Fraternity-Testvériség, 1968 (46. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1968-12-01 / 12. szám

until then, he will face a critical situation, unless he has planned to meet it.

And for a wife and mother, any age may be the Danger Age. For on any day disaster may strike. Any evening may be that evening when a tragic call comes from the hospital.

And those Danger Age days may bring the end of Happiness for many years—when many Christmastimes will be shorn of pleasure. Of course, men and women know these things. But fathers and mothers don’t like to think about them. There arc so many more pleasant thoughts to fill their minds.

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"Have you provided for the first Christmas after?

One highly successful life underwriter for years wrote a large volume of life insurance each December with that simple, hut powerful, approach. Hardly any sentence of eight words could be more emotional.

Such a question immediately challenges a father's love for his wife and children. It shocks him. For these words force him to visualize quickly and keenly that the day may come—as it has already come to so many— when there will he an empty chair at the head of his own Christmas dinner table.

Maybe nothing more can he done than to provide a small policy, to be held in trust, with the interest payable each Christmastime. But these small policies count up! And with the door so opened, any underwriter deserving the name, can follow through to better business later on.

And think of what Happiness the interest on even a $2,000 or $3,000 policy can guarantee to a home on Christmas eve!

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As one considers the hundreds of millions of life insurance in force now, he wonders what Christmas would mean were it not for the life underwriters.

Without their accomplishments, all the things we have said about Kindness, Tenderness, Forgiveness and Love, would he as hut “sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal.” Those words would have little meaning in millions of homes today. And the New Year would bring only more of the same weary steps on a treadmill of work and worry.

As one tries to imagine the tremendous influence of life insurance through the years, lie is overcome with wonder and awe. Not only are thousands upon thousands of homes saved and a mother’s care maintained, hut thousands of children are finishing high school and going on to college on life insurance funds. Not only are thousands of men and women enjoying their well-earned comforts of old age, hut businesses are being preserved, employees protected on their jobs, and business associates made secure in their future, and happy in their relations with each other.

All these benefits. Yet, all this is only a beginning!

Of all workers—business, agriculture, professional none should be happier and prouder in their service to humanity, than the life underwriter. For:

He leads men and women into lives of unselfishness.

He directs them into habits of thrift and future financial solvency.

He guarantees their future contentment and independence and joy.

He helps, in large measure, to build harmony and compatibility along the precarious pathway of Love.

Through all these years, surely he has made the world a better living place for mankind. He is laying the foundation for the coming of the. fabled Millenium.

Right now—today!—he is making certain there will he real Merry Christmases in homes where without his work we eould hear the sobs of little children.

He is, in truth, the modern embodiment of the most lovable character in all fiction—Mr. Santa Claus, himself!

THE BIRTH OF CHRIST

St. Luke 2

2 and it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cs'-sar Äü-güs'-tüs, that all the world should be taxed.

2 (And this taxing was first made when Cy- re'-ni-üs was governor of Syr'-i-ä.)

3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

4 And Jö'-séph also went up from Gäl'-i- léh, out of the city of Näz'-ä-reth, into JŰ- däs'-ä, unto the city of Dä'-vid, which is called Béth'-Ie-hém; (because he was of the house and lineage of Dä'-vid:)

5 To be taxed with Mär'-y his espoused wife, being great with child.

6 And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.

7 And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.

9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.

11 For unto you is bom this day in the city of Dä'-vid a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.

12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,

14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

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