The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

The Gates Ajar. 75
They had their own way. We were speaking
of His redeemed. The object of having this
world at all, you know, is to fit us for another.
Of what use will it have been, if on passing out
of it we must throw by forever its gifts, its lessons, its memories? God links things together better than that. Be sure, as you are sure
of Him, that we shall be ourselves in heaven.
Would you be yourself not to recognize Roy?
- consequently, not to love Roy, for to love
and to be separated is misery, and heaven is
joy."
" I understand. But you said you had other
proof."
"So I have; plenty of it. If'many shall
come from the East and from the West, and
shall sit down in the kingdom of God with
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,' will they not be
likely to know that they are with Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob? or will they think it is Shadrach, Meshech, and Abednego?
"What is meant by such expressions as'risen together,''sitting together at the right
hand of God,''sitting together in heavenly
places'? If they mean anything, they mean
recognitions, friendships, enjoyments.
"Did not Peter and the cthers know Moses