ssociation, and his volume, of
notes of cases, plans and efforts, date back to that early
period. To that time also, we are to refer the beginning of his
warm Anti-slavery sentiment, a feeling so prominent and
effective throughout his life, and the source of some of his
noblest efforts and sacrifices. For many years he served as
inspector of prisons in Philadelphia, and thus, by long and
constant practical observation, was accumulated that knowledge
of the human heart in its darkest windings, that often
astonished the objects of his care, when they thought they had
been able cunningly to blind his eyes to their real character
and intentions. After his removal to New York, and when the
occasion for his personal labors in the cause of the slave had
in some measure, ceased or slackened, he threw his whole heart
into the Prison Association, whose aims and plans of action were
entirely in accordance with his views, and indeed, in a great
degree, based on his experience and advice. The intent of the
Prison Association is threefold: first to protect and defend
those who are arrested, and who, as is well known, often suffer
greatly from want of honest and intelligent counsel; secondly,
to attend to the treatment and instruction of convicts while in
prison; and thirdly, on their discharge to render them such
practical aid as shall enable the repentant to return to society
by means of the pursuit of some honest calling. The latter
branch occupied Mr. Hopper's time and attention, and he devoted
himself to it with an affectionate and religious earnestness
that ceased only with his life. No disposition was too perverse
for his efforts at reform; no heart was so black that he did not
at least try the balm of healing upon it; no relapses could tire
out his patience, which, without weak waste of means still
apostolically went on 'hoping all things,' while even a dying
spark of good feeling remained.

Up to February last did this venerable saint continue his
abundant labors; when a severe cold, co-operating with the decay
of nature, brought him his sentence of dismissal. He felt that
it was on the way, and with the serious grace that marked
everything he did, he began at once to gather his earthly robes
about him and prepare for the great change which no one could
dread less. It was ha