The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

iIO The Gates Ajar. -which shall shake his cold, smooth theoriz ing to the foundation. He speaks a foreign tongue when he talks of bereavement, of death, of the future life. No argument could convince him of that, though, which is the worst of it." "He must think you shockingly heterodox." "I don't doubt it. We had a little talk this morning, and he regarded me with an expression of mingled consternation and perplexity that was curious. He is a very good man. He is not a stupid man. I only wish that he would stop preaching and teaching things that he knows nothing about. "He is only drifting with the tide, though," she added, "in his views of this matter. In our recoil from the materialism of the Romish Church, we have, it seems to me, nearly stranded ourselves on the opposite shore. Just as, in a rebound from the spirit which would put our Saviour on a level with Buddha or Mahomet, we have been in danger of forgetting'to begin as the Bible begins,' with his humanity. It is the grandeur of inspiration, that it knows how to balance truth." It had been in my mind for several days to ask Aunt Winifred something, and, feeling in

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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