Morning journal and courier., 1884-10-27

was convu1sed-nay more, may say horri-
 fed-at the announcement that Edgar Nor
 tara had been boldly abducted from his
 home, had been violently torn from the arms
 of his agonized parents and forced to em-
 brace religion other than that in which he
 had been born and which was his natural
 path in life. Once more Sir Moses girded
 on his armor, again this great man, already
 past the age which the royal psalmist n1es
 as the length of mans life, stepped to the
 front and endeavored to have justice done Tn
 the premises. The effort was 1n vain, how
 ever, for the Roman PontiH could not be ln-
 duced to recede from a position which his
 training taught him was correct, but which
 candid and thinking world does not sanction.
 I believe this was the only instance where
 this peaceable hero failed to accomplish his
 purpose The attempt, however, is to his
 credit.
 Yet, who knows? Perhaps the hour is not
 far distant when the hearts of men will be
 softened to such an extent that similar
 wrongs will not again be repeated.
 Time, which cures all things and which
 eventually corrects all errors, and brings calm reflection to all mankind, may yet do
 justice to those who sorrow and grievs. The 'Enon possumus'' which was thundered forth from the Vatican, and which reverberated throughout civilization, will some day give
 way to the grand American idea that reI1g-
 ious as well as civil freedom shall remain inviolate forever.
 Perhaps an all wise Creator, working out his mysterious but benign will, has torn the child monarch from his broken-hearted pa rents to raise up in the councils of Rome an advocate for the oppressed Jewish race, driv- en from their land and scattered throughout the nations of the earth.
 Five years later, with the snows of nearly eighty winters gathering thick and fast around his devoted head, but still as firm and steady as the sturdy oak, we find Sir Moses on Africa's shores, obtaining from the Sultan of Morocco frman affording protec tion to the Israelites in his dominions, and even in his ninety second year, at 8 time when old age has usually enfeebled mans mental faculties as well as his body, he made his seventh journey to the Holy Land, spreading joy, peace and happiness wherever he went. In 1867 he endowed Jewish college at Ramsgate, in commemoration of his beloved wife and companion who has preceded him to that peaceful slumber from which there is no awakening on earth, but which is the DOT tai to the happy future promised by the sacred writings of all nations and creeds and in all climes.
 Colleges, hospitals and asylums, aye, even houses of worship, without distinction of creed, have received his bounty and owe him large debts of gratitude. The amount of money donated by him to the poverty str1ck- en of all countries cannot be adequately cal culated
 And now, as the broad expanse of hun dred years still finds him in the land of the living, ready, even in his extreme old age, to work and strive to break down the barriers which the hard heart of man has raised against
 his fellow-men, all the peoples of the earth do
 him honor to-day, joining in thanks that he has not yet been summoned
 "To that mysterious realm that undiscovered Country from whose bourne no traveller returns,'' and holding his life up pattern of earn estness and desire to do good and faithful service to all those whom God has made in
 his own image.
 The orator went on to rejoice in the ad- vancement the world has made in the prac- tice of those humanizing influences which are the ideal of all well wishes of our >spe- cies To this end Sir Moses Montefore con tributed largely. The orator closed with an eloquent tribute to the great philanthropist