| Show BEING BURNED UP OUR dispatches tell us that the fire underwriters in the east have become afraid of the ravages of the f nire fire ire lre fiend and seriously propose to decline insurance risks in boston this is very suggestive if the bostonians are to be left loft to themselves and fiery torments even in this life what fate can they expect iu in the land of the great hereafter if there is to be a great gulf established between them in their hour of fiery experience and adequate bellef in this world surely they will begin 0 to believe in n the possibility if n not ot probability of ofa a still greater and less passable gulf between them and help helps should they ther nind find themselves in the next world in a place plade whence they would lift up their eyes oyes es b being e ng in torment etc read bead ech parables B but this h 1 fire question and the seriousness rious ness thereof are no parable A new york paper papel takes up the subject J ec t not with reference to boston merely but in a general view and bilks talks in this style judging Jud gina by tho the large number bf fit fires tires oc arring daily in all sections of the country the day ot of a general conflagration of the tl globe obeso so long anticipated mastbe must be neamat hand and insurance companies are already struck with unutterable dread tearing fearing the final sitting of affairs which may decimate their numbers As forthe for the people peoples they have long ago ceased to put their trust in superintendents ot of buildings and tire fire departments now they take up the pa papers ers with simple curiosity to trace the marc march of the 11 a me shaving made up their minds that the tho alre n re must be a home homo visitor sooner or later once they felt some interest la in the promise to make malre salt water available for their safety but now they are content to trust to luck this is really a sad condition and brings rings to mind the oft quoted prophecy ghery that the earth shall ishall be burned up the papers say it is burning and the people are getting rather afraid of this fact tact or rather seem to be bein begin in to think it a matter of course with no help heip for it we have little advice to give in the matter further than if the people wish to escape these fiery torments they must believe in hi the lord jesus C christ h is t repent of their heir sins be baptized for the remission 0 of f them receive the holy hols ghost and live godly lives and then they would not fear fire in this thia world oi or that which is to come and they would find no difficulty in effecting an any y insurance that might ml 9 lit be desirable |
