Part 1

THE LIFE RADIANT

LILIAN WHITING

Author of "The World Beautiful," "The Spiritual Significance" "The World Beautiful in Books," "Kate Field, a Record," "Boston Days," etc.

"Follow it, follow it, Follow the Gleam."

Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1903

ARVILLA DELIGHT MEEKER (MRS. NATHAN COOK MEEKER)

IN WHOSE BEAUTIFUL LIFE PATIENCE HAS DONE HER PERFECT WORK, AND WHOSE UNFALTERING AND JOYFUL FAITH IN GOD REVEALS IMPRESSIVE TRUTH IN THE LIFE RADIANT OF HOLY LIVING

THESE PAGES ARE INSCRIBED WITH THE DEVOTION OF LILIAN WHITING

CONTENTS.

PAGE THE GOLDEN AGE LIES ONWARD.

THE SUPREME ILLUMINATION 24 CREATING THE NEW WORLD 26 ELIMINATING ANXIETIES 33 HEAVEN'S PERFECT HOUR 37 LOVE AND GOOD WILL 46 THE DIVINER POSSIBILITIES 51 THE WEIGHT OF THE PAST 64

DISCERNING THE FUTURE.

A DETERMINING QUESTION 85 IN PROPORTION TO POWER 99

THE ETHEREAL REALM.

A SCIENTIFIC FACT 124 A GLORIOUS INAUGURATION 136 FINER COSMIC FORCES 149 HEALTH AND HAPPINESS 158 A NEW FORCE 172 THE SERVICE OF THE GODS 174

THE POWER OF THE EXALTED MOMENT.

OBEY THE VISION 192 THE OPEN DOOR 201 INTERRUPTIONS AS OPPORTUNITIES 204 THE CHARM OF COMPANIONSHIP 214 A SUMMER PILGRIMAGE IN ARIZONA 226 A TRAGIC IDYL OF COLORADO 237 A REMARKABLE MYSTIC 254 THE MOMENTOUS QUESTION 261

THE NECTAR OF THE HOUR.

A PROFOUND EXPERIENCE 285 THE LAW OF PRAYER 299 CONDUCT AND BEAUTY 313 THE DIVINE PANORAMA 321 ALSO THE HOLY GHOST, THE COMFORTER 331

THE LIFE RADIANT.

"I am Merlin Who follow the Gleam."

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Know well, my soul, God's hand controls Whate'er thou fearest; Round Him in calmest music rolls Whate'er thou hearest.

What to thee is shadow, to Him is day, And the end He knoweth. And not on a blind and aimless way The spirit goeth.

WHITTIER.

THE GOLDEN AGE LIES ONWARD.

"The Golden Age lies onward, not behind. The pathway through the past has led us up: The pathway through the future will lead on, And higher."

The Life Radiant is that transfiguration of the ordinary daily events and circumstances which lifts them to the spiritual plane and sees them as the signs and the indications of the divine leading. Every circumstance thus becomes a part of the revelation; and to constantly live in this illuminated atmosphere is to invest all experiences with a kind of magical enchantment. Life prefigures itself before us as a spiritual drama in which we are, at once, the actors and the spectators. The story of living goes on perpetually. The days and the years inevitably turn the pages and open new chapters. Nothing is ever hopeless, because new combinations and groupings create new results. The forces that determine his daily life are partly with man and partly with God. They lie in both the Seen and the Unseen. We are always an inhabitant of both realms, and to recognize either alone and be blind to the other is to deprive ourselves of the great sources of energy. The divine aid, infinite and all-potent as it is, capable at any moment of utterly transforming all the conditions and transferring them to a higher plane, is yet limited by the degree of spiritual receptivity in the individual. As one may have all the air that he is able to breathe, so may one have all the aid of the Holy Spirit which he is capable of receiving. Man can never accept so gladly and so freely as God offers; but in just the proportion to which he can, increasingly, lift up his heart in response, to that degree God fills his life with a glory not of earth.