The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-07-14

Death and the Life Agent.

Death and the Life Agent.
The palpablc benefits of life insurance
are realized when the policy natures. The
duty incumbent upon every husband and
father to insure his life is most kceny felt
bV him at his deaths At that hour there is
no doubt on the subject. As the darkness
of evening brings out the stars, so the
shades of death reveal the clear truths of
lite insurance. Their comforting radiance
lights up the end of the earthly travellers
way with hope and resignation. 1t cheers
the thoughts of the dying with the sweet
consciousness of duty fulfilled. 1t imparts
to his soul the peace that is born of entire
reconciliation to the will of Heaven.
1t is at such times that the life insurance
agent appears in his true character. How
often soever he may before have been
thought and called ian intOlcrable bore
no one is disposed to look upon him in that
light at the last hour. After the insured is
gathered in with his forefathers, the life
agents visits cease to be considered intrus-
i've. He is no longer glanced at askancc as
he enters, nor is he liable to remark the
Struggling of shoulders, or to oyerhear the
muttered exclamation
Here comes that persistent, pestlerous
life agent How shall get rid of him
John say am engaged-say am out and
low oftor
How STRONGLY soever fine accnt may Inc
temnted to refort by saving. !?At that dav
Won will need fire instead of life Insurance
he smothers his resentment. for he knows
it he finally prevails upon the solicited to
insure that his convert will at his dying day
bless the man he now SO heartily abuses,
and rank him with the host henefoctors If
his race. And after the shirt has taken lis
nipht. whose MASSAGE to another and better
world has been rendered TRANQUIL nv tbe no
nignont influences of life insuronco thc
widow and ornhans remain and are free IA
admit their oblirotion 70 thc aren't who
moved more mindful of their interests
even than those from whom they were war
ranted bv nature in confidently eynectino
ali provisions for their wants. safety and
comfort. How do their dearest friends.
and even relatives appear in comparison
with the life agent? They extend TO the
bereayed their warmest expressions of CON
dolence and sympathy. and yarue and con-
ditional offers of assistance. hit how little
have they done or will they do? But he.
the AGENT. has brought solid. permanent aid
He has saved the sorrowinG and helpless
from the abyss of poverty and social de
rradation, and established them in perman-
emf comfort an afiluence. We saw he has
done it. because the deceased would not
have insured his life if the agent had been
less urgent. persevering and persuasive. II
was not. ostensiblv. the agents act. but Il
was INSURED vbim. and TO him. therefore
il NAV fairly he ascribed.
But the strong points of life insurance
are best seen in the contrasted condition of
two widows-the one left with little or
nothing but policy of insurance of ample
and sufficient amount and the other left
with neither life insurance or any other adc-
auate means of support. In these cases
truth and fallacy are submitted TO n practi-
cal test which proves their quality and rem
ders further misanprehension imnossIhlp
The most ingenious sonbistries onnosed IN
life insurance dissolve hoforc tho fnll blo1n
Of truth which such reality discIoecs rho
widow and family nrovided far nv life in
snrance have mo misrivinrs ne to tho notnro
of thc benefit they have Received If 10 not
nossible for them 10 conceive il IA bo tho
fm1it of mistrnst in prov;Ioncc ~. Tho ,,rn
duct of onvthinr Int renninc and UeovonI,,-
inon;rod y;sllon, Tho ,,,;Jn,. eoos H.
hand If God in if and bows in Mons tboni,
fnlncss at tho ,hrono If oroca Iior toars
NAV for this reason dow n,ore froaly Of tho
rnc1IIoction Of ,ho hTshanJ sI,a H. 80 Ice,
,Loso iindroso and I@,,a ot; ~" N ,','9 ~,
heconee tbou ara so decnI,, folt I,,. ~ uiaso
toI,ens or Lo ',r;of oro frooo rr,,,
ar rrheIlion Tic men,nr,, Of tho ToonrtoI
is sacred and nernotnal in hcr MINI opd NV
heors Of ho Hill, fnr II IL '',i NV
tbev deligbt to nov IN tha rniln ,nsaIGsI
ami faithful rifoydior Of t,ni. ,,.oIrarn
whose benefice1cc was s,ro,ger thon doo,I
and stretched bevond the crave
Rnt fine fntnrc nrcscnted NV tho widow
whose late husband boCmnothod ho, NO lif,
insurance noIicv and M means ~ rrotac
herself ana IitiIe ones frnn' ,he H. ,oJ
hordeh;ne ~ lie 10 shadod III, na,'D,,,
which has No relinf Wor channri 3V, H. ba'
emitted fills Mace forever and ag tbnrn ,'' !;
none IN take his nlare she is inJoaG Jo
serted disconsolatc and desolote Nov
that She and her children feel ,ho shar,
nnnos If nover,v and distross If the , r,as
ronid be recalled and If The liz in en- p,'o
AGENT who was semi owov with continual,
without an annllcation could Inc Mace,
where he was nerhans not so veri, lon,
AGO how wilIinGlv they yonld Iistcr TO III
earnest and eIo9ucnt onneol and how
ready and anxions thev wrrId ho to occor
il resncct and accento1cc instead Of disdoi
and rejection, The sorrow-loden an,
stricken distrust Providence now bccons
they are left destitute. but they feel mos
profoundly that had their natural nrotrcto
shielded them with life insurance he woul
have been consulting rather than distrustin
Providence-tbat he Would have heen foi