| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: and hopes
than he had ever done before.
"I feel very grateful to-night," said he, at last; "it must be
something in
the air of Christmas that gives me this feeling of thankfulness
for
the many divine mercies that have been bestowed upon me. All the
principles by which I have tried to guide my life have been
justified.
I have never made the value of this salted almond by anything
that
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson: minutes, but in ten seconds; and that has not prevented us from
eating dinner, no, nor from putting money in the Savings Bank. I
assure you, with my hand on my heart, I fail to comprehend your
attitude."
The men were already too far gone to pay much heed.
"This is a very painful sight, Mr. Spoker," said the Captain.
"And yet to the philosophic eye, or whatever it is," replied the
first lieutenant, "they may be said to have been getting drunk
since they came aboard."
"I do not know if you always follow my thought, Mr. Spoker,"
returned the Captain gently. "But let us proceed."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: far country, and there spent all in riotous living. Then, when
there arose a famine in that land, he went and joined himself to
one of the citizens of that land of iniquity, who sent him into
his fields to feed swine, -- thus doth he designate the most
coarse and loathsome sin. When, after much labour, he had come
to the utmost misery, and might not even fill his belly with the
husks that the swine did eat, at last he came to perceive his
shameful plight, and, bemoaning himself, said, `How many hired
servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I
perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will
say unto him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and before
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