
Labor Day Addendum
Labor Day Addendum: Welders, Blacksmiths and the Book of Sirach Consider the farmer whose mind is set on the furrows that he plows. He stays up late, tending the cattle. Consider, also, the blacksmith. The fire scorches his skin and the din of the hammer deafens his ears, yet he is intent on the tool he is shaping. (Sirach 38:25-26, 28) After hea...