The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

The Gates Ajar. o09
of God, you see, the glory of God is the primary consideration."
"But the glory of God involves these lesser
glories, as a sidereal system, though a splendid
whole, exists by the multiplied differing of one
star from another star. Ah, Dr. Bland, you
make a grand abstraction out of it, but it
makes me cold," -she shivered, half playfully,
half involuntarily, - "it makes me cold. I am
very much alive and human; and Christ was
human God."
She came in sriling a little sadly, and stood
by me, watching the minister walk over the
hill.
"How much does that man love his wife
and children? " she asked abruptly.
"A good deal. Why?"
"I am afraid that he will lose one of them
then, before many more years of his life are
past."
"What! he has n't been telling you that
they are consumptive or anything of the
sort?"
"0 dear me, no," with a merry laugh which
died quickly away: "I was only thinking,there is trouble in store for him; some intense pain, if he is capable of intense pain,