Insurance Established

The proposition contemplated for some time by the general Board of the Relief Society, worked out by its Representatives and insurance experts, has been submitted and approved by the first presidency and working plans for the big undertaking are now being devised by a committee appointed for that purpose.

Members of the general board have for a long time hoped for an establishment of an insurance feature in connection with the other work of the organization, in order to extend such benefits farther among the members of the church, and also to hold within the church much of the money that is now being sent without the state for insurance purposes.

In response to the letter from the General Board of the Relief Society in regard to the advisability of the undertaking of the establishment of an insurance department, the first presidency directed the following letter to the general board.

“Dear sisters we approve the suggestion outlined in yours of the 21st instant to introduce and maintain a system of benefit insurance in connection with the Relief Society, believing that this departure from relief work would be a means of supplying an income for the society itself as well as be the means of inducing and encouraging our sisters to form the habit of saving money which otherwise might be disposed of unwisely.”

The intention of the general board is to provide a means whereby every member of the society, as well as other women may be cared for properly at the time of death through their own foresight and effort and whereby young people may accumulate Mission or School funds.