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S. MORAIS, 546 N. FIFTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA.

Oh! bid angels of charity thus welcome this entrance of among the blessed above the Hebrew, who served Thee here-below by charity, ascended saying: "Thy transgressions are cleaned away; thy sins have been removed." Rest on a spiritual area in eternal bliss, be imparadised in the contemplation of thy merciful Creator, and universal Saviour.

For a Funeral

I stand here, the spokesman of thousands of my brethren in faith, who sought a home of safety in Philadelphia. Through me, refugees from the land of oppression utter lamentations. A generous friend, ready to overlook faults and plead for Kindness, was he that has gone from their midst. Never would he allow pressing occupations to so engross his thoughts, as to deafen his ears against the cry of Russian exiles, asking for counsel and protection. In his counting house and in his own domicile, the humblest had free access to Simon Muhr. Unweariedly he listened, so that wrongs which prejudice commits against the powerless might be redressed. The influence that riches lend their possessor, he made the agent of his humanity. Could all whom the working of that influence benefitted, raise now their voices, a sound would be heard which seldom echoes forth from a funeral hall. Families against whom a rigorous law might have shut up the gates of this asylum of the persecuted, would call Simon Muhr "our protector; youths led astray by older offenders, but now restored to honest industry, would proclaim him "our deliverer". This judgment may not have been faultless in every instance, -- and what mortal can boast of an infallible mind?-- but his heart throbbed on all occasions with the tenderest compassion.

Our city journals have done Simon Muhr the justice

he deserved. They recognized the unquestionable fact that misery did not appeal to him in vain; that charitable institutions could reckon upon his liberal impulses for financial aid and personal endeavours. The press has admitted that if he was naturally drawn more closely to a limited social circle, comprising fellow Israelhe nevertheless did very often bid his feelings broaden and reach far and wide. One of the numerous acts which mirrored forth the innate love of that Hebrew for all manmust have been embalmed in the memory of PhilaThe sea-captain who labored heroically to rescue many from a watery grave was not born in the faith of Abraham, nor were they Jews whom that gallant deliverer of voyagers in an imperilled ship restored to their agonizing families, but Simon Muhr responded to the instincts which ennoble human nature, when he rewarded compassionate bravery with a costly gift -- a memento of our common brotherhood.

I refer to that circumstance, because it created an indelible impression, whereas of Simon Muhr's daily acts of kindness, of his constant and unstinted benevolence, society at large could not become aware so as to commensurately appreciate.

We, Israelites, who were wont to meet him where orare trained to utilize their education to communal advantage; we who saw him where the necessitous look for solace in their declining years; we who found him

busy, wherever his brother Jew suffers from want, from neglect, from the absence of opportunities to rise the equal of his felbeing of other creeds, we need not be reminded of the qualities which adorned his character by eulogistic words, but an act which that was not single but signal may without impropriety be cited as a tribute of respect to a philanthropist, sumaway from the sphere of his activity. To me, perhowever, the most luminous trait in the character of Simon Muhr, is not what all indisputably admit, because true, namely that he was largehearted, that he besupon the afflicted much of that which he had acquired by unflagging energy; that he was a son on whom his parents could absolutely rely for the discharge of filial oblifor tokens of reverential affection. What I love exceedingly, what I appreciate profoundly is a trait, the lack of which turns me away from in some who have gained wealth turns me away from some them with aversion -- their overweening self assertion, thinking, if not saying it, that men upon whom the sun of prosperity had not smiled, men not very equal unsuccessful in their undertakings, ought to bow & scrape and pay to them obeisSimon Muhr did not belong to that caste of of upstarts, who make for themselves gods of silver and gods of gold. He did not hide his lowly beginning. He confessed that when his mother urged him to work, he was a very young lad with no human help, save his own determined

will to rise by dint of unabated exertions. The remembrance of the past, was the strongest incentive to goodness. Unhe acted upon the principle laid down in the Hebrew Scriptures. Whenever we are divinely asked the performance of practical religion, our legislator reminds us of the historical circumstance, that we were once strangers, even slaves in the land of Egypt, wherefore we should treat none diswe should enslave none. To recall our own sufferings, is to melt with compassion for the sufferers.

Simon Muhr thankful to the country of his adoption, which, under Divine God's blessings, offers a vast reward to industry, showed his gratitude by becoming a public spirited citizen, always humble minded, helpful to the destitute who struggle on to attain self elevation.

Philadelphia, and notably its Jewish community have obvious reasons to lament his untimely death. Freed from besetting duties which business relations imposed, he could have responded even more readily than heretofore to the promptings of his generous nature. I bewail his loss, thousands bewail it with me, but will that allay the anguish of the old mother, to whom her Simon was the light of her eyes, the soul of her existence? _ _ _ _ Almighty God, Lift her above this crushing trial. Open for her fresh springs of consolation within the bounds of her dwelling place. May not her grey hair go down in sorrow to the grave. And for her dear departed I beseech thee, O forgiving Sovereign Lord! May his benefactions walk before him and prepare for his spirit an entrance into the realms of beatitude. (This prayer was continued at some length)