| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: rest and be thankful. Hark! There is a white-throated sparrow, on
a little tree across the river, whistling his afternoon song
"In linked sweetness long drawn out."
Down in Maine they call him the Peabody-bird, because his notes
sound to them like Old man--Peabody, peabody, peabody. In New
Brunswick the Scotch settlers say that he sings Lost--lost--
Kennedy, kennedy, kennedy. But here in his northern home I think
we can understand him better. He is singing again and again, with
a cadence that never wearies, "Sweet--sweet--Canada, canada,
canada!" The Canadians, when they came across the sea, remembering
the nightingale of southern France, baptised this little gray
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: drums booming and voices raised in savage folk songs. But as the
sun dipped they ceased their tumult. The rounded hush of midnight
was complete. Stockard rose to his knees and peered over the
logs. Once the child wailed in pain and disconcerted him. The
mother bent over it, but it slept again. The silence was
interminable, profound. Then, of a sudden, the robins burst into
full-throated song. The night had passed.
A flood of dark figures boiled across the open. Arrows whistled
and bow-thongs sang. The shrill-tongued rifles answered back. A
spear, and a mighty cast, transfixed the Teslin woman as she
hovered above the child. A spent arrow, diving between the logs,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: community or such a magistrate, or of my neighbour as an example
to him; for this cause I will do and suffer all things, just as
Christ did and suffered much more for me, though He needed not at
all to do so on His own account, and made Himself for my sake
under the law, when He was not under the law. And although
tyrants may do me violence or wrong in requiring obedience to
these things, yet it will not hurt me to do them, so long as they
are not done against God.
>From all this every man will be able to attain a sure judgment
and faithful discrimination between all works and laws, and to
know who are blind and foolish pastors, and who are true and good
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