Milford chronicle., 1903-01-16
TALMAGE
SERMON
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By Rev.
By Rev.
FRANK DE WITT TALAiAGE. DID,.
Pastor of Jefferson Park Presby-
terian Church, Chicago

N0AN tAA7 AAbAl - AAtA Nf AAtN II IL
Witt Talmage in the following sermon
ON the text Proverbs vi "a. Jealousy
is the rage Of a man"
What does rage signify? Righteous
Indignation? A calm dispassionate ar
raignment OF castigation? a dcnuncia-
tion judiciouslly planned and yet over
whelmngly and scathingly delivered, as
when Edmund Burke exposed the mis-
deeds of Warren Hastings in the IA
nous trial ut Westminster? A rQbuke
such as Jesus gave to the Pharisees,
who had dragged 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 hcr?' Is rage merely
a mild remonstrance. an earnest and
yet gentle eXpos,ulatiOn, "A horiatOry
admouition, a Christian reprimand Civ
en- with the holy desire to save and re
deem the person who has sinned or un-
Intentionally done wrong! Oh. no!
Rage is not a well composed censure.
Rage is unbridled fury; rage is a fierce,
wild, all consuming, fiery passion burn
ing at the heart and mind; rage is a
demon stabbing at tie vitals of all true
love; rage is a Satanic iconoclast shat
tering every sacred shrine of the intel
lect; rage is an insanity. arrangement
of moral sensibilities. 1t is an unrea-
sonable and unreasOning frenzy, glory
ing in absurd halucinatiOEs. Rase's
thrOner0om is a madh0use; RACES court
iers are the inhabitants Of chamber
of horrors; RACES only music is the ech-
ding shrieks and sobs of the etornaliy
lost and OF the destroyed who can new
er die.
Now, as rage is nothing more nor less
than a 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 a madman whom
l once saw chained to the seat of a
railroad train. Behind this seat rode
for many miles on a journey from De
trOit to Washington. 1t was one of the
most awful days l 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 a noble brow
and a mGsterful face, but his eyes were
like burning Goals His white teeth
cleaned like the mOlars of a wild
beast. This madman was a graduate .
of the Carlisle school. He was also a
graduate of enc of the noted law
schools of the country. He had been .
as a lawyer the representative of his .
tribe, fighting for the land which was
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 cl:i5. the would
be murderers struck him upon the
head. Alas. they did worse than as
sassinate the mans Eedy. 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 Il 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
Of Washington. As | sat behind this
hour after hour and pitied
him the sentence of my text flashed
through my mind. Jealousy is the
age Tor the insanity of q man." May
God help me to interpret Alright the
sacred lessons which SolCmOn's warn
ing ought to teach to every troubled
leart afflicted and cursed by the ago
lies Of this awful overma3tering sin.
The Evil Spirit.
Maddening jealousy would destroy
every successful rival who might stand
N its way. Ii is the evil spirit which
made Saups eyes flash fire when he
yripped a jnvelin and hurled it at ]
David's head, merely because the
naidens of his kingdom had greeted
he returning warriors with the song,
Saul has slain his thousands, but
David his ten thousands" 1t is the
spirit which made the French generals
jetray the shepherd girl, Joan of Arc, /
nto the hands Of the English, so that
she should be burned at the stake in {
he streets Of Rouen merely because
iEe bad wol Victories they could never
nave achieved. 1t is the spirit which
made the Spanish courtiers compel Co
umbus 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
ic...2 c. ti-c London ministers of their |
Icy and which made Harvey and Jen-
scr and James T. Simpson encounter Y
heir greatest opposition from jealous
rem Of their own profession 1t is the
ipirit which made Votaire denounce
2aculard d'Arnaud and which sent the t
bullet of Aaron Burr straight through i
he heart Of Alexander Hamilton. Jeal- a
,usy in the heart produces strange hal S
ucinatlons in its victims. The jealous (
nan feels that the success Of another is {
n some way robbery Of himself. The 4
ealous politician will not support the a
lominee of his party. because he want 4
a the nomination himself: the Jealous G
urgeon cannot rejoice that another t
urgeon has cured Il cripple if be has Il
ever performed the operation himself: Il