The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18

and have their rooms filled with flowers and have carriages always at their dis
 posal These friends may stint them selves and lavish their money in every possible way for the comfort of their weak minded relations, yet these insane
 patients. can never be persuaded that their friends are faithful to them. l Though husbands and wives and children may be doing everything that can be done for their happiness, yet they will keep on in their upbraidings and fault findings and denuneiations until at last tbev will drive those who are nearest and dearest to them from their sides. No im-
 uressions will cause a husband to despise a wife quicker than the belief that she
 distrilsts him and wfil not credit what he
 says; no knowledge on earth can send a young woman to destruction sooner than the thought that the man she married
 has dropped the role of a lover for that of a sneaking detective. Continual fault
 finding and false accusations and frenzied
 distrust and venermous sneers and null
 tidudinous reproaches and sull1y brood-
 ines always defeat their own ends with
 our loved ones as jealousy also defeats
 It's own aim in our treacherous dealings with our hated rivals. The rattesnakes fang Is a poor receptacle In which to store the honey of an orange blossom.
 The most virulent forms of maddening
 jealousy can often be found among the
 old as well as among the young. The su- perintendents of the great Insane asylums will tell yon that some of their patients
 have been living in charge of their keep
 CTS for ten. twenty, thirty and sometimes
 even forty or fifty years. remember
 some time ago that 1 saw an old woman
 in the Flatbush Insane Asylum who,
 believe had been there for nearly fifty cl, sba of
 England and she wore a paper cornu-
 copia upon her head for a crown She was there knighting her courtiers and creating earls, marquises and dukes out of the attendants and visitors, just as she did when first brought into the asy
 lum many years ago. So we find that the evil flames of maddening tea1osy can
 sometimes burn as tiercely in the sinful hearts of men and women who have lived
 their two score years and ten as in the
 hearts of the young who are just starting
 out in the struggle of life.
 Fathers and mothers and older men and
 women, I would not for a moment cast a slur on your past usefulness or belittle
 the respect which the world ought to show to gray hairs; but honestly and frankly, do you not feel that the young folks ought to have their first lessons of
 magnanimity from you? When your time
 
 your sons and daughters should weep
 about your dying bed and feel that they
 have lost a dear helpful friend, than that they shall be glad that you are dying, because you are holding with a selfish grip to all that you have? My aged friend. you should not only be willing to live but you should also be willing to let live. Every old merchant should try to help the young merchant. Every old phy- sician should be ready to lend his medical books to the young physician and speak
 good word for him in the neighborhood
 Every old lawyer should be willing to
 give his advice to the young lawyer. and
 every old minister to encourage the young minister. Ye older men. you
 should not only be proud of the fact that you have made a success but you
 should also be proud of the fact that you
 have helped some younger man to climb the difficult heights from which you are
 now able calmly to look down upon the thousands struggling in ascent far be-
 heath
 Sin Is the Chief Cause.
 But maddening jealousy has direct
 personal cause. All insanities are the re- suit of some organic or functional dlsor- I der Sometimes insanity may be caused | by fall or a blow. Part of the skull
 may be crushed in, and piece of the bone will be found, by postmortem ex-
 animation, to be pressing on the brain. 1 Such a splintered bone was the cause of 1 brilliant Chicago lawyers mental down. | fall, Frank Collyer was one dark night l struck by a footpad's club and part of l his skull was driven Into the brain, and l he never talked rationally again. Some- | times insanity Is the result of overtaxed
 nerves sometimes the disease Is inherited l from ancestral causes; so maddening | jealousy has direct cause. That spirit
 ual diagnosis can be spelled in the one | fearful word of three letters It's only cause Is sin" The same kind of sin which today fills our 1ails and reforma- tory institutions and lifts the hangman's | moose In the fiendish. maddening evil against which, in his day, King Solomon lifted his voice in protest.
 l Now, my brother, as the insanity of | jealousy Is caused by sin, will you not | come to that Christ who Is willing and 1 able to take this sin out of your life? In | the Bible we read that Christ was and is | able to make the evil passions come out | of a man. So great was and is Christs
 divine power In this respect that Luke | tells us there was a man afflicted not l only with one. but with legion or four | thousand, devils. This man was so goad- 1 ed by this demoniac possession that, | though he was bound In fetters of chains | he would snap them as easily as a lion | might brush aside a spiders web He was | so distracted that in his frenzy he would | tear off all his clothes But when Jesus | spoke the word of deliverance the man | who was once insane immediately became
 clothed and In his right mind. If Christ | coud do all that for the insane man of | old, will you not let Jesus cure you also | of the awful insanity of jealousy? Oh, my
 sinful friend, you have hated men and
 despised men and found fault with men
 long enough! Will you not here and now | by Christ's help. learn to love men and | try to help men instead of trying to de-
 stroy them?
 By the noble example of Christs life
 today may we be led to exterminate the
 awful sin of jealousy. Some years ago a | New York public school teacher, whose
 scholars were mostly drawn from the
 slums, carried into her classroom a
 beautiful white lily. One of her pupils
 was a poor waif of the street Her | clothes were soiled and torn. Her hands
 and face were dirty. The teacher thought
 she would please this poor child by giving
 her the beautiful flower, but instead of
 taking 1t the young girl turned and ran
 out of the room. little later she came
 back with her face and hands washed
 and then said: "Teacher, l am clean now
 Give me the beautiful flower" So the
 sense of moral pollution often makes
 men shrink from accepting the gift God
 Is offering in the person of his Son; but
 it is because of that very pollution that
 he presses his gift upon us. We cannot
 cleanse ourselves, but we can pray that