The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

158 The Gates Ajar. flowers. I dare say you're a good woman, Mrs. Forceythe, if you do hold such oncommon doctrine, and I don't doubt you mean well enough, but I don't think that we ought to trouble ourselves about these mysteries of a future state. I'm willing to trust them to God!" The evasion of a fair argument by this selfsufficient spasm of piety was more than I could calmly stand, and I indulged in a subdued explosion. - Auntie says it sounded like Fourth of July crackers touched off under a wet barrel. "Deacon Quirk! do you mean to imply that Mrs. Forceythe does not trust it to God? The truth is, that the existence of such a world as heaven is a fact from which you shrink. You know you do! She has twenty thoughts about it where you have one; yet you set up a claim to superior spirituality! " "Mary, Mary, you are a little excited, I fear. God is a spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth! " The relevancy of this last, I confess myself incapable of perceiving, but the good man seemed to be convinced that he had made a point, and we rode off leaving him under that blissful delusion.

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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