The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-04-27
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Unho1y Passion of Jealousy the
Bane of the World.
A Sin That Permeates All Glasses and
Conditions of Society. the Pulpit
Not Even Being Free From
It-A Substitute.

IA SubstAbuI6s
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage took for the
subject of a recent sermon in the Brooklyn
Tabernacle the sin of Jealousy" taking
for his text:
Jealousy is the rage of a nnan.-Proverbs vi.,s4-
He said;
Some subjects a religious teacher
touches thousand times, now coming on
them from one direction, now another.
But here is Bible theme that for some
reason is left teetotally alone. This
morning, asking your prayers and in the
stl ength Of God, I want to grapple it.
There is an old sin, haggard, furious,
monstrous and diabolica1, that has for
ages walked and crawled the earth. 1t
combines all that is obnoxious in the
races, human, qUadrupedal, ,ornithological,
reptilian and insectile, horned, tusked,
hoofed, fanged, stinged; the eye of
basilisk, the tooth of an adder, the jaws of
q crocodile, the crushing folds Of an ana
cOnda, the slYness of a scorpion, the
tongue of a cobra, and the coil Of the
worm that never dies. 1t is in every COM
munity, in every church, in every legis-
lative hall, in every monetary institution,
in every drawing room levee, in every
literary and professional circle. 1t whis-
pers, it Kisses, it lies, it debauches, it
blasphemes, it 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 peoples success. It
is the shiver in our pocket book because it
isnot as fat as some one else's pocket book.
It is the twinge in our tongue because tits
not as eloquent as some one elseis tongue.
1t is the 1utter in our robes because they
are not as lustrOus as some else's robes.
1t is the earthquake under our house be-
cause it is not as many feetfront and deep
as our neighbor's house. 1t is the thunder
of other peoples popularity souring the
milk of our kindness. It is the father and
mother both of one-half of the discomfort
and outrages, and detractions, and bank
| ruptcies, and crimes and woes of the hu-
| man race.
1t was antediluvian as much as it is
postdiluvian. 1t put a rough stick in the
| hands of the first boy that was ever born,
and said to him: ''Now, Cain, when Abel
is looking the other way, crush his skull;
| for his sacrifice has been accepted and
yours rejected" And Cain picked up the
| stick as though just to walk with it, and
while Abel was watching some birds in
| the tree-top. or gazing at some waterfall,
| down came the blow of the first assassiDa-
| ton, which has had its echo in all the
| fratricides, matricides, uxOricides, homi-
! cides, infanticides and regicides of all
| ages and all nations. This passion Of
! jealousy so disturbed Callgula at the
| prominence of some of the men of his
/ time, that he cut q much admired curl
/ from the brow of Cincinnatus, and took the
embroidered collar from the neck Of Tor
/ quatus, and had Ptolomacus killed be-
cause Of his purple robe, which attracted
too much attention. After Columbus had
| 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 dis
/ coverer had his heart broken. Urged on
| by this bad passion, Dionysius fayed
! Plato because he was wiser than himself,
and Philoxenius because his music was too
| popular Jealousy made Korah lie about
/ Moses and SuccOth depreciate Gideon.
! Jealousy made the trouble between
Jacob and Esau. That hurled Joseph into
the pit. That struck the twenty three fatal
| wounds into Julius Cesar. That banished
Aristides. That fred Antony against
/ Cicero. Tiberius exiled an architect be-
/ cause of the fame he got for a beautiful
1 porch, and slew a pOetfOr his fine tragedy.
! That set Saul in a rage against David.
How graphical the Bible puts it when it
says: '.Sau1 eyed David.' Itseems to take
! possession of both eyes and makes them
| flash and burn like two portfolios of hell.
EESaul Dyed David" That is to say: "You
/ little upstart, how dare you attempt any
thing great. ] Will grind you under my
heel. will exterminate you, l will, you
miserable homunculus. Crouch, crawl,
slink into that rat-hole. I will teach those
| women to sing some other song, instead
of saul has slain his thousands, but
David his tens of thousands" When
Voltaire heard that Frederick the Great
was forgetting him and putting his liter
| ary admiration on Bacaulard d. Arnaud,
| the old infdel 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.
That despicable passion of jealousy led
| Napoleon i. to leave in his will a bequest
of five thousand francs to the ruffian who
| shot at Wellington when the victor Of
Waterloo was passing through Paris.
( That stationed the grOuty elder brother at
the back door of the homestead when the
| prodigal son returned, and threw a chill
| on the family reunion while that elder
brother complained, saying: "WhO ever
! heard of giving roast veal to such a
| profigate?" Aye, that passion rose up
and under the darkest cloud that ever
/ shadowed the earth, and amid the IOudest
/ thunder that ever shook the mountains,
and amid the widest fash Of lightning
that ever blinded or stunned the nations,
| hung up on two pieces of rough lumber
back Of Jerusalem the kndest, purest,
lovingest nature that Heaven could dele
gate, and stopped not until there was no
/ power left in hammer or bramble or
iaveIin to hurt the dead Son of God.
That passion Of jealousy, livid, hungry,
unbal1ed, RACES on, and ii now pierces
the earth like a fiery diameter and en-
circles it like a fiery circumference. II
wants both hemispheres. It wants the
heavens. 1t would, If it could, capture the
palace Of God, and dethrone Jehovah, and
chain the Almighty in eternal exile, and
after the demolition Of the universe
would crv: Satisfied at last, here / am,
alone, the undisputed and everlasting /,
me. mine, myselff" 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.
In our land this passion OF jealousy
keeps all the political world aboil. There
are at least five hundred people who are
Jealous Of Governor Hid, and would like
TO be his successor; about five thousand
| who are Jealous Of Grover Cleveland, and
would like to relieve him of the cares Of
Office, and after the nominations Of next
summer have been made, a whole pande-
moniIirn of defamation, scurrility, hatred,
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resentation viii be turned upon the land.
The tariff, about the raising, or lowering,
or reformation Of which many Of them
care nothing, except as to its effect on
votes, viii be discussed from thousand
platforms, aud the people OF Louisiana
VIII be told that the tariff must be ar
ranged for tire advantage Of American
sugar; the people Of Virginia VIII be told
tlzzt the tariff must be arranged for the
/ ADVANTAGE Of American tobacco, and the
people Of Pennsylvania viii be told thai
the tariff must be arranged fU the adj
vantage 81 American iron, aud the people
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