| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from In Darkest England and The Way Out by General William Booth: popularly known is "the social evil," as if all other social evils were
comparatively unworthy of notice in comparison to this.
While I have been busily occupied in working out my Scheme for the
registration of labour, it has occurred to me more than once, why could
not something like the same plan be adopted in relation to men who want
wives and women who want husbands? Marriage is with most people largely
a matter or opportunity. Many a man and many a woman, who would,
if they had come together, have formed a happy household, are leading
at this moment miserable and solitary lives, suffering in body and in
soul, in consequence of their exclusion from the natural state of
matrimony. Of course, the registration of the unmarried who wish to
In Darkest England and The Way Out |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: "What we've been through?"
"Our privations - our dark days."
"Oh our days have been bright enough."
Morgan went on in silence for a moment. Then he said: "My dear
chap, you're a hero!"
"Well, you're another!" Pemberton retorted.
"No I'm not, but I ain't a baby. I won't stand it any longer. You
must get some occupation that pays. I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed!"
quavered the boy with a ring of passion, like some high silver note
from a small cathedral cloister, that deeply touched his friend.
"We ought to go off and live somewhere together," the young man
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: 'O our Lord! verily, Thou knowest what we hide and what we
publish; for naught is hid from God in the earth or in the sky. Praise
to God who hath bestowed on me, notwithstanding my old age, Ishmael
and Isaac!- verily, my Lord surely hears prayer.
'O my Lord! make me steadfast in prayer, and of my seed likewise!
O our Lord! and accept my prayer! O our Lord! pardon me and my parents
and the believers on the reckoning day!'
So think not God careless of what the unjust do; He only respites
them until the day on which all eyes shall stare!
Hurrying on, raising up their heads, with their looks not turned
back to them, and their hearts void; and warn men of the day when
The Koran |
