The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

162 The Gates Ajar. thinking how they will bud and blossom up in the air, by and by. There are a great many of them. We tread them underfoot in our careless stepping now and then, and do not see that they have not the elasticity to rise from our touch.'Heaven may be a place for those who failed on earth,' the Country Parson says." "Then there will be air enough for all?" "For all; for those who have had a little bloom in this world, as well. I. suppose the artist will paint his pictures, the poet sing his happy songs, the orator and author will not find their talents hidden in the eternal darkness of a grave; the sculptor will use his beautiful gift in the moulding of some heavenly Carrara;'as well the singer as the player on instruments shall be there.' Christ said a thing that has grown on me with new meanings lately:-'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.' It, you see, -not another man's life, not a strange compound of powers and pleasures, but his own familiar aspirations. So we shall best'glorify God,' not less there than here, by doing it in the peculiar way that He himself marked out for us. But-ah, Mary, you see it is only the life'lost' for His sake that shall

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