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 that shuns  the  light  can  never  gaze  upon  the  midday sun. So, too,  it  is  with  men,  for  in  proportion  as  they shun the  light  of  heavenly  grace,  and  delve  and  bury their minds  and  hearts  in  earthly  things,  they  lessen their capacity  for  enjoying  the  beatific  vision,  or  forever forego  all  possibility  of  seeing  God. But the Christian who  in  every  action  of  his  life  looks  up  to God,  who  soars  in  spirit  often  beyond  the  range  of earthly  things — he  is  like  the  eagle,  and  in  heaven  at last  he  will  gaze  with  eagle  eye  upon  the  glorified Sun. Our conduct  here  determines  our  degree  of happiness  hereafter,  but  all  will  be  content,  for  why should a  spiritual  dwarf  complain  if  his  garb  of  glory be not  as  long  as  that  of  a  spiritual  giant? But is  it fair,  you  ask,  that  he  who  labored  but  an  hour  should be paid  off  before  the  men  who  labored  all  the  day? Brethren, God  judges  not  the  quantity  but  the  quality of the  work. The laborers  of  the  eleventh  hour  are Christians, God's  favorite  workmen,  so  trained  by Christ's  precept  and  example,  and  so  fortified  by grace,  that  in  an  hour  they  do  more  work  than  the men of  old  in  a  day. The two  spies  sent  by  Moses  to view  the  promised  land  returned  bearing  between them on  a  pole  an  enormous  cluster  of  grapes. That vine denotes  Christ  on  the  cross,  and  he  that  went  before, the  Jews;  and  the  Christian,  he  that  followed. Christ shields  us  from  the  sun,  His  example  is  ever before us,  He  is  ever  at  hand  to  refresh  us;  advantages that, prior  to  His  coming,  man  did  not  enjoy. Thus the first  became  last  and  the  last  first. The same  happens among  Christians — Dives  in  all  his  riches  and