Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-01-11


you can do for them yourself
For the benefit OF those young men, eX'
cuse practical personality. Beginning
my lifes work on the muniflccnt salary oil
$500 year and n parsonage, ana when the
call was placed in my hands did not know
how in the world ! would ever be able tc
spend that amount of money, and re
member indulgiug in devout wish that ]
might not be led into worldliness ana prodl |
gality by such an overplus oi resources ara |
at a time when articles of food and cloth |
ing were higher than they are now, felt II
a religious duty to get my life insured, AID
| presented myself ut an Office of one of the |
o. eat companies, and stood pale and nerv |
Gus lest the medical examiner might have
Il, declare that | had consumption and
heart disease and a half dozen mortal nj.
meuts but when got the document, which
] have yet in full force, felt sense OF
manlncss and confidence and quietude and
Reinforcement which is IL good thing fol
any young man to have
For the lack of that feeling there arr
! thousands of men today in Greenwood and
/ Laurel Hill and MountiAuburn who might
/ as well have been alive and well and sup
/ porting their families They got little
sick, and they were so worried about what
would become of their households in cast
came the skill of the physicians and they
died for fear of dying. | have for many
wears been such an ardent advocate of life
Insurance. and my sermon on The Crime
| of Not lnsuriuV' has been so long uscC
| on both sides of the sea by the chief life
| insurance companies that some people have
supposed that ! received monetary COM
pensation for what have said and written
Not penny.
will give any man hundr aG dollars fOi
every penny | have received from any life
insurance company. What | have said anc
written on the subject has resulted iron
the conviction that these institutions are &
bencdiction To le human race. But alas
for the widespread improvidenco! You art
now in your charities helping to support the
families of men who had more income thar
YOU now have, or ever have had, or ever
will have, and you can depend on the i'm
providence of many for the truth fmy text
in all times and in all places Ic have tn:
poor always with you.
HUMAN INCAPACITY.
Another fac. that you may depend upOt
for perpetual poverty is the inCapaclty OF
many to achieve livelihood. You can e
through any community and lind good pco
pie with more than usual mental cali Der
who never have been able To support them
selves ard their households. They are {
mystery to us. ana we say, IL do not know
what is the matter Of Them but there is {
screw loose somewhere Some of thest
, persons have more brain than thousand:
p who make splendid success Some are
too sauguine of temperament, and they SET
bargains where there are none. y common
/. nnnow is to them goldfish, and II quai
Il namingo, and blind mule on a towpatl
Bucpphalus. They buy when things arr
II highest and sell when things are lowest.
. Some one tells them of city lots out west
= where the foundation Of the first house ha
n not yet been laid. They say, What an op
, portunity!" and they put down the hare
h cash for an ormamented deed Tor 10 lots un
der water. They hear Of Il new silver min
opened in Nevada, and they say, what
, chance' and they take the little none
- they have in the savings bank and pay it GU
9 for as beautiful a certificate Of mining
,, stock as was ever printed, and the onl
p. thing they will ever get out OF the invest
y, ment is the aforesaid illuminated lithc
&c graph. They are always on the verge {
millionairedom and are sometimes worrie
ID a. to whom they shall bequeath their eXces
N OF fortune.
-, They invest in aerial machines or new il
!, ventions in perpetual motion, and they SUI
~ coed in what mathcmaticians think inipO:
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!, everything on the square and win the whpl
ID circle Of disappointment. They are gooC
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