"I am most truly and faithfully your obliged friend, "JOSEPH STORY. "AMOS LAWRENCE, Esq.

"P. S.--I have sent the letter and its accompaniments to Mr. ----. Think of ----. Think of those rich men in ----, who have never dreamed of the duties of charity. Cast a view to their own posterity. How striking a memento is the very case of ----, presented in his own letters, of the instability of human fortune!"

Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of the Late Amos Lawrence; with a brief account of some incidents of his life — Part 93

Mr. Lawrence closes the year 1843 by a review of his temporal affairs, and by fresh resolutions of fidelity to his trusts. He then gives an estimate of his income and expenditures, showing a somewhat large excess of the latter, though, as he says, from the state of the times, not to the detriment of his property.

Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of the Late Amos Lawrence; with a brief account of some incidents of his life — Part 93

(TO THE MECHANIC APPRENTICES' LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.)

Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of the Late Amos Lawrence; with a brief account of some incidents of his life — Part 93

"MY YOUNG FRIENDS: It cheers and comforts me to learn of your well-doing, and encourages me to offer a word of counsel, as prosperity is often more dangerous in its time than adversity. Now is your seed-time. See to it that it is good; for 'whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.' The integrity, intelligence, and elevated bearing, of the Boston mechanics, have been and are a property for each citizen of great value; inasmuch as the good name of our beloved city is a common property, that every citizen has an interest in, and should help to preserve. At your time of life, habits are formed that grow with your years. Avoid rum and tobacco, in all forms, unless prescribed as a medicine; and I will promise you better contracts, heavier purses, happier families, and a more youthful and vigorous old age, by thus avoiding the beginning of evil. God speed you, my young friends, in all your good works! With the enclosed, I pray you to accept the felicitations of the season.

ACQUAINTANCE WITH PRESIDENT HOPKINS.--LETTERS.--AFFECTION FOR BRATTLE-STREET CHURCH.--DEATH OF MRS. APPLETON.--LETTERS.--AMESBURY CO.

At the commencement of the year 1844, President Hopkins, of Williams College, delivered a course of lectures on the "Evidences of Christianity," before the Lowell Institute, in Boston. Mr. Lawrence had previously seen him, and had thought that he detected, in some features of his face, a resemblance to the family of his first wife. In allusion to this acquaintance, he writes to his son about this period: