The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

The Gates Ajar. 159 "If he weren't a good man!" I sighed.' But he is, and I must respect him for it." "Of course you must; nor is he to blame that he is narrow and rough. I should scarcely have argued as seriously as I did with him, but that, as I fancy him to be a representative of a class, I wanted to try an experiment. Is n't he amusing, though? He is precisely one of Mr. Stopford Brooke's men'who can understand nothing which is original.'" "Are there, or are there not, more of such men in our church than in others?" "Not more proportionately to numbers. But I would not have them thinned out. The better we do Christ's work, the more of uneducated, neglected, or debased mind will be drawn to try and serve Him with us. He sought out the lame, the halt, the blind, the stupid, the crotchety, the rough, as well as the equable, the intelligent, the refined. Untrained Christians in any sect will always have their eccentricities and their littlenesses, at which the silken judgment of high places, where the Carpenter's Son would be a strange guest-, will sneer. That never troubles me. It only raises the question in my mind whether cultivated Christians generally are sufficiently

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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