Connecticut western news., 1894-01-11

icine you give to a poor invalid, every star of hope you make to shine over unfortunate maternity, every mitten you knit for cold fingers, is a payment on the premium of that policy. I hand about 500, 900, 900 policies to all who will go forth and aid the unfortunate. There are only two or three lines in this policy of life einsurance-Ps. xii, l,
 Blessed is he that considereth the poor; the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble.
 Other life insurance companies may fail, but this celestial life insurance company never The Lord God AL mighty Is at the head of it, and all the angels of heaven are in it's board of di- rection, and its assets are all worlds, and all the charitable of earth and heaven are the beneficiaries. But" says some one, "I do not like tontlne policy so we'll, and that which you offer is more like tontine and to be chiey paid in this lite" Blessed is he that considereth the poor; the Lord will deliver him in time of trouble" We'll, If you prefer the old fashioned policy of life insurance, which is not paid till after death, you can be &C., commodated. That will be given you in the day of judgment and will be handed you by the right hand, the pierced hand of our Lord himself, and all you do in the right spirit for the poor is payment on the premium of that life insul ance policy. I read you a para graph of that policy: linen shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, for was hungered, and ye gave me meat; l was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; l was stranger, and ye took me in; naked and ye clothed me. '"
 In various colors of ink other life in- surance policies are written. This one have just shown vou is written in only one kind of ink, and that red ink, the blood of the cross. Blessed be God, that Is paid up policy, paid for by the pungs of the Son ot 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 all go down, and the fire insurance COIupdul66 VIII aAl ko uOWu, Aud the life insurance companies will all go down. In the last great earthquake all the cities will be prostrated, and as consequence all banks will forever suspend payment. In the last confagration the fire insur- ance companies of the earth will fail, for how could they make appraisement of the loss on a universal fire? Then all the inhabitants of the round world will surrender their mortal existence, and how could life insurance compa- nies pay for depopulated hemispheresf But our celestial life insurance will not be harmed by that continental wreck, or that hemispheric accident, or that planetary catastrophe. Blow it out like a candle-the monday suni Tear it down like wornort upholstery-the last sunsetl Toss it from Gods finger like a dewdrop from the anther of water hly-the oceanl Scatter them like thistledown before a schoolboy's breath-the worldsi That will not dis turb the omnipotence, or the composure, 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 down trodden, and the cold. and the hungry, and the houseless, and the lost, 'Inas- much as ye did 1t to them, ye did to mei''