Funeral orations. Morais, Sabato. Philadelphia, PA. Undated
- Title
- Funeral orations. Morais, Sabato. Philadelphia, PA. Undated
- Author
- Morais, Sabato
- Format
- 4 pages on 1 sheet
- Language(s)
- English
- Source
- Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
- Sabato Morais Collection, Box 11, Folder 6
- Has Format
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3jw8762h/manifest.json
- Link to Colenda
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3jw8762h
- Provenance
- Transfer of Custody from the Hebrew Education Society, 10 March 1913.
- Is Format Of
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/judaicadh/morais/main/TEI/SMBx11FF6_23.xml
- content
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For a funeral
God of the spirit of all flesh! Creator of worlds whose glory fills all space; we stand in awe before Thy august presence, yet, with abiding trust in Thy unfailing goodness. Thou wilt not turn away form us in anger, when we crave for mercy. Thou seest our anguish, and countest our tears, and Thou alone canst bring relief to an affliction, which whereof our lips refuse to speak--so crushed within us are the powers of the soul. We feel that like the sorely tried man man of the book we treasured up, we had hoped for a change that heralds good and lo! the evil we dreaded came to pass. We had looked for the rekindling of a brilliant light, and behold! thick darkness has pre--vailed. Oh! uplift our minds form the sight of sud- shuddering destruction to a scene of heavenly redemption. Thou wilt O God, command salvation to meet our beloved Sarah, and greet her entrance into her lasting home with the assurance of pardon, of repose and of joys unceasing and ineffable. The sweet calmness which domestic sorrows and the keenest sensibility withheld
from her Thy hand-maid in this nether world, Thou wilt prepare for her among the innocent ones who preceded her to lofty spheres. Into Thy hands O Parent of beneficence! we commit the object of our yearning thoughts, and fond affection. Surely Thou wilt not forsake Thy child in the confines of oblivion.
Mayest Thou even so have ever present the devoted hus--band, who has been left a heritage of memories sacred but distressful. Let each day Thou hast destined him to live, be happy in compensation of the long years he spent in silent grief and dismay. Endow Thy servant Lucien Moss with the strength to rise above his own afflicted self and go forth unfalteringly to pursue a path of honor, which may exalt his name, and that of the religion he professes. Thou, who didst teach us that the hand of the diligent will hold riches, m wast pleased to verify that maxim in the son of Israel for whose sake we offer sup--plications. Grant that, free from sufferings, our brother may bestow his time and his means on the allaying of misery, and derive therefrom the satisfaction of having made Thy gifts a source of blessings.
With righteousness will he buy tranquility; by charity will he enhance the bliss of his beloved; for even thus have we been instructed by the saints of old. And now O Lord! we beseech Thee in behalf of her who is tossed languishes upon a couch of sickness. For Thy faith--ful Hezekiah Thou didst close the mouth of a yawning grave, didst heal disease, add years, and promise safety and deli--verance and safety felicity. Thou art the same God all-power--ful and good, for, time brings no change in Thy Essence. Deign therefore to stretch forth Thy hand and rescue from an untimely death a member of a family already wofully bereaved. May she our sister survive her acute malady and to devote a long existence to g the gentle ministration of effective kindness.
On er again ere we carry away from our midst here our presence the woman creature we loved, and whom we would have delighted to cherishingly hold in our midst and urge on to deeds of mercy, we prostrate ourselves before Thee, and pray with all the fervency of our nature. Remember O Lord! the virtues of Sarah Moss, and the let each performance thereof become an escorting angel to the realms of rest. Let the mental torturings, which hastened her end, atone for her sins. Oh accomplish O God! in her spirit
the sentence of the scriptures which tells that Thou O God! redeemest the soul that it may not endure perdition, but Father! let the being our soul the dear being whose eyes are we have closed [?] on earth look and see a light of an unextinguish- the breaking of a light which -able life. Amen. inextinguishable and [?] gladden opens an existence unquenchable and joyous joyous. Amen. - Identifier
- p3jw8762h
- identifier
- SMBx11FF6_23
Part of Funeral orations. Morais, Sabato. Philadelphia, PA. Undated
Morais, Sabato, “Funeral orations. Morais, Sabato. Philadelphia, PA. Undated”, Sabato Morais Digital Repository, accessed October 18, 2024, https://judaicadhpenn.org/legacyprojects/s/morais/item/83963