| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: grace of God, not in view of our own worthiness, but through the good services
of Christ. As certain as we are that Christ pleases God, so sure ought we to
be that we also please God, because Christ is in us. And although we daily
offend God by our sins, yet as often as we sin, God's mercy bends over us.
Therefore sin cannot get us to doubt the grace of God. Our certainty is of
Christ, that mighty Hero who overcame the Law, sin, death, and all evils. So
long as He sits at the right hand of God to intercede for us, we have nothing
to fear from the anger of God.
This inner assurance of the grace of God is accompanied by outward indications
such as gladly to hear, preach, praise, and to confess Christ, to do one's
duty in the station in which God has placed us, to aid the needy, and to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Shadow Line by Joseph Conrad: one of those women who tell fortunes by cards for
half a crown. And yet she was striking. A pro-
fessional sorceress from the slums. It was incom-
prehensible. There was something awful in the
thought that she was the last reflection of the world
of passion for the fierce soul which seemed to look
at one out of the sardonically savage face of that old
seaman. However, I noticed that she was holding
some musical instrument--guitar or mandoline--
in her hand. Perhaps that was the secret of her
sortilege.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott: to make such a purchase, I had better go out and look at the
premises, advising me, at the same time, to keep a strict
incognito--an advice somewhat superfluous, since I am naturally
of a retired and reserved disposition.
CHAPTER III.
MR. CROFTANGRY, INTER ALIA, REVISITS GLENTANNER.
Then sing of stage-coaches,
And fear no reproaches
For riding in one;
But daily be jogging,
Whilst, whistling and flogging,
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