This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... ABOU BEN ADHEM INGERSOLL Dear Mr. Green: --I have read, with the greatest interest, the article on page 409 of the July number of your Magazine taken from the Chicago Tribune (and which I see is copied in the N. Y. Telegram of 5th inst.) giving an account of Frederick Douglass' introduction of Col. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... ABOU BEN ADHEM INGERSOLL Dear Mr. Green: --I have read, with the greatest interest, the article on page 409 of the July number of your Magazine taken from the Chicago Tribune (and which I see is copied in the N. Y. Telegram of 5th inst.) giving an account of Frederick Douglass' introduction of Col. Ingersoll on Emancipation day in Washington twelve years ago, when Mr. Douglass, stepping to the front of the platform and discarding the usual formulas of introduction quoted the followlowing lines: -- "Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase !) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An Angel, writing in a book of gold;-- Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, 'What writest thou?' the vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered 'The names of those who love the Lord.' 'And is mine one?' said Abou. 'Nay, not so, ' Replied the angel, Abou spoke more low, But cheerily still; and said, ' I pray thee, then, Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.' "The Angel wrote, and vanished. The next night It came again with a great wakening light, And showed the names whom love of God had bless'd, And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest." It was a truly graceful, most fitting and well earned tribute from the foremost of those who were emancipated from the thraldom of bodily slavery to the grandest of those who have fought against both bodily and mental slavery. Leigh Hunt must nave had some such loving nature as that of Col. Ingersoll in his mind when he penned his Abou Ben Adhem. I must confess, in reading the article, to having experienced considerable of the emotional, even, almost, to the...
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