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Brethren, at the close of day the laborers gather round their Lord receiving every man his pay. " Call the laborers," He says, "and pay them their hire." Suppose He ordered the talkers to be called, what a vast crowd would come! But no! for not every man that says " Lord, Lord," shall be saved, but he that doth the will of the Father — he whose life is an honest day's labor in the vineyard of the Lord, he shall be saved. Not that even then the Lord is bound to reward us, but in His bounteous goodness He elects to pay us for doing what He has the right and power to command. Is it not lawful for Him to do as He will? If, notwithstanding the different hours of toil, it please Him to give all equal pay, beginning from the last even to the first, does He do wrong? No, for the coin He gives in payment is heaven, the possession and vision of Christ forevermore. The figure on a coin, the inscription, its shape and power, all signify the attributes of Christ, who is the figure of the King, His Father's substance, the Word of God; whose eternity the endless circle of a coin denotes, and whose omnipotence it partly imitates. Labor as we will, and as long and hard — this priceless coin is ample recompense, and being satisfied, why should we murmur seeing others equally rewarded, though having labored less? Besides, though heaven's duration be the same for all, the intensity of happiness has different degrees. Each soul beatified will see God's face according to its capacity for seeing. Those animals, they say, that work in mines and never see the light become blind totally, and the owl, you know,