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Blessed Are The Pure of Heart
January 9, 2004
Dear Friends,
So,
But wait...
"Have you been to the Dodge House?"
You remember him...Lincoln's friend
Oh Boy,
It was just around the corner,
Talk about a blast from the Past!!
Every room was perfectly decorated...
to give you a glimpse
It is one of the finest
A must see if ever in CB.
Mr. Lincoln and I got the .50 cent tour...
then posed for pictures with the staff.
Sure glad we made the effort.
On the way out the door
"Excuse Me??"
"Not again!!"
"Oh but you have to see the Angel..."
Turns out
and was the marker for...
Ruth Anne Dodge,
Daniel Chester French...
who just so happened to do this one as well.
And speaking of
Click Here
Since then,
At the time,
Of course,
Maybe there were others,
This one...
from
How cool is that???
And then there's this one...
also from the AP Story.
But my favorite is this...
from
Pretty Neat!!
OK,
As the story goes,
According to the legend,
On the prow was a beautiful young woman
The woman carried a small bowl under one arm
Then, according to accounts later published
The daughter wrote that the vision
Mrs. Dodge died soon after the third vision.
The monument was dedicated in 1920 and carries these inscriptions:
"Blessed are the Pure of Heart,
Warmest Regards,
Since January 11, 2004
with the stocking cap
firmly on my head,
I quickly checked my compass
and headed off into the sunset...
and Chief Engineer of the Union Pacific.
here we go again...
so I made quick detour.
of life with
General Dodge.
Victorian restorations
I've ever seen!!
they said,
"Have you seen the Black Angel...?"
she was just across the street
from the Lincoln Memorial
in the Fairview Cemetery...
wife of General Dodge
and was sculpted by...
Daniel Chester French
and Mr. Lincoln,
I sent this shot to
The Associated Press
in 2001 and it moved
Nationwide
as a preview to
Mr. Lincoln's Birthday.
to see it as if moved.
I posted it on the web site
as a Hi-Res Download
for those looking for a good
Lincoln Image.
didn't think much about it,
but several weeks ago,
the cell phone rang
and it was a reporter from Dallas
wanting permission to use it in a
Lincoln Story.
but that got me to thinking...
that hadn't bothered to call,
so I did a search on Google
and came up with three.
The News-Star
in Shawnee, Oklahoma
in an AP story about
Daniel Chester French.
Click Here To View
The Harvard Republican Club
and their annual
Lincoln Day Dinner.
Now back to the Angel...
Mrs. Dodge experienced a dream
on the three nights preceding her death in 1916.
Mrs. Dodge related to family members
that she had a vision of being on a rocky shore
and through a mist, saw a boat approach.
whom Mrs. Dodge thought to be an angel.
and extended the other arm toward Mrs. Dodge
in an invitation to partake of the water
flowing from the vessel.
by Mrs. Dodge's daughter, Anne,
the angel spoke twice, saying:
"Drink...I bring you both a promise and a blessing."
came three times to her mother and,
on the third visit,
Mrs. Dodge took the drink as offered and felt
"transformed into a new and glorious spiritual being."
for they shall see God."
Matt. 5:8
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