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Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life, Contents. (search)
, 95, 384, 385, 476. His fund of Anecdotes and his Public Speaking, 385, 415. Remarks of Judge Edmonds thereon, 412. His separation from the Society of Friends in New-York, 386 to 399. Visit to his Birth-place, 399. Norristown Convention, 400. Visit from his Sister Sarah, 401. Visit to Boston, 401. Visit to Bucks County, 406. Prison Association in New-York, 409. Correspondence with Governor Young, 413. Preaching in Sing Sing Chapel, 415. Anecdotes of Dr. William Rogers, 417, 459. Interesting Cases of Reformed Convicts, 419 to 443. Letter from Dr. Walter Channing, 444. Anecdotes of William Savery and James Lindley at the South, 446. Sonnet by William L. Garrison, 448. His sympathy with Colored People turned out of the Cars, 448. A Methodist Preacher from the South, 452. His Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Law, 455. His Domestic Character, 249, 377 to 380, 458 to 464. He attracts Children, 460. His Garden described in a
Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life, The two young offenders. (search)
hich prevailed, was sometimes presented to his mind in forcible contrast with the state of things in Philadelphia, in 1787, as related by his worthy friend, Dr. William Rogers, who was on the committee of the first Society formed in this country for relieving the miseries of public prisons. That kind-hearted and conscientious cle and she ever after proved a lovely and thornless Rose in the pathway of his life. Great was his satisfaction when he discovered that she was grandchild of Dr. William Rogers, Professor of English and Oratory in the University of Pennsylvania, who, sixty years before, had preached the first sermon to inmates of the State Prison, at six years old, he went to meeting with him for the first time, and was seated on a stool between his knees. The proceedings were a great novelty to him; for Dr. Rogers was the first minister he ever saw in a pulpit. He never forgot the text of that sermon. I often heard him repeat it, during the last years of his life. The