| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A treatise on Good Works by Dr. Martin Luther: power; for it may do and leave undone what it will, my faith to
God still goes its way and works its works, because I need not
believe what it believes.
Therefore, also, the temporal power is a very small thing in
God's sight, and far too slightly regarded by Him, that for its
sake, whether it do right or wrong, we should resist, become
disobedient and quarrel. On the other hand, the spiritual power
is an exceeding great blessing, and far too precious in His eyes,
that the very least of Christians should endure and keep silent,
if it departs a hair's breadth from its own duty, not to say when
it does the very opposite of its duty, as we now see it do every
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the fact that he was armed with a pistol they could overcome
him with the first rush. What he did not know about their
tactics was that at any show of resistance they would fall
back, which is the nature of the native Negroes, but that after
numerous advances and retreats, during which they would
work themselves into a frenzy of rage by much shrieking,
leaping, and dancing, they would eventually come to the point
of a determined and final assault.
Numabo was in the forefront, a fact which taken in con-
nection with his considerably greater size and more warlike
appearance, indicated him as the natural target and it was at
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson: Rose-red with beatings in it, as if alive,
Till all the white walls of my cell were dyed
With rosy colours leaping on the wall;
And then the music faded, and the Grail
Past, and the beam decayed, and from the walls
The rosy quiverings died into the night.
So now the Holy Thing is here again
Among us, brother, fast thou too and pray,
And tell thy brother knights to fast and pray,
That so perchance the vision may be seen
By thee and those, and all the world be healed."
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