The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

I66 The Gates Ajar. some indescribable manner from the other arts. We have most of us felt it in our different ways. It always seems to me like the cry of a great. sad life dragged to use in this world against its will. Pictures and statues and poems fit themselves to their work more contentedly. Symphony and song struggle in fetters. That sense of conflict is not good for me. It is quite as likely to harm as to help. Then perhaps the mysteries of sidereal systems will be spread out like a child's map before us. Perhaps we shall take journeys to Jupiter and to Saturn and to the glittering haze of nebulae, and to the site of ruined worlds whose'extinct light is yet travelling through space.' Occupation for explorers there, you see! " " You make me say with little Clo,'O, why, I want to go!' every time I hear you talk. But there is one thing, - you spoke of families living together." "Yes." And you spoke of-your husband. But the Bible -" "Says there shall be no marrying nor giving in marriage. I know that. Nor will there be such marrying or giving in marriage as there is in a world like this. Christ expressly goes

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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