The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1888-04-26
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Unholy Passion of Jealousy the
Bane of tho World.
A Sin That Permeates All Glasses and
Conditions of Society, the Pulpit
Not Even Being Free From
ia Substitute.

| 1abttpaeis the sin Of Jealousy" taking
for his text:
Jealousy is the rage Of man.-Prnverbs yi.,Si.
He said:
| Some subjects a religious teacher
touches a thousand times, now coming on
them from one direction, now another.
BHt terh s Rthle theme that for some
reason is left teetUtally slbne:. THIS
morning, asking your prayers ahG IN the
stl ength Of God, want to grapple it.
There is an old sin, haggard, furious,
monstrous and diabolicak that has for
ages walked and crawled the earth. 1t
combines all that is obnoxious in the
fsrpe, human, ,quadrupedal. .ornithol0gical,
| teptilian and insf&tile, hrrhrd, tusked,
| hoofed, fanged, stinged; the tyc 1T q
| basilisk, the tooth Of an adder, the jaws OF
a crocodile, the crushing folds OF an ana
| conda, the slvness of n scorpion, the
tongue of a cobra, and the coil OF the
worm that never dies. 1t Is in every COM
munitv. in every church, in every legis-
| Intivc hall. in every monetary institution,
| ih every drawug'rnom levee, in every
| literary and professional circle. II wbis.
| pers, il Kisses, 1t lies, it debauches, 1t
| tlaspHemfs. it daJire, Ny tfSt names it
| when 1t SAYS:
| Jealousy is the rage OF a 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 political recfxnition. 1t
| Is tie skadov1 of Sthfr peoples success. IT
| is the shiver in Oul pocket book because 1t
is not as fat as some one else pocket book
1t is the twinge in our tongue because it's
| not as eloquent rs some one else's tongue
| 1t is the futter in our robes because they
are not as lustrous as some else's robes.
1t is the earthquake under our house be-
cause it is not as many feet front and deep
as our neighbours house. 1t is the thunder
IF other peoples popularity snlirirg the
| milk Of our kindness 1t is the father and
mother both of one-half IF the discSntept
and outrages, and detractiOns, and bauk-
ruptcies, and crimes and woes of the hti-
| man race.
1t was antediluvian as much as it IS
postdiluvian. 1t put rough stick in the
hands of the first boy that was ever born,
rnd said to him; Now, Cain, when Abel
is looking the Othtt ~oY. crush his skull;
for his sacrifice has been acctptSa and
yours rejected" And Cain picked up the
stick as though just to walk with it. and
while Abel was watching some birds in
the tree top. or gazing at some waterfall,
| down came the blow Of the first assassina-
tior, which has had its echo in all the
| fratricides, matrIcidcs, iixHriaides, h0mi-
| Cides infanticides and regicides Ot hll
ages and all nations. This passion of
jealousy 50 disturbed Callgula at the
| prominence of some of the men of his
time, that he cut much admired curl
| from the brow of Cincinnatus, and took the
| embroidered collar from the neck of Tor
quatUs, and had PtOlOmacus killed be-
cause of bis purple robe, which attracted
too much attention. After Columbus had
placed America as gem in the Spanish
crown, jealousy set on tile Spanish hcur-
tiers to depreciate his achievement and
aroused animosities till the great dis
cOverer had his heart broken. Urged on
by this bad passion, Dionysius f1ayed
| Plato because he was wiser than himself,
| and PhilOxenius because 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 bhnished
Aristides. That fired Antony against
Cicero. Tiberius exiled an architect be-
cause of the fame he got for beautiful
porch, and slew poet for his fine tragedy.
That set Saai In a rage against David.
How graphical the Bible puts 1t when 1t
SAYS: Saul eyed David" 1t seems to take
possession of both eyes and makes them
fash and burn like two pOrt-hO of hell.
Saul eyed David" That is to say "YOu
little upstart, how dare you attempt any
thing great. l will grind you under my
heel. will exterminate you, l will, you
miserable hOmunculus. Crouch, crawl,
slink 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 thousands" When
Voltaire heard that Frederick the Great
was forgetting him and putting his liter.
| nrv admiration on Bacaulard d. Arnaud,
the old infidel leaped out of his bed and
danced the floor in a maniacal rage, and
| ordered his swiftest horses hooked up to
carry him to the Prussian palace.
That passion of jealousy, livld, hungry,
unbalked, RACES on, and 1t now pierces
the earth like fiery diameter and en-
circles it like "a fiery circumference. II
wants both hemispheres. 1t wants the
heavens. 1t 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 crv: Satisfied at last, here am,
alone, the undisputed and everlasting l,
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 five hundred people who are
| jeal pus of Governor Hill, and would like
TO be his successor; about five thousand
who are jealous of Grover Cleveland, and
would like to relieve him of the cares of
Office, and after the nominations OF next
summer have been made, a whole pande-
mOnium of defamation, scurrility, hatred
revenge. falsehood, profanity and mlsrep-
resentatiOn will be turned upon the land
The tariff, about the raising, or lowering
or reformation of which many of them
care nothing, except as to its effect or
votes, will be discussed from II thousand
platforms, and the people of Louisiana
will be told that the tariff must be ar
ranged for the advantage of American
sugar; the people of Virginia will be tolC
that the tariff must be arranged for the
i advantage of American tobacco, and the
people of Pennsylvania will be told thai
the tariff must be arranged for the ad-
vantage of American iron, and the people
of Kentucky will be told that the tariff
must be arranged for the advantage OF
American whisky, and the people of Ohio
that the tariff must be arranged for the
advantage of American wool, while Mas
sachusetts and Connecticut will be prom
isea protection for manufactures, and al
the monetary interests-North, South
| EaSt ar IVest-Will he told in each neigh,