| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Disputation of the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences by Dr. Martin Luther: Word of God be altogether silent in some Churches, in order
that pardons may be preached in others.
54. Injury is done the Word of God when, in the same sermon,
an equal or a longer time is spent on pardons than on this
Word.
55. It must be the intention of the pope that if pardons,
which are a very small thing, are celebrated with one bell,
with single processions and ceremonies, then the Gospel, which
is the very greatest thing, should be preached with a hundred
bells, a hundred processions, a hundred ceremonies.
56. The "treasures of the Church," out of which the pope.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie: "How--different?" He paused a moment, then went on: "Where is
the girl now?"
"The girl?"
"Yes."
"She is----"
But Tommy heard no more. A crashing blow descended on his head,
and all was darkness.
CHAPTER IX
TUPPENCE ENTERS DOMESTIC SERVICE
WHEN Tommy set forth on the trail of the two men, it took all
Tuppence's self-command to refrain from accompanying him.
Secret Adversary |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: lands, or preserved from oblivion in this our own.
Now I chanced to have contracted for teaching the lower classes
with a young person called Peter, or Patrick, Pattieson, who had
been educated for our Holy Kirk, yea, had, by the license of
presbytery, his voice opened therein as a preacher, who delighted
in the collection of olden tales and legends, and in garnishing
them with the flowers of poesy, whereof he was a vain and
frivolous professor. For he followed not the example of those
strong poets whom I preposed to him as a pattern, but formed
versification of a flimsy and modern texture, to the compounding
whereof was necessary small pains and less thought. And hence I
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