| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling: William of Exeter:
'"Well wist Wal-wist where lay his fortune
When that he fawned on the King for his crozier,"
and amid our laughter he burst in, with one arm round Hugh, and
one round the old pilgrim of Netherfield.
'"Here is your knight, Brother," said he, "and for the better
disport of the company, here is my fool. Hold up, Saxon Samson,
the gates of Gaza are clean carried away!"
'Hugh broke loose, white and sick, and staggered to my side;
the old man blinked upon the company.
'We looked at the King, but he smiled.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In Darkest England and The Way Out by General William Booth: and whose hearts are in this great work for the amelioration of the
hard lot of the lapsed and lost. These I will welcome to the service.
It may be that you cannot deliver an open-air address, or conduct an
indoor meeting. Public labour for souls has hitherto been outside your
practice. In the Lord's vineyard, however, are many labourers,
and all are not needed to do the same thing. If you have a practical
acquaintance with any of the varied operations of which I have spoken
in this book; if you are familiar with agriculture, understand the
building trade, or have a practical knowledge of almost any form of
manufacture, there is a place for you.
We cannot offer you great pay, social position, or any glitter and
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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: of social and political instability, and the first beginnings of
the bishop's ill health.
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There came a day of exceptional fatigue and significance.
The industrial trouble was a very real distress to the bishop.
He had a firm belief that it is a function of the church to act
as mediator between employer and employed. It was a common saying
of his that the aim of socialism--the right sort of socialism
--was to Christianize employment. Regardless of suspicion on
either hand, regardless of very distinct hints that he should
"mind his own business," he exerted himself in a search for
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