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The High Crime of Not Insuring

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The High Crime of Not Insuring

By: T. DeWitt Talmage
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 “Let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.” THESE were the words of Joseph, the President of the first Life Insurance Company that the world ever saw. Pharaoh had a dream that distracted him. He 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 frightful 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 predecessors. Pharaoh the king sent for Joseph to decipher these midnight hieroglvphics. Joseph made short work of it, and intimated: “the seven fat cows that came out of the river are seven years with plenty to eat; the seven emaciated cows that followed them, are seven years with nothing to eat; now,” said Joseph, “let us take one fifth of the corn crop of the seven prosperous years, and keep it as a provision for the seven years in which there shall be no corn crop.” The king took the counsel and appointed Joseph, because of his integrity and public-spiritedness, as the President of the undertaking. The farmers paid one fifth 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 if it had not been for the provision they had made for the future. But now these suffering families have nothing to do but go up and collect the amount of their life policies. The Bible puts it in one short phrase: “in all the land of Egypt there was bread.” I say this was the first Life In¬surance Company. It was divinely organized. It had in it all the advantages of the “whole life plan,” of the “Tontine plan,” of the “reserved endowment plan,” and all the other good plans. We are told that Rev. Dr. Anhate, of Lincolnshire, England, originated the first Life Insurance Company in 1698. No. It is as old as the corn cribs of Egypt, and God himself was the author and originator. If that were not so, I would not take your time and mine in a discussion of this subject. Christian Living Christianity Devotionals Social Issues Middle East Pharaoh
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