Howard University Medical Department

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 may, as come it w ill for a that,

T hat sense and worth, o ’er a ’ the earth, may 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.”

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D. C.,

September 20

1900.

D. S. LAMB.