The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-01-10

: agitation oVercaIne the skill or the phy-
sicians and they died for fear OF dying.
have for many years been such an
| ardent advocate Of life insurance and
my sermon on THE Crime of Not In
surfing has been so long used on both
sides of the sea by the chief life in
surance companies that some people have
| supposed that / received monetary COM
! pensation for what / have said and writ
| ten. Not a penny.
I will give every man a hundred dol
lars for every penny I have received
from any life insurance company. What
J have said and written on the subject
has resulted from the conviction that
these institutions are a benediction TO
/ the human race. But alas for the
| widespread improvidencei You are now
in your charities helping to support the
| families of men who had more income
than you now have or ever have had or
! ever will have, and you can depend on
! the imprOvidence of many for the truth
| OF my text in all times and in all places
| -'Ie have the poor always with you
Human Incapacity.
| Another fact that you may depend
upon for perpetual poverty is the inca
pacity Of many to achieve a livelihood.
You can go through any community and
find good people, with more than usual
mental calfber, who never have been able
to support themselves and their house
holds. They are mystery TO us, and
! we say, Il do not know what is the mat
| ter with them. but there is a screw loose
| somewhere" Some Of these persons
| have more brain than thousands who
| make a splendid success. Some are too
| sanguine of temperament, and they see
| bargains where there are none. COM
! mon minnow is 10 them d goldfish, and
a quail flamingo and a blind mule on
| a towpath a Bucephalus. They buy
| when things are highest and sell when
! things are lowest
Some one tells them Of city lots out
| west, where the foundation Of the first
| house has not yet been laid They say,
! What an opportunity and they put
| down the hard cash for an ornamented
| deed for ten lots under water. They hear
of a new silver mine opened in Nevada
| and they say What a chancer' and
| they take the little money they have in
| the savings bank and pay it out for
| as beautiful a certificate of mining
| stock as was ever printed, and the only
| thing they will ever set out OF the in
vestment is the aforesaid illuminated
| Autograph. They are always on the
| verge Of millionairedom and are some
| times worried as TO whom they shall
! bequeath their excess of fortune.
| They invest in aerial machines or new
| inventions in perpetual motion. and they
| succeed in what mathematicians think
| impossible. the sQuaring of circle, for
| they do everything on the square and
| win the whole circle of disappointment.
| They are good, honest, brilliant failures.
| They die poor and leave nothing to their
| families but model Of some invention
| that would not work and whole port
| foliOS Of diagrams Of things impossible.
| I cannot help but like them. because
| they are so cheerful with great eXpecta-
| lions. But their children are a bequest
| 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
neeced and Scalped and vivisected by the
! sharpsrs in all styles Of business, and
cheated out of everything between
| cradel and grave and those two excep-
| tions only because they have nothing to
do in buying either of them. Others are
| retained for misfortune by inoDportuOe
| sickness. Just as that lawyer to
| make the plea that would have put him
| among the strong men OF the profess
sion, neuralgia stung him. Just as that
physician was 10 prove his skill in an
| epidemic, his own poor health imprisoned
him. Just as that merchant must be ~
the store for some decisive and intro
! ductory bargain. he sits with a rheu-
| matte joint on a pillow, the room re-
dOie1t with liniment.
What an overwhelming statistic would
be the story Of men and women and chill
| dren impoverished by sicknessesi Then
the cyclones. Then the Mississippi and
! Ohio freShets. Then the stopping Of fac
| tories Then the curCulios among the
| peach trees Then the insectile devasta-
tiOn 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 every
! thing and the droughts that burn up
half a continent Then the orange
| groves die under the white teeth of the
| 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 yell
| low fever at Brunswick and Jackson
| Vile and Shreveport Then the cholera
| at the Narrows. threatening TO land in
! New York. Then the Charleston earth
! quake Then the JOhnstown flood
| Then hurricanes sweeping from Carib-
| bean sea to Newfoundland. Then there
are the great monopolies that sully 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 iniustices are multiplied. In the
! wake Of all these are overwhelming il
! Illustrations Of the truth Of my text, eye
have the poor always with you"
An old Insurance Company.
Remember a fact that no one en-
I phasizes-a fact, nevertheless. upon
which I want to put the weight Of an
| of insuring yourself and your children
and your grandchildren against poverty
! and all other troubles is by helping 9TH
I ers. / am an agent Of the Oldest insur-
| ance company that was ever esta blished
! 1t is near 5000 years old. 1t has tho
/ advantage Of all the other plans OF i'll
| surance-whole life policies, endowment.
! joint life and surviVorshfp policies
ascending and descending scales Of pre-
MUM and tontine, and 1t pays UP while
you live and it pays up after you are
/ dead.
Every cent you give in a Christian
| spirit 70 a poor man or woman every
shoe you give 20 bare foot. every stick
! Of wood or lump Of coal you give to a
! fireless hearth. every drop of medicine
you give to a poor invalid. every star
| Of hope you :nake 10 shine over the I'M
] fortunate maternity. every mitten you
| knit for cold fingers. is a payment on
| the premium of that policy. I hand
about 500 900 900 policies TO all who win
/ go forth and aid the unfortunate There
| are only two or three lines in this policy
! of life insurance-Ps. vii, 1: Blessed is
1 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 Almighty
| is at the head of it, and all the angels
! and its assets are all worlds, and all the
/ charitable of earth and heaven are the
/ beneficiaries. But" says some one,
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