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,'

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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