Milford chronicle., 1903-01-16

81 be sHd N are L.. ing. be
a2 500 Wtl "A selfish
81 to al. ..., d lave: Ny asa
f. .a. you s.. ...I 'lot + be wiling
to lrc. but wa s.Ioa.d a-so be wiling
to let liv, every III merchant should
try 10 help the youag mc.clant Lv-
err old physician s-ould be ready to
lc1l his mga.cal books 30 the young
physician and speak good word fer
h..l in the ncishb3rhood Every old
lawyer shoCld be willing to give his
advice to the young lawyer, ana every
old minis, er to encourage the young
minister. Ye older men, you should
not only be proud Of the fact that YOU
have maze Success, bat you should
also lie proud OF the fact that you have
helped some younger man TO climb the
difficult heights from which you are
nov allie calmly 20 look down upon The
thocsdnGs struggling in ascent far be
meath.
sin Is the Chief Cnuse.
But maddenng jealousy has a direct
personal cause All insanties are the
result OF some organic or functional
disorder. Sometimes Insanity may be
caused Icy q fail or q blow. Part Of the
skull msy Ge crushed in, and picce Of
the bone VIII be found by postmortem
examination, to be pressing on the
brain. s%ch a splintered bone was the
cause Of brilliant Chicago lawyers
mental downfall. Frank Collyer was
one dark night struck by a foJtPad's
club, and part Of his skull was driven
into the brain, and he never talked ra-
tionally again. Sometimes insanity is
the result of overtaXed nerves; some
times the disease is inherited from an
cestral causes: so maddening jealousy
has Il direct cause. That spiritual dag
nosis can be spelled in the one fearful
word Of three letters. Its only cause is
sin" The same kind of sin which to-
day fills our jails and reforniatory in
stitutiOns and lifts the hancman's
moose is the fiendsh. maddening evil
against which, in his day, King Solo
mon lifted his voice in protest.
Now, my brother, as the insanity of
jealousy is caused by sin, viii you not
come to that Christ who is willing and
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 man. So great was and
is Christ's divine power in this re-
spect that Luke tells US there was a
man afflicted not only with one, but
with a legion or four thousand, devils.
This man was so goaded by this de
moaiac possession that though he was
bound in fetters of chains, he would
snap them as easily as a lion might
brush aside spiders web. He was so
distracted that in his freazy lie would
tear off ali lis clothes But when Jesus
spoke the word of deliverance the man
who was once insane Immediately be-
came clothed ard IN his right mind If
Christ could do all tAat for the insane
man of old, will you not let Jesus cure
you also of the awful insanity of jeal-
Ousy? Oh. my sinful friend. you have
hated men and despised men and found
fault with men long enoughl viii you
not, here and now by Christs help,
learn to love men and try to help men
instead of trying to destroy them?
BY the noble example of Christ's life
today may we be led to exterminate
The awful sin of jealousy. Some years
lgO a New York public school teacher,
whose scholars were mostly drawn
from the slums. carried into her class
'OOm a beautiful white lily. One of
ler pupils was poor waif of the
street. Her clothes were soiled and
Orn. Her hands and face were dirty.
The teacher thought she would please
his poor child by giving to her the
beautiful flower. but instead of taking
t the young girl turned and ran out of
he room. A little later she came back
With her face and hands washed and
hen said: Teacher, | am clean now.
live NE the beautiful flower" So the
ense Of moral pollution often makes
nen shrink from accepting the gift God
S offering in the person of his Son; but
is because Of that very pollution that
ie presses his gift upon us. We can
lot cleanse ourselves. but we can pray
hat he will cleanse us and make us fit
o receive him who is the Lily of the
alley the One altogether lovely"
Copyright. 1903. by Louis Klopsch.I