| 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: who had sent us to them to help them with all the power of our strong
Organisation, of the Divine authority of which we never feel so sure as
when it is going forth to seek and to save the lost.
SECTION 2.--WORK FOR THE OUT-OF-WORKS.--THE FACTORY.
The foregoing, it will be said, is all very well for your outcast when
he has got fourpence in his pocket, but what if he has not got his
fourpence? What if you are confronted with a crowd of hungry desperate
wretches, without even a penny in their pouch, demanding food and
shelter? This objection is natural enough, and has been duly
considered from the first.
I propose to establish in connection with every Food and Shelter Depot
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 Tanach: Amos 7: 5 Then said I: O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech Thee; how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.
Amos 7: 6 The LORD repented concerning this; 'This also shall not be', saith the Lord GOD.
Amos 7: 7 Thus He showed me; and, behold, the Lord stood beside a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in His hand.
Amos 7: 8 And the LORD said unto me: 'Amos, what seest thou?' And I said: 'A plumbline.' Then said the Lord: Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of My people Israel; I will not again pardon them any more;
Amos 7: 9 And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
Amos 7: 10 Then Amaziah the priest of Beth-el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying: 'Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel; the land is not able to bear all his words.
Amos 7: 11 For thus Amos saith: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.'
Amos 7: 12 Also Amaziah said unto Amos: 'O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there;
Amos 7: 13 but prophesy not again any more at Beth-el, for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is a royal house.'
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: Among shadows deep,
And dream they see their child
Starved in desert wild.
Pale through pathless ways
The fancied image strays,
Famished, weeping, weak,
With hollow piteous shriek.
Rising from unrest,
The trembling woman pressed
With feet of weary woe;
She could no further go.
Songs of Innocence and Experience |
