| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: If the woman would change places with the man, if the son would change
places with the father, the servant with the master, nothing but confusion
would result. In Christ, however, all are equal. We all have one and the
same Gospel, "one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all," one
Christ and Savior of all. The Christ of Peter, Paul, and all the saints is our
Christ. Paul can always be depended on to add the conditional clause, "In
Christ Jesus." If we lose sight of Christ, we lose out.
VERSE 29. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs
according to the promise.
"If ye be Christ's" means, if you believe in Christ. If you believe in Christ,
then are you the children of Abraham indeed. Through our faith in Christ
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott: manuscripts which she did me the honour to bequeath me in the
manner in which I have now used them. It must be added, however,
that in most cases I have disguised names, and in some have added
shading and colouring to bring out the narrative.
Much of my materials, besides these, are derived from friends,
living or dead. The accuracy of some of these may be doubtful,
in which case I shall be happy to receive, from sufficient
authority, the correction of the errors which must creep into
traditional documents. The object of the whole publication is to
throw some light on the manners of Scotland as they were, and to
contrast them occasionally with those of the present day. My own
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis: And only ghosts of gods and wraiths may meet
the backward-gazer's view.
Where, where the faiths of yesterday? Ah,
whither vanished, whither gone?
Say, what Apollos drive to-day adown the flaming
slopes of dawn?
Oh, does the blank past hide from view forgotten
Christs, to be reborn,
The future tremble where some new Messiah-
Memnon sings the morn?
Of all the worlds, say any earth, like dust wind-
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