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not walk the streets Of Berlin. He is under
military guard. The medical students OF
Germany can hardly keep their hands off OF
him. The old doctors Of Germany are writh-
ing with indignation. The fact Is that IN
saving Frederick's life Dr. Mackenzie saved
he peace of Europa There was not an In
telIlgent man on either size tine ocean that
did not fear for the result if the throne passed
from wise and good old Emperor William to
his inexperienced grandson. But when, un-
der the medical treatment Of DIR. Mackenzie,
the Crown Prince Frederick took the throne,
a wave of satisfaction and confidence rolled
over Christendom. What shall the world do
with the doctor who saved his ifea @Oh,
cried out the medical jealousies Of Europe,
"destroy him, Of course destroy him."
What brutal scene Of jealousy we had IN
this country when President Garfield lay dy-.
ing. There were faithful physicians that
sacrificed their other practice and sacrlhced
their health for all time in fidelity to tnat
deathbed. Drs. Bliss and Hamilton and Ag,
new went through anxieties and tolls and
fatigues such as none but God could aPpre.
ciate. Nothing pleased many of the medical
profession. The doctors in charge did moth
ing right We who did not see the case knew
better than those who agonized over it in the
sick room for many weeks" ], who neverhad
anything worse than run-round on my
thumb, which seemed to me at the time was
worthy all the attention Of the entire medical
fraternity, had my own ideas as to how the
President ought to be treated. And IN pro.
portion as physicians and laymen were ignor.
ant Of the case they were sure the treatment
pract;ced was mistake. And when in post
mortem the bullet dropped out Of different
part Of the body from that in which 1t was
supposed to have been lodged. about 20, 900
peorle shouted: II told YOU so." There,
knew it all the time.n There are some doc
tors in all cities who would rather have the
patient die under the treatment of their own
schools than have them get well under some
other pathy.
sorry to say that in matters of jealousy it is
no better than other professions. There are
now in all denominations great many young
clergymen who have faculty for superior
usefulness But they are kept down and kept
back and crippled by old ministers who
look askance at these rising evangelists.
They are suubbed. They are jostled. They
are patronizingly advised. 1t is suggested
to them that they had better know their
place II here and there one with more nerve
ana brain and conservation and divine force
90 past the seniors who want to keep the chief
places, the young are advised in the words OF
Scripture: 7sTarry at Jericho till their boards
are grown" They are charged with sensa.
t;onalism They are compared to rockets thar
90 I'D in blaze and come down sticks, and
the brevity Of their career is jubi.antly proph-
esied. If it be denomination with bishops,
a bishop is implored to sit down heavily on
the man who will not be nodded; or II
a denomination without bishops, some Of the
older men with nothing more than their own
natural heaviness and theological avoirdu-
pois are advised to hatten out the innovator
In conferences and presbyteries and associa-
tons and conventions there is often seen the
most damnable jealousies. Such ecclesias-
tical tyrants would not admit that Jealousy
had any possession Of them, and they take
on q heavenly air, and talk sweet oil and
sugar plun,s and balm Of thousand flowers
and roll up their eyes with an airof unctuous
sanctity when they simply mean the destruc.
tion of those over whom they pray and
shuttle. There are cases where ministers OF
religion are derelict aud criminal, and they
must be put out.
But in the majority of cases that have
witnessed in ecclesiastical trials there IS a
Jealous attempt to keep men from surprising
their theological fellows. and as at the presi-
dental elections in country places the people
round which the people dance with knives,
cutting off a slice here, and pulling out rib
there, and saving q beefsteak yonder, and
having high time-so most of the denoni-
nations Of Christians keep on hand barbe-
cue in which some minister is roasted, while
the church courts dance around with their
sharp knives Of attack. and one takes finger,
another a hand another foot, and it IS
hard to tell whether the ecclesiastical plain
tiffs of this world or the demons Of the
neither world most enjoy it. Albert Barnes,
than whom no man has accomplished more
good in the last 1000 years, was decreed to
sit silent for year in the pew OF his own
church while some one else occupied his pull
pit, the pretended offense that he did not
believe in limited atonemens, but the real
offense the fact that ali the men who tried
him put together would not equal one Albert
Barnes.
Yes, amid all professions and business
and occupations and trades, and amid all
circles, needs to be heard what God says
in regard to envy and Jealousy, which,
though not exactly the same, are twins:
envy is the rottenness of the bone"
"Where envy and strife is. there is confusion
of a man" My hearers, if this evil passion
is in any Of your souls, cry nightly unto
God for its expulsion. That which has downed
kings and emperors and apostles and re-
formers and ministers Of religion and thou
sands of good men and women. Is too mighty
for you to contend against unaided. The evil
has so many roots, Of such infinite convolu-
ton, that nothing but the enginery Of omnipo-
tence can pu it out. Tradition says that
when Moses Lift d up his hand to pray it was
all encrusted with mamma, and no sooner do
you pray than you are helped. Away with
the accursed, stenchful, blackening, damniug
crime Of jealousy. Allow it to stay and it
will eat up and carry off all the religion you
can pack into your soul for the next half
century. 1t will do you more harm than It
does any one it leads you to assall 1t will
delude you with the idea that YOU can BULL
yourself up by pulling somebody else down:
You will make more out Of the success OF
others than out Of their misfortunes. Speak
we'll Of everybody. Stab no man in the back.
Be honey bee rather than spider; be
dove rather than buzzard.
Surely this world is large enough for you
and all your rivals God has given you
work to do. Go ahead and do 1t. Mind
your own business. In all circles, in all bust
nessss, in all professions there is room for
straightforward successes. Jealousy enter
tanned will not only bedwarf your soul but
it VIII fatten your skull, bemean your eye.
put pinchedness Of look about your nostril,
give a bad curl to the lip, and expel from
your face the divine image in which you
were created. When you hear man or wo-
man abused, drive in on the defendants side.
Watch for excellences in others rathsr than
than for defects, morning glories instead Of
nightshade. If some ono is more beautiful
than you, thank God that you have not so
many perils of vanity to contend with. If
some one has more wealth than you, thank
God that you have not 80 great stewardship
to answer for. II some one is higher up in
social position, thank God that those who
are down need not fear fall. If some one
gets higher Office in Church or State than
you. thank God there are not so many to
wish for the fastening on Of your obsequies
The Duke Of Dantzig, in luxurious apart
ments, was visited by plain friend. and to
keep his friends from Jealousy the Duke said:
''You can have all have it you will stand
twenty PAGES OFF and let me shoot at you