Fraternity-Testvériség, 1959 (37. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1959-12-01 / 12. szám

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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF HUNGARIAN REF. FEDERATION OF AMERICA

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Volume XXXVII DECEMBER 1959 Number 12

DR. J. E. HUGHSON:

ADVICE TO A YOUNG MAN

TEXT OF AN ACTUAL SERMON GIVEN AND BROADCAST IN GLASGOW, GREAT BRITAIN

I am not an insurance agent, but there are things I feel I ought to say about insurance. Every time a young man comes before me at the marriage altar, I feel like telling him that he ought to give his bride a substantial insurance policy.

You have no right to take a girl from a position where she may be earning her own living and tie her down to a family that would make it difficult for her to earn a livelihood again — unless you can give her some protection and security if anything should happen to you. Before you buy her a car you will need insurance all the more in these days of highway fatalities. Get her a policy before you get her a piano. Put first things first, then let the other things come along as you can afford them.

There are two exigencies of life that should be met by every man to the limit of his ability. One is the protection of his wife and family, if he should die. The other is financial protection for his old age, if he should live. Modern life insurance provides for these exigencies with its death claims and its annuity programs. In your weekly or monthly budget you can put in a few shillings for insurance as one of the necessities of life, just as you save something for the coal bill or the winter overcoat. A bit of foresight, a bit of planning will do it; and money that would have gone for something we could do without will have been saved for this supreme necessity.

I know why I urge you this. It is my duty as a minister to stand by the flower-decked altar and the flower-covered coffin; to play my part in setting up the home in the hour when it is broken. In the days that follow X see the difference between the widowed mother who is left penniless and the mother who is helped through the hardest years by the proceeds of an insurance policy; between the home where the