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 Lazarus dying  of  hunger — both  die  and  Lazarus  is taken  to  Abraham's  bosom  and  Dives  is  buried  in  hell. The falcon  sits  on  the  wrist  of  royalty  and  eats  from precious vessels  where  the  humble  chicken  dare  not enter — death comes,  and  the  falcon's  carcass  is  flung in the  sewer,  but  the  chicken  is  served  upon  a  dish  of gold. The last  becomes  first  and  the  first  last.

Brethren, what  must  we  do  to  be  of  the  first— of the  chosen? We have,  thank  God,  among  us  many ideal Christians, — let  us  imitate  them. " You  will know  them  by  their  calm  faces  and  sweet  plaintive voices,  and  spare  frames  and  gentle  manners,  hearts weaned  from  the  world  and  wills  subdued,  whose meekness  meets  with  insult  and  their  purity  with  slander, their  gravity  with  suspicion  and  their  courage with  cruelty;  yet  who  meet  with  Christ  everywhere; who  keep  their  eyes  forever  on  Him  here  as  they hope  to  also  forever  hereafter."