Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-01-19


me strong men of the profession. neu-
ralgia stung him. Just as that physi
gian was 10 prove his skill in an cpl
9eu,ic, ms own poor health imprisoned him
Just rs lnat merchant must be at the store
ioi some decisive and Introductory bargain
ne with rheumatic joint on a pillow
me room redolent with liniment. What an
overwhelming statistic would be the story oil
men ana women and children impoverished
oy s,cKnesses Then the cyclones. Then
rue MISSISSIPPI and Ohio freshets. Then the
stopping OF the factories. Then the curcuios
among the peach trees Then the insectie
devastation Of potato patches and wheat
felds. Then the epizootics among the
nofses, and the hollow horn among the
herds. Then the rains that drown out
everything, and the droughts that burn
up nalf continent Then the orange
groves die under the white teeth OF
the hoar frost. Then the coal strikes. and
the iron strikes, and the mechanics strikes,
whicn all strike labor harder than they strike
capital. Then the yellow fever at Brunswick
and Jacksonville and Shreveport. Then the
cnolera at the Narrows threatening to land
at New YORK. Then the Charleston earth
quake Then the Johnstown food. Then
hurricanes sweeping from Caribbean Sea to
Newfoundland. Then there are the great
monopol1es that guIley the earth with their
expressions. Then there are the necessities
of buying coal by the scuttIe instead-of the
ton, and flour by the pound instead of the
barrel, and so the injustices are multiplied.
In the wake OF all these are overwhelming
illustrations of the truth of my text, Eye
have the poor always with YOU"
Remember fact that no one emphasizes
fact, nevertheless, upon which | want to
put the weight OF an eternity of tonnage
that Of ff,ctr ~, III
| your children and your grandchildren
against poverty and all other troubles is by
helping others. ain an agent of the oldest
insurance company that was ever established.
1t is nearly 5000 years old. II has the adj
vantage OF oil 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 1t pays up after you are
dead. Every cent you give in Chris
tian spirit to poor man or woman, every
shoe you give to u barefoot, every stick OF
wood or lump of coal you give TO areless
hearth, every drop of medicine you give to
poor invalid, every star OF hope you make 10
shine over unfortunate maternity, every
mitten you knit for cold fingers, is a pay
ment on the premium of that policy. Inland
ebout 800, 000,0 600 policies to all who will go
forth and aid the unfortunate. There are
only two or three lines in this policy OF life
lnsurance-Ps. XII, /, blessed is he that
eonsidereth the poor the Lord will deliver
him in time OF trouble.
Other life Insurance companies nay fail.
but this celestial: life insurance company
never. The Lord God Almighty is at the
head of it .Tnd all the angels OF heaven are
In its board of direction, and its assets are
all worlds, and all the charitable of earth and
heaven are the benefciaries. "But." SAYS
some one 81 do not like tontine policy so
well, and that which you offer is more like
tontine and to be chiefly 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 ac-
eommodated. That will be given you in the
day of judgment and will be hantsed 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 on the pre-
MUM OF that life insurance policy. / read
you paragraph cfthat policy. "Then shall
the King say unto them on His right hand, |
Come, We blessed OF My Father, for was !
hungered. and ye gave Ne meat l was thirs- |
ty, and We gave Me drink l was stranger, |
and ye took Me in naked and ye clothed |
Me-
IN various colors of ink other life insur- |
ance policies are written. This one | have \
just shown you is written in only one kind /
Of ink and that red ink, the blood of the |
rross. Blessed be God. that is paid up !
policy, paid for by the pangs OF the Son OF
Cod and all we add to it in the way OF our
own good deeds will augment the sum Of |
eternal felicitiss. Yes, the time will come h
when the banks OF largest capital stock I
will go down, and the fire insurance /
will all 60 down, and l
he life insurance companies will
Ill go down. In the last great earthquake
Ill the cities will be proslrated, and as a
consequence all banks will forever suspend
In the last conffegration the fire
insurance companies of the earth will fall
or how could they make sppraisement
If the loss on a universal fire? Then
Ill the inhabitants of the round world
will surrender their mortal existence,
md how could life insurance companies
Jay for depopulated hentispheres? But
,ur celestial life insurance will not be
harmed by that continental wreck, or
hat hemisphere accident or that
planetary catastrophe. Blow it out
ike a candle the noondsy sunt Tear it
lown like wornout upholsteEY-thela last sun
et Toss it from Gods finger like dew
irop from the anther of water liiy-the
,cean Scatter them like tlBgledown before
schoolboy's breath--the world They will
lot disturb the omnipotenoe, or the COM
,osure, or the sympathy, or tAleslove OF that
thirst VINO said il once on earth, and will
ay 1t again In heaven to all those who have
,een helpful to the down-troddn, and the
old and the hungry and the hoelse'ess, and
he lost, 'Inasmuch as ye did itto them, ye
lid to Me F"