| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac: "Let us be kind and benevolent," said the countess.
The evening after the arrest Bonnebault came to the tavern of the
Grand-I-Vert, where all the Tonsard family were in great jubilation.
"Oh yes, yes!" said he, "make the most of your rejoicing; but I've
just heard from Vaudoyer that the countess, to punish you, withdraws
the thousand francs promised to Godain; her husband won't let her give
them."
"It's that villain of a Michaud who has put him up to it," said
Tonsard. "My mother heard him say he would; she told me at Ville-aux-
Fayes where I went to carry her some money and her clothes. Well; let
that countess keep her money! our five hundred francs shall help
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Nana, Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille by Emile Zola: continual opening and shutting allowed an odor of womankind to
escape--a musky scent of oils and essences mingling with the natural
pungency exhaled from human tresses. He did not stop. Nay, he
hastened his walk: he almost ran, his skin tingling with the breath
of that fiery approach to a world he knew nothing of.
"A theater's a curious sight, eh?" said the Marquis de Chouard with
the enchanted expression of a man who once more finds himself amid
familiar surroundings.
But Bordenave had at length reached Nana's dressing room at the end
of the passage. He quietly turned the door handle; then, cringing
again:
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: saith, None can enter into the kingdom of God except he be
regenerate and born anew of water and the Holy Ghost"; therefore
it is desirable that this child should be baptized, "received
into Christ's Holy Church, and be made a lively member of the
same." That, is to say, there is one birth, after the
flesh, but a second birth is necessary, a birth after the
Spirit and into the Church of Christ. Our Confirmation
Service is simply a service repeating and confirming
these views, at an age (fourteen to sixteen or so) when the
boy or girl is capable of understanding what is being done.
But our Baptismal and Confirmation ceremonies combined
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
