The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

[hze Gates Ajar. 121 I had never thought of that, and said so. "Yes, with the very feet which trod the dusty road to Emmaus; the very wounded hands which Thomas touched, believing; the very lips which ate of the broiled fish and honeycomb; the very voice which murmured' Mary!' in the garden, and which told her that He ascended unto His Father and her Father, to His God and her God, He'was parted from then,' and was'received up into heaven.' His death and resurrection stand forever the great prototype of ours. Otherwise, what is the meaning of such statements as these:' When He shall appear, we shall be like Him';' The first man (Adam) is of the earth; the second man is the Lord. As we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly'? And what of this, when we are told that our'vile bodies,' being changed, shall be fashioned' like unto His glorious body'?" I asked her if she inferred from that, that we should have just such bodies as the freedom from pain and sin would make of these. "Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom," she said. "There is no escaping that, even if I had the smallest desire to escape 6

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911.
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