The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

The Gates Ajar. I85 "And what will Faith say?" " Fank you " said the child, softly. In another minute she was absorbed, body and soul, in the mysteries of One Old Cat. "But I don't think she will feel much like being naughty for half an hour to come," her mother said; "hear how pleasantly her words drop! Such a talk quiets her, like a hand laid on her head. Mary, sometimes I think it is His very hand, as much as when He touched those other little children. I wish Faith to feel at home with Him and His home. Little thing! I really do not think that she is conscious of any fear of dying; I do not think it means anything to her but Christ, and her father, and pink blocks, and a nice time, and never disobeying me, or being cross. Many a time she wakes me up in the morning talking away to herself, and when I turn and look at her, she says:'0 mamma, won't we go to heaven to-day, you fink? When will we go, mamma?'" "If there had been any pink blocks and ginger-snaps for me when I was at her age, I should not have prayed every night to'die out.' I think the horrors of death that children live through, unguessed and unrelieved,

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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