Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1894 — Has Its Influence. [ARTICLE]

Has Its Influence.

event in life has its special influence, and bears relation to the sum total, ‘while we. as individuals, are responsible for ultimate results. We do not apprehend thia on first thought, but aJ|ttie logical reasoning will convince one that nothing happens, or comes by chance: that the law of sequence is unalterable, and cause and effect but sowing and reaping. Every thought/’word. and deed of ours is of moment to ourselves and the world at large, for none Hveth or dieth to himself, and the “silver cord” that binds all humanity into one, if touched at any giveq point must vibrate along the line. z Every life is a liiik in the world's great record. We are all historians and world builders. We make our own worlds and people them, while memory, the scribe, faithfully registers the account, of each as we pass the milestones dotting the wav. Are we not, then, responsible for the inhabitants of our little worlds? We should fill them with the true, the beautiful and the good, since we are endowed with the faculty of creating, says a writer in the Boston Budget The architect builds exteriorly. In that special department few of us have special interest We prefer building from the interior, knowing that if the center of the structure is safe and sure the whole will be.