PERSONAL REFORMATION
Ebenezer Scrooge resolves to change his life after being shown the consequences of his actions by the Spirits. He vows to honor Christmas and live in the Past, Present, and Future, indicating a confirmed claim of personal reformation.
EBENEZER SCROOGE
'I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse. Why show me this, if I am past all hope?' 'I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!' 'I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future!' Scrooge repeated as he scrambled out of bed. 'The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. O Jacob Marley! Heaven and the Christmas Time be praised for this! I say it on my knees, old Jacob; on my knees!'