The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-12

the room redolant with liniflent.
What an overwhelming statistic would
be the story of men and women and
children impoverished by sickness.
Then the cyclones. Then the Missis.
sippi and Ohio freshets Then the
stopping of the factories. Then the
curculios among the peach trees.
Then the insectile devastation of po-
tato patches and wheat fields Then
the epizootics among the horses and
the hollow horn among the herds.
Then the rains that drown cut every
thing and the droughts that burn up
half continent. Then there are the
great monopolies that gulley the earth
with their expressions Then there
are the necessities of buying coal by
the scuttle instead of the ton, and -four
by the pound instead of the barrel, and
SO the injustices are multiplied. In the
wake of these are overwhelming illus
trations of the truth of my text: "Ye
have the poor always with you"
Remember a fact that no one en-
phasizes, fact, nevertheless, upon
which want to put the weight of an
eternity of tonnage. that the best way
of insuring yourself and your childre
and your grandchildren against poverty
and all other troubles is by helping
others. / am an agent of the oldest in
surance company that was ever es-
tablished. 1t is nearly 5000 years old.
1t has the advantage of all the other
plans of insurance; whole-life policy,
endowment, joint-life and survivorship
policies, ascending and descending
scales of premium and tontine, and it
pays up while you live and it
pays up after you are dead. Every
cent you give in Christian spirit to
poor man or woman. every shoe you
give to bare foot, every stick of wood
or lump of coal you give to a tireless
hearth, every drop of medicine you
give to poor invalid, every star of
hope you make to shine over unfortun-
ate maternity, every mitten you knit
for cold fingers, is a payment on the
premium of that policy. | hand about
five hundred million policies to all who
will go forth and aid the unfortunate.
There are only two or three lines in
this policy of life insurance. Psalms
xii 1: BLESSED is he that considereth
the poor; the Lord will deliver him in
time of trouble" Other life insurance
companies may fail, but this celes-
tial Life Insurance company never.
The Lord God Almighty is at the
head of it and all the angels of Heaven
are in its board of direction,
and its assets are all worlds, and all
the charitable of earth and Heaven are
the beneficiarieS ''Then shall the
King say unto them on His right hand:
Come We blessed of My Father, for
was hungered and We gave me meat, |
was thirsty and We gave me drink,
was a stranger and We took me in,
naked and We clothed me-"
In various colors of ink other life in
suranoe policies are written. This one
have just shown you is written in
only one kind of ink, and that is 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 augment the sum of
eternal felicities Yes, the time will
come when the banks of largest capital
stock will go down, and the fire insur-
| ance 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 con-
sequence all banks will forever sus-
pend payment. In the last confiagra-
| ton the fire insurance companies of
| the earth will fail, for how could they
make appraisement of the loss on
| universal fire? Then all the inhabit-
ants of the round world will surrender
their mortal existence, and how could
life insurance companies pay for de-
populated hemispheres? But our Celes-
| tial life insurance will not be harmed
| by that continental wreck, or that
hemisphere accident, or that plane
| tary catastrophe Blow it out like
candle-the MONDAY sun! Tear it
down like WORKOUT upholstery-th
last sunset. Toss it from Gods finger
like dewdrop from the anther of
| water lily-the ocean! Scatter them
| like thistledown before a schoolboy's
| breath-the worlds. That will not
disturb 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 who have been helpful to the
| downtrodden and the cold and the
| hungry and the houseless and the lost:
"Inasmuch as We did it to them, We did
| to Mer'