Answers To Correspondents

QUES. 6.-Would you please tell me what the Scriptures teach in regard to Life Insurance? That is, is it right for a believer to get his life insured, or to engage in the Life Insurance Business?

ANS.-"We are not aware of insurance being distinctly named in Scripture, and cannot therefore refer to any passage specifically applied to it. Nor is this usually God's way in such matters. He pats down great general principles from which His people form a true judgment concerning the details of practical life. This, of course, is not so easy as, "Thou shalt " and "Thou shalt not," for it requires exercise of conscience, prayer, a single eye-1:e., a mind bent on knowing the will of God, and doing it when known. It is the way however of Christian growth and development-of passing from Christian childhood to Christian manhood.

A good test for any practice or avocation in the household of faith is, Does it cultivate faith in God? Does it place us among men as true witnesses who seek to lead them to put their trust in God ? How is it in the light of such scriptures as Matt. 6:24-34 and Luke 12:15-40? There is nothing God loves like being trusted. It is the very secret of salvation and of all after progress. Is insurance conducive to that? The spiritual man most judge of these things for himself, for there are practical issues in such matters which may overtake him in which nothing but the consciousness of having chosen a path pleasing to God will sustain him.

On the other hand, where does the appalling indifference which is now so prevalent in the house of God start from ? Is it not expressed in this, "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines:for our vines have tender grapes " ?