| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: church?' And he said, 'My wife, cannot God be worshipped as well under the
dome of the heaven He made as in a golden palace? Shall a man keep
silence, when he sees oppression, to earn money for God? If I have
defended the black man when I believed him to be wronged, shall I not also
defend the white man, my flesh-brother? Shall we speak when one man is
wronged and not when it is another?'
"And she said, 'Yes, but you have your family and yourself to think of!
Why are you always in opposition to the people who could do something for
us? You are only loved by the poor. If it is necessary for you to attack
some one, why don't you attack the Jews for killing Christ, or Herod, or
Pontius Pilate; why don't you leave alone the men who are in power today,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: Your church here was running behind every year.
Your people had got into a habit of putting in nickels
instead of dimes, and letting you sweat for the difference.
That's a habit, like tobacco, or biting your fingernails,
or anything else. Either you were all to come to smash here,
or the people had to be shaken up, stood on their heads,
broken of their habit. It's my business--mine and Soulsby's--
to do that sort of thing. We came here and we did it--
did it up brown, too. We not only raised all the money
the church needs, and to spare, but I took a personal shine
to you, and went out of my way to fix up things for you.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: "What is it that my lord would have?" asked the monster.
"Oh, Genie!" said poor Abdallah, "I would have the princess for
my wife, for without her I am like to die."
"My lord's commands," said the Genie, "shall be executed if I
have to tear down the city to do so. But perhaps this behest is
not so hard to fulfil. First of all, my lord will have to have an
ambassador to send to the king."
"Very well," said Abdallah with a sigh; "let me have an
ambassador or whatever may be necessary. Only make haste, Genie,
in thy doings."
"I shall lose no time," said the Genie; and in a moment was gone.
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