Have you ever noticed the extraordinary sequence of ideas in these words of the prophet Isaiah? He writes (Isa. 40:31): "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." It is to be noted that the strength gained by waiting on the Lord, by turning confidently to divine power, as the Christian Scientist would put it, ultimates in soaring as on eagles' wings, in running without weariness, and in walking without fainting—all desirable results certainly, but set forth in a noticeably descending scale of activity.
The order of the words arrested the attention of the writer and proved to be the answer to two questions propounded to her by a young Christian Scientist who had seen active duty as an aviator during the war years.
"Why," he asked, "can we not always maintain the glorious confidence in God's all-power which we glimpsed during our war experience? We know it is true. We proved it. Why can't we prove it just as easily now, and get everybody to accept it?"
