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Jewel to the crown of the law.

But who would have believed that the hand which two months
ago recorded the demise of the Sage at Prague, would be also
palsied in death? .... Rest thy aching heart on the bosom
of eternity, thou so long racked by deep and earnest thoughts!
Thou didst thy work well, and thine alone is the merit, for
there was none to help or counsel. It is even so,
my beloved hearers! When Isaac Leeser went forth, armed
with fiery zeal to fight the battles of the Lord, he stood
alone. A host might have then been arrayed against
Israel, but not one was found in our camp, able to cope
with the ~~enemy~~ foe. A youth arose to the defencse of his
religion and his people. Was the name of the Jew
aspersed? His vigorous pen wrote the words, which put
the offender to the blush. Were the truths of Sinai ~~denied~~ impugned?

He strove to confound the Unbeliever. On the pulpit, in
the press, at social gatherings, he stood as the bright
exponent of principles, which he never forsook, though
he bore for their sake the jeers of the scoffers, and the contu-
mely of the skeptics. Gifted with versatility of mind,
endowed with the powers of an endurance, that few can equal,

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