Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1888-01-12
The Weekly ExpOSitoT.
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PUBLISHED on THURSDAYS.
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JAS. a. MENzIEs,
Editor 81 Proprietor.
Report corrected every Wednesday by
w W Crinnell, Grain Ruyer
FENCE RAIL PHILOSOPHY.

And so, my boy, yol are going TO get
married. The dearest girl in the world
has promised TO share yoursOrrOws and
joys, and the future looks to you as
bright as the MONDAY sun.
congratulate you. my dear fellow.
and hope you will deserve prosperity
and happiness and then get all that
you deserve.
Now. don't want to bore you with
any prosy advice, but | want to say few
things that perhaps the minister won't
think of. You have considered your
contemplated marriage contract from
its sentimental and social standpoint.
but | doubt whether yOu have serious
ly considered il in the light of bust
ness engagement. Now, don't mean
that you haven't figured up how much
it is going to cost you to maintain your
wife, and provide her with all the ra-
tional comforts and enjoyments she is
entitled to expect You have undoubt-
edly got this all figured down fine. But
let me present this matter i'll another
light When you pronounce the sacred
words that place a human life in your
keeping. you virtually say, promise to
cherish and support" and this promise
is a financial engagement of consider
able magnitude. Assuming that it is
going to cost you only three hundred
dollars a year to make your promise
good. it is exactly equivalent to Great
! ing Il debt of 5000 with interest at
six per cent per annum. Now, this is
all right enough, so far. No young
man with a clear head and strong arms
should be afraid to shoulder such debt
as this. But the point want to make
is that this debt should be regulated by
the same principles that the business
world applies to monied obligations
the debt should be well secured Now,
you couldn't borrow 5000 cash with
out giving security of some. kind, and
you ought to consider thY claims of
that dear girl of yours of far greater
importance than those Of any creditor.
How can You secure this debt, do you
ask:
In two ways.
First. secure home and let the title
be in her name. Pay us much money
down rs is necessary to secure it, and
then put as much money. time and la
boz on the place as you can to make it
comfortable, convenient, and, if posi-
bic, self-sustaining Don't live under a
rented roof for one hour. Have a
place that you can call your own,
and see how much more like man you
will feel.
Now, if you live and prosper, the
home will be paid for, and it will be the
security pledged to your wife when you
made that solemn promise to cherish
and support. should you be called
from your earthly home first. that home
you have prepared will continue to car
ny out your promise.
But suppose you die before the home
is paid for? That question will arise
in your mind, and it will be weight
on it until the home is out of danger,
unless you take one very simple precau-
tion-ihaye your life insured. Select a
good life insurance company and take
out as large q policy as you can conven-
iently carry. The very moment the
policy is made'out, that very moment
your house is taken out of danger. for
if you die tomorrow the money from
the insurance company will make your
promise good. The insurance policy is
the collateral security to that sacred
debt, IL promise to cherish and support. "
The home and the life insurance policy,
then, are the two kinds of security that
every devoted, earnest, honest young
man should provide to make good the
obligations assumed when he takes a
precious life into his keeping, and
promises TO God and to man that he
will sacredly guard and care for that
life. 1t pains me to see many men so
careless III this respect. They will buy q
hundred-dollar horse on their note, and
take it as matter of course that they
must provide proper security, but they
will take helpless woman. who mas
entrusted all that she is, or ever will be,
into his keeping and for this priceless
treasure they will offer no security.
Think over this matter, my boy, and
| think, YOU will decide that the most
appropriate present you can make your
bride will be deed to home, and a
life insurance policy in her favor.
Some think there's nothing like a fine
education, 1t gives TO the gifted such