| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: many professedly Christian religious books and it is to be heard
from Christian pulpits. The phase of definition is manifestly at
hand.
2. MODERN RELIGION HAS A FINITE GOD
Perhaps the most fundamental difference between this new faith and
any recognised form of Christianity is that, knowingly or
unknowingly, it worships A FINITE GOD. Directly the believer is
fairly confronted with the plain questions of the case, the vague
identifications that are still carelessly made with one or all of
the persons of the Trinity dissolve away. He will admit that his
God is neither all-wise, nor all-powerful, nor omnipresent; that he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: of the window was a plot of sunny grass, with old lilacs round it.
And away went the garden, with heaps of dishevelled chrysanthemums
in the sunshine, down to the sycamore-tree, and the field,
and beyond one looked over a few red-roofed cottages to the hills
with all the glow of the autumn afternoon.
Mrs. Morel sat in her rocking-chair, wearing her black
silk blouse. Her grey-brown hair was taken smooth back from her brow
and her high temples; her face was rather pale. Clara, suffering,
followed Paul into the kitchen. Mrs. Morel rose. Clara thought
her a lady, even rather stiff. The young woman was very nervous.
She had almost a wistful look, almost resigned.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: "Oh, don't give me any of that, Mooney! Blanche Devine's a town
character. Even the kids know what she is. If she's got
religion or something, and wants to quit and be decent, why
doesn't she go to another town-- Chicago or someplace--where
nobody knows her?"
That motion of Alderman Mooney's thumb against the smooth pipe
bowl stopped. He looked up slowly.
"That's what I said--the mayor too. But Blanche Devine said she
wanted to try it here. She said this was home to her.
Funny--ain't it? Said she wouldn't be fooling anybody here.
They know her. And if she moved away, she said, it'd leak out
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