And if
this book casts the least ray upon the sad problem--a ray of the
light that I have learned to recognise is truly there--I shall be
more than content. There is no morbidity in suffering, or in
confessing that one suffers. Morbidity only begins when one
acquiesces in suffering as being incurable and inevitable; and the
motive of this book is to show that it is at once curative and
curable, a very tender part of a wholly loving and Fatherly design.
A. C. B.
Magdalene College, Cambridge,
July 14, 1907.
INTRODUCTION
I had intended to allow the records that follow--the records of a
pilgrimage sorely beset and hampered by sorrow and distress--to
speak for themselves. Let me only say that one who makes public a
record so intimate and outspoken incurs, as a rule, a certain
responsibility. He has to consider in the first place, or at least
he cannot help instinctively considering, what the wishes of the
writer would have been on the subject. I do not mean that one who
has to decide such a point is bound to be entirely guided by that.
He must weigh the possible value of the record to other spirits
against what he thinks that the writer himself would have
personally desired.
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