The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

76 The Gates Ajar. when they saw him? - know Elias when they saw him? Yet these men were dead hundreds of years before the favored fishermen were born. "How was it with those'saints which'slept and arose' when Christ hung dead there in the dark? Were they not seen of many?" "But that was a miracle." "They were risen dead, such as you and I shall be some day. The miracle consisted in their rising then and there. Moreover, did not the beggar recognize Abraham? andWell, one might go through the Bible finding it full of this promise in hints or assertions, in parables or visions. We are'heirs of God,''joint heirs with Christ'; having suffered with Him, we shall be'glorified together.' Christ himself has said many sure things:'I will come and receive you, that where I am, there ye may be.''I will that they be with me where I am.' Using, too, the very type of Godhead to signify the eternal nearness and eternal love of just such as you and Roy, as John and me, he prays:'Holy Father, keep them whom Thou hast given me, that they nmay be one as zve are.' "There is one place, though, where I find

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