The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

i96 The Gates Ajar. one, than He was six months ago? Is lie, or is He not, dearer to you now than then?" I thought about it a minute, and then turned my face up to her. "Mary, what a light in your' eyes I How is it?" It came over me slowly, but it came with such a passion of gratitude and unworthiness, that I scarcely knew how to tell her-that He never has been to me, in all my life, what he is now at the end of these six months. He was once an abstract Grandeur which I struggled more in fear than love to please. He has be. come a living Presence, dear and real. " No dead fact stranded on the shore Of the oblivious years; But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A present help.".... He was an inexorable Mystery who took Roy from me to lose him in the glare of a more inexorable heaven. He is a Father who knew better than we that we should be parted for a while; but He only means it to be a little while. He is keeping him for me to find in the flush of some summer morning, on which I shall open my eyes no less naturally than I open them on June sunrises now. I always have that fancy of going in the morning.

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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