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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Aug 23, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 33.

3225.—Life Insurance

By Editor

Shall a Christian insure his life in favor of his wife or family? If not, is there any Bible reason why not? R. N. H.

That which ought to be the best insurance company on the face of the earth is the church of the Lord Jesus Christ; and if that church were living where she ought to be, there would be no question about it at all. We are pointed to isolated cases of how much good insurance has done when the husband or the one upon whom the family depended passed away, and yet it is a very questionable thing whether broader and better blessings might not have come if money had been invested in some other way. Then, too, the insurance money might prove a curse to widow and children. There are many, many cases in which men have striven hard all their lives to keep up the insurance policy and the effort has gone for naught. God is our life and the length of our days, the Scripture tells us. He cares for the sparrows; He certainly cares for His own, for man is much better than the sparrow. If God notes the sparrow's fall, how much more does He note the fall of His own children. He also tells us that He is the God of the widow and the orphan and He cares for them. Would it not be better and wiser for the Christian so to relate himself to God, to plan so wisely under God, that he could better provide for his family in case of future demise, than to leave it with a purely worldly company? Sometime all the companies that are on the earth will fail; sometime life insurance companies may be brought just where fire insurance companies were at the time of the San Francisco earthquake. If our hope and trust are placed in these Egypts or Assyrias at such a time as that our hope will fail; it will prove a broken reed. But if our trust is placed in God He will not fail—He can not. We would plead with our brethren who are Christians, to give help to make the church such that that very church itself will care for widows and orphans and children when the time comes that any such thing as that is needed. If something more definite than that is needed, it seems to us that the church itself ought to form an insurance association for the benefit of its members.