Emphasis Preaching Journal

Thomas Cook is a name that is unknown to most of us; but we each live with his innovative and entrepreneurial idea, if not monthly then surely yearly. With the second Industrial Revolution in the late 1800s, a new class of individuals was established -- the middle class. They were not the owners of corporations nor were they the common laborers, but they consisted of the middle management that was required to keep the operations going and tend to the accompanying paperwork. They also became the class of people who had disposable income.