So that instead of being thought a disadvantage, the maturity of their veteran campaigners will greatly enhance and stimulate their appetite for a final hurrah.

As they contemplated the checkered history and contemporary shortcomings of itinerant evangelism and talked with veteran campaigners, they realized that much of the skepticism was warranted.

And kinship, too, with the veteran campaigners who never gave up, among them retired judges, obstetricians and academics.