(1748)
LABOR IN VAIN
The Pyramids of Egypt are among the seven wonders of the world. Cheops, said to be the largest of them all, covers an area of over thirteen acres, is larger than Madison Square, New York, and twice the height of Trinity Church spire. It contains enough material to build a city as large as Washington, including all its public buildings. Four hundred thousand men were employed twenty years to build it. The purpose of its erection was that it might be the tomb of kings.
How much better would have been the result if all this labor had been spent to serve those who were alive and the then future generations.
(1749)
LABOR, OPPORTUNITY FOR
The verses below carrying a helpful lesson, are by Ellen M. H. Gates:
If you can not on the ocean
Sail among the swiftest fleet,
Rocking on the highest billows,