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We are deeply pained to be compelled to announce that another of
those who went to Jamaica, to devote themselves to the ministry in
Israel, has fallen a victim to that scourge of the island, the yellow
fever. We allude to the late Louis A. Green, who left Philadelphia in
the beginning of last May, to take part in the labour of teaching and
expounding the law in Jamaica. He was well received; and as we have
informed our readers, was successively engaged as teacher of the Beth
Limmud Society at Kingston, and Hazan of the new congregation lately
organized at Montego Bay. He was just on the eve of repairing to this
new field of labour, when he was seized with fever on the 6th of
November, and on Sunday the 10th he was numbered with the dead. His
funeral took place the following day, attended by the ministers of both
congregations in Kingston, and his remains received all the honours
usually bestowed there upon the ministers of religion. Mr. Green was, we
believe, no more than twenty years old, and would, no doubt, had he been
spared, have become both useful and eminent in the sacred calling for
which there are so many labourers required, and so few properly fitted.
He arrived in America from England about five years ago, nearly four of
which he passed in Philadelphia; and in that time he struggled hard,
even against the “res angusta domi,” to make progress in the
sciences and the learned languages, in order to fit himself for the
station he once hoped to occupy. When the late Mr. Issachar fell a
victim so soon after his arrival, Mr. Green was not deterred from
repairing to the post of danger, perhaps thinking that the extreme
regularity of his habits would, under Providence, be a safeguard against
the climate.—But he has fallen on the field where he had chosen his
portion! May his freed spirit be received on high, and meet with that
reward, as though he had laboured till the close of the day, instead of
quitting the earth in the morning of his years! |
