ish you would bring down that eagle."

The sportsman replied that he would if he only had some feathers to
put into the arrow. So the eagle pulled one out of his wing. The arrow
was shot, but didn't quite reach the rival eagle; it was flying too
high. The envious eagle pulled out more feathers, and kept pulling
them out until he lost so many that he couldn't fly, and then the
sportsman turned around and killed him. My friend, if you are jealous,
the only man you can hurt is yourself.

There were two business men--merchants--and there was great rivalry
between them, a great deal of bitter feeling. One of them was
converted. He went to his minister and said,

"I am still jealous of that man, and I do not know how to overcome
it."

"Well," he said, "if a man comes into your store to buy goods, and you
cannot supply him, just send him over to your neighbor."

He said he wouldn't like to do that.

"Well," the minister said, "you do it and you will kill jealousy."

He said he would, and when a customer came into his store for goods
which he did not have, he would tell him to go across the street to
his neighbor's. By and by the other began to send his customers over
to this man's store, and the breach was healed.

Pride.

Then there is _pride_. This is another of those sins which the Bible
so strongly condemns, but which the world hardly reckons as a sin at
all. "An high look and a proud heart is sin." "Everyone that is proud
in heart is an abomination to the Lord; though hand join in hand, he
shall not be unpunished." Christ included pride among those evil
things which, proceeding out of the heart of a man, defile him.

People have an idea that it is just the wealthy who are proud. But go
down on some of the back streets, and you will find that some of the
very poorest are as proud as the richest. It is the heart, you know.
People that haven't any money are just as proud as those that have. We
have got to crush it out. It is an enemy. You needn't be proud of your
face, for there is not one but that after ten days in the grave the
worms would be eating your body. There is nothing to be proud of--is
there? Let us ask God to deliver us from pride.

You can't fold your arms and say, "Lord, take it out of me"; but just
go and work with Him.

Mortify your pride by cultivating humility. "Put on, therefore," says
Paul, "as the elect of God, holy and beloved, . . . humbleness of
mind." "Be clothed with humility," says