The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-01-15
TALngAGE
SERMON
By Rev.
FRANK DE WITT TALMAGE. DID,.
Pastor Of Jefferson Park Prssby-
terrain Church, Chicago

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| Witt Tal,cage in the following sermon,
on the text Proverbs vi. "a. jealousy
is the rage Of man"
What does rage Si-nifyt Righteous
Indignation? A calm ,iispassionate ar
| raignment or castigatiOn? \ dpnuncia-
ton. judiciouslly planned and vet over
whrlmngiy and stlthingly delivered. as
when Edmund Burke exposed the mis-
| deeds of Warren Hastings in the ia
! nous trial at Westminster? \ rcbukc
such as Jesus gave to the IhariSeeS.
who had dragged Il poor, helpless.
friPndlrSS. sinful woman to his feet,
when he turned and said to the acc,ls-
CrS. Let him that is without sin cast
the first stone at herr Is rage merely
mild rCm0nStrancc. IN earnest and
yet gentle CXpOStulat ion, IL h0rtatOry
admonftion. Il Christian rrprimand Civ
Ell with the holy desire to save and re-
deem the person who has Sinned or nm
Intentionally don" wrong? Oh. no!
Rage is not Il we'll composed ccnSurc
Rage is unbritlled fury; rage is Il fierce
wild. all consuming. fiery passion burn
ing ut the heart and mind; rage is
demon StAh}in@ ut tb" vjtals Of all true
love; rage Is Il $atHnit i"0noclaSt shat
!" tering every sacred shrine Of the intel
lect; rage is III insanity, Il arrangement
of moral scnsibiIities. it is an unrca-
sonable and unrrasoning frenzy. glory
ing in absurd Authorizations. RACES
:. IF
iers are the Inhabitants of 4 chamber
Of horrors: RACES only music is the ech-
ding shrieks and SOhs of the eternaly
lost and of the destroyed who can nev-
er 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 of jealousy, which is the rage of a
man, to the actions of Il mailman whom
once saw chained to the seat of a
railroad train. Behind this seat | rode
for many miles OH journey from De
troit to Washington. 1t was one of the
most awful days | ever spent, AS
sat in the train reading. the officers of
the law dragged up the aisle a great,
strong limbed. powerfully framed. half
breed Indian. He had noble brow
and masterful face. bHt his eyes were
like burning Goals. His white teeth
cleaned like the molars of wild
beast. This mailman was a graduate
of the Carlisle school. He was also a
graduate of one of the noted law
schools of the country. He had been
as Il 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 tile squatters upon that
Indian land determined to kill him.
One dark night, with Il club. the would
be murderers struck him upon the
head Alas. they did worse than as
sassinafe the mans body. They wreck
ed his BRAIN And there he was. tug
girlg at the handouts which linked his
wrists TO the iron car seat and making
the air sulphurous with his bias
phemies Like Il dog foalniiig with
hydrophobia. he WAS swapping Mt his
father's fingers, while the latter was
trying to feed him He was threaten
ing TO kill the passengers. lie was on
his way to the National Insane asylum
of Washington As 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 nan." May
God help me to interwe1 Alright the
sacred lessons which Salamons warn
ing ought to teach TO every troubled
heart afflicted and cursed by the ago
mics Of this awful overmasseriug sim
The Evil spirit
Maddening jealousy would destroy
every successful rival who might stand
In its way. It Is the evil spirit which
made Saul's eyes flash fire when he
gripped javelin and hurled it at
Dayid's head. merely because the
maidens of his kingdom had greeted
the returning warriors with the song,
Saul has slaiit his thousands. but
David his ten thousands It is the
spirit which made the French generals
betray the shepherd girl. Joan Of Arc.
into the hands of the English. 50 that
she should be burned at the stake ia
the streets Of 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 aud sent Sir
Walter Raleigh 10 the block. 1t is the
evil spirit which made Charles I'll.
Sturgeon and Rowland Hill hated by
some of the London ministers Of their
lay and which made Harvey and Jen
ner and james I Simpson encounter
their g,eatest opposition from jealous
men of their own profession It Is the
spirit which made Noltaire denounce
Baculard dArnaud and which sent the |
bullet OF Aaron Burr straight through |
he heart of Alexander Hamilton. Jeai- |
,usy in the heart produces strange hal
in its victims. The jealous |
nan feels that the success of another is
n some way a robbery of himself. The /
aa if,1S Y1aIitipian will 4lfst ss1InI.fTt Tho