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T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
May, 1941
JE A LO U S Y [C o n tin u e d fr o m P age 173]
once the jealousy of generals prolonged the bitter contest of the Civil War, for when it came to the crisis, there were men who placed their felings and their rights above the great ends of justice. Jealousy in Domestic Life In the home jealousy burns with its hottest and most devouring flame. The fire that sweeps over the prairie, leav ing blackness and death behind it, is not so swift and terrible as the blister ing blaze of jealousy. Here more than anywhere else we realize how cruel is jealousy and how terrible its flamer It is in this realm of love, where man can reach his highest happiness, that he also suffers his deepest misery and most acute anguish of soul. When love, which can lift man to the heights, begins to turn or trembles for the object of its affections, it can cast man into the lowest hell. John Bunyan pictured the Celestial City with a door opening down into hell. So the heaven of domestic and personal and conjugal love has a door that opens down into the hell of jealousy. How often We see in the papers the account of some crime where the story commences with the words, “In a jealous rage” ! This worst of sins and passions is the worst of mockers. It fills its vic tim’s heart with a wild craving and passionate desire, then leads him to some lawless or wicked act, only to laugh at his calamity. He has struck the blow of jealousy or carried out its hideous bidding in vituperation or slan der only to find that the blow has re turned upon his own head, and that the fearful pangs of jealousy have not been quenched, jealousy lures the soul on to a fierce banquet of hate and then tor tures and mocks it with hunger. Have you ever felt the flame of jeal ousy in your heart? Is there some one in your line of work or service whose name has brought a passing cloud over your face? Is there any one whose su perior talents and gifts have made you secretly gnash your teeth? Is there any one whose beauty you secretly hate, whose goodness you scorn? Is there un der the sun a single person whose af fection you fear might be turned, or is now turning, toward some one else? Then beware of jealousy. Stamp this flame out before the winds have fanned it into fury, and your happiness here and hereafter is destroyed. Jealousy is the most awful sin, be cause there is no depth to which it will not descend, no serpentine subtlety of which it is not capable, no cruelty at which it will stop, and no character however otherwise fine and strong which it cannot bring to ruin. If jeal ousy once gets a foothold in your life, then I know of but one r e m e d y— and that is Christ. He, and He alone, can cast out this unclean spirit. Let Him in. Jealousy is a sin that must be crucified. Let it be crucified!
all that is good in man and impel men to go and do likewise, ofttimes has the very opposite effect, for it uncovers bottomless pits of wickedness in men, provoking them to the worst of crimes. Pilate perceived, says Mark, that for envy the chief priests had delivered up Jesus. Jealousy, which compassed the first murder, reached its awful climax when it delivered up Jesus Christ to be crucified upon the cross. In his Note Books, Leonardo da Vinci has a powerful passage on envy, which is the twin sister of jealousy. He says of her: “She is made wounded by the sight of palm and olive. She is made wounded in the ear by laurel and myrtle, to signify that Victory and truth offend her.’’ The quarrels and bitternesses among men of ability and, education—states men, artists, musicians, scholars, and even clergymen—are too notorious to call for more than passing comment. Jealousy is the spur with which the devil will ride the noblest tempers. There are men of the finest parts, of splendid disposition and character in other areas of their life, who cannot bear to hear another man praised, espe cially if that man’s activities lie in the same field of endeavor as their own. Jealousy was the rock upon which Saul made shipwreck of his life. His otherwise fine character was completely corrupted and perverted by the poison of jealousy. When the women who went out of their cities to meet him after the victory over Goliath sang, “Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands,” then jealousy >was bom in the heart of Saul. “Saul eyed David from that day and forward”; and the eye through which he looked was green with envy and jealousy, now driving him to acts of maniacal fury, now submerg ing him in the gulf of gloom and de pression. That was the beginning of it, that day when Saul first heard the women praising David. The end of it was when Saul and his seven sons lay dead upon the bloody slopes of Mount Gilboa. One of the great artists stood one day before the work of a greater contemporary, one whose talents were far superior to his own. But instead of being depressed-, or filled with envy or bitterness, he exclaimed, as he surveyed the beautiful work which expressed so. fully ideas which he himself had not been able to realize, “I, too, am a painter!” But there are few like him. Personal jealousies which have em bittered the relationships of individuals have also done great injury to good causes. It is sad, but true, that the fine enthusiasm of a good cause does not overcome, as it ought to do, the self ishness of human nature. More than
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