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1909 March 24
MEANING 6

the objects this light allowed enabled him to see were very different
from transsubstantiation; and it is very important to distinguish
any light of nature or of grace from experience. Experience, in the
proper sense of the term, is all that one has gone through. It consists
in the events of one's life. But a "light" is a faculty enabling its
subject to recognize the characters of what future experience may
put before him. Neither the one nor the other, nor any combination
ot these two alone can teach him anything, if we by understand by
"teaching" the communications of the the skill and power to conduct oneself as
one might so as to reach attain a desired result; although both
are indispensible to such teaching. What else is requite, it is the object
of these studies in some measure to make out as well far as may be to
ascertain.]