The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-05-17
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Unholy Passion of Jealousy the
Bane of the World.
A Sin That Permeates All Glasses and
Conditions of Society, the Pulpit
Not Even Being Free From
It-A Substitute.

Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage took for the
subject of recent sermon in the Brooklyn
Tabernacle the sin Of Jealousy" taking
for his text:
Jealousy is the rage OF man.-Proverbs vi, "a.
He said:
Some subjects a religious teacher
touches thousand times, now coming on
them from one direction, now another.
But here is Bible theme that for some
reason is left teetotally alone. This
morning, asking your prayers and in the
stl ength of God, want to grapple it.
There is an old sin, haggard, furious,
monstrous and diabolical, that has for
ages walked and crawled the earth. 1t
combines all that is obnoxious in the
races, human, quadrupedal,o rnithological,
reptilian and insectile, horned, tusked,
hoofed, fanged, stinged; the eye of a
basilisk, the tooth of an adder, the jaws Of
crocodile, the crushing folds of an ana
conda, the slvness of a scorpion, the
tongue of a cobra, and the coil Of the
worm that never dies. 1t is in every COM
munity, in every church, in every legis-
lative hall, in every monetary institution,
in every drawing room 1evee, in every
literary and professional circle. 1t whis-
pers, it Kisses, it lies, it debauches, it
blasphemes, it 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 political recognition. 1t
is the shadow of other peoples success. 1t
is the shiver in our pocket-book because it
snot as fat as some one else's pocket book
1t is the twinge in our tongue because It'll
not as eloquent as 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
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 hu-
man race.
1t was antediluvian as much as it is
postdiluvian. 1t put a 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 his skull;
for his sacrifice has been accepted 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-
ton, which has had it's echo in all the
fratricides, matricides, uxoricides, homi-
cides, infanticides and regicides of all
ages and all nations. This passion of
Jealousy so disturbed Callgula at the
prominence of some of the men of his
time, that he cut a 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 his purple robe, which attracted
too much attention. After Columbus had
placed America as a gem in the Spanish
crown, Jealousy set on the Spanish cour-
tiers to depreciate his achievement, and
aroused animosities till the great dis
coverer had his heart broken. Urged on
by this bad passion, Dionysius flayed
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
VIZ PAu. AAehe OIL uCh LILO tNtuty -CuT6G IdEal
wounds into Julius Caesar. That banished
Aristides. That fred Antony against
Cicero. Tiberius exiled an architect be-
cause OF the fame he got for beautiful
porch, and slew poet for his fine tragedy,
Ihat set Saul in rage against David.
How graphical the Bible puts it when it
says: Saul eyed David" 1t seems to take
possession of both eyes and makes them
Hash and hpr L
''Saul eyed David" That is to say: "You
little upstart, how dare you attempt any
thing great. | will grind you under my
heel. Will exterminate you, will, you
miserable homuncdlus. Crouch, crawl.
SINK into that rat-hole. 1 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
airy admiration on Bacaulard d, Armand.
the old infidel leaped out of his bed and
danced the floor in maniacaI rage. and
ordered his swiftest horses hooked up to
carry him to the Prussian palace.
That passion Of jealousy, hvid, hungry,
unbalked, RACES on, and it now nierces
the earth like fiery diameter and en-
=" stAOAy
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 I.
me. mine, myselfw 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 iealousv
keeps all the political world aboiI. There
are at least five hundred people who are
jealous 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, whole pande-
monium OF defamation, scurrility, hatred.
revenge. falsehood, profanity and misrep-
resentation will be turned upon the land.
Inc tariff, about the raising, or lowering.
OF 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 Louisiana
will be told that the tariff must be ar.
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