| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: "played with" as he had done with his most ingenious toys, and
the telegraph was soon established for court use throughout the
empire.
One day a number of officials came to us at the Peking University
and in the course of a conversation they said:
"The Emperor has heard that the foreigners have invented a talk
box. Is that true?"
"Quite true," we replied, "and as we have one in the physical
laboratory of the college we will let you see it."
We had one of the old Edison phonographs which worked with a
pedal, and looked very much like a sewing-machine, and we took
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: she was afraid of being late for the theatre, and she said
nothing.
He sat there another two minutes, and with a guilty smile went
away.
VII
It had been a very troubled day.
Dymov had a very bad headache; he had no breakfast, and did not
go to the hospital, but spent the whole time lying on his sofa in
the study. Olga Ivanovna went as usual at midday to see
Ryabovsky, to show him her still-life sketch, and to ask him why
he had not been to see her the evening before. The sketch seemed
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A treatise on Good Works by Dr. Martin Luther: misled, and are caught in the pitiable babbling and mummery. Of
such Christ says, Matthew xxiv: "Beware, if any man shall say
unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there"; and John iv: "I say unto
thee, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain nor
yet at Jerusalem worship God, for the Father seeketh spiritual
worshipers."
These and similar passages have moved me and ought to move
everyone to reject the great display of bulls, seals, flags,
indulgences, by which the poor folk are led to build churches,
to give, to endow, to pray, and yet faith is not mentioned, and
is even suppressed. For since faith knows no distinction among
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