The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

The Gates Ajar. 51 other form than ours ever seems to walk with us in the furnace. Her few words made me feel, as I could not have felt if she had said more, that this woman who was going to help me had suffered too; had suffered perhaps more than I, -that, if I sat as a little child at her feet, she could teach me through the kinship of her pain. " 0 my dear," she said, and held me close, "I have trodden every step of it before you, -~ every single step." "But you never were so wicked about it! You never felt -why, I have been afraid I should hate God! You never were so wicked as that." Low under her breath she answered " Yes," this sweet, saintly woman who had come to me in the dark as an angel might. Then, turning suddenly, her voice trembled and broke:"Mary, Mary, do you think He could have lived those thirty-three years, and be cruel to you now? Think that over and over; only that. It may be the only thought you dare to have, - it was all I dared to have once, - but cling to it; cling with bolt hand's, Mary, and keep it."

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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