The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

The Gates Ajar. 165 thought of- I believe it was the poet Gray, who said that his idea of heaven was to lie on the sofa and read novels. That touches the lazy part of us, though." "Yes, they will be the active, outgoing, generous elements of our nature that will be brought into use then, rather than the selfcentred and dreamy ones. Though I suppose that we shall read in heaven,-being influenced to be better and nobler by good and noble teachers of the pen, not less there than here." "0 think of it! To have books, and music, - and pictures?" "All that Art,'the handmaid of the Lord,' can do for us, I have no doubt will be done. Eternity will never become monotonous. Variety without end, charms unnumbered within charms, will be devised by Infinite ingenuity to minister to our delight. Perhaps, this is just my fancying, - perhaps there will be whole planets turned into galleries of art, over which we may wander at will; or into orchestral halls where the highest possibilities of music will be realized to singer and to hearer. Do you know, I have sometimes had a flitting notion that music would be the language of heaven? It certainly differs in

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