| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: the child learn that, do you suppose?''
And Sister Theckla said: ``She is older than the others. She must
have learned it at home!''
And Sister Angela and Sister Theckla came into the room and they
said: ``See, now, what you have done to the windows!''
Sure enough, when the little girls looked at the windows the glass
was all dim and blurred with little damp finger-prints!
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It was one day as the sun shone as it did shine most days, that the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Dreams by Olive Schreiner: valleys with it. Then again he took it out and looked at it.
"Oh, my beautiful! my heart's own!" he cried, "may I not keep you?"
He opened his hands sadly.
"Go!" he said. "It may happen that in Truth's song one note is like yours;
but I shall never hear it."
Sadly he opened his hand, and the bird flew from him forever.
Then from the shuttle of Imagination he took the thread of his wishes, and
threw it on the ground; and the empty shuttle he put into his breast, for
the thread was made in those valleys, but the shuttle came from an unknown
country. He turned to go, but now the people came about him, howling.
"Fool, hound, demented lunatic!" they cried. "How dared you break your
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: the bishop. "It's just to assert that men are One community and
not two."
"There's not much of that in the Creeds," said a second labour
leader who was a rationalist. "There's not much of that in the
services of the church."
The vicar spoke before his bishop, and indeed he had plenty of
time to speak before his bishop. "Because you will not set
yourselves to understand the symbolism of her ritual," he said.
"If the church chooses to speak in riddles," said the
rationalist.
"Symbols," said Morrice Deans, "need not be riddles," and for a
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