The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

128 The Gates Ajar. had come back to life, and of that feast we have a minute account in, I believe, every Gospel, —nobody seems to have asked, or he to have answered, any questions about it. "The other reason is a sorrowfully sufficient one. It is that every lost darling has not gone to heaven. Of all the mercies that our Father has given, this blessed uncertainty, this long unbroken silence, maybe the dearest. Bitterly hard for you and me, but what are thousands like you and me weighed against one who stands beside a hopeless grave? Think a minute what mourners there have been, and whom they have mourned! Ponder one such solitary instance as that of Vittoria Colonna wondering, through her widowed years, if she could ever be'good enough' to join wicked Pescara in another world! This poor earth holds-God only knows how many, God make them very few! - Vittorias. Ah, Mary, what right have we to complain?" 9th. To-night Aunt Winifred had callers, Mrs. Quirk and (O Homer aristocracy!) the butch. er's wife, - and it fell to my lot to put Faitb to bed.

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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