The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1898-11-15
AN HONEST


q place where there was so little to see
as by Nazareth, once the home OF the
One whose gentle life and wise teech-
ings here so remarkably Influenced
the civilized world, TIE place Is not
particularly impressive, but ones
thoughts are Ehronged with memories
of teachings which began at mothers
knee, then continued IN the Sunday,
school, church, etc and connected
with every sacred relation, as chris5en
ings, weddings and funerals. Add
here vas His homel We are treadlng
the very streets that He trod. The
views thet meet our eyes In every
direction = scenes once familiar to
Him. Yonder plain of Esdraelon,
which we crossed in coming here, was
we'll xnown to Him. Yonder noun
tain ia practically the same now as it
was when it was a familiar figure in
His daily Land scepe. I went TO bed
thai Right with an impressive TealIzs
ton that I was to sleep in the town
which was once His home. And when
leaving the next day I often turned
my horse about to look again and
again a. the little town and it's sur
rounding biils and vallsys-sCenes OF
His daily life.
In che last few years, during which
the industrial question has assumed
such great Importance in u country,
my mind has often gone back to those
scenes ia Gzllilee. have Thought OF
the principal actor, not as a teacher,
but as n wcrkingman-the Carpenter
of Galilee. MiIIionaires and multi
millionaires have become numerous ID
III country. bringing in their wake an
army Of unemployed, many of whom,
by torce of conditions, degenerate into
traI0ps and vagabonds Both these
classes, the miilionaires and trampR,
are 8 datriment to the best interests of
our country. I have made a caicula-
ton bearing upon the honesty Of these
millions in private Golfers, and to help
us to realize what a sum q million dol
lars ig and what it is to actually q
million dollars. All will agree that
when a workipgman can save 81 every
working day in the year he is doing
we'll.
Our era begins with the birth of this
CARPENTER of GalIilee. Let us suppose
that he was able to begin work on the
dey o. his birth and that each working
day he was able to save 81 above his
living expenses. Let US suppose that
he never loses a day by sickness or
bad weather, and that his life and
health and strength are miraculously
prolonged until he shall earn che mil.
lion dollars by saving 81 for every
working day. Then we will be able to
realize what an honest million is.
We will trace our workman who be-
gen work on the day of his birth. At
the historic time of his death, at the
age of 50. what would be be worth7
The calculation is essv 365 daysmjnus
50 Sundays equals 313 working g in
each year. Multiply that by 80 years
and we have 10 329 days; but we must
add eight days for eight leap years.
This would make it 10. 337 and 81 per
day saved would equal as many dol
lars-S1O 337. Far from a million, yet
labor began at birth and never q hOii-
dsy nor a day lost by sickness! Let
US suppose that he had lived the allotted
20 years; then how would the account
standQ Only $21. 927l Our workman
has a long and weary task before him
to earn 30 large an amount as a mil,
lion dollars. Our hero must trudge
along through summers heat and win
ter's storms. Years and decades come
and go until they grow into centuries,
and still he works on, for his tack is
only beguu. He sees kingdoms and
empires rise and fall, but still he labors
on, for the greater part of his task is
still before him.
Christians are ~persecuted In various
countries, the Roman Empire disap
pears, the dark ages come and stiil he
labors on, his task not yet completed.
The crusades are fought, America is
discovered, modern science awakens
the world from its shroud of darkness,
and still he labors on. The stirring
events Of modern history transpire and
bring US down to the present moment,
and-Would you believe itH-our Car
penter is still laboring on, not yet hav-
ing saved q million dollars, yes not
having missed g single working cay
from sickness or any other cause in all
these centuries Let us see how hia
task would stand at this time. We
are not counting interest, but purely
the -aarninps Of lahnr We karn rnnn