Chapter XII

YOU ask as to the whether. I answer with the how. Faith does without the question whether; but if asked, the one answer is through the how; and so long as the how does not stand fast, the whether will not cease from troubling.

Here stands the tree; many a single leaf may fall from it; yet its root and its unity are firm and perfect. It will always develop new branches, and new leaves will continue to fall; the tree itself will not fall: it will put forth blossoms of beauty, and instead of being rooted in faith, it will bear the fruits of faith.

The World Beautiful

By LILIAN WHITING

The world beautiful about which she writes is no far-off event to which all things move, but the everyday scene around us filled by a spirit which elevates and transforms it.—Prof. Louis J. Block, in The Philosophical Journal.

The World Beautiful. First Series

Comprising; The World Beautiful; Friendship; Our Social Salvation; Lotus Eating; That which is to Come.

The World Beautiful. Second Series

Comprising; The World Beautiful; Our Best Society; To Clasp Eternal Beauty; Vibrations; The Unseen World.

The World Beautiful. Third Series

Comprising; The World Beautiful; The Rose of Dawn; The Encircling Spirit-World; The Ring of Amethyst; Paradisa Gloria.

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I know of no volumes of sermons published in recent years which are so well fitted to uplift the reader, and inspire all that is finest and best in his nature, as are the series of essays entitled “The World Beautiful,” by Lilian Whiting.—B. O. Flower, in The Coming Age.

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From Dreamland Sent

Verses of the Life to Come

By LILIAN WHITING

Author of “The World Beautiful,” “After Her Death,” “Kate Field: A Record,” “A Study of Elizabeth Barrett Browning,” etc.

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Lilian Whiting’s verse is like a bit of sunlit landscape on a May morning.—Boston Herald.

Graceful, tender, and true, appealing to what is best in the human heart.—The Independent.

The poems express and reveal her inmost nature, full of affection, longings, appreciation of others, belief in the nearness of the other world. She seems to me to have gained a higher outlook than most of us in a spiritual as well as in an intellectual way.—Kate Sanborn.

Full of faith in the divine care and a perception of the nearness of the spirit world. Its poems of love and friendship are most tender and noble.—New Church Messenger.

There is in them a sympathetic human touch, an insight born of love and sorrow, which will bring the quiet, responsive tears to many a reader’s eye.—The Chautauquan.

There is a perfection of form and poetic beauty in all her verses, and one cannot take up the book and turn to any page without being touched by the elevating and inspiring statements that guided the pen of the author.—Boston Home Journal.

I never saw anything on earth before which looked so much as if just brought from heaven by angel hands as this new edition of “From Dreamland Sent.” In the golden sunshine of an Italian morning I have heard the silver trumpets blow. This exquisite book reminds me of them.—Sarah Holland Adams.

Of the new edition of “From Dreamland Sent,” Julia Ward Howe says: “Its tender and devout spirit matches well the Easter lilies that adorn it.”

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After Her Death The Story of a Summer

By LILIAN WHITING

Author of “Kate Field: A Record,” “The World Beautiful,” etc.

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Comprising: What Lacks the Summer? From Inmost Dreamland; Past the Morning Star; In Two Worlds; Distant Gates of Eden; Unto My Heart Thou Livest So; Across the World I Speak to Thee; The Deeper Meaning of the Hour.

We find a firm belief in the possibility of communion with the spiritual world, dignified by a beautiful philosophy inspiring high thoughts and noble purposes.—Whig and Courier.

Opening either of the three volumes of “The World Beautiful” series, and the collection of verse entitled “From Dreamland Sent,” one beholds the idealist and the poet. But opening “After Her Death,” he beholds the scientist as well.... For all her psychic theories and experiences she not only courts, but commands, the most thorough investigation of the world’s ablest scientists, as Sir William Crookes, F. W. H. Myers, Lord Kelvin, and Alfred Russel Wallace. She is an epoch-making writer.... My conviction is that every preacher, reformer, religious editor, and Christian worker should read the books by Lilian Whiting.—Rev. W. H. Rogers, in The Christian Standard.

“After Her Death” has given me the light and help I have so long craved; it has given me comfort and strength which no other book has ever done. In giving these truths to the world in her own beautiful way, which does not harshly wound in the things which have been almost a part of us, Lilian Whiting has bridged over a great chasm, and provided one of the greatest needs of our time.—Cordelia L. Commore.

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The Victory of the Will

By VICTOR CHARBONNEL

Translated from the French by Emily Whitney. With an introduction by Lilian Whiting, author of “The World Beautiful,” “A Study of Elizabeth Barrett Browning,” etc.

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Our whole criticism might be expressed in the brief exhortation—read it.... There is not a page which has not some impetus to reflection, some suggestion for a higher life, and all given with an originality of mind, a felicity of expression, a simplicity of phrase that fix the thought instantly and clearly.—Literary World.

Since Emerson wrote his immortal essays, and Maeterlinck advanced his beautiful theories, no finer book on the spiritual life has been written.—Geo. S. Goodwin, in Philadelphia Item.

Not only is there a striking originality of thought throughout the book, but a style which, losing comparatively little in the admirable translation by Miss Whitney, reaches the high French standard of lucidity and ease.—New York Commercial Advertiser.

He makes a forceful appeal for living the life of one’s own soul and the development of one’s own personality by its own inner power. His whole message bids us look within; it gets at the roots of things; his style is admirably clear, terse, and vigorous.—Detroit Free Press.

The volume takes up the relations of the individual soul to the universe and treats them in a way that is practical, but is also marked by high spiritual aspiration.... The book has great purity and beauty of style, and is, all in all, a notable piece of literature.—Los Angeles Times.

His words are helpful and stimulating, his optimism contagious and inspiring. He has a faculty for putting things in a form which lingers in the memory.—Brooklyn Times.

Some of the noblest thoughts contained in this book ... find expression in the prayer with which it closes.—Chicago Evening Post.

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