The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-05-03
T.ALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Weekly Discourse Of the Great
Brooklyn Preacher
subject, "JeaIousy."

one thousand times now coming on them
from one direction, now from another. But
here Is Bible 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, haggard, furious, mon
strous and diabolical, that has for ages
walked and crawled the earth. It combines
all that is obnoxious in the races, human,
quadrupedal, pathological, reptlian and
insectile, horned, tuskcd, hoofed, fanged,
stnged; the eye Of basilsk, the tooth of an
adder, the jaws OF a crocodile, the 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 in every
community, in every church, in every legis-
lative hall, in every monetary institution in
every drawing room levee, in every literary
and professional circle. 1t whispers, it
misses, it lies, it debauches, it hlasphemes,
1t damns. My text names it when it says
Jealousy is the rage of a man" 1t is grief
at 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 PEG,
pies success, 1t is the shiver in our pocket
book because it is not as fat as some one
else's pocket book. 1t is the twinge in our
tongue because it is not as eloquent as some
one elses tongue 1t is the ilutter in our
robes because they are not as lustrous as
some one elss's robes 1t is the earthquake
under our house because it is not as many
1eet front and deep as our neighbors house.
1T is the thunder of other peoples popularity
sourlng the milk of our kindness. 1t is the
father and mother both of one half of the
discontent and outrages and detractions and
bankruptcies and crimes and woes OF the
human race
1t was antediluvian as much as il IL most.
diluvian. 1t put rough stick in the hands
OF the first boy that was ever born, and said
70 him: Nov, Cain, when Abel is looking
the other way crush in his skull, for his sacri.
nee has been accepted and yours rejected. "
And Cain picked up the stick as though just
20 talk 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
hrst assassination, which has had its echo in
all the fratricdes, matricdeS, uxoricides,
homicldes, infanticides and regicdes 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
much admired curl from the brow of Cincin
natus, and took the embroidered collar from
the neck of Torquatus, and had Ptolomaeus
Killed because of his purple robe, which at
tracted too much attention. After Columbus
mad placed America as a gem in the Spanish
crown, Jealousy set on the Spanish cour-
tiers to depreciate his achievement, and
aroused animosities till the great discoverer
had his heart broken. Urged on by this bad
was wiser than himself, and Philoxenius be-
cause his music was too popular. Jealousy
made korah lie about Moses. and Succotb
depreciate Gideon.
Jealousy made the trouble between Jacob
and Esau. That hurled Joseph into the pit.
ihat struck the twenty three fatal wounds
into Julius Caesar. That banished Aristides.
Attpr Tod ~
e4lled an architect because of the fame he
got for beautiful porch, and slew a poet for
his fine tragedy. That set Saul in rage
against David. How graphically the Bible
puts it when it says: "Saul eyed David" II
seems to take possession of both eyes and
makes them flash and burn like two port
holes of hell. saul eyed David" That is
ne looked at him as much as to say: "You
little upstart, how dare you attempt anything
greats l will grind you under my heel !
will exterminate you, l will, you miserable
homunculus. Crouch, crawl, Sink into that
rat hole | will teach those women to sing
some other song instead of ''Saul has slain
his thousands but David his tens of thou
sands" When Voltaire heard that Frederick
the Great was forgetting him and putting hi.
literary admiration on Bacauard d'Arnaud
the old infidel leaped out of his bed and
danced the floor in maniacal rage, and
ordered his swiftest horses hooked up to carry
him to the Prussian palace.
Ihat deSpicable passion of jealousy led
Napoleon the First to leave in his will a be
quest of 5000 francs to the ruflian who shot
at Wellington when the victor at Waterloo
was passing through Paris. That stationed
the grouty elder brother at the back door of
the homestead when the prodigal son re.
turned, and threw chill on the family re
union while that elder brother complained
saying: Who ever heard of giving roasi
veal to such prohigate?" Ay, that passion
rose up and under the darkest cloud that
ever Swallowed the earth and amid the loud
est thunder that ever shook the mountains.
and amid the widest flash of lightning thai
ever blinded or stunned the nations, hung ur
on two pieces of rough lumber back of Jeru
salem, the kindest, purest, lovingest nature
that heaven could delegate, and stopped no,
until there was no power left in hammer OF
branble or javelln to hurt the dead Son Of
God. A.
unbalked, RACES on, and now pierccs the
earth like a fiery diameter and encircles il
like fiery circumference 1t wants bott
hemispheres. 1t wants the heavens. II
would, II it could, capture the palace of God
and dethrone Jehovah, and chain the Al
mighty in eternal exile. aud aft the demo
htlon or the universe would cry: "Satisfied
Mt last here l am! Alone, the undisputed
and everlasting |, Me, Mine, Myself" That
passion Keeps all Europe perturbed Nations
and those jealous of each other, and all Of
them jealous Of America
IN our land this passion of jealousy keep,
all the political world aboil. There are al
least 800 people who are Jealous of Governor
Hill, and would like to be his successor
about 5000 who are jealous of Grove. Cleve
land, and would like to relieve him of the
nv,I ~
LIONS OF next summer have been made
whole pandemonium of defamation
scurrility,. hatred, revenge, falsehood, pro.
Ianlty and Misrepresentation will be turned
upon this land. The tariff. about the RAISING
or lowering or reformation OF which many
OF them care nothing except as to its effect
on votes, will be discussed from a thousand
platforms, and the people of Louisiana will
% told that the tariff will be arranged to suit
American sugar, the people of Virginia will
oe told that the tariff will be arranged to sui
american tobacco and the people of Penn
sylvanla will be tod that the tariff will b
arranged to suit American iron, and tn,
people of Ohio that the tariff will b
arranged to suit American wool
whlle Massachusetts and Connection
will be promised protection for manufact
ures, and all the monetary interests, north
south, east and west, will be told in eacl
neighborhood that the taxes and tariff will
be fixed to suit them, irrespective of any
body else; and, the Presidential election
over, all will settle down as it was before
II you think that all this discu sion in publ,
places IL from any desire of the welfare o.
the dear people and not for political effect,
you are grievously mistaken.
10 into all occupations and professions,
ana II you want to know how much jeal-
cusy is yet to be extirpated, ask master
builders what they think of each others
houses, and merchants what their opinion Is
OF merchants in the same line of business in
the same street, and ask doctors what they
think OF doctors, and lawyers what they
think OF lawyers, and ministers what they
tnink OF ministers, and artists what they
think OF artists. As long as men and
women in any department. keep down and
nave hard struggle they will be family
praised, and the remark will be: "Oh,
YES; ne is good, clever sort of fellow"
she Is rather, yes, somewhat quite--wei;,
! may say. tolerable nice kind OF a woman "
But let him or her get little too high, and
OH goes the aspiring head by social or COM
mercial decapitation.
Remember that envy dwells more on
small deficits of character than on great
forces makes more of the fact that Domi-
tian amused himself by transfixing flies with
his penknife than OF his great conquests; Of
the fact that Handel was a glutton than of
the fact that he erected impershable orato-
rios; more of Coleridge's opium habit than
OF his writing 'Christabel' and "I'he Ancient
Mariner" more of tho fact that Addison
drank too much than IF tha fa 1T fh At ba ,uou