had taken out policies. And what’s it worth? Well, about $2500 each, if their sweethearts decide to marry someone else. Now, this policy only applies to en gaged couples. It can last for just two months. Usually it’s taken out over a holiday or vacation period. Quite an en terprising idea, isn’t it? I f those 200 girls genuinely loved the Englishmen to w horn they are engaged, they wouldn’t want them to waste a single dime for such insurance coverage. The brokers are fully aware, however, that human love ebbs and flows. It’s often fickle. On the other hand, the blessed truth is that . divine love knows no change. God is the same yesterday, today and forever. The word insurance is never used in connection with the Lord’s love. Changelessness makes insurance unnec essary. “God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ (by grace ye are saved) . . . that in the ages to come he might show the ex ceeding riches of his grace in his kind ness toward us through Christ Jesus” (Eph. 2:It, 5, 7). WHILE THERE’S STILL TIME Surveys indicate that one of the most popular sections of the daily newspa per, next to the comic feature, of course, are those interesting columns of coun sel. They have many different names depending upon the individual who pre pares them, but quite generally they are based on “advice to the love-lorn.” Recently a touching letter was printed in our local edition. The writer con fessed, “I’m the most broken-hearted person on earth. I always found time to go everywhere else but to see my dear old grey-haired mother and father. They sat home alone, loving me just the same. It’s too late now to give them those few hours of happiness I was too selfish and too busy to spare. Now, when I go to visit their graves and look at the green grass above them, I wonder if God will ever forgive me for the 30 He who is born of God is certain to resemble his Heavenly Father.
heartaches I must have caused them. I pray that you will print this so that those who still have their parents will visit them, showing love and respect while there’s still time.” What a touch ing plea! It does mean more to us as we grow older, thinking about the dan ger of losing interest and concern from our own children. Each of us, as sons and daughters, must remember that we can expect the full blessing of God only when we heed the words of Proverbs. There the admonishment is, “Hear thou, my son, and be wise, hearken unto thy father who begat thee. Honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long in the land.” POINTS FOR PARENTS Any thinking person today is rightly and greatly concerned about trends of the times. Newspapers recently report ed on a poll conducted among young people, to determine “Why teenagers get out of hand.” Here are the interest ing conclusions this secular survey re vealed. Youth were frank to say these five points: 1. Parents aren’t strict enough. 2. Parents don’t provide proper home life. 3. Parents have too many outside in terests themselves. U. Parents are too indulgent; give chil dren too much money. 5. Both parents work, even though it’s not really necessary and the mother is needed at home. Those are quite perceptive thoughts, aren’t they? The teenagers came up with these reasons themselves. It al most goes without saying that the real juvenile problem actually begins with the parents. Don’t think that those same problems won’t invade the Christian home, too. They often do. That’s why the spiritual battlements must continu ally be strengthened. I t’s so easy for parents to go to one or the other ex treme. They are either not strict enough or else have inconsistent, unreasonable, and hard-boiled rules, instead of an all-pervading atmosphere of love. It’s You can’t touch another person’s heart with anything less than your own.
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