The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

The Gates Ajar. 89 "But I thought that God took care of us, and angels, like Gabriel and the rest, if I ever thought anything about it, which I am inclined to doubt." "' God works by the use of means,' as the preachers say. Why not use Roy as well as Gabriel? What archangel could understand and reach the peculiarities of your nature as he could? or, even if understanding, could so love and bear with you? What is ta be done? Will they send Roy to the planet Jupiter to take care of somebody's else sister?" I laughed in spite of myself; nor did the laugh seem to jar upon the sacred stillness of the place. Her words were drawing away the bitterness, as the sun was blotting the dull, dead greens of the ivy into its glow of golden color. "But the Bible, Aunt Winifred." "The Bible does not say a great deal on this point," she said, "but it does not contradict me. In fact. it helps me; and, moreover, it would uphold me in black and white if it were n't for one little obstacle." "And that?" "That frowning'original Greek,' which Gai Hamilton denounces with her righteous indig6

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The gates ajar. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
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