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."
