Then there are the great monopolies that
I gulley the earth with their oppressions,
j 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 injustices are multiplied. In the
wake of all these are overwhelming illus
trations of the truth of my text: “Ye have
the poor always with you.”
Remember a fact that no one emphasizes,
a fact, nevertheless, upon which I want to
put the weight ot’ an 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. I am an agent of the
oldest insurance company that was ever
establshed. It is near 3,000 years old. It has
the advantage of all the other plans of
insurance; whole life policy, endow
ment, joint lite and survivorship policies,
ascending and descending scales of
premium, and tontine, and it pays up while
you live and it pays up after you are dead.
Every cent you give in a Christian spirit
to a poor man or woman, every shoe you
give to a barefoot, every stick of wood or
I lump of coal you give to a fireless hearth,
j every drop of medicine you give to a. poor
{ invalid, every star of hope you make to
■ shine over unfortunate maternity, every
! mitten you knit for cold fingers, is a pay
. ment on the premium of that policy. I hand
i about five hundred million policies to all
■ who will go forth and aid the unfortunate.
