Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-19

work and whole portfolios Of diagrams
Of things impossible. | cannot help
but like them, because they are cheerful
with great expectations, But their children
are bequest tc the bureau Of city charities
Others administer to the crop of the worlds
misfortune By being too unsuspecting.
Honest themselves. they believe all others
are honest. They are feeced and scalped
and vivisected by the sharpers in all styles
Of business and cheated out OF everything
between cradle and grave, and those two
exceptions only because they have nothing
70 do in buying either of them. Others are
retained for misfortune by inopportune
sickness. Just as that lawyer was to mako
the plea that would have put him among
the strong men of the profession; neu-
ralgia stung him. Just as that physi-
clan was to prove his skill IN an epi-
denic, his own poor health imprisoned him.
Just as that merchant must be at the store
for some decisive and Introductory bargain,
he sits with rheumatic joint on a pillow,
the room redolent with liniment. What an
overwhelming statistic would be the story of
men and women and children Impoverished
by sicknesses Then the cyclones. Then
the Mississippi and Ohio freshets. Then the
stopping of the factories. Then the curcuiOs
among the peach trees. Then the insectile
devastation of potato patches and wheat
fields. Then the epizootics among the
horses, and the hollow horn among tho
herds Then the rains that drown out
everything, and the droughts that burn
up half a 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,
which all strike labor harder than they strike
capital. Then the yellow fever at Brunswick
and Jacksonville and Shreveport. Then the
cholera at the NarroWs, threatening to land
at New York. Then the Charleston earth
quake. Then the Johnstown flood. Then
hurricanes sweeping from Caribbean Sea to
Newfoundland. Then there are the great
monOpOIies that guliey the earth with their
expressions. Then there are the necessities
of buying coal by the scuttle instead of the
ton, and flour by the pound instead of the
barrel and so the in justices are multiplied.
In the wake of all these are Overwhelming
illustrations of the truth of my text, 'Ye
have the poor always with you"
Remember fact that no one emphasizes
a fact, nevertheless, upon which [ want to
put the weight OF eternity of tonnage
that the best way of insuring yourself and
your children and your grandchildren
against poverty and all other troubles is by
helping others. | am an agent of the oldest
insurance company that was ever established.
1t is nearly 5000 years old. It 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 a poor man or woman, every
shoe you give to Il barefoot, every stick of
wood or lump of coal you give TO a flrelesS
hearth, every drop of medicine you give to q
poor invalid, every star of hope you make to
shine over unfortunate maternity, every
mitten you knit for cold fingers, is q pay
ment on the premium of that policy. Inland
about 500, 600, 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, l. ''BIessed is 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 of heaven are
In its board of direction, and its assets ar"
all worlds, and all the charitable of earth and
heaven are the benefciaries. But says
some one. 81 do not like u tontine policy SO
well, and that which you offer is more like q
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-
-commOdated. That will be given you in the
day of Judgment and will bc 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 pre-
MUM of that lite insurance policy. l read
you a paragraph ofthat policy: ''Then shall
the King say unto them His right hand,
Come, ye blessed of My Father for l was
hungered, and We gave Me meat Il was thirs-
ty, and ye gave Ne drink 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
cross. Blessed be God, that is a paid up
arr.
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 ffe insurance
companies will all go down. and
the life Insurance. companies will
all go down. In the last great earthquake
all the cities will be proStrateI, and as Il
consequence all banks will forever suspend
payment. In the last condagration the fire
insurance companies Of the earth will fail.
for how could they make appraisement
of tho loss on a universal fire? Then
all the inhabitants of the round world
will surrender their mortal existence
and how could life insurance companies
pay for depOpulated hemispheres? But
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 it
down like wOrnOut uphOstery-thc last sun
Set Toss it from Gods finger like q dew
drop from the anther of water ily-the
ocean Scatter them like thistledown before
a schoolboy's breath-the world h.! They will
not disturb the Omnipotence. or the com
posure, 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 VINO havo
been helpful to the down-trodden. and the
cold and the hungry, and the hOuseless, and
the lost, ''Inasmuth rs ye did 1t to them, ye
did to Me-