lessings of the poor, and the grateful remembrance of kindness and
benevolence, as he."

The New-York Sunday Times contained the following:

"Most of our readers will call to mind in connection with the name
of Isaac T. Hopper, the compact, well-knit figure of a Quaker
gentleman, apparently about sixty years of age, dressed in drab or
brown clothes of the plainest cut, and bearing on his handsome,
manly face the impress of that benevolence with which his whole
heart was filled.

"He was twenty years older than he seemed. The fountain of
benevolence within, freshened his old age with its continuous flow.
The step of the octogenarian, was elastic as that of a boy, his
form erect as the mountain pine.

"His whole _physique_ was a splendid sample of nature's handiwork.
We see him now with our 'mind's eye'--but with the eye of flesh we
shall see him no more. Void of intentional offence to God or man,
his spirit has joined its happy kindred in a world where there is
neither sorrow nor perplexity."

I sent the following communication to the New-York Tribune:

"In this world of shadows, few things strengthen the soul like
seeing the calm and cheerful exit of a truly good man; and this has
been my privilege by the bedside of Isaac T. Hopper.

"He was a man of remarkable endowments, both of head and heart. His
clear discrimination, his unconquerable will, his total
unconsciousness of fear, his extraordinary tact in circumventing
plans he wished to frustrate, would have made him illustrious as
the general of an army; and these qualities might have become
faults, if they had not been balanced by an unusual degree of
conscientiousness and benevolence. He battled courageously, not
from ambition, but from an inborn love of truth. He circumvented as
adroitly as the most practised politician; but it was always to
defeat the plans of those who oppressed God's poor; never to
advance his own self-interest.

"Few men have been more strongly attached to any religious society
than he was to the Society of Friends, which he joined in the days
of its purity, impelled by his own religious convictions. But when
the time came that he must either be faithless to duty in the cause
of his enslaved brethren, or part company with the Society to which
he was bound by the strong and sacred ties of early religious
feeling, this sacrifice he also calmly laid on the altar of