The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

The Gates Ajar. 197 She understood what I could not tell her, and said, "I thought it would be so." "You, His interpreter, have done it," I answered her. " His heaven shows what He is,don't you see?-like a friend's letter. I could no more go back to my old groping relations to Him, than I could make of you the dim and somewhat apocryphal Western Auntie that you were before I saw you." " Which was precisely why I have dealt with this subject as I have," she said. " You had all your life been directed to an indefinite heaven, where the glory of God was to crowd out all individuality and all human joy from His most individual and human creatures, till the " Glory of God " had become nothing but a name and a dread to you. So I let those three words slide by, and tried to bring you to them, as Christ brought the Twelve to believe in him,'for the works' sake.' "Yes, my child; clinging human loves, stifled longings, cries for rest, forgotten hopes, shall have their answer. Whatever the bewilderment of beauties folded away for us in heavenly nature and art, they shall strive with each other to make us glad. These things have their pleasant place. But, through eter

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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