You are aware that she feels the sufferings and the deprivations of the oppressed in her own blood, and feels the power, the presence, and the divinity of Christ in her own soul.
It is a grateful experience to sit with this woman, who is so like the best of men but is so manifestly the staunchest of women.

Her face reveals the force of her emotions, her voice, which is musical and persuasive, the depth of her compassion.

In her sitting-room, which is almost a study and nearly an office, hangs a portrait of Newman, and a _prie-Dieu_ stands against one of the walls half-hidden by bookshelves.
She is one of the few very busy people I have known who give one no feeling of an inward commotion.
Apart from her natural eloquence and her unmistakable sincerity, apart even from the attractive fullness of her humanity, I think the notable success of her preaching is to be attributed to a single reason, quite outside any such considerations.

It is a reason of great importance to the modern student of religious psychology.

Miss Royden preaches Christ as a Power.
To others she leaves the esoteric aspects of religion, and the ceremonial of worship, and the difficulties of theology, and the mechanism of parochial organisation.