| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair: He was beside himself with terror and distress.
The other's reply was delivered in a solemn tone. "Understand,
sir, for every one of out patients we do all that we can,
whether it be the greatest personage, or the last comer to out
hospital clinic. We have no secrets in reserve for those who are
more fortunate, or less fortunate than the others, and who are in
a hurry to be cured."
George gazed at him for a moment in bewilderment and despair, and
then suddenly bowed his head. "Good-by, Doctor," he answered.
"Au revoir, sir," the other corrected--with what proved to be
prophetic understanding. For George was destined to see him
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: Law must leave the bed of the conscience, which is so narrow that it cannot
hold two, as Isaiah says, chapter 28, verse 20.
Only Paul among the apostles calls the Law "the elements of the world, weak
and beggarly elements, the strength of sin, the letter that killeth," etc. The
other apostles do not speak so slightingly of the Law. Those who want to be
first-class scholars in the school of Christ want to pick up the language of
Paul. Christ called him a chosen vessel and equipped with a facility of
expression far above that of the other apostles, that he as the chosen vessel
should establish the doctrine of justification in clear-cut words.
VERSES 4, 5. But when the fullness of the time was come, God sent
forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: various lands of the outer world from whence they came.
Here the trail of Dejah Thoris' abductors led along the mountains' base,
across steep and rugged ravines, by the side of appalling precipices,
and sometimes out into the valley, where we found fighting aplenty
with the members of the various tribes that make up the population
of this vale of hopelessness.
But through it all we came at last to where the way led up a
narrow gorge that grew steeper and more impracticable at every step
until before us loomed a mighty fortress buried beneath the side of
The Warlord of Mars |
