Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-01-08

ought to be a poorhouse somewhere on
the outskirts of heaven, where those
guilty Of such improvidence should be
kept for awhile on thin soup and gristle
instead of sitting down at the King
banquet. It is said that the church is
divine institution, and I believe it.
Just as certainly are the savings banks
and the life insurance companies divine
institutions. AS out of evil good often
comes so out Of the doctrine of proba-
bilities, calculated by Professor Hugens
and Professor Pascal for games OF
chance. came the calculation of the
probabilities of human life as used by
life insurance companies, and no bust
ness on earth is more stable or honor
able, and no mightier mercy for the
human race has been born since Christ
was born. Bored beyond endurance for
my signature to papers of all sorts,
there is one style of paper that I always
sign with a feeling of gladness and
triumph, and that is a paper which the
life insurance company requires from
the clergyman after a decease in his
congregation. in order to the payment
of the policy to the bereft household.
read it. I cannot help but say to my
self: GOOD for that man to have look
ed after his wife and children after
earthly departure. May he have one of
the best seats in heaven!" Young
man! The day before or the day after
you get married, go to a life insurance
company of established reputation and
get the medical examiner to put the
stethoscope to your lungs and his ear
close up to your heart with your vest
off, and have signed, sealed and deliv-
cred to you document that will, in the
case of your sudden departure, make
for that lovely girl the difference be-
tween queen and pauper.
/ have known men who have had an
income of So, 600, $4,000, $4,000, a
year, who did not leave one farthing to
the surviving household. Now, that
mans death is defalcation, an out
rage, swindle. He did not die; he
absconded. There are 100, 900 people in
America today a-hungered through the
sin of improvideDce. But say some,
"my income is so small l cannot afford
to pay the premium on life insur
ance." Are you sure about that? If
you are sure, then you have a right to
depend on the promise in jeremiah
xix, II, Leave thy fatherless chill
dren, I will preserve them alive, and
let thy widows trust in me. But if
you are able to, remember you have no
right to ask God to do for your house
hold that which you can do for them
yourself.
For the benefit of those young men
excuse practical personality. Begin
ming my life's work on the munifcent
salary of $500 year and a parsonage,
and when the call was placed in my
hands did not know how in the world
would ever be able to spend that
amount of money, and 1 remember in
1ulging in a devout wish that might
not be led into worldliness and prodi-
gality by such an overplus of Resources,
and at time when articles of food and
were higher than they are
now, felt it religious duty to get my
life insured, and [ presented myself at
an office of one of the great companies,
and 1 stood pale and nervous lest the
medical examiner e3ight have to de-
clare that had consumption and heart
disease and a half dozen mortal all
nents, but when l got the document,
which l have yet i'll full force, l felt
sense of manIiness and confidence and
luietude and reinforcement, which is
good thing for any young man to have.
For the lack of that feeling there are
thousands of men today in Greenwood /
and Laurel Hill and Mount Auburn
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we'll and supporting their families.
They got a little sick, and they were
10 worried about what would become !
# their households in case of their de-
Mise that their agitations overcame the
kill Of the physicians, and they died |
or fear of dying. l have for many
7ears been such an ardent advocate CT !
ife insurance, and my sermon on Tho
Crime of Not Insuring'' has been so
Ong used on both sides of the sea by
he chief life insurance companies that
ONE people have supposed that l re-
eived monetary compensation for what
have Gaid and written. Not a penny.
will give any man s 90 for every pen
~ have received from any life insur-
nee company. What I have said and
VIIIteH Oh lHo SuDJect mas Resulted
rom the conviction that these institu-
ions are a benediction to the human
ace. But, alas, for the widespread i'm
providence! You are now in your char
ties helping to support the families of
zen who had more income than you
ow have, or ever have had, or ever
7ill have, and you can depend on the
Of many for the truth of
~ text in all times and in all places,
We have the poor always with you."
LACK OF MENTAL BALANCE.
Another fact that you may depend
pom for perpetual poverty is the in
apacity of many to achieve liveli-
God. You can go through any COM
op6 find ooo6 ,,oo,,1o I'LL, ..,o~o