| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A treatise on Good Works by Dr. Martin Luther: of Prayer, which coming together shows that we should make common
prayer and petition for the entire congregation, if we scatter
these prayers, and so distribute them that everyone prays only
for himself, and no one has regard for the other, nor concerns
himself for another's need? How can that prayer be of help, good,
acceptable and a common prayer, or a work of the Holy Day and of
the assembled congregation, which they make who make their own
petty prayers, one for this, the other for that, and have nothing
but self-seeking, selfish prayers, which God hates?
XII. A suggestion of this common prayer has been retained from
ancient practice, when at the end of the sermon the Confession
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Talisman by Walter Scott: Standard of England was vanished, that the spear on which it had
floated lay broken on the ground, and beside it was his faithful
hound, apparently in the agonies of death.
CHAPTER XIV.
All my long arrear of honour lost,
Heap'd up in youth, and hoarded up for age.
Hath Honour's fountain then suck'd up the stream?
He hath--and hooting boys may barefoot pass,
And gather pebbles from the naked ford! DON SEBASTIAN.
After a torrent of afflicting sensations, by which he was at
first almost stunned and confounded, Sir Kenneth's first thought
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: was crossed by a crocodile's trail. They had apparently caught the
creature asleep in the sun and desisted long enough from their
flight to hack him to pieces. Here the wounded man had sat down
and waited until they were ready to go on.
An hour later, following along a wild-pig trail, Sheldon suddenly
halted. The bloody tracks had ceased. The Tahitians cast out in
the bush on either side, and a cry from Utami apprised them of a
find. Joan waited till Sheldon came back.
"It's Mauko," he said. "Kwaque did for him, and he crawled in
there and died. That's two accounted for. There are ten more.
Don't you think you've got enough of it?"
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