The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-02-10

CREASE OF demand 900 tic INft of their Gus
TONERS The more of that ~tu0 they drink /
the thirstiut they are Hand times, which .
stop other businesses only increase that .
business. for mru 40 there Goo drown their .
troubles They take the -piri,- down to .
keep their spirits zap. There De- an Inclined /
plane down which alcoholism slides it, vic. .
tins Clarct champagne port, Cognnc, .
whisky, Tom and Jerry sour mash, on and /
down until it is sort Of mixture OF kero- |
sene oil, turpentine, toadstoois, swill, es |
seuce Of the horse blankets and general /
uastiness.
with its red sword Of flame that liquor |
power mHrshals its procession, and they
move ON in ranks long enough to girdle the
earth, and the procession is headed 10y the
nose blotched, nerve shattered, rheum eyed,
lip bloated, soul scorched iuebriates, fol-
lowed by the women, who, though brought
up in comfortable homes, now 20 limpiug
past with aches and pains and pallor aud
hunger and woe, followed by their chill
dren, barefoot, uucombed, freezing, and
with a wretchedness of time and eternity
seemingly compressed in their agonized fea-
lures Forward, marchl' cries the liquor
business to that army without banners.
Keep that iuslueuce moving on, aud you
will have the poor always with you. Re
majority of the inhabitants are out of work
and dependent on charity, yet last year
they spent more in that city for rum than
they did for clothing and groceries.
THE SPIRIT OF DPROvIDENCE.
Another warranty that my text will
/ prove true in the perpetual poverty Of the
/ world Is the wicked spirit Of improvideuce.
/ A vast number of people have such small
/ incomes that they cannot lay 10y IN savings
! bank or life insurance l cent a year II
! takes every farthing they can earn to spread
the table, and clothe the family, and edu-
cate the children, and if you blame such
! people for improvidenCe you enact "A cruelty.
On such salary a. many clerks and en-
| ployees and many ministers Of religion live,
and on such wages As many workmen re-
ceive, they cannot in 20 years lay up 90 cents
! But you know and know many who have
competent incomes aud could provide some
what for the future who live up to every
dollar, and when they die their children 20
to the poorhouse or on the street
BY the time the wife gets the husband
buried she is in debt to the undertaken aud
gravedigger for that which Sue can never
pay. While the man lived he had his wine
parties and fairly stuuk with tobacco and
then expired, leaving his family upon the
charities of the world. Do not send for me
to come and conduct the obsequies and read
over such n carcass the beautiful liturgy,
blessed are the dead who die in the Lord y
for instead of that | will turn over the
leaves of the Bible to First Timothy, fifth
chapter, eighteenth verse, where it says,
"If any provide not for his own, and espe-
cally for those of his own house, he hath
denied the faith, and is worse than an in
fidel," or | will turn to Jeremiah, twenty
second chapter, nineteenth verse, where it
says, He shall be buried with the burial
of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the
gates of Jerusalem"
! cannot imagine any more unfair or
meaner thing than for "A man to get his sins
pardoned at the last minute, and then 90 to
heaven and live in a mansion, and go riding
about in golden chariot over the golden
streets, while his wife and children, whom
he might have provided for, are begging fol
cold victuals at the basement door of al
earthly city. 1t seems to me there ought t.
be a poorhouse somewhere on the outskirts
of heaven, where those guilty of such i'm
providence should be kept for awhile on
thin soup and gristle, instead of sitting
down at the kings banquet. 1t is said that
the church is divine institution and be
lieve it.
Just as certainly are the savings banks
and the life insurance companies divine in
situations. As out of evil good often comes
so out of the doctrine of probabilities, cal
culated by Professor Hugens and professo
Pascal for games of chance, came the calcu
lation of the probabilities of human life a
used by life insurance companies, and NJ
business on earth is more stable or honor
able, and no mightier mercy for the human
race has been born since Christ was born
Bored beyond endurance for my signature o
papers of all sorts, there is one style of pape
that ] always sign with feeling of glad
ness and triumph, and that is paper whicl
the life insurance company requires from
the clergyman after IA decease in his congre
cation, in order to the payment of the pol
icy to the bereft household.
! always write my name then so they car
read il. | cannot help but say'to myself
Good for that man to have looked afte
his wife and children after earthly depar
ture. May he have one of the best seats il
heavenN Young man! The day before OF
the day after you get married, go to lit,
insurance company of established reputa
ton and get the medical examiner to put
the stethoscope to your lungs and his eal
close up to your heart, with your vest Off
and have signed, sealed and delivered t
you document that will, in the case o
your sudden departure, make for that love
ly girl the difference between a queen an,
) pauper.
have known men who have had an in
come of 5000, a 600, 5000 year who di,
7 not leave farthing TO the surviving house
| hold Now, that mans death is defalca
r ton, an outrage, a swindle. He did not di,
B, he absconded. There are 100000 people /
). America today a-hungered through the 81
1 of improvdence But" say some, I'm
. income is so small cannot afford to pa
= the premium ON IA life insurance" Are 20
= sure about that If you are sure, then yo
| have Il right to depend on the promise /
jeremiah xix, II: Leave thy fatherles
I children. / will preserve them alive, and lie
p thy widows trust in me-" But, If you ar
able to, remember you have no right to as
God to do for your household that which
you can do for them yourself.
For the benefit of those young fnen, ex
cuse practical personality. Beginning
my lite's work on the munifcent salary o
3 $500 year and parsonage, and when thu
call was placed in my hands did not know
how in the world | would ever be able Il
t spend that amount of money, and / re
member indulging in devout wish that
/ | might not be led into worldliness and prodi
e gality by such an overplus Of resources, ant
9 at time when articles of food and cloth
Ing were higher than they are now, felt /
, a religious duty to get my life insured, anC
? presented myself at an Office Of one of tn
: great companies, and stood pale and nerv
Gus lest the medical examiner might hav
TO declare that ! had consumption ant
e heart disease and half dozen mortal all
t ments, but when got the document, whicl
: / have yet in full force, ! felt "a sense 0
! manlness and confidence and quietude ant
n reinforcement, which Is a good thinU fO
), any young man to have.
7 For the lack of that feeling there ar
, thousands of men today in Greenwood ant
t Laurel Hill and Mount3Auburn who Nigh
n rs well have been alive and well and sur
4 porting their families. They got a littl
A sick, and they were 50 worried about wha
. would become of their households in cas-
+ of their demise that their agitations oven
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