| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "Peter of Blentz shall not rule Lutha for two days, or
two minutes," replied Barney. "We shall rule. Lieutenant
Butzow, you may place Prince Peter, Coblich, Maenck, and
Stein under arrest. We charge them with treason against
their king, and conspiring to assassinate their rightful mon-
arch."
Butzow smiled as he turned with his troopers at his back
to execute this most welcome of commissions; but in a mo-
ment he was again at Barney's side.
"They have fled, your majesty," he said. "Shall I ride to
Blentz after them?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: judgment of God, many a person commits suicide.
VERSE 17. God forbid.
Christ is not the minister of sin, but the Dispenser of righteousness and
the Giver of life. Christ is Lord over law, sin and death. All who believe in
Him are delivered from law, sin and death.
The Law drives us away from God, but Christ reconciles God unto us, for
"He is the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sins of the world." Now if
the sin of the world is taken away, it is taken away from me. If sin is taken
away, the wrath of God and His condemnation are also taken away. Let us
practice this blessed conviction.
VERSE 18. For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar: the numerous hoarse whistles of the steam-boats called the
unheeded luncheon-time to the levee workers. The war waged
furiously, and groans of the wounded mingled with curses and
roars from the combatants.
"Killed instantly," said the surgeon, carefully lifting Mr.
Baptiste into the ambulance.
Tramp, tramp, tramp, sounded the militia steadily marching down
Decatur Street.
"Whist! do yez hear!" shouted Finnegan; and the conflict had
ceased ere the yellow river could reflect the sun from the
polished bayonets.
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