The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-05-12

> wrong TO him. lie said: Il have
staid at home, and ought to have had
: the ring, andaI ought to have had the
banquet, and | ought TO have had the
garlands." Alas for this spirit OF envy
and jealousy coming down through the
: ages! Cain and Abel, Esau and jacob,
Saul and David, HaInan and Mordecai,
Othello and Iago, Orlando and Angel
lea, Caligula and Torquatus, Caesar
and Pompey, Columbus and the Span
ish courtiers, Cambyses and the broth
err he slew because he was u better
marksman, Dionysius and Philoxenius,
whom he slew because he was better
singer. Jealousy among painters.
Closterman and Godfrey Kneller Hud-
son and Reynolds. Francia, anxious to
see picture of Raphael, Raphael sends
him picture. Francia, seeing it, falls
In mt OF jealousy, from which he dies.
Jealousy among authors. How seldom
contemporaries speak of each other!
Aenophon and Plato living ut the same
time, but from their writings you never
would suppose they heard of each 9TH
er. Religious jealousies. The Moham-
medans praying for rain during a
drought; no rain coming. Then the
Christians begin to pray for rain, and |
the rain comes. Then the Mohamme-
dams met together to account for this,
and they resolved that God was so well
pleased with their prayers He kept the
drought on so as to keep them praying,
but that the Christians began to pray,
and the Lord was so disguised with
their prayers that He sent rain right
away, so he would not hear any more
OF their applications. Oh, this ac-
cursed spirit of envy and jealousy! Let
us stamp it out from all our hearts!
"A wrestler was so envious of Theog-
enes, the prince of wrestlers, that he
could not be consoled in any way;
and after Theogenes died and statue
was lifted to him in a public place
his envious antagonist went out every ,
night and wrestled with the statue,
until one night he threw it, and it !
fell on him and crushed him to death,
So jealousy is not only absurd, but it =
is killing to the body, and it is kill
ing to the soul. How seldom it is you !.
lind one merchant speaking well of a :,
merchant in the same line of business. .
How seldom it is you hear a physician
speaking well of a physician on the
same block. Oh, my friends. the world
S large enough for all of us. Let us T,
'ejoice at the success of Others The -
lext best thing to owning a garden -
ourselves is to look over the fence and g
ldmire the flowers. The next best y
hing to riding in fine equipage is to =,
tand on the street and admire the =,
span. The next best thing -
o having banquet given to ourselves re
S having banquet given to our prod ~
gal brother that has come home to g
is fathers house. u
Besides that. if we do not get as ah
luch honor and as much attention as ~
theirs, we ought to congratulate our Sc
elves on what we escape in the way
assault. The French general riding ST.
Il horseback at the head of his troops iii,
card soldier complain and say: ut fin
very easy for the general to command v,e
S forward while he rides and we walk" h.,
hen the general dismounted and com ar,
elled the complaining soldier to get wa
l the horse. Coming through ra- n,
ne, bullet from a sharpshooter ,,.
ruck the rider, and he fell dead Then
e general said: ''How much safer it
to walk than to ride!'
Once more | have to tell you that Ike
is senior brother of my text stands del
Il the pouting Christian. While there The
so much congratulation within doors ma
e hero of my text stands outside, The
e corners of his mouth drawn down, uas
king as he felt-miserable | am ia,
Id his lugubrious physiognomy did he
t spoil the festivity within. How dist
my pouting Christians there are in
r day-Christians who do not like the
Isle of the churches, Christians who n
not like the hilarities of the young inc,
uting, pouting, pouting at society, by
ltlng at the fashions, pouting at the Mis-
wspapers, pouting at the church, Abb
lting at the government, pouting at sen,
lieaVen' lheir spleen is TOO large, met
- h,ei uoes NOT work thelr dlges- latt
is broken down. There are two
let's in the caster always sure to be
IL supplied--vinegar and red pepper! A
come away from that mood. Stir Ga.
tile saccharin into your disposition, deaf
lie you avoid the dissoluteness of the goot
niger son, avoid also the irascibility chm
.he petulance and the pouting Eish
~ VI the eluer son. and initiate the Tyie
her, who had embraces for the re-
ming prodigal and coaxing words Sout
the splentic malcontent. Ar
n, the face OF this pouting elder son way
ut before us in order that we might dispt
Ter see the radiant and forgiyino Fran
OF the Father. Contrasts are ty, t
my The artist, in sketching the gran
OF Waterloo years after the battle,
dove in the mouth of the cannon. ~,
hael, in one of his cartoons, beside
face OF wretch put the face of a ~"
oy and innocent child. And so the was
face of this irascible and disguised , weic'
brother is brought out in order VIM
in the contrast we might better
erstand the forgiving and radiant ].
- uou' mat is The meaning of it Vfcks
az "ou IS ready 10 take back any other
'ha' Is sorry, 10 take him clear week!
, to take him back forever and for.
and forever, to take him back with
ng hug to put kiss on his parched "A !
ring on his bloated hand, an easy VI th
on his chafed foot a no'Ia1 lulose
bleeding templhs and booro,, riousl
Oh, | fall fiat on mercy! Come.
brother, and let us get down into Gov
- resolved never to rise until Angus
ather's forgiving hand shall lift usI tion +
, what God we haveI BRING vour sanb ,