| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: it."
Theudas replied in this wise, "Dread not, O king, the oppositions
and vain babblings of the Galileans: for of what worth against
reasonable and sensible men are the arguments that they use?
These methinks shall be more easily overthrown than a leaf shaken
with the wind. They shall not endure to face me, far less join
argument, or come to propositions and oppositions with me. But,
in order that the coming contest and all our wishes may prosper,
and that our matters may run smoothly with the stream, adorn thou
with thy presence this public festival, and gird on for thy
strong sword the favour of the gods, and well befall thee!"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: For none can tell to what red Hell
His sightless soul may stray.
At last the dead man walked no more
Amongst the Trial Men,
And I knew that he was standing up
In the black dock's dreadful pen,
And that never would I see his face
In God's sweet world again.
Like two doomed ships that pass in storm
We had crossed each other's way:
But we made no sign, we said no word,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: was mixed in the oddest way with depressions and disappointments.
It was dreadful, as she trembled by, to run the risk of looking to
him as if she basely hung about; and yet it was dreadful to be
obliged to pass only at such moments as put an encounter out of the
question.
At the horrible hour of her first coming to Cocker's he was always-
-it was to be hoped--snug in bed; and at the hour of her final
departure he was of course--she had such things all on her
fingers'-ends--dressing for dinner. We may let it pass that if she
couldn't bring herself to hover till he was dressed, this was
simply because such a process for such a person could only be
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