Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-03-15
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HERE N HEREAFTER,


In an hour Of meditation, it was given me to
trace the lives of many persons, and to discern
ser motives and aims as well rs deeds. SOME /
noted rs Elovs. A spirit entered upon earth.lif
snder an auspieious stan. The cberishing care Of
parents, the delightful associations of a home,
which favored every virtue and grace, extended
means Of knowledge, Osd q refined social circle,
all aiaa ed to cultivate and ennoblc it, ms it passed
through tue progressive changes Of life. His highest
aspirations were for the reign Of truth and justice.
Ais moral dignity and worldwide PHILANTHROPY
inspired others with profound affection and respect,
When surrounded by Satan's host, this spirit was
us unmoyed by their threats and jeers as became
n messenger Of the most High. who could behold
with prophetic eye, the overthrow of evil and its
emissaries. His life proved him to have been of
the tribe Of Ben Adam, and when he ended his
mortal lie. { saw him ascending to the courts Of
the Blessed.
The same star was not suspicious to oil alike, for
another spirit, which was ushered into life at the
same time, came amid a poverty worse than mere
perjury. The sunshine Of mothers smile waken-
I'd thought aud sladness for a short time in the
infant, and then it was rudoly and most unfeelingly
torn away and left to the chances and fate of q
brutes life. No CLEAN of knowledge was allowed
to find him, no teachings Of morality, no incentives
90 goodness, to fall upon his heart. lie existed
days and days with none Of those varied incidents
OF life, which gave knowledge, growth and capaci-
~ to the mind, for the bread Of knowledge receiv.
ing the stone OF Ignorance, for the balm of sym
pathy, harsh words and many stripes. The rule
OF fear and force devised plans for the deepest
possible degradation Of an immortal. Yet the
divine energy dwelt with him, and uprose in the
sigh for liberty and the effort for freedom. What
slough he was turned back and served a tyrant in
bitterness of spirit! What though be Was som.
pclled to toll until the close Of life, to gain riches
for another, believing the earth with sweat
and blood and casting his sorrows upon the
winds. The spirit Of the man wore no chains, and
when he finally went forth from earth he entered
a land where no slavery exists, and in its benefcent
society, be received that instruction and sympa
thy which belonged to him. Perhaps we should
say of him in the words of an old and signif-
cant phrase, he was carried by the angels into
A5raham's bosom"
Two others !of the vision, were in some aspects
dazzling. the centre of a large circle of admirers;
yet in other aspects they were darkened by selfish
ness. They regarded not the cry of the oppressed,
they FASTENED not to raise the fallen and down
trodden. And when they passed from earth, they
were hidden by certain mists, which decoy aud
involve those whose eyes have turned away from
righteousness, and who have called injustice no
wrong.
l saw also the vain the trihing. the easily fat
tered, the unprincipled, and the monoy-maker of
small conscience, and when they passed off the
stage, they likewise were drawn into the mist. A
little shining angel came toward them from above,
and l think he showed them a bright path, wherein
they could walk more worthily as immortal seekers
of good.
Another was q noble woman, who amid sacrif-
ces and Affections, went firmly on, bearing in her
heart a self-forgetful devotion to the good of others.
She ne&t failed to respect the inherent dignity of
every human spirit. whether the aged, the servant,
or the child. nor did she neglect the thousand acts
Of kindness which come so appropriately from the
hand of woman. She gained much worthy regard
on earth, and when beneath the clear sky of a sum
mer's evening, her spirit was waited upward, she
realized the poets dream of q glorifed Madonna
When the gates of time had closed behind them
oil, \ cOmmuned in my own heart to gather a les
son for earth-lifc from the vision.
How the things which we prize, and for which
we strive here are dwarfed into minute ~insignif
canoe, in the light which pours upon us from the
portals Of that Better Land" Under its influence
who cannot be DESTROYS TO lay aside every weight
which our selfish nature imposes, and in an active
application Of the known truths of justice, religion
and benovolence We shall receive a constant inhu2
of knowledge aud strength. We shall realize the
peace which passeth understanding and when Oul
mortal life is ended we shall enter another life il
the true AMI joyful faith of that gospel which j
no respecter of persons, but which rewardeth ever,
one according to the spirit which is within him.
A. E.. L. K.
Angola 1856.