The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

114 The Gates Ajar. immediately after passing out of this, but that there is to come a mysterious change, equivalent, perhaps, to a re-embodiment, when our capacities for action will be greatly improved, and that in some manner this new form will be connected with this' garment by the soul laid by.' "Deacon Quirk expects to rise in his own entire, original body, after it has lain in the First Church cemetery a proper number of years, under a black slate headstone, adorned by a willow, and such a'cherubim' as that poor boy shot, - by the way, if I've laughed at that story once, I have fifty times." "Perhaps Deacon Quirk would admire a work of art that I found stowed away on the top of your Uncle Calvin's bookcases. It was an old woodcut-nobody knows how oldof an interesting skeleton rising from his grave, and, in a sprightly and modest manner, drawing on his skin, while Gabriel, with apoplectic cheeks, feet uppermost in the air, was blowing a good-sized tin trumpet in his ear! " No; some of the popular notions of resurrection are simple physiological impossibilities, from causes'too tedious to specify.' Imagine, for instance, the resurrection of two Hottentots, one of whom has happened to make a

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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