| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: persecutes the truth and the children of God, and yet esteems it no
sin.
In the third place, what concerns us all, this commandment forbids all
sins of the tongue whereby we may injure or approach too closely to our
neighbor. For to bear false witness is nothing else than a work of the
tongue. Now, whatever is done with the tongue against a fellow-man God
would have prohibited, whether it be false preachers with their
doctrine and blasphemy, false judges and witnesses with their verdict,
or outside of court by lying and evil-speaking. Here belongs
particularly the detestable, shameful vice of speaking behind a
person's back and slandering, to which the devil spurs us on and of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard: "Macropha, your mother, and Nada, your sister, are dead, Umslopogaas.
They are dead at the hands of the people of the Halakazi, who dwell in
Swaziland."
"I have heard of that people," he answered presently, "and so has
Galazi the Wolf, yonder. He has a hate to satisfy against them--they
murdered his father; now I have two, for they have murdered my mother
and my sister. Ah, Nada, my sister! Nada, my sister!" and the great
man covered his face with his hands, and rocked himself to and fro in
his grief.
Now, my father, it came into my thoughts to make the truth plain to
Umslopogaas, and tell him that Nada was no sister of his, and that he
Nada the Lily |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: invented (and mind, one man must have invented the thing first, and
by the very nature of it, invented it all at once) an instrument so
singular, unexpected, unlike anything to be seen in nature, that I
wonder it has not been called, like the plough, the olive, or the
vine, a gift of the immortal gods: and yet an instrument so simple,
so easy, and so perfect, that it spread over all races in Europe and
America, and no substitute could be found for it till the latter
part of the fifteenth century. Yes, a great genius was he, and the
consequent founder of a great aristocracy and conquering race, who
first invented for himself and his children after him a--bow and
arrow.
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