| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: and works in us He proposes to work through such external ordinances.
Wherever, therefore, He speaks, yea, in whichever direction or by
whatever means He speaks, thither faith must look, and to that it must
hold. Now here we have the words: He that believeth and is baptized
shall be saved. To what else do they refer than to Baptism, that is, to
the water comprehended in God's ordinance? Hence it follows that
whoever rejects Baptism rejects the Word of God, faith, and Christ, who
directs us thither and binds us to Baptism.
In the third place since we have learned the great benefit and power of
Baptism, let us see further who is the person that receives what
Baptism gives and profits. This is again most beautifully and clearly
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Redheaded Outfield by Zane Grey: you've quit. You've shown a yellow streak.
You've lain down.
``My boy, that isn't the way to win a girl.
You've got to scrap. Milly told me yesterday
how she had watched your love affairs with Nan,
and how she thought you had given up just when
things might have come your way. Nan is a little
flirt, but she's all right. What's more, she was
getting fond of you. Nan is meanest to the man
she likes best. The way to handle her, Whit, is
to master her. Play high and mighty. Get
The Redheaded Outfield |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Duchesse de Langeais by Honore de Balzac: heavy trials, was loved more passionately than the lighthearted
girl, the woman of four-and-twenty, the sylphide, had ever been.
But is there not, for men of vigorous character, something
attractive in the sublime expression engraven on women's faces by
the impetuous stirrings of thought and misfortunes of no ignoble
kind? Is there not a beauty of suffering which is the most
interesting of all beauty to those men who feel that within them
there is an inexhaustible wealth of tenderness and consoling pity
for a creature so gracious in weakness, so strong with love? It
is the ordinary nature that is attracted by young, smooth,
pink-and-white beauty, or, in one word, by prettiness. In some
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