Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-01-08
-t.f Tribune

-1.-ourh Lis pOCEel-G HISS
 - ,---s -rrat you might call nat
 -~ar easy. graceful, eztemporaneous
 speaker lu pu1llc. ,,-..
 ,-r sit down on powder or an
 .- ,r7e--ker uud reel anything of >,-,l.. rors in a tOlerably loquaclous
 ;r..-.erigc style, but when l gel ~r bela-s big mob and begin to scatter few pregnant gems oI -I.rT.l.f aroupd among the audience or.- -vf.l and skittish and want io go
 .Tfen when take my seat the big ,F-.4 fr.t adjourned when l was on "A. rr rum come throngiug back 10 --e and m me SO full oi inspiration, and .cu1 Veauiug, and warm, earn ..f -ve4rf.lLess that t seems as If I'd bust.
 Once. IIcmembcr was called on rr .l. General Passenger Agent and sr,a- Manager of 8 narrow gauge esIi.th School t Salt Lake at an ..-.t- Hsy -o address the kids of Zion. -.f. Fgor-uauascr had me down Tor . 1Eir,v minutes dissertation on the .I.nc.r.aintv Of Terrestrial Things rr some such racket Us that, and l ,rrurat I'd hare 10 work it mighty inc 10 say all th-t was surging and -U-olHiug i1 mv lCemIug brain, but when 5at down. and mOpped the dew ol mv marble brow, and looked ar rv watch. ] found that I'd only been a traction oyer seven minutes.
 All that can remember of the dad blessed speech is about this:
 .. Dear cl .5I.a ui Zion. I'm afraid Tu ,.c-r-cl ol Tcu- iime-but-l vru'- tg rar - uard-tAHt IS, few wo-5s-I won lclsin you iong-or, .l .uast not yc-y louE-a few words .leu- salvation auC-hrCarms.
 .. Eey.r fool with firearms that Laves.s. been loaded. Don't do it.
 .tI once knew a boy who looked down into tlc silent depths of a Club.a-uarrCl.c shot gun that had Htt teen loaded since Columbus dis ear,rlI America. and all at once he went cT -hicg through the Zodiac, ard nel- mp there somewhere now. All we eyer found of him was g stone arli5g and Inc place where he had been. oL it's Gwlul-
 -tI also k1cw a little lad with san curling hair and deep violet eyes Everybody loved little Ephraim. But one day be turned his attention .o l.l mystery that chung tO an old smoa.L lHIe that Daniel Boone used to have. and that had never been loaded since. This gun had stood around iu ihe corner for about Q cen turr. and been kicked and battered by everyone. just taking i- all pleasantly so as a throw people cG their guard, and when tle hired girl swept up iit- -iS lalaiu there wasn't dry eye in the house.
 Then ap0logized for not saying lay,Liur ca salvation, because ] had taken ur so much time, and sat down.
 50 Blt it took old Jim Ondcrdonk to speak without preparation. We called him SkowheEan Onderdonk, because Le came from SkOwhegan, and be was tall enough to whitewash iLe sky, Ii ll had step-ladder. He never had Co stop snd cough and take a drink of water while he thought on a hand word Oh, no Just give him a grown persons dose of Cemetery Promoter, and he'd address a caucus or funeral, he didn't care which.
 One day ] heard Linn speak to the children on the subject of The Efi- cicuCY of Prayer
 " He always announced his subject beforehand. u0t because he eyer al iadeG Co it afterwards in any way, but becausc he had noticed that most pub lie speakers had g. subject Co speak on.
 As near as can call Go mind now, SEouhsggn Ondc-doIk spoke about as follows:
 Dear children, did you ever step to think Vhrt we are today and what wc will De tomorrow and next day and tac day following and next week and next month and next year and a.I through our C7cntiul lives so much what NC in vain anticipation regard ourselves rCTospcctiTeIy as what we ultiulely were or some day might previously be-
 Di5 you ever stop to consider how much we may Hnl out by ascer- tanning
 iourneT.ng ad3wn liic's rugged pathway did you ever stop to ponder, dear children, upon the cold, hard fact. ;ne longer you live the older you become, end a. you acquire knowl- edge you gradually get to knowing more
 . Ah. lc.us Iearr a valuable lesson from this eternal truth and fee from theWmlh Co come.
 t'' Lc.Us promise ourselves to-day right now, wltlgCta moments delay that, as We CuG,Duc t0 ram facts into our sy. tens and glcan inielli- gunce. we will .t ,ac same time be- come become better informed.
 Go Try 60 impress the nevcr-dying truth upon your minds: that whatever We du not du at once or at some time in iLo lu.me. unless some one else does it, itwi.I in all human prObabil- iv rcmun u-jore
 We should learn from this the imparla-c. oI tlc-s things that are most essential
 "' , might 'a.5 to you for hours with pleasure of these things, but l cannot take un Inc lime. One more suggestion. and , win close.
 ''- You are ali young now. The future is before yoU. This will seem singular 90 you at first, but when l explain it Co you yol will see at once that iIlt were anywhere else it would seem out oi place and unhappy.
 ''' You wlil readily see that Provi- dence has go wisely ordered things thatuoi only in the economy of Nature does ,hc uncertain subsequently, follow closely upon the already forgotten previously, but thc hay and obscure past was at one time the unborn germ of iEo dim and iucsude5ccnt directly, cmbosomct in tlc great unknown finally and sE-1Lde3 in the prismatic c lors O. The bound -css ultimately.
 .,' l am afraid, however, that you do not guIe get st the neverdying truth that ] ann trying Co clucidatc to you Asi sand before, the future is before you. li you understood this thoroughly you would rejoice over the Uuuir.p.t wisdom which placed it