Milford chronicle., 1888-04-20
DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON.
JEALOUSY" THE SUBJECT OF SUM-
DAY MORNINGS DISCOURSE.

Human Race and in the Brute Creation.
1t Pierces aud EDcircIes the Earth with
Its Raging Fire.
BROOKLYN, April l5.-The hymn sung by
the congregation in the Tabernacle shis
morning begins:
No more let human blood be split
Vain sacrifice for human guilt.
Professor Henry Eyre Brown rendered the
Second sonata in f minor by Ritter. Hav-
ing expounded passages of Scripture in
regard to the behavior of Jacob and Esau,
Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., preached
on the subject Of Jealousy" taking his text
from Proverbs vi. 81: Jealousy is the rage
of man" He said:
Some subjects a religious teacher touches
1000 times, now coming on them from one
direction, now from another. But here is a
Bible theme that for some reason is left tee
totally 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
oil that is obnoxious in the races human,
uuadrupedal, ornithological, reptilian and
insectile, horned tusked, hoofed, fanged,
stinged; the eye Of basilisk, the tooth of an
adder, the jaws of a crocodile, the crushing
folds of an anaconda, the slyness Of scor-
pion, the tongue of a cobra, and the coil OF
the worm that never dies. It is in every
community, ia every church, in every legis-
lative hall, in every monetary institution, in
and professional circle 1t whispers, it
Kisses, it lies, it debauches, it blasphemes,
it damns. NV text names it when it says
Jealousy is the rage of man" 1t is grief
at the superiority Of others; their superiority
i'll talent or wealth or beauty OF elegance or
virtue or social or professional or political
recognition. 1t is the shadow of other peo-
ple's success. It is the shiver in our pocket
book because 1t 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 else's tongue. It is the flutter in our
robes because they are not as lustrous as
some one else's robes 1t is the earthquake
under our house because it is not as many
feet front and deep as our neighbor's house.
1t is the thunder of other peoples popularity
souring the milk of our kindness. 1t is the
father and mother both of one-half Of tho
discomfort and outrages and detractions and
bankruptcies and crimes and woes of the
human race
1t was antediluvian as much as it is post
diluvian 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 in his skull, for his sacri-
fee has been accepted and yours rejected.
And Cain picked up the stick as though just
to walk 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
first assassination, which has had its echo in
all the fratricides, matricdes, uxoricides,
homicides, infanticides and regicides of all
ages and all nations. This passion Of Jealousy
so disturbed Caligula at the prominence CT
some of the men of his time that he cut a
much admired curl from the brow of Cincin-
natus. and took the embroidered collar from
the neck of Torquatus, and had Pto;omaeus
| killed because of his purple robe, which at
tracted 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 discoverer
had his heart broken. Urged on by this bad
passion. Dionysius flayed Plato because he
was wiser than himself, and Philoxenius be-
cause 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 Caesar. That banished Aristides.
| That fred Antony against Cicero. Tiberius
exiled an architect because of the fame he
got for a beautiful porch, and slew poet fol-
his fine tragedy. That set Saul in rage
against David. How graphically the Bi5lt
puts it when it saysl saul eyed David Il
/ seems to take possession Of both eyes and
] makes them flash and burn like two port
holes of hell. saul eyed David That j.
he looked at him as much as to say; "You
/ little upstart, how dare you attempt anything
I grcatl l will grind you under my heel
will exterminate you, will, you miserable
honunculus. Crouch, crawl, stink into that
rat hole. / will teach those women to sing
some other song, instead of "Saul has slair
/ his thousands but David his tens Of thou
sands When Noltaire heard that Frederick
tho Great was forgetting him and putting hi'
! literary admiration on Bacaulard d'Arnaud
/ the old infidel leaped out of his bed anC
danced the floor in a maniacal rage, and
/ him to the Prussan palace.
That despicable passion Of jealousy lee
| Napoleon the First to leave in his will 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, ana threw chill on the family re
/ saving; ''Who ever heard of giving roast
veal to such prohigatep Ay, that passion
rose up and under the darkest cloud thai
ever shadowed the earth and amid the loud
est thunder that ever shook the mountains
and amid the widest flash of lightning that
ever blinded OF stunned the nations, hung NJ
on two pieces of rough lumber back of Jeru
salem the kindest, purest, lovingest nature
that heaven could delegate, and stopped moi
until there was no power left in hammer oi
bramble or javelin to hurt the dead son Of
| God.
That passion Of Jealousy, livid, hungry
unballIed, RACES on, and it now pierces the
earth like a fiery diameter and encircles il
/ like a fiery circumference. It wants bott
/ hemispheres It wants the heavens. Il
would, if it could, capture the palace Of God
and dethrone Jehovah, and chain the AL
mighty in eternal exile, and after the demo
/ lition Of the universe would cry: Satisfied
at last, here 1 ami Alone, the undisputed
and everlasting I, Ne, Mine, Myself" 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 al
least 500 people who are jealous Of Governor
! Hill, and would like TO be his successor
about 5000 who are jealous Of Grover Cleve
I land, and would like TO relieve him of the
cares Of office, and after the nomina
tions of next summer have been made
a whole pandemonium Of defamation
scurrility, hatred, revenge, falsahoOds pro
family and Misrepresentation win be turned
upon this land The tariff, about the rails
1 ing or lowering or reformation of which
many Of them care nothing except as to its
/ effect on votes, viii be discussed from a
thousand platforms, and the people Of Louis
lana will be told that the taxes must be
taken off sugar, the people Of Virginia will
be told that the taxes must be taken off to
] 4 Al. Il. mill