| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: or lost. For if He did not intend to answer your prayer, He would not
bid you pray and add such a severe commandment to it.
In the second place, we should be the more urged and incited to pray
because God has also added a promise, and declared that it shall surely
be done to us as we pray, as He says Ps. 50, 15: Call upon Me in the
day of trouble: I will deliver thee. And Christ in the Gospel of St.
Matthew, 7, 7: Ask, and it shall be given you. For every one that
asketh receiveth. Such promises ought certainly to encourage and kindle
our hearts to pray with pleasure and delight, since He testifies with
His [own] word that our prayer is heartily pleasing to Him, moreover,
that it shall assuredly be heard and granted, in order that we may not
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: and each tiny fibre, fine as a hair, slowly extends itself, and seizes on
the minute particle of rough rock nearest to it; now a small tentacle slips
its hold, and then it holds firmly, and then slowly and slowly the whole
inert mass rises to the top.
It is often said of those who lead in this attempt at the readaption of
woman's relation to life, that they are "New Women"; and they are at times
spoken of as though they were a something portentous and unheard-of in the
order of human life.
But, the truth is, we are not new. We who lead in this movement today are
of that old, old Teutonic womanhood, which twenty centuries ago ploughed
its march through European forests and morasses beside its male companion;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from La Grenadiere by Honore de Balzac: as well, something in my handwriting?"
"Yes, mother," and Louis began to read, "MARIE WILLEMSENS, BORN
AT----"
"That is enough," she broke in quickly, "do not go on. When I am dead,
give that paper, too, to Annette, and tell her to send it to the
registrar at Saint-Cyr; it will be wanted if my certificate of death
is to be made out in due form. Now find writing materials for a letter
which I will dictate to you."
When she saw that he was ready to begin, and turned towards her for
the words, they came from her quietly:--
"Monsieur le Comte, your wife, Lady Brandon, died at Saint-Cyr, near
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