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 What
Sam Jones
  Says


" God Helps Them Who
Help Themselves."

     A Few Plain Words to Men of Family
                 by the
        REV.SAM JONES,
            of Cartersville,GA
IT IS the part of the wise and sensible
    man to look ahead and to arrange
ahead.   Whatever of Providence there
is in God, His creatures may adopt as a
part of their creed and a part of their
life.   God looks ahead and arranges ahead.
I have often thought of humanity in this
connection.  I have had my heart touched
by scenes I have witnessed.  I have found
widows and orphans in destitution. Does
God provide for those who love and serve
him? Tes, God has rained down manna
to the children of Israel in the past; God
made the ravens take bread  to Elijah,
and we find instances where (HG has fed
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physical man out of his hand.  I believe
that while the lilies bloom and the ravens
are fed, our bread rihall be given us and
our water be sure. We should lay by the
harvest while the sun shines.  It is well
to have the luxuries and comforts of life
while we live, but we may soon die, and
then What becomes of those whom we
love, who are dependent upom us when we
are dead and gone?  It is your business
to care for your family in life, and it is
also. If It is in your power, your business
to look after them after you are dead and
gone.
 I believe in this as strongly as I believe
that I stand here.
 Is it not well that the pale wife who
has watched you and yo'ur children In
sickness and in hea-lth, and who seals with
her white and tender hands your eyes in
death, should be provided for after you
have passed away? It is absolutely in
your power to prevent suffering and it
is your duty to do it.  You must prepare
a competency for your wife and children
after you nre gone.
 Providence sometimes provides directly,
but more often it puts us in such relations
to things that we may provide for our-
selves.  He who can provide for himself
and his home and will not do it Is like:
the fellow that would not plow by reason
of the clouds.  He must beg his bread in
harvest time.  Widows and orphans are
many. A man's hig-hest ambition in life,
next to the salvation of the soul, should
be  to  provide  for  those  whom  God
has committed to him, not only while he
lives,  but  after  his  arm,  which  has  so
faithfully labored for his loved ones, has
been paralyzed in death.
 I believe life insurance is a providence
that no man can ignore.  I believe that
every man that has a family ought to
carry a policy commensurate  with  his
ability  to pay  the  premium.  He  may
thereby lose some luxury while he lives,
but will provide for loved ones after he is
dead.
 Life insurance is but an Investment in
the interest of widows and orphans.  So
I feel and so I practice.  There ia no more
cruel thing for a man to do than to leave
his family on charity.