The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

242 The Gates Ajar. good; God is always good. He won't take mamma a great way off. One more kiss? There! now you may go to sleep. One more Come, Cousin Mary." June 6. It is a long time since I have written here. I did not want to open the book till I was sure that I could open it quietly, and could speak as she would like to have me speak, of what remains to be written. But a very few words will tell it all. It happened so naturally and so happily, she was so glad when the time came, and she made me so glad for her sake, that I cannot grieve. I say it from my honest heart, I cannot grieve. In the place out of which she has gone, she has left me peace. I think of something that Miss Procter said about the opening of that golden gate, "round which the kneeling spirits wait. The halo seems to linger round those kneeling closest to the door: The joy that lightened from that place shines still upon the watcher's face." I think more often of some things that she herself said in the very last of those pleasant

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart, 1844-1911.
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