| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Witch, et. al by Anton Chekhov: "No . . . a new one has asked to come this evening . . . Agafya,
the signalman's wife."
Savka said this in his usual passionless, somewhat hollow voice,
as though he were talking of tobacco or porridge, while I started
with surprise. I knew Agafya. . . . She was quite a young peasant
woman of nineteen or twenty, who had been married not more than a
year before to a railway signalman, a fine young fellow. She
lived in the village, and her husband came home there from the
line every night.
"Your goings on with the women will lead to trouble, my boy,"
said I.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: and feeling of these great things. Therefore just as our
neighbour is in want, and has need of our abundance, so we too in
the sight of God were in want, and had need of His mercy. And as
our heavenly Father has freely helped us in Christ, so ought we
freely to help our neighbour by our body and works, and each
should become to other a sort of Christ, so that we may be
mutually Christs, and that the same Christ may be in all of us;
that is, that we may be truly Christians.
Who then can comprehend the riches and glory of the Christian
life? It can do all things, has all things, and is in want of
nothing; is lord over sin, death, and hell, and at the same time
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: ruler of the world. "God is Love." But, as also indicated,
the divorce between the two elements of human nature,
carried to an extreme, led in time to a crippling of both
elements and the development of a certain morbidity and
self-consciousness which, it cannot be denied, is painfully
marked among some sections of Christians--especially those
of the altruistic and 'philanthropic' type.
Another characteristic of Christianity which is also very
fine in its way but has its limits of utility, has been its
insistence on "morality." Some modern writers indeed have
gone so far--forgetting, I suppose, the Stoics--as to
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
