The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

122 The Gats Ajar.
it, which I have not. Whatever is essentially
earthly and temporary in the arrangements of
this world will be out of place and unnecessary there. Earthly and temporary, flesh and
blood certainly are."
"Christ said'A spirit hath not flesh and
bones, as ye see me have."
"A spirit hath not; and who ever said that
it did? His body had something that appeared like them, certainly. That passage, by
the way, has led some ingenious writer on
the Chemistry of Heaven to infer that our
bodies there will be like these, minus blood!
I don't propose to spend my time over such
investigations. Summing up the meaning of
the story of those last days before the Ascension, and granting the shade of mystery which
hangs over them, I gather this,-that the spiritual body is real, is tangible, is visible, is human, but that'we shall be changed.' Some
indefinable but thorough change had come
over Him. He could withdraw Himself from
the recognition of Mary, and from the disciples, whose'eyes were holden,' as it pleased
Him. He came and went through barred and
bolted doors. He appeared suddenly in a certain place, without sound of footstep or flutter