The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

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ners. 1)o you suppose that we shall everfilly
feel it in the body?"
" In the body, probably not. We see through
a glass so darkly that the temptation to idolatry is always our greatest. Golden images
did not die with Paganism. At times I fancy that, somewhere between this world and
another, a revelation will come upon us like
a flash, of what sin really is, - such a revelation, lighting up the lurid background of our
past in such colors, that the consciousness of
what Christ has done for us will be for a time
as much as heart can bear. After that, the
mystery will be, not how to love Him most, but
that we ever could have loved any creature oI
thing as much."
"We serve God quite as much by active
work as by special prayer, here," I said after
some thought; "how will it be there?"
" We must be busily at work certainly; but.
I think there must naturally be more communion with Him then. Now, this phrase
"communion with God" has been worn, and
not always well worn.
"Prayer means to us, in this life, more often
penitent confession than happy interchange of
thought with Him. It is associated, too, with