The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1894-02-08

| tainly are the savings banks and the
life-insurallce companies Divine insti-
| tutions AS out of evil good often
comes, so out of the doctrine of proba-
bilities, calculated by Prof. Hugens
and Prof. Pascal for games of
chance, came the calculation of
the probabilities of human life
as used by life-insurance COM
panies, and no business on earth
is more stable, or honorable, and no
mightier mercy for the human race
| has been born since Christ was born.
Bored beyond endurance for my sigma
| ture to papers of all sorts, there is one
| style of paper that l always sign with
a feeling of gladness and triumph, and
! that is a paper which the life insurance
! company requires from the clergyman
after decease in his congregation, III
order to the payment of the policy to
the bereft household. l always write
my name then so they can read it. 1
can not help but say to myself:
Good for that man to have looked
after his wife and children
after earthly departure. May he
have one of the best seats in Heaven!"
| Young man! The day before or the
day after you get married, go to a life
| insurance company of established rep
utatiOn and get the medical examiner
to put the stethoscope to your lungs
and his ear close up to your heart, with
your vest off, and have signed, sealed
and delivered to you document that
will, in the case of your sudden de-
! a,,tu oil hot IL hn
difference between a queen and
pauper. l have known men who have
had an income of three thousand dol
lars, four thousand dollars, five thou
sand dollars a year who did not leave
one farthing to the surviving household.
Now that mans death is a 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 IMPROVE
dence. But" says some, my income
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, IL: Leave
thy fatherless children. l will pre-
serve them alive, 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
| ~ ma of RI
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 a
mystery to us, and we say: Il do not
know what is the matter of them, but
there is a screw loose somewhere. {"
Some of these persons have more brain
than thousands who make splendid
success. Some are too sanguine of
temperament, and they see bargains
where theresare none. A common min
now is to them a goldfish, and quail
famingo, and blind mule on
a tow-path a 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
house has not yet been laid. They say:
"What an opportunities and they put
down the hard cash for an Urnamented
deed for ten lots under water. They
hear of new silver mine opened in
Nevada, and they say: What a
chance!" and they take the little money
they have in the savings bank and pay
it out for as beautiful a certificate of
mining stock as was ever printed, and
the only thing they will ever get out
of the investment is the aforesaid illu-
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 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 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 a bequest to the bureau of
, city charities.
In various colors of ink other iife-
insurance policies are written. This
ono have just shown you is written
in only one kind of ink, and that red
ink-the blood of the cross. Blessed
be God, this is ''paid-up policy
| paid for by the pangs OF the Son OF
God, and all we add to it in the way
of our own good deeds will aug
ment the sun of eternal felicities.
: Yes the time will come when the banks
of largest capital stock will all down,
and the fre-insurance 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 consequence
i all banks will forever suspend