| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: gallop for the city gate. It was a rough ride in that springless
cart over the rutty roads. But my house seemed warmer that night
and my bed seemed softer after I had paid the carter myself.
Among my friends and patients none are more interesting than the
Misses Hsu. They are very intelligent, and after I had become
well acquainted with them I said to them one day:
"How is it that you have done such wide reading?"
"You know, of course," they said, "that our father is a chuang
yuan."
I asked them the meaning of a chuang yuan. Then I learned that
under the Chinese system a great many students enter the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: the law divine. So then, if such be thy purpose, make ready
every weapon to defend thy claim; for to us to live is Christ,
and to die for him is the best gain."
Incensed with anger thereat, the monarch ordered the tongues of
these Confessors to be rooted out, and their eyes digged out, and
likewise their hands and feet lopped off. Sentence passed, the
henchmen and guards surrounded and mutilated them, without pity
and without ruth. And they plucked out their tongues from their
mouths with prongs, and severed them with brutal severity, and
they digged out their eyes with iron claws, and stretched their
arms and legs on the rack, and lopped them off. But those
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson: which I had paid no great heed; but it came back to me at the
moment.
"'And is this Case a man of a sanctified life?' I asked.
"He admitted he was not; for, though he did not drink, he was
profligate with women, and had no religion.
" 'Then,' said I, 'I think the less you have to do with him the
better.'
"But it is not easy to have the last word with a man like Namu. He
was ready in a moment with an illustration. 'Misi,' said he, 'you
have told me there were wise men, not pastors, not even holy, who
knew many things useful to be taught - about trees for instance,
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