Sharp County record., 1888-05-03

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f,sion and every evil work; "JealouSy !I
the rage of man" Ny hearers Il Inl' wv ~
nassion is IN any OF your sous rLot G
mightilv unto God for its expuiSlon' aLr,,'
,rhicb has downed kings and empeIoio'
ond anostIes and refOrmers, and ministers
Of religion. and thousands OF goou dnu- lnUn
ond W wonan is too mighty for you 10 con-
tand ~ AGAINST unaided. The evil mas 50
many roots of such infinite ConN ui?non
that nothing but the energy OF olnn1Po H.
tence can pull it out. Tradition sd! ol, 'lit -
wban Moses lifted up his hand to pra' IL
NOS oil encrusted with mamma, anu ~
sooner do YOU pray than you are Ieip1u' u
h,ro1, with the accursed, stenchtul, Ola''A-
ening, damning crime of jealousy . lios
if TO stav and it will eat up ana carry ~.
all the religion you can pack INTO YOU
oorl fir the next half-Century. IL Will w
Won more harm than it does any one II
lads Won TO assail. 1t will delude you
with the idea that you can build yourSen
~, hv milling somebody else down. You
will make more out OF the Succeoo ~
others than out of their mls1ortuneo'
sneak well of everybody. STAB no Man
in the hack, Be honey-bee rather Ilan
a snider. be a dove rather than a Duzzaru'
Surely this world is large enough lor
YOU and all your rivals. God has given n.y. you
a work to do. Go ahead and 40 IT, MIN lIt
vour own business. In all clrcleS' Ill al
businesses, in all professions there 10
room for straightforward successes Jeal.
orev entertained will not only DedWarI
vour soul, but it will fatten your skull
hemean YOUR eye, put pinchedneSs OF LOOK
about your nOstril, give a Dad cur " :lo
lin, and expel from your face the pIyIno JI-,
image in which you were created, HcH
Won hear a man OF woman abused drive Ill
On +ba defendant,s side. Watch for ex-
coIIencies in others rather thanfor detectS,
morning glories instead of nlghtshade' Il
some one is more beautiful than you,
thank God that you have not so many per
lis of vanity to contend with. II some one
has more wealth than you, thank 6ou ILiaV
Won have not so great stewardship 10 al
swer for. If some one is higher up III So
cial position, thank God that those WHO
are down need not fear fall. II some
one gets higher office in Church or state
than YOU, thank God there are notSo many
70 wish for the fastening on OF your oD'e-
quies .,,,i,,,o oror+-
ments. was visited by plain friend, ana
to keep his friend from jealousy the Duke
said: -,
ssYou can have all I have if you Will
stand twenty PAGES off and let me shoo'
at you one hundred times"
''No, no." said his friend.
"Well," said the Duke, "to gain all my
honors faced on the battlefield moro
than thousand gunshOts fired not more
than ten PAGES off"
A minister of small congregation COM
planned to a minister of large congrega-
ton about the sparseness Of his attend
ants.
"Ah," said the one of large audience,
my son, you will find in the day OF Judg-
ment that you had quite enough people
for whom to be held accountable"
Substitute for jealousy an elevating
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
onr right hand and cheers on our lips for
those who do brave and useful things
Life is short at the longest; etit all be
filled up with helpfulness for Others, work
and sympathy for each others misfortunes,
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 on 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 it 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 it 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 word? Did they
not call Him the victim Of intOXicants?
Did they not misinterpret Him from the
winter of the year l to the spring of the
year 33-that is, from His first infantile
cry to the last grOan of His assassination?
Yet He answered not word. But so far
from demOlishing either His mission or
His good name, after near nineteen CEN
turies He outranks everything under the
skies, and is second to none above them,
and the archangel makes salaam at His
fOOtstOOl. Christ's bloody antagonists
thought that they had finished Him when
they wrote over the cross His accusation
in three languages-Hebrew, Greek and
Latin-nOt realizing that they were by
that act introducing Him to all nations,
since Hebrew 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 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 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 a hay-mow in
Paris, and a hen came and laid an egg