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One of the most frequently quoted verses in the whole of the Bible is that verse in which the prophet Isaiah speaks of the results of waiting upon God. “That they wait upon the Lord,” he says, “shall renew their strength.” In this pamphlet, published after the first year fighting in World War II, Jones’ reiterates the need for Christian ministers and churches to remember that strength, to...

as that same brilliant commentator remarks, we have in this word of the prophet’s “a natural and true climax, rising from the easier to the more difficult, from the ideal to the real, from dream to duty; from what can only be the rare occasions of life to what must be life’s usual and abiding experience.” No big thing is ever going to be accomplished, no great life is ever going to be lived, without this power to endure, this ability to “walk without being faint.” For the great life is not to be
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