HEAPING TOGETHER TREASURE.
By C. M. S.
THE Standard Oil Company has declared another dividend on its capital stock of $100,000,000, this time a dividend of eight per cent. This is the third dividend declared during the year. The first was of twenty per cent., and the second ten, making a total of thirty-eight per cent. during seven months, or an earning of $38,000,000 on a capital of $100,000,000 in little more than half a year; and of this enormous amount one man receives $11,780,000. This one man owns forty-nine per cent. of all the stock of the subsidiary companies, whose earnings net him thus far during the year $36,510,000, making a total for seven months of $48,290,000. His income for the entire year is conservatively estimated at $60,000,000. Such heaping together of wealth the world has never seen before. The mind can scarce comprehend it. And this is but one of the thousands who are piling million upon million, and thus giving evidence to the world that the time of man's probation is drawing to a close. It is time to awake out of sleep, to "arise and shine," that our light may lead others to the light of God. "Behold, the Judge standeth at the door."
C. M. S.