| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A treatise on Good Works by Dr. Martin Luther: is written in Psalm xv: "He contemneth them that contemn God, and
honoreth them that fear the Lord"; that is, the tyrants, the
mighty, who persecute the truth and despise God, he does not
fear, he does not regard them, he despiseth them; on the other
hand, those who are persecuted for the truth's sake, and fear God
more than men, to these he clings, these he defends, these he
honors, let it vex whom it may; as it is written of Moses,
Hebrews xi, that he stood by his brethren, regardless of the
mighty king of Egypt.
Lo, in this Commandment again you see briefly that faith must be
the master-workman in this work also, so that without it no one
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ruling Passion by Henry van Dyke: your pipe at once."
"But no, m'sieu'; this time I continue to smoke, for now it is Mees
Meelair who comes near the pipe voluntarily, and it is not my
offence. And I remember, while she is talking, the old bonhomme
Michaud St. Gerome. He is a capable man; when he was young he could
carry a barrel of flour a mile without rest, and now that he has
seventy-three years he yet keeps his force. And he smokes--it is
astonishing how that old man smokes! All the day, except when he
sleeps. If the tobacco is a poison, it is a poison of the slowest--
like the tea or the coffee. For the cat it is quick--yes; but for
the man it is long; and I am still young--only thirty-one.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: Winslow, a widow of fifty-five, inviting her to come out on a
business basis as housekeeper of thc Lazy D. The buxom widow had
loved Helen since she had been a toddling baby, and her reply was
immediate and enthusiastic. Eight days later she had reported in
person. The second letter bore the affectionate address of Nora
Darling, Detroit, Michigan. This also in time bore fruit at the
ranch in a manner worthy of special mention.
It was the fourth day after Ned Bannister had been carried back
to the Lazy D that Helen Messiter came out to the porch of the
house with a letter in her hand. She found her foreman sitting on
the steps waiting for her, but he got up as soon as he heard the
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