If the populace were to govern itself and there were nothing interposed between the administration of the state and the citizens, they would have to assess themselves on occasion, in proportion to the public needs and the abilities of private individuals. And since no one would ever lose sigh of the payment or the use of funds, neither fraud nor abuse could slip into the management of them. The state would never be weighed down with debts, nor would the populace be crushed by taxes; or at least the assurance of how it would be used would console the people for hardship of the tax. However, things cannot happen this way; and however limited a state may be, the civil society is always too populous to be capable of being governed by all its members. Public funds must necessarily pass through the hands of the leaders who all have over and above the interest of the state, their own private interest, which is not the last to be heard. The populace, for its part, perceiving the leaders’ greed and ridiculous expenditures more than public needs, grumbles about seeing itself despoiled of necessity to furnish someone else with superfluities. And when once these manoeuvres have embittered it to a certain degree, the most honourable administration would utterly fail to reestablish confidence. If contributions are voluntary, in such circumstances, they produce nothing. If hey are forced, they are illegitimate. And the difficulty of a just and wise economy lies in the cruel alternatives of allowing that state to perish or attacking the sacred right to property which is its underpinning. #RandolphHarris 1 of 18

The first thing to be done by the founder of the republic, after the establishment of the laws, is to find a sufficient fund for the maintenance of the magistrates and other officers, and for all public expenditures. If it consists of money, and public domain, if it consists of land, this fund is called aerarium or fisc. And the latter is far preferable to the former for reasons that are not hard to see. Anyone who has reflected enough on this matter could hardly be of any other opinion than the of Bodin, who views the public domain as the most upright and the most secure of all the means of providing for the needs of the state. It is worth noting that Romulus’ first concern in the division of the lands was to set aside a third of the land for this use. I confess that it is not impossible for the proceeds of a badly administered state to be reduced to nothing. However, it is not of the essence of the domain to be administered poorly. Prior to any use that fund, it ought to be assigned or accepted by the assembly of the people or the estates of the country, which should then determine its use. After this solemnity which renders this fund inalienable, it changes its nature, as it were, and its revenues becomes so sacred that diverting the least amount to detriment of its destination is not only the most infamous of all thefts but a crime of high treason. It is a great dishonour for Rome that the integrity of the quaestor Cato had been a subject of conversation, and that an emperor, on rewarding a singer’s talent with a few crowns, needed to add that money came from his family’s estate and not from the state’s. #RandolphHarris 2 of 18

However, if there are not many like Galba, where will we find Catos? And once vice is no longer a cause for dishonour, what leaders will be scrupulous enough to refrain from getting their hands on the public funds left to their discretion, and not eventually fool themselves by pretending to confuse their vain and scandalous dissipations with the glory of the state, and the means of extending their authority with those of increasing its power? It is above all in this delicate part of the administration that virtue is the only effective instrument, and that the integrity of the magistrate is the only restrain capable of containing one’s greed. Books and all the ledgers of managers seems less to reveal their infidelities than to cover them up. And prudence is never as prompt at imagining new precautions as knaves are at eluding them. Therefore forget about the ledgers and papers, and place the finances in faithful hands; this is the only way to have them faithfully administered. Once the public fund is established, the leaders of the state are rightfully its administrators, for this administration constitutes a part of the government, always essential, though not always equally so. Its influence increases in proportion to the decrease of the influence of the other parts of the government. Once could say that a government has reached its final degree of corruption when the only thing left of its sinews is money. For since every government constantly tends toward diminution, this reason alone shows why no state can subsist if its revenues do not constantly increase. The first experience of the necessity of this argument is also the first sign of the interior disorder of the state. #RandolphHarris 3 of 18

And the wise administrator, in giving though to finding money in order to see to present need, does not neglect to seek the distant cause of this new need, just as a sailor, on seeing water flood his vessel, does not forget, while working the pumps, to take steps to find and plug the leak. From this rule flows the most important maxim of the administration of finances, which is to work with much greater care to prevent needs than to augment revenues. However, diligent one might be, help that comes only after the misfortune took place, and more slowly, always leaves the state in distress. While one gives thought to the remedy for one problem, another problem is already making itself felt, and the resources themselves produce new difficulties. Thus in the end the nation is thrown into debt, the populace is downtrodden, the government loses all its vigour and it spends a great deal of money doing not much of anything. I believe it was from this great and well established maxim that the marvels of ancient governments flowed, which did more with their parsimony than ours do with all their treasures. And it is perhaps from this that the standard meaning of the word economy is derived, which denotes more the wise management of what one has, than the means of acquiring what one does not have. What deepens the identity crisis of the corporation still further is the emergence, against this already unsettling background, of a Worldwide movement demanding not merely modest changes in this or that corporate policy but a deep redefinition of its purposes. In the United States of America, public anger at corporations is beginning to well up at a frightening rate. #RandolphHarris 4 of 18

A study by Harvard Business School whose findings sent tremours throughout the corporate World, revealed about half of all consumer polled believe they are getting worse treatment in the marketplace than they were a decade earlier; three fifths say that products have deteriorated; over half mistrust product guarantees. A worried businessman said, “It feels like siting on a San Andreas fault.” Worse yet, growing numbers of people are not simply disenchanted, irritated or angry, but irrationally and erratically afraid of new technologies and business ventures. Public confidence in American corporation is lower than at any time since the Great Depression. American business and the accounting profession are being called on the carpet for a kind of zero-based rejustification of just about everything we do. Corporate performance is being measured against new and unfamiliar norms. Similar tendencies are visible in Scandinavia, Western Europe, and even, sotto voce, in the socialist industrial nations. In Japan, as Toyota’s official magazine puts it, “A citizens’ movement of a type never before seen in Japan is gradually gathering momentum, one that criticizes the way corporations disrupt everyday life.” Certainly corporations have come under scorching attack at other times in their history. Much of today’s clamour of complaint, however, is crucially different and arises from the emerging values and assumptions of Third Wave civilization, not the dying industrial past. Throughout the Second Wave era corporations have been seen as economic units, and the attacks on them have essentially focused on economic issues. #RandolphHarris 5 of 18

Critics assail corporations for underpaying working, overcharging customers, forming cartels to fix prices, making shoddy goods, and a thousand other economic transgressions. However, no matter how violent, most of these critics accept the corporation’s self-definition: they share the view of the corporation as an inherently economic institution. Today’s corporate critics start from a totally different premise. They attack the artificial divorce of economics from politics, morality, and the other dimensions of life. They hold the corporation increasingly responsible, not merely for its economic performance but for its side effects on everything from air pollution to executive stress. Corporations are thus assailed for asbestos poisoning, for using poor, marginalized, rare and/or oppressed populations as test subjects, for distorting the development of the non-industrial World, for racism, sexism, for secrecy and deception. They are pilloried for supporting unsavory regimes or political parties, from the fascist generals in Washington D.C and the racists in Sacramento to the Community party controlling the State of California and the mostly fake news media. What is at issue here is not whether such charges are justified—all too often they are. What is far more important is the concept of the corporation they imply. For the Third Wave brings with it a rising demand for a new kind of institution altogether—a corporation no longer responsible simply for making a profit or producing goods but for simultaneously contributing to the solution of extremely complex ecological, moral, political, racial, sexual, and social problems. Instead of clinging to a sharply specialized economic function, the corporation, prodded by criticism, legislation, and its own concerned executives, is becoming a multipurpose institution. #RandolphHarris 6 of 18

God sees your good moves. Do not fear the judgment of Humankind, My dear Devout, especially when your conscience judges you innocent and returns a verdict of not guilty. Rather, cast your heart firmly in the Lord. Your Heavenly Father does not dwell on the times you reached the point where you were so unhappy and without hope that you could not feel any worse. “Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace,” Ephesians 6.14-15. You need the breastplate of God’s approval. Every morning, no matter how you feel, no matter what you may have done wrong the day before, you can get up and says, “Father, I thank You that You approve me, and that You are pleased with me. I thank You that I am forgiven. I know that I am a friend of God.” If you will do that, you will be amazed at what begins to happen. God will change your whole self-image, and remove the heavy load of guilt and condemnation will be lifted off you. God will restore your joy, and bless you with the ability to go out and enjoy your day with a Godly attitude. However, when the tongue of another stings, know two things. First, that something good and blessed may actually have happened. Second, that your trust in God as opposed to yourself cushioned the blow. Putting on the breastplate of God’s approval does not happen automatically; it is something we must do. Just as we put on our clothes every morning, we need to get up and consciously put on God’s approval. #RandolphHarris 7 of 18

One of the worst mistakes we can make is to go through life disapproving of ourselves. Nothing will plunge you into defeat any quicker than being negative and critical toward yourself. “I do not know why I cannot do anything right?” “Why can I not get over this habit?” “How come I can not break this cycle of oppression and poverty?” Many people can blither and blather, but they are no more convincing at the end of an hour than at the beginning. Of course, satisfying everybody is never really possible. As the Great Paul reported in First Corinthians, he strove to do it in the Lord (10.33), and the Lord made him all things to all men (9.22). Nevertheless, he thought it pretty small beer when he received good reports from his peers (4.3). Paul did about as much as any one person could do for the edification and salvation of others. However, try though he did, he knew that he could not prevent himself from offending others. The best remedy was to commit himself totally to God, who knew all his strengths and weaknesses. With Patience and Humility as his only allies, then, he was able to defend himself against whatever mouthings came from the thinking crowd and whatever hurlings came from the drinking crowd. And there was another reason why he responded; his silence could be interpreted, at least in the minds of the weak, as admission of guilt. God sees in you what He made you to become. He knows you can live up to your full potential. God did not create anyone to fail. He will keep working on you and make you into the person he wants you to be. God can see your heart, but humans look at the outside. You have gifts and talents that nobody else has. #RandolphHarris 8 of 18

Stop thinking about what you cannot do and look at what you can do. If I may use the words of God’s Isaiah (51.12), who are you that you should fear Mere Mortal Man? He is here today but gone tomorrow. If I may use the words of God’s First Maccabist (2.63). Fear God, yes, but do not lose your water over humanmade terrors. What real harm can insults or injuries do you? The tout or the lout who specializes in this sort of behaviour actually does more harm to oneself than to you. And that is in this life; in the next, there is nowhere to hide, nowhere to run. The judgment of God awaits one, no matter who one is; Paul assured the Romans of that (2.3). The remedy? Put God in first place. And do not waste time and energy tossing quarrelsome words about. Good advice from Paul in his Second to Timothy (2.14). However, what happens in the present moment if you do not succumb to concussion and suffer contusion you do not deserve? First off, do not get indignant, and do not threaten your eternal crown by outbursts of all, God the One who will rescue you from all confusion. And God is the One who will reward you according to your just deserts. God’s Paul assured the Romans of that (2.6), and so He assures you. The Scripture says, “Be confident of this. He that began a good work in you will continue to perform it until it is perfectly complete,” reports Philippians 1.6. God is never going to quit working on us. He is not going to get halfway through and say, “I am tired of dealing with you.” “You keep making that same mistake.” “You have got so many faults, I have had it with you.” #RandolphHarris 9 of 18

No, God is going to keep working on you until you are more valuable than all the diamonds in the Universe. In fact, you already are! You just have to come into your full potential and you will see what God already sees about you. Therefore, keep persevering. Do not allow the devil to keep replaying your mistake, distorting your legacy, slandering your character. One day the legendary artist Michelangelo was standing in front of a huge rock. With his hammer and chisel, he was working on the rock, in the beginning stages of sculpting it into a piece of art. He knew it was going to be a long, drawn-out process. Somebody came along and said, “What are you doing wasting your time working on that big piece of junk?” Michelangelo said, “There is a beautiful angel trapped in this rock, and I am doing my best to let him out.” The master artist saw something that other people could not see because they did not have the talent and the skill and the vision to create. Michelangelo’s David state is what he ended up creating and it has captivated the World for centuries. It is considered one of art history’s major master pieces. The fine detail make it look like a 17-foot-tall marble made with the perfect body, gorgeous hair, and the exquisite facial features known to man. It was all formed from a single block of marble between 1501 and 1504, and weighs six tons. The sculpture portrays David, a biblical figure. In a particularly well-known narrative (1 Samuel 17), David battles Goliath, a colossal Philistine. Against all odds, an unarmored David knocks down his enemy. The statue of David symbolizes unwavering courage, unexpected strength, and biblical perseverance that a nation should see in itself.  And that is what God sees in us. One may have made a lot of mistakes, but stay focused on what you can become and God will get you where you need to be. #RandolphHarris 10 of 18

God sees you are a valuable son or daughter whom He created in His own image. He is not done working on your yet. God loves you, He approves of you, and God’s approval is something He put in you before the foundation of the World. It is not based on your achievements or performance. It is based solely on the fact that you are His child and He sees the best in you. God accepts you. God approves you. There is nothing you can do and there is nothing anybody else can do that will ever change your value in God’s eyes. Father, I thank You that You have already accepted and approved of me. I may not be perfect, but I am trying, and I am going out today with my head held high, knowing that You are in the process of changing me. Four missionaries—Oliver Cowdery, Parley P. Pratt, Peter Whitmer, and Ziba Peterson—knew they must leas their new friends in Kirtland and continue their journey westward to preach to the Indians. Doctor Frederick G. Williams, who had been baptized at Kirtland, went with them. They stopped several days and preached to the Wyandotte Indians in Ohio. On December 20, 1830, they left Cincinnati, Ohio, by boat to go to St. Louis, Missouri. Because the weather turned cold and ice blocked the river, their boat docked at Cairo, Illinois, and these men walked two hundred miles to St. Louis. This was not unusual. Many travelers walked in those says. They had walked most of the way from New York and people along the way opened their homes to give them food and shelter. God had sent them on a mission to preach to the Lamanites (Indians), and they were anxious to reach the western land. The winter was very cold, and there would be no boat to western Missouri until spring, but not one of them suggested waiting until spring. They walked. #RandolphHarris 11 of 18

The worst snowstorms the country had ever seen raged through Missouri as these men walked the two hundred and fifty miles from St. Louis to Independence. Many mornings it was twelve degrees below zero, and it snowed day after day until the snow was four feet deep. There were few roads in those days. Though sometimes there were trials the humans could follow, most of the time they walked in knee-deep snow across trackless land. At times they walked days before they saw a house. They carried their extra clothing, books, and food on their backs. Their food consisted of frozen bread and pork, and at time the bread was so frozen they could bite off only pieces of the outside crust. However, they kept going and God was with them. Their mission was inspired by Jesus Christ, and they were protected and happy even though it was difficult journey. They arrived in the tiny western Missouri town of Independence on January 31, 1831, after walking nearly a month in the terrible winter storms. Two of the men immediately started a tailor shop in Independence, where they made clothing. Three of them, including Oliver Cowdery and Parley Pratt, crossed into Kansas which was Indian territory, to take the angel message to the Lamanites. There they were taken to the chief of the Delaware Indians, a man who had long been the chief and was called the Great Grandfather. He was seated on a sofa of furs, skins, and blankets before a fire in the center of his two-room cabin. The chief welcomed the missionaries and motioned for them to sit down on blankets and robes. #RandolphHarris 12 of 18

The Indian women brought a tin pan full of beans and corn cooked together. This tasted very good, but there was just one wooden spoon so the man had to take turns eating. One of the Indians understood English, and he could interpret what the missionaries said to the old chief. The men told the chief about the Book of Mormon and asked him to call a council of his Indians. At first the chief refused, but after they explained more about the book, he was interested and called his Indians together. Within an hour forty Indians came and shook hands with the missionaries and sat around them. Oliver Cowdery then talked to them in the words they could understand. “Chief and members of the council,” he said, “we are glad to talk to you as our native brothers and friends. We have come a long way from the rising sun to being you glad news, across he rivers and through the deep snows so you might know the things which will do the native man good as well as the pilgrims. “Once the natives were many, and the land from the rising to the setting sun was theirs, for the Great Spirit gave it to them. There were no pilgrims then, but now the natives are few, they are por and the pilgrims many. “Thousands of moons ago when the native man lived in peace in this land, the Great Spirit talked with them and taught them his law and his will. They wrote these things in a book which was written on plates of gold and handed down from father to son for many ages. The people were wealthy and strong and mighty. However, they became wicked and killed each other. They killed the wise men and the prophets of the Great Spirit, and tried to destroy the book. The Great Spirit was angry and would speak to them no more. #RandolphHarris 13 of 18

“The Great Spirit commanded Mormon and Moroni—their last wise men and prophets to hide the book in the Earth so it might be saved. He promised that later it would be given to the pilgrims who would come to the land that they might again bring it to the native man so they might learn the Will of the Great Spirit. The Great Spirit promised that if the native man would receive the book and learn the things written in it and do them, they would be happy again and live in peace. Then the native man would become great with plenty to eat and good clothes to wear, and find favour with the Great Spirit and be His children.” Oliver then explained how Joseph Smith had prayed to the Great Spirit, and how the angel told him about the book. It was written in the language of the native man’s forefathers so that young man could not read it. However, the angel gave him a way to translate the book so it could be written on paper, and be printed, and now there were thousands of copies of the book. Oliver gave the chief a Book of Mormon. The Indians talked this over in their own language. Then the chief said the missionaries, “We are truly thankful to our pilgrim friends who have come so far to tell us the good news of our forefathers. It makes us feel glad in here,” and he placed his hand over his heart. The Indian chief promised they would build a council house where the missionaries could teach the Indians. Several of the Indians could read, and they were given copies of the Book of Mormon. The Indians were so interested that the government men in charge of the Indians were distributed. They forbade the missionaries to preach to the Indians any more and ordered them to leave the Indian country. #RandolphHarris 14 of 18

The three men then returned to Independence to preach to pilgrim men, some of them who believed and were baptized. Though the missionaries could not preach again these Indians, they felt they had accomplished much as now Indians in New York, in Ohio, and in Kansas had heard the story of heir forefathers. They hoped they might teach them more at a later time. The next month Parley Pratt was sent back to New York to reports on their work and to get more copies of the Book of Mormon, because they had given away all they had brought with them. The Holy Ghost proceeds from the Father; and He is distinct from the Son, according to the words, “I will ask My Father, and He will give you another Paraclete,” reports John 14.16. Therefore in God another procession exists besides the procession of the Word. There are two processions in God; the procession of the Word, and another. In evidence whereof we must observe that procession exists in God, only according to an action which does not tend to anything external, but remains in the agent itself. Such an action in an intellectual nature is that of the intellect, and of the will. The procession of the Word is by way of an intelligible operation. The operation of the will within ourselves involves also another procession, that of love, whereby the object loved is in the lover; as, by the conception of the word, the object spoken of or understood is in the intelligent agent. Hence, besides the procession of the Word in God, there exists in Him another procession called the procession of love. There is no need to go out infinitude in the divine processions; for the procession which is accomplished within the agent in an intellectual nature terminates in the procession of the will. #RandolphHarris 15 of 18

All that exists in God, is God; whereas the same does not apply to others. Therefore the divine nature is communicated by every procession which is not outward, and this does not apply to other natures. Though will and intellect are not diverse in God, nevertheless the nature of will and intellect requires the processions belonging to each of them to exist in a certain order. For the procession of love occurs in due order as regards the procession of the Word; since nothing can be loved by the will unless it is conceived in the intellect. So as there exists a certain order of the Word to the principle whence He proceeds, although in God the substance of the intellect and its concept are the same; so, although in God the will and the intellect are the same, still, inasmuch as love requires by its very nature that it proceeds only from the concept of the intellect, there is a distinction of order between the procession of love and the procession of the Word in God. Many additional-more perplexing—studies have accumulated on the links between religion and altruism and between religion and prejudice. Most of the studies of altruistic behaviour have observed people’s willingness to help in minor emergencies—to mail an addressed lost letter found on the sidewalk, to call the garage for a stranded motorist who just spent her only spare change calling the wrong number, to assist someone in an adjacent room who was heard to fall off a ladder. However, there is no evidence that [highly religious people] are any more likely than he less religious to help someone in need. #RandolphHarris 16 of 18

The more religious may see themselves as more helpful and caring; they may even been seen this way by others. However, when it comes to action, there is no evidence that they are more helpful. Other research asks, Who are the long-term altruists? Who gives most generously of time and money? Most of America’s top philanthropists are religious: Jewish, Mormon, Protestant, and Catholic. And most attribute their philanthropic urges at least in part to their religious background. It is not just the superrich and generous. Americans who said they never attended church or synagogue reported giving away 1.1. percent of their incomes. Weekly attenders were two and a half times as generous. This 24 percent of the population gave 48 percent of all charitable contributions. The other three-quarters of Americans gave the remaining half. Follow-up surveys in 2015, 2020, and 2021 confirmed the faith-philanthropy correlation. A half dozen national surveys also reveal that faith is linked to volunteerism. Charitable and social-service volunteering was reported by 28 percent of those who rated religion “not very important” in their lives and by 50 percent of those who rated it “very important.” People who think Godliness unrelated to goodliness might also want to consider: Who most often adopts children? Who sponsors the nation’s food pantries and soup kitchens? Who first took medicine into the developing World and opened hospitals? Who sheltered orphans? Who spread literacy and established schools and universities? And who led movements to abolish the slave trance, end apartheid, and establish civil rights? Let no one be smug. It is true that many are good without God, that many believers go to sleep behind bars each night, and that toxic religion can undergird terrorism. #RandolphHaris 17 of 18

Yet the accumulating evidence indicates that, in general, faith tethers self-interest and nurtures character. Godliness and goodliness do seem more than typographically linked. Ice mountain melted ages ago, and made this ridge, this place changes. Now we are rooted in it, we of the old ones, we of the new ones from afar; oatgrass meadow, dougals fir thicket, we are rooted in the ridge of changes in the time of changes. The winds carry strange smells; this is a day of change. Great ones above and below, please bless us! O shining One above, please feed us with your light! O soft ones, sky darkeners, please wash us with your raindrops! O powers above us, bless us with your gift, for we reach up to you, branching wood and sap. O Earthmother from whom we grow, sandy gravel into whom our roots branch wood and sap deep down, bless us in our night-sleep, in our death and decay. Please bless us, dark Earth as we give back that which we have received as we make a forest of blessing a ridge of blessing for the future to grow upon. For those of old who went Thy wars to fight whole-hearted, in their hands Thy saving might; chosen when gathering in their palms the water—save them for ever faithful in Thy sight, save them, our Father. For him, that only son, who crushed the foe, sacred from birth, a Nazarite to grow, for whom from out a jaw-bone gushed forth water—Save! even for Thine holy name save now! Please save us, our Father. For his sake who is favour yet grew on when through their sinfulness the throngs had gone; who, turning men from sin, spake: “Now draw water”—please save her more fair than America when she shone, please save her, our Father. #RandolphHarris 18 of 18

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Residence Four at Mills Station boasts 2,692 square feet in the largest home in the community. The open concept design includes four bedrooms, three and one half bathrooms and a two car garage plus workshop.

The Home Hub, located off the entry, can be used as a study, office, or kids play room. The kitchen comes fully equipped with a large eat-in island, stainless steel appliances, and quartz counters and opens onto the spacious great room.

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