| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: "On the watch ---- "
"What! Aramis here?" cried Athos.
"At the lesser gate of the castle; he's posted there."
"Are you a large party?"
"Sixty."
"Let him know."
"This moment, sir."
And believing that no one could execute the commission
better than himself, Grimaud set off at full speed; whilst,
enchanted at being all together again, the friends awaited
his return.
Twenty Years After |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Emma McChesney & Co. by Edna Ferber: blow up."
"Is it as bad as that?"
"Bad! Here--read that! No, don't read it; I'll tell you.
It'll relieve my feelings. You know how I've been angling and
scheming and contriving and plotting for years to get an
exclusive order from Gage & Fosdick. Of course we've had a nice
little order every few months, but what's that from the biggest
mail-order house in the world? And now, out of a blue sky, comes
this bolt from O'Malley, who buys our stuff, saying that he's
coming on the tenth--that's next week--that he's planned to
establish our line with their trade, and that he wants us to be
Emma McChesney & Co. |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: continue with you.
Paul here explains his motive for going up to Jerusalem. He did not go to
Jerusalem to be instructed or confirmed in his Gospel by the other apostles.
He went to Jerusalem in order to preserve the true Gospel for the Galatian
churches and for all the churches of the Gentiles.
When Paul speaks of the truth of the Gospel he implies by contrast a false
gospel. The false apostles also had a gospel, but it was an untrue gospel.
"In holding out against them," says Paul, "I conserved the truth of the pure
Gospel."
Now the true Gospel has it that we are justified by faith alone, without the
deeds of the Law. The false gospel has it that we are justified by faith, but
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