The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

I70 The Gates Ajar. borg," she said, as soon as she could sober down a little. The Deacon pricked up his ears, with visions of excommunications and councils reflected on every feature. " Until I read his books," she finished. "Oh!" said the Deacon. He waited for more, but she seemed to consider the conversation at an end. "So then you -if I understand- are not a Swedenborgian, ma'am?" "If I were, I certainly should have had no inducement to join myself to your church," she replied, with gentle dignity. "I believe, with all my heart, in the same Bible and the same creed that you believe in, Deacon Quirk." "And you live your creed, which all such genial Christians do not find it necessary to do," I thought, as the Deacon in some perplexity took his departure, and she returned with a smile to her sewing. I suppose the call came about in this way. We had the sewing-circle here last week, and just before the lamps were lighted, and when people had dropped their work to group and talk in the corners, Meta Tripp came up with one or two other girls to Aunt Winifred, and

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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