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It
is with unfeigned sorrow that we have to announce the demise of Mr.
Issachar, but lately appointed assistant minister to the English and
German Congregation at Kingston. We had hoped that he would have been
eminently useful in that bright gem of the sea, whither he had been
called to labour. But it was otherwise ordained, and he has been
gathered unto his fathers, full of a good name and worthy in deeds,
though yet young in years. The subjoined notice, from the Jamaica
Despatch of Feb. 22, contains all the particulars of the melancholy
bereavement which have reached us. We sincerely condole with the parents
for the loss of such a son.
"It
is our melancholy office to announce another victim to that unrelenting
scourge of the West Indies, the yellow fever. The grave has just closed
over the mortal remains of the late Reverend Isaachar Isaachar,
assistant minister to the congregation of English and German Jews in
this island.
"The
reverend gentleman, who arrived here on the 16th December
last, departed this life on Tuesday, the 20th February, at 12
o'clock in the night, his sojourn among us extending to little beyond
nine weeks, yet, in that brief period he had the uncommon felicity to
win golden opinions from all who had become acquainted with him. He had
just attained his 23rd year, when taken from this to a better
life, but though few in year, he was old in wisdom—in that wisdom
especially, which is the best preparative for a happy hereafter. The
deceased was from infancy trained in pious and religious principles, by
which his character and
disposition had been formed, such as ought to be that of all who take
upon themselves the office to instruct their fellow-men in the highest
of their duties.
"He
was the son of pious, but not wealthy parents, residing at Portsea,
England, and it may be more easily imagined than described what will be
their feelings on learning that the prop of their declining years—the
object of a parent's justifiable pride, has been taken from them by a
decree to which their piety will teach them humbly to submit, and enable
them, though with streaming eyes, to exclaim, 'The Lord gave, and the
Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the name of the Lord.'
"The
congregation that had hoped to be benefited by the example and
instruction of one who was so capable for both, feel acutely their
deprivation, and it may belong ere they procure another uniting such
rare and requisite qualities as the departed possessed for a religious
teacher.
"The
funeral, which took place yesterday, was numerously attended by the
members of both congregations of Jews, as well as by many other
respectable individuals of this city, whose countenances evinced the
heart rending sorrow with which the sad event had impressed them.
"The
Reverend Pastor of the sister congregation was unremitting in his
attention to him from the commencement of his illness, and performed the
last solemn duties of his office." |
