| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Damien by Robert Louis Stevenson: Damien WAS NOT A PURE MAN IN HIS RELATIONS WITH WOMEN, ETC
How do you know that? Is this the nature of conversation in that
house on Beretania Street which the cabman envied, driving past? -
racy details of the misconduct of the poor peasant priest, toiling
under the cliffs of Molokai?
Many have visited the station before me; they seem not to have
heard the rumour. When I was there I heard many shocking tales,
for my informants were men speaking with the plainness of the
laity; and I heard plenty of complaints of Damien. Why was this
never mentioned? and how came it to you in the retirement of your
clerical parlour?
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tapestried Chamber by Walter Scott: by their attachment to the fine arts, from which has arisen the
saying that on the frontiers every dale had its battle, and every
river its song. A rude species of chivalry was in constant use,
and single combats were practised as the amusement of the few
intervals of truce which suspended the exercise of war. The
inveteracy of this custom may be inferred from the following
incident:--
Bernard Gilpin, the apostle of the north, the first who undertook
to preach the Protestant doctrines to the Border dalesmen, was
surprised, on entering one of their churches, to see a gauntlet
or mail-glove hanging above the altar. Upon inquiring; the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: the midst of the assembly, and cried with a loud voice, saying,
"Verily, O king, the Spirit of God dwelleth in thy son. Verily,
we are defeated, and have no further apology, and have no
strength to face the words that he hath uttered. Mighty
therefore, in sooth, is the God of the Christians: mighty is
their faith: mighty are their mysteries."
Then he turned him round toward the king's son and said, "Tell me
now, thou man, whose soul is enlightened, will Christ accept me,
if I forsake my evil deeds and turn to him?" "Yea," said that
preacher of truth; "Yea, he receiveth thee and all that turn to
him. And he not only receiveth thee, but he goeth out to meet
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