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" She even went so far as to ask Naomi whether she 
 would not part with one of them. " 
 
THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 BY 
 
 AUNT FRIENDLY. 
 
 " Pray for the peace of Jerusalem : they shall prosper that 
 love thee." 
 
 NEW YORK: 
 ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS, 
 
 No. 580 BKOADWAY. 
 1861. 
 
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by 
 ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS, 
 
 la the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern 
 District of New York. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAP. PAGB 
 
 I. A PEESENT 5 
 
 II. NAOMI'S BOYS 11 
 
 III. THE LITTLE FRIEND 16 
 
 IV. PERCUSSION CAPS 28 
 
 V. HUPPIM'S VISIT 84 
 
 VI. THE DREADED NAME 43 
 
 VIL THE PLAY-FELLOWS' MEETING 48 
 
 VIIL PURIM AT JACOB MYERS' 55 
 
 IX. THE OLD GENTLEMAN 64 
 
 X. THE REWARD CARD 76 
 
 XL THE PASSOVER 85 
 
 XII. BEGINNINGS 97 
 
 XIII. THE SICK-ROOM 109 
 
 XIV. GOOD NEWS 118 
 
 XV. A YOUNG DISCIPLE 128 
 
 XVI. BRAVO 185 
 
 XVII. THE ANNOUNCEMENT 148 
 
 XVIIL THE PRISONER 152 
 
 XIX.-DISCIPLINE 159 
 
 XX. MUPPIM 164 
 
 XXI. A RESOLUTION.... 177 
 
 XXII. A SURPRISE 186 
 
 XXIII. THE OUTWARD SIGN 194 
 
 XXIV. THE TRUE PASSOVER 197 
 
 XXV. A REMOVAL 200 
 
 XXVI. A CHRISTIAN FAMILY 208 
 
 XXVIL-CONCLUSION... . 206 
 
THE JEWISH TWINS 
 
 I. 
 
 fACOB MYERS had a little shop on a 
 well-known street-corner, in one of 
 our Atlantic cities. 
 
 There, on pleasant days, ladies came 
 to buy cheap edgings, and even in rainy 
 weather there were customers who stopped 
 for a paper of pins, or for a spool of "40 
 cotton/ 7 while Jacob's wife sat sewing be 
 hind the counter. 
 
 Jacob was not much in the shop, him 
 self ; he spent his time in making trips 
 into the country, to sell a part of his stock 
 at the stray farm-houses, and in the way 
 side villages. Jacob had learned to go to 
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6 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 the back door when he was refused at the 
 front, and he was sure to lighten his pack 
 and make more heavy his purse, at every 
 kitchen he entered. He had gilt jewelry 
 to suit all tastes, and combs for " a mere 
 song," not to speak of laces and buttons, 
 at what he declared to be " next to noth 
 ing" prices. 
 
 Jacob was not out with his pack at the 
 time when our story begins. No ! He was 
 in his own shop, looking the very picture 
 of happiness. Jacob had just received a 
 present, worth exactly twice as much as 
 the thing he had long most wished for. 
 
 Now you must not be thinking of purses 
 of gold, or cargoes of lace edgings. Jacob 
 valued such things enough, and too much 
 doubtless, but he valued still more the 
 gifts a kind hand had sent him . 
 
 Back of the shop was the small " family 
 room," with a stair-case leading out of it 
 into the chamber above. 
 
A PRESENT. 7 
 
 In that upper room were Jacob's treas 
 ure's two little black-eyed baby-boys, 
 twins, as " alike as two peas," and each 
 looking about him, as if much astonished 
 at finding himself in such a queer world, 
 with such a queer little brother at his 
 side. 
 
 Jacob's wife, Naomi, seemed as well 
 pleased as her husband, and there was a 
 sweet, placid joy in her face as she lay 
 there", with her twin-babies beside her. 
 
 For some unknown reason, people 
 choose to give twins names just as nearly 
 alike as possible, without being exactly 
 the same, as if it were not puzzling enough 
 to have two tiny things tottering about, 
 the very pictures of each other, without 
 adding to the difficulty. 
 
 Jacob Myers, however, was not wiser 
 than the rest of mankind in this particu 
 lar, as we shall soon see. 
 
 Jacob had a book which contained the 
 
8 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 names which pleased him best, yet even 
 there he was puzzled to suit himself for 
 the twins. Jacob's book was a Hebrew 
 copy of the Old Testament ; of the New 
 Testament he, poor man! knew nothing. 
 
 Jacob was a Jew, one of the same na 
 tion who once occupied the land of Ca 
 naan, who were there in the time of our 
 Saviour, and are now scattered over the 
 wide earth. 
 
 Wherever the Jew goes, he takes with 
 him his Holy Book, the Old Testament. 
 Even poor Jews can often read Hebrew, 
 and we have lately heard of a travelling 
 pedler's surprising some theological stu 
 dents, at their Hebrew studies, by reading 
 to them, freely, from the Old Testament, 
 in the language in which it was written. 
 
 Jacob read the Scriptures as a duty, 
 though we cannot say that it was with de- 
 voutness, or prayer. 
 
 Now, up and down the genealogies Ja- 
 
A PRESENT. 9 
 
 cob searched and searched, but at last his 
 eye brightened he had happened upon 
 just the thing for his purpose. There 
 were the names of the sons of Benjamin 
 " Muppim" and " Hu-ppim" ! Why, Jacob 
 verily thought Benjamin must have been 
 blessed like himself, with two babies at 
 once ! The names were certainly meant 
 for twins ! The discovery was forthwith 
 announced to Naomi, who consented to 
 the choice without a word of objection ; 
 she did not feel like entering into a dis 
 cussion then, for various reasons. Those 
 two black-eyed boys had a preciousness 
 to her that could be expressed by no name ; 
 no words could tell it, but it throbbed 
 deep down in her true mother's heart. 
 
 Naomi had been speaking to some one 
 in her quiet room, when she had been 
 alone with her babies. Of course she had 
 talked to them in her own soft, cooing, 
 loving way ; made dear little sounds that 
 
10 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 even a baby ought to understand but that 
 is not what we mean. Naomi had spoken, 
 slowly, solemnly, and distinctly, words of 
 thanksgiving to the God of Israel for the 
 great blessing He had bestowed upon her. 
 She had asked the peculiar care of the 
 Lord for her little ones, and given them 
 back to Him who had just given them to 
 her. She would bring them up in the fear 
 of the Lord, and in the fulfilment of His 
 Law. 
 
 With these pious thoughts in her mind, 
 Naomi fell asleep, to dream of seeing 
 wings sprouting from the fat shoulders of 
 her baby-boys, and the little things them 
 selves soaring away to Heaven, as if al 
 ready too good for earth. 
 
n. 
 
 fACOB soon tired of his quiet home- 
 life, though he had many a chance to 
 refresh himself by playing with his babies, 
 for he was not troubled with a constant 
 run of customers. 
 
 He was quite glad when Naomi was 
 once more sitting in the shop with her 
 needle in her hand. She had double use 
 for it now that the twins had come. 
 
 There they lay, (Muppim and Huppim 
 they had duly been named,) and in the 
 great basket by their mother they nestled, 
 two warm, funny little things, the wonder 
 of all the neighborhood. 
 
 (11) 
 
12 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 Naomi's shop suddenly grew popular. 
 The children would not buy their slate- 
 pencils anywhere else. Lonely apprentice 
 girls stopped there to get needles and have 
 a peep at the babies, and the ladies seemed 
 to want more edgings than ever before. 
 One rich, childless widow fairly frightened 
 Naomi by the covetuous way in which she 
 looked at the little dears. She even went 
 so far as to ask Naomi whether she could 
 not part with one of them. 
 
 Naomi would have had her own black 
 eyes put out with a hot iron sooner. So 
 she told the lady plainly ; and then the 
 stranger looked so displeased, and went 
 out so quickly, that Naomi began to fear 
 that harm was coming to her babies, and 
 that it was hardly safe to let two such 
 treasures be seen by every chance customer. 
 Babies had been stolen she had heard of 
 such a thing ! She was half-sorry she had 
 let Jacob go off, with his full pack on his 
 
NAOMI'S BOYS. 13 
 
 back, a week ago. He came home that 
 night, and had a hearty laugh at Naomi 
 about her fears. That laugh did her real 
 good, and was worth more than a whole 
 half hour of reasoning. The way that Ja 
 cob snugged up the little creatures under 
 his great coat, showed how dear they were 
 to him, and yet he did not seem afraid of 
 losing them ! Not he ! 
 
 He said this was a free country, and 
 even a poor Jew need not be afraid of 
 harm's coming to his humble home. 
 
 What a blessing it is to live in a coun 
 try that is a safe refuge for the ancient 
 people of God ! So Naomi thought, and 
 a kindly spirit rose in her towards her 
 adopted home, and from that day it was 
 dearer to her than the forsaken Poland 
 of her childhood. 
 
 Yes, Muppim and Huppim got on to their 
 two feet, or rather their four feet, if we 
 speak of them together, and tottered about 
 2 
 
14: THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 the shop, without once suspecting that 
 anybody could despise a Jew. 
 
 The world seemed a very pleasant place 
 to the little fellow's, for Naomi had taught 
 them to obey while they were in her arms, 
 and, now that they could run alone, they 
 felt the advantage of being wisely ruled. 
 Muppim and Huppim had others than their 
 mother to cast sunshine on their daily 
 life. 
 
 The droll ways of the two round-head 
 ed little brothers made friends of their 
 mother's customers, and Naomi's face was 
 often brightened by the kind words be 
 stowed on her children. 
 
 Years went by, and the twins, like 
 other boys, passed from frocks to jackets 
 and trowsers, and from thinking their 
 mother the wisest woman in the world, to 
 quite too good an opinion of themselves. 
 
 You must not think that the brothers 
 resembled each other as closely all this 
 
NAOMI'S BOYS. 15 
 
 time as they did when they first lay in the 
 basket together. 
 
 Before many months had passed over 
 their heads, Muppim gave signs of a " great 
 sensible nose," and Huppim's mouth began 
 to fill up with big teeth, that quite chang 
 ed his expression. As their characters 
 grew more decided the differences in 
 creased, and Muppirn's thoughtful look was 
 as unlike Huppim's merry glance, as were 
 his quiet, sage sayings to the droll speeches 
 of his brother. 
 
 Strangers still continued to take one 
 for the other, and the boys often had 
 their own fun with the customers in this 
 way ; but persons who knew them well 
 had no trouble in distinguishing them at 
 once. Naomi's joy in her children in 
 creased every year ; and when they were 
 eight years old she was heard to say, that 
 the little fellows were the best boys, to 
 her belief, in the whole city. 
 
m. 
 
 fittU 
 
 (AC OB and Naomi Myers had lived 
 for several years in the same house 
 before their children were born, yet they 
 had not made a single acquaintance 
 among their neighbors. They had a few 
 Jewish friends in other parts of the city, 
 but Naomi was not fond of visiting. She 
 was shy and home-loving by nature, and 
 Jacob was away so much of his time that 
 he was glad to spend his Sabbaths with 
 his wife, and cared little for other com 
 pany. 
 
 It is not to be supposed that Muppim 
 and Huppim would settle down to such a 
 secluded life. As soon as they were able 
 
 (16) 
 
THE LITTLE FRIEND. 17 
 
 to play on the pavement they made ac 
 quaintances among the boys of the neigh 
 borhood, and ere long had a special favor 
 ite among them. Muppim and Huppim 
 had not all their time for play now ; they 
 had work to do, and tasks to learn, and 
 they were beginning, too, to be of assist 
 ance to their mother in the shop. It was 
 a proud day to Muppim when he sold his 
 first paper of pins, and Huppim soon was 
 able to boast of having correctly made 
 change for a dime in the sale of a skein of 
 sewing-silk ! 
 
 Naomi was not hard upon her twins ; 
 she knew that when other children were 
 out with their sleds, her boys, too, wanted 
 to share the fan. When Charlie Fay put 
 in his curly head, to ask if Muppim and 
 Huppim might come out to play with him, 
 Naomi rarely said " No I" 
 
 Naomi liked Charlie Pay, partly be 
 cause her children liked his fair, sunny 
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18 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 face, and partly because he had a gentle 
 look in his blue eyes, and such tones in 
 his voice as are heard where there is a 
 kindly, well-governed character. 
 
 Often, while the boys were at play, 
 Naomi's glance followed them through 
 the glass door of the shop, and that glance 
 was full of love to them. Naomi's love 
 found a way of winning blessings fo^ her 
 children. Not only did she pray for them 
 morning and evening, but through the 
 long day there was prayer in her heart 
 for them. She was ever asking the mercy 
 of the God of Israel for them, and plead 
 ing that they might be guided into the 
 knowledge of His will. 
 
 The Old Testament, in Hebrew, was 
 Naomi's delight ; she loved to hear Jacob 
 read it on Sabbath evenings, and many 
 of its beautiful passages she had treasured 
 in her memory. She might be heard re 
 peating the Psalms of David to herself, as 
 
THE LITTLE FRIEND. 19 
 
 she sat at her work, or saying aloud some 
 of the sublime passages in Isaiah. 
 
 Naomi was a Scripture-loving, con 
 scientious Jew. Though she lived among 
 Christians, she knew almost as little of 
 the Christian religion as if she had been 
 an inhabitant of a heathen land. 
 
 She had many Christian customers, 
 truly, but they spoke to her of needles 
 and thread, and buttons and pins, with 
 now and then a passing remark on the 
 weather. They had never thought of 
 winning the Jewess to a knowledge of the 
 true Messiah. Naomi had been taught 
 that it was a sin even to look into the New 
 Testament, and she had no idea of its 
 contents. 
 
 Knowing what were their mother's 
 views, you will not be surprised to learn 
 that Muppim and Huppim were growing 
 up two as complete little Jews as could be 
 found in our Christian land. 
 
20 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 It was with regret that they saw Char 
 lie Fay out with his sled and his ball on 
 their Sabbath, and when on Sunday they 
 peered at him through the window, as he 
 passed on his way to Sunday-school, they 
 wished he was a Jew like themselves. 
 They could not bear to feel that there 
 was any separation between them and 
 their chosen friend. 
 
 By degrees, Muppim and Huppim were 
 more and more in the shop, and at length, 
 when they were eleven years old, it seemed 
 given up to them almost entirely. 
 
 Naomi had work to do in the back 
 room, that she could trust to no one else. 
 She had another little black-eyed baby 
 on her knee a beautiful creature the 
 twins thought him, and their father seemed 
 much of the same opinion. 
 
 This baby Jacob called Ard, for, he 
 said, having in his family the names of 
 two of the sons of Benjamin, he meant to 
 
THE LITTLE FRIEND. 21 
 
 finish with a third. So u Muppim, Hup- 
 pim, and Ard " were duly registered as 
 the children of Jacob and Naomi Myers. 
 
 Now there was a new attraction for 
 Charlie Fay at his next-door neighbor's. 
 Charlie was the only son of his widowed 
 mother, and the privilege of holding a 
 baby was quite a novelty to him. 
 
 Charlie Fay seemed to have a natural 
 talent for taking care of children, and 
 when Ard would not stop crying for any 
 thing else, he would smile at the sight of 
 Charlie, and be quite content if he could 
 get his fingers fast among the little visit 
 or's light curls. 
 
 So Charlie Fay grew more and more 
 dear to Naomi, for shQ had a real mother's 
 heart, and could be won through her 
 children. With the apples for Muppim 
 and Huppim, one was often placed for 
 Charlie ; and when winter came, Naomi 
 knit, with her own hands, a warm tippet 
 
22 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 for the little neighbor, just like that worn 
 by her own boys. 
 
 Naomi had never said to herself or to 
 him that she loved Charlie Pay, the Chris 
 tian boy, but he knew it, and she knew it. 
 Though it had never been put into words, 
 it had been told in a surer language. 
 
IV. 
 
 and various were the trifling 
 " received 
 
 from their mother's customers. The fact 
 was, they were general favorites. One 
 odd old gentleman often came to the shop, 
 as much to talk to the children as to make 
 purchases. He liked to puzzle the boys 
 with queer questions, and hear their quick 
 replies. 
 
 " Now, Muppim," said Mr. Thayer, one 
 morning, "Now, Muppim, I've brought 
 something to set you a thinking. If you 
 will guess what these little bright boxes 
 are for, I will give you let me see I will 
 give you the whole case full of them !" 
 
 Mr. Thayer had on a rough suit of 
 
 (23) 
 
24 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 clothes, and carried in his hand a bag 
 which the boys well knew that he used 
 when he made his trips to the country to 
 hunt and fish for a few days. 
 
 " I want some strong twine," said the 
 old gentleman, " and while you put me up 
 a ball of it, you can have your thinking 
 caps on." 
 
 The ball was promptly rolled up, and 
 then Mr. Thayer said, " Well, Muppim, 
 Where's your answer ?" 
 
 " I suppose," said the boy, " you use them 
 when you go hunting ; you put them on 
 your gun, when it goes off!" 
 
 " Good ! good ! Did you ever see any 
 before ? " said the gentleman, clapping his 
 hands. 
 
 " No, sir; but Fve heard Charlie Fay tell 
 about them, and he says its , real fun to 
 pound them, and hear them go off!" 
 
 " Dangerous sort of fun, I should think," 
 said Mr. Thayer, " but you must have the 
 
PERCUSSION CAPS. 25 
 
 percussion caps, Muppim. Ill warrant 
 you'll sell them, and get a pretty price, 
 too ! The old gentleman placed the little 
 box of caps in Muppirn's hand, who looked 
 up half-doubtingly, as if he perhaps ought 
 not to accept them. 
 
 " Never fear, child ; take them, they are 
 fairly yours," said Mr. Thayer, leaving the 
 shop. 
 
 " I'll give them to Charlie," said Mup 
 pim, with a bright smile on his face. 
 
 " And 111 see him crack them off!" said 
 Huppim, joyously. 
 
 That afternoon, while the baby was 
 asleep, Naomi went into the shop, and gave 
 the boys liberty to go out for a little play. 
 Their voices were no sooner heard on 
 the pavement than, they were joined by 
 Charlie Pay. 
 
 Soon there was an ominous snapping 
 and cracking, like the explosion of fire* 
 arms. Naomi hastened to the door. 
 3 
 
26 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 Charlie Pay was bending over the curb* 
 stone, and was preparing to strike with a 
 smoothing-iron he held in his hand, some 
 bright little things that lay on the stone. 
 The blow came down, and the next mo 
 ment Charlie's screams filled the air, and 
 his hands were pressed upon his eyes. 
 
 After this, Charlie Fay was not out on 
 the pavement for many a day. The Doc 
 tor came and went from his mother's house, 
 and Muppim and Huppim almost wept 
 their eyes out, to hear that Charlie might 
 be left blind by the accident. 
 
 Pieces of the percussion caps had en 
 tered his eyes, and it was feared that his 
 sight was lost forever. 
 
 Naomi was surprised to find how deeply 
 she was grieved. But for her shyness, she 
 would have gone herself to inquire at the 
 door for the poor little patient, and to ex 
 press her sympathy for the mother. As it 
 was, Muppim and Huppim were as regular 
 
PERCUSSION CAPS. 27 
 
 in their appearance at Mrs. Fay's as the 
 milk-man, at morning and evening. 
 
 They had never gained admittance, the 
 sorrowful answer being always returned, 
 that Charlie was no better. 
 
 One day. to their surprise, they were 
 invited to walk in : " We must ask our 
 mother first," said Muppim, doubtfully. 
 
 Naomi had never allowed her children 
 to enter Mrs. Fay's house, or that of any 
 other Christian, excepting upon necessary 
 business ; this, she thought, merely keep 
 ing them out of temptation. 
 
 Now the case seemed to her quite differ 
 ent. This was an act of mercy, like 
 pulling a " neighbor's ox out of a pit " 
 there certainly could be no harm in this ! 
 Her loving heart yearned towards her 
 fair-haired pet, her own Ard's pretty 
 nurse. 
 
 Yet Naomi paused, and was silent for 
 a moment, when the boys came in, eager 
 
28 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 with their request. She looked from one 
 to the other, as if weighing their several 
 capabilities, and then said, " I can trust 
 you, Muppim, for five minutes ; but pray, 
 as you cross the threshold, that the God 
 of Israel will keep his own truth bright 
 in your heart." 
 
 " I will, mother, I will/ 7 said Muppim, 
 soberly. " I ought to go, for it was my 
 fault that it all happened." 
 
 " It was Mr. Thayer's fault Good Fa 
 ther Thayer, to blame you are ! you had 
 better take care, or Huppim Myers will 
 put you in fires," said the other brother, 
 with a laugh. " You go now, Muppim ; 
 your solemncholy face will suit now, but 
 when Charlie gets better, hell want me, 
 I tell you, to make him laugh." 
 
 " Very likely," said Muppim, quietly, as 
 he went out the door. 
 
 Muppim did not forget his mother's pre 
 caution, as he entered the Christian's home. 
 
PERCUSSION CAPS. 29 
 
 Muppim was almost a stranger to Mrs. 
 Fay. He had seen her from time to time 
 at her door, and heard her kind voice 
 speaking to her child, but a passing bow 
 was all he had ever received from her. 
 
 Her black dress, and the signs of deep 
 sorrow on her face, made the children 
 associate something gloomy with her, and 
 the twins had often wondered how Charlie 
 could have so bright a face, when his 
 mother was his only companion at home. 
 
 Now, Muppim expected to see Mrs. Fay 
 more gloomy than ever, and he half 
 dreaded a scolding from her, as he was 
 really, in a measure, the cause of the acci 
 dent. 
 
 The woman who had the lower floor of 
 the house let Muppim in, and up stairs he 
 went, finding his way to the door that 
 was pointed out. His knock was soon 
 answered. 
 
 " Why, Muppim ! come in, dear/ 7 said 
 3* 
 
30 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 Mrs. Fay, in a cheerful tone. " Charlie 
 will be delighted to have you here." 
 
 " Muppiin I" The voice called from the 
 darkest corner of the room, where Charlie 
 Fay was sitting, with a bandage over his 
 eyes. 
 
 " Dear, dear Charlie," said Muppim, 
 who was at his side, in a moment. "I am 
 so sorry. Won't you ever see again ?" 
 
 " Perhaps not 1" said Charlie, very 
 quietly. 
 
 " Oh ! Charlie, don't say so !" said 
 Muppim, taking both his friend's hands in 
 his. 
 
 " I want to see again, of course," said 
 Charlie, "but God will do forme just 
 what is right." 
 
 Mrs. Fay slipped silently out of the 
 room to hide her own tears, and the two 
 boys were left together. 
 
 " What do you do when you are here, 
 shut up ?" said Muppim, trying to change 
 
PERCUSSION CAPS. 31 
 
 the subject. " Sometimes mother reads 
 to rue ; and when I am alone I say 
 over hymns to myself; and then I know 
 a great deal of Scripture, and I think 
 about that. I say * The Lord is my shep 
 herd, I shall not want/ very often." 
 
 "Do you know that?" said Muppim, 
 brightening. 
 
 " Yes, that is one of my favorites/ 7 said 
 Charlie. "I like that part about ' I shall 
 fear no evil/ " 
 
 Much as the two boys had been to 
 gether, they had never spoken to each 
 other of the deep religious earnestness 
 that was alive in the hearts of both. Now 
 they seemed suddenly united by a new 
 bond. 
 
 Muppim found in Charlie a something 
 which he had missed in his own brother. 
 Together the twins studied their Scripture 
 lessons and prayed, but with one it was a 
 mere outward thing, while the other had 
 
32 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 felt that there was a solemn pleasure in 
 anything that brought him near to God. 
 
 " Charlie," said Muppim, drawing close 
 to his friend, " Charlie, I love you we 
 have missed you so ! Mother says she 
 wishes she could see you again, and Ard 
 won't be still for anybody. Mother thinks 
 he is fretting after you." 
 
 " The dear little chap !" said Charlie, 
 warmly ; " I should like to give him one 
 toss-up. 
 
 " Why, Muppim ! it makes me feel real 
 well to have you here !" 
 
 u Then I'll come again very soon. I 
 can't stay any longer now ; mother only 
 gave me five minutes." 
 
 " I see you keep up to ' honor thy father 
 and thy mother/ " said Charlie, with a 
 pleasant smile. 
 
 " That's my mark !" said Muppim, sober 
 ly. The text had been in his mind at the 
 moment, as he was tempted to overstay 
 
PERCUSSION CAPS. 33 
 
 the time his mother had allowed him for 
 his visit. 
 
 Again he felt the new bond between 
 him and his friend. 
 
 Ah, the Jews who train their children 
 in the scriptures of the Old Testament, 
 are preparing them for good things. It 
 is the Jew who is lost in the love of gain, 
 who insures for his children the curse 
 pronounced on his doomed nation. 
 
V. 
 
 y/ifjXN the morning after Muppim's visit to 
 ^J^ Charlie Pay, Naomi and her children 
 were in the " family-room," while Jacob, 
 who chanced to be at home, was busy in 
 the shop. 
 
 Huppim had been puffing out his cheeks 
 and suddenly knocking them flat with his 
 brown hands, while Ard's little face broke 
 into pretty smiles at every explosion. 
 
 Muppim was poring over his father's 
 copy of the Hebrew scriptures. He had 
 found the twenty- third Psalm, and was 
 trying to remember the exact English 
 words in which Charlie Fay had translat 
 ed it. 
 
 It was a new thing to Muppim to hear 
 
 (34) 
 
HUPPIM'S VISIT. 35 
 
 scripture from a Christian's lips, and he 
 had thought not a little about his inter 
 view of the day before. He had been 
 taught that the Christians had a false Bi 
 ble, and that their religion was a poor 
 idolatry, to be dreaded and avoided by 
 the Jews, the true people of God. Was 
 Charlie, then, a Jew at heart? This 
 question was in Muppim's mind, as he re 
 membered the tone of real pleasure in 
 which Charlie had spoken the sentence, 
 " The Lord is my shepherd." 
 
 Muppirn's meditations were suddenly 
 disturbed by an unusual bound on the 
 part of his brother, and the exclamation, 
 " There, now ! it is past 9 o'clock, and I 
 want to be off to see Charlie Fay. May 
 I, mother ?" 
 
 Naomi had been deeply touched by 
 Muppim's account of Charlie's gentleness 
 and patience, and she had made up her 
 mind that her boys should do all in their 
 
36 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 power to cheer him in his time of misfor 
 tune. 
 
 Now she laid aside her sewing quickly, 
 and, taking out a worn purse from her 
 pocket, she said, " Yes, Huppim, go com 
 fort Charlie as well as you can, and take 
 him an orange, too. Mind you make a 
 good bargain, and don't stay more than 
 half an hour." 
 
 Huppim took the pennies his mother 
 held out to him, and was skipping away 
 when a sudden thought struck him. " Til 
 carry in the buttons to sort ; it will please 
 Charlie, may be, to do it with me." 
 
 Naomi reached down the box of mixed 
 buttons, and handed them to Huppim, 
 who went off happy as a king. 
 
 Huppim's idea was a good one. Occu 
 pation was just what Charlie needed. He 
 had borne up bravely so far, but now he 
 must have company and employment. He 
 must have that, even if his eyesight were 
 
HUPPIM'S VISIT. 37 
 
 not restored ; he might be useful and 
 cheerful. 
 
 Charlie was not above being pleased 
 with the orange, and he thanked Huppim 
 heartily for it, but the buttons were even 
 more welcome. It was a pleasure to him 
 to find out how readily he could distin 
 guish the various kinds, by carefully ex 
 amining them with his fingers, and at 
 length he took the task of sorting them en 
 tirely upon himself, while Huppim sat by, 
 sewing them diligently upon fresh blue 
 papers, so as to make them look as they 
 did when they were new. 
 
 " See, mother," said Charlie, with de 
 light, " I can tell the porcelain ones in a 
 moment from the horn ones. I have not 
 made a single mistake yet, have I, Hup 
 pim ?" 
 
 " You do it first-rate," said Huppirn. 
 
 " Very nicely 1" said the mother, in a 
 low voice. 
 4 
 
38 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 If Charlie had not been very busy 
 about his work, he would have noticed 
 the sad tones of his mother's voice. 
 
 Huppim gave him no chance for dwell 
 ing upon any thoughts just then, for he 
 broke in, saying, 
 
 " Suppose I tell you a story, Charlie ; 
 would you like it ?" 
 
 " Indeed I should !" was the quick re 
 ply. 
 
 Huppim began, much as if he was 
 reading from a book, " Rabbi Hillel was 
 a very meek man. One day somebody 
 made a bet that no one could make the 
 Rabbi angry. One fellow came to the 
 Rabbi, when he was in a hurry getting 
 ready for the Sabbath, and asked him a 
 great many foolish questions, enough to 
 put any body out of patience ; but the Rab 
 bi, instead of getting angry, answered 
 every one in the pleasantest way in the 
 world. So this fellow did not make out. 
 
HUPPIM'S VISIT. 39 
 
 Then another thought he would try ; so he 
 came to the Rabbi, and said, * Can you 
 teach me the whole law during the time I 
 can stand on one foot V ' Yes/ said the 
 Rabbi, ' for the whole law is in this short 
 sentence, " Whatever you would not wish 
 your neighbor to do to you, do it not to 
 him." This is the whole law/ Was not 
 that a smart answer ?" 
 
 " It was so !" said Charlie, warmly. " I 
 think that Rabbi was a remarkable man. 
 If anything puts me out of patience, it is 
 being questioned when I am in a hurry." 
 
 " Then you ought not to have Mr. 
 Thayer to deal with. He's the one for 
 questions I" said Huppim. 
 
 The clock here struck out plainly. 
 Huppim jumped. " I declare," he said, 
 " I have been here ever so many minutes 
 more than mother said, so I must be off in 
 a twinkling. I'll leave the buttons, Char 
 lie I" 
 
40 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 " Yes, do ! and tell Muppim I want to 
 see him." 
 
 Huppim answered " Ay ! ay I" from the 
 stair-way, as he went bounding down 
 three steps at a time. 
 
 Mrs. Pay closed the door, and sat down 
 beside her boy. 
 
 " Mother/' he said, as he laid his head 
 on her shoulder, u Mother, I may be able 
 to be of some use to you, even if I am 
 blind. I mean to try to learn to do all I 
 can, and then I shall not be a burden to 
 you." 
 
 Charlie spoke cheerfully, but the words 
 went straight home like a pang to his 
 mother's heart. 
 
 " I do not believe you are to be blind, 
 my own dear boy," she said, while the 
 tears filled her eyes to overflowing. " I 
 do not let myself think of that as possi 
 ble." 
 
 " But I do, mother ; and somehow, I 
 
HUPPIM'S VISIT. 41 
 
 think God is going to answer in this way 
 a prayer I have made night and morning 
 for a long time. I have asked God to let 
 me be very useful in this world, and teach 
 a great many people to love him. I think 
 I wanted to do great things ; and perhaps 
 he is going to let me be useful, but make 
 me blind, too, to keep me humble." 
 
 Mrs. Pay bowed down beside the bed, 
 and prayed and wept in silence. 
 
 Had not she, too, been full of pride in 
 her noble boy ? Had not she, too, thought 
 of the " great tilings" he would do in the 
 world, and of the praise he would win 
 from men ? 
 
 When Mrs. Pay rose from her knees, 
 it was to kiss Charlie very tenderly, and 
 to say to him, " We will not talk about 
 the future, darling, we have only to bear 
 our present trials. You will be happier 
 to be occupied now, and it will do you no 
 harm, whether you see again or not. We 
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42 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 know that God will arrange all things in 
 the best way." 
 
 Charlie broke forth singing the hymn, 
 
 " God moves in a mysterious way," 
 
 and when he came to the lines, 
 
 " The bud may have a bitter taste, 
 But sweet will be the flower," 
 
 so beautiful a smile passed over his face, 
 that his mother felt that she could already 
 see the blessed effects of his affliction, and 
 thenceforward would stifle every murmur. 
 She had prayed that her son might be 
 a faithful, useful follower of Jesus, and 
 she would have the Lord answer her 
 prayers in his own wise way. 
 
VI. 
 
 0|tfYAOMI bad given her promise that 
 (^r one of the boys should visit Charlie 
 each day, and they peaceably agreed to 
 take turns, as their mother could not well 
 spare them both at once. 
 
 When Muppim prepared for his inter 
 view the next day, he was careful to take 
 with him the Hebrew Scriptures, with a 
 mark put in at the twenty-third Psalm. 
 
 " You are going to read to Charlie ; 
 that is kind," said Mrs. Fay, noticing the 
 book. 
 
 " I can only read Hebrew ; mother did 
 not care to have us learn to read English," 
 said Muppim, shyly. 
 
 " Read me some Hebrew I should so 
 
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44 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 like to hear the sound of it," said Charlie, 
 eagerly. There was something delightful 
 to Charlie in the idea of hearing even a 
 few words of that ancient language spoken 
 by Moses and the prophets. 
 
 " You must wait until I go out, before 
 you begin such learned proceedings," said 
 Mrs. Pay, with a smile. " How long can 
 you stay, Muppim ?" 
 
 " A whole hour to-day, mother says," 
 was Muppim's joyous answer. 
 
 "Then, Charlie, I shall take a walk, 
 and attend to all my business for the day," 
 said the mother. 
 
 The boys had some pleasant chat while 
 Mrs. Fay was making her preparations, 
 but as soon as she closed the door, Char 
 lie broke out, " Now for the reading, 
 Muppim." 
 
 Muppim read aloud the twenty-third 
 Psalm, and as he closed, before Charlie 
 could speak, he said, " Say what you did 
 
THE DREADED NAME. 45 
 
 yesterday, Charlie, ' The Lord is my 
 shepherd.' " 
 
 Charlie repeated the whole Psalm, 
 while Muppim followed him in the He 
 brew, with his finger passing along the 
 page, and his eye full of delight. " It is 
 just the same ; just the same as I have it 
 here ! Do you know ,any more, Char 
 lie ?" 
 
 Charlie recited the 103d and the 51st 
 Psalms, while Muppim looked over, with 
 the same pleasure as before. 
 
 " Do you like the Jews, Charlie?" asked 
 Muppim, abruptly. 
 
 " Indeed I do I would rather be a Jew 
 than belong to any other nation," said 
 Charlie, warmly. 
 
 Muppim took his friend's hand, and 
 looked eagerly into his face. Charlie's 
 speaking eyes were hidden from sight ; 
 he could not see Muppim's searching, 
 questioning gaze, nor could Muppim find 
 
46 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 his answer in his companion's tranquil 
 countenance. 
 
 " I love the Jews, and mother loves 
 them, too/' said Charlie. 
 
 Muppim was silent for a moment, and 
 then he said, suddenly, " Can you say the 
 Ten Commandments ?" 
 
 Charlie repeated them slowly and rever 
 ently, as he had been taught to recite the 
 word of God ; and as he finished, he said, 
 " I learned those when I was a little bit 
 of a boy, Muppim ; and I say them over 
 every night, and try to think whether I 
 have broken any of them." 
 
 " Of course you don't break any of 
 them, but may-be the tenth," said Muppim. * 
 
 "I mean whether I have broken them 
 in my heart," said Charlie, soberly. 
 
 " If you break a commandment, how 
 dare you go to sleep ?" said Muppim, with 
 his eyes wide open ; " I always feel as if 
 something dreadful would carry me off, aa 
 
THE DREADED NAME. 47 
 
 the devil came after Rabbi ben Rikel's 
 son, when he fell asleep at his prayers." 
 
 " I am not afraid to go to sleep, be 
 cause I ask pardon for the sake of the 
 Lord Jesus," said Charlie. 
 
 Muppim started up suddenly, and re 
 peating the prayer, that " The Lord would 
 keep His truth bright in his heart," the 
 young Jew hurried from the room. He 
 had made up his mind never to hear the 
 name of Jesus mentioned, so he should be 
 sure to keep out of temptation. Charlie 
 was for a few moments puzzled to under 
 stand Muppim's sudden departure, but at 
 length he guessed the true reason. Charlie 
 was not lonely during the half-hour that 
 passed before his mother returned ; he was 
 too busily occupied in mind to think of 
 loneliness, or time. He was praying, oh, 
 how earnestly ! for his Jewish friends, and 
 asking wisdom to guide them into the 
 knowledge of Jesus, the true Messiah. 
 
VII. 
 
 $)lBjf*H0tos' fluting, 
 
 took his Hebrew Bible no 
 more to Charlie Fay's. He had 
 no more talks with him about Psalms or 
 Commandments. Yet the twins were 
 faithful in their visits to the little pris 
 oner. Huppim was most ingenious in 
 finding occupation for Charlie ; he had 
 twine to untangle, and twine to be rolled 
 up ; indeed, the shop was always sure to 
 yield some work to be done, when Hup 
 pim went to pass his hour with the patient 
 boy. Huppim was full of out-door life, 
 and stories of out-door fun ; he had a 
 store of anecdotes laid up of what he had 
 seen in the street, to amuse Charlie ; and 
 
 (48) 
 
THE PLAYFELLOWS' MEETING. 49 
 
 then Ard's baby- ways were always certain 
 to interest his old playfellow. 
 
 Ard, meanwhile, was coming on finely. 
 Although he chose not to use his sturdy 
 legs for walking, he could creep about the 
 floor so fast as to wear off the toes of a 
 pair of new shoes in a week, and his little 
 teeth were sharp enough to leave their 
 marks on everything they touched, as 
 Naomi's baby-spoon showed very plainly. 
 Ard was talking more and more, too, and 
 Huppim thought it would do Charlie real 
 good to hear him ; Mrs. Fay thought so 
 too, and so Ard was brought in one day, 
 by his merry brother, to pay Charlie a 
 visit. A great clumsy bundle, done up in 
 a shawl, he seemed, as he was deposited 
 on the floor to be unrolled. Then out 
 came the fattest, brownest, most dark- 
 eyed little fellow Mrs. Fay had ever seen. 
 
 " Ard ! Ard ! don't you know me ! " 
 said Charlie, stooping down tenderly 
 5 
 
50 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 beside the child. The sturdy boy pushed 
 Charlie back with his stout hands, and 
 said, " Way, way ! way, way ! " 
 
 Charlie put his arm round the little fel 
 low, and began to sing, in a cheerful voice, 
 a lively tune, of which Ard had been very 
 fond. 
 
 The child looked up wonderingly, and 
 then, with a sudden movement, snatched 
 the bandage from Charlie's eyes. 
 
 " Do you know Charlie, now ?" said the 
 poor boy. 
 
 Ard made no answer, but nestled con 
 tentedly beside his old friend. 
 
 "Oh! you seem like yourself, now!" 
 exclaimed Huppim. A sad smile passed 
 over Charlie's face, and he dropped his 
 lids till the long lashes lay on his pale 
 cheeks. 
 
 " Let me see your eyes," said Huppim, 
 who was not troubled with any particular 
 delicacy of feeling. 
 
THE PLAYFELLOWS' MEETING. 51 
 
 " They are quite healed now, and the 
 doctor says they will be better without 
 the bandage," said Mrs. Fay, quietly. 
 " Ard has helped us to carry out the good 
 doctor's prescription." 
 
 Charlie had shrunk from taking off the 
 bandage. While it covered his eyes he 
 could fancy that its folds kept out the 
 light ; he feared, too, that his sightless 
 eyes would give pain to all who looked 
 upon him, and draw forth disgust as well 
 as pity. 
 
 His mother knew that one who had so 
 meekly bowed to the will of Heaven when 
 blindness was sent him, would not long 
 be ruled by such a little weakness, and 
 she had gently let him have his way. 
 
 Ard's busy hands had come in to do 
 what the mother had left for time. 
 
 For a few moments Charlie sat silent 
 and with downcast eyes, after Huppim's 
 abrupt expression of his wish. 
 
52 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 Those few moments were spent in pray 
 er. Charlie asked to be enabled to take 
 with cheerful submission every circum 
 stance connected with his misfortune ; 
 then he was ready to lift those long lash 
 es, and to show his sightless eyes to his 
 friend. 
 
 There was nothing in that exhibition to 
 shock the most sensitive of beings, and 
 Huppim by no means belonged to that 
 class. 
 
 " Why, they don't look badly a bit, 
 Charlie ! They are just as blue as ever, 
 and only have a little white spot where 
 the black one used to be, in the middle. 
 Why, it don't seem as if you could be 
 blind ! I never saw your face when I 
 liked it half as well 1" said Huppim, with 
 surprise in his tones. 
 
 Mrs. Fay had listened anxiously to the 
 first part of his speech, fearing its effect 
 upon her dear boy ; but Charlie was 
 
THE PLAYFELLOWS' MEETING. 53 
 
 stayed upon a rock ! There was truly an 
 expression upon his young face which 
 beautified him in his blindness ! 
 
 The mother drew near, and kissed him 
 tenderly as she said, " I have no fears for 
 you now, my son ! God will sustain you, 
 and make you useful and beloved." 
 
 " Heaven will seem all the more beauti 
 ful to me, when I come out of this dark 
 ness I" said Charlie, as he leaned his head 
 against his mother. " I never felt happier 
 in my life, and you were never half so dear 
 to me. God has helped me to bear this 
 trial, and all seems bright to me now." 
 
 Ard's little hand was passed tenderly 
 down Charlie's cheek at that moment, and, 
 as if a forgotten tune had suddenly come 
 to his mind, the child murmured " Char- 
 char Char-char," so lovingly, that Char 
 lie stooped down to kiss him, and hugged 
 him close in his arms. 
 
 Huppim gave a full account of that visit 
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54 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 at the dinner-table that day. Not a word 
 or look had escaped his observing eyes. 
 Charlie Pay had given a testimony to the 
 truth of the Christian faith, which was nqt 
 soon to be forgotten in the Jewish home. 
 
VIII. 
 
 f ttrim at |iu0b 
 
 f ARCH had come, with its blue skies 
 and blustering winds. The Jews 
 counted themselves in the twelfth month 
 of their sacred year, and now the feast of 
 Purim was to be kept. This is a feast of 
 two days, in which the Jews remember the 
 time when their nation was saved from 
 destruction by the courage and resolution 
 of Queen Esther. Ever since Haman was 
 hanged, and Mordecai was raised to honor, 
 the feast of Purim has been kept among 
 the Jews, as it was at first, a time " of 
 feasting and joy, and of sending portions 
 one to another, and gifts to the poor." 
 
 You will find the account of the origin 
 of these days in the book of Esther, one 
 
 (55) 
 
56 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 of the most interesting of the Old Testa 
 ment stories. 
 
 There was a busy time at Jacob Myers 7 
 before the feast of Purim. Each member 
 of the family had gifts to prepare for the 
 others, and all was done with the greatest 
 secrecy. 
 
 Muppim and Huppim consulted as to 
 what should be prepared for Naomi. They 
 wanted to give their present together, to 
 their mother. They felt, that at such a 
 time, twins should not be separate, but it 
 was hard for them to agree. Huppim's taste 
 was quite for the practical. He thought 
 a new saucepan, such as he had heard her 
 wishing for, would be a most acceptable 
 gift. 
 
 Muppim, meanwhile, was in favor of some 
 pots of early flowers, from a neighboring 
 greenhouse, to place in her sunny south 
 window. He was sure they would please 
 his mother best, and besides, he had a kind 
 
PURIM AT JACOB MYERS*. 57 
 
 of a notion that they would speak his 
 feelings better than a saucepan. 
 
 Muppim had his own way in this, as he 
 generally did, for he had the stronger will 
 of the two, and besides, managed to give 
 Huppim a wonderful idea of his superior 
 judgment. 
 
 Perhaps you wonder where the twins 
 got their money for their purchases. The 
 young Jews had not lived to be nearly 
 thirteen years old, without making many 
 bargains of their own, and earning many 
 a penny. True, they brought all their 
 gains to their mother, but she kept them 
 apart from her own, and duly made of them 
 a private purse that was to be theirs when 
 they were older. Now, however, they had 
 liberty to keep, for a week or two, what 
 ever they might make in their various 
 transactions. 
 
 They did not have to stay many morn 
 ings about the steamboat landings before 
 
58 THE JEWISH TWINS, 
 
 they had an opportunity of earning a 
 few sixpences with which to begin, and 
 then, such trade as they knew how to 
 manage in oranges, apples, cigars, pins and 
 matches helped them out with their fund 
 for Purim. 
 
 The feast days came in due time, and 
 Jacob was in the city, to go to the syna 
 gogue to hear the story of Esther read, 
 and to cry, " let his name be blotted out," 
 whenever Haman was mentioned. That 
 was not, however, the part of the proceed 
 ings which pleased Jacob best. He was 
 happier when he had Ard on his knee, 
 crowing and rejoicing in his own way 
 over his new playthings, and beating his 
 gaily-painted drum, till nothing else could 
 be heard in the room. 
 
 The perfume of the flowers was sweet 
 to Naomi, and in the midst of her thanks 
 Muppim gave a look of triumph at his 
 brother, which said very plainly, " You 
 
JURIM AT JACOB MYEES*. 59 
 
 see, I fr-kew what would please mother 
 best." 7_-Iuppim bowed in submission ; he 
 was to-,) well satisfied with his new knife 
 and tL 13 marbles in his pockets, to be out 
 of humor about anything. We cannot 
 givo fill the proceedings of those days of 
 rejoicing, we cannot tell all the good 
 things that Naomi had prepared, or with 
 what relish they were eaten, nor of the 
 poor, half-starved Jews who that day had 
 a share of Naomi's nice cooking. 
 
 Charlie Fay, too, came in for his portion 
 of his neighbors' joy. True, he was not a 
 Jew, and had no right to partake of a 
 Jewish feast, but Muppim and Huppim 
 could not have had their hearts glad, with 
 out knowing that the blind boy had some 
 new cause of pleasure. Even Naomi her 
 self would not have felt quite satisfied, 
 unless Charlie had been in some way in 
 cluded in their merry-making. 
 
 There could certainly be no harm in re- 
 
60 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 membering one so afflicted, at such a time, 
 even if he were not a Jew. 
 
 So Charlie had a box of fresh mignon 
 ette, that filled his room with perfume 
 which rose with his prayers that his neigh 
 bors might some day know the true joy 
 that is only found in Christ Jesus. 
 
 But Muppim had he no share in the 
 general rejoicing ? He was not much 
 given to merry-making, and of late he 
 had been particularly thoughtful, yet there 
 was a look of hearty gratification in his 
 face, as he held in his hand the book that 
 had been given him. 
 
 All the family had joined their funds 
 to purchase Muppim's present, a copy of 
 the Hebrew Scriptures ; though his father 
 did not much approve of the proceeding. 
 He thought it was well, of course, to be 
 regular at the Synagogue, and to be par 
 ticular as to Jewish feasts and ceremonies, 
 but Muppim had a way of studying the 
 
PURIM AT JACOB MYERS 7 . 61 
 
 Scriptures that Jacob deemed in his heart 
 but little better than a waste of time. 
 Naomi, however, was too good a wife to 
 be opposed in a plan against which no 
 plausible objection could be urged, espe 
 cially as Jacob had a point of his own to 
 carry before he left home again. 
 
 There was something peculiar in Mup- 
 pim's study of the Scriptures. Pew of the 
 Jews of our day care as much even for 
 the revered Old Testament as for their 
 own sacred writers of the Talmud. There 
 are a dozen who know the fables of that 
 composition of men, for one who is well 
 versed in the Old Testament history, the 
 soul-searching Psalms, or the sublime 
 prophesies of Isaiah. Muppim had caught 
 his mother's reverence for the inspired 
 word of God, and now he was spurred 
 on to its study by a new motive. 
 
 On the first moment of retirement that 
 was his, after the reception of the gift, he 
 6 
 
62 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 stood alone in his chamber, and solemnly 
 said, as he laid his hand on his book, 
 " Bring us back, our Father, to the ob 
 servance of thy law, and make us to adhere 
 to thy precepts ; and do thon, our 
 King, draw us near to thy worship, and 
 convert us to thee by perfect repentance 
 in thy presence. Blessed art thou, 
 Lord, who vouchsafest to receive us by re 
 pentance. 
 
 " Thou of thy mercy givest knowledge 
 unto men, and teachest them understand 
 ing ; give graciously unto me knowledge, 
 wisdom, and understanding. Blessed art 
 thou, Lord, who graciously givest 
 knowledge unto men." 
 
 These prayers Muppim spoke in the 
 Hebrew language, in which they were first 
 written and have been used for hundreds 
 of years, some say, since before the time 
 of our Saviour's appearance on earth. 
 The eighteen peculiarly precious prayers 
 
PURIM AT JACOB MYERS 7 . 63 
 
 of the Jews, of which these are two, Mup- 
 pim had heard at the Synagogue worship, 
 and three times a day he had said them 
 in private, yet he had never prayed in 
 those time-honored words before. He 
 had never so longed to understand God's 
 truth. 
 
IX. 
 
 -ITTLE by little Jacob Myers was 
 adding to his gains and enlarging 
 his business. He felt that in this coun 
 try there was nothing in the way of an 
 industrious man, and that even a Jew 
 might rise to great prosperity and influ 
 ence. Not that Jacob was particularly 
 ambitious for himself, his present way of 
 life suited him very well, but he had sons 
 coming forward, and it was of them and 
 of their future he frequently thought. 
 
 His mind often travelled on to the time 
 when the sign " Muppim and Huppirn 
 Myers" should grace one of the largest 
 establishments in the city, and the wealthy 
 owners have the respect and esteem of the 
 
 (64) 
 
THE OLD GENTLEMAN. 65 
 
 rich and poor. Jacob well knew that all 
 this could not be brought about without 
 much care, labor, and painstaking, and he 
 felt that he had latterly been losing time. 
 His boys were not preparing for the posi 
 tion he coveted for them. 
 
 Upon one thing Jacob was resolved. 
 Muppim and Huppim must learn to read 
 English, and know something more of 
 arithmetic than they had already learned 
 in the shop. 
 
 From Naomi he expected much opposi 
 tion to his new proposal, and he therefore 
 announced it to her as a matter already set 
 tled, merely saying that he should -spend 
 the Sundays, when he was necessarily at 
 home, in teaching his children to read 
 English, and he should like to have them 
 prepare themselves during the week, and 
 make as rapid progress as possible. 
 
 Naomi submitted, like a true wife, in 
 silence, but she inwardly trembled at the 
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66 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 temptation her children would be ex 
 posed to, in having the power to read all 
 the bad books which she had been told 
 were printed in English. She rejoiced 
 that the time was near when her twins, 
 according to the Jewish view, would be 
 of an age to account for their own ac 
 tions, for she sadly feared they would go 
 far astray. 
 
 Hard would it be for parents, if all the 
 sins of children under thirteen were to be 
 visited upon them. The holy Scriptures 
 even of the Old Testament give us anoth 
 er rule, " The soul that sinneth it shall 
 die." 
 
 Muppim received with joy his father's 
 announcement. He was eager for all 
 knowledge, and was just now particularly 
 anxious to be able to read English for a 
 private reason of his own. 
 
 Huppim, on the contrary, expressed his 
 pity for his father, if he expected to teach 
 
THE OLD GENTLEMAN. 67 
 
 him, and declared his belief that both 
 would give up in despair before many 
 weeks were over. 
 
 The brothers were busy with their 
 spelling-books, behind the counter, one 
 day, when an unexpected customer came in. 
 
 The boys started with pleasure. 
 
 " So you do know me I" said Mr. 
 Thayer. " Why haven't you been to look 
 me up ? Didn't you know I'd been sick ? 
 I've been almost a dead man, and neither 
 of you so much as came to see if I was alive ! 
 Don't you feel ashamed of yourselves ?" 
 
 " Not a bit of it. But I am sorry you 
 have been sick," said Huppim. 
 
 " I did not know where you lived. I 
 wondered what had become of you," said 
 Muppim. 
 
 " You sha'n't say that again. Here's 
 my address. John Thayer, there's the 
 street and number and all," said the old 
 gentleman, placing his card on the coun- 
 
68 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 ter. " Take it, Muppim, you are the 
 steadiest. My friend Huppirn, there, 
 wouldn't mind winding a fishing-line on 
 it, if he were in a hurry. Now, if I ever 
 go six months without stopping in here 
 again, you may conclude Fm sick, and 
 come to look after me. I have no boys 
 of my own, but if I am a bachelor I can 
 have my fancies. I like young faces, and 
 should have been mighty glad to see you 
 when I was shut up there by myself. I 
 found plenty to think about, though, and 
 may-be I'll tell you about that some other 
 time." 
 
 " I'll take care of the card, and not for 
 get what you say," said Muppim, as he 
 put the card away in his own little pock 
 et-book. 
 
 " What are you doing there ? That 
 don't look like Hebrew," said Mr. Thayer, 
 glancing at the spelling-book. 
 
 " We are learning to read English," 
 
THE OLD GENTLEMAN. 69 
 
 was Muppim's answer, and his tone proved 
 that he did not think it a disagreeable 
 announcement. 
 
 " The very thing ! Just what I was 
 wishing I" said Mr. Thayer, with surprise. 
 " Well, we are short-sighted mortals, actu 
 ally blind." 
 
 " Have you heard about Charlie Fay ?" 
 asked Muppim, reminded by Mr. Thayer's 
 last word, of his afflicted friend. 
 
 " What ! your curly-headed playfellow ? 
 No harm has corne to him, I hope." 
 
 " It was all my fault, after your telling me 
 cracking off the caps was dangerous fun," 
 began Muppim ; and then he went on to 
 tell the story of Charlie's accident, and 
 his patience under his sore trial. 
 
 " I must go and see him this very min 
 ute," said Mr. Thayer ; " I was to blame 
 to trust you boys with such things, just for 
 a whim, without more of a warning. Show 
 me where he lives, I'll go and see him !* 
 
70 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 Muppim pointed out the house, and was 
 about to enter with Mr. Thayer, but the old 
 gentleman stopped him, saying, u No, no, 
 Muppim 1 go back to your books ; Fll see 
 Charlie by myself. I don't care to have 
 you see an old fellow like me make him 
 self foolish. Why, the idea of that fine 
 little chap's losing his eyes makes a baby 
 of me." 
 
 Mr. Thayer's knock was answered by 
 Mrs. Fay. 
 
 " I want to see Charlie Fay all alone," 
 said Mr. Thayer, quickly. 
 
 " You can do so, sir, if you will walk 
 up stairs," said Mrs. Fay, leading the way 
 to her humble apartments. 
 
 " Charlie, there is a gentleman here 
 who wishes to see you," said the mother, 
 as she opened the door. 
 
 Charlie was sitting at a small table, 
 busily tracing with his fingers the em 
 bossed patterns on some papers from the 
 
THE OLD GENTLEMAN. 71 
 
 wrappings to linen. As his eyes were 
 cast down, his was as noble a young head 
 as one would wish to see. He involun 
 tarily raised his lashes at the entrance of 
 a stranger, but it was to realize no change 
 in his darkness. 
 
 " Charlie, my boy, do you remember 
 Mr. Thayer ?" said the old gentleman. 
 
 Charlie could not forget that name ; it 
 was too deeply associated with his misfor 
 tune. 
 
 " Yes, sir, I remember you," he quietly 
 answered. " You used to stop often to 
 buy of Mrs. Myers, and talk to the boys." 
 
 " Charlie," said Mr. Thayer, very ten 
 derly, " Charlie, I would rather have lost 
 these old eyes, than have been the means 
 of having this happen to you. I have a 
 great deal to account for in my life. I 
 have had enough to think about on my 
 sick-bed, but I did not know I had this 
 to lie at my door, for my foolishness." 
 
72 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 " Don't blame yourself, sir. My misfor 
 tune was sent to me by my Heavenly Fa 
 ther, and I believe He meant it for my 
 good/ 7 said Charlie. " You could not 
 know what Muppim would do with the 
 caps. I believe it is going to turn out 
 for the good of us all. Muppim and 
 Huppim have been a great deal to see me. 
 They are very kind. Oh, sir, I do wish 
 they were Christians!' 7 
 
 " And so do 1 1" said Mr. Thayer, tak 
 ing Charlie's hand, quickly ; " I thought 
 of that on my sick-bed. My boy, I 
 thought of a great deal I had forgotten 
 all my life. You ought to be thankful 
 that you have found your Heavenly Fa 
 ther in your youth. Thanks be unto Him, 
 He receives the old when they repent, but 
 He cannot make them forget the past." 
 
 " Yet He forgives all the past, so we 
 need not think about it/ 7 said Charlie. 
 
 " No ! That is true. And I mean to 
 
THE OLD GENTLEMAN. 73 
 
 keep so busy that I shall have no time to 
 dwell on what I ought to have done long 
 ago. About Muppim arid Huppim I felt 
 quite desperate, but here, as soon as I 
 get about, I find them learning English ; 
 then what is to prevent their studying the 
 Bible, and being made true Christians 1" 
 
 " That is what I pray for every day, 
 and I think it will be so," said Charlie, 
 cheerfully. " Muppim won't talk to me 
 any more even about the Old Testament, 
 but I know he reads it every day, and 
 that is the best thing, just now. Mother 
 says he could not do better than read the 
 Old Testament faithfully, and then he will 
 be more sure to see that our Saviour is the 
 real Messiah." 
 
 Mr. Thayer looked at Charlie's young 
 face, so full of interest for his friends, and 
 felt the beauty of the early love of the 
 truth, before the world and its cares have 
 left but half a heart to be given to God. 
 7 
 
74 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 " We will not give up our little Jews," 
 said Mr. Thayer ; " but, Charlie, I want 
 to do something for you. Is there no 
 way in which I can oblige you ?" 
 
 " I am used to living plainly, and we 
 have every comfort/ 7 said Charlie, " and 
 my own dear mother nobody could be 
 sweeter and kinder than she is. Thank 
 you, Mr. Thayer, I do not need anything 
 but more patience and cheerfulness, and 
 my Best Friend will give them, if I ask 
 Him, and try myself. 77 
 
 " Charlie, I want to see more of }'ou ; 
 may I come again and sit awhile with you 
 to-morrow ? 77 said Mr. Thayer. He felt 
 that as he was now in the heavenly path, 
 he might learn much from this dear child 
 of God. 
 
 " Do come, I like to have company, 77 
 said Charlie; " and I am so glad that you 
 are interested about Muppim and Huppim, 
 interested, I mean, as I am. 77 
 
THE OLD GENTLEMAN. 75 
 
 " Charlie," said Mr. Thayer, taking 
 both the blind boy's hands in his own, 
 " Charlie, I want everybody to feel as I 
 do. God has forgiven me, wlien I so lit 
 tle deserve it, and I want every one to 
 turn to Him, and find how full of love 
 and mercy He is." 
 
 " How I love to hear you say so !" said 
 Charlie. " Something pleasant seems to 
 be happening for me all the while, now 
 that I am blind." 
 
 As Mr. Thayer walked away .from that 
 humble home, he felt more than ever the 
 power and beauty of the Christian relig 
 ion. Charlie Fay had early begun to 
 walk in wisdom's ways of " pleasantness," 
 or he would not have found cause for 
 thankfulness as he sat in his darkness, cut 
 off from all the pleasures of boyhood. 
 
X. 
 
 THAYER had been an active, 
 successful merchant. Through his 
 long life he had done heartily whatever 
 he had undertaken. He was not now 
 going to make a listless, do-nothing Chris 
 tian, if there are any such who deserve 
 the name of Christians. Mr. Thayer 
 meant to work, and work heartily in his 
 Master's service. 
 
 Before he slept, after his interview with 
 Charlie Fay, he had hit upon a plan for 
 his daily amusement and improvement. 
 
 The next morning Mr. Thayer's cane 
 sounded on the wide stone walk that led 
 up to the door of the Blind Asylum, in 
 his native city. Before many hours were 
 
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THE REWARD-CARD. 77 
 
 over, he had gone through the Institu 
 tion, and engaged a place for a new pupil. 
 Who that pupil was to be, will readily 
 be guessed. 
 
 Charlie's face lighted up with a perfect 
 glow of pleasure when the plan was pro 
 posed to him, but the glow faded away, as 
 he said, " I know where the Asylum is I 
 have often passed it. It is too far for 
 mother to walk every day, and I cannot 
 go alone." 
 
 Mr. Thayer looked puzzled for a mo 
 ment, and then he answered, " We will see 
 what Muppira and Huppim will say about 
 that." 
 
 Muppim, Huppim, and Naomi were all 
 of one mind upon the subject The twins 
 could well be spared to go with Charlie 
 to school, and call for him at noon when 
 the study hours were over. His work he 
 could do at home. Yes " work." He 
 was to be taught how to make baskets 
 7* 
 
78 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 and mats, to knit and to crochet, as well 
 as to read with his fingers 7 ends. 
 
 A new life now opened before Charlie 
 Fay. Every morning he had a walk in the 
 fresh air with his two friends, and daily 
 they learned more of his patient, cheerful 
 spirit. 
 
 Muppim thought how discontent would 
 have crept over him, if he had been tried 
 with the loss of his precious sight ; and 
 Huppim felt sure he, in like circumstances, 
 would have given up in despair. 
 
 The twins had never thought of being 
 grateful for the common blessings of life, 
 health and strength, food and clothing, 
 but Charlie seemed welling over with grat 
 itude for the many comforts and sources 
 of pleasure still left to him. 
 
 Muppim had ceased to talk with Char 
 lie of religion, but he could not fail to 
 notice the sweet joyousness of this dear 
 follower of Jesus, and in the young Jew 
 
THE REWARD-CARD. 79 
 
 there was an increasing questioning inter 
 est as to the possible truth of the Chris 
 tian's faith. This had spurred him on to 
 a faithful study of the Old Testament ; 
 for this he now longed to read the New. 
 Yet he thought, and studied, and prayed 
 in silence. Not even his twin brother, or 
 his tender, loving mother guessed the 
 thoughts that were agitating his mind. 
 But there was one more loving than a 
 mother, more faithful than a brother, who 
 was watching with tender interest the 
 workings of Muppim's heart, and yearn 
 ing for this child of Israel to turn unto Him. 
 Charlie had been a week at the Blind 
 Asylum, when he received a card of re 
 ward for good behavior. A perfect 
 treasure this card was for him, for it was 
 printed with the letters raised, so that he 
 could feel them as he slowly passed his 
 fingers over them, and so practise his new 
 wav of learning to read. 
 
80 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 Charlie, of course, had made but little 
 progress as yet, in this method of reading. 
 Like most boys, he had put his hands 
 through a hardening process in his plays, 
 not to speak of the work he had done in 
 his anxiety to assist his mother. But for 
 the time he had spent in his darkened 
 room, his fingers would have been stiff 
 and clumsy enough, and even now they 
 would need much and thorough training 
 before they would serve him instead of 
 eyes. 
 
 To the twins Charlie's card was a real 
 curiosity. They had never heard of the 
 way of teaching the blind to read, by 
 using raised letters, and they were full of ' 
 wonder and interest about it. 
 
 " Let me try," said Huppim, stopping 
 in the street to pass his horny fingers' 
 ends along the page. 
 
 "I should never learn to read that 
 way, 77 he said with a laugh. " I can only 
 
THE REWARD-CARD. 81 
 
 feel a little roughness, and no shape of 
 the letters at all." 
 
 Muppim, of course, tried the experi 
 ment too, and with no better success. 
 
 " Perhaps you could not read it, even 
 by looking at it," said Charlie. " I don't 
 know what it says myself. The teacher 
 wouldn't tell me ; he wanted me to find 
 out. You boys can read it, and then you 
 can see how I make out" 
 
 Muppim forthwith went through a 
 great deal of spelling, as he walked slow 
 ly along, but as he had only been at his 
 English studies three weeks, he made 
 a poor hand at deciphering it. 
 
 " I'll get mother to read it to you," said 
 Charlie, " and then you can try me every 
 day, and see how I get on." 
 
 Mrs. Fay was glad to hear the boys 
 talking so cheerfully as they came up the 
 stairs. She readily promised to give the 
 secret of the card to the young Jews, 
 
82 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 while Charlie stopped on the landing, 
 and put his fingers into his ears lest 
 he should hear more than was fair, under 
 the circumstances: The words on the 
 card were very familiar to Mrs. Pay she 
 needed but a glance to be able to speak 
 them all ; yet Muppim and Huppim listen 
 ed again and again, as she went over with 
 them, that they might catch at least a 
 single sentence and keep it in memory. 
 
 " Our Father who art in Heaven," she 
 began, and so through the Lord's prayer 
 she went, while the Jews followed, little 
 thinking that they were speaking the 
 words of Jesus. Yet, there was a charm 
 to Muppim in that prayer. Huppim had 
 remembered but the mere beginning of it. 
 That, he said, would be enough for the 
 present ; he could learn more when Char 
 lie was able to make out the first sentence. 
 When Muppirn's hour of evening prayer 
 came, " Our Father who art in Heaven 7 ' 
 
THE REWARD-CARD. 83 
 
 was suggested to his mind, and lie went 
 on till he came to " forgive us our tres 
 passes as we forgive those who trespass 
 against us." The idea and the words 
 were puzzling to him ; here he stopped. 
 
 Muppim could not be content to half 
 learn anything. He was not satisfied un 
 til Mrs. Fay had read to him what was 
 on the card, again and again, and he was 
 able to repeat the very words. Charlie, 
 meanwhile, spent many a minute passing 
 his fingers over the letters, as yet, in 
 vain. The time was not lost ; Mup 
 pim was taking home the words to his 
 heart. "We cannot say that he prayed in 
 them, but when he stood at his prayers, 
 they came into his mind, and he began, as 
 a habit, to try himself upon them when 
 he had finished his own petitions. 
 
 Jesus, who " saw Jerusalem and wept 
 over it," does not forget his own nation 
 now ; gladly does he welcome each sign 
 
84: THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 that a Jew is turning his face towards the 
 true Canaan, and is preparing to acknowl 
 edge Zion's King. 
 
 When we pray for the Jews, when we 
 labor to lead them to Christ, we are 
 sharing His spirit who would have saved 
 them from destruction, "but they would 
 not,' 7 and who, even now, " waiteth to be 
 gracious" to His " own brethren according 
 to the flesh," as well as to the multitude 
 of the Gentiles. 
 
XL 
 
 PAY was surprised one 
 ^J' morning by an early visit from Hup- 
 pim. " I have brought you a present, 
 Charlie," said the young Jew : " here is 
 one of mother's good loaf-cakes ; she sent 
 it to you with her love.'* 7 
 
 " Thank you, twenty times," said Char 
 lie, feeling the weight of the cake with 
 his hands ; "but had not we boys better 
 halve it ? A part of it would last mother 
 and me ever so long." 
 
 11 Not a morsel of it can we have on our 
 premises : why, it is raised cake, and to 
 night father is to search the house to see 
 that there is not a bit of leaven in it. 
 Mother don't want him to find so much as 
 8 (85) 
 
86 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 a crumb of leavened bread to cast out," 
 said Huppim. 
 
 " What, has the Passover come so soon ? 
 It don't seem to me as if it was a month 
 since Purim," said Charlie, who had be 
 come familiar with the seasons for cele 
 brating the Jewish feasts. 
 
 " But it is, though/ 7 said Huppim ; " to 
 morrow is the fourteenth day of the first 
 month, and of course we are to keep the 
 Passover. Oh ! I forgot ; here's the 
 spring-beer mother sent you and Mrs. Pay, 
 the last bottle of that, too ; she says it 
 is strengthening, and you know we don't 
 have anything of that kind in our house 
 at Passover time." 
 
 Charlie thought of the Saviour's com 
 mand to put away all the leaven of evil 
 out of the heart, and wondered when his 
 dear Jewish friends would understand the 
 spiritual meaning of the ceremonies they 
 observed so carefully. He contented him- 
 
THE PASSOVER. 87 
 
 self with a prayer for them, without any 
 attempt to teach them, at that time, the 
 true way. He knew that at present any 
 direct efforts on his part would prevent 
 his young friends from visiting him any 
 more, and so deprive him of all possi 
 bility of influencing them : he must watch, 
 and pray, and wait, and in the Lord's 
 good time, he doubted not, they would be 
 brought to the knowledge of Jesus. 
 
 Charlie Fay meant to keep the Pass 
 over with his friends, in his own way ; 
 he got his mother to read over to him the 
 eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth chapters 
 of Exodus, where the account is given of 
 the origin of this great feast of the Jews. 
 
 The Passover is kept in memory of the 
 time when the angel of the Lord passed 
 over the houses of the Israelites when he 
 slew the first-born in every house of the 
 Egyptians. At that time the Lord com 
 manded His people to keep the Passover 
 
88 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 forever, and told them that this time should 
 be to them the beginning of months, the 
 first month in the year. Even now, the 
 month of the Passover is to the Jews the 
 beginning of their religious year, though 
 it is in our spring. 
 
 This year the Passover came in April. 
 It was Nisan or Abib with the Jews, but 
 April to all Christians. When Charlie 
 heard the account of the sacrifice of the 
 lamb in the Passover, he wondered whether 
 his friends would offer up a lamb, and was 
 surprised to think he had never looked to 
 see if there was blood on their door-posts 
 at the Passover time. Through all the 
 day Charlie was dwelling upon the Pass 
 over time as it is described in Scripture. 
 His mother read to him how Jesus kept 
 the feast with His disciples, and then how 
 He HirnseU' suffered on the cross, to be the 
 true Lamb slain for our sins, that we might 
 have free forgiveness. 
 
THE PASSOVER. 89 
 
 Meanwhile, preparations were going on 
 at Jacob Myers' for the proper ceremonies 
 of the evening ; not a member of the 
 family had eaten a mouthful, excepting 
 little Ard, who had been as industrious 
 in that way as usual. 
 
 The rest of the household had joined in 
 the prayers of the synagogue, Jacob and 
 Huppim with their lips alone, but Naomi 
 and Muppim with their hearts as well as 
 their mouths. When evening was come, 
 three plates were set upon the table; one 
 plate contained three Passover cakes, look 
 ing very much like large, hard sea-biscuit. 
 These cakes had been made up quickly, 
 without yeast or leaven of any kind ; the 
 three cakes were carefully laid one above 
 another, in a napkin. 
 
 The second plate had in it horse-radish 
 and bitter herbs. The third plate con 
 tained a small bone of lamb and a roasted 
 
 egg- 
 
 8* 
 
90 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 Besides the three plates, there were two 
 dishes, one of which was filled with vine 
 gar and salt, and the other with a mixture 
 somewhat like lime. There was a wine 
 glass for each member of the family. 
 
 Several Hebrew blessings were repeat 
 ed, then the first cup of wine was drunk. 
 
 Jacob then dipped some of the bitter 
 herbs in the vinegar, and gave a small 
 portion to his wife and to each of the 
 boys. After that, he broke the middle one 
 of the three cakes, and hid away half of 
 it until after supper. 
 
 Then all the family put their hands 
 upon the dishes containing the Passover 
 cakes and the bitter herbs and said, " Lo, 
 this is the bread of affliction, which our 
 fathers ate in the land of Egypt ; let all 
 those who are hungry come and eat there 
 of, and all who are needy come and cele 
 brate our Passover. At this time we are 
 here ; next year we hope to be in the land 
 
THE PASSOVER. 91 
 
 of Israel : now we are servants ; next 
 year we hope to be free children. 77 
 
 Muppim and Huppim then asked, 
 " Wherefore is this night distinguished 
 from all other nights ?" 
 
 To which their parents replied, " Be 
 cause we were slaves unto Pharaoh in 
 Egypt, and the Lord our God brought us 
 out from thence, with a mighty hand and 
 a stretched out arm." 
 
 Jacob then read the account of the 
 wonders God wrought for His people of 
 Israel, and the mother and children made 
 answer from time to time on the same 
 subject. 
 
 To each a piece of the unleavened bread 
 was then given, and some of the bitter 
 herbs, dipped in the mixture like lime, 
 was eaten by all. 
 
 Then followed the setting of various 
 good things on the table. Ard was help 
 ed up to his high-chair, and made up, by 
 
92 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 his merry ways, for his quiet behavior 
 during the service just performed. 
 
 There was but a small family at the 
 feast, but it seemed a happy one, and as 
 Naomi looked about her, she wondered if 
 there were in all the country three as prom 
 ising boys as her own. 
 
 The family feast being over, Jacob 
 poured out two cups of wine ; one of them 
 Jacob took, arid then said solemnly, " 
 Most Merciful ! make us to inherit the day 
 when all shall be Sabbath, and we shall 
 rest in life forever. Most Merciful ! 
 make us worthy to see the days of the 
 Messiah, and life in the world to come." 
 
 Other words of like kind followed, and 
 then Jacob gave the cup to each of the 
 family, and to each a piece of the hidden 
 unleavened bread, which he had before 
 taken from the table.* 
 
 The second cup of wine, called by the 
 
 * Read carefully St. Luke xxii, 19, 20. 
 
THE PASSOVER. 93 
 
 Jews Elijah's cup, " the cup after supper," 
 he then placed before him ; the boys 
 opened the door, and there was a time of 
 silence and solemn expectation. All look 
 ed eagerly out, hoping to see Elijah enter 
 ing to announce that the true Messiah 
 was coming. No old prophet rose from 
 the dead to tell them that the Messiah, the 
 Saviour of the world, had already come 
 and had been crucified ; but as the Jewish 
 family sat there in solemn silence, a sound 
 of music floated in through the open door; 
 Charlie Fay's sweet voice was heard 
 in the hymn 
 
 " Come, let us sing of Jesus, 
 
 While hearts and accents blend ; 
 Come, let us sing of Jesus, 
 The sinner's only Friend." 
 
 To Muppim, this seemed like a message 
 from heaven. Was not this Jesus, whom 
 Charlie Pay so loved, the Messiah ? The- 
 
91 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 question sank deep into the heart of the 
 young Jew. 
 
 Charlie Pay was but singing his even 
 ing hymn, after his happy day of drawing 
 near to his Lord. He had felt more than 
 ever the blessedness of knowing Him who 
 is the only sacrifice for sin, and the true 
 Lamb of the Passover. 
 
 When this hymn was over, Charlie 
 knelt down for his evening prayers ; not 
 for himself alone he prayed, but for his 
 dear friends, and particularly for all the 
 Jews, who were then keeping the Passover 
 in darkness and unbelief. 
 
 Meanwhile, Jacob Myers' family were 
 closing their solemn feast by singing an 
 ancient hymn, beginning, " Lord, build 
 Thy temple speedily." 
 
 Even as these words were in his ears, 
 Muppim, in his heart, was repeating, 
 " Come, let us sing of Jesus," and longing 
 
THE PASSOVER. 95 
 
 to know more of that Jesus, of whom 
 Charlie Fay was a follower. 
 
 Charlie Fay had not argued with his 
 Jewish friends, but he had been doing 
 more for his religion ; Charlie had been 
 showing forth cheerfulness in affliction, 
 and an unselfish, lovely spirit, which they 
 could not but admire. The thoughtful 
 Muppim was beginning to question what 
 could be the power that so sustained 
 Charlie in his time of trial, and made him 
 so gentle and kindly in daily life. 
 
 Ah ! faithful living is a safe kind of 
 teaching. Children may go astray when 
 they strive to give advice ; but a single 
 mild, forgiving, truthful, obedient Chris 
 tian child is doing much for the religion 
 of Jesus. She is a true missionary to all 
 her companions, and many will wish to 
 follow her Lord. 
 
 If all Christians were such as they 
 should be, then would the Jews be forced 
 
96 THE JEWISH TWIXS. 
 
 to say, The Messiah must have come ; for 
 behold, here is a people who walk in God's 
 laws and keep His commandments better 
 than we ; they must have been taught by 
 the Son of David ; their Lord must be the 
 King of the Jews 1 
 
XII. 
 
 'UPPIM and Huppim were now 
 thirteen years of age, and with the 
 usual ceremonies, they had taken their 
 position as full worshippers at the syna 
 gogue, and according to Jewish - belief 
 were persons accountable for their own 
 lives. 
 
 Huppim felt very proud on the occa 
 sion ; he seemed to think himself now a 
 man, and of course much wiser than any 
 woman. It was quite amusing to see the 
 important air of the young Jew, puffed up 
 with his new dignity. If Huppim had 
 had a better knowledge of his own heart, 
 he would have seen more cause for humil 
 ity than for prido in his present position. 
 9 (97) 
 
98 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 To be accountable for one's own sins Is 
 certainly an awful, solemn thought ; yet 
 this is true of every one of us ! 
 
 Muppim, meanwhile, had a secret cause 
 of anxiety that made him more thoughtful 
 than ever. One question had taken deep 
 hold of his mind, " What if the religion 
 of the Christian should be true, and 
 Messiah be already come ?". 
 
 How he longed to talk with Charlie 
 about . the subject that was ever in his 
 mind ! Yet the days went by, and Mup 
 pim pored over his Hebrew Bible in 
 silence, and kept his sorrow in his own 
 heart. 
 
 " I want Huppim to take care of Ard. 
 and to be in the shop this morning," said 
 Naomi, one day. " I have work to do ; so, 
 Muppim, you must go alone with Charlie 
 Fay to school.' 7 
 
 Huppim did not care to lose his walk t 
 but Naomi knew which of the boys to 
 
BEGINNINGS. 99 
 
 choose on such an occasion ; for Hnppim 
 was far more ready to give up his own 
 will and pleasure for others, than was his 
 brother. 
 
 Huppim made no great effort about such 
 matters, it is true, but he had a careless, 
 joyous spirit, that made him quite indiffer 
 ent as to where or how he spent his time. 
 He could be as happy frolicking with Ard, 
 as taking the fresh air with Charlie Fay. 
 As Muppim started off with Charlie, the 
 thought passed through his mind that now 
 he had an opportunity to talk over the 
 subject upon which he had of late so fre 
 quently dwelt ; but how to begin, he did 
 not know. 
 
 Charlie was in excellent spirits. Hav 
 ing become in a measure accustomed to 
 his blindness, his natural joyousness had 
 returned to him, and he almost skipped 
 along, holding fast to Muppim's hand as 
 he went, and talking as cheerfully as in 
 
100 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 the good old days when they were little 
 children together. 
 
 " I say, Muppim, did you know I had 
 found out what was on the card ?" said 
 Charlie, giving his companion's arm a 
 suggestive pull. Muppim had been rather 
 absent-minded, and had left Charlie to do 
 the most of the talking. 
 
 " Have you ?" said Muppim, with sud 
 den interest. 
 
 " Yes, I knew the first, and then the 
 P., and after thinking a while, I guessed 
 it! i Our Father 7 came right into my 
 mind, and then of course it was easy to 
 tell all the rest," said Charlie. 
 
 " Do you know all the prayer ?" asked 
 Muppim. 
 
 " Of course I do I" said Charlie, with 
 surprise. " I used to say it when I couldn't 
 speak plain. I didn't know what it meant 
 then, but I love it dearly now." 
 
 " I like it, too," said Muppim, quietly. 
 
BEGINNINGS. 101 
 
 A thrill of joy passed through Charlie's 
 heart. " And you say it, too, sometimes 
 you really pray it ?" questioned the blind 
 boy. How he wished he could see Mup- 
 pim's face at that moment ! 
 
 " I do,' 7 was Muppim's only answer. 
 
 " It is the prayer our dear Lord Jesus 
 gave to His disciples f said Charlie, boldly ; 
 and as he spoke he inwardly sent up a 
 petition that the Giver of the prayer would 
 bless the words to his young companion. 
 
 If Charlie had seen Muppim's face then, 
 he would have been astonished at the 
 strong feeling it displayed. 
 
 Now Muppim knew, for the first time, 
 that the prayer which had become a part 
 of his daily devotions, had first come from 
 the lips of that Jesus of whom he had 
 lately thought so much. 
 
 Muppim had been taught that the King 
 of the Jews was yet to come, and that 
 Jesus had only pretended to that h'onor. 
 9* 
 
102 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 Now he felt afraid he had been doing 
 wrong in even speaking words that Jesus 
 had given to His disciples. 
 
 Muppim continued silent until they 
 reached the Blind Asylum, and Charlie 
 did not interrupt his meditations. Charlie 
 realized that they had an unseen com 
 panion on their walk, with whom he could 
 hold communion without spoken words ; 
 and to that companion he prayed most 
 earnestly for Muppim, even as they trod 
 together the busy streets of the city. 
 
 When Muppim found himself alone, he 
 gave himself up entirely to his own re 
 flections. 
 
 He recalled the conversation he had 
 had with Naomi on the day when he was 
 thirteen. The mother had spoken most 
 solemnly to her sons on the obligations 
 now to rest upon them. She had told 
 them that they were called to serve a holy 
 and just God, to whom they must one day 
 
BEGINNINGS. 103 
 
 give an account, and had urged upon them 
 to keep the whole law, and to walk in the 
 way of God's commandments. 
 
 The thought came home to Muppim's 
 rnind with power, that he was living in a 
 Christian country, and had an opportunity 
 to know all of the religion of Jesus ; what 
 excuse then could he give, if that religion 
 were true, and he had not examined it ? 
 Muppim was deep in these meditations, 
 when he ran against a stout gentleman, 
 who seemed purposely to put himself in 
 the boy's way. 
 
 " So ! so ! Muppim, what's the matter ?" 
 said the friendly voice of Mr. Thayer. 
 " It won't do to be in such a brown study 
 in the public streets. Every body might 
 not take being run over as patiently as I 
 do ; though to be sure, I did try to see 
 whether you would turn out for me. Mup 
 pim, I was just going to see you." 
 
 " To see me !"said Muppim,with surprise. 
 
104 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 " Yes," said Mr. Thayer, hesitating 
 slightly. " Now you are learning to read 
 English, I have a book for you, the best 
 book printed in the English language, or 
 any other. I have had it for you some 
 time, but I wanted to look it over first 
 myself, for a reason I had. I have marked 
 some passages that I think will interest 
 you particularly." 
 
 " Thank you ! thank you ! You are 
 very kind/' said Muppim, taking the parcel 
 in his hands. It was tied up with a string, 
 and lie did not open it as long as Mr. 
 Thayer walked at his side. 
 
 The old gentleman soon parted with his 
 young friend, and then Muppim's busy 
 lingers untied the knot. 
 
 He started, as he read the title-page, 
 " Holy Bible." Could Mr. Thayer have 
 guessed the thoughts that had lately agi 
 tated his mind ? Should he read the 
 book ? "I will at least compare these 
 
BEGINNINGS. 105 
 
 Scriptures with ours/' said Muppim to 
 himself; and with this resolution fully 
 formed, Muppim glanced at a Psalm or 
 two, and then returned the book to its 
 wrapper. 
 
 u What have you got there ?" said Hup- 
 pirn, his observing eyes noting the parcel 
 as soon as Muppim entered the shop. 
 
 Muppim did not condescend to reply, 
 but walked straight on to the upper room. 
 Huppim gave a low whistle, which Ard 
 forthwith proceeded to imitate, and Hup- 
 pirn's vexation went off in a laugh at 
 Ard's unsuccessful experiment. 
 
 Muppim was by no means the courteous, 
 kindly person he should have been at 
 home. Ard knew when Muppim was in 
 a mood to be let alone, and even Naomi 
 felt at times afraid to intrude upon Mup- 
 pim's silence. 
 
 Huppim often wished in his heart that 
 his brother was more like Charlie Fay, 
 
106 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 and wondered what made such a differ 
 ence between them. That evening Mup- 
 pim seemed in a particularly bad humor. 
 He had not had a moment he could call 
 his own all day, and the book he so 
 longed to examine was still hidden in his 
 drawer, and tied up in its wrapper. There 
 had been errands to do in distant parts 
 of the city, and customers to be waited 
 on in the shop, until Muppim's small store 
 of patience was quite exhausted. 
 
 Ard was perched up at the little table 
 in the family room, and was striking two 
 old chair slats together to his great delight. 
 
 "Don't, Ard. You make my head 
 ache !" exclaimed Muppim, sharply. 
 
 " Bye-bye !" said Ard, folding the two 
 sticks to his bosom, and seeming to hush 
 a baby to sleep. 
 
 Huppirn laughed, and Muppim said, an 
 grily, " Mother, I wish you would keep 
 the boys still. They make my head ache !" 
 
BEGINNINGS. 107 
 
 " One boy is such a little fellow, I think 
 you will have to excuse him," said Naomi, 
 gently. u You had better go to bed, my 
 son, if your head feels so badly." 
 
 " I am thirteen ! too old to be sent to 
 bed like a baby !" said Muppim, quickly. 
 
 " Not too old to honor your mother," 
 said Naomi, reproachfully. 
 
 Muppim lighted a candle and walked 
 up to his own room. He knew that no 
 one would follow him when he was in 
 such a mood, and that he was sure of a 
 few moments of solitude. He opened Mr. 
 Thayer's present. His eyes fell on the 
 few words, " Love as brethren ; be pitiful, 
 be courteous.' 1 
 
 He turned eagerly to see if they were 
 in the Old Testament, and tried to per 
 suade himself that they did not rebuke 
 him, since they were in the New. 
 
 Muppim really loved his mother and his 
 brothers ; he did not understand why he 
 
108 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 had spoken to them so roughly. His 
 head really did ache. It was in vain for 
 him to try to read, the letters swam before 
 his eyes. 
 
 He felt dizzy and sick, and would have 
 gladly called some one to help him un 
 dress, but he was too proud to ask a favor 
 now of the dear friends from whom he 
 had so rudely parted. Miserable in body 
 and mind, poor Muppim lay down on his 
 bed, but not to sleep. 
 
XIII. 
 
 came with its warm sun- 
 light, and the great city was awake, 
 and all was stir and activity. In Muppim's 
 room there was darkness and stillness. A 
 heavy shawl was hung before the small 
 window to shut out the light that seemed 
 to him to glare so painfully, even through 
 the tiny cracks and crevices left uncovered. 
 
 The rattling of the carts on the pave 
 ment was cruel torture to his aching head ; 
 the very air seemed to burn his brow 
 rather than to cool it. 
 
 Naomi sat silently at the bedside. She 
 
 had never known before what it was to 
 
 see a child of hers sick and suffering. 
 
 How she wished that Jacob was at hand 
 
 10 (109) 
 
110 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 to tell what to do ! She felt helpless and 
 inexperienced, and full of fear. 
 
 There was nothing to reassure Mup- 
 pim's anxious eyes in her sad, troubled 
 countenance. 
 
 He was very ill then, as he suspected ; 
 surely, such pains, such sickness could not 
 be common. Muppim trembled at the 
 thought of possible death near at hand. 
 
 The physician came, but only to pre 
 scribe some remedies, and add his solemn 
 looks to the evidence Muppim already had 
 of his condition. 
 
 Then came days of suffering and nights 
 of pain. Naomi's face grew paler and 
 more anxious. Jacob was at hand to lift 
 the sickboy, and to give his help in the 
 long watching in the quiet room. 
 
 Huppim by turns tried to keep Ard 
 still, and then joined with him in his romps, 
 stopping with a sudden consciousness that 
 this ,was no time for play. To Hup- 
 
THE SICK-ROOM. Ill 
 
 pirn, the world seemed all changed. He 
 missed his brother every hour, and wished 
 he could be allowed to see him now and 
 then, and do something for him instead of 
 standing behind the counter, or trying to 
 keep Ard cool and pleasant. 
 
 There was a new face in Naomi's family 
 room, and gentle hands were bathing 
 Muppim's hot forehead, and giving him 
 cooling drinks. Naomi was quite worn 
 out. She could bear up no longer, and 
 Mrs. Pay had insisted upon taking her 
 place, for a few hours at least, that she 
 might have a good quiet rest. That was 
 not the first act of kindness Naomi had 
 experienced from her Christian neighbors, 
 in this time of trial. 
 
 Naomi had but few friends of her own 
 nation, none with whom she had been inti 
 mate. There was no one who loved her 
 well enough to go to a house where a per 
 son was ill with a malignant fever ; no one 
 
112 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 cared to peril life for the sake of the poor 
 sick boy and his weary mother. 
 
 Mrs. Fay needed no urging to bring 
 her to Naomi's side. Muppim was dear 
 for his own sake, and Mrs. Fay wanted to 
 be with him, and Charlie would not let 
 her rest at home. He was sure no one 
 could nurse Muppim so gently as his own 
 mother, with her light, loving touch. 
 
 Mrs. Fay's foot had been on the stair 
 way, and her hand upon Muppim's door 
 many a time since his illness, and Hup- 
 pim's spirits had been kept up by many a 
 talk with Charlie Fay. 
 
 Mrs. Fay was sitting at Muppim's side 
 when he suddenly opened his eyes, and 
 looked about him in his right mind. 
 
 " Mother ! where's mother ?" said the 
 sick boy, in a faint tone. 
 
 Naomi was called, and she bent tender 
 ly down beside her child, while Mrs. Fay 
 quietly withdrew. 
 
THE SICK-ROOM. 113 
 
 " Mother, am I going to die ?" said 
 Muppira, looking directly into her face, as 
 he spoke. 
 
 Naomi's tears dropped thick and fast, 
 but she made no reply. 
 
 " Am I going to die ?" repeated Mup- 
 pim, still more earnestly. 
 
 " I hope not!" was all Naomi answered, 
 but her suppressed sobs told how much 
 stronger were her fears than her hopes. 
 
 " Can't you comfort me, mother ? I am 
 terribly afraid," said Muppim, piteously. 
 Naomi was silent. What did she know 
 of the world beyond the grave? God, 
 she was sure, was holy and just ; her son 
 had sinned, had broken the fifth Com 
 mandment on the very eve of his sickness. 
 " God is just, my son," was the mother's 
 tardy answer. 
 
 Muppim groaned and turned away. 
 
 He saw himself as he had never seen 
 himself before. " God is just !" Those 
 10* 
 
THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 were words of terror to a selfish, wilful 
 boy, who had openly transgressed, times 
 without number. 
 
 " God is just I" the words were fixed in 
 Muppim's mind, like the nail driven home 
 by a strong hand. 
 
 With the remembrances of the sins of 
 his youth, there mingled a new feature of 
 terror. The vision of a crucified one 
 hanging in agony on a cross, was before 
 his eyes. This Jesus, this sufferer might 
 be the true Messiah, then what would be 
 the punishment of the Jew who had only 
 spoken his name in scorn ! 
 
 Muppim lay long in bitter, anxious 
 thought. At length lie said, " Mother, I 
 want to see Charlie Fay." 
 
 Charlie needed no second invitation to 
 call him to his sick friend. " Dear Char 
 lie," said Muppim, who felt in that hour 
 of trial how precious his blind friend was 
 to his heart. 
 
THE SICK-ROOM. 115 
 
 Charlie kissed the sufferer, and said 
 cheerfully, " I am so glad to be near you 
 once more, Muppim I" 
 
 " You won't have me long," said Mup 
 pim, bitterly. " I am going to die ! I am 
 horribly afraid, Charlie ; can you comfort 
 me?" 
 
 " Why are you afraid, Muppim ?" said 
 Charlie, tenderly. 
 
 " God is just !" groaned the poor boy, 
 in his distress. 
 
 " Yes, we all deserve punishment, but 
 because Jesus suffered for us, God will 
 forgive us and make us happy forever, if 
 we are sorry for our sins and trust in 
 Christ Jesus." 
 
 " But I have not trusted in him ; I have 
 hated to hear his name," said Muppim, 
 despairingly. 
 
 " He will forgive you gladly. He 
 prayed for the very men who nailed him 
 to the cross, ' Father, forgive them, they 
 
116 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 know not what they do I' You are not 
 worse than they were. You have not 
 known what you were doing." 
 
 " But I might have known," urged 
 Muppira. 
 
 " Jesus will forgive you ; now, will you 
 let me ask him ?" 
 
 " I do not know as it is right," said poor 
 Muppim, and even as he spoke, his mind 
 wandered, and he began to talk of the 
 birds that were fluttering about him, and 
 to try to catch them with his thin weak 
 fingers. 
 
 Muppim's short season of consciousness 
 was over ; again he was but speaking 
 wildly, as one in a dream. 
 
 Charlie did not give up seeking the 
 forgiveness of Jesus for his friend, though 
 that friend could not join in his prayer. 
 
 To him who forgave the Jews of old, 
 Charlie prayed for the young son of 
 Israel, who in his extremity had turned 
 
THE SICK-ROOM. 117 
 
 like the thief on the cross, to Jesus as his 
 only hope. That ignorant, dying thief 
 was forgiven, and Charlie was not in de 
 spair. 
 
 Muppim might yet see in the New Jeru 
 salem the Saviour, whom he had never 
 known on earth. 
 
XIV. 
 
 RD was sitting on the floor in the 
 family room, busy with trying to 
 make a teacup stand on an empty spool. 
 
 Huppim came suddenly down the stair 
 way and snatched up the child, and bore 
 him triumphantly into the shop in spite 
 of his struggles and laughing exclama 
 tions. 
 
 " There, now ! " said Huppim, setting the 
 little fellow down on the counter. " There, 
 that is because Muppim is better, and we 
 are going to have good times again. 
 Aren't you glad, Ard ? say. now ! " 
 
 Ard clapped his hands and gave vent to 
 his joy by a regular cock-crow, and as 
 good a " moo " as could be expected 
 (118) 
 
GOOD NEWS. 119 
 
 of a child who had seen so little of 
 cows. 
 
 " Take Ard, mother, or hell fall off! " 
 said Huppira to Naomi, who came in at 
 the moment. " Take him. I want to go 
 tell the news to Charlie Fay." 
 
 " Muppim is not safe yet,' 7 said Naomi, 
 anxiously. 
 
 " But he's better, and Charlie ought to 
 know it ! " said Huppim, darting away 
 with a beaming face. 
 
 It would have been hard indeed long to 
 keep from Charlie a piece of intelligence 
 which gave him so much pleasure. He 
 had a double joy in Muppim's recovery. 
 His playfellow was to be restored to him, 
 and restored to him, he believed, to be a 
 true Christian. 
 
 While Muppim had lain upon his sick 
 bed, trembling between life and death, 
 Charlie had prayed long and frequently 
 for him. The blind boy, moreover, had 
 
120 THE JEWISH TWINS 
 
 I 
 
 been preparing himself to guide his dear 
 friend, if his life should be spared, into 
 the knowledge of Jesus. He had heard 
 his mother read over the prophecies re 
 specting our Saviour, and then the passages 
 in the New Testament which record the 
 fulfilment of these prophecies. Charlie 
 had always been a good scholar at school, 
 but now he bent his whole mind to the 
 task he had laid out for himself, and 
 learned with wonderful ease and rapidity. 
 He wanted to have his mind stored with 
 the treasures of the Scriptures, that he 
 might unfold them to Muppim, whenever 
 a fit opportunity should come. 
 
 The news that Muppim was really better 
 redoubled Charlie's interest in his studies, 
 and he was soon able to repeat chapter 
 after chapter of the New Testament with 
 out hesitation. The labor he had under 
 taken for the sake of his friend made his 
 time pass away very pleasantly, and pre- 
 
r GOOD NEWS. 121 
 
 cious to dwell upon were the words of 
 the Holy Book which he had thus stored 
 away in his mind. 
 
 The time came at last when Muppim 
 could sit, bolstered up in Mrs. Fay's great 
 chintz-covered easy-chair, which she had 
 lent to Naomi for the purpose. Very tall 
 and slender Muppim looked, learning back 
 there in his dressing-gown. His face was 
 thin and dark, and his black eyes had a 
 sorrowful, anxious expression, piteous to 
 behold. His troubled countenance was 
 but the reflection of his troubled heart. 
 
 Muppim was truly grateful that he had 
 not been called into the presence of his 
 Maker, but his mind was all in wild con 
 fusion about religious things. He longed 
 to have a quiet talk with Charlie ; but his 
 head felt too weak, his voice was too feeble 
 for him to speak out the thoughts that 
 vexed him day and night. Meanwhile 
 Muppim had framed silent prayers of his 
 11 
 
122 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 own to the crucified. "0 Jesus!" he 
 would say in his heart, " if thou art the 
 king of the Jews, forgive me all that is 
 past ; and if thou art not, God, forgive 
 me and guide me into the knowledge of 
 the truth." 
 
 The days went by, and Muppim slowly 
 gained his strength, but summer was fad 
 ing into autumn before he began to look 
 at all like his former self. By degrees 
 his room had ceased to be actually a sick 
 room, and had grown a place of family 
 gathering. Ard might now be heard com 
 ing up stairs, and stopping as he mounted 
 each step, to give a little chuckle to con 
 gratulate himself on the achievement. 
 He even dared to drag about Muppim's 
 room the old shoe which served him for a 
 carriage, and in which newspaper doll- 
 babies rode as contentedly as in a gilded 
 coach. 
 
 Naomi sat but seldom now in the lower 
 
GOOD NEWS. 123 
 
 room, which was her old resort ; her place 
 seemed fixed at Muppim's low window, 
 and there she was to be seen whenever 
 her presence was not required below. 
 
 Naomi was thin and pale with much 
 watching, but there was a joyous sweet 
 ness on her face, as she saw her dear boy 
 gaining from day to day. Cheerfully, 
 encouragingly she talked to him, and 
 wondered at his anxious, serious look. 
 She wished Huppim could be more up 
 stairs and give out some of his life there. 
 Huppim was quite the shop-keeper in these 
 days. Jacob was almost constantly in 
 the country making up for the time he 
 had lost in the sick-room, and Huppim 
 thought himself particularly entrusted 
 with the business matters of the family, 
 during his father's absence. Indeed, he 
 did show an uncommon talent for accounts, 
 and could make a dime into a dollar as 
 easily by trading as any boy in the city. 
 
124 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 His father saw this tendency with an ap 
 proving eye, and thought one of his sons 
 at least was coming on well in the path 
 he had marked out for him. It is not to 
 be supposed that Huppim was never in his 
 brother's room. He made flying trips 
 there to tell of funny occurrences that had 
 taken place in the shop, and to win a pass 
 ing smile from Muppim, but the truth must 
 be told, Huppim was of too lively a nature 
 to care to be pent up long between four 
 walls, with nothing outward to vary his 
 thoughts. 
 
 It was on Charlie Pay that Muppim re 
 lied for companionship. Charlie had once 
 been as fond of fun and the open air as 
 Huppim himself, but he had learned an 
 other lesson now, and it was a privilege 
 to him to sit beside his friend, and talk in 
 his own cheerful way until Muppim's tones 
 grew less sad, and an occasional laugh 
 was heard from him. 
 
GOOD NEWS. 125 
 
 Charlie well knew that Muppin was not 
 in a condition to have agitating subjects 
 brought before his mind. He waited pa 
 tiently for the time to come when Muppim 
 would feel himself strong enough to enter 
 upon the topic that he was sure was never 
 far from his thoughts. One pleasant day 
 in September, Charlie was sitting alone 
 with Muppim, when the young Jew sud 
 denly asked, " What did you sing, Charlie, 
 on the morning of the Passover ?" 
 "I don't know : was it this ?" 
 Charlie sang the whole of the hymn be 
 ginning, 
 
 " Guide me, O thou great Jehovah, 
 
 Pilgrim through this barren land, 
 I am weak, but thou art mighty, 
 Hold me with thy powerful hand." 
 
 Muppin listened with interest, then said, 
 " No, not that, but that is very beautiful." 
 
 " Yes, that is one of my favorites. Oh, 
 I remember, I had been thinking of Jesus, 
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126 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 the true Lamb of the Passover, shedding 
 his blood for us. I sang, 
 
 " Come, let us sing of Jesus, 
 The sinner's only friend, 
 Come, let us sing of Jesus, 
 While hearts and accents blend." 
 
 " That was it ! that was it ! " said Mup- 
 pira, very earnestly. " That set me to 
 thinking. I don't feel about Jesus as I 
 did, Charlie, but I am troubled about 
 him. I don't understand 7 ' 
 
 Muppim put his hand to his head. 
 
 " You are weak," said Charlie, tenderly. 
 " He does not want you to think too deeply 
 now ; let me just tell you some of his own 
 precious words. ' Let not your heart be 
 troubled : ye believe in God, believe also 
 in me. If a man love me, he will keep my 
 words : and my Father will love him, and 
 we will come unto him, and make our 
 abode with him. These things have I 
 spoken unto you, being yet present with 
 
GOOD NEWS. 127 
 
 you. But the Comforter, which is the 
 Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send 
 in my name, he shall teach you all 
 things, and bring all things to your re 
 membrance, whatsoever I have said unto 
 you. Peace I leave with you, my peace 
 I give unto you, not as the world giveth, 
 give I unto you. Let not your heart be 
 troubled, neither let it be afraid. 7 7J 
 
 " Let not your heart be troubled, neither 
 let it be afraid I" These were, indeed, 
 precious words to Muppim, and they sank 
 into his heart like a message of peace. 
 He was ready to be guided into the truth, 
 and he would wait to be led in God's good 
 time, when his poor weak head could study 
 and think once more. 
 
 Muppim was beginning to understand 
 something of the gentleness and mercy of 
 God in Christ Jesus. 
 
XV. 
 
 (WYAOMI was a true mother, and she 
 SSy watched her son with the interest 
 that only a mother can feel. She saw that 
 he was still thoughtful and subdued, but 
 the wild, anxious look had gone from his 
 eye, and she rejoiced at the change. She 
 little knew how often he repeated to him 
 self, " Let not your heart be troubled, ye 
 believe in God, believe also in me." 
 
 Little by little Charlie Pay had recited 
 to Muppirn much of the beautiful teach 
 ing of our Saviour, giving with it the 
 saying of that Saviour, " My doctrine is 
 not mine, but his that sent me. If any 
 man will do his will, he shall know of the 
 doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether 
 I speak of myself/'' 
 (128) 
 
A YOUNG DISCIPLE. 129 
 
 Muppim had it set before him what it was 
 to be lovely and gentle, meek, humble, and 
 forgiving. He saw the beauty of holi 
 ness, as taught by the Lord Jesus, and 
 felt his own un worthiness. 
 
 He was too weak now to argue and 
 reason, but lie could try to follow this holy 
 teaching, and take home the kind com 
 mand, " Let not your heart be troubled." 
 
 Ard now dared to pluck his brother's 
 sleeve, and call his attention to his tower 
 of chips, or his faithful horse the rocking- 
 chair, which could move so much and get 
 on so little. Huppim did not find Mup 
 pim in moods when he could not be ap 
 proached, and Naomi somehow felt that 
 her dear son was more such as she wished, 
 than he had ever been before. 
 
 Muppim had a daily pleasure now, 
 through the kindness of Mr. Thayer, who 
 had not forgotten his little friend in the 
 time of his sickness. Flowers, and cool- 
 
130 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 ing drinks, fruit, and nice, nourishing 
 food, he had sent him from time to time, 
 and now in the bright dry weather, a 
 carriage drew up every day before Jacob 
 Myers' shop, for Muppim to take a long 
 drive, far, far beyond the city's utmost 
 bounds. 
 
 Charlie Pay was always one of the 
 party in the carriage, and sometimes Hup- 
 pim was there with his lively chat, or 
 Naomi, holding the delighted, prattling 
 Ard upon her knee. 
 
 So with careful nursing, pleasant com 
 pany, and good fresh air. the young Jew 
 was gently led back to the strength of 
 health. 
 
 When Muppim no longer felt the 
 strange dizziness in his head, that had so 
 troubled him, he began upon the study 
 for which he had so longed, even the 
 faithful study of the Scriptures of the Old 
 and New Testament. Mr. Thayer's gift 
 
A YOUNG DISCIPLE. 131 
 
 was taken from its wrapper, to become 
 Muppim's constant companion. It was 
 plain that other eyes had carefully read 
 that book before. Along the margin there 
 were pencil-marks, wherever there was a 
 prophecy of the Messiah, and a reference 
 made to the New Testament passage in 
 which this prophecy was fulfilled. 
 
 Muppiin read of a promised Saviour 
 who should destroy the works of the 
 devil, and while he ruled his people, suf 
 fer for their sins. He read of one who 
 should meekly bear persecution and re 
 proach, and should yet be the King of 
 the Jews, the son of David, " the mighty 
 God," born at Bethlehem, the child of a 
 virgin, of the family of David, a Deliverer 
 was to come who would lead forth his 
 people like a shepherd, and gather all 
 nations unto him. He was to suffer as no 
 man had yet suffered, and to reign as no 
 man had yet reigned. 
 
132 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 So spake the Old Testament* to Mup- 
 pim. In the New, he read of Christ 
 coming in the appointed way, walking in 
 perfect holiness, casting out devils by his 
 own power, fulfilling the prophecies, even 
 to the casting of lots for his garments, 
 and the drinking of vinegar on the cross. 
 He, the Only Begotten Son of God, was 
 pleased to suffer for our sins, and call both 
 Jews and Gentiles to wash away their 
 guilt in his most precious blood. 
 
 This surely was the Lamb, of which all 
 other sacrifices were but types and signs. 
 This Jesus must be the true Messiah. 
 
 It had been foretold that the sacrifices 
 should cease at Jerusalem when Messiah 
 appeared.f After Christ's death the Jews 
 were scattered abroad, their temple was 
 
 * See " The Lock and the Key," (published by the 
 American Tract Society,) a comparison of the Old 
 Testament prophecies of Christ, with their recorded 
 fulfilment in the New Testament. 
 tDanielix, 26, 27. 
 
A YOUNG DISCIPLE. 133 
 
 destroyed, and even at the Passover, the 
 lamb was no longer slain. 
 
 There was no need of the death of 
 animals as a sign that blood must be shed 
 for sin, now that Jesus had come to suffer 
 for the sins of the whole world. 
 
 Day after day the young Jew read, 
 prayed, and pondered. Ah ! would that 
 many of his dear nation would do like 
 wise. 
 
 Jesus, in his loveliness, and his wonder 
 ful mercy, was slowly revealed to Mup- 
 pim's eager search. 
 
 Adoring, he at length cast himself on 
 his knees, exclaiming like Thomas, " My 
 Lord and my God !" 
 
 Muppim had become in heart a Chris 
 tian Jew. A Jew he must ever be, by nation ; 
 he would not have renounced that privi 
 lege. He was of the same people as 
 Moses and the prophets. The Virgin Ma 
 ry and the twelve disciples were of that 
 12 
 
134 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 people to which the blessed Saviour, as a 
 man, had chosen to belong. Over that 
 nation the Saviour has promised again to 
 reign, and in their prosperity the Gentiles 
 shall rejoice. Even heaven is known as 
 the New Jerusalem, and he who wept over 
 the ancient city of his love, will be him 
 self the light of the new city that shall 
 be called by the name so dear to every 
 child of Israel. 
 
 Muppim was more heartily a Jew than 
 ever before, yet most sincerely a Chris 
 tian. His head owned that the prophe 
 cies were fulfilled in Christ, the Messiah ; 
 his heart trusted and loved Jesus, the 
 Saviour, the merciful, all-sufficient Re 
 deemer. The peace which Jesus has prom 
 ised to his true followers settled upon 
 Muppim's soul, peace and joy made glad 
 his countenance. 
 
XVI 
 
 was in his own room, busy 
 with his favorite book. " Come ! 
 come down, Muppim," said the voice of his 
 brother, from the foot of the stairs. 
 
 A look of impatience at the interrup 
 tion passed over Muppim's face, followed 
 by an expression of shame, and an inward 
 prayer for forgiveness. This seeking of 
 his own pleasure was not like the unselfish 
 spirit of Jews, which Muppim was trying 
 to practise. 
 
 In a moment his voice answered, cheer 
 fully, " Yes, Huppirn, I am coming." 
 
 That unusual effort was not unnoticed 
 by the observing Huppirn, and he wonder 
 ed what new motive was latterly leading 
 
 (135) 
 
136 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 Muppim to trample on his natural faults, 
 and to do the things most trying to him. 
 
 " Come on," said Huppim, slipping his 
 arm into that of his brother, as soon as 
 he appeared, "come and see Charlie 
 Fay's present from Mr. Thayer." 
 
 Anything concerning Charlie was al 
 ways interesting to Muppim, and he went 
 on without delay. 
 
 Charlie was kneeling on the floor of 
 his room, caressing a splendid dog, that 
 put his head lovingly against the boy, as 
 if already understanding that he was to 
 be his master. 
 
 " Why 1" exclaimed Muppim, " it is the 
 Blind Asylum dog. It is Bravo ! Is he 
 to be yours, Charlie?" 
 
 " Mr. Thayer bought him and gave 
 him to me, and the good fellow seems to 
 understand it. See how he puts his head 
 against me and licks my hand ! He has 
 always seemed fond of me, Isn't it de- 
 
BRAVO. 137 
 
 lightful ? I should not be afraid to go any 
 where with Bravo. See, when I put my 
 hand in his collar, he won't let me hit the 
 chairs, put them where you will, about the 
 room." 
 
 The boys put the room into utter con 
 fusion, and then Charlie got up to cross 
 it, holding on to Bravo's collar. 
 
 The sagacious dog gently led the blind 
 boy about, avoiding any obstacle, and keep 
 ing his eye upon him, as a tender mother 
 would upon her tottering, lisping little one. 
 
 " Now that is a present worth having 1" 
 said Huppim, heartily. 
 
 "Isn't it!" was Charlie's enthusiastic 
 response. 
 
 Muppim admired the dog, too, but he 
 more warmly and deeply felt the beautiful 
 spirit of his friend, who was so truly 
 grateful to be led by a dumb animal, rather 
 than repining, because the use of his own 
 eyes was denied him. 
 
138 THE JEWISH TWINS, 
 
 This surely was the work of the Holy 
 Spirit, given by the Lord Jesus, to his 
 true followers ! 
 
 " How Ard would like to see Bravo !" 
 said Huppim, " I must go home and tell 
 him about him !" 
 
 Away went the restless Huppim, while 
 Charlie threw his arm round the patient 
 dog, who sat down at his side ; Muppim 
 sat down too, He had much to say to 
 Charlie, and might not soon have another 
 private opportunity. 
 
 " Charlie/ 7 said Muppim, " dear Char 
 lie, I am quite happy now ; I have found 
 him of whom Moses and the prophets did 
 write. I believe he is my Saviour. Oh, 
 how I thank you ! It was your patience 
 in your trial that made me first think 
 there must be truth in the religion of 
 Jesus !" 
 
 Charlie put his head upon his hands, 
 and tears trickled from his sightless eyes. 
 
BRAVO. 139 
 
 " God, I thank thee I" he murmured. 
 ' ; God, I thank thee ! This is joy that 
 more than exceeds all my sorrow !" 
 
 ; ' Muppim," he added, after a pause, 
 " Muppim, I am glad I am blind, if so 
 you have learned to see your Saviour I" 
 
 " Dear Charlie !" said the young Jew, 
 not less affected, " Dear Charlie, God will 
 reward you ; I can do nothing for you, but 
 try to follow your example. But, Charlie, 
 I find myself so full of faults ! Only just 
 now I felt cross to leave my books when 
 Iluppim called me." 
 
 " We ought certainly to be willing to 
 struggle to do right for Jesus 7 sake, when 
 he has done so much for us," said Charlie. 
 " Mother read to me only this morning 
 the parable of the sower, and I noticed 
 that they only are like the good seed on 
 good ground, who bear fruit with PATIENCE. 
 It is so natural to want to be good all at 
 once, instead of being willing to let God 
 
140 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 work Siowly in us as it pleases him best. 
 I am afraid I have been very impatient 
 about you, Muppim. I wanted you to see 
 the truth at once ; I could hardly wait for 
 your slow studying out what seemed to me 
 so plain !" 
 
 " I felt it all true long ago/ 7 said Mup 
 pim, " but it is only lately that I could 
 really see the proofs, and feel, oh ! so cer 
 tain !" 
 
 " What does your mother say, Mup 
 pim ?" asked Charlie, with much inter 
 est. 
 
 Muppim's brow suddenly clouded. 
 " Mother, poor mother ! I have not said 
 a word to her yet. I cannot bear to 
 grieve her so." 
 
 " Perhaps she may follow where you 
 have led. You ought to be frank with 
 her at once, Muppim," was the quick 
 answer. 
 
 " I know it ! Of course she must hear 
 
BRAVO. 141 
 
 all. Every Jew in town will hear it, and 
 they will hate and despise me I" said Mup- 
 pira, bitterly. 
 
 " l The disciple is not better than his 
 Master/ The Jews cried out, Crucify 
 him F " said Charlie, quietly. 
 
 " I know it. I am ready to bear all 
 for his sake," said Muppim, with much 
 earnestness, "but I cannot bear to dis 
 tress my mother. Huppim too ! I do not 
 believe he will speak to me and my fa 
 ther, lie will be ready to kill me ! Oh, Char 
 lie, you do not know how to be grateful 
 for your Christian mother." 
 
 " I know how to love her ! But indeed, 
 I feel, Muppim, that you have trials of 
 which I know nothing. Mine has been 
 a very happy lot," said Charlie. 
 
 Muppim looked at the sightless eyes 
 of his grateful friend, and was rebuked ; 
 should not he too receive meekly what 
 ever trials it pleased his Heavenly Father 
 
112 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 to send? He would at once boldly avow 
 his belief in the Lord Jesus, and take the 
 consequences in meek submission. Mup- 
 pim declared his determination, and then 
 the two friends knelt for such true prayer 
 as God loves to hear. 
 
XVII. 
 
 f AOMI was sitting in the inner room 
 at her work, when Muppim entered, 
 fresh from his prayer with Charlie Fay. 
 
 Huppim, busy with a customer, saw his 
 brother pass through the shop, and won 
 dered at the paleness of his face and the 
 deep earnestness of his expression. 
 
 " Mother, I want to see you alone," said 
 Muppim, solemnly. 
 
 " What is the matter, my son ? Have 
 you bad news to tell ? Your father has 
 anything happened to him ?" asked Naomi, 
 laying her hand beseechingly on Muppim's 
 shoulder. 
 
 " I have news of which the angels are 
 
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144 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 glad/ 7 said Muppim, as he led the way to 
 the upper room. 
 
 " Not now, dear," said Muppim, gently 
 but decidedly, as Ard pressed on to fol 
 low his mother. 
 
 " Go to Huppim, dear ; go," and Mup 
 pim put his own cap on the little fellow's 
 head, who trotted away to the shop, to 
 show himself thus ornamented. 
 
 Naomi sat down on the side of the low 
 bed, and looked eagerly at Muppim as he 
 closed the door. 
 
 " Mother," said Muppim, earnestly, " do 
 you remember how you talked with me 
 in this very room, on the day I was thir 
 teen? Do you remember how you told 
 me that I now stood before the Great 
 God to answer for my own sins, and to 
 keep the law, as a true Jew ?" 
 
 " I remember," replied Naomi, faintly ; 
 " what wicked thing have you done, iny 
 son?" 
 
THE ANNOUNCEMENT. 145 
 
 "I felt what you said, mother, and 1 
 have sought with all my heart to know 
 my duty ; I have tried to do it, and I be 
 lieve God has watched over me and led 
 me right." 
 
 Naomi kissed her boy in grateful joy, 
 and then again the troubled expression 
 came over her face as she said, " What is 
 it then that you have to tell me? Speak 
 out, Muppim," and the mother's fears were 
 again uppermost. 
 
 " It is of myself I want to speak, 
 mother," said Muppim. " Mother, I have 
 studied our Hebrew Scriptures, I have 
 prayed much to the God of our fathers, I 
 have read all that is told of the true Mes 
 siah, and I have found him I have found 
 the Promised One ; I know him and he 
 knows me." 
 
 A wild thought for a moment passed 
 through Naomi's mind : Perhaps her dear 
 son had been honored to be the " prophet," 
 13 
 
146 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 the " Elias," who was to come before the 
 Messiah, and tell of him ! This was a 
 moment of exaltation and joy, but it was 
 followed by one of bitter abasement, as 
 her son exclaimed, " Jesus is my Saviour ! 
 He, mother, is the Christ! To him I 
 trust my soul ! I am a Christian I" 
 
 Naomi's usual gentleness forsook her : 
 in sudden anger she thrust her son from 
 her, exclaiming, " I despise you ! I cast 
 you off!" 
 
 Muppim closed his eyes and stood in 
 silent prayer. In another instant, his 
 mother's arms were thrown round him, 
 and she wept bitter tears as she exclaim 
 ed, " Oh, my son ! my poor son !" 
 
 It was vain for Muppim to strive to tell 
 of the new joy and peace he had found in 
 Christ Jesus. His mother laid her hand 
 upon his mouth, and would not permit 
 him to speak such words in her presence. 
 She poured forth her distress in one 
 
THE ANNOUNCEMENT. 147 
 
 stream of tender reproaches, to which 
 Muppim listened with pity, praying the 
 while, that she whom he loved best might 
 one day know that Christ, for whose sake 
 he was willing to be despised and re 
 viled. 
 
 Even while Naomi was speaking, she 
 wondered to see Muppim, who had once 
 been so impatient of the slightest rebuke, 
 meeting her eye with an expression of love 
 and patience that could not be mistaken. 
 
 Having exhausted her arguments and 
 reproofs, Naomi said, " Muppim, you can 
 not be allowed to be with the other chil 
 dren, lest you should lead them into your 
 terrible error ; here you must stay until 
 your father comes home, and he can best 
 decide what is to be done with you. My 
 poor child ! this will go far to break your 
 father entirely he had hoped so much 
 from you." Naomi's tears overcame her, 
 and she sat down a^ain. 
 
148 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 " Dear, dear mother, I am so sorry to 
 grieve you," said Muppim, tenderly. 
 
 Naomi leaned her head upon the shoul 
 der of her tall boy, and wept for a few 
 moments in silence. 
 
 " Perhaps you may one day see the 
 truth as I do, and then we might be happy 
 together ! Dear mother, do search the 
 Scriptures, and know more of Jesus," 
 Muppim ventured to say. 
 
 Naomi's tears were suddenly dried ; 
 jumping up quickly, she went out, locking 
 the door behind her. 
 
 Muppim was left to solitary confine 
 ment, but he did not feel himself alone. 
 Grieved as he was to have so pained his 
 mother, he rejoiced that he was counted 
 worthy to suffer for sucli a Lord. That 
 Lord he felt was with him, a better com 
 forter than any earthly friend. 
 
 Muppim had been praying most earnest 
 ly for his own dear family, when he heard 
 
THE ANNOUNCEMENT. 149 
 
 Ard's uncertain footsteps on the stairs. 
 The brother's heart went out towards the 
 child, and he longed to admit him, and 
 talk to him of the Saviour, who said, 
 " Suffer the little children to come unto 
 me." 
 
 Poor Muppim was obliged to have 
 quite a different kind of intercourse with 
 the pet of the house. Ard knocked vio 
 lently at the door, to assure himself that 
 Muppim was within. No sooner had 
 Muppim replied, " Brother can't let you 
 in, darling/' than Ard burst forth, "Bad 
 boy! Old, bad boy! Ard strike bad 
 boy !" 
 
 The little fist came hard against the 
 door again and again, and words even 
 more harsh and contemptuous came from 
 the lips of the child, as he strove to show 
 by every outward demonstration his hor 
 ror of his brother. 
 
 Muppim was not affectionate in his 
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150 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 manner, but he was strong in his attach 
 ments ; he had hardly realized how dear 
 Ard was to him, until he felt the bitter 
 ness of being reproached and reviled by 
 those young lips, and despised by that 
 young heart. The tears actually came 
 in Muppim's eyes ; but he remembered 
 his Lord and Master, forsaken even by 
 his disciples, and resolved to take his 
 smaller trials cheerfully. 
 
 " Dear little brother," Muppim found 
 voice to say, " Dear Ard, Muppim loves 
 you very dearly, and would like to give 
 you one kiss just now." 
 
 " Ain't you cross in there ? Ain't you 
 mad at me ?" said Ard, in surprise, ap 
 plying his eye at the same time to the 
 key-hole. 
 
 " I am not angry at you, darling. 
 Brother Muppim means never to get 
 angry again." 
 
 " I see you ; you look real pleasant," 
 
THE ANNOUNCEMENT. 151 
 
 said the little fellow. " I wish I could 
 get in." 
 
 " Ard ! Ard I" called the mother's voice 
 from below, and again the uncertain foot 
 steps were heard on the stairs, the lower 
 door closed, and Muppim was left to his 
 meditations. 
 
XVIII. 
 
 'UPPIM had been two days in soli- 
 tary confinement, save when Na 
 omi had come to plead with him to give 
 up his delusion, and be once more her own 
 dear son. She even pledged herself to 
 keep his avowal to her a secret, if he would 
 but once more be heartily a Jew, and for 
 get what had passed. At each interview, 
 her face grew more sad and stern. Mup- 
 pim's fare was reduced to a scanty supply 
 of bread and water, which Naomi declared 
 was quite too good for one like him. 
 
 Muppiin had no human being to speak 
 
 with, but he was not without sympathy. 
 
 He could hear Charlie Fay singing his 
 
 favorite hymns in the next house, and now 
 
 (152) 
 
THE PRISONER. 153 
 
 and then Charlie's flute would sound out 
 its sweet, sad tones. The blind boy had 
 developed a wonderful talent for music, 
 and Mr. Thayer was giving him every 
 opportunity of improving it. The cheerful 
 sounds from Charlie's room were a contin 
 ual lesson to Muppim, and he resolved, like 
 a caged bird, to give forth only a grateful 
 song in his own confinement. At mid 
 night on the third day of Muppim's dis 
 grace, he was roused from sleep by a hand's 
 being laid upon his shoulder. He looked 
 up, and Huppim stood by the bedside with 
 a shaded candle in his hand. 
 
 " Huppirn ! how came you here ?' ; said 
 Muppim, starting up in bed. 
 
 " Hush ! " said the visitor, putting his 
 fingers to his lips. " Hush ! I got the 
 key out of mother's pocket, while she was 
 asleep. I would come to see you. I have 
 brought you some cold meat, and a piece 
 of pie. You must be terribly hungry." 
 
154 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 Muppim looked wistfully at the food, 
 but said, decidedly, " I do not like to take 
 it, Huppim. You are very, very kind ; 
 but mother said I must eat nothing but 
 bread and water. I am sorry to grieve 
 her. I at least can obey her." 
 
 " What a queer boy you are ! " said 
 Huppim, half provoked. lt I took so much 
 pains to get to you ! " 
 
 11 And I am very glad to see you/ 7 said 
 Muppim, more affectionately than he had 
 ever spoken before. " I never loved any 
 of you half as well as I do now. 77 
 
 " You don't seem like yourself, Muppim. 
 You are so gentle and quiet. Why, if I 
 were you, I should be just as mad as I could 
 be, to be shut up here. I wouldn't stay 
 I wouldn't. I'd just jump out of the 
 window and be off. I don't see what it is 
 all about. I can't understand how a Jew 
 can be anything else than a Jew. If being 
 a Christian was being like Charlie Fay, 
 
THE PRISONER. 155 
 
 I shouldn't mind it myself, but I can't see 
 how that can be ; we are not the same 
 kind of folks. 77 
 
 " I am just as much a Jew as ever/ 7 said 
 Muppim, " and glad to be of the same race 
 as Messiah. But, Huppim, I do believe in 
 the Lord Jesus as the Christ, and love him 
 with all my heart, and I wish you did, 
 too". 77 
 
 " I am more like father ; I don't take 
 hold of these things, somehow, as you do, 77 
 replied Huppim, thoughtfully. 
 
 " But, dear brother, you have got to die 
 all alone, just as I have, and then when 
 Jesus sits on the throne to judge the world, 
 you will have to answer for it, if you have 
 never tried to know him. Won 7 t you 
 think of that, Huppim ? The Jews are 
 looking for the Messiah, and will not see 
 that he has already come. 77 
 
 " I never thought much about him, any 
 way, 77 said Huppim. " But what are you 
 
156 THE JEWJSH TWINS. 
 
 going to do, shut up here ? When father 
 comes home, he will whip the skin off from 
 you, just as likely as not. I'd run away 
 before, if I were in your place. I don't 
 know what's to become of me. Mother 
 don't let me speak to Charlie Pay, and he 
 don't know what's the matter. I'm sure 
 he thinks it hard of me. If it wasn't for 
 Bravo, he wouldn't get to school at all. 
 I tell you, Muppim, that's a great dog ! 
 He'll fetch and carry. He knows almost 
 as much as a boy ! " 
 
 " He must be a real comfort to Charlie. 
 I am so glad he has him," said Muppim, 
 warmly. 
 
 " Now, Muppim, you are queer. You 
 seem just as pleasant as ever. It is real 
 good to see you ; but I must be off, or 
 mother '11 find out. I wouldn't have her 
 know I'd been in here for a pretty penny. " 
 
 "Dear Huppirn, it has been a real treat 
 to see you ; but don't come again secretly. 
 
THE PRISONER. 157 
 
 It is not right to do it without mother's 
 leave. It is very pleasant to me to kn o w 
 that you don't feel hard towards me." 
 
 " Not a bit of it ! " said Huppim, warmly. 
 " I never liked you half so well in my 
 life. Somehow that sickness did you a 
 heap of good ! You seem like a different 
 boy, totally." 
 
 " If there is anything good in me, Hup 
 pim, it is because the Lord Jesus, whom 
 I am trying to serve, helps me, and is ever 
 with me. If you only knew him as I do, 
 I should be very, very happy ! " 
 
 " Well, you certainly tell well for your 
 new way of thinking," said Huppim. " I 
 wouldn't mind being somewhat improved 
 myself. But I must say good-night to you. 
 I sha'n't promise not to come to see you 
 again. I like the fun. As the key is on 
 my side now, I can do as I please. Time 
 was, when you used to lock me out/' said 
 Muppim, mischievously. 
 14 
 
158 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 " I was selfish often, I know. I see it 
 quite plainly now, and I want you to for 
 give me for not being a better brother to 
 you ; will you?" asked Muppim, earnestly. 
 
 " Why, Muppim ! You hate to own up 
 to anything, and you say that ! Of course 
 we are quits. I have nothing laid up 
 against you. Why, old fellow ! what's 
 got into you ?" For the first time since 
 babyhood, the brothers kissed affection 
 ately, and so they parted. 
 
XIX. 
 
 gisnglhu, 
 
 fACOB MYERS was thoroughly an 
 gry, when on his return he found out 
 what had occurred during his absence. 
 Jacob thought it no sin to have all his 
 thoughts and all his interest in his worldly 
 business. He thought it no sin to talk of 
 his bargains in the synagogue between the 
 prayers, or even while he had the holy 
 words on his lips, to be adding up, men 
 tally, dollars and cents. Like too many 
 who call themselves Christians, he was 
 contented with an outside religion for 
 himself and his children, but clung to that 
 as if it were the one thing needful. That 
 one of liis family should become a follower 
 of Christ, he thought a disgrace too bitter 
 
 (159) 
 
160 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 to be borne, and he resolved to keep the 
 whole matter a secret, and try and bring 
 back his boy to his own way of thinking. 
 
 Jacob was not much of a scholar, and 
 he had no skill in arguing. He did not 
 undertake to convince Muppim that he had 
 made a mistake ; his plan was quite differ 
 ent. 
 
 Jacob knew how to use as hard lan 
 guage as any man in the city, and he gave 
 Muppim the benefit of some of the harsh 
 est scolding that human lips ever uttered, 
 not to speak of the outward signs of 
 contempt, so marked among the Jews, to 
 which even our Saviour himself was sub 
 jected. 
 
 Jacob had, moreover, a certain strong 
 leather whip, which he called his " family 
 regulator," and which was now brought 
 out to do duty. 
 
 When Naomi heard the lashes fall thick 
 and fast, with no sound of resistance from 
 
DISCIPLINE. 161 
 
 Muppim not even a scream her mother's 
 heart felt for him. Again and again Ja 
 cob tried the virtue of whipping and scold 
 ing, and met only a firm refusal to give 
 up the religion of Jesus, and a rneek sub 
 mission to the punishments imposed. 
 
 Jacob's resolution was at length taken. 
 He could not have one black sheep to in 
 fect his whole flock. He would not have 
 it known that a son of his had departed 
 from the faith of his fathers, and made 
 himself an object -of scorn and hatred to 
 his own people. Muppim should be sent 
 from his home, and not live where he 
 would disgrace his family. 
 
 Naomi pleaded for her son, and felt 
 how dear Muppim was to her even now, in 
 his patient endurance of rebuke and chas 
 tisement. 
 
 Jacob was not to be shaken in his de 
 termination. With his own hands he put 
 up Muppim's small wardrobe in a travel- 
 14* 
 
162 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 ling bag, and then told the astonished 
 boy that he was to leave his father's house 
 forever, and go to earn his bread in a dis 
 tant city, as best he could. 
 
 " I wont be hard on you," said Jacob ; 
 "you shall have twenty dollars to start 
 with, Muppirn. Many a rich man has had 
 less ; but never let me see your face again, 
 to my dying day." 
 
 Jacob would allow no leave-takings. 
 Naomi was not permitted to say one word 
 to her child. She heard his footsteps as 
 his father led him away. The door closed, 
 and she knew that Muppim was gone from 
 her forever. Then her grief burst forth, 
 and she would not be comforted ; indeed, 
 she had no comforter. 
 
 Ard had been for some days in a state 
 of rebellion about Muppim's confinement. 
 He declared that his brother was a good 
 boy, and " spoke pleasant," and he should 
 be let out. As for Huppim, his indigna- 
 
DISCIPLINE. 163 
 
 tion knew no bounds. He said he did 
 not want to be a Jew if Jews could beat 
 arid scold a boy like Muppim, just for hav 
 ing his own notions, and he did not care 
 how soon he was turned out too. 
 
 Jacob Myers did not return to a happy 
 home that day. The dinner might as well 
 not have been placed on the table, for 
 nobody touched it but Ard, and he ate 
 and sulked, and sulked and ate, in the 
 worst possible humor. 
 
 As for Jacob, he felt quite ashamed of 
 himself, now that it was all over ; not 
 ashamed of his harshness, but that his 
 heart so yearned for the absent Muppim. 
 
XX. 
 
 fACOB had paid Muppim's fare, and 
 put him in the cars for a distant 
 western city, laying his commands upon 
 him to make no nearer station his stop 
 ping-place. Jacob knew that he could 
 depend upon Muppirn's implicit obedience. 
 He was but the more faithful keeper of 
 the moral law, for his ne\v principles ; that 
 the father well knew. 
 
 Muppim could hardly realize that he 
 was alone in the world, as the swift cars 
 bore him rapidly away from his native 
 city. He looked round upon the faces 
 gathered in that long, narrow car. On 
 every countenance there were lines of care 
 and sin. Few there were that bore the 
 
 (164) 
 
MUPPIM. 165 
 
 traces of being loving or lovable. This 
 was a specimen of the people of this world, 
 of those for whom Christ died. For 
 such as these he came to suffer the cruel 
 death upon the cross. 
 
 More wonderful than ever seemed to 
 Muppim the redeeming love of the Sav 
 iour ; that Saviour he knew was then 
 present at his side, and would never leave 
 him desolate. 
 
 Muppim took out his dear Bible, and 
 was soon lost to outward circumstances 
 in his interest in it. Mile after mile was 
 passed over, and the young Jew had not 
 raised his head. At length expressions 
 of admiration from the surrounding trav 
 ellers attracted his attention. His book 
 was laid aside. He was to read no more 
 that day. 
 
 Muppim had never been ten miles be 
 yond the bounds of his native city. Rivers 
 shining in the sun, and mountains tower- 
 
166 . THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 ing towards the skies, were new sights 
 to him new evidences of the power and 
 love of the Creator. There were many 
 to speak of the beauty of the changing 
 landscape, but few who looked forth from 
 the swift-moving cars, to praise the Lord 
 for his wonderful works, as did the young 
 Jew on his first journey. 
 
 Night carne at last, and the scattered 
 villages could only be traced by the twink 
 ling lamps in their quiet homes. One by 
 one those lights went out, and only the 
 ever-shining stars remained to vary the 
 darkness which covered earth and heaven. 
 
 Muppim commended himself anew to the 
 care of his Saviour, and then putting his 
 head upon his arm, he fell into as sweet a 
 sleep as Ard was then enjoying in his dis 
 tant home. 
 
 There was a stir and bustle in the cars 
 in the early morning. It was plain that 
 some important stopping-place had been 
 
MUPPIM. 167 
 
 readied. Yes, the city to which Muppim 
 was banished was near at hand. In a few 
 moments Muppim would have to seek 
 some other resting-place than the cars, 
 where he had been so tranquil. 
 
 There were eager faces, watching to 
 welcome the passengers as they stepped on 
 the platform. There were mothers, ready 
 to kiss returning school-boys. There were 
 men of business, to take the well-known 
 travellers by the button, and employ the 
 few moments of delay in important con 
 versation. Everybody seemed in a hurry, 
 everybody seemed to know where to go, 
 and what to do. 
 
 Muppim felt confused and lonely in the 
 midst of that bustling scene. He strength 
 ened himself with the thought that there 
 was one Being near him, to whom he was 
 not a stranger ; One who could guide his 
 footsteps even in that great city. 
 
 Muppim took breakfast at the railroad 
 
168 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 station, and then, with his small carpet 
 bag in his hand, he followed the throng 
 pouring towards the main street of the 
 city. There Muppim had resolved to seek 
 a position as clerk. For the small trad 
 ing of his youth he had no taste. He 
 did not care to make money ; he simply 
 wished to earn an honest living, and to 
 have a shelter in some Christian home. 
 We will not tell all the adventures of that 
 weary day. We need not describe the 
 various ways in which Muppim was re 
 pulsed and refused. A lad with a Jewish 
 face, and without recommendation or 
 references, was not likely to get a situa 
 tion at once. 
 
 Muppim would not be disheartened. 
 When he went to a third-rate hotel at 
 evening, it was not to give himself up to 
 sorrowful meditations. No ! he had quite 
 another plan in his mind. His father had 
 forbidden him to write to any of the fam- 
 
MUPPIM. 169 
 
 ily, and had assured him that if he at 
 tempted it, his letters would be burnt, un 
 opened. " The Christians may take care 
 of you. You belong to them, now," Jacob 
 had roughly said. 
 
 To a certain young Christian, very dear 
 to Muppim, he now resolved to write. 
 Charlie Fay could tell him all about 
 Jacob's home ; and in this way, though so 
 far distant, Muppim hoped to hear con 
 stant news of his own family, not to speak 
 of the pleasure of holding communication 
 with Charlie, himself. Muppim was sure 
 that Mrs. Fay would willingly act as 
 amanuensis for her unfortunate son, and 
 already he began to enjoy in imagination 
 the agreeable variety of letters from 
 Charlie. 
 
 Muppim did not say one word of the 
 trying scenes that had preceded his ban 
 ishment. He simply stated that his father 
 had sent him from home to make his own 
 15 
 
170 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 way iii the world, and had forbidden him 
 to hold any communication with his own 
 family, and therefore any news that Char 
 lie could give of his neighbors would be 
 most acceptable. 
 
 Muppim gave no dreary account of his 
 discouraging day. He spoke of the deep 
 satisfaction he had taken in the wonders 
 of nature he had seen on his journey, and 
 of the peace at his heart, assured as he 
 was that Christ would never leave him 
 nor forsake him. When Muppim folded 
 his letter, he could hardly believe that he 
 was in the midst of strangers. Charlie 
 Fay seemed close at hand, and he realized 
 that the Saviour, so dear to them both, 
 was about their path to comfort and cheer. 
 
 Three or four days of discouraging ap 
 plications passed away with Muppim. His 
 little fund was of course diminishing, and 
 he began to think of the possibility of 
 actually coming to want. He had never 
 
MUPPIM. 171 
 
 known what it is to lack the comforts of 
 life, and latterly, since his father's pros 
 perity had increased, he had been supplied 
 with many luxuries. 
 
 Muppim trusted in the care of Provi 
 dence, but he knew that it became him to 
 be prudent and earnest in seeking employ 
 ment. Before commencing, therefore, upon 
 his fifth day of effort, he changed his board 
 ing-place to a still less attractive and less 
 expensive hotel, where the company was 
 by no means to his taste. 
 
 Sallying out to enter new warehouses, 
 and have interviews with more strangers, 
 Muppim renewed his search for a situa 
 tion. His application had been refused 
 so many times, that he felt that he now 
 spoke as if he expected to be rejected, and 
 had none of the confident, self-respectful 
 air that promotes success. With the heads 
 of the establishments, he could find no 
 fault. They dismissed him shortly, but 
 
172 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 with no unnecessary harshness. With the 
 clerks it was quite different. 
 
 " We are honest here we don't Jew" 
 said one spruce lad behind the counter, in 
 answer to Muppim's inquiry whether there 
 was a vacant position in the store for a 
 clerk. "We keep a sharp look-out for 
 strangers whom nobody knows," said an 
 other. These, and other similar attempts 
 at witticisms, were particularly painful to 
 a spirit like Muppim's ; but he struggled 
 to bear them with patience, remembering 
 him " who humbled himself to the form 
 of a servant/ 7 for our sakes. This day 
 passed away as the others had done. 
 Muppim's future was still uncertain, yet 
 he did not despair. His " daily bread 
 was sure ;" though the way of earning it 
 was yet unknown. 
 
 Muppim had been for some days on the 
 look-out for an answer from Charlie Fay. 
 Here, too, he had been several times dis- 
 
MUPPPIM. 173 
 
 appointed. A letter for Muppim Myers 
 was waiting for him, however, on the 
 evening of the last and most trying day. 
 
 Mrs. Fay could hardly write fast enough 
 to express the loving, Christian sympathy 
 that poured from Charlie's lips. He hon 
 ored Muppim's silence about his home dif 
 ficulties, but could easily guess them all. 
 If Charlie had had only sympathy to ex 
 press, he could have dispatched at once 
 enough of that but he could not content 
 himself in that way. 
 
 Charlie well knew that Jacob Myers 
 would not send forth his son to live in 
 idleness in that western city. But how 
 was Muppim, a stranger, to get employ 
 ment? This thought Charlie turned over 
 and over in his mind. Muppim's silence 
 on the subject convinced him that the first 
 few days 7 efforts had been by no means 
 successful. Charlie's meditations ended 
 in taking Bravo by the collar and- going 
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174 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 out for a long walk, a walk that ended at 
 Mr. Thayer's comfortable home. 
 
 Charlie had not mistaken the warm 
 hearted old gentleman. His interest was 
 at once aroused for Muppim. The boy 
 who had so courageously risked all for 
 Christ, should not be deserted by his 
 Christian friends ! 
 
 Mr. Thayer well knew that his name 
 had reached the western cities, and was a3 
 well known " on change 7 ' as if he were the 
 head of a banking institution. In real 
 business style he dashed off short notes to 
 several of the leading merchants in Mup- 
 pirn's present stopping-place. Notes they 
 were of thorough recommendation, to a 
 certain Christian Jew, Muppim Myers, 
 who would be glad of any situation where 
 he could earn an honest living, and who 
 well deserved confidence and kind con 
 sideration. 
 
 Muppim was astonished when those three 
 
MUPPIM. 175 
 
 notes dropped from the envelope, contain 
 ing Charlie's warm-hearted response to his 
 words of inquiry. Charlie had no news 
 to tell of his neighbors, excepting that 
 they were all well, but that nobody about 
 the house seemed cheerful. Even Ard 
 was reported as unusually cross, and Hup- 
 pim had not been seen with a smile on his 
 face. Of course Charlie had had no di 
 rect intercourse with the family, but he 
 and his mother would gladly communicate 
 even the most trifling particulars of their 
 daily life that came under their knowledge. 
 Charlie had much to say of his love to 
 his distant friend, but not a word of the 
 efforts he had made for him. Mr. Thay- 
 er's notes were enclosed with one from him 
 self, telling Muppim to keep up heart, for 
 the best situations were not the easiest to 
 get, and assuring him that Christ and 
 his Christian friends would not forsake 
 him. 
 
176 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 Muppim had endured his disappoint 
 ments and his loneliness with great calm 
 ness, but the expression of such interest 
 and sympathy overcame him. The tall 
 boy who had begun to attract attention 
 at the tavern where he stayed, was actu 
 ally in tears. Tears of grateful joy were 
 not the only evidence that Muppim gave 
 of the state of his heart. No ! his prayers 
 that night were full of loving trust in his 
 Saviour, and deep thankfulness for all his 
 mercies. 
 
XXI. 
 
 f HOUGH Muppim had received a flat 
 refusal at Delmont & Child's when 
 he had applied to be admitted there as a 
 clerk, he found Mr. Thayer's note of in 
 troduction put the affair on quite a differ 
 ent footing. 
 
 The heads of the establishment, to 
 whom he had been denied admittance, he 
 was now permitted to see, though not 
 without suspicious glances on the part of 
 the clerks. A short interview in the 
 small sanctum boarded in at one end of 
 the large establishment, placed Muppim 
 in quite a different light before the per 
 sons employed there. 
 
 He was no longer a straggling Jew 
 (177) 
 
178 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 applying for the situation he did not de 
 serve. He was a person introduced by 
 the well-known John Thayer, and prompt 
 ly provided with occupation in the lace 
 department of the great " store," where he 
 soon showed himself quite at home. It 
 was a new thing to Muppim to be tied 
 down to regular hours, and to be kept on 
 his feet through the long day. 
 
 Naomi had accommodated herself to his 
 tastes, and many a time Muppim had been 
 reading in his own room, while Ids mother 
 was waiting upon customers. Now there 
 was no mother to come in between Mup 
 pim and his round of duties. Here was a 
 new opportunity for the exercise of Chris 
 tian patience and cheerfulness. Muppim 
 must lay aside his studies. He had only 
 time to read a few chapters in his Bible 
 every day. He could no longer pore over 
 it for hours, tracing Christ in Joseph be 
 trayed of his brethren, Moses leading the 
 
A RESOLUTION. 179 
 
 chosen people, Aaron entering into the 
 holy of holies, or David the God-appoint 
 ed King of the Jews. 
 
 Now was Muppim's time for fulfilling 
 the command to "labor with his own 
 hands," and " in whatsover state he was, 
 therewith to be content." 
 
 The selling of laces was not in itself an 
 ennobling occupation, but he could make 
 it so by entering into it as a duty given 
 him by God. His faithfulness, prompt 
 ness and industry would win the approval 
 of his Saviour, and so each day he would 
 be making his earthly calling a stepping- 
 stone towards heaven. He would serve 
 God in his labor, if he could no longer 
 spend hours in the study of his precious 
 Word. 
 
 It seemed very strange to Muppim to be 
 at his ordinary occupations on the last 
 day of the week, the Jewish Sabbath. 
 He found it hard to cast off the idea that 
 
180 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 he was doing wrong, as he stood behind 
 the counter, when he had been wont to 
 be in the synagogue. 
 
 Saturday became to him a day of prep 
 aration for the true Christian Sabbath. As 
 the old feelings and old associations came 
 up, he recalled the words of the Son of 
 man, who had spoken of himself as " Lord 
 of the Sabbath. 77 He dwelt on the glory 
 of that day when Jesus rose from the 
 tomb, and the first day of the week be 
 came the best of days to all Christians 
 the Lord's day. 
 
 Very welcome to Muppim was the true 
 rest that was sure for him on Sunday 
 morning. Then he might give his thoughts 
 wholly to the Saviour, and study his pre 
 cious word, without haste or interruption. 
 
 To worship with Christians was a most 
 welcome privilege to Muppim. At church 
 he felt himself among friends, though in 
 the midst of strangers. He was one 
 
A RESOLUTION. 181 
 
 among Christ's people, when he has spe 
 cially promised to be in the midst of them. 
 
 Muppim was beginning to feel that lie 
 ought to be openly acknowledged as a 
 follower of Jesus, and this conviction was 
 suddenly forced upon him as an immediate 
 duty. 
 
 He was surprised one Sunday by hear 
 ing the clergyman call on the persons to be 
 baptized to come forward. A young man 
 and two elderly women came up with 
 their witnesses, and in the presence of the 
 congregation, were baptized in the name 
 of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Of 
 course the ceremony was deeply inter 
 esting to Muppim, but he was even more 
 interested in the sermon that followed. 
 With earnestness the faithful minister 
 urged upon all who would be owned by 
 the Saviour at the last day, to acknowledge 
 him now, in the ways in which he has 
 appointed. He has commanded that those 
 16 
 
182 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 who believe shall be baptized. He has 
 given to his true people the privilege of 
 taking the Lord's Supper in remembrance 
 of him. They cannot well be Christians 
 who refuse to be baptized in his name, 
 and will not take the bread and wine at 
 his holy table. 
 
 As Muppim listened, his resolution was 
 taken. A minister of Christ certainly 
 would not turn away from a stranger, who 
 sought to be baptized in the name of his 
 Master. When the worshippers had 
 scattered away from the church, a tall 
 young Jew still stood waiting without. 
 
 What Christian minister does not feel 
 his heart warm towards a Jew seeking to 
 draw near to the true King of Israel ? 
 Who does not deem it a privilege to guide 
 one of the ancient people of God into the 
 kingdom of heaven? With such a request 
 as Muppim had to propose, he was sure to 
 be met with open arms. Six weeks he had 
 
A RESOLUTION. 183 
 
 been a lonely stranger, and now at once 
 he had found a real friend. For six 
 weeks he had seen no one with whom he 
 could speak on the subject nearest his 
 heart, but now the aged minister rejoiced 
 with him, that he had been led to know 
 the Crucified as the Messiah. 
 
 That Sunday noon r Muppirn went not to 
 his humble boarding-place. At the minis 
 ter's own table he sat down with a Chris 
 tian family, and was rejoiced over with 
 great joy. 
 
 Little children looked at him with lov 
 ing interest, as a real Jew, as were Paul 
 and Peter, and Moses and Elijah. A 
 motherly Christian heart expressed its 
 warm sympathy for a son of Israel brought 
 home to his Father's house. 
 
 The day for Muppim's baptism was 
 fixed. The aged minister saw no reason 
 for delay in the case of one who so " be 
 lieved with all his heart." 
 
184 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 "-Your name is a peculiar one, my 
 young friend ; you have now an opportu 
 nity to change it if you will," said the 
 clergyman, in concluding their conversa 
 tion. 
 
 " I hope to have a ' new name 7 in the 
 New Jerusalem," said Muppim, slightly 
 coloring. " Here, I would rather keep 
 the Hebrew name my parents gave me. I 
 am not ashamed of being a Jew ! My 
 mother knows me by that name, and it 
 binds me, too, to my dear twin-brother. 
 If we could only be baptized together, as 
 we once together received our names as 
 Jews!" 
 
 Ah ! how Muppim's heart yearned for 
 his absent brother at that moment. 
 
 " We will pray for that brother ; he 
 may yet be led into the truth !" said the 
 clergyman. 
 
 With the earnestness of those who really 
 want that for which they pray, Muppim 
 
A RESOLUTION. 185 
 
 joined in the petitions then offered for his 
 absent brother and for the whole house of 
 Israel. 
 
 Would that the air were full of prayers 
 for the peculiar people, then would they 
 begin to seek the Messiah, and learn to 
 know " him of whom Moses and the proph 
 ets did write." 
 
 16* 
 
XXII. 
 
 FEW days after his interview with 
 the old clergyman, Muppim was one 
 morning going, at his usual early hour, to 
 his place of business. 
 
 Suddenly a large dog jumped upon him, 
 and he was nearly knocked down by the 
 joyous signs of recognition given by the 
 excited animal. 
 
 " Why, Bravo !" cried Muppim, in as 
 tonishment. 
 
 This repetition of his name sent Bravo 
 off in another series of gambols, which 
 said, almost as plainly as spoken language, 
 how glad he was to xsee his Jewish friend. 
 Bravo seemed to have more to say than a 
 
 (186) 
 
A SURPRISE. 187 
 
 mere " How d'ye do ?" for lie began to pull 
 at Muppiin in a decided manner, intimat 
 ing that he would be followed, whether 
 Muppim chose it or no. 
 
 To a hotel near at hand he led the way, 
 and did not stop until the willing Muppirn 
 stood at a bed-room door, at which Bravo 
 scratched most vigorously. 
 
 " You've found him, I know," said . 
 Charlie Pay, giving admittance to his 
 friend and the dog. 
 
 Muppim had only time to promise a 
 long interview in the evening, and then 
 he forced himself to his usual punctual 
 appearance at the store. 
 
 If Muppim made wrong change two or 
 three times that day, and put up the Va 
 lenciennes laces in the Brussels-point box, 
 he must be excused ; his mind was in such 
 a state of excitement and confusion that 
 it was hard for him to attend to his ordi 
 nary occupations. 
 
188 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 His persevering attempt to be faithful 
 in his duties during the day, were more 
 than rewarded by his long, long interview 
 with Charlie in the evening. 
 
 Charlie had actually seen Huppim, and 
 had a good talk with him. Frequent as 
 Charlie's letters had been, they had never 
 been able to tell more than that Jacob's 
 family were well, but refusing to have 
 any intercourse with the blind boy who 
 had had so large a share in Muppirn's 
 change of faith. 
 
 Charlie's news for Muppim were not 
 all good news ; he had to describe a fire 
 by night, when the whole block of build 
 ings in which he lived had been burnt, the 
 inmates only escaping with their lives. He 
 had to own that Jacob Myers' shop on 
 the corner caught like tinder, and was 
 consumed long before the brick buildings 
 next which it stood. He gratefully de 
 scribed the joy of Naomi when she was 
 
A SURPRISE. 189 
 
 sure that all her family were safe, and 
 Jacob's wondering confusion, when he 
 knew that he had lost all his property, 
 had disturbed his mind ; he could not take 
 hold of the idea that his hard earnings 
 were consumed in a night. The expen 
 sive laces that had taken the place of the 
 cheap edgings of old were now but ashes. 
 Jacob was a poor man once more. It was 
 in vain that Huppim spoke of himself as 
 almost grown and able to take care of the 
 family. Jacob cried like a child, and would 
 not be comforted, though Ard wiped his 
 father's eyes with a vigor that ought to 
 have done some good. 
 
 All this and more Charlie had heard 
 from Huppim, who in the general confusion 
 had not forgotten his blind friend, and 
 had made sure of his safety. Since that 
 terrible night Charlie and Huppim had 
 had a long talk, and never meant to be 
 wholly separated again. 
 
190 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 Naomi in her softened state had given 
 Huppim permission to count Charlie once 
 more among his friends, and poor Jacob 
 cared for little now but the loss of his 
 dear money. 
 
 Muppim felt it a sore trial to be cut off 
 from his family in the time of their afflic 
 tion ; he longed to comfort his mother, 
 and to consult with Huppim as to what 
 was to be done to better their fallen for 
 tunes. 
 
 On one thing Muppim promptly re 
 solved : he had his first month's payment 
 yet untouched he would forward it to 
 Huppim through Mrs. Pay, and say how 
 gladly he would devote all that he c.ould 
 earn to the use of his father and the rest 
 of the family. 
 
 When this resolution was taken, Mup 
 pim felt a little relieved, and then he said, 
 " Forgive me, Charlie ; in my interest 
 about our people, I had almost forgotten 
 
A SURPRISE. 191 
 
 you. Did you lose anything at the fire? 
 Now I want to know what brought you 
 here, and who is with you ; you said you 
 would tell me all about it to-night." 
 
 " And so I will ; we lost everything ! 
 The house was all my mother owned in the 
 world. The letting of some of the rooms, 
 you know, gave us our little income. Oh, 
 Muppim ! I never felt what it was to be 
 really blind, until I knew that my mother 
 needed some one to earn for her her daily 
 bread. She is too delicate, you know, and 
 I know, to support herself and me. Oh, 
 Muppim, that was my bitter hour ! when 
 we could feel on our faces the heat of the 
 burning house, opposite to which we 
 stood, and I knew that we were left desti 
 tute. Huppim, he was at my side, full of 
 hope, saying that now was the time for 
 the boys of the family to come forward 
 and show what was in them ! I showed 
 what was in me then ! I blush to think 
 
192 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 of it I actually cried, Muppim, I so long 
 ed to be my mother's protector ! Then 
 there came a sweet whisper to my mind 
 that I could call on the great Heavenly 
 Friend, who has made such promises to 
 the widow and the fatherless. I gave 
 myself up to him ; I asked him to pro 
 vide for us in his own way, and to keep 
 down my proud heart, that longed to do 
 the work God had riot laid out for me. 
 As I stood there by my mother, I heard 
 Mr. Thayer's voice in my ear ; he took us 
 to his house, and he has been, oh, so kind !" 
 
 " He has taken charge of you I know 
 it just like him I" said Muppim, warmly. 
 
 " Better than that ! better than that, 
 Muppim ! he is going to help me to maintain 
 myself," Charlie quickly replied. " He had 
 seen an advertisement for an organist in 
 this city, and so he would start right off 
 with me, to let the people hear me play, 
 and see what can be done. He has been 
 
A SURPRISE. 193 
 
 out all day about it, and to-morrow I am 
 to try in the church/' 
 
 " I know you will succeed ; you are 
 sure of a blessing," exclaimed Muppim, 
 affectionately. 
 
 "That would be a blessing, indeed," 
 said Charlie ; " but now I must send you 
 off, for it is getting late. I shall be too 
 
 nervous to-morrow to do well, if I don't 
 
 \ 
 
 have my sleep." 
 
 " I shall write the letter to your mother 
 to-night. and you are sure she will hand 
 the money to Huppim, and tell him all my 
 message ?" said Muppim. 
 
 " Sure of it ! I shouldn't wonder if you 
 should hear from Huppirn himself shortly. 
 He did not know where you were, until I 
 told him, just before we came away. Mup 
 pim, he loves you as he does his own eyes." 
 
 " I believe it! I believe it!" responded 
 Muppim ; then, with a hearty " Good 
 night," he parted from his friend. 
 17 
 
XXIII. 
 
 Sip. 
 
 expected to come up 
 to his baptism without a friend as 
 his witness, but the case was far different. 
 When the young Jew stood up before the 
 congregation to be baptized in the name 
 of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, it was 
 with Mr. Thayer and Charlie Fay at his 
 side. 
 
 They who had striven to lead him to 
 Jesus, were with him when he openly 
 avowed his Lord and Master, and was re 
 ceived into his visible church. The ser 
 vices of the day were most appropriate. 
 While the Crucifixion was particularly 
 commemorated, the Jews seemed to be con 
 stantly remembered. 
 
 MuppinVs heart swelled, and his whole 
 
 (194) 
 
THE OUTWARD SIGN. 195 
 
 soul prayed, as he joined in the petitions, 
 " merciful God, who hast made all men, 
 and hatest nothing that thou hast made, 
 nor desirest the death of a sinner, but 
 rather that he should be converted and 
 live ; have mercy upon all Jews, Turks, 
 infidels, and heretics ; and take from them 
 all ignorance, hardness of heart, and con 
 tempt of thy word ; and so fetch them 
 home, blessed Lord, to thy flock, that they 
 may be saved among the remnant of the 
 true Israelites, and be made one fold 
 under one shepherd, Jesus Christ our 
 Lord, who liveth and reigneth, with tl~ee 
 and the Holy Spirit, one God, world with 
 out end. Amen." 
 
 When the text was announced, Mup- 
 pim's attention was in a moment fixed. 
 " And so all Israel shall besaved : as it 
 is written, there shall come out of Zion a 
 Deliverer, and shall tarn away ungodli 
 ness from Jacob." Rom. xi. 26. 
 
196 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 Very earnestly did the minister speak 
 to his hearers of the peculiar people of 
 God, to whom such precious promises were 
 made. He called on all Christians to 
 labor for the conversion of the Jews, and 
 and to do it in faith, knowing that the 
 time will surely come when Israel shall 
 again be exalted, and Christ be the King 
 of the Jews. 
 
 Very precious words were these to TVlup- 
 pirn. New faith and new hope for his 
 own dear family sprung up in his heart, 
 and he rejoiced over them, as if he already 
 saw them bowing the knee to Jesus, and 
 hailing him as Lord. 
 
XXIV. 
 
 f nu 
 
 fHEN Muppim entered church on the 
 Sunday after the Friday on which he 
 was baptized, it was with peculiar solem 
 nity. He was that day for the first time 
 to take the bread and wine of the com 
 munion, in memory of the body and blood 
 of Christ given for us on the Cross. 
 
 This was the Passover season with the 
 Jews, and Muppim's thoughts had been 
 much with his own people. Now he was to 
 understand how " old things have passed 
 away, and all things have become new." 
 
 In his ears were sounded the solemn 
 words, " Christ our Passover is sacrificed 
 for us, therefore let us keep the feast. 
 
 " Not with the old leaven, neither with 
 17* (197) 
 
198 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 the leaven of malice and wickedness ; but 
 with the unleavened bread of sincerity 
 and truth." 
 
 Now, for the first time, the young Jew 
 understood the whole beauty of the sacred 
 feast of the Christians, wherein Christ, 
 who is the Lamb slain for us, is remem 
 bered, even as the Lamb of the Passover 
 had for hundreds of years pointed out his 
 coming. As the blood on the door-posts 
 of Israel preserved their houses from the 
 angel of death, so Muppim felt his Sav 
 iour's blood would make sure his salvation. 
 
 Gladly would Muppim have welcomed 
 his own dear ones to gather with him 
 round the table of the Lord to keep the 
 true Passover, but that privilege was still 
 denied him. Yet, he did not lack even 
 human sympathy in that solemn hour. 
 His hand was in that of his blind friend, 
 whom he gently guided to the place where 
 they were appointed to kneel. There 
 
THE TRUE PASSOVER. 199 
 
 were many in the congregation to rejoice 
 over the converted Jew, and welcome him 
 to the Christian church. 
 
 With Christ's family Muppim kept that 
 day the Passover, and the blessing of 
 Christ was upon him, even that " peace 
 which passeth all understanding." 
 
XXV. 
 
 HE fire that had broken up Jacob 
 Myers 7 home had done away with the 
 restriction by which it was forbidden to 
 mention the absent Muppim. 
 
 Jacob Myers was no longer the head 
 of his family. The poor Jew, who had set 
 his heart upon his earthly gains, could not 
 withstand the shock which deprived him 
 of what he loved best. He seemed as one 
 in a dream, or as a lost child wandering in 
 a strange country. There was no wild- 
 ness in his manner. He was gentle, 
 touchingly gentle, but clung to Naomi as 
 to his stay and guide. 
 
 Huppim plainly saw that they could not 
 long retain even the humble lodgings they 
 had taken. There was not enough left of 
 (200) 
 
A REMOVAL. 201 
 
 Jacob's earnings to keep his family from 
 actual want. His heart yearned for his 
 absent brother. The two he thought might 
 now sustain the family burden, " shoulder 
 to shoulder.' 7 Though young, they might 
 beat back the storm of adversity. 
 
 Naomi, too, thought much of Muppirn. 
 She fancied their present trial was a judg 
 ment upon them for their harshness to 
 their patient, dutiful son. She longed to 
 see that son, and ask his forgiveness for 
 the past. 
 
 Most welcome then were direct tidings 
 from Muppim. Huppim's joyousness seem 
 ed to come back to him, as he looked upon 
 the letter to Mrs. Pay which his brother's 
 hand had so lately traced. 
 
 Naomi was completely melted when she 
 received the earnings of her banished 
 son, so promptly sent to her in her hour 
 of need and trouble. This, surely, was a 
 forgiveness of which the Jew knows noth- 
 
202 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 ing. This was of the same spirit as 
 Muppim's gentleness under rebuke. 
 
 Month after month a portion of Mup- 
 pim's earnings was forwarded to his 
 father's family. Huppim chafed sorely at 
 his own inaction, and when Muppim at 
 length wrote to him that there was a 
 situation vacant in the establishment 
 where he had won favor, and he had liberty 
 to offer it to him, Huppim at once saw 
 the wisdom of accepting it. 
 
 " I cannot be left alone with your father ; 
 we will all go to Muppim. I know he 
 will not meet us harshly," said Naomi, in 
 a low, humble tone. 
 
 Ard gave a bound of joy at the good 
 tidings, and ran to communicate the news 
 to his father. His prattling tongue easily 
 told what Naomi dreaded to mention. 
 
 " Muppim yes, to Muppim. He will 
 know what we had better do," said Jacob, 
 helplessly. So the matter was settled. 
 
XXVI. 
 
 $ Christian family 
 
 (g|l S Muppim and Huppim and Charlie 
 v Fay had shared their childish pleas 
 ures, they now shared their present inter 
 ests and cares. 
 
 Charlie was the organist in a largo 
 church, and occupied in practising and per 
 fecting himself in his art ; he felt it a sol 
 emn privilege to have a share in the praise 
 of the great congregation. With the tones 
 of the solemn organ there went up notes 
 more welcome to the angels even the 
 grateful homage of the blind boy's heart, 
 uplifted to his Lord. Charlie's occupation 
 was such as kept ever in his mind the 
 great object of existence, and he was most 
 useful to his young friends in reminding 
 
 (203) 
 
204 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 them that the cares of this life may check 
 the good seed, as well as its pomps and its 
 pleasures. 
 
 The daily meeting with his blind friend 
 was a constant help to Muppim in his 
 effort to serve God without worldliness, 
 and, in the midst of business, to be " fer 
 vent in spirit 7 
 
 Not a word passed between Naomi and 
 Muppim on the subject of their separation, 
 when they once more met. The mother's 
 loving embrace told her joy at the reunion, 
 and Muppim had already acted out his 
 free forgiveness for the past. 
 
 Ard's delight knew no bounds ; he 
 constantly gave his approving testimony 
 to his brother's consistent life, by declaring 
 " nobody was as good as brother Muppim." 
 
 It was touching to see Muppim's tender 
 care of his broken-spirited father ; he was 
 never impatient of the poor man's childish 
 questionings and weak babble. For him 
 
A CHRISTIAN FAMILY. 205 
 
 the best seat was placed ; to him Muppirn 
 rendered honor, and for him daily prayed. 
 
 Such dutiful conduct, such entire for 
 giveness acted day by day upon Naomi ; 
 she could not withstand the evidence of 
 the truth of a religion which thus spoke in 
 a language which could not be mistaken. 
 
 The happy time came at last, when the 
 Jewish Passover was no more kept at 
 Jacob Myers 7 ; as a Christian family, the 
 mother and her sons knelt at the Chris 
 tian communion ; Ard was being trained 
 up in the Christian faith. 
 
 The sorrowful days of his first embrac 
 ing the truth seemed to Muppim as a sad 
 dream of the past, to be forgotten in the 
 grateful joy of the present. 
 
 Poor Jacob was yet in the house, a 
 memento of their Jewish days ; but even 
 he was catching the Christian hymns from 
 Ard, and, as it were, groping in his dark 
 ness after Jesus, the crucified. 
 18 
 
XXVII. 
 
 f YEARS passed on. Huppim's talent 
 J for business could not escape the 
 notice of his experienced employers ; he 
 was gradually promoted to positions of 
 trust, until at length he was only next to 
 the heads of the firm in his influence in 
 the concern. 
 
 Now he had a handsome salary, and a 
 fair promise of being one day a partner 
 in the establishment, where his value was 
 thus acknowledged. 
 
 Muppirn saw with pleasure his brother's 
 success in the career for which he was so 
 well fitted. For his own part, he had 
 maintained the respect of his employers, 
 but the talent for money-making was not 
 
 (206) 
 
CONCLUSION. 207 
 
 one of his peculiar gifts his heart was 
 elsewhere, in another work, and that his 
 brother well knew* 
 
 " Muppim," said Huppim, affectionately, 
 one evening, " Muppim, I want to do 
 something for our own people ; I cannot 
 rest until more effort is made to lead them 
 to the knowledge of Jesus." 
 
 Muppim grasped his brother's hand, and 
 said, " That subject is on my mind day 
 and night !" 
 
 " I have a plan by which we can both do 
 something for this object," said Huppim, 
 
 Muppim listened with earnestness. 
 
 " This is it : I am prospered ; the care 
 of the family will not hang heavily upon 
 me now. I want you to devote yourself 
 to study ; you are meant for better things 
 than buying and selling. I want you to 
 preach the gospel to our own people. We 
 will have a common purse ; I will be the 
 merchant and you shall be the minister, 
 
208 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 so we can both work for God in our own 
 way." 
 
 Muppim was completely overcome, as 
 much by his brother's delicate generosity, 
 as by the fulfilment of his own dearest 
 hopes. This w^as the opportunity for 
 which he had so longed, during his years 
 of patient industry in a calling most un 
 congenial to his tastes. 
 
 For a few moments Muppim was unable 
 to speak; then he said, " Huppim, I accept 
 the offer as freely as it is made, and may 
 God make me a faithful teacher of the 
 truth to his ancient people." 
 
 So the twin-brothers joined their hands 
 to make known the religion of Jesus to 
 the children of Israel. So should all 
 Christians join their prayers, their means, 
 and their efforts for this great object. 
 
 The veil is more over the hearts than 
 the heads of the Jews. They will not, 
 they do not " search the Scriptures." They 
 
CONCLUSION. 209 
 
 need to be urged to read the Old Testa 
 ment, which they acknowledge, and so 
 they will be ready to embrace the New. 
 
 The Lord Jesus himself said, " If they 
 believe not Moses and the prophets, 
 neither will they believe though one rose 
 from the dead." The Jews must learn to 
 study the Old Testament, praying that 
 they may be guided to the true Messiah. 
 
 When Israel will seek to know the 
 Lord, then shall the God of Jacob pour 
 out his blessing upon them, and turn them 
 unto him, as with one mind and one heart. 
 
 We cannot follow Muppiin in his career 
 of usefulness, or tell how Naomi rejoiced 
 to see her prayers at the birth of her twins 
 fulfilled in God's own way. 
 
 We may not linger to describe Ard's 
 joy over every Jew converted to the truth, 
 or Charlie Fay's gratitude at the success of 
 the ministry of his friend, for whom he so 
 constantly prayed. 
 18* 
 
210 THE JEWISH TWINS. 
 
 The faithful laborer has a sure promise 
 of blessing on his labors, but not in this 
 world is counted up the increase. 
 
 When the Passovers and Communions 
 of earth are over, then, at the marriage sup 
 per of the Lamb, it shall be seen who have 
 sought out the " lost sheep of the house 
 of Israel," and guided them to that blessed 
 region, where there shall be " one fold 
 and one shepherd." In the New Jerusa 
 lem, they " who have turned many to right 
 eousness shall shine as the stars forever 
 and ever ;" and they who have labored 
 for the Jews upon earth, will certain 
 ly be abundantly rewarded by the King 
 of the Jews, the everlasting Son of the 
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