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

many Co achieve u livelihood. You eau 90 I
through uuy community aud end good puo f.
plp. with more than usual mental callU'r, /
who never have been able Co support them
selves aud their households. They are o
mystery to Us, aud we say, IL do NOT know
what is the matter Of them, but there b.
screw loose somewhere some ul tut-t
persons have more brain than thousands
who make "a splendid success. Some are
too -apEuiuv Of temperament, and they see
bargains where there are none. \ common
miuuow il a. them % goldfish, and a quail
a haminZu, aud blind mule ou a tuwpath
BuCcphalus. They buy when things are
highest aud sell when thing. are lowest.
Some one tells them of city lots out west,
where the foundation of the first house has
not yet been laid. They say, What an OPP
purtunityw and they put down the hard
cash Tor an oruamented deed Tor ~ lots un.
der water They hear of "a new silver mine
opened IN Nevada, and they say, what a
chancem 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 of the invest.
ment is the aforesaid illuminated litho.
graph. They are always on the verge OF
millionairedOm and are sometimes worried
as to whom they shall bequeath their excess
of fortune
They invest in aerial machines or new in.
yeutious in perpetual motion, and they sue
coed in what mEthematicians think impos-
sible, the squariug of circle, for they dc
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 invention that would not
work and whole portfolios of diagrams OF
things impossible. | cannot help but like
them, because they are SO cheerful with
great expectations But their children are
a bequest TO the bureau of city charities.
Others administer to the crop of the
worlds misfortune by being too unsus.
pectng. Honest themselves, they believe
all others are honest They are neeced
and scaiped and vivisected by the sharpers
in all sly les of business, and cheated out of
everything between cradle and grave, aud
those two exceptions only because they
I have nothing to do in buying either Of
/ them. Others are retained for misfortune
by iuOplOrtume sickness Just us that
/ lawyer was to make the plea that would
/ have put him among the strong men of the
profession, neuralgia stung him. just as
/ that physician was to prove his skill i'll an
epidemic, his own poor health imprisoned
him. Just as that merchant must be at
/ the store for some decisive and Introductory
/ bargain, he sits with a rheumatic joint OF
/ pillow, the room redoleut with liniment
What an overwhelming statistic would
be the story of men and women and chill
/ dren impoverished by sicknesses Then til,
/ cyclones. Then the Mississippi and Ohio
/ ireshets, Then the stopping of factories
/ Then the curculios among the peach trees
Then the insectile devastation of potato
patches and wheat fields. Then the cpl
zootics among the horses and the hollow
/ horn among the herds. Then the rains
/ that drown out everything and tn,
droughts that burn up half continent
Then the q ngc groves die under the Whit
teeth of the boar frost. Then the Goa
strikes and the iron strikes and the me
chanics' strikes, which all strike labo
harder than they strike capital. Then Tia,
yellow fever at Brunswick and jackson
. Vile aud Shreveport. Then the cholera II
the Narrows, threatening to land in New
York. Then the Charleston earthquake
Then the Johnstown flood. Then hurricane
sweeping from Caribbean sea to NewfOund
land. Then there are the great monOpolie
that gully the earth with their expressions
Then there are the necessities of buyinJ
coal by the scuttle instead Of the ton, an,
flour by the pound instead of the barrel
and so the injustices are multiplied. Ii
the wake of all these are overwhelming
illustrations of the truth of my text, ~
have the poor always with you"
AN OLD INSURANCE COMPANY.
Remember II fact that no one empha
sizes-a fact, nevertheless, upon which
want to put the weight of an eternity q
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yourself and your children and your grand
children against poverty and all other trou
bles is by helping others. am an agent o
the oldest insurance company that was eve
established. 1t is near 5000 years old.
has the advantage of all the other plans O
insurance-whole life policy, endowment
joint life and survivorship policies, ascend
ing and descending scales of premium an,
tontine, and it pays up while you live ant
it pays up after you are dead.
Every cent you give in a Christian spiri
to Il poor man or woman, every shoe yo'
give to a bare foot, every stick of wood @
lump of coal you give to Il hreless hearth
every drop of medicine you give to poo
invalid, every star of hope you make l.
shine over unfortunate maternity, ever
mitten you knit for cold fingers, is pay
ment on the premium of that policy.
hand about 500, 900, OO0policies to all who will
go forth and aid the unfortunate Their
are only two OF three lines in this policy O
life insurance-Ps. xii, /: blessed Is h
, that considereth the poor. The Lord viii
I deliver him in time of trouble"
Other life insurance companies may fail
| but this Celestial Life Insurance compan
never. The Lord God Almighty is at tn
head of it, and all the angels of heaven ar
4 . L.. A.. 1. 1t II
all worlds, and all the charitable of cart
= and heaven are the beneficiaries. But,
}; says some one, ~ do not like II tontine pc
a icy so well, and that which you offer is nor
a like tontine and to be chiefly paid in thi
y life" blessed is he that considereth tn
y poor. The Lord will deliver him in time {
1 trouble"
L Well, if you prefer the old fashioned pc
a icy of life insurance, which is not paid ii
: after death, you can be accommodated
{ That will be given you in the day of judl
e ment, and will be handed you by the RICH
, hand, the pierced hand, of our Lord hin
self, and all you do in the right spirit TO
the poor is payment on the premium of tina
lie insurance policy. l read you para
, graph of that policy: "Then shall the Kin
say unto them on his right hand, Come y
} blessed of my Father for was hungere
and ye gave me meat, was thirsty and y
} gave me drink, Twas stranger and ye too
me in, naked and ye clothed me-"
In various colors of ink other life insui
ance policies are written. This one hay
just shown you is written in only one kim
of ink, and that red ink-the blood of tn
cross. Blessed be God-that is paid u
policy" Paid for by the pangs of the So
; of God, and all we add to it in the way G
our own good deeds will augment the sur
: of eternal felicities. Yes, the time vii
come when the banks of largest capita
stock will all go down, and the fire insui
ance companies will all go down, and tn
life insurance companies will all go dowr
In the last great earthquake all the cite
will be Frustrated, and as a consequence al
banks will forever suspend payment.
In the last conhagration the fire insui
! ance companies of the world will fail, fo
IgaVNv 81 81.