Answer. This is entirely a question between the heart and the Lord. If one cannot fully trust the
Lord for the future, both for himself and for his family_if one has not such a sense of what God
is, and what the life of faith is, as to lift the heart entirely above the range of creature confidence,
human hopes, and earthly expectations, he can, of course, only lay up money, or insure his life. In
the case of a mere man of the world, it is very laudable to deny himself in order to lay up for his
wife and children; but the man of God steads on different ground altogether. We believe it is
better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in a store of money, or in an insurance policy.
"Leave thy fatherless children to me, and let thy widows trust in me." We have often seen the
truth of the old proverb:"If you lay up for a rainy day, God will send you a rainy day." And as to
children, the best provision you can make for them is, to teach them to provide for themselves by
honest industry.