Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-01-08
cate OF mining stock as was ever print

get out of the investment is the aforesaid
illuminated Autograph. They are al
ways on the verge of millionairedom
and are sometimes worried as to whom
they shall bequeath their excess of for
tune. They invest in aerial machines
or new inventions in perpetual mott on,
and they succeed in what mathemati-
clans think impossib BILE, the squaring of
a circle, for they do everything ON the
square and win the whole circle of dis
appointment. They are good honest,
brilliant failures. They die poor, and
leave nothing to their families but a
model of some invention that would not
work and whole portfolios of diagrams
of things impossible. l cannot help
but like them, because they are so
cheerful with great expectations. But
their children are bequest to the bu-
reau of city charities. Others admin
lister to the crop of the worlds misfor-
tune by being too unsuspecting. Honest
themselves, they believe all others are
honest They are feeced and scalped
and vivisected by the sharpers in all
styles of business and cheated out of
everything between cradle and grave,
and those two exceptions only because
they have nothing to do in buying
either of them. Others are retained for
misfortune by inopportune sickness.
Just as that lawyer was to make the
plea that would have put him among
the strong men of the profession, neu-
ralgia stung him. Just as that physi-
clan was to prove his skill in an cpl
demic, his own poor health imprisoned
him. Just as that merchant must be
at the store for some aecisive and intro
ductory bargain. he sits with a rheu-
matte joint on pillow, the room redol-
ent with Hniment. What an over
whelIning statistic would be the story
Of men and women and children i'm
poverished 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 insectile
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 a continent. Then the orange
groves die under the white teeth of
the boar fire Then the coal strikes,
and the i strikes, and the me-
chanlcs' G .es, which all strike
labor harder than they strike capital.
Then the yellow fever at Brunswick and
Jacksonville and Shreveport. Then
the cholera at the Narrows, threatening
to land in New York. Then the Charles
ton earthquake. Then the Johnstown
flood. Then hurricanes sweeping from
Caribbean sea to Newfoundland. Then
there are the great monopolies that gull
ley 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 multi
piled In the wake of all these are over
whelming illustrations of the truth of
my text, 'Ye have the poor always
with you
CELESTIAL INSURANCE.
Remember fact that no one empha-
sizes-a fact, nevertheless. upon which
1 want to put the weight of an eternity
of tonnage-that the best way of insur-
ing yourself and your children and your
grandchildren against poverty and all
other troubles is by helping others. l
am an agent of the oldest insurance |
company that was ever established. 1t |
is near 3, 600 years old 1t has the adj |
vantage OF all the other plans of insur- |
ance-wholo life policy, endowment, |
joint life and survivorship policies,
ascending and descending scales of pre-
MUM and tontine-and it pays up while
you live and it pays up after you are
dead. Every cent you give IN a Chris
tan spirit to a poor man or woman, ev-
cry shoe you give to a barefoot, every
stick of wood or lump of coal you give
to fireless hearth, every drop of med
icino you give to poor invalid, every
star of hope you make to shine over
unfortunate maternity, every mitten
you knit for cold fingers, is payment
on the premium of that policy. l hand
about 500, 600, 900 policies to all who
will go forth and aid the unfortunate.
There are OILY two or three lines in
this policy of life insurance-Ps. 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 celestial life insurance
never. The Lord God AL
mighty is at the head of it, and all the
angels of heaven are in its board of di-
rection, and it's assets are all worlds,
and all the charitable of earth and
heaven are the beneficiaries But
says some one. II do not like tontlne
policy so we'll, and that which you
offer is more like a tontine and to be
,hiey paid in this life.'' ''Blessed is
ne that considereth the poor; the Lord
will deliver him in time of trouble
Well, if you prefer the old fashioned
policy of life insurance, which is not
paid till after death, you can be &C
That will be given you