| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: it is moved by law, I understood that he who moveth and
sustaineth it is God. That which moveth is ever stronger than
that which is moved, and that which sustaineth is stronger than
that which is sustained. Him therefore I call God, who
constructed all things and sustaineth them, without beginning,
without end, immortal, without want, above all passions, and
failings, such as anger, forgetfulness, ignorance, and the like.
By him all things consist. He hath no need of sacrifice, or
drink-offering, or of any of the things that we see, but all men
have need of him.
"Now that I have said thus much concerning God, according as he
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: the pretty widow at his elbow. Had Dame Rumor spoken truly in the
report, widely circulated, that the colonel had fallen a victim to
the charms of Margaret Brewster, his daughters' guest? If so, it
might account for the young girl's manner - however devoted
McIntyre's daughters might be to Mrs. Brewster as a friend and
companion, they might resent having so young a woman for their
step-mother.
Not receiving any reply to his remarks, McIntyre was about to
address his daughter again when she spoke.
"Jimmie will be justified," she declared stoutly. "Has the coroner
held the autopsy yet, Dr. Stone?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Blue Flower by Henry van Dyke: pots of artificial flowers and indestructible palms and
vulcanised rubber-plants. It was a gay sight.
But by far the bravest of these houses was the residence
of Mr. Matthew Wilson, the principal merchant of Scroll-Saw
City. It stood on a corner of Main Street, glancing slyly out
of the tail of one eye, side-ways down the street, toward the
shop and the business, but keeping a bold, complacent front
toward the street-cars and the smaller houses across the way.
It might well be satisfied with itself, for it had three more
pinnacles than any of its neighbours, and the work of the
scroll-saw was looped and festooned all around the eaves and
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