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

In their agonized features. FORWARD,
mnreh y cries the liquor business to tnat
army without banners. Keep that influence
moving on, and you Will have the poor al
ways With you. Report comes from one OF
tho cities, were the majority of the inhsbf-
tannts 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.
Another warranty that my text will prove
true in the perpetual poverty OF the world Is
the wicked spirit of improvidence. A vast
number or people have such small income
hat they cannot lay by in savings bank or
life insurance one cent a year. It takes every
farthing they can earn to spread the table
and clothe the family and educate the chill
dren, and If you blame such people for I'M
providence you enact a cruelty. On such .
salary as many clerks and employees ana
many ministers Of religion live, n on such
wages as many workmen receive, they can
not, in twenty years, lay up twenty cents.
competent incomes, and could provide some-
what for the future, who live up to every
dollar, md when they die their chill
hren go to the ~poorhouse or on the
street. BY the time the wife gets the
husband buried, she is In debt to the under
taker and grayedigger for that which she
can never pay. While tine nan lived he had
mo "AhC ptAhASo uhu osAh
tobacco, and then expired, leaving bis family
upon the charities OF the world. Do not
send for me to come n conduct the
o~bsequies and read over such q carcass the
beautiful litugy. blessed are the dead who
die in the Lord" for, instead Of that, l will
turn over the leaves of the Bible to /
Timothy ", IS, where it says; "If any pro-
vide not for his own, and especially for
those OF his own house, he hath denied the
faith, and Is worse than an infidel," or l will
turn to Jeremiah xii, 10, where 1t says,
stHe 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 go to
heaven, and live in a mansion, and go riding
about In a golden chariot over the golden
streets, while his Wife and children, whom
he might have provided for, are begging for
cold victuals at the basement door OF an
earthly city. 1t seems to me there ought to
be a ~poorhouse somewhere on the outskirts
of heaven, where those guilty of such inn
providence should be kept for awhile on thin
soup and gristle instead of sitting down at
the Kings banquet. II Is said that the church
js a divine institution, n l believe ii. Just
as certainly are the savings banks and the
pife insurance companies divine institutions,
AS out of evil good often comes 80 out of the
htpOhI III " otNS
sor Hughes and Professor Pascal for games Of
chance, came the calculations of the proba-
bilities OF human life as used by life insur-
Hnce companies. and no business on earth Is
more stable or honorable, n no mightieI
MERCY for the human race has been born sincs
Christ was born. Bored beyond endurance
for my signature to papers OF all sorts, there
is one style of paper that l always sign witt
q feeling of gladness and triumph, and that
is g paper which the life insurance company
requires from the clergyman after a deceasf
in his congregation, in order to the payment
OF the policy to the bereft household. / al.
ways write my name then so they can read
it. 1 cannot help but say to myself
"Good for that man to have looked
after his wife and children after
earthly departure. May he lave one Of the
best seats in heavenm Young man The
day before or the day after you get married;
go to a life insurance company of established
reputation and get the medical examiner to
put the stethoscope TO yourlungs and his ear
close up to your heart with your vest Oh, and
have signed. sealed and delivered to you q
document that will, In the case OF your sud
den departure, make for that lovely girl the
difference between a queen and a pauper.
I have known men who have had an in
come of $4,000, $4,000, $4,000 a year, who did
not leave one farthing TO the surviving
household. Now, that mans death is a de-
4 lailtdllDu. an OuNIdSVs q WihutN n hiu itot
die he ~abscondel. There are 100000 people
in America today a-hungered through the
,sin Of lmDroyidcnce. '.But,' say some, ''my
income IL 50 small [ cannot afford to pay the
premium on a life Insurance." Are you sure
about that? II you are sure, then you havs
a right to depend on the promisei in Jeremiah
Xix II, Leave thy fatherless children, 1
will preserve them alive, and let thy widows
trust in Me-" But il you are able to, remem-
Der you nave no right to ask God to do for
your household that which you can do Tor
them yourself.
For the benefit OF those young men excuse
a practical personality. Beginning my life's
| work on the muni1lcent salary of $500 a year
and a parsonage, and when the call was
placed in my hands I did not know how in
the world 1 would ever be able TO spend that
amount OF money, and 1 remember indulg-
ing in a devout wish that I might not be led
into worldliness and prodigality by such an
! overplus of resources, and at q timc when
| articles Of food and clothing were higher
than they are now, l felt 1t q religious duty
to get my life insured, and / presented my
self at an office of one Of the great compan-
les, and / stood pale and nervous lest the
medical examiner might have to declare
that I had consumption and heart
| disease and a half dozen mortal all
ments. but when I got the document.
| which I have yet in full force, l felt a sense
4 oil m.klllneS5 anu GOHuutuc6 Atlu Qutetuuc
and reinforcement, which Is q good thing
for any young man to have. For the lack OF
| that feeling there are thousands Of men to-
day in Greenwood and Laurel Hill and
| Mount Auburn who might as we'll have been
alive and well and supporting their families.
They got a little sick, and they were SO wor-
ried about what would become oftheir house.
holds in case of their demise that their
agitations overeame the skill of the physi-
clans, and they died for fear OF dying. /
| have for many years been such an ardent
advocate of life insurance, and my sermon
on 1.-THE Crime of Not Insuring" has been
/ so long used on both sides of h sea by
the chief life insurance companies that
| some people have supposed that / received
monetary compensation for what I lave said
and written. Not a penny. / will give any
man 800 for every penny | have received
from any life insurance company. What
have said and written Of the subject has re.
| suited from the conviction that these insti-
~tutions are a benodictiou to the human race.
But, alas, for the widespread improyidcnce
| You are now in your charities helping to
support the families of men who had more
income thar you now have, and you can de-
| pend on the improyideuee of man for tho
truth of my text in all times and In all
places, ''Ye have the poor always with
you"
Another fact that you may depend upon for
perpetual poverty is the incapacity OF many
10 achieve a livelihood You can go through
| any community and find good people with
more than usual mental caliber, who never
| have been able to support themselves and
their households. They are u mystery to us,
| and we saw, ~ 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 q
| ynlendid success. Some are too ~sanguine oil
temperament, and they see bargains where
there are none. A common minnov
Is to them a gold fish, and a quail a fla
| minco. and a blind mule on a towpath a Blu.
eephalus. They buy when things are high.
est and sell whea things arc lowest. Sems
one tells them OF city lots out West, where
| tho foundation OF the first house has not 70,
| been laid. They say. What an opportunr
| lty Z" and they put down the hard cash fol
m ornamented deed for ten lots undel
! water. They hear OF a new silver mins
| opened In Nevada, and they say, "what 1
| shancer- and they take the little none,
hey have in the savings bank and pa1
/ out for as beautiful n ceriif
ate OF mining stocA as was ever printed
md the onlythIng they will ever get out o
he investment Is TIFF Aforesaid illuminated
Telegraph. They al always on the verge
II milionairedom Al are sometimes worried
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