Fraternity-Testvériség, 1944 (22. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1944-03-01 / 3. szám
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE HUNGARIAN REFORMED FEDERATION OF AMERICA' Published Monthly Jfcjbj/lÄ Megjelenik havonta Főszerkesztő—Editor in Chief: FRANCIS ÚJLAKI, D. D. Felelős szerkesztő—Manag. Editor: GEORGE KEREKES BORSHY Subscription $2.00 a year Előfizetés évi $2.00 Társszerkesztők—Associate Editors: EMERY KIRÁLY and EDMOND VASVÁRY Entered as second-class matter August 10, 1936, at Pittsburgh, Pa., under the Act of August 24, 1912. Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage. Act of February 28, 1925, authorized August 13, 1936. VOLUME XXII. YEAR OF FAITH MARCH, 1944 I BELIEVE IN LIFE INSURANCE “Successful men believe in insurance. They are men of vision and foresight. A prosperous merchant anticipates and meets the need of his customers. A youth who seeks an education has a vision of future requirements. A loving father provides for his family the necessities of life. A respectable individual will plan for continued independence when age creeps upon him. “As a clergyman I, too, belive in meeting future needs. It is the part of wisdom to prepare for the inevitable. The Lord has endowed each one with faculties that are to be trained and used. Every man faces the future for which he should prepare. “There are those who contend that it shows a lack of faith in God’s love anad care to take out a life insurance policy. What they make of Joseph in Egypt storing food for a seven years’ famine, I do not know. He was looking ahead and preparing to meet the needs of the people long before the famine came. Many a period of want could be avoided in men’s lives by storing up a reserve in life insurance for the day when income has ceased. “1. Life insurance makes for honesty. A respectable man does not leave for others what he can do himself. He will provide for the needs of his family. The members of it depend upon him for a livlihood. His wife left her home and parents, gave up her mode of living and perhaps forsook a professional career for his sake. Only an ungrateful man will not insure her future. Should death call, he will provide for those days of greater need by making as certain as he can that she has a steady and adequate income. If he does not do it, then others must. It may be that her parents, other relatives or friends will have to take care of his family. It may be that the Church or state will have to do that which he himself should have done. Normal life for them will have to cease because he neglected his family responsibilities. “2. It encourages thrift. A thrifty man or woman regularly lays aside part of his earnings, be his income large or small. Great men recognize the value of habits of thrift. Many of them became men of influence and importance because they saved. Funds invested in life insurance reduce to a minimum the temptation to use them for things one would like to have but can well do without. 3. “It is conducive to health and long life. A man who has adequate life insurance to take care of his declining year need not worry about his years of retirement. What will happen to his family should he be removed by death will not cause him sleepless nights. He can have peace of mind and enjoy life. This feeling of contentment means health and long life. It isn’t work that causes sikcness and death so much as it is worry. Fear makes the body more susceptible to disease. The contentment which life insurance gives, opens the way for a spirit of kindness and friendliness. A worried man cannot have many friends; his spirit and attitude are not conducive to developing friendship. , 4. “Life insurance is not an outgrowth of religion. The Bible teaches us to look after our own. ‘He who provides not for his own is worse than an infidel!’ A Christian, of all men, is expected to express his love for his family by taking care of their future needs. Life insurance provides such a plan. Faith is a quality which every Christian must possess but it does not minimize the necessity for a man to express it by his deeds. “Someone said, ‘Pray as if all depend upon God, and work as if all depended on you’.” (Fraternal Field) Rev. Charles F. Brobst
