The west Tennessee star. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1888, 1888-04-27
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and women, is too mighty for you to con-
tend against unaided. The evil has so
many roots of such infinite convulsion
that nothing but the energy Of omnipo-
tence can pull it out Tradition say5 that
when Moses lifted up his hand to pray il
was all enerusted with mama, aud no
sooner do you pray than you are helped.
Away with the accursed, stenchful, black
ening, damning crime of jealousy. Allow
it to stay and it viii eat up and carry of
all the religion you can pack into your
soul for the next half-century. It will do
YOU more harm than it does any one it
leads you to assail. 1t viii delude you
with the idea that you can build yourself
up by pulling somebody else down. You
will make more out Of the success OF
others than out OF their misfortunes.
Speak well of everybody. Stab no man
in the back. Be a honey-bee rather than
a spider; be a dove rather than buzzard.
Surely this world is large enough for
you and all your rivals. God has given you
work to do. Go ahead and do it. Mind
your own business. In all circles, in all
businesses, in all professions there is
room for straightforward successes. Jea1-
ousy entertained will not only bedwarf
your soul, but it will hatten your skull,
bemean your eye, put pinchedness Of look
about your nostril, give bad curl TO the
image in which you were created. When
you hear a man or woman abused drive in
on the defendant's side. Watch for ex-
cellencies in others rather than for defects,
morning glories instead Of nightshade. III
some one is more beautiful than you,
thank God that you have not so many per-
lis Of vanity to contend with. If some one
has more wealth than you, thank God that
you have not 80 great stewardship TO an
swer for. If some one is higher up in So
ciRl position, thank God that those who
are down need not fear a fall. IL some
one gets higher Office in Church or State
than you, thank God there are not so many
to wish for the fastening on Of your obSe-
| quies.
ments, was visited by a plain friend, and
to keep his friend from jealousy the Duke
said;
s'You can have all I have II you win
stand twenty PAGES off and lot me shoot
at you one hundred times"
t'No, no." said his friend.
''Well," said the Duke, 'tto gain al my
honors faced on the battlefield more
than a thousand gunshots fred not morD
than ten PAGES off,"
A minister Of a small congregation ooua-
| planned to minister of large congrega-
| tion about the sparseness Of his attend~
ants.
"Ah," said the one OF large audience.
''my son, you will find in the day of iudg.
ment that you had quite enough people
for whom to be held accountable"
Substitute for jealousy an elevatinR
| emulation. Seeing others good, let Us try
to be better. Seeing others industrious,
| let us work more hours. Seeing others
| benevolent, let us resolve on giving larger
| percentage of our means for charity May
| God put congratulations for others into
our right hand and cheers on our lipl for
/ those who do brave and useful things.
Life is short at the longest; let it oil bo
| filed up with helpfulness for others, work
! and sympathy for each other's misfortuneB,
| and our arms be full of white mantles to
cover up the mistakes and failures Of 9TH
ers. If an evil report about some one
comes to us, let US put,ont the most favOra-
| BILE construction, as the RhOne enters Lake
] Leman foul and comes out crystalline.
Do not build so much on the transitory diff
| ferences OF this world, for soon IL will
| make no difference to us whether we had
| ten million dollars or ten cents, and the
ashes into which the tongue OF Demos
themes dissolved are just like the ashes
| into which the tongue Of the veriest stam-
merer went
! IF you are assailed by jealousy, make no
| answer. Take 1T as a compliment, for
people are never Jealous Of a failure.
| Until your work is done you are invulner-
| able. Remember how our Lord behaved
under such exasperations. Did they not
| try to catch Him in his wordP Did they
not call Him the victim of intoxicants?
Did they not misinterpret Him from the
| winter Of tho year ! TO the spring Of the
year 33-that is, from His first infanhle
cry TO the last groan Of His assassination
/ Yet He answered not a word. But so far
| from demolishing either His mission or
| His good name, after near nineteen CEN
l turtles He outranks everything under the
| skies, and Is second 10 none above them,
and the archangel makes salaam at His
| footstool. Christ's bloody antagonists
thought that they had finished Him when
1 they wrote over the cross His accusation
| in three languages-Hebrew, Crock and
/ Latin-not realizing that they were by
/ that act introducing Him to all nations,
since HEIR ew is the holiest language, and
Greek the wisest of tongues and Latin the
widest spoken.
You are not the first man who had his
faults looked at through a microscope and
/ and his virtues through the wrong end of
\ a telescope. Pharoah had the chief butler
and baker endungeoned, and tradition
/ says that all the butler had done was to
| allow a fly in the Kings cup, and all the
/ baker had done was to leave a gravel in
the Kings bread. The world has the habit
Of making great ado about what you do
wrong and forgetting TO say any thing
about what you do right, but the same God
will take care Of you who provided for
| Merlin, the Christian martyr, when hid
| den from his pursuers in q h0y-mow IN
| Paris, and hen came and laid On egg
close by him every morning, thus keeping
him from starvation. Blessed are they
that are prosecuted, although persecution
1 is a severe cataplasm. Ointment may
! smart the wound before healing IL. What
a soft pillow to die on II when we leave
| the world we can feel that, though thou
! sand people may have wrongcd us, we
| have wrOnged no ones or, having mHdg
| envious and jealous attack on others, wa
have repented Of the sin and as far ai
/ possible made reparation. The good res!
| olution Of Timothy Poland in his quaint
! but exquisite hymn, entitled "Most any
/ Day." we might well unanimously adopt.
Wen keep Gil right and good within,
! Our work will then be free from sin; st
/ Upright wen walk through thick and thin
/ Straight on our way
! Deal Just with aii the prize wen win
Most any day.
When he who made ali things Just right
Shall call us hence 70 realms OF iight,
! Be II morn, or noon, cen. or night,
/ We Will obey;
! Wen be prepared to take our flight
Most any day.
/ Our lamps wen nh brlm fuil OF oil
That's good and pure, that would not spon,
And keep them burning OIL the while
/ To light our way;
Our work all done, wen quit the Hol
/ Most any day.
/ --@-a-ou----
CoTzox MArHER says that "the ability Il
do good in any case Imposes au obligation
70 do it The apostle James says @There-
! fore 10 him that knOweth to do good. and
| doeth 10 not TO him IL IA sin. paui SAYS.