Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-01-24

street. BY the time tne WIG gets tno
husband buried, she is In debt to the under
taker and gravedigger for that which she
can never pay While the man lived he had
his wine parties and fairly stunk with
tobacco, and then expired, leaving his family
upon the charities of the world. Do not
send for me to come and conduct the
obsequies and read over such a carcass the
beautiful litugy, "Blessei are the dead who
die in the Lord" for, instead of that, l will
turn over the leaves of the Bible to 1
Timothy ". 1S, where it says: III any pro-
vide not for his own, and especially for
tnoss OF his own house, he hath denied the
faith, and Ia worse than an infidel," or will
turn to Jeremiah xii, 10. where it says,
f'He shall be buried with the burial of an
ass, drawn anl cast forth beyond the gates
Of Jerusalem"
/ cannot imagine any moro Unfair or
fneaner thing than for a man to get his sins
pardoned at the last minute, and then go to
heaven, and live in a mansion, and so riding
about in n golden chariot over the golden
streets, while his wife and children, whom
ne might have provided for, are begging for
cold v!ctuals at the basement door OF an
earthly city. Ii seems to me there ought to
be a poorhouse somewhere on the outskirts
OF heaven, where those guilty of such i'm
providence should be kept for awhile on thin
souD anil gristIe instead of sitting down at
the Kings banquet. 1t is said that the church
is a divine institution. and believe it. Just
life Insurance companies divine institutions.
As out OF evil good often comes so out OF the
doct rne OF probabilities, calculated by Profes
sOr HUH and Pro eSsor Pascal for games OF
chance, came the calculations of the prOba-
bilities of human life as used by life insur-
ance companies and no business on earth is
more stable or honorable, and no mightieI
mercy for the human race has been born since
Christ was born. Bored beyond endurance
for my signature TO papers OF all sorts, there
IS one style of paper that always sign witt
a feeling OF gladness and triumph, and that
is paper which the life insurance company
requires from the clergyman after deceasi
in his congregation, in order to the payment
of the policy to the bereft household. l al
WAYS write my name then so they can read
ii. L cannot help but say TO myself
"Goot for that man to have looked
after his wife and children after
earthly departure. May he have one OF the
best seats in heavenr Young man! The
day before or the day after you get married.
20 70 life insurance company OF establishei
reputation and get the medical examiner To-
put the stethoscope to your lungs and his ear
close up to your heart with your vest of, anl
have signed, sealed and delivered to you a
10 .ument that will, in the case OF your sud
den departur make for that lovely girl the
difference between a queen and pauper.
have known men who have had an in
come Of $4,000. $4,000, $4,000 year, who did
household. Now, that mans death is a de-
f..ication, an outrage, "A swindle. He did not
lie he absconded. There are 100. 900 people
N America to-day a-hungered through tle
I,n O. Improyidence. 'But, say some. ''mv
ncome IS so small I cannot afford to pay the
premium on a life insurance" Are you sur
lrnut that? II you are sure, then You hayS
9 r!,.ht to depend on the promise in Jeremial
* IL, Leave thy father.ess children. I
wJli preserve them alive, AMI let thy WHO "
rust in Me-" But if you are able 10, ranem-
,er you have no right to ask God TO do for
your household that which you can do Tor
them yourself.
For the benefit OF those yo1l- men ex"uSe
/ practical personality. Beginning my iiIe'-
WORK on the munifcent salary OF $500 a year
ant q parsonage, AMI when the call wt-
paced In my hands dil not know now in
the world I would ever be able 10 spen tnaJ
amount of money. and l remember in iu,g-
ing in q devout wish that might not DO lei
into worldliness and prodigality by surb an
overplus OF resources, and at tinc wl"n
articles OF food and clothing were higher
than they are now, 1 felt it a religious duty
to get my life insured, and 1 presented my
self at an office OF one OF the great cOmpIu
les. and 1 stood pale and nervous lest tn"
medical examiner might have to GeclGr-
that I had consumption ami hear
disease and a half dozen mortal all
ments, hut when l got the document.
=
of maniness and confidence ami quietuie
and reinforcement, which is n cool thing
FOR any young man TO have. For the lack
that feeling there are thousands OF men to-
day in Greenwood and Laurel HI! an
Mount Auburn who might as well have been
alive and well and supporting their families
they got little sick, and they were so wor-
ried about what would become oftheir house
holds in case of their demise that their
aStations overcame the skill of the physi
CLANS, and they died for fear of dyinr. J
have for many years been such an ardent
advocate of life insurance. and my sermon
on THE Crime of Not InsurinS' has been
20 long used on bots sides Of the sea by
the chief life insurance companies tha
some people have supposed that l receveD
monetary compensation for what have sgic
and written. Not penny | will give am
man 800 for every pensy l have receive.
from any life insurance company. What !
have said and written on the subject has r.
suited from the conviction that these ihsti-
tutions are benediction to the human race.
But, alas, for the widespread imprOvi !cncs
You are now in your charities helping TO
support the families of men who hal more
income than you now have, and you can de-
pend on the imprOyiience OF many for th'
tnth OF my text in all times and in al
places. "Ie have the poor always vat
you"
Another fact that you may depend upon for
to achieve a livelihood You can 90 through
any community and find cool people VT
more than usual mental caliber, VINO nev'r
have been able to support themselves an
their households. They are a mystery to Us,
and we say, II do not know what is the
matter of them, but there is a screw loOs,
somewhere" Some of these persons have
more brain than thousands who make
splendid success. Some are too sanguine Oi
temperament, and they see barxlins whers
there are none: A common lninu"N
Is to them a gold fish, and a quail flI.
mingo. and q blind mule on towpath Bu-
.cp Aus. They huv when things are high
,st ana sell whe, things arc lowest. Some
one tells them OF city lots ont West, whe-s
iho foundation Of the first house has not yet
oeen laid. They say, "What an oppo-.un-
ty - and they put down the hard cash for
m ornamented deed for ten lots under
water. They hear OF a new silver mine
opened in Nevada, and they say "What q
rhancer and they take the little money
hoy have in the Swings bank and pay
out for as beautiful certih-
ate OF mining stock as was ever printed
nd the only thing they will ever get out OF
he investment is the aforesaid Illuminated
thoCraph. They are always on the verge
u milhonairedom and are sometimes worried
Is to whom they shall bequeaUh their excess
IF fortune. They invest in aerial machines
pr new inventions in perpetual motion, and
impossible, the squaring of n circle for they
10 everything on the square and win the
whole circle ot disappointment. They are
good honest, brilliant failures. They die
ooor, and leave nothing to their families but
model OF some invention that would not
york and whole portfolios of diagrams
,ut like them, because they are so cheerful
With great expectations. But their children
ire bequest 10 the bureau of city charities.
others administer TO the crop of the worlds
Misfortune by being too unsuspecting.
Honest themselves. they believe all others
Irs honest. They are fie.ced and scalped
md vivisected by the sharpers in all styles
u business and cheated out OF everything
between cradle and grave, and those two
exceptions only because they have nothing
do in buying either of them. Others are
retained for misfortune by inopportune
dckness. Just as that lawyer was to make
he plea that would have put him among
he strong men of the profession, neu-
:algis stung him. Just as that physi-
:ian was to prove his skill in an epi-
iernic, his own poor health imp1isonef him.