Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-01-19

W w. thiA Is pad-up policy"
paid for by the pangs % the Son of
God, and all we add 10 it n, the way
of our own good deeds will aur-
ment the sun of eternal fclicities.
Yes. the time will come when the banks
OF largest capital stock will all down.
and the hre-insnrance companies will
all go down, and the life-insurance
companies will all go down. In the
last great earthquake all the cities will
be Frustrated, and as a consequence
all banks will forever suspend
payment. In the last confiapra-
ton the fre-insurance companies
OF the earth will fail, for how
could they make appraisement of the
loss on universal fire? Then all the
inha bitants of the round world will
SURF endcr their mortal existence, and
how could life insurance compa MES
pay Tor depopulated hemispheres?
But our Celestial life insurance will
not be harmed by that continental
wreck, or that hemisphere acct
dent. or that planetary catastrophe.
Blow it ont like candle-the noondav
sum Tear it down like WORKOUT
upholatery-the last sunset. Toss it
from Gods finger like dewdrop from
the anther Of water lily-the
ocean. scatter them like thistle
down before school boys breath
- the worlds. They will not dis
turb the omnipotence or the com posture
or the sympathy or the love Of that
Christ who said it once on earth. and
will say it again in Heaven to all those
vino have been helpful to the down
trodden and the cold and the hungry
and the houseless and the lost: '.Inas-
much as ye did it to them, ye did to
mer
and delivered to you document that
will, in the case of your sudden de-
parture make for that lovely girl the
difference between a queen and
pauper. | have known men who have
had an income of three thousand dol
lars, four thousand dollars, five thou
sand dollars year who did not leave
one farthing to the surviving household.
Now that mans death is defalcation,
an outrage, swindle. He did not die;
he absconded. There are a hundred
thousand people in America to-day
a-hungered through the sin of improvi
'ChSO- l1uC, my 1llSoIlC
is so small l can not afford to pay the
premium on a life insurance. Are
you sure about that? If you are sure,
then you have a right to depend on the
promise in jeremiah, Xix, II: leave
thy fatherless children. | will pre-
serve them Live, and let thy widow
trust in me-" But if you are able to,
remember you have no right to ask
God to do for your household that
which you can do for them yourself.
For the benefit of those young men,
excuse practical personality.
Another fact that you may depend
upon for perpetual poverty is the in
capacity of many to achieve a liveli-
hood. You can go through any com
munity and find good people with more
than usual mental caliber, who never
have been able to support themselves
and their households. They are d
mystery to us, and we say: II do not
know what is the matter of them, but
Some of these persons have more brain
than thousands who make splendid
success. Some are too sanguine of
temperament, and they see bargains
where there are none. common min
now is to them a goldfish, and a quail
fiamingo, and blind mule on
a tow-path Bucephalus. They
buy when things are highest
and sell when things are lowest.
Someone tells them of city lots out
west, where the foundation of the first
1,;l
''What an opportunity!'' and they put
down the hard cash for an ornamented
deed for ten lots under water. They
hear of a new silver mine opened in
Nevada, and they say: What d
chance!" and they take the little money
they have in the savings bank and pay
it out for as beautiful Il certificate of
mining stock as was ever printed. and
the only thing they will ever get out
minated Autograph. They are always
on the verge of millionairedom, and
are sometimes worried as to
whom they shall bequeath their ex-
cess of torture. They invest in aerial
machines, or new inventions in per-
petual motion, and they succeed in
what mathematician think impossible.
the squaring of a circle, for they do
everything on the square and win the
whole circle of disappointment. They
are good, honest, brilliant failures.
They die poor, and leave nothing to
their families but a model of some in
vention that would not work, and
whole portfolios Of diagrams of things
impossible. l can not help but like
them. because they are so cheerful
with great expectations. But their
children are bequest to the bureau of
city charities,
In various colors of ink other life
insurance policies are written. This
one have just shown you is written
in only one kind of ink, and that red