The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

112 The Gates Ajar.
to find in myself wonderful new tastes and
capacities, which are to be immeasurably ennobled and enlarged after the Resurrection,
whatever that may mean."
"What does it mean?"
" I know no more than you, but you shall
hear what I think, presently. I was going to
say that this seems to be plain enough in the
Bible. The angels took Lazarus at once to
Abraham. Dives seems to have found no
interval between death and consciousness of
suffering."
"They always tell you that that is only a
parable."
"But it must mean something. No story in
the Bible has been pulled to pieces and twisted about as that has been. We are in danger
of pulling and twisting all sense out of it.
Then Judas, having hanged his wretched self,
went to his own place. Besides, there was
Christ's promise to the thief."
I told her that I had heard Dr. Bland say
that we could not place much dependence on
that passage, because " Paradise" did not necessarily mean heaven.
" But it meant living, thinking, enjoying; for
To-day thou shalt be with me.' Paul's beautl