remarks it was about all any of us could do to keep the tears back.

As he ascended the platform, garbed as the rest of the audience,
minus his usual attire but with the same air of determination and
force that has always characterized him, he was greeted by the
Chaplain and some ladies and gentlemen from one of the churches here;
and his acknowledgment of the greeting was exactly as courteous and
dignified as if he had not just been through one of the most
memorable experiences of his life; and one could not help seeing the
man and not the clothes he wore.

His remarks were of a character to cheer the downhearted and to urge
to stronger endeavor for the right those who have made errors and
find the path none too easy. His advice, as usual, was listened to
with the greatest attention, and I have never seen an audience so
wholly and unreservedly with a speaker as the boys seemed to be with
him.

Where can you find a man who has the many interests that Mr. Osborne
has, who will give up everything he has been accustomed to, and risk
his health, yes, you might almost say his life--for one never knows
what may occur in an institution of this kind--for the sake of those
who are apparently nothing to him? We might understand it better if
he were doing this for some immediate member of his family, instead
of for strangers and outcasts.

* * * * *

Of one thing we are sure, and that is that Thomas Mott Osborne will
never be forgotten by the inmates of this prison, and I firmly
believe that he has been the means of inspiring love for himself in
the hearts of the men here that will never die. In my own case, at
least, I can speak with certainty. Although I have never spoken to
the man in my life and never expect to, he has certainly inspired
thoughts in my heart that never were there before; or if they were,
they have been so warped and obstructed by the exigencies of my life
for ten years past that I did not realize that I possessed them at
all.

He is a man who is entitled to the best love of every human being
that comes within the range of his influence, whether they know him
personally or not. And he has won hearts to-day that nobody else on
earth could.

In closing let me repeat his last words to us this mo