The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-01
PASTORS
ASKED TO URGE
INSURANCE
Brandon Statement Based
On Sermon Of Nash
vile Minister
Estate Capital Bureau.)

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Sept. 30,
Governor w. w. Brandon in state
ment today to the pople of Alabama
called attention to the need and value
of insurance and suggested to minis
tiers of the various religious denomina-
tions that they deliver a special mes
sage on the subject of insurance the
first Sunday in October or as early
thereafter as convenient.
Is The governors statement was issued
at the request, it was stated, of per-
sons who had heard a sermon preached
Eat Nashville by DIR. W. f. Powell on
1.-THE susbject Are You Insured?''
Following is the governors state
ment:
ITO the pople of Alabama:
On May third, 1924, Rev. W. f.
Powell, pastor of the First Baptist
church, Nashville, Tennessee, delivered
a specially prepared message on the
subject. Are You InsuredT
THE mastery presentation of the
economic, moral, social and spiritua.
aspect of this subject has created pro-
found impression throughout the coun-
try which has resulted in the inaugural
tion of the movement by many public
spirited citizens, Endorsed by various
organizations and societies throughout
the country and which has the approval
of many of the laeding ministers and
religious workers, to designate the first
Sunday in October of each year as life
Insurance day.. when the value and i'm
portance of life insurance as a means
of preventing distress and as a prac-
teal method of contributing to the
moral, social, economic and spiritual
xvall hainU of nrlr vOlna noonla NAV no
properly impressed.
Selfishness Denied
b 1T may be that some at first
Wrought, will say this idea originated
from a spirit of selfishness and that
it is intended primarily for commercial
purposes. This conception of the move
ment will quickly and permanently dis
appear ON the slightest serious reflec-
ton. Society of the proper kind and of
(which religion and the church is the
ground and pillow is profoundly inter-
ested in, not only relieving suffering,
but it is even more profoundly inter-
ested in shaping the trend of economic
conditions as to prevent suffering and
distress
by keeping constantly before each
Z member of society his or her obligation
to set aside from his or her earnings,
during the earning period of life, q
sufficient amount to create by its ac-
cumulations sum sufficiently to take
ca. of them and their dependents
when the earning period is interrupted
or ended, life insurance easily becomes
the most effective preventive of depend
ency and privation, and is easily the
greatest contributor to the well being
of society.
Every man is interested in this
movement in proportion to value of his
life. Every woman is interested, while
every child liable to be left helpless
in the world is vitality affected by the
movement and the interest of both the
women and the children may be easily
understood when we consider that So
persons of all estates left at death con-
sist solely in the life insurance car
ried by the deceased.
Il have been requested to respect
fully and earnestly suggest to the min
listers of the various religious denomi |
nations that they deliver a special mes
sage on this subject on the first Sun
day in October, or as early thereafter
as may be convenient, and that they |
deliver message on the same subject |
on or about the same day in each year,
thus taking advantage of this opportu- |
nifty to emphasize the Importance and |
necessity of life insurance in its re-
lation to the economic, moral, social
and spiritual well being Of our people. |
i find great pleasure, not only in APP
proving this movement, but am pleased |
10 assent to and concur in this sugges-
ltion.