Democratic messenger., 1894-01-06

get out of the investment is the aforesaid
illuminated lithograph. They are al
ways ON the verge of millionairctl0m
and are sometimes worried as TO whom
they shall Eequeath their excess of for
tune. They invest in aerial machines
or new inventions i'm perpetual motion,
and they succeed in what mathemati-
clans think impossible. the squaring Of
a circle, for they do everything on tho
square and win the whole circle of dis
appointment. 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 portfolios of diagrams
of things impossible. rannot help
but like them, because they are 80
cheerful with great expectations. But
their children are bequcst to the hu-
reau of city charities. Others admin
lister To the crop of the worlds misfur-
tune by being too unsuspecting. Honest
themselves, they believe all others are
honest. They are feeced and scalped
and vivisected by the sharpers i'll all
styles of business and cheated ont of
everything between cradle and grave.
and those two exceptions only because
they have nothing 10 do in buying
either IF them. others are retained for
misfortune By inopporiune sickness.
Just as that lawyer was tn make the
plea that would have put him among
the strong men of the profession, neu-
ralgia stung him. Just as that physi-
clan was tn prove his skill in an epi-
demic, his own poor health imprisoned
him. Just as that merchant must I've
at the store for some decisive and intro
ductory bargain. he sits with rheu-
matte joint ON n pillow, the loom redol-
ent with liniment. What an over
whelming statistic would he the story
of men and women and children i'm
pOverished by sicknesses! Then the cy-
clones. Then the Mississippi and Ohio
freshets. Then the stopping of tho
factories. Then the curculios 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 dronghts that burn
mp half continent Then the orange
groves die under the white teeth of
the hoar frost Then the coal strikes,
and the iron strikes. and the mo
chanics' 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 Earrows. threatening
to land in New York. Then the Charles
ton earthquake. Then the Johnstown
food. Then hurricanes sweeping from
Caribbean sea to Newfoundland. Then
there are the great monopolies that gull
ley 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 injusticcs are mutt
piled. In the wake of all these are over
whelming illustrations Of the truth If
my text, "Ye have the poor always
with YOU"
CELESTIAL INSURANCE.
Remember fact that no one einpha-
sizes a fact. nevertheless. upon which
I want to put the weight If an eternity
of tonnage-that the hest way of insur-
ing v ~urself 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. II
is near 5000 years old. II has the ad-
vantage of all the other plans of insur-
ance whole life policy, endowment,
800,
ascending and descending scales of pre-
mium and tontine-and il pays mp while
you live and it pays up after you are
dead. Every cent you give IN Chris
tian spirit tn a poor man or woman, ev-
cry shoe you give to a barefoot. every
stick of wood or lump of coal you give
to a fireless hearth, every drop of med
icine you give to poor invalid. every
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. 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. /.
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 beneficiaries. But.
says some one. 81 do not like tontIne
policy so well, and that which you
chiey paid i'm 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 he ac-
commodated. That will he given YOU
in the day If Judgment and will he
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
insuI ance policy. 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 l
was hungered. and We gave me meat;
was thirsty. and ye gave me drink;
was stranger. and We took me in:
naked and We clothed me.
In various colors of ink other life iu-
surance policies are written. This one
have just shown You is written in only
one kind cf ink, and that red ink, the
blood nf the cross. Blessed he God, that
is paid up policy. paid for by the
pangs of the Son of God. and all we
add to il in the way of our own good
deeds will augment the sum of eternal
felicitics. Yes. the time will come
when the hanks of largest capital stock
will all go down, and the fire insurance
companies will all go down, and