The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

136 The Gates Ajar. that I can think of; which is the comfort of it And Roy-" "Yes; some more about Roy, please." " Supposing he were to come right into the room now, -- and I slipped out, - and you had him all to yourself again- Now, dear, don't cry, but wait a minute! " Her caressing hand fell on my hair. " I did not mean to hurt you, but to say that your first talk with him, after you stand face to face, may be like that. "Remembering this life is going to help us amazingly, I fancy, to appreciate the next," she added, by way of period. "Christ seems to have thought so, when he called to the minds of those happy people what, in that unconscious ministering of lowly faith which may never reap its sheaf in the field where the seed was sown, they had not had the comfort of finding out before, -' I was sick and in prison, and ye visited me.' And to come again to Abraham in the parable, did he not say,'Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime hadst good things and Lazarus evil'?" "I wonder what it is going to look like," I said, as soon as I could put poor Dives out of my mind.

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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