| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: partaking of the Sacrament] that we grow quite cold and hardened, so
that we have no inclination or love for it. We must never regard the
Sacrament as something injurious from which we had better flee but as a
pure wholesome, comforting remedy imparting salvation and comfort,
which will cure you and give you life both in soul and body. For where
the soul has recovered, the body also is relieved. Why, then, is it
that we act as if it were a poison, the eating of which would bring
death?
To be sure, it is true that those who despise it and live in an
unchristian manner receive it to their hurt and damnation; for nothing
shall be good or wholesome to them, just as with a sick person who from
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ann Veronica by H. G. Wells: certain standing not only as a singer but as a critic, and I
belong to one of the most brilliant causerie dinner clubs of the
day, in which successful Bohemianism, politicians, men of
affairs, artists, sculptors, and cultivated noblemen generally,
mingle together in the easiest and most delightful intercourse.
That is my real milieu, and one that I am convinced you would not
only adorn but delight in.
"I find it very hard to write this letter. There are so many
things I want to tell you, and they stand on such different
levels, that the effect is necessarily confusing and discordant,
and I find myself doubting if I am really giving you the thread
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne: yards long, and large in proportion, can maintain itself in such depths--
of those whose surface is represented by millions of square inches, that is
by tens of millions of pounds, we must estimate the pressure they undergo.
Consider, then, what must be the resistance of their bony structure,
and the strength of their organisation to withstand such pressure!"
"Why!" exclaimed Ned Land, "they must be made of iron plates
eight inches thick, like the armoured frigates."
"As you say, Ned. And think what destruction such a mass would cause,
if hurled with the speed of an express train against the hull of a vessel."
"Yes--certainly--perhaps," replied the Canadian, shaken by these figures,
but not yet willing to give in.
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