[Extract from St. Augustine's sermon on Lazarus and Dives.]—"It were no bad comparison to liken mere rich men to camels or mules, for they often pursue their devious way over hills and mountains, laden with Indian purple, with gems, aromas, and generous wines upon their backs, attended, too, by a long line of servants, as safeguards on their way. Soon, however, they come to their evening halting place, and forthwith their precious burdens are taken from their backs, and they, now wearied and stripped of their lading and their retinue of slaves, show nothing but livid marks of stripes. So, also, those who glitter in gold and purple raiment, when the evening of life comes rushing on them, have naught to show but marks and wounds of sin impressed upon them by the evil use of riches. Shakespeare says,"