The Penn's Grove record., 1894-01-12

but like them, because they are so cheerful
with great expectations. But their children
ire a bequest to the bureau Of city charities.
others administer to the crop of the worlds
Misfortune by being too unsuspecting.
Honest themselves. they believe all others
ire honest. They are fieeced and scalped
md vivisected by the sharpers in all styles
IL business and cheated out OF everything
between cradle and grave, and those two
exceptions only because they have nothing
o do in buying either of them. Others are
retained for misfortune by inopportune
iickness. Just as that lawyer was to make
he plea that would have put him among
he strong men of the profession, neu-
,algia stung him. Just as that physi-
,ian was to prove his skill in an epi-
iemic, his own poo health imprisoned him..
lust as that merchant must be at the store
or some decisive and Introductory bargain,
lie sits with a rheumatic joint on a pillow,
he room redolent with Eminent. What an
overwhelming statistic would be the story OF
men and women and children impoverished
~ sicknessesl Then the cyclones. Then
he Mississippi and Ohio freshets. Then the
topping Of the factories. Then the curculios
devastation Of potato patches and wheat
ields. Then the ~epizootics among the
horses, and the hollow horn among the
herds. Then the ain that drown out
everything, and the droughts that burn
Up half q continent. Then the orange
Proves die under the white teeth OF
he boar frost. Then the coal strikes, and
he iron strikes, and the mechanics strikes,
which all strike labor harderthan they strike
apital. Then the yellow fever at Brunswick
md Jacksonville and Shreveport. Then the
,holera at the Narrows, threatening to land
It New York. Then the Charleston earth
quake. Then the Johnstown flood. Then
hurricanes sweeping from Caribbean Sea to
Newfoundland. Then there are the great
~nonopolies that gulley the earth with their
expressions. Then there are the necessities
II buying coal by the scuttle instead of the
on, and -four by the pound instead OF the
barrel, and SO the injustices are multiplied.
N the wake Of all these are overwhelming
Illustrations of the truth OF my text. aye
iave the poor always with YOU"
Remember a fact hat no one emphasizes
/ fact, nevertheless, upon which / want to
,ut the weight OF an eternity OF tonnage
hat the best way Of insuring yourself and
your children and you grandchildren
against poverty and all other troubles ia by
helping others. l am an agent Of the oldest
insurance company that was ever established.
It is nearly 5000 years old. II has the adj
vantage of all the other plans Of insur-
~Inee-whole life policy. endowment,
oint life and survivorship policies,
| ascending and descending scales OF pre-
| mum and tontiue-and it pay up while
fou live md it pays up after you are
lead. Every cent you give In a Chris
I ian spirit to a poor man or woman, every
| hoe you give to a barefoot, every stick OF
I wood or lump OF coal you give TO g 6reiess
hearth, every drop OF medicine you give to a
| DOOR invalid, every star of hope you make to
| thine over unfortunate maternity, every
| nitten you knit for cold fingers, Is q pay
nent on the premium OF that policy. Inland
about 500, 000, 600 policies to all who will go
| ,orth and aid the unfortunate. There are
,nly two or three lines in this policy of life
nsuranee-Ps. Kill, l, blessed is he that
,onsidereth the poor; the Lord will deliver
| him In time of trouble"
Other life insurance companies may fail,
\ out his celestial life insurance company
never. The Lord God Almighty Is at the
! read Of 1t, and all the angels of heaven arc
| n Its board of direction, and It's assets are
| Ill worlds, and all the charitable of earth and
| heaven are the bene1ciaries. "But,' says
| ,ome one, 81 do not like a tontine policy 8 D
| we'll, and that which you offer is more like a
| .ontine and to be chiefly paid In this life"
Blessed is he that c~onsidereth the poor the
Lord will deliver him in time Of trouble"
Well, If you prefer the old fashioned
| policy of life insurance, which Is not
oaid till after death, you can be ac-
.ommodated. That will be given you In the
| lay of Judgment and will be handed you
~ the right hand, the pierced hand OF our
Lord Himself, and all you do in the right
4 ipirit for the poor is payment On the pre-.
\ MUM of that lite insurance policy. / read
gou a paragraph otthat policy: Then shall
he King say unto them on His right hand,
Come, ye blessed of My Father, for ! was
hungered, and We gave Me meat I was thirs-
y. and ye gave Me drink I was a stranger,
md ye took Me in naked and ye clothed
Me-"
In various colors of ink other life insur-
ance policies are written. This one I nave
lust shown you 10 written in only one kind
81 ink, and that red ink, the blood of the
cross. Blessed be God, that is a 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 augment the sum OF
| eternal felicities. Yes, the time will come
| when tho banks of largest capital stock
will go down, and the fire insurance
the life insurance companies will
all go down. In tho last great earthquake
| all the cities will he prostrited, and as a
consequence all banks will forever suspend
payment. In tho last confiagration the fire
Insurance companies OF the earth will fail,
for how could they make app-aisement
Of the loss on a universal fire? Then
all the inhabitants OF the round world
will Ter their mortal existence,
and how could life insurance companies
pay for ~drpopulatej lemispheres? But
our celestial lilo insurance will not be
harmed by that continental wreck, OF
shat hemisphere accident, or that
planetary catastrophe. Blow 1t out
like n camille the MONDAY sun! Tear II
down Ike WORKOUT upho,stery--the last sun
set Toss It from Gods finger like a dew.
droo from the au.her of "a water lily-the
ocean, Scatter them like thistledown before
u sehoolboy's b~raath--.he world! They will
not disturi, the ~omuip0trnee. or the com
posurc, or the sympathy, or the love OF that
Christ who said it once on earth, and will
say II again Ia beaver to nj, those who have
been helpful to the dowG-troiden, and the
cold and the hungry. and the houseless. and
the lost, 'Inasmuch as ye did it to them, ye
did to Nc"