Dodge City times., 1888-04-19
HUMANITY'S CURSE.
DR.. Talmage' on the Bad Effects Of
Jealousy.
Plain Words About the Great Vice-NOt
Even the Clergy Free From the Sin
Advice Given for Its
Eradication.

Proverbs vi. "a: Jealousy is the rage Of
man." He said:
Some subjects religious teacher touch
es 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, ask
ing your prayers and in the strength Of
God, want to grapple 1t.
There is an old sin, haggard, furious,
monstrous and diaboli cal, that has for
ages walked and crawled the earth. 1t
combines all that is obnoxious in the races
human, quadrupedal, pathological, reptil-
ian and insectile, horned, tusked. hoofed,
fanged, stinged; the eye of basilisk, the
tooth of an adder, the jaws of crocodile,
the crushing folds of an anaconda the sly
ness OF a scorpion, the tongue of a cobra
and the coil of the worm that never dies.
1t is in every community, in every church,
in every legislative hall, in every monetary
institution, in every drawing-room levee,
in every literary and professional circle. 1t
whispers, it Kisses, it lies, 1t debauches, it
blasphemes it damns.
My text names it when it says Jealousy
is the rage of 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 polit-
ical recognition. 1t is the shadow of other
peoples success. l. is the shiver in our
pocketbook because it is not as fat as some
one else's pocketbook. 1t is the twinge in
our tongue because it is not as eloquent as
some one else's tongue. 1t is the futter in
our robes because they are not as lustrous
as some one else's robes. 1t is the earth
quake under our house because it is not as
many feet front and deep as our neighbours
house. 1t is the thunder Of other peo-
ple's popularity souring the milk of our
kindness. 1t is the father and mother both
Of one-half of the discomfort and outrages,
and detractions, and bankruptcies, and
crimes and woes of the human race. 1t
was antediluvian as much as it is postdilu-
Wan. 1t put a rough stick in the hands of
the first boy that was ever born ana said
to him: 'NOw, Cain, when Abel is looking
the other way crush in his skull, for his
sacrifice has been accepted and yours re-
jected." And Cain picked up the stick as
though just to walk with it, and while Abel
was watching some bird in the tree-top. or
gazing at some waterfall, down came the
blow of the first assassination, which has
had it's echo in all the fratricides, matri-
cides, uxoricides homicides 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 a much ad-
mired curl from the brow of Cincinnatus,
and took the embroidered collar from the
neck of Torquatus, and had Ptolomacus
killed because of his purple robe, which at
tracted too much attention. After COlum-
bus had placed America as gem in the
Spanish crown, jealousy set on the Span
ish courtiers to depreciate his achieve
ment, and aroused apimosities till the great
discoverer 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 deprecated Gideon.
Jealousy made the trou BILE between Jacob
and Esau That hurled Joseph into the pit.
That struck the twenty three fatal ounds
into Julius Caesar. That banished Aris-
tides. That fired Antony against Cicero.
Tlberlus exiled an architect because Of
the fame he got for a beautiful porch, and
slew poet for his fine tragedy. That set
Saul IN a rage against David. How
graphically the Bible puts it when it says: {:
Saul eyed David" 1t seems to take pos
session of both eyes and makes them flash
and burn like two portfolios Of hell. ''Saul
eyed David" That is, he looked at him
as much as to say: "You little upstart,
how dare you attempt any thing greaters
l will grind you under my heel. will ex-
terminate you, l will, you miserable no.
| munculus. Crouch, crawl, stink into that
rat-hole. l will teach those women to sing
some other song, instead OF saul has slain
his thousands but David his tens Of thou
sands.n
When Voltaire heard that Frederick the
Great was forgetting him and putting his
literary admiration on Bacaulard 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. That
despicable passion of jealousy led Napo-
leon I. to leave in his will bequest of ), 900
francs to the ruftian who shot at yelling
ton when the victor Of Waterloo was pass
ing through Paris. That stationed the
oroutv elder brother at the back door of
the homestead when the Prodigal Son re-
turned, and threw chill on the family
reunion while that elder brother COM
planned, saying: 'Who ever heard Of
giving roast veal to such profigate !'
, Ave, that passion rose up and under the
darkest cloud that ever Swallowed the earth
| and amid the loudest 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
| kindest, purest lovingest nature that
Heaven could delegate, and stopped not un-
til there was no power left in hammer or
bramble or iaveIln to hurt the dead Son OF
| God.
That passion of jealousy, livid, hungry,
unbalked RACES on, and it now pierces the
| earth like fiery diameter, and encircles it
| like fiery circumference. 1t wants both
| hemispheres. 1t wants the heavens. II
| 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 cry
0Satisfied at last; here l am ! Alone! Tbs
| undisputed and everlasting /, me, mine,
myself"
| In our land this passion of jealousy keeps
all the political world aboil. There are al
least 500 people who are jealous of Governor
! Hill, and would like to be his successor;
| about 500 who are Jealous Of Grover
| Cleveland, and would like to relieve him
Of the cares of office; and, after the nomi
nations of next summer have been made, a
| whole pandemonium of defamation, sour
rility, hatred, revenge, falsehood. profan-
ity and Misrepresentation will be turned
upon this land. The tariff, about the rails
ing or lowering or reformation Of which
many Of them care nothing except as to its
| effect on votes, will be discussed from {
| Thousand platforms, and the people o.
| Louisiana will be told that the tariff must
be arranged for the advantage of American
sugar; the people Of Virginia will be tolc
that the tariff must be arranged for tht
advantage of American tobacco. and tht
people of Pennsylvania will be tod that tbs
tarlff must be arranged for the benefit o.