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

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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