| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Smalcald Articles by Dr. Martin Luther: employed and received through faith.
Article III: Of Chapters and Cloisters.
That chapters and cloisters [colleges of canons and
communistic dwellings], which were formerly founded with the
good intention [of our forefathers] to educate learned men and
chaste [and modest] women, ought again to be turned to such
use, in order that pastors, preachers, and other ministers of
the churches may be had, and likewise other necessary persons
[fitted] for [the political administration of] the secular
government [or for the commonwealth] in cities and countries,
and well-educated, maidens for mothers and housekeepers, etc.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Off on a Comet by Jules Verne: over again his intention of never quitting the nucleus of his comet.
Why should he trust himself to a balloon, that would blaze
up like a piece of paper? Why should he leave the comet?
Why should he not go once again upon its surface into the far-off
realms of space?
His volubility was brought to a sudden check by Servadac's bidding
two of the sailors, without more ado, to take him in their arms
and put him quietly down at the bottom of the car.
To the great regret of their owners, the two horses and Nina's pet goat
were obliged to be left behind. The only creature for which there was found
a place was the carrier-pigeon that had brought the professor's message
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: should be safely conveyed home to her father's house," an
opportunity for which occurred on the following day.
The domestics could not help thinking it remarkable how soon the
loss of Miss Vere, and the strange manner in which it had
happened, seemed to be forgotten by the other guests at the
castle. They knew not, that those the most interested in her
fate were well acquainted with the cause of her being carried
off, and the place of her retreat; and that the others, in the
anxious and doubtful moments which preceded the breaking forth of
a conspiracy, were little accessible to any feelings but what
arose immediately out of their own machinations.
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