The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

148 The Gates Ajar.
"' But I never thought it was anything like
that,' interrupted little Clo, presently, her
cheeks flushed with excitement.'Why, I
should like to go, if it is like that! I nevef
supposed people talked, unless it was about
converting people, and saying your prayers,
and all that.'
"Now, were n't those ideas* alluring and
comforting for young girls in the blossom of
warm human life? They were trying with all
their little hearts to'be good,' too, some of
them, and had all of them been to church and
Sunday school all their lives. Never, never, if
Jesus Christ had been Teacher and Preacher
to them, would He have pictured their blessed
endless years with Him in such bleak colors.
They are not the hues of His Bible."
* Facts