Excerpt from Sanctuary

I have been asked to write a preface to this little book - a book filled from end to end with devotional thoughts. I am surely not expected to add more viands to a full banquet, nor is my preface to be by way of decoration, like the flowers and music which Holy Scripture tells us are the right adornments of a banquet, for these the author has not failed to introduce into the work itself in ample profusion. What, then, is my task? The preface, written by a hand other than that of the author, seems to me but too often to hit beside the mark. Its only proper purpose, to my thinking, is like the introductory speech of the chairman at a public meeting - not to trench on the matters to be treated of, but to say how respectable and competent a person is the gentleman who is about to hold the floor. It is to introduce not the subject, but the speaker. If this is my task, I have a pleasant one indeed.

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