| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tattine by Ruth Ogden [Mrs. Charles W. Ide]: favor, but it did not seem kind even to attempt to reason with two such tired
and soaking little specimens, so she only said, "Well, Barney can never again
be trusted in the ford, that's one sure thing."
"No, indeed," said Mabel warmly; "I would not give fifty cents for him."
"You can have him for nothing," said Tattine, with a wan little smile; "after
this he can never be trusted in anything."
CHAPTER VI. "IT IS THEIR NATURE TO."
Tattine was getting on beautifully with her attempt to use Grandma Luty's name
at the proper time, and in the proper place, and she was getting on
beautifully with grandma herself as well. She loved everything about her, and
wished it need not be so very long till she could be a grandma herself, have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: men who are subservient to sin, subject to the curse of the Law, and worthy
of everlasting death, have on God and eternal life? That God adopted us is due
to the merit of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who humbled Himself under the
Law and redeemed us law-ridden sinners.
VERSE 6. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his
Son into your hearts.
In the early Church the Holy Spirit was sent forth in visible form. He
descended upon Christ in the form of a dove (Matt. 3:16), and in the likeness
of fire upon the apostles and other believers. (Acts 2:3.) This visible
outpouring of the Holy Spirit was necessary to the establishment of the early
Church, as were also the miracles that accompanied the gift of the Holy
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In Darkest England and The Way Out by General William Booth: on, a prey to dread and weakness.
That is the forest. But what of its denizens? They are comparatively
few; only some hundreds of thousands living in small tribes from ten to
thirty miles apart, scattered over an area on which ten thousand
million trees put out the sun from a region four times as wide as
Great Britain. Of these pygmies there are two kinds; one a very
degraded specimen with ferretlike eyes, close-set nose, more nearly
approaching the baboon than was supposed to be possible, but very
human; the other very handsome, with frank open innocent features,
very prepossessing. They are quick and intelligent, capable of deep
affection and gratitude, showing remarkable industry and patience.
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