| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: in various directions, and does all sorts of things.
"Well then, there was a man who wanted me to take
the chairmanship of a company, and one who wanted me
to guarantee an overdraft at his bank, and two who
wanted to borrow money on stock, and one parson-fellow
who tried to stick me for a subscription to some Home
or other he said he had for children in the country.
He was the worst bounder of the lot.
"Well, there's twenty-seven people--and twenty of them
strangers to me, and not worth a penny to me, and all
trying to get money out of me. Isn't that a dog's life
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tom Grogan by F. Hopkinson Smith: "Help you, Tom? You know I will, and with anything I've got.
What is it!" he said earnestly, regaining his chair and drawing it
closer.
"Has no one iver told ye about me Tom?" she asked, looking at him
from under her eyebrows.
"No; except that he was hurt or--or--out of his mind, maybe, and
you couldn't bring him home."
"An' ye have heared nothin' more?"
"No," said Babcock, wondering at her anxious manner.
"Ye know that since he went away I've done the work meself,
standin' out as he would have done in the cold an' wet an' workin'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A treatise on Good Works by Dr. Martin Luther: Lo! this is the only ceremony or practice which Christ has
instituted, in which His Christians shall assemble, exercise
themselves and keep it with one accord; and this He did not make
to be a mere work like other ceremonies, but placed into it a
rich, exceeding great treasure, to be offered and bestowed upon
all who believe on it.
This preaching should induce sinners to grieve over their sins,
and should kindle in them a longing for the treasure. It must,
therefore, be a grievous sin not to hear the Gospel, and to
despise such a treasure and so rich a feast to which we are
bidden; but a much greater sin not to preach the Gospel, and to
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