| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: righteous.' But when He gave them of His grace they were niggardly
thereof, and turned their backs and swerved aside. So He caused
hypocrisy to pursue them in their hearts unto the day when they
shall meet Him,- for that they did fail God in what they promised Him,
and for that they were liars!
Do they not know that God knows their secrets and their whisperings,
and that God knows the unseen things?
Those who defame such of the believers as willingly give their alms,
and such as can find nothing to give but their exertions, and who mock
at them,- God will mock at them, and for them is grievous woe!
Ask forgiveness for them or ask not forgiveness for them! if they
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A treatise on Good Works by Dr. Martin Luther: mouth shall show forth Thy praise." Again: "My tongue shall sing
aloud of Thy mercy."
What work is there in heaven except that of this Second
Commandment? As it is written in Psalm Ixxxiv: "Blessed are they
that dwell in Thy house: they will be for ever praising Thee."
So also David says in Psalm xxxiv: "God's praise shall be
continually in my mouth." And St. Paul, I. Corinthians x:
"Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all
to the glory of God." Also Colossians iii: "Whatsoever ye do in
word or deed, do all in the Name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks
to God and the Father." If we were to observe this work, we would
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: nothing about the matter yet; and you, oh my imaginative though
learned friends, know I suspect very little either.
Eldest of things, Divine Equality:
so sang poor Shelley, and with a certain truth. For if, as I
believe, the human race sprang from a single pair, there must have
been among their individual descendants an equality far greater than
any which has been known on earth during historic times. But that
equality was at best the infantile innocence of the primary race,
which faded away in the race as quickly, alas! as it does in the
individual child. Divine--therefore it was one of the first
blessings which man lost; one of the last, I fear, to which he will
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