The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

206 The Gates Ajar.
XIV.
August 15.
I asked the other day, wondering whether
all ministers were like Dr. Bland, what Uncle
Forceythe used to believe about heaven.
"Very much what I do," she said. "These
questions were brought home to him, early in
life, by the death of a very dear sister; he had
thought much about them. I think one of the
things that so much attached his people to
him was the way he had of weaving their
future life in with this, till it grew naturally
and pleasantly into their frequent thought.
0 yes, your uncle supplied me with half of my
proof-texts."
Aunt Winifred has not looked quite well of
late, I fancy; though it may be only fancy.
She has not spoken of it, except one day when
I told -her that she looked pale. It was the
heat, she said.
20th.
Little Clo came over to-night. I believe
she thinks AuntrWinifred the best friend she