The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1882-04-06

po>itlNely religious
according to the apostle James, who says; Pure rc
gion and undefiled before God and the Father is this
To visit the fatberess and widows in their affection
ard The religion Of Christ proposes TO take care
Of the temporal wants Of the people well as the spir
itua
Just after the battle of Antietam there was man
found distributing religious tracts and Christian mer-
chant came up TO him and sad: "What are YOU dis
Irritating tracts here for? There three thousand men
out yonier who hsvnt had their wounds bound up and
they are bleeding 10 death. You go and bind up the
wounds and then distribute the tracts" think that
was good healthy gospel. When Hezekiah was diving,
the injunction came TO him: set thy house In order
Tor thou shalt die and live." That Injunction in our
day would mean, Make will settle up Your ac-
counts; make things plain; don't deceive your heirs
with rolls Of Jay Cookies Northern Pacific Railroad
bonds don't deceive them with deeds for wild lands tina.
will never yield any crop bat chills and fever don
leave Tor them notes that have been outlawe and sec
ond mortgages property that will pay the first
set thy house in ORDER
That is fix Up things your going ont Of the world
may make rs little CONSERVATION possible See the
lean cattle devpurin2 the fat cattle, and in the time of
plenty prepare for the time 81 want.
The difficulty is when men think Of their death they
apt to think OF it only in connection with their sp
ual welfare, and not Of the devason in the house
holds which will come because of their emigration from
it. 1t is meany selfish for you be absdfbed in the
heaven 10 which are going, that you forget what
to become OF your wife and children after YOU are dead
You can go out Of this world not leaving them dollar
and vet die happily il YOU could provide for them
you trust them in the hands Of the God who owns
all the harvests and the herds and the iocks but il
you could pay tine premium policy and neglected
then it is mean thing for you TO 90 up to heaven
while they go to the poor holse. You, at DEATH move
into mansion, river front, and they move into two
the fourth story OF tenement house. on back
street When they out at the elbows and the knees
the thought of your splendid robe in heaven will not
keep them warm. The minister may preach splendid
sermon over your remains, and the quartet may sing
like fur angels aghteJ in the organ loft but vour
death will be swindle. Iou had the means To pro-
vide for the comfortsof your household when Won LEFT il
and yOu wickedly reelected 10 do 50.
oh" says some one, Il have more faith than YOU
believe, when 90 out Of this world, the Lord will
take care OF my family. Yes. He will provide for
them. Go 10 Backwelfs Island, 90 through all the
poor houses in the country, and will show you how
often God provides tor the neglected children Of neglect
full parents. That is, He provides for them through
public charity As Tor myself, would rather have the
Lord provide for nv family in private house, and
through my own industry and fraternal and conu.a
fathfulness. But, says some man, Il mean in the
next ten twenty years to make great fortune and
so shall leave family, when go out Of the world
very comfortable How 10 You know YOU are going
to live twenty years? II we could look up the path
of the future would see it crossed by pneumonias
aud plcurises and consumptions and cDidiny rail
trains and runaway horses. and breaking bridges. and
funeral PROFESSIONS Are certain You are going
to live ten or twenty years you your house
hold any comfort after 90 away from them? Beside
that the majority OF men die poor. Two only two
out of hundred succeed in business. Are vou very
certain You are going to be one of the two? Rich
day, poor the next.
man in New York gnt two millions % I,,lla-s and
the money rapidly it turned his brIn AMI he
died in a unliic asylum. All his properly was lett
with the business firm, and they swamped il and then
the family OF the insane man left without dollar.
In eighteen months the prosperity the insanity the
solvency and the complete domestic ruin Beside that,
there who die solvent, who are insovent be-
fore they get under the ground before their estate is
settled up. How sOnn the auctioneer's mallet can
knock the life ont Of an estate thinks the prop
crty worth $1,000; under forced sale il brings s. 900
The business man takes advantage Of the crisis and
compcs the wdlx OF his deceased primer sell cut
To- him at a ruinous price, lose ALL The stock was
supposed To he very valuable but has been water
ed that when the executor tries to sell it, he laughed
OF wall street the administrator orlare by the
Surrogate 20 wind up the whole affair The estate was
supposed at the mans death he worth $50 900 but
after the Indebtedness has been met and tho bills oil
the doctor and the undertaken and the tombstone cut
ter have been paid there is pOhng left. That means
the children to home from school anil q to
work; that means the complete hardship OF the wife
turned out with nothing but needle fight the great
battle OF the world Tear down the Is close
the piano, rip up the Administers cell the wardrobe
and let the mother take child in each hand and trilhg
out into the desert Of the world life insurance would
have Numbered all that.