The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-01-12

other troubles is by helping others.
am IN agent of the oldest insurance
company that was ever established II
Ia near 5000 years old. 1t 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 Il poor man or woman, ev-
cry shoe you give to barefoot, every
stick of wood or lump of coal you give
to fireless hearth, every drop of med
iclne you give to poor invalid, ever
star Of hope you make to shine over
unfortunate maternity, every mitten
you knit for cold fingers, is payment
ON the premium of that policy. 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 tho 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
heaven are the benefciaries. But,
says some one. II do not like tont,ne
policy so we'll, and that which you
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 ac-
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 ON the premium of that life
insurance policy. l 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 me meat; l
was thirsty, and We gave me drink;
was stranger, and ye took me in;
naked and we clothed me.
In various colors of ink other life in
surance 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 cross. Blessed be God, that
is paid up policy, paid for by the
bangs 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
eelicities. 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 20 down. In the last great
earthquake all the cities will be
Frustrated, and as 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
ell the inhabitants of the round world
will surrender their mortal existence,
and how could life insurance compa-
MES pay for depopulated hemispheres?
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
1t down like wornout upholstery the
last sunset! Toss it from Gods finger
like dewdrop from the anther Of a
water lily-the ocean! Scatter them
like thistledown before a schoolboy's
breath--the worlds! That will not dis
turb the omnipotence. or the compesure,
or the sympathy, or the love of that
Christ who said it once on earth, and
will say it again in heaven to all those
who have been helpful to the down
trodden, and the cold, and the hungry,
and the houseless, and the lost, "Inas-
much as ye did it to them, We did to
meu'