The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

54 The Gates Ajar. I drank in the blessed words without doubt or argument. I was too thirsty to doubt or argue. Some other time I may ask her how she knows this beautiful thing, but not now. All I can do now is to take it into my heart and hold it there. Roy my own again, - not only to look at standing up among the singers, - but close to me; somehow or other to be as near as - to be nearer than- he was here, really mire again! I shall never let this go. After we had talked awhile, and when it came time to say good night, I told her a little about my conversation with Deacon Quirk, and what I said to him about the Lord's will. I did not know but that she would blame me. "Some time," she said, turning her great, compassionate eyes on me, - I could feel them in the dark, -and smiling, "you will find out all at once, in a happy moment, that you can say those words with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength; it will come, even in this world, if you will only let it. But, until it does, you do right, quite right, not to scorch your altar with a false burnt-offering. God is not a God to be mocked, He would rather have only the old

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