The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

224 The Gates Ajar.
ing the "peaceful day," of which he told Aunt
Winifred.
She, by the way, has taken another of her
mysterious trips to Worcester.
30th.
We were wondering to-day where it will be,
I mean heaven.
" It is impossible to do more than wonder,"
Auntie said, "though we are explicitly told
that there will be new heavens and a new
earth, which seems, if anything can be taken
literally in the Bible, to point to this world as
the future home of at least some of us."
" Not for all of us, of course?"'I don't feel sure. I know that somebody
spent his valuable time in estimating that all
the people who have lived and died upon the
earth would cover it, alive or buried, twice
over; but I know that somebody else claims
with equal solemnity to have discovered that
they could all be buried in the State of Pennsylvania! But it would be of little consequence if we could not all find room here,
since there must be other provision for us."
"Why?"
"Certainly there is' a place' in which we
are promised that we shall be'with Christ,'