William Penn, 1957 (40. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1957-10-02 / 10. szám
PAGE 4 October lö, 1957 William Penn GM%(úzm Journal of the William Penn Fraternal Association OFFICE OF PUBLICATION 7907 West Jefferson Ave. Detroit 17, Michigan PUBLISHED SEMIMONTHLY BY THE William Penn Fraternal Association Managing Editor: COLOMAN RÉVÉSZ Editors: JOHN SABO and ALBERT J. STELKOVICS Editor’s Office: 43Ő—442 FOURTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH 19, PA. Telephone: COurt 1-3454 or 1-3455 All articles and changes of address should be sent to the WILLIAM PENN FRATERNAL ASSOCIATION 436—442 FOURTH AVENUE, PITTSBURGH 19, PA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: United States and Canada ................................................ $1.00 > year Foreign Countries ................................................................... $1.50 a year Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Detroit, Michigan under the Act of March 3, 1879. UNITED FUND The United Fund of Allegheny County was founded last year by the people of Allegheny County for the people of Allegheny County and is dependent upon you for its support and existence. Prior to last year’s initial UF campaign, we were continually beng asked to give to many worthwhile causes — sometimes more frequently than once a month. But the United Fund has eliminated this. It combined all the worthwhile fund raising organizations into one major campaign whereby we are asked to give but once — and only once — each year. Your support of the United Fund in 1956. in which tbe goal of $8,875,469 was far exceeded, proved that you are in favor of giving the united way. The United Fund eliminated seven separate campaigns last year and, with the acceptance of four new UF agencies and three new Community Chest agencies, your one annual gift will eliminate 14 different fund drives in 1957. The seven original United Fund agencies are The Community Chest of Allegheny County; American Red Cross, Pittsburgh Chapter; The Salvation Army; United Service Organizations (USO); Western Pennsylvania Multiple Sclerosis Society, Incorporated; Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, Western Pennsylvania Chapter; and the United Cerebral Palsy Association of the Pittsburgh District. New UF agencies are the National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation, Pittsburgh Chapter; Pittsburgh Chapter of the National Hemophilia Foundation; American Social Hygiene Association; and the National Social Welfare Assembly, Incorporated. Added to the nearly 100 agencies in the Community Chest for 1957 which includes the Catholic Social Service and the American Service Institute are the Allegheny County Chapter of the Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children; the Allegheny County League for Emotionally Disturbed Children; and Hill City Youth Municipality. The success of the -United Fund’s $9,715,907 campaign depends on your one annual gift during the October 6 through November 5 campaign. Make it count. Remember, it’s your United Fund. MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN A Membership Campaign to honor our National President, Mr. COLOMAN REVESZ for 25 years service to the Association, commenced OCTOBER 1, 1957; and ALL BRANCH MANAGERS ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE. All applications received from October 1, 1957 to December 15, 1957, that is, postmarked before midnight of December 15, 1957 and issued by December 28, 1957, will be credited to the contest. All business produced over your allocated 2V2 month’s quota will be counted by the point system and each earned point will represent cash earned. Since every point will earn a sum of money, everyone can win. One monthly premium must be collected and submitted to the Home Office. ALL BRANCH MANAGERS WILL RECEIVE COMPLETE DETAILS BY LETTER FROM THE HOME OFFICE. Looking forward to a successful campaign, Fraternally yours, THE HOME OFFICE THE FRATERNAL MONITOR The Authority for Life Insurance During Evangelist Billy Graham’s stay in New York City, where he preached to capacity audiences made up of persons of all religious denominations, a writer with the Chicago Tribune- New York News Syndicate asked him: Is such a 'precaution as life insurance compatible until a Christian testimony? To which Mr. Graham replied: A similiar question came in several months ago and an answer would always seem in order. Insurance not only is compatible with one’s Christian testimony but the converse is obvious. For a Christian not to carry insurance because of some Christian scruple seems to me ridiculous. The Apostle Paul, writing to Timothy (I Tim. 5:8), says: “But if any provide not for his own, and especially to those of his own kindred, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.” “Few people can provide adequately for their families at the beginning of their years of responsibility. Insurance companies are set up to make such a provision possible. The fact that such companies advertise and compete for your business shows that they too profit by the business. Over the years, these insurance companies have developed actuarial tables which shew how much you must pay for a certain kind of protection. By joining with millions of others in investing in insurance, you are providing for your loved ones should you die, or you are setting up an estate, which will eventually help to care for all of you during old age. Insurance is sound business and for all who invest in it, it is sound common sense. Not only is there nothing in such providing which is contrary to Chrstian principles, the reverse is the case. For if you do not provide for your loved ones, the Bible says you have sinned.” In the early days of this century the principles of life insurance were poorly understood by the public. Indeed, some questioned its philosophy. So the salesmen of it sought an accepted authority to testify to its fundamentals. It was then that some Bible-reading field underwriter turned to the Bible for support. He found it in Chapter 41 of Genesis. That is the passage that tells the story of the dreams of Pharaoh, ruler of Egypt, and their interpretation by Joseph. In one dream, you will recall. Pharaoh saw “seven well-favoured kine and fat-fleshed, and they fed in a meadow. Then seven other kine, ill-favoured and lean-fleshed came up after them — and did eat the seven well-favoured and fat kine.” The next night Pharaoh dreamed of “seven ears come up one stalk, full and good — and seven ears, withered, thin and blasted — devoured the seven good ears.” Joseph explained to Pharaoh that these dreams were forecasts of seven years of good production the kingdom would enjoy. But they would be followed by seven years of famine. Therefore, he counseled, the nation should store up the surplus of the productive years and be prepared for the days when there would be little food produced in the land. “Right there,” proclaimed the field underwriter, “was the very first life insurance Society, right in the first book of the Bible!” And, indeed, that is the exact principle of life insurance: That we should save out of our producing years, to provide for our families and our old age, against the days when production would end. Could there be any greater authority for life insurance?
