It’s a pretty famous essay by one of America’s leading conservative thinkers from the first half of the 20th century.
It has been forty years since I read anything by him. Among other things I have never seen a plainer description of Isaiah’s mission. Just this evening I was reminded of an old story about bishop Sheen, who was famous for his conversions. It seems a young priest went to Sheen’s deathbed and asked him for advise, saying that he wished to convert people to Christianity as Sheen had done, that he had already converted fifteen. What should he do? Sheen painfully pushed himself up on his elbows and looked the young priest in the eye, and said.”The first thing is, stop counting. “ To exaggerate, a bit, Jesus himself stopped at Twelve, or with at least HIS remnant of the people of Israel.