| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: those that need. It is the part of a Christian to take care of
his own body for the very purpose that, by its soundness and
well-being, he may be enabled to labour, and to acquire and
preserve property, for the aid of those who are in want, that
thus the stronger member may serve the weaker member, and we may
be children of God, thoughtful and busy one for another, bearing
one another's burdens, and so fulfilling the law of Christ.
Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by
love, when a man applies himself with joy and love to the works
of that freest servitude in which he serves others voluntarily
and for nought, himself abundantly satisfied in the fulness and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: legal if not by moral pressure. See Martin, op. cit. pp. 316, 321
foll.
[15] i.e. "would cause you to be suspected of acting from motives of
gain."
[16] Reading {esti de kai ous}, or if as vulg. {eti de kai}, "More
than that, it strikes me one may work on the feelings of young
fellows in such a way as to disarm." See Hartmann, "An. Xen. N."
325.
[17] Cf. Aesch. "P. V." 474; Herod. vi. 35; Dem. 1046. 14; Thuc. vi.
12; Isocr. {peri tou zeugous}, 353 C. {ippotrophein d'
epikheiresas, o ton eudaimonestaton ergon esti.} See Prof. Jebb's
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: been obliged to renounce the attempt to go further.
"She oughtn't to have come out at all," her ladyship rather
grumpily remarked.
"Is she so very much of an invalid?"
"Very bad indeed." And his hostess added with still greater
austerity: "She oughtn't really to come to one!" He wondered what
was implied by this, and presently gathered that it was not a
reflexion on the lady's conduct or her moral nature: it only
represented that her strength was not equal to her aspirations.
CHAPTER III
The smoking-room at Summersoft was on the scale of the rest of the
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