s. It left Gehazi a leper. It sent the rich young ruler
away sorrowful. It led Judas to sell his Master and Lord. It brought
about the death of Ananias and Sapphira. It was the blot in the
character of Felix. What victims it has had in all ages!

Do you say: "How am I going to check covetousness?"

Well,--I don't think there is any difficulty about that. If you find
yourself getting very covetous--very miserly--wanting to get
everything you can into your possession--just begin to scatter. Just
say to covetousness that you will strangle it, and rid it out of your
disposition.

A wealthy farmer in New York state, who had been a noted miser, a very
selfish man, was converted. Soon after his conversion a poor man came
to him one day to ask for help. He had been burned out, and had no
provisions. This young convert thought he would be liberal and give
him a ham from his smoke house. He started toward the smoke-house, and
on the way the tempter said,

"Give him the smallest one you have."

He struggled all the way as to whether he would give a large or a
small one. In order to overcome his selfishness, he took down the
biggest ham and gave it to the man.

The tempter said, "You are a fool."

But he replied, "If you don't keep still, I will give him every ham I
have in the smoke-house."

If you find that you are selfish, give something. Determine to
overcome that spirit of selfishness, and to keep your body under, no
matter what it may cost.

Mr. Durant told me he was engaged by Goodyear to defend the rubber
patent, and he was to have half of the money that came from the
patent, if he succeeded. One day he woke up to find that he was a rich
man, and he said that the greatest struggle of his life then took
place as to whether he would let money be his master, or he be master
of money, whether he would be its slave, or make it a slave to him. At
last he got the victory, and that is how Wellesley College was built.

Are You Jealous, Envious?

Go and do a good turn for that person of whom you are jealous. That is
the way to cure jealousy; it will kill it. Jealousy is a devil, it is
a horrid monster. The poets imagined that Envy dwelt in a dark cave,
being pale and thin, looking asquint, never rejoicing except in the
misfortune of others, and hurting himself continually.

There is a fable of an eagle which could outfly another, and the other
didn't like it. The latter saw a sportsman one day, and said to him,

"I w