| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: sir," says he, "I think I need scarce describe them to a gentleman of
your condition; either that I should cut your throat or that you should
marry my daughter."
"You are pleased to be quite plain at last," said I.
"And I believe I have been plain from the beginning!" cries he
robustiously. "I am a careful parent, Mr. Balfour; but I thank God, a
patient and deleeborate man. There is many a father, sir, that would
have hirsled you at once either to the altar or the field. My esteem
for your character - "
"Mr. Drummond," I interrupted, "if you have any esteem for me at all, I
will beg of you to moderate your voice. It is quite needless to rowt
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: COL 1:19 For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness
dwell;
COL 1:20 And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him
to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be
things in earth, or things in heaven.
COL 1:21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind
by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
COL 1:22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy
and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
COL 1:23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not
moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Inaugural Address by John F. Kennedy: let the oppressed go free."
And if a beachhead of co-operation may push back the jungle of suspicion. . .
let both sides join in creating not a new balance of power. . .
but a new world of law. . .where the strong are just. . .
and the weak secure. . .and the peace preserved. . . .
All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days.
Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days. . .
nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps
in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
In your hands, my fellow citizens. . .more than mine. . .will rest the
final success or failure of our course. Since this country was founded,
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