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X MEDICAL DEPARTMENT,
It may be hoped and believed that it was the prophetic as well as the poetic
spirit which caused Burns to write :
Then let us pray that come it m ay, as come it w ill for a that,
T hat sense and worth, o ’er a ’ the earth, m ay bear the gree, and a ’ that.
For a ’ that, and a ’ that, it ’s com in’ yet for a ’ that,
T hat man to man, the warld o ’er, shall brothers be for a ’ that.
The better day would sooner come if those who are called Christians would
cultivate the broad humanity of Abou Ben Adhem who, in his vision, said to the
Recording Angel: “ I pray thee, then, write me as one that loves his fellow men.”
D. S. LAMB.
Washington, D. C.,
September 20, 1900.
