Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-01-16

happiness. yet they will keep on I'm
their upbraidlngs ana fault findings
and denunciatlons until at last they
will drive those who are nearest aud
dearest TO them from their sides. No
impression will cause a husband to de-
spise wife quicker than the belief
that she distrusts him and Will not
credit what he says; no knowledge on
earth will send young woman To de
struction sooner than the thought that
the man she married has dropped the
role of lover for that OF a sneaking de-
tectiye. Continual fault finding and
false accusations and frenzied distrust
and vcn0mous sneers and multitude
nous reproaches and sulky broodings
always defeat their own ends with our
loved ones as jealousy also defeats it's
own aim IN our trcacherous dealings
with our hated rivals. The rattlesnakes
fang is poor receptacle in which to
store the honey of an orange blossom.
The most yirulent forms of madden
ing jealousy can often be found among
the old as well as among the young.
The superintsndents of the great In.
sane asylums will tell you that some of
their patients have been living I'm
charge OF their keepers for ten, twenty.
thirty aud sometimes even forty or
fifty years. | remember. some yenrs
ago. that | saw IN old woman i'm the
Flatbush Insane asylum, who, be-
lieve, had been there for nearly fifty
years. She thought she was the queen
OF England, ana she wore paper
cornucopia upon her head for a crown.
She was there knighting her courtiers
and creating earls. marquises aud
dukes out of the attendants and Wis
itors, Just as she did when first brought
Into the asylum many years ngo. So
we find that the evil flames OF madden
ing jealousy can sometimes burn as
fercely In the sinful hearts OF meu and
women who have lived their twoscore
years and ten as In the hearts OF the
young who are just starting out In the
struggle Of life.
Fathers and mothers and older men
and women. would not for q moment
cast slur on your past usefulness or
belittle the respect which the world
ought to show to gray hairs: but, hon.
estiy and frankly. do you not feel that
the young folks ought to have their
FIRST lessons OF magnanimity from you I!
When your time comes to GO would
you not rather that your sons and
daughters should weep about your dy-
ing bed and feel that they have lost O
Dear, helpful friend than that they
shall be glad TINT you are dyns, be-
cnuse you are holding with a selfish
grip to all that you bavel My aged
friend, you should not only be willing
to live, but you should also be willing
to let live. Every old merchant should
try to help the young merchant. Ev-
cry old physician should be ready TO
lend his medical books to the Young
physician and speak n good word for
him In the neighborhood. Every old
lawyer should be willing to give bis
aoviee TO the young lawyer. and every
old minister to encourage the young
minister. Ye older men, you should
not only be proud Of the fact that YOU
nave made success. but you should
also be proud OF the fact that you have
helped some younger man to climb the
difficult heights from which you arc
now able calmly to look down upon the
thousands struggling In ascent fur be-
meath.
SIN Is the Chief Cau.e.
But maddenfng jealousy has direct
personal cause. All insanities afe the
result OF some organic or functional
disorder Sometimes insanity may be
caused by fall or blow. Part OF the
skull may be crushed In, and piece OF
the bone will be found, by postmortem
examination, TO be pressing on the
brain. Such splintered bone was the
cause OF a brilliant Chicago lawyers
mental DOWNFALL. Frank Coilyer was
one dark night struck by n footpad's
club, and part Of his skull was driven
into the brain, and he never talked m
tionally again. Sometimes insanity "a
the result OF overtax ed nerves; some
times the disease is inherited from nm
cestral causes; SO mnddening jealousy
mas direct cause. That spiritual dag
nosis can be spelled In the one fearful
word or three letters. Its only cause ia
sin The same kind OF sin which TO.
day hlls our jaiis and reformatory in
situations and lifts the hangman's
moose Is the fendish. 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, will YOU not
come TO that Christ who Is willing and
able 10 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 a man. So great was and
Is Christs divine power In this re.
spect that Luke tells US there was n
man afflicted not only with one. but
with a legion or four thousand, devils.
This man was 80 goaded by this de-
moniac possession that, though he was
bound In letters OF chains. he would
snap them as easily as a lion might
brush aside spiders web. lie was so
distracted that In his frenzy he would
tear or all his clothes. But when Jesus
spoke tho word of deliverunce the man
VINO was once Insane Immediately be-
came clothed and In his right mind. III
Christ could do oil that for the insane
man OF old, will you not let Jesus cure
you Also of the awful insanity of jeal-
ousyf Oh, my sinful friend, you have
mated men and despised men and found
fault with men long enoughi VIII you
BOT, here and now, by Christ's 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 |
ago New York public school teacher.
whose scholars were mostly drawn |
from the Sums, carried into her class
room a beautiful white lily. One OF |
her pupils was a poor waif of the
street Her clothes were soiled and
torn Her hands and face were dirty.
The teacher thought she would please
this poor child by giving to her the
beautiful flower, but instead of taking
IL the young girl turned and ran out of
the room little later she came back
with her face and hands washed and
then said: Teacher. am clean now.
Give me the lse0 utieul fiowarD O. xha |