Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1888-04-16


Go into all occupations and professions,
| and if YOU want to know how much leal-
ousy is yet to he 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 will be family
praised, and the remark Will be: "Oh-
| yes; he is a good, clever sort of fellow"
''She is rather, YES, somewhat, quite-well,
may sav, tocrably nice kind of n woman ,
| But let him Or her get little too high, and
| Off goes the aspiring head by social or com
merciaI deeapitatOn.
Remember that envy dwellS more OH
small deficits of character than on great
| forces, makes moro OF the fact that Domit-
iaa amused himself by trausfixing flies with
| his penknife than Of his great conquests; of
| the fact that Handel was a glutton than of
| the fact that he erected imperishahle orato-
rios; more of Co,eridges opium habit than
| of his writing '.Christabeln and The Ancient
| Mariner more of the fact that Addison
drank too much than OF the fact that he was
the author os the Spectator more of
mans peccadiloes than OF his mighty ener-
gieS; more of his defeats than of his victories.
Look at the sacred and heaven descended
science of healing, and then sec 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 grander. Yet SO great are the
medical jealousies that DR.. Mackenzie dare
not walk the streets of Berlin. He is undes
| military guard. The medical students of
| Germany can hardly keep their hands off 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 if the throne passed
from wise and good old Emperor William to
his inexperienced grandson. But when, TN
der the medical treatment of DIR. Mackenzie,
the Crown Prince Frederick took tine throne.
a wave of satisfaction anal confidence rolled
over Christendom. What shall the world do
with the doctor who saved his lifel "Oh,n -
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 O;her practices and sacrificed
their health FOR all tms in fdelitT to that
deathbcd DIS. Bliss and Hamilton and Ag
new went through anxieties 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 tiroso who agonized over it in the
sick room for many weeks. |, vino 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 to how the
president ought TO be treated. And in pro-
portion as physicians and laymeu were igner-
ant OF the case they were sure the treatment
practiced was a mistake. And when in post
mortem the bullet dropped out of different
part of the body from that in which it was
supposed 20 have been lodged, about 201, 900
people shouted: Il told you SO" There,
knew it all the time" There are some doc
tors in all 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 pro 'ession. am
sorry to say that in matters of jealousy it is
no better than other professions. There arc
now in all denominations great many young
clergymeu who have 9 faculty for superior
usefulness. but they are KEEP: down and kept
back and crippled by oidey ministers who
look askance at these ng eranselists.
They are snubbed. They are jostiei They
are patronizingly advised 1t is suggested
to them that they bad better know their
place II here aifl there one with more nerv,
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 TIL their beards
are grown" They are charged with sensa-
tionalisn. They are compared TO rockets that
go up in blaze and come down sticks, and
the brevity of their career is jubilantly proph-
eSied. If it be denomination with bishops,
a bishop Is implored to sit down heavily on
the man who will 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 datten out the innoyator
In conferences and presbyteries and aSsocia-
tions and conventions there is often seen the
most damnable jealousies. Such ecclesias-
teal tyrants would not admit that jealousy
had any possession of them, and they take
on heavenly air, and talk sweet oil and
sugar plums and balm of a thousand flowers,
and roll up their eyes with an air of unctuous
sanctity when they simply mean the destruc-
ton of those over whom they pray and
shuttle. There are cases where ministers of
Il icf nd
must be put out.
But in the ma jority Of cases that / have
witnessed in ecclesiastical trials there is a
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 a roasted OK,
round which the people dance with knives,
cutting off slice here, and pulling out rib
there, and saving a beefsteak yonder, and
having high time-so most of the denomi-
nations of Christians keep on hand barbe-
cue in which some minister is roasted, while
the church courts dance around with their
sharp knives of attack, and one takes an ear,
another a hand, another foot, and it is
hard to tell whet er the ecclesiastical plain
tiffS of this word or the demons of the
neither world most enjoy it. Albert Barnes,
than whom no man has accomplished more
good in the last l,0c0 years, was decreed to
sit silent for year in the pew of his own
CHURCH while some one else occupied his pull
pit, the pretended offense that lIe did not
believe in limited atonement, but the real
offense the fact that all the rlen who tried
him put together would not equal one Albert
Barnes.
Yes, amid all professors 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 rotterness of the bonen |
where envy aud strife is, there is confusion !
and every evil work. Jealousy is the rage |
Of a man. NY hearers, if this evil passion |