Mary Angela Dickens

Sanctuary Mary Angela Dickens

The Sanctuary is the home of the Beatitudes, and what human sorrow, what source of human restlessness, has not Jesus transfigured into blessedness in that doctrine so divinely paradoxical? I do not know that the author has been ever touched by the bitterness of the true jetziger Weltschmerz. the accumulated sorrows, result of our social evils and wrongs; hut, none the less, in this Sanctuary is its only healing to he found. I am not concerned to prove that our writer's outlook could not have been vastly enlarged; but a fruitful task has, I think, been fulfilled, and competently, in these pages, the result of pious thought, feeling, and experience, and the author will he, I know, anlply rewarded if only a few more will hasten in her wake to take Sanctuary in their griefs, both great and small.