In the pursuits of life, and the duties of time, nothing of religious intolerance enters.  A man’s opinions upon that subject are his own, and for these he is responsible to God only.  His neighbor respects his prejudices and feelings, and appreciates him according to his conduct toward his fellow-man, and the discharge of his duties to society.

Good follows the honest discharge of the duties of his vocation, from every moral and religious teacher, if he is sincere and earnest, whether Jew or Christian.  An intelligent and virtuous community appreciates this, and encourages such efforts as advance and sustain public morals and social harmony.  How such a man is esteemed in New Orleans, a recent instance is ample illustration.  A distinguished Jewish Rabbi, long a resident minister of his faith in that city, was called, to minister in a synagogue in the city of New York.  His walk and his work had been upright and useful.  The good of all denominations were unwilling to give up so good and so useful a man.  In the true spirit of pure religion, a large committee, appointed by a meeting of the citizens from among every sect, composed of the leading and most influential men of the city, waited upon him, and influenced him to remain among them, and continue his vocation and pious usefulness in the field where he had labored so long and so efficiently.

To the teachings of Dr. Clapp, much of this toleration is due.  This tone of feeling is the offspring of enlightenment, the enemy of bigotry.  His mission completed, he retired for health and quiet to a point from which he could contemplate the results of his labors.  He saw that they were good, and felt his whole duty had been done.  In the fulness of years he awaited the coming of the hour when, released from his prison-house and freed from earth, he should go to his reward.  It came, and ere the spirit was plumed for its final flight, he asked that its wornout casket should be carried and deposited by those he loved in life, in the city of his adoption and love; where, in death, the broken community of life should be restored.  This was done, and now with them he sleeps well.

Memory turns sadly back to many, now no more, who were compeers of Dr. Clapp, and to New Orleans, as New Orleans was; but to none with more melancholy pleasure than to Alexander Barrow and E.D.  White.  These were both natives of the city of Nashville, Tennessee.  Both came to New Orleans in early life:  White, with his father when a child, and Barrow, when a young man.  White was left an orphan when quite young, in Attakapas, where his father lived, and with very limited means.  He struggled on in the midst of a people whose very language was alien to his own, and managed to acquire a limited education, with which he commenced the study of the law, the profession of his father.  When admitted to practice, he located at Donaldsonville, in the Parish of Ascension, where he rose rapidly to distinction.  Appointed