Editorial June 19, 1943 Issue

The Sanctuary

Evelyn F. Heywood

The concept of sanctuary to the children of Israel was a habitation made with hands wherein God dwelt among them. Nevertheless, they recognized that only according to the holiness of their own lives and their obedience to the divine decrees would this sanctuary be preserved from neglect or desecration, and that thereby their consciousness of God's protecting presence would be preserved.

In the Psalms we find that as the writer's thought rose in inspiration, he perceived this sanctuary not as an abode, however beautiful and consecrated, built by hand, but as a place of spiritual retreat where he could enter and find God. Here in this divine presence the terrors of human experience were seen in their right proportion and the mesmerism of their power to distress men was broken. He relates: "All the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. . . . Until I went into the sanctuary of God; then understood I their end."

From that inner stronghold of Spirit, where the arguments of evil are stilled in the recognition of God's allness, the nature of error, even its finity, was disclosed to him.

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