Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-16
TALMAGE
SERMON
By Rev.
FRANK De WITT TALsIAcE. DID,.
Pastor OF Jefferson Park Presby-
terrain Church, Chicago

chicago, Jan. IL. - \ vigorous de-
nunciation OF a common and mlschie-
vous disposition is uttered by Rev. +. De
Witt Talmsge I'm the following sermon
on the text Proverbs vi 81, Jealousy
is the rage OF n man:"
What does rage signify? Righteous
iDdignation2 A calm. diSpasSionate ar
raignment or castigation? a denuncia-
ton, tudiciouslly planned and yet over
whelmngly and scathingly delivered. as
when Edmund Burke exposed the mis-
deeds OF Warren Hastings in the IA
nous trial at Westminster? rebuke
such as Jesus gave TO the Pharisees.
who had dragged n poor helpless,
friendless. sinful woman to his feet.
when he turned and said TO the accus-
ers, Let him that Is without sin cast
the first stone at herr" Is rage merely
mild remonstrance, an earnest and
yet gentle expostulatlon, hortatory
admonition. Christian reprlmand Civ
en- with the holy desire to save and re-
deem the person who has sinned or I'M
Intentionally done wroug2 oh. no!
Rage is not n well composed censure
Rage is unbridled fury; rage is fierce,
wild, ell consuming. fiery passion burn
ing at the heart and mind; rage is a
demon stabbiug at the vitals of ali true
love; rage is Satanic iconoclast shat
tering every sacred shrine Of the intel
lect; rage is an insanity, arrangement
OF moral sensbilities. 1t is an unrea-
sonable and unreasoning frenzy. glory
Ing In absurd Authorizations. RACES
throneroom is a madhouse; RACES court
iers are the Inhabitants of chamber
OF horrors; RACES only music is the ech-
ding shrieks and sobs OF the eternally
lost and OF the destroyed who can new
or die
Now, as rage Is nothing more nor less
than fatal monomania which can
take possession of the hearts and minds
of its victims. / can well compare the
evils or jealousy. which Is the rage OF n
man, to the actions Of n mailman whom
1 once saw chained to the seat of
railroad train. Behind this seat rode
for many miles on journey from De
trcit to Washington. 1t was one of the
most awful days 1 ever spent AS
sat In the train reading, the officers OF
the law dragged up the aisle great,
strong limbed, powerfully framed. half
breed Indian. He had noble brow
and masterful face, but his eyes were
like burning Goals. His white teeth
cleaned like the molars of wild
beast. This mailman was n graduate
OF the Carlisle school. He was also n
graduate OF one OF the noted law
schools OF the country. He had been
as lawyer the representative OF his
tribe. fighting for the land which was
righteously theirs. In order to still his
eloquent voice before the courts OF the
law some OF the squatters upon that
Indian land determined TO kill him.
One dark night, with club, the wosld
be murderers struck him upon the
head. Alas. they did worse than as
sassinnte the mans body They wreck
ed his brain. And there he was, tug
ging at the handouts which linked his
wrists to the iron car seat and making
the air sulphurous with his BIAS
phemies- Like q dog foaming with
hydrophobia. he was swapping at his
fathers fingers. while the latter was
trying to feed him. he was threaten
Ing to kill the passengers. He was on
his way to the National Insane asylum
or Washington. AS I sat behind this
mailman hour after hour and pitied
him the sentence OF my text flashed
through my mind. Jealousy is the
rage Tor the insanity OF n man." May
God help me to interpret Alright the
sacred lessons which Solomon's warn
Ing ought to teach to every troubled
heart afflicted and cursed by the ago
MES or this awful overmastering sin
The EVIL Spirit.
Maddening jealousy would destroy
every successful rival who might stand
In its way. 1t is the evil spirit which
made Saurs eyes flash fire when he
gripped a javelin and hurled IL at
David's head, merely because the
maidens OF his Kingdom had greeted
the returning warriors with the song,
saul has slain his thousands, but
David his ten thousands" 1t Is the
spirit which made the French generals
betray the shepherd girl. Joan OF Arc.
Into the hands OF the English, so that
she should be burned at the stake In
the streets or Rouen merely because
she had won victories they could never
have achieved. 1t is the spirit which
made the Spanish courtiers compel Co
lumbus TO die In obscurity and sent Sir
Walter Raleigh to the block. 1t is the
evil spirit which made Charles II.
Spurgeon and Rowland Hill hated by
aome or the London ministers OF their
day and which made Harvey and Jen-
ner and James Y. Simpson encounter
their greatest opposition from Jealous
men or their own profession. 1t is the
spirit which made Voltairs denounce
baculard dArnaud and which sent the
bullet or Aaron Burr straight through
the heart OF Alexander Hamilton. Jeal-
ousy In the heart produces strange hal
lucinations In Its victims. The Jealous
man feels that the success OF another Is
In some way robbery OF himself. The
jealous politician will not support the |
nominee of his party, because he want |
ed the nomination himself; the Jealous |
surgeon cannot rejoice that another |
surgeon has cured a cripple II he has |
never performed the operation himself; |
the Jealous minister cannot rejoice at |
hearing that another church is crowd |
ed II his own is empty; the jealous |
woman cannot bear to hear praises of |
the beauty OF another woman.
Thus no sooner does any man or
"onlaH VIE success In any department |
OF life than many jealous. unsuccessful
rivals become beside themselves with
rage As monomaniac may be ra-
tional on every subject but one, so the
Jealous man may be fair and just on
every question. but be absolutely in
sane and unjust when the works and
nves OF his successful rivals are dis
Sussed II You are a jealous man, you
Will turn upon them all your batteries
or scorn and denunciation. You will
magnify their faults and gioat over
their imperfections, you will loathe
them with an unutterable loathing. and
when. on account of your unjust criti-
Sisns' you may have overthrown a
suecessrul rival. you, as jealous man.
VIII join Ia the pandemonium OF de-
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