suffering and injustice, never gave it up. They longed for “Canaan’s Happy Shore,” where their endurance would be rewarded in God’s righteous and everlasting reign. Another significant response arose from dispensationalism. This new hermeneutic began in nineteenth-century Britain and hit its stride in twentieth-century America. It promised to give lay Christians the key to resist liberalism and read Scripture for themselves. The secret to understanding many passages was to ask if they were speaking