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

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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