The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

202 The Gates Ajar. by which he led us to that hour; shall point. out to us, joy by joy, the surprises that he has been planning for us, just as the old father in the story planned to surprise his wayward boy come home. "And such a'communion,' - which is not too much, nor yet enough, to dare to expect of a God who was the'friend' of Abraham, who'walked' with Enoch, who did not call fishermen his servants, -such will be that:'presence of God,' that'adoration,' on which. we have looked from afar off with despairing eyes that wept, they were so dazzled, and' turned themselves away as from the thing they, greatly feared." I think we neither of us cared to talk for a while after this. Something made me forget; even that I was going to see Roy in heaven. "Three-and-thirty years. Three-and-thirty years." The words rang themselves over. "It is on the humanity of Christ," she said. after some musing, "that all my other reasons for hoping for such a heaven as I hope for, rest for foundation. He knows exactly what we are, for he has been one of us; exactly what we hope and fear and crave, for he has hoped and feared and craved, not the less humanly, but only more intensely.

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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