| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin: to begin with, and ten shillings a year for fifty years, the term
our company was to continue. We afterwards obtain'd a charter,
the company being increased to one hundred: this was the mother
of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numerous.
It is become a great thing itself, and continually increasing.
These libraries have improved the general conversation of the Americans,
made the common tradesmen and farmers as intelligent as most gentlemen
from other countries, and perhaps have contributed in some degree
to the stand so generally made throughout the colonies in defense
of their privileges.
Memo. Thus far was written with the intention express'd in the beginning
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Smalcald Articles by Dr. Martin Luther: Therefore the Church can never be better governed and
preserved than if we all live under one head, Christ, and all
the bishops equal in office (although they be unequal in
gifts), be diligently joined in unity of doctrine, faith,
Sacraments, prayer, and works of love, etc., as St. Jerome
writes that the priests at Alexandria together and in common
governed the churches, as did also the apostles, and
afterwards all bishops throughout all Christendom, until the
Pope raised his head above all.
This teaching shows forcefully that the Pope is the very
Antichrist, who has exalted himself above, and opposed himself
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: Her first thought was of unspeakable relief. The militia was
going to take a hand. The boys in khaki would come marching down
the street, and everything would be all right. But hard on the
heels of her instinctive gladness trod the sober second thought.
Ten-thirty at best, and perhaps later! Would they wait that long,
or would they do their cowardly work as soon as night fell She
must contrive to delay them till the train drew in. She must play
for those two lives with all her woman's wit; must match the
outlaw's sinister cunning and fool him into delay. She knew he
would come if she sent for him. But how long could she keep him?
As long as he was amused at her agony, as long as his pleasure in
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