. D., preached on the
subject of 'Jealousy,n taking his text from
Proverbs vi 81: Jealousy is the rage OF a
man." He said:
j some subjects religious teacher touches a
! thousand times, now coming on them from
one direction, now from another. But here Is
Blole 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, haggar3, furious
monstrous and diabolical, that has for ages
walked and crawted the earth. 1t combines
all that IN obnoxious in the races human
quadrupedal, ornithoogical, reptilian and in.
sectlIe, horned, tusked, hoofed, fanged.
: stlnged; the eye of basilisk, the tooth of an
aoder the jaws of crocodile the crushing
1olds OF an anaconda, the slyness Of a
scorpion, the tongue of cobra, and the coil
OF the worm that never dies 1t is in every
community, In every church, in every legisla-
1--WE man, ia every monetary institution, in
every dfawlng-roOm leVee, in every literary
ana professional circle. 1t whispers, it
misses, 1t lies, it debauches it blasphemcs.
~ uamns My text names it when it saws
Jealousy Is the rage of a man." 1t is grief
at the superiority of others; their Superiority
III talent or wealth or beauty or elegance or
virtue or social or professional or pOlit-
lcaI recognition. 1t is the shadow of
otner peoples success. 1t is the SILVER
III our pocketbOok because it is not
as lat as some one else's pocket book. It is
ILe t"lnge Ill our tongue because it Is not as
eloquent as some Que ese's tongue: 1t is the
nutter In our robes because they are not as
lustFous 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
mouse. 1t is the thunder of other PEOPLES
popularity sourng the milk of our kindness.
IL Is the father aud mother both of One-half of
me dlscontent and Outrages and detractiuns
ana bankruptcies and crimes aud woes of the
human race.
IL was antediluvian as much as it is post
ulIuvlan. 1t put rough stick in the hands of
tnc HrSt Doy that was ever born and said to
MN: NOW, Cain, when Abel is looking the
other way, crush in his skull; for his sacrifice
mas been accepted and yours rejected" And
Cam picked up the stick as though lust to
walk with it, and while Abel was watcbing
some Dlrd In the tree-top or gazing at some
waterfall, down came the blow Of the first as
ssassinatiOn, which has had its echoe in ali the
!Fatrlclu es, matricides, uxOrcides, homfcides
IhLantlclues and regicideS of all ages and All
nations. This passion Of jealousy so disturb
Gu CalIgula at the prominence of some of the
nlen I ot MS Time, that he cut much-admired
curi from the brow Of Cincinnatus, and
TOOK the embroidered collar from the neck
" Iorquatus, and had Ptolomacus
h!!led because OF his purple robe, which
attracteo too much attention. After Column
6us had placed America as a gem in the
spanish crown, jealousy set on the Spanish
courtlers to deprecate his achievement and
aroused anlmOsities till the great dscoverer
nad his heart broken. Urged on by this |
oao passion, Dionysius tlayed Plato because
he was wiser than himself, and Philoxenius
because his music was too popular. jealousy
preciate Gideon.
Jealousy made the trouble between Jacob |
ana Esau. That hurled Joseph into the pit. |
mat struck the tWenty-three fatal wounds in |
70 Jullus Caesar. That banished Aristides. |
That fired Anthony against Cicero. Tiberius |
exiled an architect because of the fame he |
got 1Or a beautiful porch, and slew poet for |
his fine tragedy. That set Saul in a rage
against David. How graphically the Bible |
puts 1t when it says: saul eyed David" 1t |
seems TO take possession of both eyes and |
makes them flash and burn like two port holes |
OF hell. Saul eyed David" That Is he |
looked at him as much as TO say: ''You lit |
Tie upstart how dare you attempt anything |
greats will grind you under my heel will |
extermlnate you, Twill, you miserable homun-
cuius' crouch, crawl, stink into that rat
mole Will teach those women to sing some !
other song, instead OF saul has slain his |
thousands but David his tens of thousands" |
When Noltaire heard that Frederick the
Great was forgetting him and putting his
literary admiration on Bacaulard, a'Arnaud,
the old inidel leaped out of his bed and |
danced the floor in maniacal rage, aud |
ordel ed bis sMiftest horses hooked up TO carry
him to the Prussian palace.
mat despicable passion of jealousy led
Napoleon the First to leave in his will be-
quest OF five thousand francs
to the ruffin who shot at Well
ington when the victor of Waterloo was pass
ing through Paris That stationed the grouty
elder brother at the back door Of the home
stead when the PrOdigal Son returned, and
threw chill on the family reunion while that
elder brother complained, saying: "Who
ever heard Of giving roast veal TO such pro-
nlgatef Aye, that passion rose up and un-
der tho darkest cloud that ever Swallowed the
earth and amid the lOudest thunder that ever
shook the mountains, and amid the widest
flash Of lightning that ever blinded or stun
ned the nations, hung up on two pieces of
rough lumber back of Jerusalem the kindest
purest lovingest nature that heaven could |
delegate, and stopped not until there was no
power left in hammer or bramble or iayelin
to hurt the dead Son of God.
That passion of jealousy, livid, hungry, I'M
baked, RACES on, and it now pierces the
earth like "A fiery diameter and encircles if
like fiery circumference 1t wants both
Ii wants the heavens II
would, If it could, capture the palace of God,
and dethrone Jehovah, and chain the Al
mighty in eternal exile and after the dcmol-
ition of the universe would cry: Satisfied
at last, here | am! Alone! the undisputed
and everlasting |, Me, Mine, Myself" That
passion keeps all Europe perturbed. Nations
jealous Of Germany, Of England, Of Russia.
and those jealous of each other, and all OF
them jealous Of America
ln our land this passion of JEALOUSY keeps
all the political world a-b0il. There are at
least five hundred people who are Jealous of
Governor llll and would like 10 be his sue
cesSor, about five thousand who are Jealous
Of Grover Cleveland AMI would like to relieve
him Of the cares of office and after nomin-
atiOns Of next summer have been made.
q whole pandemonium Of defamation.
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