| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: Samoa, Malie is always referred to by the name of PULE (authority)
as having the power of the name, and Manono by that of AINGA (clan,
sept, or household) as forming the immediate family of the chief.
But these, though so important, are only small communities; and
perhaps the chief numerical force of the Malietoas inhabits the
island of Savaii. Savaii has no royal name to bestow, all the five
being in the gift of different districts of Upolu; but she has the
weight of numbers, and in these latter days has acquired a certain
force by the preponderance in her councils of a single man, the
orator Lauati. The reader will now understand the peculiar
significance of a deputation which should embrace Lauati and the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: Our conscience must he trained to fall back on the freedom purchased for
us by Christ. Though the fears of the Law, the terrors of sin, the horror of
death assail us occasionally, we know that these feelings shall not endure,
because the prophet quotes God as saying: "In a little wrath I hid my face
from thee for a moment: but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy
on thee." (Isa. 54:8.)
We shall appreciate this liberty all the more when we bear in mind that it
was Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who purchased it with His own blood.
Hence, Christ's liberty is given us not by the Law, or for our own
righteousness, but freely for Christ's sake. In the eighth chapter of the
Gospel of St. John, Jesus declares: "If the Son shall make you free, ye shall
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: after her sole fashion of showing confidence in a new relation.
"She likes me--she likes me": her native humility exulted in that
measure of success. We all knew for ourselves how she liked those
who liked her, and as regards Ruth Anvoy she was more easily won
over than Lady Maddock.
CHAPTER VII
One of the consequences, for the Mulvilles, of the sacrifices they
made for Frank Saltram was that they had to give up their carriage.
Adelaide drove gently into London in a one-horse greenish thing, an
early Victorian landau, hired, near at hand, imaginatively, from a
broken-down jobmaster whose wife was in consumption--a vehicle that
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