| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Damien by Robert Louis Stevenson: still; and the facts set down above were one and all collected from
the lips of Protestants who had opposed the father in his life.
Yet I am strangely deceived, or they build up the image of a man,
with all his weakness, essentially heroic, and alive with rugged
honesty, generosity, and mirth.
Take it for what it is, rough private jottings of the worst sides
of Damien's character, collected from the lips of those who had
laboured with and (in your own phrase) "knew the man"; - though I
question whether Damien would have said that he knew you. Take it,
and observe with wonder how well you were served by your gossips,
how ill by your intelligence and sympathy; in how many points of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: of my oldest friends, Mr Forsyth, and I lay his case before you
with emotion.'
The barrister looked at Mr Thomas and was agreeably prepossessed
by his open although nervous countenance, and the simplicity and
timidity of his manner. 'What a people are these Americans!' he
thought. 'Look at this nervous, weedy, simple little bird in a
lownecked shirt, and think of him wielding and directing
interests so extended and seemingly incongruous! 'But had we not
better,' he observed aloud, 'had we not perhaps better approach
the facts?'
'Man of business, I perceive, sir!' said the Australian. 'Let's
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: patient shall be paid their hire without count!'
Say, 'Verily, I am bidden to serve God, being sincere in religion to
Him; and I am bidden that I be the first of those resigned.'
Say, 'Verily, I fear, if I rebel against my Lord, the torment of a
mighty day.' Say, 'God do I serve, being sincere in my religion to
Him; serve then what ye will beside Him!' Say, 'Verily, the losers are
those who lose themselves and their families on the resurrection
day. Aye, that is the obvious loss.'
They shall have over them shades of fire, and under them shades;
with that does God frighten His servants: O my servants! then fear me.
But those who avoid Taghut and serve them not, but turn repentant
The Koran |
