D S SERMON. Should Christians Insure? “Tet him appoint officers over the land and ak up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in he sven iteous years, —Genaosis 41 : 54. Turse were the words of Joseph, the sresident of the first life insurance com- pany that the world ever saw. Pharaoh had a dream that distracted him. He thought he stood on the banks of the civer Nile, and saw coming up out of she river, seven fat, sleek, glossy cows, and they began to browse in the thick azrass, Nothing frightful about that, But after them, coming out of the same river, saw seven cows that were gaunt and starved, and the worst look- ing cows that had ever been seen in the land, and, in ferocity of hunger, they devoured their seven fat predecessors, Pharaoh, the king, sent for Joseph to decipher these he MIDNIGHT HIEROGLYPHICS, Joseph made short work of and intimated that the seven fat it game out of the river are years with plenty to eat, the seven emaciated cows that followed them are seven years with nothing to eat. ‘‘Now,’” said Jes<ph, ‘let ake one-fifth of rorn crop of the seven prosperous years, and keep it as a provisic years in which there crop.’ T Kl yk the counsel Cause of hi it, cows th seven us ti shall be no corn and S Integ- edness, ast i The income as a the towns and cities were branch yptian life insurance com lions of dollars as assets. ] the dark day 8 Came, 13 starv- ave } QUSeS, say e company. the 1x three hur fam ing renin lio b iment (PE To cry out ; t and tl 3s behaved badly, i » for 4 man nd acres of harvest and pot as a man whi steamer iu Alise nere to es He man to support or after he man, who , and God, 1 of those men is the worse? Well, you say the latter. Paul says the form- er. Paul says that a man who neglects to care for his household is more ob- noxious a Seriptures: “He that provideth for his own, and especially those of his own household, is worse than an infi- del.’” Life insurance companies help most of us to provide for our families after we are gone; but, if we have the money to pay the premiums, and do not pay them, we have no right to ex- pect mercy at the hand of God in the Judgment, We are worse thun Tom Paine, and worse than Voltaire. The Bible declares it—we are worse than an infidel After the certificate of death has been made out and thirty or sixty days have passed, and the officer of a life- insurance company comes into the bervit Ba) and pays down the hard cash on an insurance policy, that officer of the company is performing a positively religious rite, according to the Apostle James, who says: ‘True religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this: To visit the father less and the widow in their affliction,” and so on, The religion of Christ pro- poses to take care of the temporal wants of the people as well as the spiritual, When Hezekiah was dying, the injunc- tion came to him: “SET THY HOUSE IN ORDER, for thou shalt die and not live,” That injunction in our day would mean: “Make your will; settle up your ac. counts; make things plain; don’t de- enive your heirs with rolls of worthless amining stock; don’t deceive them with oeds of Western lands that will never Here is another the Seriptures dies, hie is Whie rejects than not yield any crop but chills and fever; don’t leave for them notes that have been outlawed, and second mortgages That is, fix out of the “Set thy house in order.” up things, your going SO as possible. See the lean cattle devour- ing the fat cattle, and in the time of plenty prepare for the time of want, The difficulty is, when men think of it only in connection with ual welfare, and not of DEVASTATION IN FE their spirit. HOI which will come because of their gration from it, It is meaunly for you to be so absorbed in the heaven to which you are going that you forget become of your wife and children after you are dead. You can leaving a YOu the hands of the God them in owns all the h ie flocks; but if you could policy, and them, it is a mean thing for you heaven while they jg i pay neglect K nto the river front into two rooms on the use in are out at thought When they robe heaven will m. splend t1 i thers 1s nouil idren ai y Jambi ne, « the Axminster, and let the mother take a ¢ equi well out ; ' hild in each 4 or into the desert of the world, A would have hindered all that, But says some one, insurance man of pay sometimes “I1ama the premium.’ That lawful and A GENUINE EXCUSE, and there is no answer to it; but in nine cases out of ten, when a man says that, he smokes up in cigars, and down in wine, and expends in luxuries enough money to have paid the premi- um on a life insurance policy which would have kept his family from beg- A man ought is You have no right to the luxuries until you have made such pro- vision. I admire what was said by Rev. Dr, Guthrie, the great Scottish preacher, A few years before his death he stood in a public meeting and declared: “When I came to Edinburgh, the peo- ple sometimes laughed at my Phos stockings, and at my cotton umbrelia, and they said I looked like a common ploughman,and they derided me because Ilivelin a house for which I paid thirty-five pounds rent a year, and oftentimes 1 walked when I would have been very glad to have a cab; but, gen- tlemen, I did all that because I wanted to pay the premium on a life insurance that would keep my family comfortable if I should die.”” That I take to be the right expression of an honest, intelli- gent, Christian man, The utter indifference of many people on this important subject accounts for much of the CRIMI day, the { broom and begging of g0 by? Who under the Ah! they are in many of the of parents and grandparents might have | prohibited it, God only Low | they struggled to do right, They prayed until the froze their cheeks ; | they sewed on the sack until the break { ing of the day; but they could not enough Lo pay rent 3 they could not get enough money to decently clothe themselves ; and one day, in that | wretched home, the angel of purity and | the angel of crime fought a great | between the empty bread-tray and i fireless hearth, and black 1 angel shricked : * a! I have the AND PAUPERISM Who Cros of this Sweeping those with vou i are thes gaslights, in thi the vietims o cases the foreca are broken penn lost INES | you gliding shawls? want ; knows tears on get money the 2» day I? NAYS S( man, ‘I believe ne i and Chg ¢ t right Some Lime My { 1i¢ friend, » rt { ire Of n earth of we hla a matter not the into vour otlics You adverti lithography of vour that you are mortal. According own showing the chances t Your period- | claim give v icals, your t SONeNnLs, tO your hat you | die this vear are at least two per cent. exigency? The most condemned man pared life insurance man, for the simple nected with human exit, and he cannot {say : ““I did not think.” His whole business was to think on that one thing. O, my brother get MEURED FOR ETERNITY. In consideration of what Christ has done in your behalf, have the indenture this day made out, signed and sealed with the red seal of the cross, But I have words of encouragement and eomfort for those of my hearers who are engaged in THE FIRE INSURANCE BUSINESS, You are ordained by God to stand be- tween us and the most raging element of nature, Weare indebted to you for what the National Board of Underwriters and the Convention of Chiefs of the Fire De- partment have effected through your suggestions, and through your encour- agement, We are indebted to you for what you have effected in the construc- tion of buildings, and in the change in the habits of our cities; so that by scien. tifie principles orderly companies extin- guishs tue fire, instead of the old-time which used to extinguish the citi- indebted to you for thie for the against mcen- the fatal blow heory that eon repeal of unjust laws you have ware and arson to the ouls, by the cheerful- and promptitude with ws, from which you might have escaped through the ted hinicality of 1 for Yori have given met los I do not of men in our worthy of and vet 1 while your yealeulate about le you might into th ya . Oil, 11 Ol know any class more high-toned than these { sometimes feared 1 nidst and et, nat t 588 fie ent thought lance, might be called haz ‘ ial ard pecia the and xplosiv 3 Lik Hov i, though to you cannot sin il lyeerine, v1 i LOW the world insolvent, Disinfect wl effects ! » i method to prove beneficial, and halat on of large quantities of fresh pure worth m than any dis- the lungs, and can do no the go 4 One i818 ne infectant for harm, EE Money by the Barreiful Caligula spent for one supper $400,- Heliogabalus spent for one meal Apicicius expended in debauchery $2,500,000, Messala gave $200,000 for the house of Antony. Lentulus, the soothsayer, had a for- tune of $17,500,000, The philosopher Seneca had a for- tune of $12,600,000, Cmsar, before he entered upon any of- fice, owed $14,975,000, Tiberius at his death left $118,125, 000, which Caligula spent in less than ten months, Cleopatra, at an entertainment, gave Antony, dissolved in vinegar, who swal- lowed it, a pearl worth $40,000, Crosus possessed in landed property a fortune equal to $8,000,000, Lesides a large sum of money, slaves and furni- ture, Antony owed $1,500,000 at the ides of March, paid it before the kalends of April and squandered $147,000,000 of the public money. The brightar the light that casts them, the darker will be the shadows, SUNDAY SCHOOL, LESSON, BUXDA ¥, Atl aueET 28, 1847. Plety Withont Display. LESSON TEXT. Matt, 0: 1-15. Memory verses, 7-159 LESSON PL. Toric or THE QUART King tn Zion, GOLDEN TEXT FOR THE QUARTER: Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.~— Psa. 2; 0, Jesus the Lesson Toric: £0 . mtncerily, Royal (1. Unostentatious Benefleenoe, va, 1-4 2. Kincere Pray (3. Buitabie Prayer, DEN Text: Man looketh on the outward « ppearance, but the Lord looketh 16: 1. Lesson VR Outline va (+01 the heart. 1 DAILY Home READING gt An Inducement ntatious Prayer ‘ 4 11. Secret Prayer t y rewarder 2) The rewards of praver ; (2 Inducements prayel prayer : (1 honors, I. (rod hears; SUITABLE PRAYER. In praying use not vain repititions (7). called from morning even until noon,. QO, Baal, hear us (2 Kings 18 : 26), Prov. 10: 19). therefore let thy words be few (Eccl. 5: ...about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana (Acts 19: 34). 11. Observing Christ's Models: After this manner therefore pray ye (9). He. ...fell on the ground, and prayed (Mark 14 : 35). He said unto them, When ye pray, say—- (Luke 11: 2), He spake. . . .to the end that they ought always to pray (Luke 18: 1). Having been heard for his godly fear (Heb. 6: 7). IL Exercising Trae Forgiveness: If ye forgive not... .neither will your Father forgive (15). Blessed are the merciful : for they shall obtain mercy (Matt 5: 7). So....if ye forgive not every one his brother (Matt 18 : 35). Whensoever ye stand praying, forgive (Mark 11 : 20), Judgment is without mercy to him that hath showed no mercy (Jas, 2: 13). not transgression a3 “le 1. “Your Father knoweth what t ve have need of, 1) What kuows of man ; (2) What of Cron, } Human dependence, “After thi A model (2) In ns fred Wi nieealy (1) Divine knowledge 5h » LF i MARRIAGES Siberian Castoms--—-What Mme. Gres ville Says. i ng juagmen ‘marrying his wife in their ps n her mask :"’ and an 1 he was marryed {es h wowe outle altar and bourne,’ A third was punished for about lichts SIE ON ad igh ‘4 - woe no “not treat- and an- and slandering his neighbours.” A woman was dealt with for “comyng to be churched without kercher, midwife, or not ‘‘as other honest Madame Greville tells us that in tussia women are not regarded as the “The peasant,’”’ she harvest, to work like a beast of burden, This would be comparatively nothing if they were well treated and Joved.' Their husbands do love them, but in a peculiar fashion, For the first two or, three days after the wedding, things go on very well, that is, while the families does not beat her, she thinks it is be cause he does not love her.” In support of this Madame Greville, quotes the following instance : *‘Onoe,’ when I was there, a girl who had been’ married only ten days, came to me with | her mother and begged me to use my influence with the newly-made husband. They wanted me to make him beat girl, according to her situation as’ a wife. It was a long time before I uf.) derstood the reason. I discovered that: it was founded on jealousy. If a y, band is not jealous, he does not DEAS his wife; and If he is not jealous," he does not love her,” i
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