The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

I8 The Gates Ajar. all that. I do not know that it is necessary for us to be able to watch every footprint of God. The way is all that concerns us, -to see that we follow it and Him. This I am sure of; and knocking about in this army life only convinces me of what I felt in a certain way before,- that it is the only way, and He the only guide to follow." But how could I say anything of this to Deacon Quirk?-this my sealed and sacred treasure, of all that Roy left me the dearest. At any rate I did not. It seemed both obstinate and cruel in him to come there and say what he had been saying. He might have known that I would not say that Roy had gone to Heaven, if- why, if there had been the breath of a doubt. It is a possibility of which I cannot rationally conceive, but I suppose that his name would never have passed my lips. So I turned away from Deacon Quirk, and shut my mouth, and waited for him to finish. Whether the idea began to struggle into his mind that he might not have been making a very comforting remark, I cannot say; but he started very soon to go. "Supposing you are right, and Royal was saved at the eleventh hour," he said at part

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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