LIFE INSURANCE

Its Early History, Great
Extent, and High
Purpose.

A. DUTY AND PRIVILEGE TO INSURE.

The Connecticut Mutual Life In-
surance Company---Early Or-
ganization—Successful Man-
agement---Character of
Officers---Scrutiny of
its Affairs.

LARGEST COMPANY IN THIS
COUNTRY.

A National Company--Great Good
it has Accomplished--Mutual
Plan and Note System
Defended.

Large Dividends---Agents---Inter-
esting Comparison of Statis-
Zies, &e., &e., &c.

A Noble and Charitable Institution---
Unparalleled in Magnitude and
in the Accomplishment of
the Benevolent Purposes
of Life Insurance.

American progress in all the higher attributes of civilization and refinement has gained for us a pre-eminence in many respects among the nations of the earth. Our recent triumphs at the Paris Exposition, and where-ever our skill, enterprise, and scientific attainments have been tested, all witness the superiority of our people over the peoples of all other countries on the globe. Perhaps in nothing are Americans more distinguished, and more entitled to credit, than in the societies formed, the practical means employed, and efforts put forth to provide and care for the loved ones they cherish, and who are left mourning after they have departed, as indicated in that grand crowning feature of mod-ern benevolence and Christian forethought—LIFE INSURANCE, the progress of which in this country during the past few years is without a parallel in any age or among any people. This science—for it is a science--has become so prominent, and its great usefulness so generally acknowledged, that it now claims and receives the highest considerations from all dames of society—the rich and the -poor, the high and the low, alike avail themselves of its inestimable benefits. The wisdom of the people in their legislative -enactments has thrown around this institution every possible safeguard, and its great interests and sacred trusts are, everywhere in the land, sought to be protected in every way the human intellect can devise.