The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-05-17

| you LINK Iudt dll tIllS discussion III puDilC
places is from any desire for the welfare
Of the dear people, and not for political
effect, you are grievously mistaken.
Go into all occupations and profess
sions, and if you want to know how much
jealousy is yet to be extirpated, ask mast
| er builders what they think of each others
| houses, and merchants what their opinion
is of merchants in the same line of bust
ness in the same street. and ask doctors
| what they think of doctors, and lawyers
what they think of lawyers, and ministers
what they think Of ministers, and artists
what they think of artists. AS long as
men and women in any department keep
down and have hard struggle, they will
be family praised and the remark will be !:
''Oh, yes; he is a good, clever sort of a
fellow" ''She is rather, yes, somewhat,
| quite-well, / may say, tolerably nice kind
of woman" But let him or her get a
little too high and off goes the aspiring
head by social or commercial decapita-
! ton.
Remember that envy dwells more on
small defects of character than on great
| forces, makes more of the fact that Do
mitian amused himself by transfxing flies
with his penknife than of his great con-
| quests; more of the fact that Handel was a
g1utton than of the fact that he created i'm
perishable oratorios; more of Coleridge's
opium habit than of this writing "Christa-
beP' and "The Ancient Mariner" more of
| the fact that Addison drank too much
than of the fact that he was the author of
| the spectators" more of mans pecca-
dilloes than of his mighty energies; more
| of his defeats than of his victories.
| Look at the sacred and Heaven-de-
scended science of healing, and then see
DR. Mackenzie, the English surgeon, who
prolonged the life of the Crown Prince of
Germany until he became Emperor, and
l hope may yet cure him, so that he may
for many years govern that magnificent
| German nation, than which there is no
| grander. Yet SO great are the medical
| jealousies that DR.. Mackenzie dare not
walk the streets of Berlin. He is under
military guard. The medical students of
Germany can hardly keep their hands off
| of him. The old doctors of Germany are
writhing with indignation. The fact is
that in saving Frederick's life DR.. Mac
kenzie saved the peace of Europe. There
was not an intelligent man on either side
the ocean that did not fear for the result
| If the throne passed from wise and good
| old Emperor William to his inexperienced
| grandson. But when, under the medical
| treatment of DR.. Mackenzie, the Crown
| Prince Frederick took the throne, wave
of satisfaction and confidence rolled over
Chrlstendom. What shall the world do
with the doctor who saved his life? ''Oh,"
| cried out the medical jealousies of Eu-
rope, destroy him; of course, destroy
| him.
What brutal scene of jealousy we had
IN this country when President Garfield
| lay dying. There were faithful physicians
that sacrificed their other practice and
| sacrificed their health for all time in
| fidelity to that death-bed Doctors Bliss
and Hamilton and Agnew went through
| anxleties, and tolls, and fatigues such as
none but God could appreciate. Nothing
| pleased many of the medical profession.
| The doctors in charge did nothing right.
| We who did not see the case knew better
| than those who agonized over it in the
| sick-room for many weeks. I, who never
| had any thing worse than run-round on
| my thumb, which seemed to me at the
| time was worthy all the attention of the
| entire medical fraternity, had my own
| ideas as to how the President ought to be
| treated. And in proportion as physicians
| and laymen were ignorant of the case,
they were sure the treatment practiced
was mistake. And when in post-mortem
the bullet dropped out of a different
portion of the body from that in which it
| was supposed to have been lodged, about
two hundred thousand people shouted: 81
| told you sop "There! I knew it all the
time" There are some doctors in all
| cities who would rather have the patient
die under the treatment of their own
schools than have them get well under
some other pathy.
Yea, look at the clerical profession. I
am sorry to say that IN matters of ieal-
ousy it is no better than other profess
sions. There are now in all denomina-
tons great many young clergymen who
have faculty for superior usefulness.
But they are kept down and kept back and
crippled by older ministers who look
| askance at these rising evangelists. They
are snubbed. They are jostled. They are
patronizingly advised. 1t is suggested to
them that they had better know their
place. If here and there one with more
| nerve, and brain, and conservation and
| divine force go past the seniors who want
TO Keep the chief places, the young are adj
V1sed in the words Of Scripture: 'sTarry
| at Jericho till their boards are grown"
lucy are Charged Win SenSatlOnallSm,
They are compared to rockets
that go up in blaze and come
down sticks, and the brevity of their
career is jubilantly prophesied. If it be
denomination with bishops, a bishop is
lmplored to sit down heavily on the man
who will not be nodded; or, if a de-
nomination without bishops, some of the
older men with nothing more than their
own natural heaviness and theological
avolrdupois are advised to f1atten out the
lnnovator. In conferences, and presby-
teries. and associations, and conventions
| there is often seen the most damnable
Jealousy. Such ecclesiastical tyrants
would not admit that jealousy had any
possession of them, and they take on a
Heavenly air, and talk sweet oil and
sugar plums and balm of a thousand flow
ers, and roll up their eyes with an air of
unctuous sanctity when they simply mean
the destruction Of those over whom thew
pray and shuttle. There are cases where
ministers Of religion are derelict and
criminal, and they must be put out.
But IN the majority of cases that have
witnessed in ecclesiastical trials there is
Jealous attempt to keep men from sur
passing their theological fellows, and as