| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: Himself all that is hers?
In this is displayed the delightful sight, not only of communion,
but of a prosperous warfare, of victory, salvation, and
redemption. For, since Christ is God and man, and is such a
Person as neither has sinned, nor dies, nor is condemned, nay,
cannot sin, die, or be condemned, and since His righteousness,
life, and salvation are invincible, eternal, and almighty,--when
I say, such a Person, by the wedding-ring of faith, takes a share
in the sins, death, and hell of His wife, nay, makes them His
own, and deals with them no otherwise than as if they were His,
and as if He Himself had sinned; and when He suffers, dies, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: from which he should have to eject the unfortunate victims
of a monstrously tangled land system, but let his emis-
saxies do the work. There was lead in every cabin,
moulded into balls for him; many of his brothers had
enriched the grass with their blood. The fault of it all
lay far back.
When the state was young, she felt the need of attract-
ing newcomers, and of rewarding those pioneers already
within her borders. Year after year she issued land scrip
-- Headrights, Bounties, Veteran Donations, Confeder-
ates; and to railroads, irrigation companies, colonies,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells: more and more of them, opening out as the possible lives before us,
a perfect wilderness between salvation and damnation, a wilderness
so vast and crowded that at last it seems as though the way to
either hell or heaven would be lost in its interminable futility.
Such planless indeterminate lives, plebeian lives, mere lives, fill
the world, and the spectacle of whole nations, our whole
civilization, seems to me to re-echo this planlessness, this
indeterminate confusion of purpose. Plain issues are harder and
harder to find, it is as if they had disappeared. Simple living is
the countryman come to town. We are deafened and jostled and
perplexed. There are so many things afoot that we get nothing. . . .
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