| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: the chambers will be your quarter-master for this evening."
Major Dalgetty took his leave with a joyful heart greatly elated
with the reception he had met with, and much pleased with the
personal manners of his new General, which, as he explained at
great length to Ranald MacEagh, reminded him in many respects of
the demeanour of the immortal Gustavus Adolphus, the Lion of the
North, and Bulwark of the Protestant Faith.
CHAPTER XVII.
The march begins in military state,
And nations on his eyes suspended wait;
Stern famine guards the solitary coast,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Smalcald Articles by Dr. Martin Luther: and well-educated, maidens for mothers and housekeepers, etc.
If they will not serve this purpose, it is better that they be
abandoned or razed, rather than [continued and], with their
blasphemous services invented by men, regarded as something
better than the ordinary Christian life and the offices and
callings ordained by God. For all this also is contrary to the
first chief article concerning the redemption made through
Jesus Christ. Add to this that (like all other human
inventions) these have neither been commanded; they are
needless and useless, and, besides, afford occasion for
dangerous and vain labor [dangerous annoyances and fruitless
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: favourite theme of Mr. Thompson's. He asked, as we are still
asking, what Christianity and civilisation mean by countenancing
the horrors of war. He considered the British Government in the
highest degree guilty in supporting the cruel Turks, a people
whose sobriety seemed to him to be their only virtue, against the
Christian Russians. He was confident that our Ministers would be
punished for opposing the only Power which had shown any sympathy
with suffering races. About ten o'clock Mr. Thompson, whose
health, he said, could not stand late hours, would bid his guests
good night, and by half-past ten the front door of No. 5, East
Terrace, Evelina Road, would be locked and bolted, and the house
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