Publisher's Synopsis
"An attractive and powerful picture of a life so chastened and purified by sorrow, so lifted above the trivialities of every-day life, while cheerfully mingling among them, that the veil which separates the mortal from the immortal life seems to be raised, and heaven commenced on this side the grave in the pure and holy life which is recorded there."-"Providence Journal.""Of all the books which we ever read, calculated to shed light upon the utter darkness of sudden sorrow, and to bring peace to the bereaved and solitary, we give, in many important respects, the preference to The Gates Ajar."-"The Congregationalist" (Boston)."It would be difficult for the great and simple truths of Christianity to be made more living and attractive than in the expression that they receive in this book The story is completely subordinated to the development of the author's religious opinions; but her dramatic power is none the less remarkable."-"New York Evening Post."
