The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

The Gates Ajar. I41 home of her own,-the little creature! I suppose she can't always be a baby. "Do you remember what a pretty little wistful way Charles Lamb has of wondering about all this? "'Shall I enjoy friendships there, wanting the smiling indications which point me to them here, - the " sweet assurance of a look"? Sun, and sky, and breeze, and solitary walks, and summer holidays, and the greenness of fields, and the delicious juices of meats and fish, and society,.... and candle-light and fireside conversations, and innocent vanities, and jests, and irony itself,-do these things go out with life?' "Now, Aunt Winifred!" I said, sitting up straight, "what am I to do with these beautiful heresies? If Deacon Quirk should hear!" "I do not see where the heresy lies. As I hold fast by the Bible, I cannot be in much danger." "But you don't glean your conjectures from the Bible." "I conjecture nothing that the Bible contradicts. I do not believe as truth indisputable anything that the Bible does not give me. But I reason from analogy about this, as we

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911.
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