| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome: and that they were willing to secure his release by
paying half of the tax demanded from him out
of the factory funds. Uncle got together thirty
thousand, the factory contributed another thirty, and he was
freed, being given a certificate that he had ceased to be an
exploiter or a property owner, and would in future be
subject only to such taxes as might be levied on the working
population. The nephew was also freed, on the grounds that
he was wanted at the leather-works.
I asked him how things were going on. He said, "Fairly
well, only uncle keeps worrying because the men still call
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: it might yield light to all souls at sea; that afar off they might see its
steady light and find harbour, and escape the rocks.
"'And that light flickered and flared, as it listed. It went this way and
it went that; it burnt blue, and green, and red; now it disappeared
altogether, and then it burnt up again. And men, far out at sea, kept
their eyes fixed where they knew the light should be: saying, 'We are
safe; the great light will lead us when we near the rocks.' And on dark
nights men drifted nearer and nearer; and in the stillness of the midnight
they struck on the lighthouse rocks and went down at its feet.
"'What now shall be done to that light, in that it was not a rushlight; in
that it was set on high by the hands of men, and in that men trusted it?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: rope of God and the rope of man; and they draw on themselves wrath
from God. They are smitten, too, with poverty; that is because they
did disbelieve in God's signs, and kill the prophets undeservedly.
That is because they did rebel and did transgress.
They are not all alike. Of the people of the Book there is a
nation upright, reciting God's signs throughout the night, as they
adore the while. They believe in God, and in the last day, and bid
what is reasonable, and forbid what is wrong, and vie in charity;
these are among the righteous.
What ye do of good surely God will not deny, for God knows those who
fear.
The Koran |
