The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

The Gates Ajar. 93 before a saint. Many lives - all such lives an yours and mine - would become - " Would become what? " "One long defiance to the First Commandment." I cannot become used to such words from such quiet lips. Yet they give me a curious sense of the trustworthiness of her peace. " Founded upon a rock," it seems to be. She has done what it takes a lifetime for some of us to do; what some of us go into eternity, leaving undone; what I am afraid I shall never do, —sounded her own nature. She knows the worst of herself, and faces it as fairly, I believe, as anybody can do in this world. As for the best of herself, she trusts that to Christ, and he knows it, and we. I hope she, in her sweet humbleness, will know it some day. "I suppose, nevertheless," she said, "that Roy knows what you are doing and feeling as well as, perhaps better than, he knew it three months ago. So he can help you without harming you." I asked her, turning suddenly, how that could be, and yet heaven be heaven, - how he could see me suffer what I had suffered, could see me sometimes when I supposed none but

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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