| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: lamps were lit, the soup was served, the company were all at
table, and the room sounded already with multitudinous talk
before I entered. I took my place and found I was opposite to
Madden. Over six feet high and well set up, the hair dark and
streaked with silver, the eyes dark and kindly, the mouth very
good-natured, the teeth admirable; linen and hands exquisite;
English clothes, an English voice, an English bearing: the man
stood out conspicuous from the company. Yet he had made
himself at home, and seemed to enjoy a certain quiet popularity
among the noisy boys of the table d'hote. He had an odd, silver
giggle of a laugh, that sounded nervous even when he was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: Saint Peter, the man of the people, the roughest, but withal the
shrewdest, of the apostles. His hands were those of an indefatigable
worker,--large, thick, square, and wrinkled with deep furrows. His
chest was of seemingly indestructible muscularity. He never
relinquished his peddler's costume,--thick, hobnailed shoes; blue
stockings knit by his wife and hidden by leather gaiters; bottle-green
velveteen trousers; a checked waistcoat, from which depended the brass
key of his silver watch by an iron chain which long usage had polished
till it shone like steel; a jacket with short tails, also of
velveteen, like that of the trousers; and around his neck a printed
cotton cravat much frayed by the rubbing of his beard.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: of people who are not yet justified by faith, who are still enemies of God
and His Word, like the unbelieving law-workers? It goes to show how
impossible it is for those who have not been justified by faith to fulfill the
Law.
VERSE 13. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being
made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth
on a tree.
Jerome and his present-day followers rack their miserable brains over this
comforting passage in an effort to save Christ from the fancied insult of
being called a curse. They say: "This quotation from Moses does not apply
to Christ. Paul is taking liberties with Moses by generalizing the statements
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