Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1894-01-12

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They hear OF u new silver mine opened
in Nevada, and they say. What a
chanceV and they take the little money
they have in the savings bank and pay
it out for as beautiful certificate of
mining stock as was ever printed, and
the only thing they will ever get out
of the investment is the aforesaid
illuminated Autograph. They are
always on the verge of millionairedom,
and are sometimes worried as to
whom they shall bequeath their ex-
cess of fortune. They invest in aerial
machines, or new inventions in per-
petual motion, and they succeed in
what mathematicians 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 bequest to the Bureau
of City Charities. Others administer
to the crop of the worlds misfortune
by being too unsuspecting. Honest
themselves, they belief all others
are honest. They are fleeced
and scalped and vivisected by the
sharpers in all styles of business, and
cheated out of everything between
cradle and grave, and those two ex-
ceptions only because they have moth
ing to do in buying either Of them.
Others are retained for misfortune by
inoppotune sickness. Just as that
lawyer was to make the plea that
would have put him among the strong
men of the profession, neuralgia stung
him. Just as that physician was to
prove his skill in an epidemic, his own
poor health imprisoned him. Just as
that merchant must be at the store for
some decisive and Introductory bar
gain, he sits with a rheumatic joint
on a pillow, the room redolent
with liniment What an over
whelming statistic would be the story
of men and women and children impov-
erished by sicknesses Then the cy-
clones. Then the Mississippi and
Ohio freshets Then the stopping of
the factories. Then the curculios
among the peach trees. Then the in
sectile devastation of potato patches
and wheat fields. Then the epizootics
among the horses and the hollow horn
among the herds. Then the rains that
drown out everything and the
droughts that burn up half CONT
nent. Then the orange groves die
under the white teeth of the hoar
frost. Then the coal strikes and the
iron strikes and the mechanics strikes,
which all strike labor harder than
they strike capital. Then the yellow
fever at Brunswick and Jackson
vile and Shreveport. Then the cholera
at the Narrows, threatening to land in
New York. Then the Charleston earth
quake. Then the Johnstown flood.
Then hurricanes sweeping from Carib-
bean Sea to Newfoundland. Then
there are the great monopolies that
gully the earth with their expressions.
Then there are the necessities of buy
ing 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 all these
are overwhelming illustrations of the
truth of my text: "Ye have the poor
always with you"
Remember fact that no one empha-
sizes, a fact, nevertheless, upon which
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nifty of tonnage, that the best way of
insuring yourself and your children
and your grandchildren against poverty
and all other troubles is by helping
others. / am an agent of the oldest
insurance company that was ever es-
tablished. 1t is near three thousand
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 a Christian spirit to
a poor man or woman, every shoe you
give to a bare foot, every stick of
wood or lump of coal you give TO fire.
less hearth every drop of medicine
you give to poor invalid, every star
of hope you make 60 shine over un-
fortunate maternity, every mitten you
knit for cold fingers, is payment on
the premium of that policy. / hand
about five hundred million policies to
all who will go forth and aid the I'M
fortunate. There are only two or
three lines in this policy of life in
surance. Psalms Al: i, 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 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 benefici-
aries. But" says some one, 81 do not
like Tontine policy so well, and that
which Won offer is more like n Tontine