The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-05-12

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it of envy and jealousy. The senior
brother thought that ali the honor
they did to the returned brother was
a wrong TO him. He said: II have
staid at home, and 1 ought to have had
the ring, and 1 ought to have had the
banquet, and l 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, Hannah 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 a better
marksman, Dionysius and P~hiloxenius,
whom he slew because he was a better
singer. Jealousy among painters.
Closterman and Godfrey Kneller, Hud-
son and Reynolds. Francia, anxious to
see a picture of Raphael, Raphael sends
him a picture. Francia, seeing it, falls
in a fit of jealousy, from which he dies.
Jealousy among authors. How seldom
contemporaries speak of each Otherl
Xenophon and Plato living at the same
time, but from their writings you never
would suppose they heard of each 9th
er. Religious jealousies. The hoham-
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 s~upplication.
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 a 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 1t
is killing to the body, and it is kill
ing to the soul. How seldom it is you
find 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
is large enough for all of us. Let us
rejoice at the success of others.
Besides that, if we do not get as
much honor and as much attention as
others, we ought to congratulate our
selves on what we escape in the way
of assault. The French general riding
on horseback at the head of his troops
heard a soldier complain and say; 1T
is very easy for the general to command
us forward while he rides and we walk"
Then the general dismounted and com
PEELED the complaining soldier to get
on the horse. Coming through a ra'
vine, a bullet from a sharpshooter
struck the rider, and he fell dead. Then
the general said: How much safer il
is to walk than to ride!"
Once more l have to tell you that
this senior brother of my text stand:
for the pouting Christian. While there
is so much congratulation within doors
the hero of my text stands outside
the of his mouth drawn down
looking as he felt-miserable. I an
glad his lugubrious physiognomy die
not spoil the festivity within. How
many pouting Christians there are IL
our day-Christians who do not like tn,
music of the churches, Christians WHIT
do not like the hilarities of the young
pouting, pouting, pouting at society
pouting at the fashions, pouting at thu
newspapers, pouting at the church
pouting at the government, pouting a
High Heaven. Their spleen is too large
their liver does not work, their diges
ton is broken down. There are tw,
cruets in the caster always sure to b
well supplied-vinegar and red pepper
Oh, come away fr0m that mood. Sti
a little saccharin into your disposition
While you avoid the d~issoluteness of tn
younger son, avoid also the i%rascibilit.
and the pe~tulance and the poutin.
| spirit of the elder son, and initiate tn
father, who had embraces for the re
turning prodigal and coaxing word
for the splentic malcontent.
All, the face of this pouting elder SO
is put before us in order that we nigh
better see the radiant and forgivin
face of the Father. Contrasts ar
mighty. The artist, in sketching tn
field of Waterloo years after the BATH
put a dove in the mouth of the cannon
Raphael, in n of his cartoons, besid
the face of a wretch put the face Of
happy and innocent child. And SO th
soul face of this irascible and disguise
elder brother is brought out in orde
that in the contrast we might bette
understand the forgiving and radian
face of God. That is the meaning of
that God is ready to take back any
body that is sorry, to take him clea
back, to take him back forever and fol
ever and forever, to take him back wit
allowing hug, to put a kiss on his parche
lip, a ring on his bloated haYd, an cas-
shoe on his chafed foot, a garland o
his bleeding temples and heaven in h!
soul. oh. I fall fat m mercvt Com