| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Smalcald Articles by Dr. Martin Luther: were otherwise correct) for one to use the common Sacrament of
[belonging to] the Church according to his own private
devotion, and without God s Word and apart from the communion
of the Church to trifle therewith.
This article concerning the Mass will be the whole business of
the Council. [The Council will perspire most over, and be
occupied with this article concerning the Mass.] For if it
were [although it would be] possible for them to concede to us
all the other articles, yet they could not concede this. As
Campegius said at Augsburg that he would be torn to pieces
before he would relinquish the Mass, so, by the help of God,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moby Dick by Herman Melville: in all things makes the sounding-board is this--there's naught
beneath. And yet, a coffin with a body in it rings pretty much the
same, Carpenter. Hast thou ever helped carry a bier, and heard the
coffin knock against the churchyard gate, going in?
"Faith, sir, I've--"
"Faith? What's that?"
"Why, faith, sir, it's only a sort of exclamation-like--that's all,
sir."
"Um, um; go on."
"I was about to say, sir, that--"
"Art thou a silk-worm? Dost thou spin thy own shroud out of thyself?
Moby Dick |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber: sense would have her again in its cold grip, she was radiant
to-night and glowing with the exaltation that comes with
creation. And over and over a voice within her was saying:
These are my people! These are my people!
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
The ship that brought Theodore Brandeis to America was the
last of its kind to leave German ports for years. The day
after he sailed from Bremen came the war. Fanny Brandeis
was only one of the millions of Americans who refused to
accept the idea of war. She took it as a personal affront.
It was uncivilized, it was old fashioned, it was
Fanny Herself |
