The farmer and mechanic., 1915-04-27
WHEN JEALOUSY UNCROWNED
\ KING.
The Internat tional Sunday Sc1lOoi
Lesson For May is "SauI Irics "
Kill David Sam. ch. IL.
Rv WILLIAM T. ELLIS

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mon on jealousy. While its twin
sister, envy, is reckoned one OF the
seven deadly sins about which the
Church Fathers used TO write, modern |
pupil teaching and religious literature
have little OF nothing to say about this
hideous and character-b blasting SIN
which is one of the commonest to be
met with in real life.
The person who is more famlEar
with human nature as 1t is dlspiayeu
by the living men and women about
him, rather than with books, knows
that jealousy is a force to be reckon
ed with in all walks of life. Every
large Office or commercial organlZa-
ton is tainted with it's influence. 1t
is the blackest blot on the learned
professions, even as upon the Gaining
Of those who entertain the pubic;
the archaeolosist and the chorus girl
are kindred victims of what Sha kes-
peare calls the "green-eyed monster"
Politics is rife with jealousy. and
even the pulpit is not free from 1t.
William Eliot Griffis says, Jealousy
is preeminently the soldiers disease.
The most exaggerated and absurd in
stance of jealousy that ever came to
my personal attention was between
freaks in museum; while history
affords ample evidence that jealousy
has often worn the crown and pur-
pie.
A king in the grip of the mean,
mad passion of jealousy is our lesson
story today. Israel's monarch, Saul
had his moments of bigness and Of
littleness but he shrivelled to the
vanishing point when he yielded to
the ignoble passion of jealousy against
1,1s, 1f hN
ton. David, the slayer of Goliath. AS
is often physiologically true, the jeal-
ousy which was at first only a mental
attitude became a real disease and
drove the king into sort of frenzy
which lasted until his death. 1t un-
crowned him. even before his head
was cut off by a Philistine.
The Song of the Women.
Most of us can bear with equan-
unity our neighbor's failures and hu.
miliations: but we have to measure
up toward really Christian standards
before we can rejoice with them thai
do rejoice" To he proud of another.
success is sign Of sizableness of soul
Magnanamity really means greatness
1t takes a John the Baptist to glor.
in being superseded, for the work.
sake, and to cry, He must increase
I must decrease How many old mel
are exulting in the achievements O
their successors. and how many ar
sitting back snarling and criticising
Whittier came to maturity in the tru
spirit Of greatness, singing.
Ring. bells in distant steeples,
The joy Of unborn peoples;
Sound. trumpets, far-off blown,
Your triumph is my own
The song Of the dancing women, q
the soldiers returned from victor
over the Philistines, seems first I
have planted definitely in Saul's SO,
the seeds of jealousy. They cried, il
discreetly:
Saul hath slain his thousands
And David his ten thousands
OF course, this was foolish and vi
discriminating; most ovations ar
Public applause is not the most jud
Cial thing in the world. Saul shou
have known better than-to take it
face value. If even the most medi
ere speaker should accept at IA
value the praise accorded him,
would turn his head The reason
many public lecturers and evangelis
are insufferable bores in private Ii
is that they have not sufficient sen
OF humor to save them from takil
themselves seriously, and so believil
nterally all the courteous eXpresso
they hear concerning their work.
we may credit the circulars of tes
monials current among lyceum b
reaus, there are a thousand lecture
at present before the public, each
whom is "unrivalled" and without
peer!' The tragic feature of this
that every one of the lecturers /
lieves his own fulsome circulars.
1T any wonder that jealousy is rife
the calling?
AS the prima donna looks upon
proficient understudy, as King Her
regarded the boy babies of Beth
hem, SO Soul eyed David" He S
in him a possible usurper. He fe
ed for his crown. Every note Of
claim in the women's praise of Da
he understood as condemnation