BACH COPYING MUSIC BY MOONLIGHT.
If you know any boy who is about twenty years old you may say to him, Bach was as old as you are when Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston.
And although there was this difference of twenty years or so in their ages, we may think of them at work in the world at the same time. You must remember that all men like Franklin and Bach who became famous did so by working very hard.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
Franklin, too, was born very poor. Once he walked the streets of Philadelphia with a loaf of bread under each arm. But by being faithful in all he did he became the friend of all his countrymen and of Kings and Queens besides.
Benjamin Franklin was quite a little younger than Sebastian Bach. But there was a famous man who was almost exactly Sebastian's age. This man composed an Oratorio that is loved by everybody. It is sung in cities and towns all over the world, particularly at Christmas time.
Do you happen to know the name of this Oratorio? If not, you can surely learn it by asking someone or by looking it up in a book.
Write in the name of the composer of this Oratorio below the picture, and write on this line the name of the Oratorio itself.