The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

126 The Gates Ajar. cate. Faith, who had been making mud-pies in the swamp, and was spattered with black peat fromn curls to stockings, looked on approvingly, and wanted it to wear on a flag-root expedition to-morrow. It seemed to do me good to do something for somebody after all this lonely and - I suspect - selfish idleness. 6th. I read a little of Dr. Chalmers to-day, and went laughing to Aunt Winifred with the first sentence. "There is a limit to the revelations of the Bible about futurity, and it were a mental or spiritual trespass to go beyond it." "Ah! but," she said, "look a little farther down." And I read, "But while we attempt not to be' wise above that which is written,' we should attempt, and that most studiously, to be wise up to that which is written." 8th. It occurred to me to-day, that it was a noticeable fact, that, among all the visits of angels to this world of which we are told, no one seems to have discovered in any the presence of a

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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