The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

i68 The Gates Ajar. only thought in which there can be any rest, and in that there can, is this: that Christ, who loves us even as his Father loves him, can be happy in spite of the existence of a hell. If it is possible to him, surely he can make it possible to us." "Two things that He has taught us," she said after a silence, "give me beautiful assurance that none of these dreams with which I help myself can be beyond his intention to fulfil. One is, that eye hath not seen it, nor ear heard it, nor the heart conceived it, - this lavishness of reward which he is keeping for us. Another is, that'I shall be satisfied when I awake."' "With his likeness." "With his likeness. And about that I have other things to say." But Old Gray stopped at the gate and Phcebe was watching for her butter and it was no time to say them then.

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