Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-01-25

leave nothing to their famiiI>A but a
model of some invention that \. uld
not work, and whole portfolios OF o4s-
grams of things impossible ] canno
help but like them, becanse they ar
so cheerful with great expectations
But their children are a bequest TO the
bureau Of city charities. Others adj.
minister to the crop of the world
misfortune b. be ng too un.ispeeting.
Honest themselves they beiieve al
others are honest They are fieeced anC
scalped and vivisected BY the sharper
in all styles Of business. and ehsate,
out of everything between cradle ans
grave and those two exceptions onl,
because they have nothing to do will
buying either Of them. Others are re
tanned for misfortune By inopportun'
sickness. just as that lawyer was L
make the plea that would have pu'
him among the strong men of the pro
fession neuralgia stung him. just a
that physician was to prove his skill IN
an epidemic, mis- poor health imprisoned
him just as that merchant must b,
at the store for some decisive and in
troductory bargain, he sits with rheu
matte joint on pillow. the room redo
lent with liniment What an overwhelm
Ing statistic would be the story Of mer
and women and children impoverishe
BIZ sickness, Then the cyclones. Then
the Mississippi and Ohio freshets
Then the stopping of the factories
Then the curculios among the peac
trees Then the insactilc devastation
OF potatoes patches and wheat fields
Then the epizootics among the horse
and the hollow horn among the herds
Then the rains that drown out every
thing and the droughts that burn NJ
half a continent. Then the orangt
groves die under the white teeth Of III
boar frost Then the coal strikes and
the iron strikes and the mechanics
strikes, which all strike labor harder
than they strike capital Then the
yellow fever at Brunswick and Jack
sonville and Shreveport Then this
cholera at the Narrows. threatening I,
land in New York. Then the Charles
ton earthquake. Then the Johnstowr
Hood. Then hurricanes sweeping from
Caribbean sea TO Newfoundland
Then there are the great monopoliee
that gully the earth with their oppres.
sions. Then there are the necessities
81 buying coal by the little instead OF
the ton. and flour by the pound instead
IF the barrel. and SO the injustices are
multiplied. In the wake Of all thcs
are overwhelming illustrations OF the
truth of my text; ''Ie have the poor
always with You.
Remember fact that no one empha-
sizes fact, nevertheless, upon whic
want TO put the weight OF an eternity
If tonnage that the best way OF insur
ing yourself aud your children and
gour grandchildren against poverty |
md all other troubles is by helping
others. am an agent of the oldest in.
,urance company that was ever estab.
'ished. II is near three thousand years
old. 1t has the advan tage of all the
jther plans of insurance; whole life |
policy. endowment, joint-life and sur.
worship policies, ascending and de
Sending scales OF premiums, and ton.
dine, and it pays up while You live and
I pays up after You are dead. Every |
Door man or woman, every shoe you
1--WE to bare foot, every stick of WOOD
or lump of coal you give TO a fireless
! earth, every drop of medicine You
give to a poor invalid, every star OF
hope you make to shine over unfortu-
nate maternity, every mitten you kni
for cold fingers, is a payment on the
premium of that policy. hand about
viii go forth and aid the unfortunate.
There are only two or three lines in
Ibis policy of life insurance. Psalms,
xl.. i: blessed is he that consider.
9TH the poor: the Lord will deliver him
N time of trouble" other life insur
lnee eomnanies may fail but this celes
ial life insurance company never. Tbs
Lord God Almighty is at the head OF
t. and all the angels of Heaven are in
Is board of direction, and its assets
IRE all worlds. aud all the charitable
If earth and Heaven are the bene
fciar,es Put says some one, II d.
rot like tontine policy so well, and
hat which yoa offer is more like a ton
line and to be chiefly paid in this life
Blessed is he that considereth the
ooor. the Lord will deliver him in
line of trouble Well, il you prefer
he old-fashioned policy of life insur
inee. which is not paid till after death
,ou can be accommodated. That will
De given you in the day of Judgment.
md will be handed you by the right
iand, the pierced hand, of our Lord
himself and all you do in the right
spirit for the poor is payment on the
premium of that life insurance policy.
read you paragraph of that policy:
Then shall the King say unto them
IN his right hand. Come, We blessed OF
ny father for was bungered and We
rave me meat, / was thirsty and We
rave me drink. was a stranger and
-e took me in, naked and We clothed
ne" In various colors of ink other
life insurance policies are written. This
me have just shown you is written
n only one kind of ink, and that red
nix. the blood of the cross Blessed
'e God. that is a "Paid-up Policy"
aid for by the pangs Of the Son of God,
nd all we add to it in the way of our
wn good deeds viii augment the sum