Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-02-23
ona lime IS not true of them at another

time. The power of principal is large
 " determined by the relations of tim, and place and the existing order of SO ciety. The utility of force must b,
 measured by our appliances for control
 ling and using that force. The impor-
 tance of any portion of an organism il often best seen in it's relation to tn,
 whole. With these observation let us
 turn to the question propounded to th'
 prophet: "For who hath despised tn,
 day of small things?" The question i.
 aimed st that which is most grevIou.
 fault among men. They ignore begin
 nings. They lightly esteem the period
 of development. Taey only become
 COZ sclous when the thing Is upon us in
 it's magnitude. Some important revolu tion in state, or reformation in church or upheaval in society suddenly occurs and all eyes are turned toward 1t in ss.
 tonishment; perhaps regarding it as some strange chance vlsitant, some ca
 pricious force, some urkDown power whose movements are determined by no
 fixed laws. Very few, and these only of the more inquirine turn of mind, will trace the movement from it's origin
 through development, and then long sf- ter it has become an established fact of history. Men are aiders and abettors, or get in the way retarding the move ment, but for the most part. uncons- ciously. It is only tOo true that they l build better than they know, or worse than they know, by the merest coinci- dence, not by intelligent provision.
 They are too often found drifting with the current of events, rather than exercising their legitimate authority in turning them into proper channels and | making them to turn the wheels that grind out for themselves high destiny. And all this IS true because of their folly in paying no heed to the springs and rills that make up the river.
 Che question is equivalent to a con- mana uot to manifest sn indifferent or contemptuous state of mind toward the beginning and lttleness of things; and there are many and cogent reasons why we should not.
 1-The day of small things determines what things are to be hereafter together with their character. All things tenn poral have a beginning. The law IS from birth through developement to maturity, not existence in full maturity 65 tQo IdOlcu lE bolQ SO AsoNO sprung from the head of Jupiter. Only in Mythology do we fad such contra dictions to the fixed order. Even the God man was once a helpless babe not comprebending his marvellous mission and destiny. These beginnings are with us. We influence the development also though, as I have sad before, it may be for the most part unconsciously.
 Gods hand may De and is visible in history.
 We are the authors of the completed events of history by our activity at time often long anterior to the coDsum- nation itself.
 Where was the beginning of the re- bellion? With the first shot aimed by heated passion at Fit. Sumter? Not at all. It came over the ocean from a foreign land with the first cargo of black faces that avsrice landed on the American continent. All subsequent events pertaining to it were but the e1- pansion of thls germ. They were so many rills emptying their waters into this stream which flowed steadily on to- ward the grand but awful climax. That event simply marked the point when the movement became to great longer to be controlled.
 These originating causes are usually small. On the one side 6 common origin, 6 common history, common civilIza- tion, 8 common language, common re- ligion bound England and her colonies in indissoluble union, as one might we'll have thought. But 8 little stamped paFer, tax of three pence per lb. upon tea, word dropped here and there by some champion of liberty. Here was the beginning of a struggle full of dis grace for the mother country, full of suffering for us. So much for civil affairs.
 The chevslier, Ienatius Loyola, stood one day In the presence of intuition of war. Rank, wealth, handsome bearing a commanding forIn, personal bravery had marked out for him military career. Along came cannon ball and shattered one of his limbs. A cannon ball aimed at random by an unknown had gaze to the Catholic church the ardent monk and the -ascetic monk gave to Europe the school of the Jesuits which ruled so conspicuously her courts and councils for so long period can- non bail aimed at random by an un- known hand made centuries of her his tory.
 These movements may be easily turned by us in one direction or Rn- other.
 An individual stands with dropping head overcome by indecisiCn and per plexity. His name nay be placed among the beneisctors of his race, hIs life may be blessing to many lives, many may be made better and happier because he has lived. Or again he may go down covered with infsmy and shame, he may live a marsader, 8 preyer upon society, he may shed distillatlon of bitterness over all with whom he IS con- nected and make his name and theirs a reproach for generations. He may live Jo curse the day in which he was born. These things are among the posslolli- ties of the coming tune. What awful sol-mnity in those few moments. A kind word, little timely interest ana the life goes upward, harsh word, a false step and all is lost. Little words weigh like mountains little acts heavier than the everlasting hills lD moment of time, in a word, in look, may be honor or dishonor, happiness or woe, life or death, consequences that reach out into futurity thet never ceases to flow.
 "All is we'll that ends we'll" but the point to determine how 1t shall end IS by making a right beginning
 1.-The day of small things IS the only time when we are masters Of the situation.
 lou can pull up the shrub, you can not uproot the oak of two centuries growth, you can stop the course of the Till, you cannot that of the Mississippi The predecessors of Louis the XVI, by judicious and timely concessions of of much needed reforms when the first signs of revolution began to appear might have sllayed the foment in the minds of the populace and averted the catastrophe; but when this magazine in to which fuel had been gathered from &l