The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

I88 The Gates Ajar. to the unsolved mysteries of atonement, for this very reason, that He may know how to'prepare their places' for them, whose angels do always behold His Father. Ah, you may be sure that, if of such is the happy Kingdom, He will not scorn to stoop and fit it to their little needs. "There was that poor little fellow whose guinea-pig died, - do you remember?" "Only half; what was it? " "' mamma,'" he sobbed out, behind his handkerchief,'don't great big elephants have souls?' "' No, my son.' "' Nor camels, mamma?' "' No.' "' Nor bears, nor alligators, nor chickens?' "' 0 no, dear.' "'0 mamma, mamma! Don't little CLEAN — white -guizea-pigs have souls?' "I never should have had the heart to say no to that; especially as we have no positive proof to the contrary. "Then that scrap of a boy who lost his little red balloon the morning he bought it, and, broken-hearted, wanted to know whether it had gone to heaven. Don't I suppose if he

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