Henry Newman, Brooklyn contractor and philanthropist, was buried yesterday in Mount Hope Cemetery following services at Union Temple, 17 Eastern parkway, Brooklyn, which was attended by several hundred persons. Newman died Saturday at Sacandaga, N. Y.
Using as his text for the eulogy: “Who shall descend into the mountain of the Lord and who shall stand in His holy place? He that walketh uprighteously and worketh righteousness and speaketh the truth in his heart,” Rabbi Simon R. Cohen, Rabbi Emeritus of Union Temple, said these words exemplified the life of the deceased.
“He never failed to speak the truth from his heart,” Rabbi Cohen said. “Yet in speaking the truth he always did so with a fine sympathy and generosity. There is an ancient proverb from the life of Confucious which reads: “Hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil.” Henry Newman was all this and more; he knew no evil, and this can well be made an epitaph of his life.
“Though he saw much guile, he was without guile. He saw much falsehood but was ever truthful. He experienced much dishonesty but was a man of great honor. The secret of his many friends was due to just this face—that he was the man of the highest integrity and yet of the finest sympathy.”
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