The Progress., 1894-01-13

mas full opportunity, ana under the
constant changes it is simply wonder
, full that the nation still lives. The
, tariff question will never be settled
because Of the fact, which have never
heard any one recognize, but. ncverthe-
less. the fact, that high tariff is best
for some people and free trade
iS best for others. This tar
itiic controversy keeps business
struck through with uncer-
tainty, and that uncertainty results in
poverty and wrctchednesS for a vast
multitude of people. If the eternal
CAB on this subject could have been
fashioned into loavcs of bread, there
would not be a hungry man or woman
or child on all the planet. TO the end
of time, the words of the text will be
kept true by the tariflic controversy,
"Ye have the poor always with YOU"
I'Cinct.''.,- a. l.',t I'D, 40 one cmpna-
sizes, "A fact. cvcrthelcSS, upon which
! want 20 put the weight os an eter-
nifty of tonnage. that the best way of
insuring yourself and vour children
and your grandc dchildren aga INST poverty
and all other tr-"bl"s - bv helping
e.. ..,.N- "ii. tu agent 81 IT,. ,...Y...t
insurance company that was ever cs-
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 il pays up while YOU live
] s. !
cent you give ia Christian spirit to
poor man or woman, every shoe you
| give to a bare foot, every stick Of
I wood or lump of coal you give toa fire
less hearth. every drop of medicine
You give to "A poor invalid, every star
of hope you make to shine over un-
fortunate maternity, every mitten vou
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 un-
fortunate. There are only two or
three lines in this policy of life in
surance. Psalms Al: / 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 II do not
like Tontine policy SO well. and that
which You offer is more like a Tontinc
and to be chiefly paid in this life"
blessed is he that considcrcth the
poor; the Lord will deliver him in
time of trouble" Well. if YOU prefer
the old-fashioned policy Of life insur-
ance, which is not paid till after
death. you can be accommodated. That
will be given you in the day of judg-
ment and will be handed you by the
right hand, the pierced hand of our
Lord himself, and all you do
in the right spirit of the poor is pay
ment on the premium of that life in.
surance policy. read you a para
graph of that policy: 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 ye gave me drink, |
was stranger and We took me in,
naked and ye clothed me-" In va
rious cOlors of ink other life insurance
policies are written. This one [ have
just shown Won 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 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 all go down. and the fire in
companies will all go down. and ,
the life insurance companies will all 90 ;
down. In the last great earthquake ,
all the cities will be prostrated, and as !
l consequence all banks will forever
payment. In the last confla-
grafton the fire insurance companies
Of the earth will fail. for how could r
hey make appraisement of the loss on :,
| universal fire? Then all the in !;
IA btants of the round world will sur :
-ender their mortal existence, and how :.
,ould life insurance companies pay for :
iepopulated hemispheres? But our :
Celestial life insurance will not be :
harmed by that continental wreck, or
hat hemisphere accident, or that
planetary catastrophe. Blow 1T out
ike candle-the noon-day sun. Tear
t down like worn-out upholstery-the 7
last sunset! Toss it from Gods finger :,
ike dewdrop from the anther of a = =
ocean. Scatter them = !.
ike thistledown before a schoolbov's a
Dreath-the worlds That will not q
disturb the omnipotence or the COM
oosure or the sympathy or the love of E
hat Christ who said it once on earth, N
md will say it again in heaven to all b
hose who have been helpful to the ii
and the cold and the G
hungry and the houseless and the lost: Il