Excerpt from The High Crime of Not Insuring: A Sermon, Preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle, February 25th, 1877 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 hieroglyphics. 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, ]oseph, 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.