| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: be children of God, thoughtful and busy one for another, bearing
one another's burdens, and so fulfilling the law of Christ.
Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by
love, when a man applies himself with joy and love to the works
of that freest servitude in which he serves others voluntarily
and for nought, himself abundantly satisfied in the fulness and
riches of his own faith.
Thus, when Paul had taught the Philippians how they had been made
rich by that faith in Christ in which they had obtained all
things, he teaches them further in these words: "If there be
therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: KING.
Why, Warwick, hath thy knee forgot to bow?--
Old Salisbury, shame to thy silver hair,
Thou mad misleader of thy brainsick son!
What, wilt thou on thy death-bed play the ruffian,
And seek for sorrow with thy spectacles?
O, where is faith? O, where is loyalty?
If it be banish'd from the frosty head,
Where shall it find a harbour in the earth?
Wilt thou go dig a grave to find out war,
And shame thine honourable age with blood?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: take the place of the Jessie."
CHAPTER XVII--"YOUR" MISS LACKLAND
The next morning Sheldon came in from the plantation to breakfast,
to find the mission ketch, Apostle, at anchor, her crew swimming
two mares and a filly ashore. Sheldon recognized the animals as
belonging to the Resident Commissioner, and he immediately wondered
if Joan had bought them. She was certainly living up to her threat
of rattling the dry bones of the Solomons, and he was prepared for
anything.
"Miss Lackland sent them," said Welshmere, the missionary doctor,
stepping ashore and shaking hands with him. "There's also a box of
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