Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1873-07-22
LIFE INSURANCE.

The time IS no doubt rapidly approaching
when 1t will be as unusual to fnd business
man with his life uninsured as it is now to
ind one without an insurance upon his prop
city. Life Insurance is fast being realized as
pressing necessity; we cannot shut our eyes
to the fact that life is a venture upon which
in the vast majority of cases is staked the
entire capital OF business. When men have
been enabled to transmit to their posterity
competency or a fortune, it has as an almost
invariable rule been the result of steady aud
determined effort during long life-they
have been compelled to take many risks, to
hazard much tina, was valuable death at
various stages of their lives would have re-
suited In utter ruin to their families, owing
to the unavoidable complication of their af>
fairs, which made it impossible for their
plans OF business to be carried out by another.
The necessity for some contravening power
to ward off this impending evil was sensiblv
felt more than three hundred years ago. aud
IN consequence of the strong convictions
which then seized the minds of some of the
profoundest thinkers of their age, the rudi.
ments OF science were laid which, from the
ignorance that then enveloped the human
mind, remained long at stand still but its
principles were too firmly fixed in the neces-
sites OF our nature, and its workings too in
tlmately interviewer with our happiness and
material prosperity, to be smothered by the
weight of ignorance and superstition. Like the
spirit Of pure religion, it doomed more
brightly up from the darkness and ignorance
that surrounded it, until it stands to day one
OF the most exact and perfect sciences in
the world. and foremost among the leading in
terests of this country, representing three
thousand millions of dollars in policies now
in force in the United States. Life Insurance
being admitted necessity, it becomes mat
ter of vital importance to the individual and
to the community,
lst. That Life Insurance be furnished upon
the lowest possible terms consistent with safety.
and
End. That the profits arising from each
policy. and the reserve upon it, should be in
vested within the reach of every policy holder.
thus giving him security for the payment of
his policy, at his very door, and keeping the
money in circulation in his own locality, which
he has paid out for Insurance.
There is no company known to us which so
happily combines these advantages as the Life
Insurance Company of Virginia, with its
home office in Petersburg, Va. 1t has in our
town board of policy holders, who invest
the reserve arising from all insurance done
IN this section in the locality insured. The
gentlemen who compose this board are known
to our community to possess the highest
qualifications for business, the strictest in
teerity of character and soundness of judg>
ment, and withal thorough Identification of
their interests with the interest OF the country.
They have unhesitatingly recommended this
Company to the patronage of the people as
in all respects safe and reliable company.
and the estimation in which they are held
gives weight to this suggestion
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