| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: And some were pushed with lances from the rock,
And part were drowned within the whirling brook:
O miracle of noble womanhood!'
So sang the gallant glorious chronicle;
And, I all rapt in this, 'Come out,' he said,
'To the Abbey: there is Aunt Elizabeth
And sister Lilia with the rest.' We went
(I kept the book and had my finger in it)
Down through the park: strange was the sight to me;
For all the sloping pasture murmured, sown
With happy faces and with holiday.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon: lawful to use Sacraments administered by evil men, according
to the saying of Christ: The Scribes and the Pharisees sit in
Moses' seat, etc. Matt. 23, 2. Both the Sacraments and Word
are effectual by reason of the institution and commandment of
Christ, notwithstanding they be administered by evil men.
They condemn the Donatists, and such like, who denied it to be
lawful to use the ministry of evil men in the Church, and who
thought the ministry of evil men to be unprofitable and of
none effect.
Article IX: Of Baptism.
Of Baptism they teach that it is necessary to salvation, and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: scorn at his degenerate descendant, as he leers out from behind the sod
wall. During the the later Roman Empire, Commodus, in the degenerate days
of Rome, at great expense had wild beasts brought from distant lands that
he might have the glory of slaying them in the Roman circus; and medals
representing himself as Hercules slaying the Nemean lion were struck at his
orders. We are not aware that any representation has yet been made in the
region of plastic art of the hero of the sod wall; but history repeats
itself--and that also may come. It is to be noted that these hunters are
not youths, but often ripely adult men, before whom all the lofty
enjoyments and employments possible to the male in modern life, lie open.)
These peculiarities in her condition have in all civilised societies laid
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