The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-01-18
: HICAGo. January 11.-A vigorous
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S misehievous disposition is utter cd by the Rev F. Dewitt Talmage in the following sermon on the text Proverbs Vi, 9A Jealousy is the rage of a man"
 Whet does rage signify? Righteous in dignation: A calf. dispassionate arraign- ment or eastigation? A denunNlation ju. dlciously planned and yet overwhelmingly and scathngly delivered, as when Ed mund Burke exposed the misdeeds of Warren Hastings in the famous trial at Westminster? A rebuke such as Jesus gave to the Pharisees, who had dragged poor, helpless, friendless, sinful woman | to his feet, when he turned and said to his accusers, "Let his that is without sin cast the first stone at herr" Is rage merely a mild remonstrance, an earnest and yet gentle approximation, a hortatory admontion. a Christian reprimand giv- en with the holy desire to save and re- deem the person who has slnned or un- Intentionally done wrong? Oh. no! Rage l Is not a well composed censure. Rage IS unbridled fury; rage is fierce. wild, all consuming, fiery passion burning at the | heart and mlnd rage Is a demon stao- ping at the vitals of all true love; rage | Is a Satanic iconoclast shattering every | sacred shrine of the intellect; rage is an insanity. a derangement of moral sensi- bilities. It Is an unreasonable and un- reasoning frenzy, glorying in absurd hal- lucinations. Rage's throneroom is a mad house; rage's courtlers are the inhabit- ants of a chamber of horrors; rage's only music is the echoing shricks and sobs of l the eternally lost and of the destroyed | who can never die.
 | Now, as rage Is nothing more or less | than a fatal monomania which can take 1 possession of the hearts and minds of Its victims, l can well compare tho evils Of | jealousy, which is the rage of a man, to the actions of madman whom I once saw chained to the seat of a railroad | train. Behind the seat I rode for many l miles on journey from Detroit to Wash- l ington It was one of the most awful | days I ever spent. As I sat in the train reading, the officers of the law dragged up the aisle great strong limbed, pow erfully framed, half breed Indian. He | had a noble brow and a masterful face, 1 but his eyes were like burning coals. His | white teeth gleamed like molars of wild ! beast. The madman was a graduate Of l the Carlisle school. He was also a grad uate of one of the noted law schools of | the country. He had been as a lawyer
 
 for the land which was rlghteously theirs. In order to still his eloquent voice before l the courts of the law some of the squat | ters upon that Indian land determined to | kill him. One dark night, with club, the would-be murderers struck him upon the head. Alas, they did worse than assas- l sinate the mans body. They wrecked his brain. And there he was tugging at the handcuffs which linked his wrists to the i iron seat and making the air sulphurous with his basphemies. Like a dog foam 1 ing with hydrophobia, he was snapping at 1 his fathers fingers, while the latter was l trying to feed him. He was threatening l to kill the passengers. He was on his l way to the National Insane asylum or | Washington. As I sat behind this mad man hour after hour and pitied him the | sentence of my text flashed through my mind. Jealousy Is the rage tor the in- sanity) of a man." May God help me to 1 interpret alright the sacred lesson which Soomon's warning ought to teach to 1 every troubled heart afflicted and cursed by the agonies of this awful overmas- l tering sin.
 The Evil Spirit.
 Maddenlng jealousy would destroy l every successful rival who might stand in its way. It is the evil spirit which made Sauls eyes flash fire when he gripped a javelin and hurled 1t at Davids head | merely because the maluenS or ms ktnR- | dom and greeted the returning warriors with the song. Saul has slain his thou sands, but David his ten thousands" It | Is the spirit which made the French gen. erals 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 of Rouen merely because she | had won victories they could never have | achieved. It is the spirit which made the Spanish courtiers compel Columbus to die 1 in obscurity and sent Sir Walter Raleigh to the block. It is the evil spirit which made Charles H. Sturgeon and Rowland l Hill hated by some of the London minis ters of their day and which made Harvey and Jenner and James Y. Simpson en- | counter their greatest opposition from l jealous men of their own profession. It IS the spirit which made Voltaire denounce I Baculard d Armand and which sent the bullet of Aaron Burr straight through the heart of, Alexander Hamilton. Jeal- ousy in the heart produces strange hallu- cmations In its victims. The jealous man feels that the success of another Is in some way robbery of himself The jeal- ous politician will not support the nom- nee of his party. because he wanted the | nomination himself; the Jealous surgeon l cannot rejoice that another surgeon has cured cripple if he has never performed the operation himself; the jealous minis l ter cdnHOl reJOlco at nearing that an- | other church is crowded if 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 wo- man win success In any department of life than many jealous, unsuccessful ri- vals become beside themselves with rage As a monomaniac may be rational on every subject but one, so the jealous man may be fair and just on every question but be. absolutely insane and 2 unjust when the works and lives of his success full rivals are discussed. If you are a jealous man you will turn upon them all your batteries of scorn and denunciation. You will magnify their faults and goat over their imperfectlons, you will loathe them with an unutterable loathing, and when on account of your unjust criti- cisms, you may have overthrown a suc- cessful rival, you. as a jealous man. will join in the pandemonium of demoniacal joy in which all the evil spirits of the inferno join in the chorus. You will glee- fully clap your hands and shout: Aha, we have destroyed him! We have de-