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Such is the miniature likeness
of Judge Lowell. It is earnestly
to be wishes that the same
masterly hand that sketched it would
finish the picture & make it
large as the life. It would
be worthy a place beside that
of the honorable man whch
is already in your possession.
Together they could form a
rare assemblage of various
excellencies with whch every
youth should be ambitious
to adorn his own character.
Be it ^then your endeavour, young
gentlemen, to have their virtues
inscribed on your hearts,
& copied in your lives. By
your example show the world what they were. let
these great & good & useful
men live again in your
lives. So doing, you will best
repair that loss sustained by
their death-- reward the anxious
& faithful care of those

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who have the oversight
& direction of your education
& fulfil the expectations of
your anxious & affectionate
parents.-- If you will now
become of those who
through faith & patience
inherit the promises-- if you
will now walk in the same
path of good^ness& virtue of
industry, & usefulness, of faith &
holiness in whch they walked
before you, it wll conduct
you to the same heaven of
glory into whc they have
already entered.-- Lke them
you will leave a name
behind you whch is better than
precious ointment & whch
may ^have the like happy influence
on others whch then or now
has on your own hearts.--

This life has been emphatically
styled "a point between
two Eternities." It is the period
of our trial, & on it are
suspended our everlasting concerns.