| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: whatever we do upon the earth must be either words or works, speech or
act.) In the first place, then, it is profaned when men preach, teach,
and speak in the name of God what is false and misleading, so that His
name must serve to adorn and to find a market for falsehood. That is,
indeed, the greatest profanation and dishonor of the divine name.
Furthermore, also when men, by swearing, cursing, conjuring, etc.,
grossly abuse the holy name as a cloak for their shame. In the second
place also by an openly wicked life and works, when those who are
called Christians and the people of God are adulterers, drunkards,
misers, envious, and slanderers. Here again must the name of God come
to shame and be profaned because of us. For just as it is a shame and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ursula by Honore de Balzac: a fourth hand at whist. Ursula went on playing; the heirs departed,
all except Desire, who was resolved to find out the intentions of his
uncle and the viscount and Ursula.
"You have as much talent as soul, mademoiselle," he said, when the
young girl closed the piano and sat down beside her godfather. "Who is
your master?"
"A German, living close to the Rue Dauphine on the quai Conti," said
the doctor. "If he had not given Ursula a lesson every day during her
stay in Paris he would have been here to-day."
"He is not only a great musician," said Ursula, "but a man of adorable
simplicity of nature."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Heritage of the Desert by Zane Grey: spread green canopy overhead, and through the intricate web shone crimson
walls, soaring with resistless onsweep up and up to shut out all but a
blue lake of sky.
"I want you to see the Navajos cross the river," said Naab.
Hare accompanied him out through the grove to a road that flanked the
first rise of the red wall; they followed this for half a mile, and
turning a corner came into an unobstructed view. A roar of rushing
waters had prepared Hare, but the river that he saw appalled him. It was
red and swift; it slid onward like an enormous slippery snake; its
constricted head raised a crest of leaping waves, and disappeared in a
dark chasm, whence came a bellow and boom.
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