The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-14
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 The Life Radiant No one can read this book without absoI .ing from it strength; beauty. happiness. courage, It is the latest and the most inspiring of Miss Writings books.
 All thh world knows. of the great sue cess of Miss whitings series of World Beautiful Books, They have been a means of uplift to thousands of readers. Miss Whiting touches the common place incidents of lire and living with her word of genius, and To, we beloved the halo about them, the nimbus of light that sanctifies always. each com mon daily duty could we but see it.
 Miss Whiting is one who truly lives in high places. All that is best and most lofty in the world of thought she has absorbed unto herself To appreciate the best of all poets. romancers, thinkers of all time has been her pleasurable task. She breaks the bread of great thinkers for us, and to the richness of their tones adds in giving her own grace and graciousness.
 Our life would be life in a land of enchantment if we could live it as she would have us live 1t. Death means to her only an event in life,, a step out into broader living, more complete thinking.
 Who ever has not read that little book that preceded this one: After Her Death has missed a draught of refreshment and strength. That story of summer in the relation of how came to Miss Wh..Ing the knowledge of the death of her friend, Kate Fields. It is an almost lifting of the veil that divides us from the unseen the story of that summer.
 To Southern readers Miss Writings work is made familiar through her week. ly Boston letter to The Timeo-Democrat of New Orleans.
 That letter has been. is stlil, to many a reader of taste and culture, shut in by meager circumstances. a very window of joy. Though it comes to many an enclos- ed one, all the glimpse possible to obtain of the world of higher thought ana best art and most finished literary accom- plishments of to-day,
 One of Miss Writings personal friends tells of the writing of that weekly let ter. It is by no means the rough and ready syndicate work that we see so much off, It Is. a careful exquisite pie ture of the best of Boston taken down in Miss Writings own hand each week, For now more than twenty years she has held. the same place in the same paper. Many a young literary aspirant treads with Miss Whiting through these letters the way the worlds great ones go to great accomplishments.
 That work of hers is enough to mako any writer feel satisfied with doing good part to helping the world grow better. But in the publishing of these World Beautiful Books, Miss whiting at once spoke to a worldwide audience.
 Some of the papers of this Life Radi- ant are: The Power of the Exalted Mo ment, Interruptions and Opportunities, The Charm of Companionship The Nee tar of the Hour. The Law of Prayer, Tho Weight of the Past, Heavens Perfect Hour, the Divine Panorama.
 Her sermons are never impracticablc. she never leaves the bare and marrow road Of Truth, but she discovers so many flowers therein that all tie road IS masqued with Beauty:
 'For this alone is the Life Radiant. It may not be ease or pleasure, but it is that ceaseless joy of the soul that may be the daily experience of every human being And to gain the deep Inner con vietion of this sublime truth Is worth whatever 1t may cost of tears. or trin. It sis the threshhold of Jey@ 1t Is tho, initiation into q higher spIritt,aI state wtAch one may{eain In his progress h;le on earth as we'll as in Heavep. fh- faeS,. nokone is really fitted for the hfghcst privileges and sweetness he may era 'e until he has learned to live we'll. to live 3oyfully. without them. No one't fitted for. joy until he can live well, without joy"
 'pbedience to the Heavenly Vision is not in standing still. but in following. It Iinds its best expression in energy nnA not in inactivity. The more absolutely one abandons himself to the Divine will, the more uAceasingly will he fill eve,y hour with effort toward the working out E1f,a xho tions.
 "An ideal once revealed is meant to De realized.
 ''There can be no achievement of life so improbable or so impossible that it cannot be realized by the power-the ab- solutely invincible power-of mental fdel- 1ty.
 set one hold his purpose on thought. azM@@E~v-gISl1'1alHs.