The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

The Gates Ajar. 24.3 talks, when, turning a leaf in her little Bible, she pointed out to me the words:"It is expedient for you that I go away; for, if I go not away, the Comforter will not come." It was one spring-like night, — the twentyninth of March. She had been in less pain, and had chatted and laughed more with us than for many a day. She begged that Faith might stay till dark, and might bring her Noah's ark and play down upon the foot of the bed where she could see her. I sat in the rocking-chair with my face to the window. We did not light the lamps. The night came on slowly. Showery clouds flitted by, but there was a blaze of golden color behind them. It broke through and scattered them; it burned them and melted them; it shot great pink and purple jets up to the zenith; it fell and lay in amber mist upon the hills. A soft wind swept by, and darted now and then into the glow, and shifted it about, color away from color, and back again. "See, Faith!" she said softly; "put down the little camel a minute, and look!" and vded after, but neither to the child nor to me,

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