The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1888-04-25

tsry institution, in every drawing
room levee, in every literary and
professional circle. 1t whispers, it Kisses,
it lies, it debauches, it blasphemes, il
damns. My text names it when it says
Jealousy is the rage of 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 polit-
ical recognition. 1t is the SILVER in our
pocket-bOok because it is not as fat as
some one else's pOcket-boOk. 1t is the
twinge in the tongue because it is not as
eloquent as some one else's tongue. 1t is
the fiutter 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
neighbours 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 the discomfort,
and outrages, and detractions, and bank
ruptcies, and crimes, and woes of the hui
man race.
1t was antediluvian as much as il is
post-diluvian. 1t put 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 sacrifice has been ac-
cepted 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, ux-
oricides, homicides, infanticides, and reg
icides OF all ages and nations. This passion
OF jealousy so disturbed Caligula at the
prominence OF some of the men OF his
time that he cut the much admired curl
from the brow of Cincinnatus and took
the embroidered collar from the neck of
Torquatus and had Ptolomaus killed be-
cause of his purple robe, which attracted
too much attention. After Columbus had
placed America as gem in the Spanish
crown jealousy set on the Spanish court
iers to depreciate his achievement, and
aroused animosities till the great discov-
erer had his heart broken. Urged on by
this bad passion, Dionysius fayed 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 ia
cob and Esau. That hurled Joseph into
the pit. That struck the twenty-thTee
fatal. wounds into julius Cesar. That
banished Aristides. That fred Antony
against Cicero. Tiberius exiled an archi-
tect because OF the fame he got for beau
tltul porch, and slew poet for his fine
tragedy. That set Saul in rage against
David. How graphically the bible puts
il when it says: "Saul eyed David" 1t
seems to take possession oil both eyes and
make them fash and burn like two port
holes of hell. "Saul eyed David" Tha.
is, he looked at him as much as to say:
"You little upstart, how dare YOU attempt
anything great? | will grind you under
my heel. / will exterminate you. l will,
you miserable homunculus. Crouch,
crawl, sink into that rat-hole. | will
teach those women to sing some other
song, instead of Saul has slain his thou
sands, but David his tens of thousands I"
When VOltaire heard that Frederick the
Great was forgetting him and putting his
literary admiration on Bacaulard d Ar
maud the old infidel leaped out of his bed
and danced the floor in maniacal rage,
and ordered his swiftest horses hooked up
10 carry him 20 the Prussian palace
That despicab lie passion Of jealousy led
Napoleon /. to leave in his will bequest
Of 5000 francs to the rufiian wnc shot at
Wellington when the victor OF Waterloo
was passing through Paris. That stationed
the equity elder brother at the back door
of his homestead when the prodigal son
returnedland threw a chill on the family
reunion while that elder brother com
planned, saying: "Who ever heard of Civ
ing roast veal to such profiigate?" Aye,
that passion rose up, and under the dark
est cloud that ever Swallowed the earth,
and amid the loudest. thunder that ever
shook the mountains, and amid the wild
est flash of lightning that ever blinded
or stunned the nations, hung up on two
pieces OF rough lumber back Of Jerusalem
the kindest, puTest, lovingest nature that
heaven could delegate, and stopped not
until there was no power felt in hammer
OF bramble or javelin 70 hurt the dead Son
Of God.
That passion OF jealousy, livid, hungry,