| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: uncles who dream of glory in the nursery, who love to hear it said,
"The children adore him." If children are loved and trained to
truth, justice, and mutual forbearance, they will be ready for the
true God as their needs bring them within his scope. They should be
left to their innocence, and to their trust in the innocence of the
world, as long as they can be. They should be told only of God as a
Great Friend whom some day they will need more and understand and
know better. That is as much as most children need. The phrases of
religion put too early into their mouths may become a cant,
something worse than blasphemy.
Yet children are sometimes very near to God. Creative passion stirs
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Hero of Our Time by M.Y. Lermontov: across Azamat's saddle a woman was lying, bound
hand and foot and with her head wrapped in a
veil."
"And the horse?" I asked the staff-captain.
"One minute! One minute! Early next
morning Kazbich rode over, driving in half a
score of rams for sale. Tethering his horse by
the fence, he came in to see me, and I regaled
him with tea, for, robber though he was, he was
none the less my guest-friend.
"We began to chat about one thing and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: sweet-looking lady and her rich husband is very fond of her, any one
can see that."
"You said just now that they had gone away, where have they gone to?"
"They've gone to Italy, sir. Mrs. Thorne was one of the few people
who do not know Venice. Franz, that's the butler, sir, told me
yesterday evening that he had received a telegram saying that the
lady and gentleman had arrived safely and were very comfortably
fixed in the Hotel Danieli. You know Danieli's?"
"Yes, I do. I also was one of the few people who did not know
Venice, that is I was until two years ago. Then, however, I had
the pleasure of riding over the Bridge of Mestre," answered Muller.
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