Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1906-09-13


sfows the inequalities OF life, where
b. one man may accumulate million
upon million unrighteously and at
the blood and expense of the worker,
while the worker, poor drudge that
he is, cannot obtain even one million,
though he labor for centuries:
have never been so impressed by
place where there was so little to
use as by Nazareth, once the home of
the One whose gentle life and wise
teachings have so remarkably influ-
enced the civilized world. The place
Is not particularly impressive, but
ones thoughts are thronged with
memories OF teachings which began
at mothers knee, then continued in
| the Sunday school, church, ETC., and
connected with every sacred relation,
as christening, weddings and funer-
| ais. And here was His home! We
are treading the very streets that He
trod. The views that met our eyes
| In every direction are scenes once IA
miliar to Him. Yonder plain of Es-
| draelon, which we crossed in coming
here, was we'll known to Him. Yon-
der mountain is practically the same
now as 1t was when it was a familiar
figure in His daily landscape. I went
! to bed that night with an impressive
realization that l was to sleep in the
town which was once His home. And
| when leaving the next day l often
turned my horse about to look again
and again at the little town and its
! surrounding hills and valleys-scene
Of His daily life.
In the last few years, during which
the industrial question has assumed
such great importance in our country,
my mind has often gone back to
hose scenes in Galilee. / have
thought of the principal actor,not as
q teacher, but as workingman--the
Carpenter of Galilee. Millonaires
and multi-milionaires have become
numerous in our country, bringing in
.heir wake an army of unemployed,
many of whom. by force of cOndi-
lions, degenerate into tramps and
vagabonds. But these classes, the
millionaires and tramps, are det-
riment to the best interests of our
country. | have made a calculation,
bearing upon the honesty of these
millions in private Golfers, and to
help us to realize what a sum a mill
ion dollars is, and what it Is to aCtu-
ally earn a million dollars. All will
agree that when a workinsman can
save 81 every working day in the
year he is doing well.
Our era begins with the birth OF
this Carpenter of Galilee. Let us
suppose he was able to begin work on
the day Of his birth and that each
working day he was able to save 81
above his living expenses Let us
! suppose that he never loses day
by sickne.i or bad weather, and that
his life and health and strength are
miraculously prolonged until he shall
earn millions dollars by saving 81
for every working day. Then we
will be able to realize what an hon
est million is.
We will trace our workman who
beoan work on the day of his birth.
At the historic time of his death, at
the age of thirty-three, what would
he be worth? The calculation is
easy: 365 days minus tifty-two Sum
days equals 313 working days in each
year. Multi ly that by thirty-three
years, and we have 1929 days; but
we must add eight days for eight
leap years. This would make it 1O.-
337-and 81 per day saved would
equal as many dollars-s10,3S7. Far
from million, yet labor began at
birth, and never a holiday nor day
lost by sickness Let us suppose
that he lived the allotted seventy
wears: then how would the account
stand? Only $21,927. Our work
man has long and weary task be-
fore him to earn so large an amount
as a million dollars. Our hero must