| 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: of faith which true disciples of the Gospel manifested in those days. On one
occasion the Apostle wrote: "The kingdom of God is not in word, but in
power." This "power" revealed itself not only in readiness of speech, but in
demonstrations of the supernatural ability of the Holy Spirit.
When the Gospel is preached unto faith, hope, love, and patience, God gives
His wonder-working Spirit. Paul reminds the Galatians of this. "God had not
only brought you to faith by my preaching. He had also sanctified you to
bring forth the fruits of faith. And one of the fruits of your faith was that
you loved me so devotedly that you were willing to pluck out your eyes for
me." To love a fellow-man so devotedly as to be ready to bestow upon him
money, goods, eyes in order to secure his salvation, such love is the fruit
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Main Street by Sinclair Lewis: be so bossy. After all, we're doing this play principally
for the fun of it, and if we have fun out of a lot of monkey-
shines, why then----"
"Ye-es," feebly.
"You said one time that folks in G. P. didn't get enough
fun out of life. And now we are having a circus, you want
us to stop!"
Carol answered slowly: "I wonder if I can explain what
I mean? It's the difference between looking at the comic
page and looking at Manet. I want fun out of this, of course.
Only---- I don't think it would be less fun, but more, to produce
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: overheard that she spoke a language with which he was unfamiliar.
They could have talked by signs a little. That would have
been better than nothing. Too, he would have been glad to see
her face. What he had glimpsed assured him that she was pretty;
but her strongest appeal to him lay in the affectionate nature
revealed by her gentle mothering of the grotesque doll.
At last he hit upon a plan. He would attract her attention,
and reassure her by a smiling greeting from a greater distance.
Silently he wormed his way back into the tree. It was his
intention to hail her from beyond the palisade, giving her
the feeling of security which he imagined the stout barricade
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