There were two businessmen — merchants — and there was great rivalry between them, a great deal of bitter feeling. One of them was converted. He went to a fellow Christian 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 Christian said, “if you do it, 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. By and by the other began to send his customers over to this man’s store, and the breach was healed.