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DIR. TALMAGES SERMON.
JEALOUSY" THE SUBJECT OF SUM-
DAY MORNINGS DISCOURSE.

DAY MORNINGS DISCOURSE.
It Combines All That Is Obnoxious in the
Human Race and In the Brute Creation.
II Piercss aud Epcircles the Earth with
It's Raging Fire.
BROOKLYN, April 15-The hymn sung by
the congregation in the Tabernacle this
morning begins:
| No more let human blood be split,
| Vain sacrifice for human guilt.
Professor Henry Eyre Brown rendered the
Second sonata in Z minor by Ritter. Hav-
ing expounded passages of Scripture In
regard to the behavior of Jacob and Esau,
Rev. I. Dc Witt Talmage, D. D., preached
on the subject Of Jealousy" taking his text
from Proverbs vi. "a: Jealousy il the rage
| of man" He said:
| foric subjects a religious teacher touches
1000 times, now coming on them from one
direction, now from another. But here is a
Bible ta"uls that for some reason is left tee
totally atone. This morning, asking your
prayers and in the strength of God, want
to graphic it,
There is an old sin, haggard, furious, mon
strous end diabolical, that has for ages
walked and crawled the earth. Il combines
| all that is obnoxious in the races human,
| Quadrupedal, pathological, reptilian and
inse".il'', horned, tusked, hoofed, fanged,
stingcd; the eye of basilisk, the tooth of an
adder, the jaws Of q crocodile, the crushing
folds of an anaconda, the slyness Of a scor-
pion, the tongue Of a cobra, and the coil Of
| the worm that never dies. 1t Is In every
community, in every church, in every legis-
lative hall, in every monetary institution, in
every drawing room levee, in every literary
and professional circle. 1t whispers, it
Kisses, it lies, it debauches, it blasphemes.
1t dumns. My text names it when it says
Jealousy is the rage of a man" It 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. II is the shadow Of other peo-
pies success. 1t 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. 1t Is the futter in our
robes because they are not as lustrous as
some one else's robes. 1t Is the earthq Jake
| under our house because 1t IL not as many
| II is the thunder Of other peoples popularity
souring the milk of CUR kindness 1t Is the
father and mother both of one-haf 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 post
diluvian. 1t put rough stick in the hands
| Of the first boy that was ever born, and said
to him: Nov, Cain, when Abel is looking
the other way crush in his skull, for his sacri-
Gee 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 matricides, uxoricides,
homicides, infanticides and regicides Of all
| ages and all nations. This passion OF jealousy
40 Disturbed Calioula at the prominence OF
some OF the men OF bis ti.Ise chat 40 out q
much admired curl from the brow Of Cincin-
natus, and took the embroidered collar from
the neck of Torquatus, and had Ptolomaeus
killed because of his purple robe, which at
tracted too much attention. After Columbus
had placed America as 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 fiayed 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 truck the twenty three fatal wounds
into. alius Cesar. That banished Aristides.
That red Antony against Cicero. Tiberius
exileo an architect because Of the fame he
got for a beautiful porch, and slew poet for
his Ane tragedy. That set Saul in rage
against David. How graphically the Bible
puts it when it says: "Ssul eyed David" 1t
seems to take possession Of both eyes and
makes them fash and burn like two port
holes Of hell saul eyed David" That is
no looked at him as much as to say: "You
little upstart, how dare you attempt anything
great will grind you under my heel. I
will exterminate you, will, you miserable
homunculus Crouch, crawl, stink into that
rat hole will teach those women to sing
some other song, instead Of "Saul has slain
his thousands but David his tens of thou
sands" When Voltaire heard that Frederick
the Great was forgetting him and putting his
literary admiration on Bacaulard d'Arnaud,
danced the floor in a maniacal rage, and
ordered his swiftest horses hooked up to carry
him to the Prussian palace.
That despicable passion Of jealousy led
Napoleon the First to leave in his will be-
quest of 5000 francs to the ruffian 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, and threw a chill on the family re-
union while that elder brother complained,
saying: "Who ever heard of giving roast
veal to such profigatep Ay, that passion
rose up and under the darkest cloud that
ever Swallowed the earth and amid the loud
est 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 Jeru-
salem the kindest, purest, lovingest nature
that heaven could delegate, and stopped not
until there was no power left i'll hammer or
bramble or javelin to hurt the dead son Of
God.
That passion Of jealousy, livid, hungry,
unbalked, RACES on, and 1t now pierces the
earth like fiery diameter and encircles 1t
like a fiery circumference 1t wants both
hemispheres 1t wants the heavens It
would, IL it could, capture the palace of God,
and dethrone Jehovah, and chain the AL
mighty i'll eternal exile, and after the demo-
| ltion Of the universe would cry: Satisfied
at last, here I ami Alone, the undisputed
and everlasting !, Me, 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 at
least 800 people who are jealous Of Governor
Hill, and would like to be his successor;
about 5000 who are jealous Of Grover Cleve-
land, and would like to relieve him Of the
| cares of office, and after the nomina-
lions of next summer have been made
whole pandemonium Of defamation,
| scurYility. hatred, revenge, talsehood, pro-
| family and MISREPRESENTATION viii 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 a
thousand platforms, and the people Of Louis
lana will be told that the taxes must be
taken of sugar, the people OF Virginia will
| be told that the taxes must be taken Off to-
bacco, and the people Of Pennsylvania will
be told that the taxes must be taken Off iron,
and the people of Kentucky will be told that
the taxes must be taken off whisky, and the
people of Ohio that the taxes must DO taken
| of wool, while Massachusetts, and Connecti-
cut will be promised protection for manufast-
| ures, and all the monetary interests, north,
| SOUTH east and west, will be told in each
neighborhood that the taxes and tariff will
be fixed to suit them, irrespective Of any
body else; and, the presidential election
over, all will settle down as 1t 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,