| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: and from Yolo on the east - rough as they were in outline,
dug out by winter streams, crowned by cliffy bluffs and
nodding pine trees - wore dwarfed into satellites by the bulk
and bearing of Mount Saint Helena. She over-towered them by
two-thirds of her own stature. She excelled them by the
boldness of her profile. Her great bald summit, clear of
trees and pasture, a cairn of quartz and cinnabar, rejected
kinship with the dark and shaggy wilderness of lesser hill-
tops.
CHAPTER II - THE PETRIFIED FOREST
WE drove off from the Springs Hotel about three in the
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln by Helen Nicolay: to discussing the President's plan, which, in the main, was
favorably received; but it was thought that it must fail on the
score of expense. The President answered this objection in a
private letter to a Senator, proving that less than one-half
day's cost of war would pay for all the slaves in Delaware at
four hundred dollars each, and less than eighty-seven days' cost
of war would pay for all in Delaware, Maryland, the District of
Columbia, Kentucky and Missouri. "Do you doubt," he asked, that
taking such a step "on the part of those States and this District
would shorten the war more than eighty-seven days, and thus be an
actual saving of expense?"
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: for ever.
PSA 136:5 To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy
endureth for ever.
PSA 136:6 To him that stretched out the earth above the waters: for his
mercy endureth for ever.
PSA 136:7 To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for
ever:
PSA 136:8 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever:
PSA 136:9 The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth
for ever.
PSA 136:10 To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy
King James Bible |
