Milford chronicle., 1888-04-20
MnLFoRD, DEL, FRIDAY. APRIL %, Is8s.

body else; and, the presidential election
over all will settle down as it was before.
II you think that all this discussion in public
places is from any desire Of the welfare Of
the dear people and not for political effect,
you are grievoasly mistaken.
Go into all occupations and professions,
and IL you want to know how much jeal
ousy 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
think Of minister's, and artists what they
think OF artists. As long as men and
women in any department keep down and
have a hard struggle they viii be family
praised, and the remark viii be; "Oh,
yes; he is good, clever sort Of a fellow"
''She is rather, yes, somewhat, quite-well,
1 may say, tolerably nice kind of a woman
But let him orher get a little too high, and
or goes the aspiring head by social or COM
mercal decapitation.
Remember that envy dwells more on
small deficits of character than on great
forces, makes more OF the fact that Domit-
ian amused himself by transfxing flies with
his penknife than of his great conquests; of
the fact that Handel was a glutton than Of
the fact that he erected imperishable orato-
rios; more of Coleridge's opium habit than
Of his writing ''Christabel" and THE Ancient
Mariner;n more Of the fact that Addison
drank too much than Of the fact that he was
the author oe the Spectator more Of
mans peccadillOes than Of his mighty ener-
gies; more of his defeats than Of his victories.
Lool; at the sacred and heaven descended
science of healing, and then see DR.. Macken-
zie the English surgeon, who prolonged the
life Of the crown prince Of Germany until he
became emperor, and, hope, may yet cure
him, so that he may for many years govern
that magnificent German nation, than which
there is no gIander. Yet so great are the
medical jealousies 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 of of
him The old doctors Of Germany are writh-
ing with Indignation. The fact is that in
saving Frederick's life Dr. Mackenzie saved
the peace Of Europe. There was not an in
telligent man on either side the ocean that
did not fear for the result il 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 lifel "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 practices and sacrificed
their health for all time in fidelity to that
deathbed Drs. Bliss and Hamilton and Ag-
new went through anxioties 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. l, who never had
ANYTHING 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 laymcn were ignOr-
ant Of the case they were sure the treatment
prac5iced was a mistake. And when in post
mortem the bullet dropped out OF a different
part of the body from that in which it was
supposed to have been lodged, about 100000
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knew it all the time" There are some doc
tors in ali 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 denominatiolsa a greatmany young
clergymen who have a faculty for superior
usefulness. But they are kept down and kept
back and crippled by older ministers who
look asilance at these rising evangel.sts.
They are snubbed They are jostlcd. They
are patronizingly advised 1t is suggested
to them that they had better know their
place If here and there one with more nerve
and brain and conservation and divine force
go past the seniors who want to keep the chief
places, the young are advised in the words Of
Scripture: "Tarry at Jericho till their bccr rds
are grown They are charged with sensa-
tiOnalism. They are compared to rockets that
go up in a blaze and come down sticks, and
the brovity OF their career is jubil0ntly proph-
esied. Ii it be a denomination with bishops
a bishop is ilnplOred to sit down heavily on
the man who viii not be nodded; or if
a denomination without bishops, som Of the
older men with nothing more than their own
natural heaviness and theological avolrdu-
pois are advised to flatten out the innovator
In conferences and presbyteries and assOci;l-
tions and conventions there Is often seen tho
most damnabls jealousies Such ecclesias-
teal tyrants would not admit that jealousy
had any possession of them, and they taks
on a heavenly air, and talk sweet oil and
sugar pums and balm of a thousand flowers,
and roll up their eyes with an air of unctuou
sanctity when they simply mean the desiguc-
ton Of those over whom they pray and
snufIle There are eases where ministers of
religion are derelct and criminal, and they
must be put out.
But in the naiority Of cases that have
witnessed in ecclesiastical trials there IS
jealous attempt to keep men from surprising
their theological fellows, and as at the presi-
Dental elections in country places the people
have a barbecue-which is n roasted OK,
round which the people dance with knives,
cutting off a slice here, and pulling out II rib
there, and saving a beelsteak yonder, and
having a high tine-so most of the dencini-
nations of Christians keep on hand a barbe-
cue in which some minister is roasted while
tie church courts dance around with their
sharp knives OF attack, and one takes an car,
another a hand, another a foot, and ir is
hard 10 toll Wnet .ef tine cccle5lastictl plain
tiifs Of this world Or the demons of tho
neither world most enjoy it Albert Barnes,
THAI, whom 10 man has accomplished more
goo,; il 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
,lt. tho pretended ofTense that he did not
believe in limited atonement, but the real
oifeise 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 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 aud strife is, there is confusion
and every evil work. Jealousy is the rage
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
Cor Won to contend against unaided The evil