| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Smalcald Articles by Dr. Martin Luther: for a hundred years and another for a hundred days. But he
reserved to himself alone the power to remit the entire
satisfaction.
Now, since this began to yield money, and the traffic in bulls
became profitable he devised the golden jubilee year [a truly
goldbearing year], and fixed it at Rome. He called this the
remission of all punishment and guilt. Then the people came
running, because every one would fain have been freed from
this grievous, unbearable burden. This meant to find [dig up]
and raise the treasures of the earth. Immediately the Pope
pressed still further, and multiplied the golden years one
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Ferragus by Honore de Balzac: My notary shall prepare a deed before you this evening, and I will
give him the money to hold; he will pay the two thousand to you
to-morrow after the conference at which I desire to be present, as you
will then have given proofs of your good faith."
"Will it injure my daughter, my good monsieur?" she asked, casting a
cat-like glance of doubt and uneasiness upon him.
"In no way, madame. But, in any case, it seems to me that your
daughter does not treat you well. A girl who is loved by so rich a man
as Ferragus ought to make you more comfortable than you seem to be."
"Ah, my dear monsieur, just think, not so much as one poor ticket to
the Ambigu, or the Gaiete, where she can go as much as she likes. It's
Ferragus |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: public gifts--"the Weightman Charities," one very complaisant
editor
called them, as if they deserved classification as a distinct
species.
He turned he papers over listlessly. There was a description and
a picture of the "Weightman Wing of the Hospital for Cripples,"
of which he was president; and an article on the new professor in
the "Weightman Chair of Political Jurisprudence" in Jackson
University,
of which he was a trustee; and an illustrated account of the
opening of
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