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and respect which you have all ever shown me and I trust the many hours we have spent together in study recitation and conversation will not be lost upon any one of us. Let me urge you again as I have often done to press onward in the course you have commenced, to strive, to so improve, and educate yourselves in every way that you may be useful to yourselves and all those who come within your influence, to so live that the world may be better for your having lived in it - develop your religious, intellectual, and physical natures in unison, even strive to grow wiser and better day by day, let each day see that some good has been accomplished by your hand, that you have in some way benefitted yourselves or others To be good and do good, to progress in knowledge and holiness is the object of our existence and may Heaven grant that we may all in some degree answer the end for which we were created. Brother is to be still with you and you will have a good and kind teacher to take my place then endeavor the coming session to be faithful to your teachers, to your studies and to yourselves learn all you can and do the best you can in school in all respects I know you too well and have too much confidence in you to think for a moment you will do otherwise I shall visit Mt Washington next spring or summer before I return to New England and shall be most happy to meet you all there together in school, as I have been wont to do in times past but can hardly expect it change is written in such indelible character upon all things earthly but let us so live that if we meet