Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-04-26

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| ness in the same street, and ask doctors
what they think Of doctors, and lawyers
| what they think Of lawyers, and ministers
| what they think Of ministers, and artists
| what they think of artists. As long as
men and women in any department keep
down and have hard struggle they Will
| be family praised and the remark will be:
20, yes; he is a good, clever sort OF fel-
| low" ''She is rather, yes, somewhat,
quite-well, may say, tolerably nice kind
Of a woman" But let him or her get
little too high and OF goes the aspiring
head by social or commercial decapitation.
Remember that envy dwells more on
small defects Of character than on great
forces, makes more OF the fact that Domit-
ian amused himself by transfixing flies
with his penknife than of his great con-
quests; Of the fact that Handel was glut-
ton than OF the fact that he created imDer-
ishable oratorios; more Of Coleridge's
opium habit than OF his writing 'Christa-
bel' and Ancient Mariner" more OF the
fact that Addison drank too much than OF
the fact that he was the author Of The
SPECTATOR" more OF a mans peccadilloes
| than Of his mighty energies, more OF his
defeats than his victories.
Look at the sacred and Heaven descended
science Of healing, and then see DR.. Mac.
xenze, the English surgeon who prolonged
the life OF the Crown Prince OF Germany
until he became Emperor, and, nope, may
yet cure him, so that he may for many
years govern that magnificent German ma
ton, thar which there is no grander. Yet
so great are the medical jealouses that DR..
Mackenzie dare 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 doc
tors Of Germany are writing with indigna
ton.
The fact is that in saving Frederick's life
Dr. Mackenzie saved the peace Of Europe.
There was not an intelligent man on either
side the ocean that did not fear for the re-
suit IL the throne passed from wise and
good old Emperor William to his inexperi
cnced grandson. But when, under the
medical treatment Of Dr.. Mackenzie, the
Crown Prince Freder.ck took the throne,
wave of satisfaction and confidence rolled
over Christendom; what shall the world
do with the doctor who saved his life!
90" cried out the medical jealousies OF
Europe, destroy him; Of course, destroy
him."
What brutal scene Of jealousy we had
lay dying There were faithful physicians
that sacrificed their other practice and
sacrificed their health for all time in fidel-
lty to that death bed. Drs. Bliss and Ham,
ilton and Agnew went through anxieties
and tolls and fatigues such as mono but
God could appreciate. Nothing pleased
many OF the medical profession. The doc
tors in charge did nothing right. We who
did not see the case knew better than those
who agonized over 1t in the sick room for
many weeks. !, who never had any thing
worse than a 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 ig-
norant Of the case they were sure the
treatment practiced was a mistake. And
when in postmortem the bullet dropped
out of a different part OF the BODY from
that in which it was supposed to have been
lodged, about two hundred thousand peo-
pie shouted II told you So" There, /
knew it all the time" 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.
Yea; look at the clerical profession.
am sorry to say that in matters of jealousy
it IS no better than other professions.
There are now in all denominations a great
many young clergymen who have a fac
ulty for superior usefulness. But they are
kept down and kept back and crippled by
ministers who look askance at these rising
evangelists. They are snubbed. They are
jostled. They are patronlzingly advised. 1t
is suggested to them that they had
better know their place. II here and
there one with more nerve and brain
and conservation and divine force goes
past the seniors who want to keep the
chief places thu young are advised
in the words Of Scripture: ''Tarrv at
Jericho till their boards are grown" They
are charged with sensationalism. They
are compared to rockets that go up in o
blaze and come down sticks, and the brevi-
ty Of their career Is jubilantly prophesied.
II it be a denomination with bishops, q
bishop is implored to sit down heavily on
the man who will not be nodded; or if a de-
nomination without bishops, some Of the
older men with nothing more than their own
natural heaviness and the theological av-
oirdupois are advised to flatten out the in
novator. In conferences and presbyteries
and associations and conventions there is
often seen the most damnable jealousy.
Such ecclesiastical tyrants would not ad-
NIT that jealousy had any possession Of
them, and they would take on a heavenly
air and talk sweet oil and sugar plums and
balm OF a thousand flowers, and roll up
their eyes with an air of unctuous sanctity
when they simply mean the destruction Of
those over whom they pray and shuttle.
There are cases where ministers Of relig-
ion are derelict and criminal and they must
be put out. But in the majority Of cases
that / have witnessed In, ecclesiastical
trials there is jealous attempt to keep
men from passing their theological fellows,
and, as at the Presidential elections in
country places, the people have barbecue
which is q roasted OK. round which the
people dance with knives, cutting off al
slice here and pulling out a rib there, and
saving off a beefsteak yonder and having
high time-so most OF the denominations
Of Christians keep on hand barbecue in
which some minister is roasted, while the
church courts dance around with their
sharp knives of attack, ana one takes an
ear, another hand. another foot, and
it is hard to tell whether the ecclesiastical
plaintiffs of this world or the demons of
the neither world most enjoy it. Albert
Barnes, than whom no man has accom-
plished more good in the last thousand years,
was decreed to sit silent for year in the
pew Of his own church while some one else
occupied his pulpit, the pretended offense
that he did not believe in limited atone
ment, but the real offense the fact that all
the men who tried him put together would
not equal one Albert Barnes.
Yes; amid all professions and businesses
and occupations and trades, and amid al!
circles needs to be heard what God says in
regard TO envy and jealousy, which, though
not exactly the same are twins: Envy is