benefit of 'The Home,'
without bringing forward the name of Isaac T. Hopper, and
recognizing the part he took in its affairs, from the earliest
moment of its existence until the close of his life, would be an
unpardonable omission. A few words must be said where a volume
would scarcely suffice.

"'The rich and the poor meet together, and the Lord is the
Father of them all,' might stand for the motto of Mr. Hopper's
life. That the most remote of these two classes stood on the
same level of benevolent interest in his mind, his whole career
made obvious; he was the last man to represent as naturally
opposite those whom God has always, even to the end of the
world, made mutually dependent. He told the simple truth to each
with equal frankness; helped both with equal readiness. The
palace owed him no more than the hovel suggested thoughts of
superiority. Nothing human, however grand, or however degraded,
was a stranger to him. In the light that came to him from
heaven, all stood alike children of the Great Father; earthly
distinction disappearing the moment the sinking soul or the
suffering body was in question. No amount of depravity could
extinguish his hope of reform; no recurrence of ingratitude
could paralyze his efforts. Early and late, supported or
unsupported, praised or ridiculed, he went forward in the great
work of relief, looking neither to the right hand, nor to the
left; and when the object was accomplished, he shrank back into
modest obscurity, only to wait till a new necessity called for
his reappearance. Who can number the poor, aching, conscious,
despairing hearts that have felt new life come to them from his
kind words, his benignant smile, his helping hand. If the record
of his long life could be fully written, which it can never be,
since every day and all day, in company, in the family circle,
with children, with prisoners, with the insane, 'virtue went out
of him' that no human observation could measure or describe,
what touching interest would be added to the history of our poor
and vicious population for more than half a century past; what
new honor and blessing would surround the venerated name of our
departed friend and leader!

"But he desired nothing of this. Without claiming for him a
position above humanity, which alone would account for a