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