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Updated: May 2, 2025
"With all prayer and supplication" there is intensity; "praying" that is the main drive; "at all seasons" ceaselessness, night and day; hot and cold; wet and dry; "in the Spirit" as guided by the Chief; "and watching thereunto" sleepless vigilance; watching is ever a fighting word; watch the enemy; watch your own forces; "with all perseverance" persistence; cheery, jaw-locked, dogged persistence, bulldog tenacity; "and supplication" intensity again; "for all the saints" the sweep of the action, keep in touch with the whole army; "and on my behalf" the human leader, rally around the immediate leader.
But the pinch of constant management, rigid economy, counting the coins carefully, studying to make both ends meet, and needing to stretch a bit to get them together. It is not unlikely that house rent was one of the items. The ceaselessness of His labors those public years suggests habits of industry acquired during those long Nazareth years. He was used to working hard and being kept busy.
Those, too, on the corn-rick talked a little; but the perspiring ones at the machine, including Tess, could not lighten their duties by the exchange of many words. It was the ceaselessness of the work which tried her so severely, and began to make her wish that she had never some to Flintcomb-Ash.
In his aspect there was a certain dryness, and, altogether, his vivacity, his ceaselessness, and a kind of equability of tone in his voice, reminded me of what Homer says concerning the old men around Priam, above the gate of Troy, how they "chirped like cicalas on a summer day."
But who can say that your efforts and your persistence will not be as richly rewarded according to your ability as his ceaselessness has been repaid, if you will try as hard as he has tried, and use every ounce of yourself as effectively as he has used himself? At twelve years of age he was a newsboy on the Grand Trunk Railway. That didn't satisfy him.
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