| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: the island had convinced her that he had eyes only for
her. She must make the most of it.
It was ten o'clock before Jim could be persuaded to
rise and get breakfast. She literally pulled him up
the stairs to the observatory on the tower of the
hotel.
"What's the game, Kiddo? What's the game?" he
grumbled.
"Ask me no questions. But do just as I tell you;
come on!"
Her face was radiant, her hair in a tangle of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Profits of Religion by Upton Sinclair: house and lot, or a share of stock in a corporation, or a life
insurance policy, or money in a savings bank, has laid up for
himself treasure upon earth. But Jesus did not say, "Lay not up
for yourselves treasures upon earth." He said, "Lay not up for
yourselves treasures upon earth where moth and rust doth corrupt
and where thieves break through and steal." And no sensible
American does. Moth and rust do not get at Mr. Rockefeller's oil
wells, nor at the Sugar Trust's sugar, and thieves do not often
break through and steal a railway or an insurance company or a
savings bank. What Jesus condemned was hoarding wealth.
Strange as it may sound to some of the readers of this book, I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O LORD, I pray thee, turn the
counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.
SA2 15:32 And it came to pass, that when David was come to the top of
the mount, where he worshipped God, behold, Hushai the Archite came to
meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head:
SA2 15:33 Unto whom David said, If thou passest on with me, then thou
shalt be a burden unto me:
SA2 15:34 But if thou return to the city, and say unto Absalom, I will
be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant hitherto, so
will I now also be thy servant: then mayest thou for me defeat the
counsel of Ahithophel.
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