The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-04-15
THE CRIME Of
NOT |NSUR|N c

NO tNOOfIiN ~ VI
BY Rev. T. DE Witt Talmage, II. d.
Let him appoint officers over the
land and take up the fifth part Of the
Land of Egypt in the seven plenteous
years.-Gen. Mi. "a.
These were the words OF Joseph, the
president of the first life Insurance
company the world ever saw Pharaoh
had dream that distracted him. lie
thought he stood on the banks Of the
river Nile. and saw coming up out OF
the river seven fat. sleek, glossy cows
and they began to browse in the thick
grass. Nothing frightrul about that
But after them. coming up out of the
same river, he saw seven cows that
:were gaunt and starved, and the worst
looking cows that had ever been seen in
the land, and in the ferocity Of hunger
they devoured their seven fat predeceS-
sors Pharaoh the king. sent foi
SJoseph to decipher these midnight hero
glyphcs Joseph made short work of
lit and intimated that the seven fat COWS
That came out ot the river, were seven
years with plel,tSs to- eat; the seven
emaciated COWS that followed them
were seven years with nothing to cat.
Now" said Joseph, "lct us take one
fifth of the corn crop of the seven
prosperous wears and keep ft AS a pro-
vision for the seven years In which
there shall be no corn crop
The King took counsel, and appoint
ed Joseph because of his integrity and
public-spiritedness as the president OF
the undertaking. The farmers paid
onefifeh of their income as "a premium.
In all the towns and cities OF the land
there were branch houses. This great
Egyptian life insurance company had
millions Of dollars as assets After a
while the dark days came and the whole
nation would have starved..iis il had
=, not been for the provision they had
made for the future But now these
suffering families had nothing to do but
60 UP and collect the amount of their
life policies The Bible puts il in one
short phrase: In all the land of Egypt
there was bread" | say this was the
first Life Insurance Company
1t was divnely organized. II had in
II all the advantages of the whole
life plan" OF the "Tontne plan" OF the
endowment plan" and all the other
good plans. We are told that Rev. Or.
Anhate. of Lincolnshire. England, orr
ginated the first life insurance com
pany, in 1898. No, it is as old as the
corn cribs of Egypt, and God Himself
was the author and originator. If that
were not sol would not take your time
and mine in Sabbath discussion Of this
subject: | feel ii is u theme vital. reli-
gious and OF infinite import-the NOR
ais of life and fire insurance. 1t seems
to me that it is time for the pulpit to
speak cut.
But what does the Bible say in regard
tn this subject?
If the Bible iaVors the institution, !
will favor IL, if the Bible denounces ii /
will denounce ii. In addition TO the
forecast Of Joseph in the text. | call
your attention TO Pauls comparison.
Here is one man who, through neglect,
fails to support his family while he
lives, or after he dies. Here is another
man who abhors the Scriptures and re-
jects God. Which of these men is the
says the former. Paul says that man
who negleots to care for his household
is more obnoxious than u man who re-
jects the Scripture. He that provideth
not for his own, and especially those Of
his own household, is worse than an in
fidel."
Life insurance companies help most
of us to provide for our families after
We are gone. ,.IEI
But If we have the money to pay the
premiums and do not pay the prem
iums. we have no right to expect mercy
az the hand. OF God in the judgment.
We are worse than Tom Payne, worse
than voltaire. and worse than Shafts
bury. The Bible declares il; We arc
wose than an infidel After the certi-
ficate of death has been made out, ana
the thirty or the sixty days have
passed and the officer Of life insur'
ance company comes into the berett
household and pays down the hard Cu' u
on an insurance policy, that officer Of
the company is performing a positively
religious rite according 10 the Apostle
James. who saws. True religion and
undefiled before God and the Father
is this: 10 visit the fatherless and the
widow in their afflicton,' and so on.
When men think of their death they
are apt to think OF il only in connection
with their spiritual welfare, and not OF
the devastation In the household which
will come because ol their emigration
from it, !, is meanly selfish for you
TO be so absorbed in the heaven a
which you are going that you forget
what is TO become OF your wife and
children after you go You can 40 out
Of this world not leaving them dol
lar. and Yet die happy II you could