| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: Another cause inflamed the minds of the nation at large, no less
than the tempting prospect of the wealth of England animated the
soldiery. So much had been written and said on either side
concerning the form of church government, that it had become a
matter of infinitely more consequence in the eyes of the
multitude than the doctrines of that gospel which both churches
had embraced. The Prelatists and Presbyterians of the more
violent kind became as illiberal as the Papists, and would
scarcely allow the possibility of salvation beyond the pale of
their respective churches. It was in vain remarked to these
zealots, that had the Author of our holy religion considered any
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest: That little church of Long Ago, it wasn't grand to see,
But even as a little boy it meant a lot to me.
The choir loft where father sang comes back to me again;
I hear his tenor voice once more the way I heard it when
The deacons used to pass the plate, and once again I see
The people fumbling for their coins, as glad as they could be
To drop their quarters on the plate, and I'm a boy once more
With my two pennies in my fist that mother gave before
We left the house, and once again I'm reaching out to try
To drop them on the plate before the deacon passes by.
It seems to me I'm sitting in that high-backed pew, the while
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Aesop's Fables by Aesop: me to my master and you shall share my work."
So the Wolf and the Dog went towards the town together. On
the way there the Wolf noticed that the hair on a certain part of
the Dog's neck was very much worn away, so he asked him how that
had come about.
"Oh, it is nothing," said the Dog. "That is only the place
where the collar is put on at night to keep me chained up; it
chafes a bit, but one soon gets used to it."
"Is that all?" said the Wolf. "Then good-bye to you, Master
Dog."
Better starve free than be a fat slave.
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