IS IT BEST TO INSURE?

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18403, 9 June 1925, Page 10

IS IT BEST TO INSURE?

Life Insurance is the poor man's estate, the rich man's safeguard. All ■who, have. a.pecuniary interest in the "existence of li life may protect that interest by insurance. Life Insurance is, in its broadest sense, an agreement among a certain number of men to equalise the burdens of life and diminish its risk by combining to aid each other. It anticipates the. future and guards against the infirmities of, age or the calamities which may impend over those who are dependent: It is.' a step towards the abolition of poverty, a check to the hazardous speculations prompted by' the necessity of %ain for the -benefit of • posterity, a grateful relief to homes saddened by worry -anti anxiety. Life Insurance •is a commodity that can be'bought and sold. It is, notwithstanding ' its beneficent and moral bearings, purely a business transaction. It - has a value and therefore is purchasable. It possesses intrinsic merit and therefore is worth patronising,. • It creates wealth on the instant and for the noblest purpose for which wealth caji be accumulated. ,■ It offers protection as well as savings bank advantages. • It carries a risk safely which no man can safely carry himself. In. a business light, therefore, Life. Insurance 'is desirable and pays, the policyholder all. it costs. Indeed, our best business men are our best insurers. [ .Life Insurance is now a recognised i fact in our social and financial economy. It takes itß- place not only as a privi-' as a great moral duty, so iheumbent upon everyone whose life is regulated by the dictates of conscience and common prudence, that any argument or appeal in its behalf would seem to be uncalled for. Provision for one's dependents should obviously be immediate. One to-day is wortli two to-morrow. The old-fashioned slow way of "laying up something for a rainy day" has proven itself wholly defective. Death does not. wait for slow accumulations. \HOMAS JAMES,. A.M.P. Society, 1 Christchurch. - ■ V