| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: ago. And I am twenty-three--old enough to be Nate's grandmother, he's
that young and thoughtless. He couldn't ever realize bad companions when
they came around. See that!" She showed me a paper, taking it out like a
precious thing, as indeed it was; for it was a pardon signed by Governor
Barker. "And the Governor has let me carry it to Nate myself. He won't
know a thing about it till I tell him. The Governor was real kind, and we
will never forget him. I reckon Nate must have a mustache by now?" said
she to Lin.
"Yes," Lin answered, gruffly, looking away from her, "he has got a
mustache all right."
"He'll be glad to see you," said I, for something to say.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: ISA 33:15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that
despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding
of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth
his eyes from seeing evil;
ISA 33:16 He shall dwell on high: his place of defence shall be the
munitions of rocks: bread shall be given him; his waters shall be sure.
ISA 33:17 Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall
behold the land that is very far off.
ISA 33:18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where
is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
ISA 33:19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: "reduced her almost to the point of death. She used tenderly to
complain of this to God. 'I cannot support it,' she used to say.
'Bear gently with my weakness, or I shall expire under the
violence of your love.'"[161]
[161] Bougaud: Hist. de la Bienheureuse Marguerite Marie, 1894,
p. 125.
Let me pass next to the Charity and Brotherly Love which are a
usual fruit of saintliness, and have always been reckoned
essential theological virtues, however limited may have been the
kinds of service which the particular theology enjoined.
Brotherly love would follow logically from the assurance of God's
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