| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: sent, I hope you will fall upon the Post Office with all the vigour
you possess. How does THE WRECKER go in the States? It seems to
be doing exceptionally well in England. - Yours sincerely,
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.
Letter: TO J. M. BARRIE
VAILIMA PLANTATION, SAMOAN ISLANDS, NOVEMBER 1ST, 1892.
DEAR MR. BARRIE, - I can scarce thank you sufficiently for your
extremely amusing letter. No, THE AULD LICHT IDYLS never reached
me - I wish it had, and I wonder extremely whether it would not be
good for me to have a pennyworth of the Auld Licht pulpit. It is a
singular thing that I should live here in the South Seas under
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Call of the Wild by Jack London: For Thornton, however, his love seemed to grow and grow. He,
alone among men, could put a pack upon Buck's back in the summer
travelling. Nothing was too great for Buck to do, when Thornton
commanded. One day (they had grub-staked themselves from the
proceeds of the raft and left Dawson for the head-waters of the
Tanana) the men and dogs were sitting on the crest of a cliff
which fell away, straight down, to naked bed-rock three hundred
feet below. John Thornton was sitting near the edge, Buck at his
shoulder. A thoughtless whim seized Thornton, and he drew the
attention of Hans and Pete to the experiment he had in mind.
"Jump, Buck!" he commanded, sweeping his arm out and over the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Smalcald Articles by Dr. Martin Luther: true sorrow of heart, suffering and sensation of death.
This, then, is what it means to begin true repentance; and
here man must hear such a sentence as this: You are all of no
account, whether you be manifest sinners or saints [in your
own opinion]; you all must become different and do otherwise
than you now are and are doing [no matter what sort of people
you are], whether you are as great, wise, powerful, and holy
as you may. Here no one is [righteous, holy], godly, etc.
But to this office the New Testament immediately adds the
consolatory promise of grace through the Gospel, which must be
believed, as Christ declares, Mark 1,15: Repent and believe
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