| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: Mr. Bellairs, one discovery had been reserved for the last
moment: that of his latent and essential madness.
CHAPTER XX.
STALLBRIDGE-LE-CARTHEW.
Long before I was awake, the shyster had disappeared, leaving
his bill unpaid. I did not need to inquire where he was gone, I
knew too well, I knew there was nothing left me but to follow;
and about ten in the morning, set forth in a gig for Stallbridge
-le-Carthew.
The road, for the first quarter of the way, deserts the valley of
the river, and crosses the summit of a chalk-down, grazed over
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A treatise on Good Works by Dr. Martin Luther: yourself and daily strengthen yourself in faith. For how many do
you see who habitually pray, sing, read, work and seem to be
great saints, and yet never get so far as to know where they
stand in respect of the chief work, faith; and so in their
blindness they lead astray themselves and others; think they are
very well off, and so unknowingly build on the sand of their
works without any faith, not on God's mercy and promise through
a firm, pure faith.
Therefore, however long we live, we shall always have our hands
full to remain, with all our works and sufferings, pupils of the
First Commandment and of faith, and not to cease to learn. No one
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: for they had done with "foolishness."
"Never worried me before," muttered Condy, as he punched up his
pillow--"never worried me before. Why should it worry me now--
worry me like the devil;--and she caught on to that 'point' about
the slope of forty-five degrees."
Chapter V
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