| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dunwich Horror by H. P. Lovecraft: form the most modern piece of architecture to be seen. Industry
did not flourish here, and the nineteenth-century factory movement
proved short-lived. Oldest of all are the great rings of rough-hewn
stone columns on the hilltops, but these are more generally attributed
to the Indians than to the settlers. Deposits of skulls and bones,
found within these circles and around the sizeable table-like
rock on Sentinel Hill, sustain the popular belief that such spots
were once the burial-places of the Pocumtucks; even though many
ethnologists, disregarding the absurd improbability of such a
theory, persist in believing the remains Caucasian.
II.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson: recollect some hours of his life in which he has been
equally overpowered by the transitory charms of
trifling novelty.
Some indulgence is due to him whom a happy
gale of fortune has suddenly transported into new
regions, where unaccustomed lustre dazzles his eyes,
and untasted delicacies solicit his appetite. Let him
not be considered as lost in hopeless degeneracy,
though he for a while forgets the regard due to
others, to indulge the contemplation of himself,
and in the extravagance of his first raptures
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In Darkest England and The Way Out by General William Booth: justification for withholding your sympathy and practical co-operation
in carrying out a Scheme which promises so much blessedness to your
fellow-men. You may not like our government, our methods, our faith.
Your feeling towards us might perhaps be duly described by an
observation that slipped unwittingly from the tongue of a somewhat
celebrated leader in the evangelistic world sometime ago, who,
when asked what he thought of the Salvation Army, replied that
"He did not like it at all, but he believed that God Almighty did."
Perhaps, as an agency, we may not be exactly of your way of thinking,
but that is hardly the question. Look at that dark ocean, full of
human wrecks, writhing in anguish and despair. How to rescue those
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