The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

124 The Gates Ajar.
beautiful woman I ever saw, the belle of the
county all her young days, and the model for
artists' fancy sketching even in her old ones,
as modest as a violet and as honest as the sunshine, used to have the prettiest little way
when we girls were in our teens, and she
thought that we must be lectured a bit on
youthful vanity, of adding, in her quiet voice,
smoothing down her black silk apron as she
spoke,'But still it is a thing to be thankful
for, my dear, to have a comely countenance.'
" But to return to the track and our future
bodies. We shall find them vastly convenient,
undoubtedly, with powers of which there is no
dreaming. Perhaps they will be so one with the
soul that to will will be to do, - hindrance out
of the question. I, for instance, sitting here
by you, and thinking that I should like to
be in Kansas, would be there. There is an
interesting bit of a hint in Daniel about
Gabriel, who,'being caused to fly swiftly,
touched him about the time of the evening
oblation.'"
"But do you not make a very material kind
of heaven out of such suppositions?"
"It depends upon what you mean by'matelial.' The term does not, to nmy thinking, imply