| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Rape of Lucrece by William Shakespeare: His drumming heart cheers up his burning eye,
His eye commends the leading to his hand;
His hand, as proud of such a dignity,
Smoking with pride, march'd on to make his stand
On her bare breast, the heart of all her land;
Whose ranks of blue veins, as his hand did scale,
Left their round turrets destitute and pale.
They, mustering to the quiet cabinet
Where their dear governess and lady lies,
Do tell her she is dreadfully beset,
And fright her with confusion of their cries:
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: first gospel. Connected with the narrative there are many
interesting topics of discussion, of which our rapidly
diminishing space will allow us to select only one for comment.
That one is perhaps the most important of all, namely, the
question as to how far Jesus anticipated the views of Paul in
admitting Gentiles to share in the privileges of the Messianic
kingdom. Our author argues, with much force, that the designs of
Jesus were entirely confined to the Jewish people, and that it
was Paul who first, by admitting Gentiles to the Christian fold
without requiring them to live like Jews, gave to Christianity
the character of a universal religion. Our author reminds us that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: the place. He has undertaken to do it.'
'At your request?'
'At my persuasion--at my long entreaty. They must recognize him--
they must be taught. I have set my heart on it.'
'Does he himself very much care?' I asked remembering the night of
the thirty-first of October.
'Yes, he does care. He despises it, of course, but in a way he
cares. I've been trying to make him care more. A human being isn't
an orchid; he must draw something from the soil he grows in.'
'If he were stable,' I mused; 'if he had a fixed ambition somewhere
in the firmament. But his purpose is a will-o'-the-wisp.'
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