| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: with "Les Fourberies de Scaramouche." But they did not come to
Nantes as hitherto they had gone to little country villages and
townships, unheralded and depending entirely upon the parade of
their entrance to attract attention to themselves. Andre-Louis
had borrowed from the business methods of the Comedie Francaise.
Carrying matters with a high hand entirely in his own fashion, he
had ordered at Redon the printing of playbills, and four days before
the company's descent upon Nantes, these bills were pasted outside
the Theatre Feydau and elsewhere about the town, and had attracted
- being still sufficiently unusual announcements at the time -
considerable attention. He had entrusted the matter to one of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: came to pass that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in
Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.
"'And Ahab spake unto Naboth, saying, Give me thy vineyard, that I may have
it for a garden of herbs, because it is near unto my house: and I will
give thee for it a better vineyard than it; or, if it seemeth good to thee,
I will give thee the worth of it in money.
"'And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid it me, that I should give the
inheritance of my father unto thee.
"'And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word
which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken unto him; for he had said, I will
not give thee the inheritance of my fathers.'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from An Open Letter on Translating by Dr. Martin Luther: tongue teaches us to say it in the same way. In addition, I have
the examples of the holy fathers. The dangers confronting the
people also compel it so they do not continue to hang onto works
and wander away from faith, losing Christ, especially at this time
when they have been so accustomed to works they have to be pulled
away from them by force. It is for these reasons that it is not
only right but also necessary to say it as plainly and forcefully
as possible: "Faith alone saves without works!" I am only sorry I
did not add "alle" and "aller", and said "without any (alle) works
of any (aller) laws." That would have stated it most effectively.
Therefore, it will remain in the New Testament, and though all the
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