Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-01-13

: uuCIOIy UdlSdlu. lie EllE WIN rQeU
matte joint on pillow, the room redol
ent with liniment 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 continent. Then the orange
groves die under the white teeth OF
the hoar frost. Then the coal strikes,
and the iron strikes, and the me-
chanlcs strikes, 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 scnttle instead of the ton,
and flour 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. It has the ad-
vantage of all the other plans of insur-
ance-whole 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 Chris
tian spirit to a poor man or woman, ev-
cry shoe you give to barefoot, every
stick OF wood or lump of coal you give
to a freless hearth. every drop of med
icine you give to a poor invalid, every
star Of hope you make to shine over
unfortunate maternity, every mitten
you knit for cold fingers, is payu ent
on the premium of that policy. 1 hand
about 500, 900, 900 policies to all who
will go forth and aid the unfortunate.
There are only two or three lines in
this policy of life insurance-Ps. XII, /,
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 AL
mighty is at the head of it, and all the
angels of heaven are in its board Of di
rection, and its assets are all worlds,
and all the charitable of earth and
-'>-,,s-ss-->.~s-ttH henefciaries. Butt
policy so we'll, o,.a -,- -: 81. no
offer is more like tontine and to be
chiey paid in this life. - Blessed is
he 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
commodated. That will be given you
in the day of judgment and will be
handed you by the right hand, the pierced
hand of our Lord himself, and all
you do in the right spirit for the poor
is payment OIL the premium of that life
insul ance policy. read you 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 Inc meat;
was thirsty, and We gave Inc drink; l
was a stranger, and ye took me in;
naked and ye clothed me. z"
In various colors Of ink other life in |
surance policies are written. This one
have just shown you is written i'll only |
one kind of ink, and that red ink, the |
blood of the cross. Blessed be God, that
is a 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 insurance
companies will all go down, and
the life insurance companies will
all So down. In the last great
earthquake all the cities will be
and as a consequence all
banks will forever suspend payment.
In the last confagration the fire insur-
ance companies Of the earth will fail,
for how could they make appraisement
of the loss on universal fire? Then
all the inhabitants of the round world
will surrender their mortal existence,
and how could life insurance compa-
MES pay for depopulated henispheres?
But our celestial life insurance will not
be harmed by that continental wreck,
or that hemisphere accident, Or that
planetary catastrophe. Blow it out
like candle-the MONDAY sun! Tear
it down like wornout upholstery-the |
last sunset! Toss it from Gods finger
like dewdrop from the anther of
yater lily-the oceanl Scatter them
ike>thistledown before schoolboy's
,reatbNSSe worlds! That will not dis
urb the omnS Impotence, or the composure,
" the sympathS,>2r the love of that
Witt who said it ohSs on earth, and
trodde,it again in heavenes2 an those
and the hen helpful to the>>aown-
| ,,oh oe va cold and the hung&,