The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

The Gates Ajar. 205
"Then there is that pledge to those who
seek first His kingdom:'All these things shall
be added unto you.''These things,' were food
and clothing, were varieties of material delight,
and the words were spoken to men who lived
hungry, beggared, and died the death of outcasts. If this passage could be taken literally,
it would be very significant in its bearing on
the future life; for Christ must keep his promise to the letter, in one world or another. It
may be wrenching the verse, not as a verse,
but from the grain of the argument, to insist
on the literal interpretation,- though I am
not sure."