The Globe-republican., 1894-01-12

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blind mule on tow-path Bucephalus-
They buy when things are highest and
sell when things are lowest 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 port.
! folios of diagrams of things impossible.
l cannot help but like them, becau Sc
they are SO cheerful with great expec-
tationS Bat their children are be-
quest to the bureau of city charities.
Others administer to the crop of the
worlds misfortune by being too unsus-
pecting. Honest themselves they be-
lieve all others are honest They are
| feeced and scalped and vivisected by
the sharpers in ell styles of business.
and cheated ont of everything between
cradle and grave. and those two excep-
tons only because they have nothing
to do in buying either of them Others
are retained for misfortune by mop
perfume sickness Just as that lawyer
was to make the plea that would have
put him among the strong men of the
profession, neuralgia stung him. Just
as that physician was to prove his skill
in an epidemic, his own poor health
imprisoned him. Just as that mer-
chant must be at the store for some
decisive and Introductory bargain. he
the room redolent with liniment.
What an overwhelming statistic would
be the story of men and women and
children impoverished by sickness.
Then the cyclones Then the Missis.
sippi and Ohio freshets Then the
stopping of the factories. Then the
curculios among the peach trees
Then the insectile devastation of pO-
tato patches and wheat fields. Then
the epizootics among the horses and
the hollow horn among the herds
Then the rains that drown out every
thing and the droughts that burn up
half a continent. Then there are the
great monopolies that gulley 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 multiplied. In the
wake of these are overwhelming illus
trations of the truth of my text: "Ye
have the poor always with you"
Remember fact that no one en-
phasizes, fact, nevertheless, upon
which l want to put the weight of an
eternity of tonnage, that the best way
of insuring yourself and your childre D
and your gra ndchildren against poverty
oil SC Lo1
others. am an agent of the oldest in
surance company that was ever es-
tablished. 1t is nearly 5000 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 it
pays up while you live and it
pays up after you are dead Every
cent you give in Christian spirit to a
poor man or woman, every shoe you
give to bare foot, every stick of wood
or lump of coal you give to fireless
hearth, every drop of medicine you
give to a poor invalid, every star of
hope you make to shine over unfortun-
ate maternity, every mitten you knit
for cold fingers is a payment on the
premium of that policy. l hand about
five hundred million policies to all who
will go forth and aid the unfortunate
There are only two or three lines in
this policy of life insurance. Psalms,
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 celes-
tial Life Insurance company never.
The Lord God Almighty is at the
are in its board of direction,
and its assets are all worlds, and all
the charita BILE of earth and Heaven are
the beneficiaries. ''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 We gave me drink,
was a stranger and We took me in,
naked and We clothed me-
In various colors of ink other life in
surance policies are written. This one
l have just shown you is written in
only one kind of ink, and that is red
ink-the blood of the cross. Blessed
be God, this 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 go down, and the fire insur-
ance companies will all go down,
and the life insurance companies
will all go down. In the
last great earthquake all the
cities will be Frustrated, and as con-
sequence all banks will forever sus-
pend payment. In the last conflagra-
ton the fire insurance companies of
the earth will fail, for how could they
make appraisement of the loss on q
universal fire? Then all the inhabit-
ants of the round world will surrender
their mortal existence, and how could
life insurance companies pay for de-
populated hemispheres? But our Celes-
tial life insurance will not be harmed
by that continental wreck, or that
hemisphere accident, or that plane