Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1903-12-10

face OF the earth
You pay your State taxes and your mu-
nicipal Iaxes, and that is right Render
therefore unto Caesar the things that are
Caesars, 2 but do not forget to render s'unto
God the things that are God s = For behind
governments and States and municipalities
and behind prosperity and victory and
peace, and behind the splendid results Of a
Christian civilization, is God to whom
should be given The praise Of the glory.
Item 4. place before You bill for in
surance If you are wise man you place
insurance among your necessary expenses.
Yon have your buildings insured you have
taken out policies you have made a
friend of the mammon of unrighteousness,
at least to that extent-so that if fire turns
you out of your home, you will not be all
together homeless. But want to tell you
that you are living under an actual system
Of insurance, that costs you nothing in
dollars and cents, such as no earthly cor
poration could give DO you not remember
/ that policy of insurance that God issued to
Noah after the floods. "While the earth
remaineth, seed time and harvest shall not
fail, and cold and heat aud Summer and
Winter and day and night shall not cease?'
That policy has been in force from that day
to this, and will continue until the end Of
time. You have paid no premiums on if,
and yet you have been gathering in its
dividends, year by year and day by day,
through all your life On the strength Of
it, the farmer plows and sows in conf
dence. The plans Of business and Of pleas
ure rest upon it. 1t lies at the base Of all
the worlds industry and expectation and
progress Your fortune has been made,
your schemes have succeeded because that
policy which God issued out Of heaven is
in force
Listen to another policy of Insurance.
which God has issued especially to and for
his own children: when chou passest
through the waters I will be with thee, and
through the rivers, they shall not over
flow thee. When thou walkest through
the ere, thou shalt not be burned, neither
shalt the flame kindle upon thee, = insurance
against fire and flood, which is better than
any human corporation that know Of,
will do for you, II have no doubt that many
you can recall experiences that have been
like passing through water deep and cold,
or to take figure the extreme Of that,
like being put into furnace Of fire, but
you have kept your feet, you have not
been swept away, and in the furnace, You
found one like unto the Son Of God, who
stood BY you and kept you from being
consumed.
God insnres his people against harm,
against evil, against the fear Of death--he
insures grace for every need, and thousands
upon thousands could rise up and testify
that God has made these assurances good
How much owest thou unto my Lord. for
this Incompatible insurance Every prom
ise Of Gods word is an effective policy Of
insurance. When he says: ssAll things
work together for good be insures against
doubt. When he says: What ] do thou
knowest not now, but thou shalt know
hereafter, = be insures against hope essness.
When he says: Come unto me all We that
labor, and are heavy laden, and will give
/ you rest, he insnres against the agony Of
a broken heart. Where but from God,
/ eonId Won gef sueh ii. .urance as that. and