Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-04
Sunday Morning Talk
THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER.

Good counsel proceeds sometimes from a villain and such is that surely from the mouth of Iago when he ex- claims, 70, beware, my lord, of jeal- ousy: It is the greeu-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on" A true word, albeit spoken in guile! Pernars no more malignant monster than jealousy ever coiled it's
 ugly body within the human heart A
 score of crimes that have stained the record of our race may be traced
 back to this vicious source. Jealousy is the parent of a whole uncanny brood of rivalries, hatreds, and murders that
 have wet the earth with blood from the day when Cain slew his brother
 Abel until now It is a master sin
 Beware Of jealousy! It is legend
 to be written clear in mans in
 divi1ual book of life. It is cd@nsel not alone for those who, because of it,
 may be brought at last to the tragic
 length of bloodshed, but those who, their lives, spend their days in bitter
 ness and discomfort. Beware of jeal-
 ousy. Write it large, all you who find it eating the heart out of your happi- ness and spelling the fine enthusiasm of your endeavors.
 Jealousy is one of the most deceit full of vices. It cheats us at every turn. The jealous person thinks he is poor simply because others are rich, that he is miserable because others are happy. He feels that fate has played @ mean trick on him Instead of trying to do something and be somebody himself, he spends his time | in enVious wonder at the means and gifts by which others about him have succeeded. He reaches the sullen con- | elusion that some secret string has been pulled in behalf of these success l ful ones that they have been unduly | favored by nature. There could be no | more fatal self deception.
 Jealousy brings us into the unpro- ductive mood of hatred and suspicion ] when what we need most of all is a mood of admiration. The other mans success should be an inspiration and l not a mocking taunt to us. It should l get us about our own particular work with fresh determination to succeed | also. One who can never endure the
 sight of anothers prosperity wholly | misses this fine incentive. Through 1 sour discontent the fountains of his l own life are poisoned and he is just so | far forth disqualified for worthy per l sonal achievement.
 It is generally mediocre people, after l all, who are jealous. Those who have
 reached some worth while goal are general too magnanirnous to be send- | ing any green-eyed glances toward ! those who may have gone a little be- 1 NOIlu LH0ul 1n6y dT6 1dI uloTe dpL IO
 send bouquets and congratulations. l Samuel Taylor Coieridge was. in many
 respects, a genius. Although he failed l in certain ways and saw others about ] him flourish with a success that he
 must himself often have longed Tor, he never lost his serene appreciation of
 other people. He could rejoice with l those who do rejoice, a harder moral i task for many than to weep with i those who weep."e
 i The words of coIeridse along this
 line, moreover. go to the heart of the ] subject "Genius,'' he says, may CO., :, exist with wildness, fdleness, folly,
 even with crime, but not long. believe me, with seifshness and the indul- ,gence of an envious disposition. Il dwarfs and withers it's Worshippers. As matter of fact, no one who is un- able to appreciate and to admire other people is likely to go far or to stay long. The really big people are those | who can see that the success of an- other does not initiate against their
 own but is rather their best encour- agement
 The power of large minded, gener-
 ous appreciation is splendid asset for any youth who starts on Hfe's highway. It will keep him in that mood of friendliness that makes
 friends and brings favor. Best of all it will sweeten his own inner life. Il will help hi into see that the utmost that life asks of him, whatever the
 victories or defeats of his neighbor, Is tl fully to develop his own peculiar abil- ities. He is tc fill no place and to dc M no work but his own. A mind filled
 with such thoughts Is mind at rest
 with no room in it for trouble breed. ] THiE PARsoN.