| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wheels of Chance by H. G. Wells: South Coast."
"Well, all I hope, Mr. Hoopdriver, is that you'll get fine
weather," said Miss Howe. "And not come any nasty croppers."
"And done forget some tinscher of arnica in yer bag," said the
junior apprentice in the very high collar. (He had witnessed one
of the lessons at the top of Putney Hill.)
"You stow it," said Mr. Hoopdriver, looking hard and
threateningly at the junior apprentice, and suddenly adding in a
tone of bitter contempt,-- " Jampot."
"I'm getting fairly safe upon it now," he told Miss Howe.
At other times Hoopdriver might have further resented the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Smalcald Articles by Dr. Martin Luther: Baptism. This is blasphemy [against God].
XV. Of Human Traditions.
The declaration of the Papists that human traditions serve for
the remission of sins, or merit salvation, is [altogether]
unchristian and condemned, as Christ says Matt. 15, 9: In vain
they do worship Me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of
men. Again, Titus 1, 14: That turn from the truth. Again, when
they declare that it is a mortal sin if one breaks these
ordinances [does not keep these statutes], this, too, is not
right.
These are the articles on which I must stand, and, God
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: The Naturalist's Cabinet says, that ``In
presence of the Grand Duke of Tuscany,
while the philosophers were making elaborate
dissertations on the danger of the
poison of vipers, taken inwardly, a viper
catcher, who happened to be present,
requested that a quantity of it might be put
into a vessel; and then, with the utmost
confidence, and to the astonishment of the
whole company, he drank it off. Everyone
expected the man instantly to drop down
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