THE DANGER OF NEGLECTING ASSURANCE.

Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1840, 25 November 1874, Page 3

THE DANGER OF NEGLECTING ASSURANCE.

How /strange that wives are indifferent to Life Assurance ! Thousands of women «gre companions of husbands whose busine fs is in connection with swift-running mac%iJleiy> or other imminent dangers, andpet who, if sudden death should overtake them, would be left almost penniless. .' The presence of their suffering sister ■"ought to admonish them. What town, ' neighbourhood, or village has not its " destitute widows ?" Our cities are full of them. You know many cf them. Perhaps- they are fighting off starvation and temptation with the point of a needle. "Stitch! stitch! sutch ! . In poverty, hunger, and di:t, Sewing atlSnce, with a double thread, A shroud es well eb a shirt." Perhaps they are having a small school in. the Bouse to pay rent, keeping a few boarders, attending store, taking in washing, or perhaps half living in a sort of "shabby gentility" upon the scanty means which some " rich relative " patronizingly furnishes! The haunt« of vice would tell many a

story of those driven to desperation, then to crime, then to an ignominious death and an unmarked grave !—and all from being tired of struggling with poverty. Even a moderate insurance upon a deceased young husband's life had saved them from all this !

Will you repeat this folty, and confront such a fate ? Beware ! A precious boon is extended to you in life assurance. Better sacrifice almost any other worldly good than this ! See that a policy is taken, and kept in force, even if you have to economize and struggle to do it. You cannot afford to neglect this provision. The risk is to great—too fearfully great.