The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

236 The Gates Ajar. But more often we talk of the life which she is so soon to begin; of her husband and Roy; of what she will try to say to Christ; how much dearer He has grown to her since she has lain here in pain at His bidding, and how He helps her, at morning and at eventide and in the night-watches. We talk of the trees and the mountains and the lilies in the garden, on which the glory of the light that is not the light of the sun may shine; of the "little brooks" by which she longs to sit and sing to Faith; of the treasures of art which she may fancy to have about her; of the home in which her husband may be making ready for her coming, and wonder what he has there, and if he knows how near the time is now. But I notice lately that she more often and more quickly wearies of these things; that she comes back, and comes back again to some loving thought - as loving as a child's - of Jesus Christ. He seems to be- as she once said she tried that He should be to Faithher "best friend." Sometimes, too, we wonder what it means to pass out of the body, and what one will be first conscious of.

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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