| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: service and who gives salvation from self and mortality only through
self-abandonment to his service, necessarily involves a demand for a
complete revision and fresh orientation of the life of the convert.
God faces the blackness of the Unknown and the blind joys and
confusions and cruelties of Life, as one who leads mankind through a
dark jungle to a great conquest. He brings mankind not rest but a
sword. It is plain that he can admit no divided control of the
world he claims. He concedes nothing to Caesar. In our philosophy
there are no human things that are God's and others that are
Caesar's. Those of the new thought cannot render unto God the
things that are God's, and to Caesar the things that are Caesar's.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: cannot make a single good one any the less good.
It was getting late. M. Hector lit a stable lantern and went off
to his cart for some arrangements; and my young gentleman proceeded
to divest himself of the better part of his raiment, and play
gymnastics on his mother's lap, and thence on to the floor, with
accompaniment of laughter.
'Are you going to sleep alone?' asked the servant lass.
'There's little fear of that,' says Master Gilliard.
'You sleep alone at school,' objected his mother. 'Come, come, you
must be a man.'
But he protested that school was a different matter from the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac: the drive, less by their desire to try a very elegant carriage, and
wear gowns which were to set the fashion for the winter, than by their
wish to see a cape which a friend had observed in a handsome lace and
linen shop at the corner of the Rue de la Paix. As soon as they were
in the shop the Baronne de Fontaine pulled Emilie by the sleeve, and
pointed out to her Maximilien Longueville seated behind the desk, and
engaged in paying out the change for a gold piece to one of the
workwomen with whom he seemed to be in consultation. The "handsome
stranger" held in his hand a parcel of patterns, which left no doubt
as to his honorable profession.
Emilie felt an icy shudder, though no one perceived it. Thanks to the
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