Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-10-02
JEALOUSY, INDIVIDUAL
OR NATIONAL, A DISEASE
tntidntc for Jealousy Poison Found
In Phil. 18th Chapter, Sth Verse.
says City Missionary In Sermon ut
Monument Episcopal Church.

Rev. II. Cary Montague. city mis-
sionary. preaching at Monument
Episcopal church yesterday. stressed
that jealousy. whether individual or
national. is a disease Of the soul. and
is largely a product of the magma
tion. He said IN part:
Finally. brethren. whatsoever
things are true. whatsoever things
arc honest. whatsoever things are
just. Whatsoever things are pure.
whatsoever things are lovely. what
socver things are of good report; il
there be any virtue. and If there be
amy praise. think on these things:
Phil. chapter ", verse g.
jealousy, whether Individual or
national IS disease of tn. soul; It
!s largely Il product Of tho irnagina-
ton.
God Warns Against IL.
God not only warns US cmphati-
cally against it. but II. also pro-
vidcs US with "a remedy we turn
through the Sacred Book until we
come near 20 It's close. and there we
ind tho antidotc for this poison tina,
is 80 deadly :" the race. II is given
to us In the words of our text
80 sthl "lpIt lhtti TO MS friends
In the city of Philippi (Which was
not very far from the present scene
Of hOs,illtics). and as he did so, his
mind reverted TO the incidents that
had occurred on his visit to that
place. which we find recorded in the
seventeenth chapter OF Acts Hero
-" are told that he and Silas had
been taken before tho magistrates.
stripped and beaten and thrust into
Jail 20 sit with bleeding backs in tho
stocks. BY the power of their own
Wills and through tho grace Of God,
for which they had prayed. they lift
ed themselves above their own mis-
fortunes and physical agonics. so
that at midnight Paul and Sllas
prayed and sang praises unto God.
and tn" prisoners heard them. How
did they do 1t? Paul tells us in his
letter written some years later He
had been treated unjustly and dis
honestly-charged with false accu-
stations but he wouldn't let these
things Cypress his heart; he thought
upon tn" things that1svcrc true. that
arc honest and that pre- just. He
was surrounded by usAS prison walls,
but he pictured those things that
arc lovely. lie had been abused. bu,
h" remembered that elsewhere his
friends had given him words OF
praise by concentrating his thought.
upon such things he drove out the
anguish in his heart and the suffer
ing az his body, and shows to us tho
difficult, but glorious pathway Ito
victory over the ancient enemy, jcl-
ousr.
II as nations. We would cmpha-
size the things that are OF good
report. remember to cxtol the
praise that we have given to our
compatriots and think upon the
tributes thai they have paid to US;
ii we would remember their vir-
tue their honesty" a relation
shin of cordialitv TO friendliness
would he created among leaders
and masses that would maintain tho
bonds Of union that were forged by
a common enemy in the DAYS Of
peril.
Gods prescription is, II possibly.
more ctncacious in the Life of the
individual, than of nations We
have hccn hurt. or injured by a
friend. have heard OF something un-
kind that has been said II We
mediate upon such things, and en-
large them in our moments OF soil
tudc. We surround ourselves with
a dark cloud Of depression that has
it's source and origin in our own
hearts
"on rhe other hand, IL We will
think upon the things that arc
lovely. remember the words Of
praises that has been spoken OF us.
and in every detail, follow earnestly
tho words OF our text, which is in
deed 4 message from God. We shall
he able to lift ourselves through
this instruction into His blessed
presence. and attain that peace
which the world cannot give"