| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: as Mr. Rowley's Viscount. So be it. Amen.'
He took the oath with the same exaggerated seriousness as I gave it
to him.
'Now,' said I. 'Here is the key for you; I will hold the lid with
both hands in the meanwhile.' He turned the key. 'Bring up all
the candles in the room, and range them along-side. What is it to
be? A live gorgon, a Jack-in-the-box, or a spring that fires a
pistol? On your knees, sir, before the prodigy!'
So saying, I turned the despatch-box upside down upon the table.
At sight of the heap of bank paper and gold that lay in front of
us, between the candles, or rolled upon the floor alongside, I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: it; others did it unwillingly and carelessly. Some repeated the
words too loudly, and with a defiant tone, as if they meant to
say, "In spite of all, I will and shall speak." Others whispered
very low, and not fast enough, and then, as if frightened,
hurried to catch up the priest. Some kept their fingers tightly
together, as if fearing to drop the pinch of invisible something
they held; others kept separating and folding theirs. Every one
save the old priest felt awkward, but he was sure he was
fulfilling a very useful and important duty.
After the swearing in, the president requested the jury to choose
a foreman, and the jury, thronging to the door, passed out into
Resurrection |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: things which Jesus did, believed on him.
JOH 11:46 But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told
them what things Jesus had done.
JOH 11:47 Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council,
and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.
JOH 11:48 If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and
the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
JOH 11:49 And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high priest that
same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,
JOH 11:50 Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should
die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.
King James Bible |
