| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Faith of Men by Jack London: the Innuits by the Alaska Commercial Company; and acknowledged
having myself mined six- and eight-foot tusks from the pay gravel
of the Klondike creeks. "All fossils," I concluded, "found in the
midst of debris deposited through countless ages."
"I remember when I was a kid," Thomas Stevens sniffed (he had a
most confounded way of sniffing), "that I saw a petrified water-
melon. Hence, though mistaken persons sometimes delude themselves
into thinking that they are really raising or eating them, there
are no such things as extant water-melons?"
"But the question of food," I objected, ignoring his point, which
was puerile and without bearing. "The soil must bring forth
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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: VERSE 7. Who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
The Galatians were hindered in the Christian life when they turned from
faith and grace to the Law. Covertly the Apostle blames the false apostles
for impeding the Christian progress of the Galatians. The false apostles
persuaded the Galatians to believe that they were in error and that they
had made little or no progress under the influence of Paul. Under the
baneful influence of the false apostles the Galatians thought they were
well off and advancing rapidly in Christian knowledge and living.
VERSE 8. This persuasion cometh not of him that calleth you.
Paul explains how those who had been deceived by false teachers may be
restored to spiritual health. The false apostles were amiable fellows.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis: if you did that, old man!"
"I know, Dad! Sure! All right. I'll stick to it. Say! Gosh! Gee whiz! I
forgot all about those kids I was going to take to the chorus rehearsal. I'll
have to duck!"
"But you haven't done all your home-work."
"Do it first thing in the morning."
"Well--"
Six times in the past sixty days Babbitt had stormed, "You will not 'do it
first thing in the morning'! You'll do it right now!" but to-night he said,
"Well, better hustle," and his smile was the rare shy radiance he kept for
Paul Riesling.
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