^EL TRIUMPH! 
 
 \MONG THE Jews
 
 Ex Libris 
 C. K. OGDEN
 

 
 HER MAJESTY THE CJIEES. 
 
 May all love o'erehiulow thee : 
 The I'lVf 111' all thy Huna cncouipass thee. 
 The I'lve ••{ .ill thy (laiightiTS cherish thee, 
 Tlie line iif all thy peojile cumfort thee, 
 Till (iixl'.i love set thee at HLs side agaiu. 
 
 AliE there thuiiilcrs moaning in the distance ? 
 Are there s|)cctrc.< niovinc in the darkness ? 
 Trust the Lord of Liglit U> guide her iw-ople 
 Till the thunders pass, the s|>ectres vanish. 
 And the Light is Vietor, anil the Harknc!« 
 Dawns into the Jubilee of the Agea. 
 
 TE.N.SY.SOS.
 
 AN APPEAL TO THE QUEEN AND CHRISTIANS IN ALL LANDS. 
 
 AS t lie iiitliicnce of tlios(! who arc liij^lu'st. 
 ill station is imsju-ukahly great cither 
 for f;(H)(l or for evil, we wisli it were ))OSNible 
 for Her Majesty to say to tiie Lords and 
 Gentlemen of the Commons : — 
 
 "It is my lieart's desire and pi-ayer to f Jod, 
 that the close of.'my reign may be celebrated 
 specially by the conversion of myriads of 
 Jewish and Cientile souls; tliat all my 
 Christian subjects, and all other Christians 
 
 Our caiiiest desire is that ( 'hristians 
 Ihroiighoiit the I'nited Kingdom and all 
 other lands, woidd bring the cause of the Jew 
 from th(- background to the front ; that they 
 would place it Ar«< in their loving thoughts 
 and prayerful efforts; that they would inscribe 
 upon their banners, "We are not ashamed 
 of the < lospel of ( 'hrist, for it is the power of 
 God unto salvation to Tin; Jew I'insT and 
 also to the Greek." \Ve think llmt would be 
 
 y'^f^.< 
 
 ll.li.H. rHE lit KK 
 
 KKNT, 
 
 " Our Queen's belovdd sire, whose lofty views, 
 Evincctl conip.xssion for the outcast Jews ; 
 And — not nninindful of the feeling shown, 
 (iod sets His roy.ll race upon e.arth's liighest throne I 
 
 throughout the world, would begin from now 
 to use all the means in their power to lead 
 the Jews to CHRIST, for His s.ike, for their 
 own sake, for our sjike, and for the world's 
 sake, inasmuch as they are to be the honoured 
 instruments in the hand of the Divine Spirit 
 in bringing all grades of heathendom into the 
 great Father's Kingdom, in order that His 
 will, which is right and which is liest, may 
 be done on earth as it is ilnne in Heaven." 
 
 a memorial worthy of Christians in every 
 part of our globe and of Lrit.iin's noblest 
 .sovereign ; a memorial that would glitter 
 u|ion her brow like the morning star upon 
 the foreiie.-id of the .sky, the pledge of 
 biaghtening, broadening d;iy ; a memorial 
 that would hasten the coming of the glori- 
 ous Jubilee of a regenerated and rejoicing 
 world.
 
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 of England.
 
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 DURING Tiiii Victorian Era. 
 
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 Rev. JOHN DUNLOP, 
 
 SECRliTARV OK THL UKITISH .SOCIKTY KOK THK JKWS AND EDITOR QK THIC JEWISH HliKALD. 
 
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 TO THE 
 
 Lovers of Israel 
 
 AND 
 
 Friends of the British Society for the Jews, 
 
 ON both sides or the Atlantic, 
 
 THIS Jubibee Volume 
 
 IS 
 
 DEDICATED 
 
 IN BROTHERLY AFFECTION AND ESTEEM, 
 AND WITH DEVOUT GRATITUDE 
 
 TO OUR Heavenly Father, 
 
 for mercies, 
 
 all bearing his beautiful likeness, 
 
 countless as the summer's sunbeams, 
 
 bestowed upon us every day, 
 
 for more than 
 
 Fifty Years.
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 IN sending forth this Jubilee volume we have to express our regret that its publication 
 has been so long delayed, on the one liand through illness and absorbing secretarial 
 and editorial duties, and on the other hand, from causes which it was not in our power to 
 obviate. 
 
 We are sorry also that for want of space we have been obliged to give portraits of 
 pi-eachers and missionaries without sketches, and crush out articles and illustrations 
 enough to fill a volume equal in size to this. Then, once more, the lives and labours of 
 such representatives of the Society as the Revs. John Gill, M.D., Josiah Miller, M.A., 
 Robert Grant Brown, Principal McAll, <fec. ; and such spiritual sons as the Rev. 
 Abraham Ben Oliel, and his brother, the Rev. Maxwell Ben Oliel, Dr. Schulhof, 
 Dr. Benzion, Mr. J. B. Lazarus, Mr. C. D. Jo.seph, of Jerusalem, and the Revs. 
 John Wilkinson, and James Adler, of the Mildmay SILssion, would take more than 
 one volume to do them justice; and yet we have only been able to insert a brief account 
 of the work of the last two named. 
 
 Many years ago Mr. Wilkinson wrote to the office for copies of the Annual Reports, 
 Jewish Heralds, lectures, sermons, &c., which the Society had published. A parcel of 
 these was sent to him in due course, which he studied diligently, and afterwards, in his 
 own way, reproduced in the discharge of his difficult and important double task as the 
 Society's able and earnast Missionary and Deputation. The Jubilee volume contains 
 some fine specimens of these early literary products of the Society ; it also includes many 
 striking incidents of Jewish conversion, and all the telling arguments in favour of Jewish 
 Missions. In fulfilling our task as editor, our aim has been for the glory of God and the 
 good of His people Israel, to make the book an impressive and inspiring record of the 
 British Society's Jewish Mission work ; and we entertain the conviction that we have 
 succeeded. The book proves that the London and British Societies are the illustrious 
 mothers of modern Missions to Israel. In a word, our Jubilee volume is a storehou.se of 
 interesting and instructive facts and figures, arguments and illustrations, adapted alike to the 
 aged and the young, which unmistakably show that the work of Jewish evangelization during 
 the last 50 years has Iieen so rich in spiritual results that it deserves and demands from 
 the members of the C'hiistian Church a million-fold more support than it has yet received. 
 
 Again, in perusing the book, we would affectionately ask all our readers to bear in 
 mind, and carry along with them to the end, the following important considerations : — 
 
 (1.) That the golden sheaves presented in it are only a few taken from ten 
 thousand reaped by our faithful missionaries in our home and foreign fields during the 
 past half-centui-y. 
 
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 xii. Preface. 
 
 (2.) Not long ago, an eminent scientist stated that " Two-thirds of the i-ays emitted 
 by the sun fail to arouse in the eye the sense of vision. The rays exist, but the visual 
 organs requisite for their translation into light do not exist. And so from this region of 
 darkness and mystery which surrounds us rays may now be darting which require but the 
 development of the proper intellectual organs to translate them into knowledge, as 
 far surpassing oiu-s as ours surpasses that of the wallowing reptiles which once held 
 possession of this planet." Even so it should not be forgotten that the results of our 
 work ai-e necessarily far more concealed than revealed. Sir Humphrey Davy, when 
 complimented on the discoveries he had made, said, " Yes, I have made many discoveries, 
 but the greatest discovery I ever made was Michael Faraday." So, too, what a discovery 
 Barnabas made when he found Saul of Tarsus, the Jew ; and what a significant act was 
 his when he took him by the hand and spoke a good word on his behalf ! Such has been, 
 and such is, the mission of the British Society. Even now there may be trophies of the 
 Society about to show themselves ; men filled with an irrestrainable enthusiasm for Christ 
 and souls, men all aglow with the white heat of Christian love and Christian consecration, 
 men like Eabinowitz and Lichtenstein who, as tools in the Lord's basket, are handle 
 upward — ready to His hand — for the accomplishment of wonders of grace unprecedented 
 in the history of the Church, for the realization of — 
 
 '■ Scenes surpassing fable, and yet true 1 — 
 Scenes of accomplished bliss, which who can see, 
 Though but in distant prospect, and not feel 
 His soul refreshed with foretaste of the joy ? " 
 
 (3.) Astronomers inform us that the heavenly bodies, with moon revolving round 
 planet, and planet round sun, in obedience to some mighty cosmical force, are all moving 
 forward century by century, in one dh-ection, to a definite point in space. Even so, the 
 speculations of philosophy, the discoveries of science, the achievements of art, the march 
 of armies, the preservation of the Jews amid unspeakable persecutions, the propagation of 
 the Gospel among them, these and sumlai- events, under Divine propulsions, consciously 
 or unconsciously, to the agents themselves, are all moving forwai-d to a fixed period, 
 even the time when every one of the prophecies concerning Israel's glory and joy 
 shall be fulfilled. 
 
 The unparalleled sufferings of the D^WDI? " The Ancient People," literall)', " The 
 Everlasting People," have a bright as well as a dark side. The stars of faith and hope 
 have never entirely set in Israel's sky ; and they have always burned brightly in the deep, 
 dreadful night of persecution. The darker the night of sorrow grew, the brighter the 
 promised stai-s shone through. So will it be till, with lessening ray, they usher in 
 millennial day. 
 
 " There are times," said Benjamin Franklin, " when an artist can scarcely distinguish 
 between a rising and a setting sun." HappUy, this is not our position in regard to 
 Christianity. Those who are best acquainted with its progress among Israel's sons and 
 daughtei-s are fii-mlj' persuaded that Christianity is not a setting but a rising sun, and 
 that solely on account of this, there is a golden future for them, and through them for the 
 world. Nothing can be more certain than that which is past. Just as sure, then, as the 
 events which happened yesterday, the supreme mission of the Jewish nation, namely, the
 
 Pref(ux. Tail. 
 
 evangelization of humanity, will be realized by and by, through faith in a ci-ucified, living, 
 loving, coming Christ. If it bo absolutely certain that the children of Isiael have 
 experienced sufttn-ings inexpressibly severe, it is no less certain that they will sing for joy 
 the " song of Moseys and the Lamb " on Mount Zion, and all the nations round alwut will 
 sing with them. 
 
 Let us then listen to all the voices in Holy Scripture, and from the various Mission 
 FieliLs, at home and abroad, summoning us to greater sympathy, prayerfuhie.ss, liljerality, 
 and exertion ; telling us, as with trumpet tongue, that the rea.sous for maintaining and 
 extending the operations of the British Society never before were so strong as they ai-e at 
 the present moment ; that it is our solemn duty, and our unspeakable privilege, to increa.se 
 the number of our missionary stall', inasmuch iis thereby we shall bo helping to bring 
 nearer the period "when Israel shall blossom and bud and fill the face of the world 
 with friut." 
 
 (1.) In fine, it is our growing cenviction that the time will soon come when we shall 
 see the plants and trees, the flowers and fruits of our beloved Society in the full sweetness 
 and perfection, the unspeakable grandeurs and glories of the eternal summer made by the 
 presence of Jesus in the fields of Heaven. 
 
 Man's life here is like a rain-drop upon the bough, among ten thousand of its 
 sparkling kindred; any moment it may fall and disappear. Sudden as the coming of a 
 shower, as the twinkling of an eye, all our splendid oppoi-tunities may be gone for ever. 
 What is done for Jews and Gientiles by each of us should be done quickly and with both 
 hands, earnestly. 
 
 For your own sake, then, dear readers — for Israel's siike —for the world's sake — above 
 all for Christ's sake, who died for us all, do something at once; pray, give, work, and 
 thereby you will hasten the advent of His day and share in its indescribable beauty 
 brightness and blis.s — 
 
 " Out i)f the diirk, the circling sphere 
 Is roiuiding onward to the light ; 
 We see not yet the full day here, 
 But we do see the p.iling night. 
 And hope that lights her fjwieless fires. 
 And faith, that shines a heavenly will. 
 And love, that courage re-inspires, 
 These stars have been above us still. 
 Look backward, how much h;i.s been won ! 
 Look round, how much is yet Ut win ! 
 The watches of the night are done ; 
 The watches of the day begin." 
 
 J. DUNLOP, 
 
 96, tiiiEAT RissELL Stbekt, Secretary and Editor. 
 
 Bloomsbi'ht .S(<uark, London, W.C.
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 THK JL'BII.EE OF THE BKITISH 
 SOCIETY — The Service on Siimky 
 Evcuiiig — Tliu Seriiiou by Dr. Adams 
 °" .",•'"'"' tlie Baptist's Message tu 
 Cbrist" — BajitLsm of a Jewish Family, 
 and the Lord's Supjwr— The Meetiiig 
 on Monday, November 7th — Hymn 
 written for the occasion — The Presi- 
 dent's Address— The Secretary's Ac- 
 count of the founding of the Society, 
 and Suiimiary of fifty ye^irs' grand 
 work— Addresses by Dr. Xeuman, Dr. 
 Adams, Kev. Aaron Sternberg, Rev. 
 William Walton Clark of New York- 
 Letter from Dr. Edmond— Letters from 
 
 two of the first .Subscribers 
 
 THE LA.ST DAYS OF MR. McCHEY'NE 
 SERM(JX BY MH. ilcCHEYNE 
 THE BIBLE IN JACOB'S WELL ... 
 UEV. J. DUXLOPS TRIBUTE To Dl{ 
 ANDHEW BOXAR 
 
 IXCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF REV. 
 RlDl.EV HEItSCHELL 
 
 OK. NiiKMAN .MACLEOD'S TRIBUTE 
 To MR. HER.SCHELL 
 
 IJR. BURDER, THE BRITISH 
 .SOCIETY'S FIRST CHAIR.MAN, 
 AND IJRS. HENDERSON AND 
 HAMILTON, THE FIRST TWO 
 SECRETARIES 
 
 .MH. (;EOK<iE YONGE, THE FIR.ST 
 I i EN ERAL SECRETARY— B r i e f 
 Sketch by his Brother, Rev. W. C. 
 Yimge— An A|>i>eal for the Jews which 
 appearcil in the Congregational Maga- 
 zine for 1829- A Sample of the 
 Secretary's Letters — Two Letters to 
 the Young— LelUr to the Editor of 
 the Jtwinh UenilA, on What has Iwcn 
 done by the Society f— Circidar Letter 
 to the .Missionaries- Letter to Mrs. 
 Herschell, introducing a resolution of 
 .Sympathy 
 
 REMINISCENCES OF REV. W^ C. 
 VO.NGE— His Birth, Education^ 
 -Ministry, &c.—A Siiecimen of his 
 Letters on Ijehalf of the British Society 
 —His .Sermon ..n "The Fall and Restora- 
 tion of Jacob"— All Extract from his 
 Book, '-The New TesUment Seer "— 
 The Committee's Resolutiiin cjf Sym- 
 jKithy with Mrs. Youge on the occasion 
 of her HusJKind's Death -His Chrift- 
 like Ixjve, the Secret of His Success in 
 winning Jen-ish and Gentile Souls 
 
 1—27 
 28—30 
 30-34 
 
 34,35 
 
 36-39 
 
 40-47 
 
 47,48 
 
 49-92 
 
 92—112 
 
 II -2— II!) 
 
 TWO PROMINENT MEMBERS OF 
 OUR FIRST COJIMITTEE: Rev. 
 John Cumming, D.D., and Rev. Joseph 
 Fletcher, D.D ng 123 
 
 REV. THO.\IAS BINNEY, LL.D.. D.D., 
 
 one of the Founders ... 123 124 
 
 REV. JOHN PYE SMITH, D.D., LL.D., 
 iVit., the First Lecturer on behalf of the 
 •'''"ciety 126—1.30 
 
 REV. FRANCIS AUGUSTUS CO.X, 
 D.D., LL.D., on "The National Charac- 
 t<?ristics of the Jews " .... 132 142 
 
 REV. THOMAS ARCHER, A.M., D.D., 
 
 on " The Dl-ipersion of the Jews " ... 142—154 
 
 REV. JAMES BENNETT, D.D., on 
 
 "The Present Condition of the Jews" 154—172 
 
 REV. J.^ C. BURNS, A.M., D.D., on 
 " The Encouragement which Christians 
 have to undertake the Conversion of 
 the Jews'' 173—176 
 
 REV. JOHN HARRIS, D.D., on "The 
 Glory which will redounil to God from 
 the Conversion of the Jews " 177 — 181 
 
 JOSHUA AVILSON. ESQ., one of the first 
 
 .Members of Committee 182 
 
 THE SOCIETY'S FIRST TWO MIS- 
 SIONARIES — (1.) Rev. B. David- 
 son, ,is a Missionary in London — The 
 Society's Hebrew Christian Prayer 
 Union, founded in 1843 by Mr. Her- 
 schell and Mr. David.soii Jlr. Davids.jn 
 as an Author— As the Principal of the 
 i^ociety's Jewish Mission College — An 
 Visiting Superintendent of the Mission 
 Stations— His Testimonies to Mission- 
 aries at Home and Abroad— As >Us- 
 sionary in Vienna — Typical passages 
 from his Journal — A Remarkable Fact 
 — As the Suijeriutendcnt of the S<x;iety'a 
 Home at Leyton — HLs Dejith there the 
 instrumental cause of the Conversion 
 of Jews. (2.) Mr. IsKvKi, Nai'HTai.1, 
 Manchester— His first Efforts and Suc- 
 cesses—The Story of the Life and 
 Death of S., one of the first company 
 of Converts— The Life, Cnversioii and 
 Baptism of D.— Three Typical Extracts 
 from Mr. Naphtali's Journals— His De- 
 parture, aged 86 1S2— 198 
 
 (JENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE 
 
 FIRST FOUR MISSIONARIES ... 199 
 
 REV. JOHN JACK 200 
 
 REV. PHILIP J.\FFE -His early Hfe— 
 Led to visit Englanil — Meeting with
 
 s\-i. 
 
 Conte)its. 
 
 two Christian ladies — Converted when 
 reading the New Testament — Engaged 
 as a Missionary — In the Society's College 
 — Xuremberg, his Principal Mission 
 Field — Cases of Conversion: A Jew 
 Converted through a Lost Bible — A 
 Jew's Conversion, Persecution and 
 Eecognition— Mr. Jafl"^'s triumphant 
 Departure 201 — i08 
 
 A, CLUSTER OF FIRST FRUITS— The 
 British Society the Mother of the 
 Netherland Society — Letters from Dr. 
 Capadose— Interesting incident related 
 by Dr. Capadose 209—211 
 
 THE STORY OF THE CONVERSION 
 
 OF A JEW 211—214 
 
 SIR CULLING EAEDLEY-EARDLEY, 
 BAKT.— His Jewish and GentUe 
 Descent — His Marriiige and Motto —His 
 First and Last Services for the Society 
 —£1,000 the result of his last 
 Offer — His Christian Catholicity — His 
 Laliours on behalf of Oppressed Jews 
 and Gentiles — His Sudden Illness and 
 Death — Reminiscences of Sir CuUing 
 Eardley, by A. J. Arnold, Esq., the 
 General Secretary of the EvangeUcal 
 Alliance 21-1—223 
 
 THE HON. AND REV. BAPTIST NOEL 
 — His connection with the British 
 Society — Notes of his Address at the 
 Tenth" Annual Meeting 223 — 226 
 
 REV. W. M. BUNTING, the British 
 Society's Third Hon. Secretary- — His 
 Early Days and Conversion — The kind- 
 ness of Thomas Farmer — Mr. Bunting's 
 Home and Ministry iu Hackney — A 
 Portrait of him as a Mixlel Hearer — His 
 Secretarial Connexion with the Evan- 
 gelical Alliance and the British Society 
 — His Love of Dumb .-inimals — His 
 Wit and Humour — His Peaceful Depar- 
 ture — His Father, Dr. Jabez Bunting, a 
 Member of Committee — Three Extracts 
 from Mr. Bunting's Poetical Works ... 226 — 231 
 
 THOMAS FARMER, Esti.— His Birth 
 and Boyhood— In His Father's Fact<iry 
 — His Second Birth — His Christian 
 Activity— The EtUtor's Tribute— Mr. 
 Farmer's Interest in the British Society 
 —His Last Days and Death 231—235 
 
 THE FIRST EDITOR OF THE 
 JEWISH EEkALD—Rev. Richard 
 Alliott, LL.D. — Earnests of His Future 
 Career — Co-Pastor — Pastor in Lambeth 
 — In the Professor's Chair- -The Ser- 
 \ice he rendered the Society as 
 Preacher, Tut<ir, and Editor of the 
 Jewish Hcruld — Rea.sons why we should 
 Seek for the Conversion of the Jews ... 236 — 2-10 
 
 REV. J. VINEY AND MR. HERSHON 
 — Mr. Viney's Interest in the Society — 
 Closing pa-ssages of his Lecture on 
 '• The Characteristics of the Jewish 
 Ritual '' — His Letter to the Editor con- 
 taining Touching References to Two 
 Young Jews. Epstein aud Herahou — 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Mr. Hershon's Letter to Mr. Viney — 
 Sketch of Mr. Hershon's Life and 
 Labours — His Birth, Parentage, aud 
 First Home — A Wimderer and Penni- 
 less on his Way to Jerusalem — An 
 example of real Brotherhood — -In 
 Beyrout, Jerus.alem, and London — A 
 Maker of Tools for Missionaries and 
 Slinisters — His "Treasures of the Tal- 
 mud " — The Talmud under the Figure 
 of a Bride — The Temple Destroyed and 
 Foxes walking on Zion, reasons for 
 Rejoicing — Mr. Hershon's peaceful 
 Departure 211—249 
 
 REV. HENRY ALLON, D.D. —Officially 
 connected with the Society from 1845, 
 until his death in 1892 — His powerful 
 and touching Appe,^l to the Jews ... 249 — 253 
 
 REV. JOHN ALDIS— On the List of the 
 Societj-'s Officers as early as 1845 — His 
 Speech at the Nineteenth Annual 
 Meeting, held in April, 1862— Two 
 Touching Letters written by Him to 
 the Secretary in 1892-3 ... 254-257 
 
 DR. COLLYER — As a promising Student 
 and a successfid Minister — His Gift 
 of Forty-one HjTnns to the Society — 
 Three of them as a fair Sample of the 
 CoUection. JAMES MONTGOMERY, 
 Chiistian Journalist, and Poet — His 
 Conversion — His Estimate of Himself — 
 His present of Four Hymns —Died in 
 his Sleep, on the 30th of April, 1854 ... 257— '261 
 
 THE FIRST GROUP OF PRE.\CHERS 
 — Rev. Dr. Smith, of Poplar — Rev. 
 Richard Hamilton, LL.D., D.D., of 
 Leeds — Rev. James Hamilton, M.A., of 
 Regent Square, London ... ... 262 — 264 
 
 JOHN LEIFCHILD. D.D. —The turning 
 points in His Sphitual History — His 
 Last Days — His Early Interest in the 
 Society — His Speech at the Fourth 
 .\nuu;il Meeting... ... ... ... 264 — 271 
 
 FOE THE YOUNG— The Prayer of a 
 Hebrew Boy who became a Missionary 
 of the Britl-ih Society, 1846 271 
 
 THE SECOND GROUP OF MISSION- 
 ARIES. (1.) Rev. G. F. Schwartz— 
 His liabours in Rotterdam — Three 
 Interesting Cases — Touching Incidents 
 of Conversion in Breslau and Dresden. 
 (2.) Mr. Cohen's Conversion — His 
 labours successful at Home and Abroad 
 — In Lyons — Interesting Case of a con- 
 verted Infidel — In Marseilles, he was 
 the means of leading many to Christ, 
 and among them the Aunt of Sir Moses 
 Montefiore -The storj- of Her life pre- 
 pared by us for publication at Mr. 
 Cohen's request — Two letters to Her 
 Nephew — The preface to Her Will. 
 (3.) Mr. William Manning, Missionary 
 m Palestme, 1847 — The Society's first 
 Fruits in Palestine — Pointing out to a 
 Rabbi the only way of Peace — A 
 Jew in Jaffa led to Christ— Christian 
 conversations with a Rabbi in quiet spots
 
 Contents. 
 
 nniuiul Jerusalem — A Jewish Keimily 
 iiii|ire8!<e<l witli tlie fJospel— Making 
 known CliriHt (o Jews in llic Moun- 
 tiin.i hiviuK aii'l W'ukini; in ^lie 
 Caniviui.serei- -A .Seln«pl begun in liey- 
 ruut, with sixteen pu[)tl.s — Seventeen 
 hu|iefnl Inquirers during one year 
 — Summary <>t the re.'ults of the 
 Mission for the Krsl nine years of its 
 existcnee ... 
 
 I'AOK. 
 
 272—301 
 
 TH K .SECOND ailOUP OK PKKACHERS 
 —Dr. Bennett, Dr. Kaffles, and Dr. 
 Archer 301—307 
 
 A PAKABLE FOR THE YOUNG ... 307-309 
 
 AXOTllKlt(iKulIlM(KMlSSIoXARIES 
 — Rev. 1*. K. (joTTHKii., of Wiirtemberg, 
 and some of liis unsjihiried Asaistiints — 
 His Kirth ami early Training — Conver- 
 sion, Baptism, Separation from his 
 Family. &c — Eng-.igeil as a Missionary 
 of the British Society — Ordination and 
 Departure — Hit Marriage — Hi.s Meeting 
 with hU Father and Alother — The first 
 Convert — From Constatt to Stuttgart 
 — A Jewish Child's Confession of Christ 
 — A Brave Young Jewess — Incidents of 
 Jewish Conversion — Testimonial to Mr. 
 Gcjttheil— Christmas Tree with 850 
 Children present — More Spiritual Chil- 
 dren of the Mission — A De^if and Dumb 
 Jewish Family — Three Extracts from 
 his last Journal — His Pe.ieeful Dismis- 
 sion — An Account of his Funeral by Rev. 
 J. M. Fl.ad, liLf Companion in Labour... 309 — 320 
 
 FOUR OF THE FIliST BAND OF 
 STUDENTS TRAINED IN THE 
 SOCIETY'S COLL E (i E — (1.) Mr. 
 \ViLi,l.v.M BiiCTN^JKit — His early Home- 
 life — Le,avin'^ Home after the Death 
 of his Parents — Judaism Found Want- 
 ing — Divinely Guided — Frankfort, his 
 Chief .Mission .SUition — Results — His 
 Last D,ays. (2.) Mr. Jamks Brun- 
 SP.R — His Early Life — Conversion and 
 Baptisui — The Mission in Paris, the 
 first of the kinil permanently established 
 — Paris, the Sceu9 of his Uibours for 
 Twenty-nine Y&irs- -Many Converts — 
 A Striking Instance of Divine Guid.ance. 
 (3.) Rev. James Lowitz — Bom in the 
 Ancient Capital of Poland — Directed to 
 England — Then to C'hrist — Then, after 
 a Successful Course of Training at the 
 Society's College, sent to North Africa 
 — His Work in Algiers — At the Kiosque 
 in the Paris Exhibition in 18'J7, where 
 he distributed 20,00<t New Testaments 
 among the Jews, iVe. (4.) Dr. Lasbron 
 — An Orphan and a Fugitive — A Mis- 
 sionary .Student at the Society's College 
 — A Member of the Church — Leaving 
 the College — ^The loss of a Child lejuling 
 to the oj>ening of a ScIumi], &c. — Modern 
 Miracles: Instances of Direct Answers 
 to Prayer — His Last D.iys — The Funeral 
 Service— Dr. Laseron's Monument: The 
 Deaamess's Institution .and Hospital, 
 Tottenham, Loudon 320—340 
 
 REV. JOHN HARTLEY Brief Sketch 
 
 of his Career .is a Wesleyan Minister ... 341 
 
 FOE THE YOUNG Mr. H.artley's Ad- 
 dress on the .lews ,., ... ... 342 — 350 
 
 FOR THE YOUNG— More Incidents of 
 (onv.rsiciu— Tbi' Conversion and Death 
 of a Christian Jewess — A Jewish Lady 
 Converted by a Little Boy, a Collector 
 for the Society —A Hebrew Child loving 
 Jesus — Conversion and Christian Career 
 of Mr. Herm.ann Liebstein ami Itev. 
 Issachar Flecker ;!51 — 357 
 
 A REPRESENTATIVE (iROlJP OF 
 DEPARTED FRIENDS: William 
 VVeightman, ,Iohn Harvey, Miss l{ead- 
 house, David Bil.son, John Bilson, all 
 Members of the New.ark Auxiliary, es- 
 tablished in 18.50 ... 357, 358 
 
 THE THIRD GROUP OF PREACHERS: 
 — Rev. William Arthur, M..\, — Rev. 
 Ridlev Hersehell-Rev. Ridph Ward- 
 law, f).D 359—303 
 
 FOUR OF THE SECOND BAND OF 
 STUDENTS AND THEIR LABOURS 
 IN THE MISSION FIELD— (1.) Itev. 
 John Wilkinson, London — Two 
 interesting Cases — A Jew dying in 
 Jesus. (2.) Rev. Dr. GlN8iiBH(i — 
 Extracts from his Journals — His great 
 Work: The Ma.ssorah- The M.assorah 
 sent to Vienna by a Queen's Messen- 
 ger — Mr. Salkinson's connection with 
 the Ma-ssorah — Letter of the Secretary. 
 (3.) Rev. Isaac Sai.kinson - Sketch 
 of his Life — His Hebrew Version of the 
 " Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation " 
 — His Translation of " Paradise Lost " 
 Missionary in Vienna - His Hebrew New 
 Testiiment prepared for, .and the Gift of, 
 the British Sixjiety — Facsimile of the 
 First S|>eeimen of it sent to the Secre- 
 tary — The Secretary's successful efl'oi-t 
 to secure its Publication — Testimonies 
 to its Worth — Rev. James Adler, of the 
 Mildmay Mission, one of Mr. Salkin- 
 son's Spiritual Cliildren. (4.) Rev. M. 
 L. Mor.Lis — Selections from his Journals 
 and Letters — His Early Life. Conver- 
 sion, anil Labours as a Missionary — 
 Specimens of Conversions ... ... 363 — 390 
 
 THE COST OP THE COLLEGE FROM 
 
 1847 TO 1853 390, 391 
 
 I'REACHKIIS FROM l.-^SS To THE 
 CLOSE OF THE JTBILKE 391—400 
 
 .MORE PItAYEli WANTi:i ) FOR ISRAEL 
 
 401 
 
 DR. FtliST AND PUOFESSOR PA- 
 LOTTA-Dr. Furst's Baptism -The 
 St<jry of the Gift of a Shilling ti a \)cxir 
 young Jew Two Incidents from Mr. 
 Palotta's Journ.il ... 401—403 
 
 DR. BICKEItSTETH, ]5ishoi> of Exeter. 
 
 conuecteil with the Si>ciety since 1856 404 
 
 REV. B. F. JACOBl, MRS. and MI.SS 
 JACOBI, Konigsberg — Saved from 
 Suicide luid leil to Christ- For tho
 
 Contents. 
 
 Young : Touching Death-bed of a 
 Hebrew Christian ChiW 
 
 THE LATE REV. SAMUEL ISAAC 
 GREEN— One i)f tlie Society's Spiritual 
 sous in Victoria — A Si)ecimen of his 
 Letters ... 
 
 REV. H. PHILIP, M.D., D.D., formerly 
 Medical Missionary in Palestine, and 
 theu in Italy — Services and Sewing 
 Classes in the Ghetto of Rome — For 
 the Young : A Jewish girl in the Ghetto 
 who had found Jesus — Jews and 
 Jewesses in the Ghetto confessing their 
 love to Christ — A Jewess dying as she 
 held the hand of Dr. Philip — His own 
 Departure 
 
 MR. NEUMANN, formerly the master of a 
 large school in the Danubiau Provinces, 
 afterwards and still a faithful Missionary 
 in Hamburg — A Specimen of his 
 method : Conversation with a Jew on 
 the Incarnation — A Soul Winner 
 
 IMPORTANT TESTIMONY TO THE 
 SOCIETY'S WORK IN 1862 
 
 DR. & MRS. ZUCKERKANDL. Rust- 
 chuk; REV. L. & MRS. ROSENBERG, 
 Adrianople 
 
 REV. PAULUS CASSEL, D.D., Berlin— 
 His Life and Work — Interesting Anec- 
 dote — His Last Words ... ... 
 
 PORTRAIT OF REV. M. NACHIM, 
 formerly a successful Missionary in 
 Botushany, Roumania, afterwards and 
 now in Loudon ... 
 
 REV. LEON ZUCKER, Missionary in 
 
 London 
 FOE THE YOUNG- The Story of the 
 
 Work .among (Irjihans, 18li4 — A young 
 
 Convert's gre.ate.st trial ... 
 
 PORTRAITS OF REV. P. DWOKKO- 
 WICZ, Dresden ; MR. E. WEISS, 
 Pressburg ; REV. C. A. SCHON- 
 BERGER, Vienna; REV. A.KAMERAS, 
 Vienna ... 
 
 PORTRAITS OF THE PRINCIPAL, 
 TEACHERS AND PUPILS OF THE 
 SCHOOL IN LEMBERG— For the 
 Young — Poem : The hapjjy Death of 
 a Scholar... 
 
 PORTRAITS OF REV. ISRAEL AND 
 MRS. FRIEDBERGER, Birmingham ; 
 REV. THOMAS WIGLEV i: MR. 
 HESSEL LEVINSOHN, Manchester... 
 
 THE HOME Ff)R AGED CHRISTIAN 
 ISRAELITES AND TWO OF ITS 
 FIRST INMATES— The Death of Mr. 
 PhUipson, aged 95 
 
 PORTRAIT OF REV. PREBENDARY 
 CALTHROP, M.A., the Friend and 
 Spiritual Teacher of the Inmates 
 
 FOR THE YOUNG— The Story of the 
 Fallen Leaf 
 
 THE STORY OF THE GIFT OF A 
 THOUSAND POUNDS FOR A 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 40.5, 40(i 
 407, 408 
 
 408—420 
 
 420, 421 
 421—424 
 
 422 
 
 424, 425 
 
 425 
 426, 427 
 
 427—432 
 
 430 
 
 432—434 
 435 
 
 436—438 
 
 438 
 438, 439 
 
 MISSION HOUSE IN EAST 
 LONDON (with portrait of the Donor) 
 
 THE MISSION HOUSE PURCHASED, 
 AND OPENED— Our Medical Mission 
 for the Jews, the first of the kind estab- 
 lished in London (with portrait of the 
 present Superintendent) 
 
 REV. J. DUNLOP'S JEWISH CLOCK 
 — The Voice of the Clock —Facsimile of 
 a postcard sent by Mr. Spurgeon con- 
 cerning the Clock — The Clock and the 
 Society commended by Mr. Spurgeon... 
 
 THE RABINOWITZ MOVEMENT— F. 
 Yeats Edwards, Esq., and Rev. John 
 Dunlop, the Society's Treasurer and 
 Secretary, present at its inaugur.atiou in 
 Kischiuew — Tlie Parable of the Wheel 
 given to Mr. Dunlop at the close of 
 the Conference ... 
 
 REV. GEORGE FRIEDMAN AND DR. 
 FROHWEIN, our Missionaries in 
 Wilna, Russia ... 
 
 IS THERE NO ROOM FOR THE 
 WANDERING JEW? 
 
 B. J. S. MAP OF RUSSIA, showing 
 Pale of Jewish Settlement 
 
 SIR GEORGE WILLIAMS, for many 
 years a Valued Friend of the Society, 
 and the Chairman of om- First Jubilee 
 Meeting, at Exeter Hall — His Excellent 
 and Inspiring Address, and the Con- 
 cluding Pas.sages of his fine Address to 
 the members of the Y.M.C.A. at the 
 beginning of the Jubilee Year, 1894 ... 
 
 OUR LATE PRESIDENT, W. G. 
 HABERSHON, Esq 
 
 OUR PRESENT PRESIDENT, REV. 
 J. HILES HITCHENS, D.D., Minister 
 of Eccleston Scjuare Church — A 
 Successful Preacher, Lecturer, and 
 Writer of Books — Extract from his 
 Admirable Address at the Jubilee 
 Meeting in May, 1893 
 
 DR. SAPHIR'S PLEA FOR THE 
 SOCIETY'S MISSIONARIES, COM- 
 MITTEE, AND WORK 
 
 REV. JAMES H. RIGO, D.D., a Valued 
 Hon. Secretary and Vice-President 
 
 A DEPARTED HON. MEMBER OF 
 COMMITTEE, the Late Rev. William 
 Tyler, D.D 
 
 REV. W. L. ROSEDALE. LL.D., a 
 Model Member of Committee and a 
 Representative Vice-President ... 
 
 DR. J. E. NEIIMAN, the Society's 
 Spiritual Son and Treasurer ... 
 
 F. YEATS EDWARDS, Esq., Acting 
 Treasurer... ... • 
 
 REV. JOHN DUNLOP, SecrcUuy ... 
 
 CONCERNING THE PORTRAITS OF 
 THE TREASURER, ACTING TREA- 
 SURER, AUD SECRETARY 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 439, 440 
 
 441, 442 
 
 443—445 
 
 44,''.-44S 
 
 449 
 449 
 450 
 
 451—452 
 453 
 
 454-456 
 
 457, 458 
 458 
 
 459 
 
 
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 -464 
 
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 466 
 
 Ku;. 
 
 467 
 
 468
 
 Contents. 
 
 XIX 
 
 OVn VISIT TO A.MKHICA AND 
 CANADA IN l.H-r, BKAKlNi; KRflT 
 NOW 
 
 469 
 
 INVASION OF ol'R MISSION , 
 HorsE BY THK AMERICANS, / 
 1890 470-472 
 
 A REPLY To THK NKW CHIEF 
 RAIUtl IN 1891. ivhieU r.iiiiiiiis Un- 
 answered up to date ... ... ... 472, 473 
 
 ME.MBE1!S OF COMMITTEE AT THE 
 BEGINNING OF THE JUBILEE 
 YEAR, 1892 474 
 
 REPRESENTATIVE MEMBER OF 
 COUNCIL AT THE COMMENCE- 
 MENT OF THE JUBILEE— Rev. 
 F. \V. Browu, M.A., of Clifton 475 
 
 THE SECRETARY'S ASSISTANTS... 470 
 
 FOE THE YO0HG— Little Sarah ami 
 
 Little ls;mc 477—48.'; 
 
 PORTRAITS OF OCR MISSION 
 DEPUTU:S— Revs. Aaron SU-rnbcrK 
 and Uaac Lcvinsobii ... ... ... 482 
 
 OUR JUBILEE VISIT TO OUR 
 MISSIONARIES AND TO RABBI 
 LICIITENSTEIN 485—486 
 
 CONCLUDING PART OF THE 
 JUBILEE REPORT 486-487 
 
 LAST WORDS 487 
 
 A JUBILEE GROUP OF AVORKERS 
 
 — The last four added t<i our Staff... 
 
 THE NEGLECTED JEWS: A Poem 
 
 by the President 
 
 THE GLORIOUS INGATHERING 
 
 FOR ETERNITY 
 
 488 
 
 489 
 
 490
 
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 ^Vlcmories of 6ospc( (triumphs among tbc 3lcixis. 
 
 THE JUBILEE OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION 
 OF THE GOSPEL AMONG THE JEWS. 
 
 THE SERVICE ON SUNDAY EVENING, 
 NOVEMBER C, 1892. 
 
 A SPECIAL service in connection with the 
 Jubilee of tlie British Society was lield 
 on Sunday eveninj:, November Gth, ]S'J2, in 
 Eccleston Square Churcli, Belgravia, London. 
 There was a very larjje and attentive 
 congi-egation. The preacher wa.s the Eev. 
 W. J.Adams, M.A., D.C.L., and late Rector 
 of AH Saints', Dorchester. His subject was, 
 " John tlie JJapti.'ft's Message to Christ," as 
 recorded in Matthew xi. 2-5. From that 
 text Dr. Adams delivered the following 
 admirable sermon, in wdiich lie pressed home 
 the duty of Christians to interest themselves 
 in the well-being of the Jewish people. 
 
 The Sermon. 
 
 It was a glad day in Israel when the 
 trumpet, sounding loud and long, from the 
 Temple, proclaimed that the year of Jubilee 
 had dawned. The bond-servant and the 
 captive hasted to l)e free ; the piison doors 
 were opened : injuries were forgiven and 
 enmities were forgotten ; alienated inheii- 
 tances returned to their original possessors ; 
 and the very land had rest. 
 
 Hut a greater Jubilee was at hand. A 
 Jubilee which shoidd reach higher, and 
 peneti-ate deeper, and embrace a vastly wider 
 range and nobler order of blessing. One 
 which should not only aH'ect the relations 
 between man and man, but between man 
 and God. Nor .slioidd it be for one nation 
 only, but for the whole human race. 
 
 For, }ieyond a doubt, the deliverance which 
 the Go.spel brings Ls the ghuldest and the 
 greatest thing known on earth : gladder 
 than the song of the lark, which rises as it 
 sings; gramler than the upward flight of 
 the eagle, as with iinHinching gaze it .soars 
 maje.stically to the skies ; heaven's own music 
 upon earth floating down through the gates 
 
 ajar ; the harmonies and the melodies of the 
 fountains and the waterfalls of Heaven ; the 
 sweet murmurs of the streams of the river 
 which makes glad the City of God. 
 
 It was fitting that He who came to effect 
 this deliverance should commence His ministry 
 in the year of Jubilee. As He read in the 
 synagogue of Nazareth the appointed Sciip- 
 ture. He could .say of it foi- the first time, 
 " This day is this Scripture fulfilled. The 
 Spirit of tlie Lord God is upon ^lo; because 
 the Lord hath anointed Me to pi'each good 
 ti<lings inito the meek ; He hath .sent Me to 
 bind up the broken-hearted ; to proclaim 
 liberty to the captives, and the opening of 
 the prison to them that are bound ; to pro- 
 claim the acceptable year of the Lord." 
 
 But how was it, it may be askeil, that 
 shoi-tly after this proclamation, John the 
 Ba[)tist, 1 1 is great fore-runnei-, appeared to 
 doubt the Saviour's mission ? The ques- 
 tion is an important one, inasmuch as it has 
 .attiacted the attention of the Jews, and 
 encouraged them in their rejection of the 
 Mc.ssiahship of Je.sus. 
 
 Now, in the first place, it is .all but impos- 
 sible that John could have asked this question 
 with reference to any misgivings of his own. 
 His mother, Elizabeth, was aware of the 
 supernatural character of the Saviour's bii-th, 
 and John, much of whose boyhood was prob- 
 ably spent in the company of Chri.st, could 
 not have been ignorant of the mystery which 
 enshrouded Him. Moreover, as the time 
 drew near for the Saviour to enter upon His 
 public mini.stiy, a Divine impulse had come 
 upon John, and he issued forth as His fore- 
 runner to pre]>aie His w.iy. In this cap.icity 
 he hail pointed Him out to the peojile as the 
 Lamb of (iod, who should take away the .sin 
 of the world. He had borne testimony to 
 Him as one inlinitely greater than himself, 
 of whose increase there should be no end, 
 and at His bapti.-m in the Jordan had seen
 
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 Leaven opened, and heard the Divine voice 
 proclaiming Him to be the Anointed One, 
 and the well-beloved of the Father. 
 
 The rational conclusion, therefore, Ls that 
 John's question was not put for his own 
 satisfaction, but rather for the benefit of his 
 disciples. 
 
 But how, it may be asked, came iJie;/ thus 
 to entertain doubts as to the Messiahship of 
 Chri-st ? The answer lies in the disappoint- 
 ment they felt in reference to the coming of 
 " The Kingdom." John had summoned the 
 people to repent, because '' the Kingdom of 
 Heaven was at hand." As though he had 
 said ; " The righteous King is near. But 
 you are not prepared to receive Him. Break 
 off your sins by nghteousness for He will 
 not spare. His fan is in His hand, and He 
 will throughlj' purge His floor and burn up 
 the chaff with unquenchable fire. These 
 words ice hear with little emotion, but among 
 the Jews, burning with expectation, who had 
 been watching for this kingdom for centuries, 
 and who were now eagerly looking for its 
 immediate manifestation, they must have 
 sounded like the blast of a trumpet, and as 
 startling as the shock of an earthquake. Xor 
 was it John only who had preached the near 
 advent of the kingdom. When John was 
 silenced the Saviour Himself made the same 
 announcement. The people were roused, and 
 the whole land was moved. And now, John, 
 just as the great event seemed to be at hand, 
 was cast into prison, and lay captive in 
 Herod's fortress of MachtPi-us. If Je.sus had 
 reallj"^ come to set the captives free, and to 
 open the pi-ison doors, why did He not 
 deliver His own Fore-runner? They had, 
 indeed, heard the Saviour's wondrous words, 
 and seen His mighty works, but where was 
 the kingdom ? What signs were there that 
 He was about to " build up the Tabernacle 
 of David which was fallen down ? " and that 
 the " Lord God was about to give Him the 
 Throne of HLs father David ? " 
 
 And so they go to John, as he lay, solitary 
 and depressed, in Herod's dungeon — tell him 
 their doubts and fears, and suggest, " ^\'llat 
 if we have mistaken the chai-acter of Messiah's 
 mission ? Is Jesus really the Messiah who 
 is to restore the kingdom to Israel ? " 
 
 " Go to Him," says John, " and tell Him 
 of the expectations of the people and of your 
 own disappointment, and learn from His own 
 lips whether He be the Messiah or no. Ask 
 Him plainly, ' Art Thou He who should 
 come, or look we for another i ' " 
 
 How near the Jewish people weip at 
 
 this time to the re-estabUshment of their 
 ancient dominion, and then missed it as by a 
 hair's-breadth, it is lamentable to contem- 
 plate. But it is no part of my plan to dwell 
 upon that. The Sa\"iour, in His reply, does 
 not refer to the temporal kingdom, but 
 speaks only of the more spiritual de,signs of 
 His coming, and of the proofs of His 
 Messiahship in general. And it is to these I 
 wish now to di-aw your attention. 
 
 John's disciples may be regarded as repre- 
 senting the Jewish nation at large. The 
 Jews are still asking the question, "Art 
 Thou He that should come, or do we look for 
 another ? " Christendom has answered that 
 question in the affirmative, and a mighty 
 Church, which has existed for 2,000 years, 
 enlightening the nations and gathering them 
 into her fold, is satisfied with the credentials 
 of Jesus Christ. But the Jewish people still 
 ■n-ithhold their faith. It is the special work 
 of this and kindred Societies, in the name of 
 the universal Church, to urge upon the Jews 
 the claims of Jesus. And it may be well for 
 us Gentile Christians to embrace an oppor- 
 tunity like the present for considering how 
 weighty and sulficient those credentials are, 
 and how solid are the foundations on which 
 our faith is built. And, also, it may be well 
 for the benefit of our dear brethren (brethren 
 henceforth in a truer and nobler sense) of 
 the House of Israel, who are this night to be 
 enrolled among the disciples of Jesus, to pass 
 under review the claims of the Prophet of 
 Xazareth. 
 
 The Saviour appealed to His words and to 
 His works. " Go and show John again the 
 things which }'e do /tear and see." Let us 
 then consider first the utterances of Jesus 
 Christ, and mark 
 
 I. THE MAGNIFICENT CLAIMS WHICH JESUS 
 MADE. 
 
 1. T/ie Claim of Universal Dominion. — 
 Prophecy foretold this of Messiah, Dan. vii. 
 13, U. The Father promised it, Ps. ii. 8. 
 The Saviour therefore asserted it. John 
 xii. 32. " I, if I be lifted up from the 
 earth, will draw all men unto Me,' And 
 immediately after the Ascension this amazing 
 claim began to be justified. The descendant 
 of Shem subdued the sons of Japhet, Here 
 is a descendant of the House of Israel in 
 whom representatives of all the races of the 
 earth have found and adored their King, He 
 has bent before His throne the a\sthetic sons 
 of Greece, who in His Cross of ignominy have
 
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 discovered a glory which none of their most 
 gifted artists could rival. Before His sceptre 
 have bowed the citizens of imperial Rome, 
 and when, in the ruin of that empire, bar- 
 barous races issued foi-th fi-om the far-olY 
 East, those restless souls bowed down in the 
 dust befoi-e a Majesty of which they liad 
 never dreamed. lie restrained the bmtality 
 of the Middle Ages, when, in the Eenaissance, 
 the antiquity which men had re-discovered 
 into.Nicated their minds. He took hold of 
 the Luthers and Calvins of the age. And in 
 the succeeding age of .science, Coper- 
 nicus and Euler, Newton and Pascal, 
 and other great souls, devoted their genius to 
 Christ and their fellow-men. And so it is 
 to-day. Ho is drawing all men unto Him. 
 Ami<l a meiciless hail of criticism, and under 
 the full glare of the electric light, that 
 Sublime Figure stands calmly towering above 
 all human conceptions and ideals of grandeur, 
 unapproached and unapproachable. The little 
 child born ii. IJethlehem is the great leader 
 of human thouglit, of h\iman enterpri.se, and 
 of human progress. His name is above all 
 others the greatest. It is spoken in every 
 language, and is enshrined in the sacred 
 rece.sses of the hearts of myriads, who would 
 gladly lay down their lives for His di^ar 
 name. Even those who h.'tve withheld from 
 Him the homage of Dignity, have acknow- 
 letlged that He and He alone is worthy to 
 wield the sceptre of universal empire. " Rest, 
 then, upon Thy Throne, O thou victorious 
 One ; for from hencefo»'th, between Thee 
 and God men will no longer distinguish." 
 — Eenan, "Vie de Jesu." 
 
 And the triumphs of the past and of the 
 present are a sure pledge of the future. 
 " His Name shall endure, iVrc. Ps. Ix.xii. 1 7. 
 It is true there have been Alexanders who have 
 aimed at universal empire. Hut they tought 
 it by force of arms ; He claimed it as a right. 
 
 2. His Claim to impart Consolation. — If 
 we could only shake olf the deadening force 
 of familiar woriL*, we should be awed by the 
 sense of greatness conveyed in such words as 
 these : " Come unto Me, all ye that are weary 
 and heavy laden and I will give you rest." and 
 should feel that we were li.stening to a Being 
 such .IS never before, and never since, spoke in 
 human language. And mark the peculiarity 
 of the promise. Not as other teachers and 
 philosophers have said, '• Take comfort and 
 consolation from .such and such truths and 
 such consiilerations," but, " Take comfort 
 from .V*-." " /will give you rest." You have 
 the great, the manifest, the incontestable 
 
 fact that Jesus Christ does console the 
 troubled hearts of men. We have the testi- 
 mony of the poor and needy, the oppr&ssed 
 and the aftiicted in all ages since the words 
 were uttered, that Jesus has done and is 
 doing what prophecy declared Messiah would 
 do : " He shall bind up the broken-hearted." 
 
 3. Ilis claim to forgive sins. — " That ye 
 may know that the Son of Man hath power 
 on earth to forgive sins." This is what He 
 said of Himself : and that too in immediate 
 connection with the startling enijuiry, " Who 
 can forgive sins but God only ? " No one 
 ever appeared on earth who dared to advance 
 so tremendous a claim -a claim which the 
 inward consciousness of millions, in calm 
 peace and tramjuility of mind has stamjied 
 as ab.solutely true — for "the blood of Jesus 
 Christ cleanseth from all sin," is the testi- 
 mony of souls everywhere delivered from its 
 galling bondage. 
 
 4. Xor is this all. — Not only does Jesus 
 offer Himself as a spiritual deliverer from 
 inward and present misery, but He uses 
 language announcing a more mysterious 
 power. He foretells an authority and 
 dominion extending into the future woild. 
 In language which must have startled His 
 hearei^s and to which certainly they were 
 unaccustomed. He declared, " Many will s;»y 
 unto Me in that d;iy, Lord, Lord, have we 
 not prophesied in Thy name ? And in Thy 
 name have ca.st out devils ? And in Thy 
 name done many wonderfvd works ? And 
 then will I profess unto them, I never knew 
 you, depart from !Me, ye that work iniquity." 
 Now here is an assumption of power and 
 authority so august as to be incompatible 
 with the limitations of humanity. Clearly 
 He teaches that His power is not bounded 
 by earth and time and His teaching is 
 in perfect harmony with and indeed is the 
 nece.s.sary crown of His marvellous life and 
 death, His resurrection and glorious ascen- 
 .sion. That " before Him should be gathered 
 all nations" is in keeping with the state of 
 pre-eminent power and glory to which He 
 has ascended. 
 
 5. T/ie claim of Godhead. — Awed as we are 
 by the consciousness of majesty and great- 
 ness pertaining to One who claims to be the 
 future Judge of mankind, we have not yet 
 reached the summit of His greatness — not 
 until we hear Him a.«serting an absolute 
 efjuality with God. " I and my Father are 
 one." " I am Alpha and Omega, the begin- 
 ning and the ending, which is .and whicli 
 was and which is to come, the Almighty." 
 
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 I am aware that theologians draw a distinc- 
 tion between Divinity and Deity, and the 
 assertion lias been made (as by Dr. Wendt, 
 the most recent of German writers on this 
 subject, in his work on " The teaching of 
 Jesus") tliat He did not claim Deity. True, 
 He may not have used the word, but He 
 claimed, asserted and exercised the preroga- 
 tives of Deity — a fact which His enemies 
 perceived and made a ground of their con- 
 demnation of Him, that He being (to all 
 appearance only) a man, made Himself God. 
 That Jesus taught that He was the Son of 
 God in a pre-eminent sense .and stood in 
 a near and unique relationship with the 
 Godhead cannot be denied if His words 
 are to be justly interpreted. 
 
 II. THE SUBLIME CHAKACTEB OF HIS 
 TEACHING. 
 
 1. Its immutability/. — He alone of all 
 Teachers and Prophets foretold the per- 
 petual duration and abiding character of His 
 teaching. Standing one day in view of the 
 Temple, He contra.sted its tenjporary ex- 
 istence with the abiding nature of His own 
 words — " Heaven and earth sliall pass away 
 but My words shall not pass away." And 
 yet it is remarkable that when He uttered 
 this prediction and for many years after, not 
 one of His words was written down ! They 
 were only confided to the memory of a few 
 poor simple men, who liardly understood 
 them. If the threat of Diocletian to buin 
 up all the Christian books, had been realised, 
 immediately new copies would have been 
 written, taken from the memories and hearts 
 of countless thousands of believers who had 
 preserved them saci-edly as their greatest 
 earthly treasure. The teaching of Christ, 
 preserved in four little frail books, has 
 become the glorious heritage of succeeding 
 generations of mankind, who will preserve it 
 .so long as man shall continue on the earth ; 
 until it has taught its last lesson and 
 conferred its last blessing on mankind. 
 
 2. Its abiding inflitence. — You may say 
 perhaps that in this perpetual preservation 
 of the recorded teaching of Christ, there is 
 nothing very remarkable or peculiar to 
 Himself. The writings of other teachers, 
 poets, philosophers, the Homers and the 
 Platos have been preserved too and have 
 come down to us from ancient times and are 
 now the common property of mankind. And 
 it may be asked in what respects does the 
 preservation of the teaching of Jesus Christ 
 differ from that of others ? I reply in this 
 
 — that unlike all others, the teaching of 
 Jesus Christ is unchanging in the authority 
 it possesses over the minds of men. In 
 every age and in every clime and in every 
 race, His gospel exercises a marvellous power 
 and charm ; rules the conscience, subjugates 
 the will, and captivates the heart. The 
 spell which enchanted the hearers of the 
 Lord to exclaim, " Never man spake like 
 this Man," has fallen upon the whole human 
 race, and while Mohammed and Buddha 
 speak only to their own immediate disciples 
 and have no message for mankind at large, 
 the children of Shem and of Japheth and of 
 Ham — the Slav and the Saxon — the German 
 and the Latin, in countless millions listen to 
 Jesus as to One who speaks with authority 
 and as a teacher sent from God. Why is 
 this? 
 
 3. The originalili/ of His teaching. — In 
 three .short sentences what sublime views He 
 gives of the Godhead ! CJod is love. God is 
 light. God is a spirit. 
 
 What value He stamps upon the human 
 soul. His thrilling and unnnswered challenge 
 runs down the ages. " What is a man 
 profited if he shall gain the whole world and 
 lose his own soul, or what .shall a man give in 
 exchange for his soul ? " 
 
 What beauty and sacredness does He hang 
 around the blow of infancy and childhood ? 
 " Suffer the little children to come unto Me, 
 and forliid them not, for of such is the 
 Kingdom of Heaven ! " 
 
 With what wisdom He assessed the true 
 value of earthly possessions. Instance the 
 reply to the man in Luke xii., and the 
 parable which followed. 
 
 In general, with regard to the teaching of 
 Jesus Christ, I fearlessly throw out this 
 challenge : Where else will you find a 
 teaching to surpass it? Nay, where else 
 will you find a teaching to compare with it ? 
 Think of the Sermon on the Mount ! Think 
 of the Parables ! Can you improve upon 
 the beauty, the pathos, the solemnity, the 
 eloquence of the Parables of the Good 
 Samaritan or the Prodigal Son 1 If you 
 wanted to alter the teaching of Jesus Christ, 
 where would you begin ? " Blessed are the 
 pure in heart, for they shall see God." 
 Would you alter that ? " Be ye therefore 
 perfect, even as your Father which is in 
 Heaven is peifect." Would you lower that 
 inspiring utterance ? Surely His words are 
 burning, living, stimulating, life-giving words, 
 and if the teaching of Jesus Christ could be 
 blotted out from the memory of mankind,
 
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 a morally (Jeforined race won Id arise, niton 
 whose (lark sky siifli sacred stars as duty, 
 lovo, faitli, jiardon, eternal life, would set to 
 rise no more. 
 
 in. THE STUrESDOUS WORKS HE WIIOUOHT. 
 
 1 . Mark tlm rich jrroduialUi/ of the list. — 
 " The blind receive their sight ; and the 
 lame walk, the lepers are cleansed and the 
 deaf hear, the dead are raised up." Jjong 
 familiarity 
 with the mar- 
 vellous cata- 
 logue blunts 
 our minds to 
 these extraordi- 
 nary triuiiipiis 
 over the forces 
 of nature. 
 Witliout any 
 set harangue 
 about the gran- 
 deur of His 
 office, or the 
 dignity of His 
 nature, or the 
 greatness or 
 ditliculty of the 
 iiiiiacles He 
 was al out to 
 work, he pro- 
 ceeds with infi- 
 nite ease to put 
 to the ]iroof his 
 amazing power. 
 But alas! His 
 stupendous 
 works become 
 as familiar to 
 us as tlie events 
 of ordiiiarylife, 
 and the career 
 of tlie most 
 extraordinai-y 
 Being t hat ever 
 lived on earth 
 is regarded 
 with an interest almost inferior to the halo 
 which encircles the great men of our own 
 day, who are yet unworthy to stoop down 
 and unloose the latchet of the sandals of 
 Jesus Christ. 
 
 2. These miracles fulfiUed proj)hec>j. — This 
 is important, for if Je-sus had wi-ought no 
 miracles, how could He have claimed to be 
 the Messiah ? " Thy dead men shall live." 
 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, 
 and the ears of the de-af shall be unstopped : 
 
 the lame man shall Irap as an hart, and 
 (he tongue of the diuub shall sing. "Go 
 and show John again, the things ye do 
 see." 
 
 3. The modern tendenoj is to undervalue 
 the miracles. — It may be that in former days 
 too much stress wa.s laid upon them as 
 evidences of the truth of Chri.stianity, to the 
 neglect of the jiroof which arise.-? from the 
 subject matter and teaching of the Gospel. 
 
 Jjut on the 
 other hand, we 
 must beware of 
 uiiderva luing 
 the enormous 
 significance of 
 the miracles 
 and the tre- 
 mendous issues 
 at stake. For 
 either Jesus 
 Christ dill stop 
 thefuneral pro- 
 cession at the 
 Gate of Nain, 
 and in the 
 |ir(>scncc of the 
 uiouincrs .and 
 the iriultitude 
 which followed, 
 say " Young 
 man, I .say unto 
 thee arise," or 
 He did not. 
 Either He did 
 go to the gra\e 
 of Lazarus and 
 cry " La/.arus, 
 come forth," or 
 He (lid net. 
 It He did not, 
 then His whole 
 life wa,s an im- 
 jjosture ; the 
 Gospel is a 
 
 Tlie Founder of ttie London Sucictij and the Forerunner of the British Sociili/.^^ , ! ^ . 
 
 ■ laith IS vain. 
 
 Jiut if He did, then He fulfilled the predicted 
 acts of Messiah, and He was that which these 
 mii'acles were wrought to prove. 
 
 4. The cavils (f the Jews that the miracles 
 were pious frauds is easily brought to an 
 i.ssue. Let the Jews produce the evidence 
 that God wrote with His own haml the 
 Tables of the Law and delivered them to 
 Moses on Sinai, and we will put alongside of 
 this evidence the proofs that God raised 
 Jesus from the dead. Let the Jews give ua
 
 MeraOries of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 the evidence of the truth of the magnificent 
 miracles by Moses which it is asserted were 
 the means of the deHverance of their fathers 
 from Eg3'pt, and we will supply the evidence 
 which estabhshes the miracles of Jesus Christ. 
 And we are willing to call in as umpires to 
 decide the question as to the side on which the 
 gi-eatest amount of evidence lies, any of the 
 great lights of learning who are not committed 
 to either faith ; and we have not the shadow 
 of a doubt as to what the decision will be, 
 that tliere is not more convincing pioof for 
 one than the other, and also that the mii-acles 
 of Christ are more glorious than those of 
 Moses — wider in their range ; fuller in their 
 love ; more significant in their teaching ; 
 appealed to a higher realm of thought ; and 
 wrought for a Diviner purpose, because upon 
 their truth depends the true salvation of 
 mankind. 
 
 5. Nor can Jews and Sceptics any logger 
 denounce the Gospels as unhistorical. — ■ 
 Will they be more destructive in their 
 criticism than Eenau ? Are they more 
 competent than he to decide the question of 
 the authenticity of the Grospels ? Sceptic as 
 he was, with poison in his golden goblet to 
 pour into the sweet and pure wine of the 
 Christian verity, he yet was over-ruled to 
 render it one great service. He compelled 
 Europe, by the fame of his genius and the 
 brilliancy of his language, to listen once more 
 to the story of the marvellous and unrivalled 
 life. He turned the eyes of men once more to 
 the cross on Calvary and laughed to scorn the 
 recklessness of the German criticism which 
 had denounced the Gospels as nottrustworthy, 
 and the story of Jesus as a myth. It is not 
 too much to say that Renan has settled this 
 question for generations to come, and 
 triumphantly defeated the daring attempt to 
 destroy the faith in the glorious revelation of 
 God ; and for thi.s, his unwilling testimony to 
 the substantial accuracy of the Gospel history 
 we may well be thankful, for scepticism has 
 uttered its last word, and that word is 
 "faith." 
 
 In conclusion, let me say to our brethren 
 of the House of Israel who are now to be 
 admitted by Baptism into the Church of 
 God, go to your people, and the synagogue, 
 and tell them what a glorious Redeemer you 
 have found ; say to them, \Ve have found Him 
 of whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets 
 did write. May you be faithful to Him 
 even unto death, that you may receive fiom 
 Him a crown of life. 
 
 To all this congregation let me give the 
 
 word of exhortation. Let this adorable 
 Redeemer be more and more the joy of your 
 life ; tell out abroad His wondrous love. His 
 mighty acts of grace, lift Him up in the 
 estimation of all around you ; defend His 
 honour and maintain His cause; and, above 
 all, show forth His praise by a holj' and con- 
 sistent life. 
 
 The Society which now appeals for your 
 support has been greatly honoured in bringing 
 into the fold of the Good Shepherd very many 
 of the scattered sheep of Israel. It is worthy 
 of your sympathy. I say this with a confi- 
 dence born of knowledge. Through your 
 prayers and encouragement, it shall yet be 
 instrumental in turning increasing multitudes 
 of the children of Israel to the Lord their 
 God. 
 
 Baptism of a Jewish Family, and the 
 Lords Supper. 
 
 After the sermon, the pastor, who is also 
 the president of the British Society for the 
 Jews, the Rev. Dr. J. Hiles Hitchens, 
 baptized five Jewish converts to the Christian 
 religion, viz., Joseph Gibson, Abigail Gibson 
 (his wife), and their family, Sarah, David, 
 and Dinah. The adult candidates audibly 
 responded to several questions as to their 
 voluntary submission and heartfelt accep- 
 tance of Christ. They were then baptized 
 with water from the River Jordan. The 
 ordinance of the Lord's Supper then followed. 
 The Revs. Dr. Adams, Dr. Hiles Hitchens, E. 
 O. C. Roeder, and Paul J. Turquand took 
 part in the service. The area of the church 
 was filled with Communicants. 
 
 THE MEETING ON MONDAY, NOV. 7. 
 
 The Jubilee Meeting was held on Monday 
 evening, November 7th, in Lower Exeter 
 Hall. The e.steemed president of the Society, 
 the Rev. J. Hiles Hitchens, D.D., ably 
 occupied the chair, and in his opening 
 address gave a splendid keynote to the 
 meeting. Mr. Henry Evans, the organist and 
 choir-master connected with our President's 
 church, and members of his choir, rendered 
 us excellent service by leading us in sacred 
 song. 
 
 The meeting was begun by singing the 
 following beautiful hymn, which was written 
 for the occasion by a long tried and valued 
 friend :
 
 The Jubilee Meetings of the British Society, 
 
 Joyful the year of Jubilee, 
 
 In Huniiy days of ynre, 
 Wlifii tniMipet-l>liusts Jiuloan hills 
 
 Kcluied from ahure tn shore. 
 Xiiw Hilenee reigiis, anil diirkeniug clouds 
 
 Shallow the goodly land ; 
 Scittered throughout the world's wide sweep, 
 
 iHrael's once favoureil band. 
 
 Their wondrous history we trace, 
 
 With keen pathetic zest, 
 Longing to guide their weary feet 
 
 Wliere they may safely rest, 
 Beneath the cross of Him whose name 
 
 They scornfully despise : 
 Oh ! Saviour dear, by healing touch, 
 
 < )pen their blinded eyes. 
 
 We thank Thee, Lord, for quicken'd zeal, 
 
 For yearning, tender love 
 Flooding the hearts of Christian men, 
 
 Their sj'uipathy to prove, 
 With the conipasiiion Jesus felt 
 
 For Israel's wandering sheep. 
 With Him we pray, " Father, forgive, 
 
 With Him in pity weep. 
 
 With reverent joy our Jubilee, 
 
 We celebnite to-day. 
 For faithful service, generous gifts, 
 
 Tro()hies Thy grace display. 
 We praise Thee, Giver of all good, 
 
 Yet plead with courage bold 
 Fulfilment of Thy gracious pledge 
 
 Hy prophet-seers foretAjld. 
 
 Great Spirit, missioned from above 
 
 To spread pure Christly light. 
 Oh ! Ha-sh the truth on Hebrew minds. 
 
 Put doubting thoughts to flight. 
 Come cloud or sunshine, calm or storm, 
 
 Onward our motto be. 
 Our rallying watchword, sharp and clear, 
 
 " For Christ and Victory I " 
 
 K. P. R. 
 
 The Rev. E. S. BaylifTe, B.A. (h.te of 
 Bristol, now of London), offered earnest 
 prayer, and the Rev. T. Wigley, secretary 
 at Manchester, read impres-sively the 67th 
 Psalm. 
 
 The President's Address. 
 
 We have gathered tliis evening to celebrate 
 tlie Jubilee of the " Briti.sh Society for the 
 Propagation of the Gospel among the Jew.s." 
 Fifty year.s ago, several devout men like 
 Ridley Herschell (the father of the present 
 Lord Chancellor), Dr. Andrew Bonar, and 
 Robert M'Cheyne, felt that notwithstanding 
 all the efforts made on behalf of tlie Jews, 
 enough wa,s not being done for a race of 
 people so honoured of God. Soon November 
 7th, 1842, this Society was established, to be 
 worked on purely undenominational lines. 
 
 Now a Jubilee is a festival of Jewish 
 origin. Moses was directed by God to enact 
 a law that there should be not only a Sab- 
 batical year, but that at the end of every 
 seventh Sabbati<-al year there should be a 
 solemn season of rest and rejoicing known as 
 the Jubilee. Appropriating this idea, we in 
 modern times have had festivals at the expi- 
 ration of fifty yeai-s of a monarch's reign, a 
 man's life, a Christian minister's career, 
 and a society's history. 
 
 As this Society is for the benefiti of the 
 Jews, I want, for a min\ite or two, to carry 
 your thoughts back to the Jewish Jubilee, 
 and deduce from it one or two practical 
 lessons. 
 
 First the Jubilee year among the Jews 
 of old was to be one of rejoiciny. It was 
 proclaimed by a flourish of trumpets through- 
 out the land. Happy greetings between 
 man and man prevailed. The slaves were 
 freed, garlands were worn, and festive 
 amusements abounded. Now we want 
 this Jubilee year of our Society to be 
 one of rejoicing. AVe do not meet here 
 with gloomy spirits and downcast faces. 
 We are glad. We are grateful. We are 
 free. For the first time for long we 
 meet delivered from all the discomfort and 
 annoyance covered by that ugly little word 
 • — debt. We rejoice to-night that the Society 
 was ever founded. We rejoice over the 
 great things it has accomplished. We rejoice 
 at what is now being done, and the noble 
 band of men now at work. We rejoice at the 
 prospect of seeing still greater things than 
 these. Indeed, we are reivdy to sing our 
 Jubilate with a clear, loud voice, and a hope- 
 ful, happy heart. 
 
 Then, secondly, the year of Jubilee was 
 one of rest. The Jews were not to sow nor 
 reap, nor gather their grapes. So there is a 
 sense in which we wish tliis year to be a year 
 of rest- -not the rest of indolence, inactivity, 
 and indifference, but the re.st of complacency, 
 confidence, reinvigoration, and hope — the rest 
 of the faith in the unchanging promi.se and 
 fidelity of God. In the pass of Giencoe there 
 is, or there used to be, a seat wth the words, 
 " Rest and be thankful." It was not intended 
 that they who accepted the advice should 
 remain for ever there, but that they should 
 pause, review the way, and brace themselves 
 up for a renewed effort thiough the [iiuss. 
 Just so, we say, let this year be one of i estful, 
 confiding reviewal of God's goodnes.s to His 
 people, and to us as a society, which shall lead 
 to fresh and more forceful endeavours to
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs anioiig the Jexvs. 
 
 bring men to . Christ. We have rest from 
 pecuniaiy anxiety and needless worry ; let us 
 " rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him," 
 and He will grant us the desires of our hearts. 
 
 But thirdly, the Jubilee year was to be one 
 of restitution. Houses and lands were to be 
 restoi'ed to' their rightful owners. We want 
 this Jubilee year to be one of restitution. 
 Every now and then you see in our daily 
 papers a paragi-aph headed " conscience- 
 money," on i-eading which you find that some 
 person, whose name is given, has sent to the 
 Chancellor of the Exchequer a certain sum of 
 money which he feels he ought to have paid 
 before into the Treasury of the country. 
 Now, if professedly Christian men and 
 women will look back over their past, and 
 then look at their obligations to the Jew, 
 they will iind they have done little, perhaps 
 nothing, for Israel. Think of these wonderful 
 people, whose history runs like a golden 
 thread through the tangled skein of every 
 nation's life ; think of their contributions to 
 literature, art, science, and politics ; think 
 that from them came our Holy Redeemer, 
 and through them came our Book of books ; 
 and then think "what return have I made ?" 
 Take the sum into the precincts of the cross 
 of Jesus. There calculate, as in Christ's 
 presence, what you owe, and let this be the 
 year of restitution — the Jubilee. 
 
 Sirs, Christ, the young Jew, loved His 
 Jewish brethren. He sought their conversion 
 lirst. He told His disciples to begin at 
 Jerusalem. Peter, entrusted with the Gospel 
 keys, opened the dooi's to the Kingdom of 
 Heaven first to the Jews. Yes, Christ's 
 heart was set upon the well-being of His 
 race, and can we who wish to follow His 
 example be indifferent. When Bruce of 
 Scottish fame died, he wished his heart to be 
 interred in the holy sepulchie at Jerusalem. 
 Douglas, his brave warrior-servant, placed 
 the heart in a casket and set out with the 
 precious relic. Being almost overcome by the 
 Moors as he passed thiough Spain, he took the 
 casket from beneath his garment and threw 
 it among the men who were opposing him, 
 shouting that where the heart of Bruce went, 
 a Douglas wouUl follow. Shall not this spirit 
 fire us 1 The heart of Christ went out to 
 His Jewish biethren. He yearned for their 
 salvation. Shall not we follow Him ? Let 
 us begin to-night and make this Jubilee year 
 memorable. 
 
 The Rev. J. Dunlop, the Secretary, gave 
 the following deeply interesting account of 
 
 the founding of the Societ}-, and a vivid 
 summary of the 50 yeare' grand work : — 
 
 MEMORIES OF C40SPEL TRIUMPHS 
 AMONG THE JEWS DURING THE 
 VICTORIAN ERA. 
 
 All that I can do this evening is to 
 select two or three golden threads out of 
 the outside fringe of this vast subject, and 
 set before you some of the Forerunners, 
 Founders, and a few of the first and last 
 Fruits of the British Society. The first 
 thread is the work of Joseph Samuel C. F. 
 Frey, who was at once the Founder of the 
 London Society, and one of the Forerunners 
 of the BritLsh Society. The second thread is 
 the Mission of Inquiry into the state of the 
 Jews in Palestine and other lands, undertaken 
 by Dr. Black, of Aberdeen, Dr. Keith, of 
 St. C3'rus, Robert M'Cheyne, of Dundee, 
 and Andrew Bonar, of Collacc. The third 
 thread is the conversion and consecration of 
 Ridley Haim Herschell, who was to the 
 British Society all that Mr. Frey was to the 
 London Society, and something more. 
 
 The First Thread. 
 
 Joseph Samuel C. F. Frey was born on 
 September 21st, 1771, in Maynstockheim, 
 near Kitzingen, in Franconia, Geimanj'. 
 There were several links in the chain of his 
 conversion and jireparation for his great work 
 among his brethren. 
 
 1. His uncle had embraced Christianity 
 and had lived and died a Christian. 
 
 2. His sister's deliverance from death, in 
 answer to the fervent supplications of his 
 ljiou.s father, made a deep imjiression upon 
 him when a boy, and continued to influence 
 him powerfully even when he had become, 
 like Mnason, an old disciple. He says: "One 
 of my sisters, aged about five j-ears, after an 
 illness of a few days, wa-s found wrestling 
 with death. My father, who was then in his 
 study, or place of devotion, being informed of 
 it, simply replied, ' All is well,' and remained 
 undisturbed. About two hours afterwartls 
 my sister was found dead. My father, on 
 being immediately made acquainted with the 
 fact, said ' I will come and see her.' About 
 four hours after this, whilst all the family 
 and friends were in the deepest distress, mj' 
 dear father entered the room, approached 
 the bed, touched the child's hand, and said 
 ' My beloved daughter, how are you ? ' To 
 our great astonishment, at that moment, 
 the child opened her eyes, which had been
 
 Till' ,1 iili'dee Meetings of tlw British ^SorlHi/. 
 
 covered over, and atiked for a drink (if water. 
 My sister {iriidimlly recovered, and J have not 
 yet been infornie<l of lier <leatii. O, liow 
 gi'eat is the power of ])myer! Lord increase 
 my faith, and give me a greater portion of 
 the spirit of piayer and supplication." 
 
 3. W'lien lie was lea\ing lioine at the age 
 of twenty-one, the farewell words of his godly 
 fatlier .sank deep into liis lie:ut. lie describes 
 the scene thus: — "On the day of my de- 
 parture, my dear fatlier accompanied me a 
 little waj' out of the town, and at the moment 
 of parting he laid his hands upon my head to 
 give me a part- 
 ing blessing. 
 The words he 
 made use of 
 \v ere t h ii s 
 deeply im- 
 pressed on my 
 mind, and will 
 never lie for- 
 gotten by me. 
 They were 
 these : — ' The 
 Angel of the 
 Covenant be 
 with thee.' 
 Little did I 
 think that he 
 alluiled to the 
 Aiiijel Jr/toiiih, 
 who appealed 
 to the patri- 
 archs Abra- 
 ham, Isaac, 
 and Jacob; 
 that spoke to 
 Moses out of 
 the liery bush ; 
 that gave to 
 Israel the law 
 from !Mount 
 Sinai ; and of 
 whom Jehovah 
 
 Himself said, ' Behold, I send an angel before 
 thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring 
 thee into the place which I have piepared. 
 Beware of Ilini, and obey His voice ; provoke 
 Him not, for //<; trill not pardon ijoiir 
 transijresBions : for My Xaine is in Ilim ' ' 
 Neither did I then conceive what I now firmly 
 believe, viz., that that very Angel Jehovah is 
 Jesus of Nazareth, Who, in the fulness of 
 time, was born at Bethlehem, died on Mount 
 Calvary to atone for our sins ; rose again for 
 our ju>tilication ; for ever liveth at the right 
 hand of God to make interce.ssion for us, and 
 
 REV. BOBEBT M. M'clIEY.NE. 
 
 who will come again (to reign over the earth a 
 tliou.sand years), and judge the whole world 
 in lighteousnes." 
 
 4. ]n going fioni Ilandnn'g to Schwerin, 
 he met and had conver.sat ion with a Jewish 
 teacher, who had found Christ, and wjia 
 delighted to give a r(Mi.soii of the hope that 
 was burning in his soul like a .star. Ho took 
 out his Bible and rea<l, " Behold, the days 
 come, saith the Lord, that I w-ill make a new 
 covenant with the house of Israel, and with 
 the house of Judah, not accor<ling to the 
 coven.'int that I made with their fathei-s in 
 
 the day that I 
 fl took them by 
 the hand to 
 bring them out 
 of tlie land of 
 Kgypt, which 
 My covenant 
 they brake, al- 
 though 1 was 
 a husband to 
 them, .saith the 
 Lord : V)ut this 
 shall be the 
 covenant that 
 I will make 
 with the house 
 of Israel: 
 After those 
 days, saith the 
 Loi-d, I will 
 write My law 
 in their inward 
 parts, and 
 write it in their 
 he a its: and 
 will be their 
 God, and they 
 shall be My 
 people." " You 
 perceive," .said 
 he, "that the 
 covenant of 
 ceremonies should be succeeded by another 
 and better covenant. It is evident, therefore, 
 that the former has ceased, for sacrifices, which 
 were the life of all other ceremonies, as well as 
 Jerusalem, the jilace where they were to be 
 oflered up, are both no more ; the new 
 covenant must have been ratified, and this was 
 done when Jesus died on the cross and the 
 veil of the temple was rent from the top to 
 the bottom." This part of Scripture which 
 had been so brought Ijefore Mr l-'rey's notice 
 for the fii-st time, and read and explained 
 with the accent of Christian connction,
 
 10 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jetvs. 
 
 greatly impressed him and formed one of the 
 important turning points in his Hfe. 
 
 5. His meeting with the Kev. Dr. Haupt 
 at Wismar, to whom he went weekly for 
 instruction, where he saw for the first time 
 in his life a copy of the New Testament, and 
 where by comparing the Messianic prophecies 
 of the Old Testament with the fulfilment, 
 recorded in that New Testament, he was 
 soon convinced that Jesus is the Christ. 
 
 6. His meeting with a gentleman who 
 gave him a letter of recommendation to the 
 Rev. Mr. Cortum, the Lutheran pastor, of 
 New Brondenburg. Mr. Cortum showed him 
 great kindness, supplied his temporal wants, 
 gave him Christian instruction twiceaweek,at 
 length baptized him on the 8th of May, 1798, 
 and gave him, according to the custom in 
 Germany when a Jew is baptized, new names. 
 The names wei'e Christian Frederick Fi-ey ; 
 Christian, to indicate the religion he had 
 embraced ; Frederick, which means rich in 
 peace, to express his good wishes for him ; 
 and the surname Frey, which means free, to 
 remind him of the text of the sermon preached 
 on the occasion ; " And ye shall know the 
 truth, and the truth shall make you free." 
 " If the Son, therefore, shall make yow free, 
 ye shall hejree indeed." 
 
 7. His meeting with Messrs. Michaelis 
 and Thormon, two experienced disciples, who 
 took him by the hand and pointed out to him 
 the life that should be lived by those who 
 call themselves Christians. 
 
 8. On Saturday, June 22nd, 1799, he 
 arrived at Berlin, where, as in other places, 
 he earned his living as a shoemaker, and 
 where he was led to enter the Missionary 
 Seminary there, in order to be trained for 
 mission work. In June, 1801, while he was 
 there, the Directors of T/ie London Missionary 
 Society had wi'itten for three missionaries to 
 be assistants to Dr. Vander Kemp in Africa. 
 The thi'ee brethren chosen, after earnest 
 prayer by the Superintendent, the Rev. Mr. 
 Jaenicke, were brothers Palm, Ulbrieht, and 
 Frey, who left Berlin for London on the 11th 
 of July, 1801. On Tuesday, September 15th, 
 they reached Gravesend. Messrs. Palm and 
 Ulbrieht were allowed to proceed to London 
 soon after their ariival, but Mr. Frey was 
 obliged to wait behind for two days until a 
 passport was forwarded. Thus detained and 
 unable to speak a word of English, he felt 
 much depressed. In the evening he prayed 
 very earnestly for guidance. About two 
 o'clock a.m., he had the following striking 
 dream, which had much to do with determining 
 
 his future sphere and work, and which was 
 afterwards literally fulfilled. 
 
 " Dream. — I read in a paper, that the two 
 brethren, Palm and Ulbrieht, a.s well as myself, 
 were to preach in London : that the Jews in 
 partioidar were fin a most affectionate manner) 
 invited to the discourse which I was to deliver. 
 The appointed day approached ; an immense 
 crowd collected, and I was enabled to preach to 
 them with great freedom, and to lift up my 
 voice like a trumpet. I thought that the effect 
 of this discourse was, that I was afterwards 
 desired to stay in London, to preach bc)th to Jews 
 and Christians : to which I replied that I could 
 not ]iossibly part with my dear brethren. Palm 
 and Ulbrieht, and let them go alone ; but that 
 if the directors would send for another mission- 
 ary, to accompany those brethren, I would con- 
 sent ; and with which the directors having 
 complied, I resolved to remain in England." 
 
 The Directors of The London Missionary 
 Society decided that Mr. Frey should remain 
 in England and labour among his brethren. 
 But as he knew nothing of the English lan- 
 guage, they resolved that he should be sent 
 to the Missionary Seminary in Gosport under 
 the care of the Rev. David Bogue, in whose 
 church we had the pleasure of pleading the 
 claims of the British Society some years ago. 
 There, under that noble Tutor, Mr. Frey was 
 trained and thoroughly equipped for his life 
 work. In May, 1805, he left Gosport to 
 begin his labours among his brethren in 
 London, under the auspices of the Directors 
 of 7'/ie London Missionary Society. On July 
 6th, 1805, at their reque.st, he began weekly 
 lectures at the Rev. Mr. Bell's chapel, Jewry 
 Street, Aldgate, which was attended by num- 
 bers of Jews, some of whom were blessed, and 
 by Christian ministers, among whom was the 
 Venerable John Newton, who was seen 
 bathed in tears. At this time Mr. Frey was 
 the only gospel preacher in the world to his 
 own brethren. The difficulty of finding em- 
 ployment for, and dispensing temporal relief 
 to needy converts, caused such friction among 
 some of the Directors, that it led to the resig- 
 nation of Mr. Frey, and to his formation, 
 along with others, of the London Society jor 
 PromotiiKj Cliristiunity amongst the Jews" 
 which was begun on the 4th of August, 1808, 
 with a committee composed of C'hristians of 
 diflferent evangelical denominations. That 
 committee purchased the lease of the French 
 Protestant Church, situated at the corner of 
 Church-street and Brick-lane, Spitalfields, 
 and called it "The Jews' Chapel." There 
 Mr. Frey began a lecture which attracted 
 large congregations, among whom were from
 
 The JvMlee Meelinf/a of the British Society. 
 
 11 
 
 two to three hundred Jews, a considerable 
 ininiber of whom publicly confessed Christ 
 by baptLsin. Here again the difficulty of 
 finding employment for the converts seemed 
 almost insurmountable. Hei-e, also, another 
 problem pressed for solution, which culmin- 
 ated in the voluntary withdrawal of all the 
 Nonconformists from the institution, and its 
 reconstruction on a Church of England basis, 
 when the Rev. Lewis Way stepped forward 
 and gave£lU,000, by which the debt, which 
 threatened its extinction, became a vanished 
 quantity, and which laid the foundation of 
 its future stability and success. 
 
 This change led also to Mr. Frey's separa- 
 tion from the Society which he had been the 
 means of forming, and which he lovingly 
 called his own child — a child which he 
 never ceased to pray for, and in whose grow- 
 ing prosperity he greatly rejoiced. 
 
 During his nine years of mis.sionary labours 
 here, he had preached the Gospel to his 
 brethren and advocated the claims of Jewish 
 mi.ssions through all parts of England, 
 Wales, Scotland and Ireland, with blessed 
 financial and spiritual results. 
 
 After this God had a great work for His 
 servant to do in Americii, where for a time 
 he was the able and faithful pastor of a 
 Presbyterian Church in New York, and 
 afterwards of Baptist Churches in Newark 
 and Sing Sing ; where he was the means of 
 founding and fostering IVie American Society 
 for Meliorating the Condition of the Jews ; 
 where, from hLs arrival in 1816 to 183", he 
 had been privileged to travel upwards of 
 50.000 miles and preach five thousand one 
 hundi-ed and forty-seven times, with good 
 grounds for the conviction that hundreds of 
 souls had been spiritually and permanently 
 blessed. 
 
 During the last nine months of his life, 
 as he was walking through the valley of dark 
 shadow, he was sometimes in unspeakable 
 bodily p lin, and yet he could exclaim with 
 Paul, " Goi hath not given me the spirit of 
 fear, but of power, and of love and of a 
 sound mind." He made the remark again 
 and again, " My JewLsh brethen have often 
 said that I was a hypocrite, and that I should 
 never die a Christian : but / ;'■/«/( Uiem to know 
 that the;/ vere miitaktn.'' A few hours before 
 his death he was asked, " Are the skies still 
 bright before you ? " "0 yes ; / have never 
 luvl a doubt." Soon after this he was asked 
 in regard to his standing in Christ and his 
 peace in the prospect of death, and he replied, 
 " Unshaken." 
 
 " Here, my Boul, thy trust repose. 
 
 If Jeans is forever tliine ; 
 Not death itself, tliat last of foes, 
 Can break a uuiuii so Divine." 
 
 Thus, with firm footing in the Eock of 
 Ages, with not a cloud above, not a fear 
 within, in perfect peace, J. S. Christian 
 Frederick Frey ascended to the star-domed, 
 many-mansioned City of Glory, more than a 
 conqueror, through llim that loved him and 
 gave Him.self for him. 
 
 The Second Thread. 
 
 Mr. and Mrs.Woodrow built up in Glasgow, 
 by the aid of the Divine Spirit, a sweet home 
 from which there went up fervent believing 
 prayer, and went out untiring practical 
 sympathy on behalf of God's ancient and 
 everlasting people, for about forty years. 
 
 Mr. Woodrow was the author of a solid 
 book on unfulfilled prophecy. It was he 
 who stirred up the General Assembly of the 
 Church of Scotland to send forth a deputa- 
 tion to inquire into the condition of the Jews 
 in Palestine and other lands. He was the 
 wTiter of the admirable address which the 
 General Assembly adopted as their letter to 
 the sons and daughters of Abraham, scattered 
 throughout the world, which was translated 
 into several languages and circulated among 
 the Jews in many lands, even by ilrs. Woodrow 
 herself, in spite of her widowhood, the 
 infirmities of age, and the fatigues produced 
 by long journeys in foreign countries. 
 
 The deputation sent forth by the General 
 A.ssembly in 18.'j9, consisted of Dr. Black, 
 Dr. Keith, Robert MCheyne, and Andrew 
 Bonar. Mr. Woodrow was unable to go 
 through illness. 
 
 Robert M'Cheyne w.as the instrument of 
 doing a great work for God in Dundee. Even 
 his look in the pulpit had led to thesaU-ation 
 of souls. And yet his health became so 
 impaired that he was obliged to withdraw 
 from his pulpit and his flock. He went to 
 hLs old home in Edinburgh, with the pillar of 
 cloud and fire going before as a guiding, 
 guarding, and gladdening light. The most 
 momentous results often hang upon the 
 slenderest threads, that God, the Almighty 
 Maker, Mover, and Master of the Universe, 
 may have all the glory. Our venenilile 
 friend, Dr. Andrew Bonar, in his Ix-autiful 
 Memoir of Jl'Cheyne, gives one of those 
 threads in the following passage : — " He 
 (M'Cheyne) was still hoping for, and 
 submissively asking from the Lord, speedy 
 restoration to his people in Dundee,
 
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 and occasional!)- sending to them an epistle 
 that breathed the true pastor's soul ; when 
 one da}', as he was walking with Dr. Cand- 
 lish, conversing ontlie Mission to Israel which 
 had lately been resolved on, an idea seemed 
 suddenly suggested to Dr. Candlish. He 
 asked Mr. M'Cheyne what he would think of 
 
 filled with joy and wonder. His medical 
 friends highly ap})roved of the proposal, as 
 being likely to conduce very much to the 
 removal of his complaints, — the calm, steady, 
 excitement of such a journey being likely to 
 restore the tone of his whole constitution." 
 It was now burnt in upon M'Cheyne's heart 
 
 KEY. ANDREW A. BOXAR, D.D. 
 
 Author of " Narratire of A Mission to the Jews," "Memoir and Remains of En: Rohert M. M'Oieyne," 
 
 and other works. 
 
 " being useful to the Jewish cause, during his 
 cessation from labour, by going abroad to 
 make personal inquiiies into the state of 
 Israel ? " The idea thus suggested led to all 
 the after results of the Mission of Inquiry. 
 Mr. M'Cheyne found himself all at once 
 called to carry .salvation to the Jews as he 
 had hitherto done to the Gentiles, and his soul 
 
 that he ought to respond to what he was 
 convinced was a Divine call to him to arise 
 and visit the Holy Land on behalf of the 
 Jews. But some of his people could not bear 
 the thought of parting with their beloved 
 pastor, and they did all they could to persuade 
 him not to go. It was hinted that the soul- 
 saving work at home would be hindered if he
 
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 left them. But after he had the assurance 
 that his lifeloiiff friend, Andrew Bonar 
 would accompany him, nothing could move 
 him from his jiurpose. They went, and it 
 was while they were away on th:;i/ mission of 
 love to the Jews, that a revival burst forth 
 in Kilsyth anil in Mr. M'Cheyne's Church, 
 Dundee, the lilcssed ett'ects of wiiich will not 
 hefully known until the books are opened in 
 the great Hereafter. 
 
 In Mr. M'Cheyne's Tenth Pastoral Letter, 
 headed and dated, Ereslau in Prussia, 
 October 16th, 18.39, there are two or three 
 word pictures which show that afflictions are 
 included in the catalogue of God's choice.st 
 benedictions ; that His tenderest mercies 
 often come to us hidden under the wings of 
 His roughest winds. 
 
 HEKE IS OXE OF THESE FICTURES. 
 
 " From the day we left Egypt till we came 
 to !Mount Lebanon, for more than two 
 months we were con.stantly journeying from 
 place to place, living in tents, without the 
 lu.xury of a chair or a bed. In these circum- 
 stances, with my weak body, and under a 
 burning sun, you must not wonder at my 
 .silence. At the foot of Mount Carrael I 
 began one letter to you, and again in sight of 
 the Sea of Galilee I began another, but 
 neither did I get finished. Last of all, 
 before leaving the Holy Land, I set apart a 
 day for writing to you, but God had another 
 lesion for me to learn. He laid me down 
 under a burning fever, bringing me to the 
 verj' gates of death. Indeed, my dear people, 
 I feel like Lamrus, whom the Lord Jesus 
 raised from the tomb. I feel like one sent a 
 second time with the message of salvation, 
 to speak it more feelingly and more faithfully 
 to your heart.s, as one whose eye had looked 
 into the eternal world. In all our wanderings 
 you have been with me by night and by day. 
 Every scene of Immainiel's land brought you 
 to my remembrance, becau.se every scene tells 
 of Jasus Christ and Him crucified. In the 
 wilderne.ss, in Jeru.salem, beside the Sea of 
 Galilee, at Smyrna, on the Black Hea, on the 
 Danube, you have l«en all with me. I have, 
 day and night, unceasingly laid your case 
 before God. It has been one of my chief 
 comforts, that though 1 could not preach 
 to you, nor come to you, I could yet pray for 
 you. Perhaps I may obtain more for you in 
 this way, than I could have done by my 
 personal services among you. Another joy to 
 me has been, that I know all of j-ou who 
 pray, pray for me. This has been a lamp 
 
 to me in many a dark hour. God has 
 wonderfully presei-ved us through your 
 prayers. In the south of the Holy Ljind 
 we were daily expj.sed to the plague. Every 
 night we heard the wail of the mourners going 
 al)out the streets of Jerusalem ; yet no plague 
 came near our dwelling." 
 
 HERE IS ANOTllEK. 
 
 " Of the Holy Land I can only say, like the 
 Queen of Sheba, ' that the half was not told 
 me.' I shall always reckon it one of the 
 greatest temporal blessings of my lot, that I 
 have been led to wander over its mountains, 
 with my Bible in my hand — to sit by its 
 wells, and to meditate among its ruined 
 cities. Not a single day did we spend tliere 
 without reading, in the land itself, the most 
 wonderful traces of God's anger and of 
 His love. Several times we went to the 
 Mount of Olives, to the (iarden of Geth.se- 
 njane, to the Pool of Siloam, and to the 
 village of Bethany, and every stone .seemed to 
 speak of the love of God to sinners. These 
 places are probably very little altered from 
 what thej' were in the days when Jesus 
 tabernacled among men, and they all seemed 
 to say, ' Hereby perceive we the love of God, 
 because He laid down His life for us.' " 
 
 When Dr. Black, Dr. Keith, Robert 
 M'Cheyne and Andrew Bonar returned, they 
 had a story to tell which stirred the C'hiistian 
 heart of Great Britain and Ireland to its 
 very depths. 
 
 In 1841, Mr. M'Cheyne visited Ireland on 
 behalf of Israel. He was on the platform on 
 the great day of the union of the Irish 
 Presbyterian Synods. During his visit he 
 pleaded the cause of the Jews from various 
 pulpits, and aa the re-sult of his appeals 
 a memorial was presented at the sitting of 
 the First A-s-sembl}-, founded on which they 
 sent forth, in 1842, their first little company 
 of missionaries to seek the lost sheep of the 
 Hou.se of Israel. 
 
 Dr. Black's fall from the back of his 
 camel, and his fear that he would not be 
 ah)le to endure the fatigue of a journey into 
 Galilee, led him and his fellow traveller. Dr. 
 Keith, to return home by Constantinople 
 and the Danube, and to vi.sit Vienna and 
 Pesth. In I'esth Dr. Keith was seized with 
 an illness which continued itntil they made 
 the important discovery that there was a 
 wide door open in Hungary for a Gospel 
 Mi.ssion to the Jews. So, when enthusiasm 
 on behalf of Israel was awakened, as it had 
 never been before, by such discourses as
 
 u 
 
 Memories of Gospel Trin'm.'pha among the Jews. 
 
 Dr. Bonar and Mr. M'Cheyne delivered, a 
 specimen of ■which will be found on page 30, 
 it was resolved to begin a Mission, not in 
 Palestine but Ln Hungary, not in Jerusalem 
 but in Pesth. This order leceived the stamp 
 of the Divine approval in glorious results. 
 There went forth to labour among the 
 Jews in Pesth. Dr. Duncan, Mr. Smith, and 
 specially the Rev. W. Wingate, who is still 
 living, aged 84. and who is an honoured 
 member of the British Society's Committee. 
 Mr. Wingate was the means of the conver- 
 sion of the Sapliir family. At the celebration 
 of the Juliilee of the Free Church of Scotland 
 Jewish Mission, held on the evening of the 
 24th of May, 1S89, Dr. Saphir said : " I 
 remember the first Sunday service.s held in 
 the hotel for the English residents at Pesth, 
 when Dr. Duncan and Mr. Smith and Mr. 
 Wingate e:epovnded the Scriptures. The 
 subsequent meetings, both in English and in 
 German, are distinctly in my recollection, so 
 simple and outwardly unattractive, but so full 
 of light and power, bringing the me.ssage of 
 the love of God to eager listeners." 
 » * * » » 
 
 "It is forty -six years this month of 2>Iay 
 since, in common vnth my dear fatlter, then 
 more than sixty years old, and my mothtr, my 
 brother, and three sisters, I was baptized into 
 the holy name of our covenant God. That 
 day shines forth in my memory above all 
 other days of my life — a day of intense 
 solemnity, sweetest peace, and nio.st childlike 
 assurance of the love of God in Christ Jesus, 
 which bound all the members of my family 
 in a new and closer unity." 
 
 In a letter by the late Dr. DeUtzseh, 
 there is an appropriate and touching appli- 
 cation of a beautiful image of Scripture to 
 the Saphir family as the tirst-frnits of the 
 Free Church Jewish Mission in Buda-Pesth. 
 Dr. Delitzsch says: — ''Buda-Pesth showed in 
 a striking way that there is a remnant in 
 Israel according to the election of gi-ace — a 
 remnant according to the promise of Zion's 
 Eestorer: 'I will lay the foundation with 
 Sapphires.' " 
 
 Our venerable father, Mr. Wingate, who 
 gave himself to the work among Israel 
 in 1841, and who has been devoted to it for 
 upwards of fifty years, regards the British 
 Society as the child of the Pesth Mission. 
 
 In 1842, Mr. M'Cheyne paid a visit to 
 London, and was present at the formation of 
 the British Society. 
 
 On the first page of the first Minute Book 
 of the Societv, we read : — 
 
 NATIONAL SCOTCH CHURCH, REGENT 
 SQUARE. 
 
 LoxDOK, Korember 7th, 1842. 
 
 A meeting called by circular was held. 
 Present : — 
 Rev. Dr. Buhdee. Hackney. 
 Dr. Fletcher, Stepney. 
 Dr. Hexdersos, Highbury College. 
 John CusiiusG, CYown Court. 
 James C. Burns, London Wall. 
 Wm. Yonge, Brentford. 
 RiDLET Her.scheli. Ishngton. 
 Peter Lorimer, Islington. 
 James Hamilton, Regent Square. 
 Messrs. Geo. Yongb. 
 
 Wm. Hamu-tox. 
 Alex. Gillespie, Junr. 
 Joshua Wil-son. 
 John Low. 
 Fred L. Wollaston. 
 John Frasee. 
 Dr. A. P. Stewart. 
 
 With the Rev. Alex. Flj'te, Alness, and Rev. 
 Robt. M. M'Cheyne, Dundee, ^dsitors. 
 
 Dr. Burder being called to the chair, tAe 
 meetiny teas opened with prayer by Mr. M'Cheyne. 
 
 That prayer was soon followed bj' prac- 
 tical, loving sympathy, for it was thi-ough 
 Mr. M'Cheyne, Dr. Andrew and Dr. Horatius 
 Bonar, that the first donation of .£500 came 
 to hand, which enabled the Committee to 
 begin operations. 
 
 The Third Thread. 
 
 The third thread we find in the conversion 
 and ministry of the Rev. Ridley Herschell. 
 Ridley Herschell was born at Strzelno, a 
 small town about thirt}' English miles distant 
 from Thorn, in Poland. As in the case of 
 Mr. Frej', there were many links which led 
 to the conver.sion, and to the ministry of Mr. 
 Hei-schell, both among Jews and Gentiles. 
 
 1. The great lesson of reverence for God 
 and His Word, which he learned from both 
 his father and mother, and her parting 
 words to him when he left his home to 
 become a student at the Berlin University. 
 He says : " She clasped me in her arms, and 
 said to me, ' If you walk in the ways of God, 
 we are sure to meet either in this world or in 
 the world to come ; but if you depart from 
 the ways of God, and forget His laws, evil 
 shall follow you even in this world, and we 
 shall never meet — never — either in this 
 world or in the world to come.' " 
 
 2. The second cluster of links may be 
 said to be his second visit to London, when 
 he lodged with a Christian landlady who 
 remonstrated with him for reading bad books;
 
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 who nursed him with the care of a loving 
 mother when lie was seriously ill ; who put 
 his bad books in the fire --the best i>l;ice for 
 them — who, before he left, presented to him 
 a New Testament, which he threw aside 
 without looking at it. and gave him a letter 
 of intruduction to a Christian friend in Paris, 
 
 the first time. He says, " I cried out, ' 
 God ! I have no one to help me, and I dare 
 not approach Thee, for I am guilty ; help, 
 oh help me; for the sake of my father 
 Abraham, who was willing to offer up his 
 sou Isaac, have mercy upon me, and impute 
 his righteousness unto me.' But there was 
 
 BEV. WIU.I.\.M WING.ITE. 
 
 which turned up long after, when it saved 
 him from de.spair, and inspired him with 
 hope. 
 
 3. The news of the death of his beloved 
 motlier, whose tenderness to him he remem- 
 bered with the deepest gratitude and 
 affection. 
 
 4. After that heavy stroke, and thinking 
 of his sinfulness, he prayed extempore for 
 
 no answer from God — no peace to mj' 
 wounded spirit." 
 
 5. He says : " One morning I went to 
 purcha.se an article in a shop, little knowing 
 that God had there stoi-etl up for me the 
 ' pearl of great price,' which He was about 
 to give me ' without money and without 
 price.' The article I purchased was wrapped 
 up in a leaf of the Bible, which contained a
 
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 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 portion of the sermon on the mount. The 
 shopkeeper was, probably, an infidel, who 
 thought the Bible merely waste paper ; but 
 Gofl over-ruled the evil for good. As I was 
 walking home, my eyes glanced on the 
 words : ' Blessed aie they that mourn, for 
 they shall be comfoited.' This arrested my 
 attention, and I read the whole passage with 
 deep interest. 
 
 " ' Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs 
 is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they 
 that mourn, for they shall be comforted. 
 Blessed aie the meek, for they shall inherit 
 the earth. Blessed ai-e they which do 
 hunger and thirst after lighteousness, for 
 they shall be filled. Blessed are the merci- 
 ful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed 
 are the pure in heart, for they shall see God, 
 Blessed are the peace- makers, for they shall 
 be called the children of God. Blessed are 
 they which are persecuted for righteousness' 
 sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.' 
 (Matt. v. 3—10.) 
 
 "I was much struck with the sentiments 
 contained in this passage, and felt very 
 desirous to see the book of which it was a 
 portion ; I had no idea what book it was, 
 never having seen a New Testament. A few 
 days after, God directed my footsteps to the 
 house of an acquaintance, on whose table lay 
 a copy of the New Testament. Impelled by 
 curio.sity, I took it up, and in turning over 
 the leaves beheld the very passage that had 
 interested me so much. I immediately 
 borrowed it, and began to read it with gieat 
 avidity. At first I felt quite bewildered, 
 and was so shocked by the coristant recur- 
 rence of the name of Jesus, that I repeatedly 
 cast the book away. At length I determined 
 to read it through. When I came to the 
 twenty-third chapter of the gospel of 
 Matthew, I was astonished at the full dis- 
 closure of the nature of Pharisaism con- 
 tained in it ; and Christ's lamentation over 
 Jerusalem in the concluding part : ' O Jeru- 
 salem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the 
 prophets, and stonest them which are sent 
 unto thee, how often would I have gathered 
 thy children togethei-, even as a hen 
 gathereth her chickens under her wings, and 
 ye would not ! ' aflected me even to tears. 
 In reading the account of the crucifixion, the 
 meekness and love of Jesus of Nazaieth 
 astonished me ; and the cruel hatred mani- 
 fested against him by the priests and rulers 
 in Israel, excited within me a feeling of com- 
 passion for him, and of indignation against 
 his murderers, But I did not as yet see any 
 
 connection between the sufferings of Jesus 
 and my sins. . . . Were I to relate the 
 impressions made on me by the various 
 portions of the gospels and epistles, it would 
 rather be a commentary on the New Testa- 
 ment, than a statement made to my brethren 
 according to the flesh, of the way in which 
 God led me to believe in Jesus of Nazareth. 
 The more I examined into the truth of 
 Christianity, the more did the question 
 appear to be narrowed into a small compass ; 
 Jesus of Nazareth was either the promised 
 Messiah, or an impostor and deceiver. The 
 New Testament is either a revelation from 
 God, or an invention of lying and wicked 
 men. After mature deliberation, I was 
 forced to come to the conclusion that Jesus 
 is the Messiah, and that the New Testament 
 is, equally with the Old, the Word of God. 
 
 " But this conviction, so far from bringing 
 peace with it, .seemed at first to increase the 
 trouble of my soul tenfold. All the hatred 
 and prejudice with which I had been 
 accu.stomed to view Christianity, instead of 
 being subdued, were rekindled in full vigour ; 
 and my heart shrunk with aversion from 
 that which my understanding was fully con- 
 vinced was true. I will not dwell long on 
 my state of mind at this period ; those who 
 have experienced it, need not to be told its 
 anguish ; and to those who have not, the 
 account would be unintelUgible. ' What man 
 knovveth the things of a man, save the spirit 
 of man that is in him ? ' ' The heart knoweth 
 its own bitterness.' 
 
 '• One day I cast myself upon the ground, 
 and wept bitterly before the Lord, entreating 
 Him to give me peace. I besought Him 
 that He would give me to feel what Paul 
 experienced when he said : ' Being j\istified 
 by faith, we have peace with God through 
 our Lord Jesus Christ.' (Rom. v. 1.) Long 
 did I continue my supplication ; remembering 
 that Elijah, when on Carmel, sent seven 
 times before he received the answer to his 
 prayer ; but still no peace came. Suddenly 
 these words of Jesus came into my mind : 
 ' Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my 
 name.' (John xvi. 24.) I cannot describe 
 the reluctance I felt to pray in the name of 
 Jesus ; and yet I saw how inconsistent was 
 this reluctance, with the belief that He is the 
 Saviovir of the world. The struggle of that 
 moment can never be forgotten. At length 
 I was enabled to cry out : ' Lord, I believe 
 that Jesus is the Messiah, the Redeemer, and 
 King of Israel, who was wounded for our 
 transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities ;
 
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 for His sake have mercy upon me ami give 
 me peace." No sooner had I oflered this 
 prayer than my burden was removed ; the 
 peace of God that passeth all understanding 
 entered into my soul ; I felt that I was 
 redeemed from destruction, that God loved 
 me, that Christ hail die<l for me, and washed 
 me from all my sins in His own blood ; that 
 guilty and sinful as I was by nature, I was 
 now ' justilied freelj' by giace, through the 
 i-edemj)tion that is in Christ Jesus.' 
 (Rom. iii. 24.)" 
 
 Such is Mr. Herscliell's own account 
 of the reality of that change wliicli 
 gives our life a value and our death a 
 glory ; that change, which led to the 
 performance of deeds that still swell the 
 music of life and heighten the harmonies of 
 Eternity. By and by, he ])ublicly confessed 
 Christ by baptism ; and although the news 
 of that event brought down the awful curse 
 of some of his relatives in Poland, he had 
 afterwards the great joy of leading to the 
 Saviour five of his own brothers, one of 
 whom was an honoured deputation of the 
 British Society, the Kev. Louis ller.schell, 
 and another, the Rev. D. A. llerschell, li.is 
 been for many years an able and faithful 
 minister of the Gospel* in London. 
 
 It has been often said that it takes a 
 thousand pounds to convert a Jew. Well. 
 How much did it cost to convert these six 
 brothei-s ? Xothing. And what has been 
 the gain to the Christian Church? Infinite. 
 For he who turns a sinner from the error of 
 his ways hath achieved a triumph that will 
 last when the proudest monuments of earth 
 have faded away like a garland in the final 
 conUagration. 
 
 After that change came the preacher of 
 peace and the planner of .schemes of useful- 
 ness for the glory of God and the good of 
 Israel. He started in 1841 "A Jew.s' 
 Benevolent P'und, with the view of alleviat- 
 ing the suflerings of destitute foreign Jews, 
 and giring such aid to believing Jews as the 
 means at command might render practic- 
 cable." He began, also, a Home for Christian 
 Jews, or Jews who desired in.struction in the 
 Christian religion, which " had succeeded 
 beyond the most sanguine expectations of its 
 
 * Tlie Key. D. A. Herschell fwys :— -'Rirlley II. 
 HnschcU was the fourth of a family of twelve, viz., 
 ten 8on« ami two daughtei-s. and he w.is the means of 
 leadiTig five brothers to Christ ; three nephews of two 
 dece.-Uied brothers have also become Christians. I am 
 the youngest and unly surviving member uf the 
 twelve.' 
 
 promoters." Then came the establishment 
 of the British Society in 1842, not in opposi- 
 tion to the London Society, which was then 
 doing a good work on Church lines, but to 
 employ agents which the London Society's 
 ('(inimittce could not engage, and to occupy 
 fields which they were unable to touch, and 
 like the combining atom in Nature, to bring 
 together the remaining forces which were 
 scittered, when Mr. Frey left for America, 
 and, indeed, to gather Christians of all Evan- 
 gelical Denominations into one grand Unity, 
 that would pray, and give, and work with 
 untiring devotion for t\w spiritual and tem- 
 poral well-being of Israel, in harmony with 
 the principle, " Spread out the thunder into 
 its several tones, and it becomes a lullaby 
 for children, but send it forth in one quick 
 peal and the loyal sound shall move the 
 Heavens." 
 
 At the first meeting of ommittco already 
 referred to, the first re.solution was moved by 
 the Ilev. Ridley Herschell, seconded by the 
 Rev. Dr. Cumming, and carried unani- 
 mously : — 
 
 " Tliat a Society be formed, to bo called The 
 liRrrisH Society for the PROP.iG.vnoN of the 
 Gospel among the Jews." 
 
 Other resolutions followed, such as : — 
 
 "That the Society consist of Christians of 
 evangolicul principles interesteil in the Propaga- 
 tion of the (iospel anions; the Jews. 
 
 Tliat tile more iuunediatetieUl of the Society s 
 operations bo London, and the larger towns of 
 tlie Cuitod Kingdom. 
 
 That the Society shall maintain a friendly 
 corresiiondonco and co-operation with the 
 Cliurcli of Scotland's Mission to the Jows. 
 
 That the Association corilially invite the co- 
 operation of all knidrod institutions. 
 
 That an aiuiual subscription of ten shillings 
 constitute nionibership ; and a donation of five 
 jiouuds, memliorsliip for life." 
 
 At the first [lublic meeting held in 1843, it 
 was resolved, 
 
 " That while deeply sympathising with the 
 Jewish iioople in the uniiarallelud suflcrin^rs to 
 which, in conse((uon(e of their rejection of the 
 Messiah, they have been subjected, the Society 
 joyfully coi.t -iiiplates. in tlie predictions of 
 Holy Writ, and in the signs of the times, the 
 approach of a brifihter jieriod in tlieir history, 
 when, cordially receiviii}; Him as their Sii\-iour 
 and King, they shall richly jiarticipate in the 
 blessinf;s<if redemption: and the Society regards 
 it to bo the siiecial and solemn duty of all 
 Christians strenuously to co-operate for pro- 
 moting the si>iritual welfare of Israel."
 
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 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among Die Jeics. 
 
 BEV. BIDLET n. HBRSCHEUL 
 
 At the next public meeting, held in 184-1, 
 a i-esolution was passed expressing sorrow and 
 indignation at the craelties inflicted on the 
 Jews in Ru'vsia, and heartfelt sympathy with 
 the unhappy suflterei-s. 
 
 These significant and suggestive declara- 
 tions of the founders contain key-notes which 
 have come sounding down thi-ough the years, 
 ever fuller, clearer, and more melotlious, so 
 that thousands of Christians of all denomina- 
 tions have been drawn by them, cheerfullv 
 and liberally, to support Jewish Missions. 
 To these key-notes of sympathy, hope and 
 duty, we would add one more — the key-note 
 of privilege : for we regard it not only as our 
 solemn duty, but our unspeakable privilege, 
 unitedly and with all our might, to give the 
 Gospel to the Jews. May these four splendid 
 key-notes be speedily stnick deep down in 
 the hearts of all Chi-istians, so that, as the 
 Jewsare now atti-acting wide-spread attention, 
 and interesting fields are constantly being 
 prepared for the reception of the good seed, 
 there may be forthcoming, dui-ing this 
 Jubilee year, means sufficient to sustain 
 nobly and double or even treble our pi-esent 
 Missionaiy stafl'. 
 
 The fii-st Report of the Committee is an 
 
 interesting record of the beginning of the 
 work. To excite the best sympathies of 
 Gods people on behalf of the Jews, the 
 Society instituted prayer meeetings, where 
 earnest supplications were offered for the 
 conversion of Israel ; and secured the delivery 
 and subse<juent publication of a course of 
 lectures, by eminent ministers, on the history, 
 condition, and prospects of the Jews. The 
 proper work of the Society was vigorously 
 undertaken in different directions, under the 
 guiding genius of Herschell, whose interest 
 lemained unabated tOl the close of his earthly 
 life, when he a.scended to the^s^ew Jerusalem, 
 in perfect peace, triumphing in Christ. 
 
 Lectures directly addres-sed to the Jew, on 
 subjects of special interest to him, were 
 dehvered in London. An edition of the New 
 Testament, and a pamphlet containing the 
 principal Mes.sianic prophecies were issued in 
 Hebrew. An acknowledgment was made 
 of the liberality of the Church of Scotland, 
 by presenting the Jewish Committee of the 
 Free Church with 1,000 copies of the latter 
 publication. And lastly, the four missionary 
 agents employed by the Society reported 
 successes already attained. 
 
 REV. D. A. HEKSCHELL, 
 The only Surviving Brother of the Rev. Ridley Ucrschdl.
 
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 10 
 
 Tlie gi'owing interest among God's people 
 in the seed of Abraham, and the consequont 
 ever enhxrging sympathy with and help in 
 the work of tlie Society, have enabled the 
 Committee to extend the Society's opeiations. 
 Tlit^e are carried on in the siime spirit of faith 
 and prayer in wliieh they were begun, and, 
 praise be to God, with the same ble^sed 
 issues. 
 
 A Glance at Fifty Years. 
 
 We can no more measure the progi-ess of 
 the .Societj''s work in a year than we can 
 measuie the growth of a plant in a day. Let 
 us, therefore, take a glance at the work of 
 the liist half-century. The progre.ss in 
 science, in art, in industry, in morals, and in 
 Missions, has been luiprecedented during the 
 reign of the Queen (God Almighty bless 
 hei', and all near and dear to her, long may 
 she live). The Victorian age is not only 
 the age of science, but of jNIii-sions, both 
 to Jews and fJentilcs. The Queen's father 
 was a lover of the Jews, and our last fifty 
 years of national prosperity have been inti- 
 mately connected with fifty years' efibrt for 
 the temporal and spiritual well-being of 
 God's ancient people. All the elements out 
 of which the Jiritish Society was established 
 were active forces when our Queen bpgan to 
 reign ; and as the Society was formed in 184'J, 
 it may be regarded as one of the fairest and 
 most fruitful of the missionary products of 
 the Victorian era. As a tiny spark becomes 
 a gre.it fire, and a. little seed a mighty forest, 
 so this Society, small in its beginning, has 
 gi-own slowly, but surely, in strength and 
 usefulness during nearly the whole of the 
 Queen's reign. Fifty years ago it began with 
 one agent ; and now there are at home and in 
 foreign lands — 'JG missionaries, and a great 
 many voluntary assistants. 
 
 The income during its first year's exist- 
 ence was only i.'9l!7, including the noble gift 
 of .£500 from the General Assembly of the 
 Church of Scotland. The receipts during the 
 Jubilee year bid fair to be the most cheering 
 of any since the Society was formed. 
 
 The fire which w;is kindled 5(1 years ago, 
 by the Hand of (iod, burns in the bosom of 
 the British Society as brightly this Jubilee 
 day as it did then, notwithstanding all the 
 eftbrts of its decl»ired fees and pretended 
 friends to extinguish it. It is no fo.ssil river 
 like the Eig, in Scotland, which is now only 
 a fragment of its former greatness ; but 
 rather like the Clyde and the Thames in their 
 beneficent progress towards the sea. The 
 
 Society is now healthier, wealthier, wiser, 
 moi'e aggressive, more persuasive and perse- 
 vering than it has been at any former period 
 of its history. There never was a time when 
 it Wiis more spiritually prosperous and 
 financially sounder than it is at the present 
 moment. 
 
 Tlicro are some facts not generally known, 
 which ought to be widely circulated. Foi 
 in.stance, it is not generally known that the 
 liev. Dr. Ginsburg, of the British Museum 
 and author of tlie " Massorah ; " the late 
 llev. Isaac Salkinson, the British Society's 
 Missionary, and author of the Hebrew New 
 Testament ; the Kev. John Wilkin.sou, 
 Diiector of the Mildmay INIission to the 
 Jews, and others whom we might name, 
 were trained in the British Society's Mission 
 ('olle</e. It is not generally known that the 
 Salkinson-Ginsburg Hebrew New Testament 
 was [)repareQ for the Committee of the 
 British Society, that the first specimens of it 
 were sent by the late Mr. Salkinson to the 
 present Secretai-y; that the work wiis offered 
 by him first to the Committee of The British 
 and Foreiyii Bible Socitty, who declined it, 
 as they felt bound to do all in their power 
 to circulate the splendid edition of the New 
 Testament prepared by the late Dr. Delitzsch ; 
 that the Secretar}- then ofi'ei;ed it to the 
 Committee of The Trinitarian Bible Society, 
 irit/ioiit vKvney and tvithout ])rice, and they 
 accepted it. So that one of the finest instru- 
 ments at present in the hands of Jewish 
 Missionaries was under C!od furnished by 
 our beloved Society. It ought also to be 
 widely known that Lydia Montefiore the 
 aunt of Sii- Moses Montefiore, was brought 
 to a knowledge of the Truth through one of 
 the devoted missionaries of the British 
 Society. 
 
 Brief Summary of Results. 
 
 It has been stated, on good authorit\-, that 
 there are 2,000 Hebrew-Christians in Berlin, 
 and 3,000 in Great Britain and Ireland. 
 There are few Jewish families among us here 
 who have not, at leJist, one relative who is a 
 convert to Christianity. Some yeai-s ago, a 
 Hebrew-Christian I'rayer I'nion was formed 
 in I>ondon, which has upon its roll hundreds 
 of members, including Students of Divinity, 
 Lay Missionaries, and ^linisters of the 
 Gospel. Branch Unions have been estab- 
 lished in France, Germany, Roumania, 
 Rus.sia, Sweden, Turkey, Palestine, and in 
 the Northern and Southern Statesof America.
 
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 McDiories of Gospel Triv/iajjhs amoivj the Jews. 
 
 It lias also been stated, by those who have 
 carefully considered the matter, that about 
 1.500 Jews leave the Synagogue for the 
 Church of Christ every year. Professor 
 Tholuck " affirms that more Jews have been 
 converted to Christ during the present 
 centuiy, than during the whole of the 
 Christian era previous." The estimate is, 
 that within the century, and especially 
 during the Victorian era, which is the era of 
 missionarj- extension, 100.000 Jewish souls 
 have been brought to Christ. These are 
 cheering statem,ents, and we are persuaded 
 that the British Society has been one of the 
 greatest of the Christian forces which have 
 contributed to these grand results. 
 
 This Jubilee day, therefore, ought to be a 
 day in which we should call upon all that is 
 within us and around us, to unite in songs 
 of thanksgiving, anthems of praise, to that 
 God who has been crowning us every day for 
 50 years, with loving kindnesses and tender 
 mercies. 
 
 With such reasons for deepest gratitude 
 for the past and the present, and the surest 
 and brightest hope for the future, let us this 
 evening, in the strength of the Lord, make a 
 new start. While the JubUee trumpet is 
 sounding, let our movement be. Forward ! 
 Forward ! that we may hasten, if possible, 
 the coming of Christ our King in His great 
 power and glory. 
 
 " Forward ! March ! The Truth shall triumph, 
 And the Idol * greed ' be drowned. 
 Then the Just shall reign for ever, 
 And the God-Man shall be crowned. 
 Where His life-blood stained the ground. 
 Then shall Tyrants fall for ever, 
 Brauded deep with guilt and shame ; 
 While the slaves they wronged shall gather, 
 Round MessLih's throne, and Xame. 
 Then ! above the night of chaos 
 Love shall sing with flag unfurled : — 
 ' God has lifted up His People ! 
 ' Christ Ls King of all the world.' " 
 
 Address by Dr. Neuman. 
 
 Dr. Neuman, the Society's Treasurer, 
 spoke as follows on the spiritual meaning of 
 the jubilee. I consider this gathering to 
 have in it more of a devotional character 
 than that of a formal or legal one, and, 
 therefore, I would say a few words regarding 
 this our jubilee, which may have a practical 
 and spiritual bearing. 
 
 In the Scriptures of the old dispensation 
 the reality of a hereafter is not so plainly 
 stated as in the Scriptures of the new. 
 
 Nevertheless, by the aid of inference, much 
 light is thrown upon that great fact, even in 
 the old. Laws that do inculcate upon man 
 the duty of taking cognizance of the short- 
 ness of his life here, can only become in- 
 telligent when that life is considered to be 
 only preparatory. We read of seven days, 
 of seven weeks, of seven years, and seven 
 times seven years. It is to be observed that 
 the fii-st is — six days and the seventh is 
 sabbath, but the second is not six times six, 
 but seven times seven weeks (sabbaths in- 
 cluded) ; and so, likewise, we have — six 
 years, and the seventh year is sabbath. But 
 it is only at the end of seven times seven 
 j-ears that jubilee was proclaimed. This 
 counting of portions of our appointed time 
 in thLs life is alluded to by the Psalmist 
 when he prayed, "So teach us to number 
 our days that we may apply our hearts unto 
 wisdom." This jubilee, which w-e celebrate, 
 is a fit occasion to reflect upon the days, 
 weeks and years that have gone and passed, 
 to consider how we have spent our ordinary 
 daj's, what use we have made of privileged 
 days, days that have brought with them 
 special mercies, and have been to us true and 
 natural sabbaths. 
 
 The Ilev. J. B. Barraclough, M.A., the 
 Founder of the " Hebrew Christian Prayer 
 L'nion," and Mr. F. Yeats Edwards, our late 
 Treasurer, lifted us by prayer to the Gates 
 of Heaven. 
 
 Speech of Rev. Dr. Adams. 
 
 I am deputed by my friend, the Rev. D. 
 A. Hei-schell, of Brixton, to express to this 
 meeting his deep regret at being unable to 
 be present. He is, unfortunatelj', suffering 
 from a severe attack of bronchitis. Now, 
 for many reasons, it would have been agree- 
 able to us all to have had Mr. Herschell 
 among us on this interesting occasion. For, 
 in the first place, he has taken a Ufe-long 
 and practical interest in the work of this 
 Societv. He belongs to a family, all of 
 whom have been or are, distinguished mem- 
 bers of the House of Israel. And his brother, 
 the late Bev. Ridley Herschell. was one of 
 the honoured founders of the British Society. 
 Nor is this all, for Mr. Herschell's name is 
 associated with a remarkable work. For 
 more than 30 }-ears, in addition to the pas- 
 torate of a large London congregation, JNlr. 
 Herschell was engaged in circulating the 
 Scriptures, especially the New Testament, 
 among our British seamen at home and
 
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 abroad. For this purpose he has visited many 
 lands, undergone many hibours, and suffered 
 many privations, and it was while travelling 
 to attend a meeting in Wales for the further- 
 ance of this object that he caught the com- 
 plaint from which he is now suffering. Now 
 all this, as the work of an honoured Hebrew 
 Christian, it is well for us to remember and 
 to bo thankful for, on an occasion like the 
 present. 
 
 On this my first appearance on the plat- 
 form of the British Society I am pleased to 
 find myself surrounded by so many friends. 
 I am particularly glad to see present so many 
 representatives of the venerable London 
 Society with which I was at one time 
 officially connected. With the missionaries 
 of that Society I have a very close know- 
 ledge, and not a few of them are valued 
 friends. It is not too much to say of them 
 that thej' are men of learning, of ability, of 
 piety, and of untiring energy : men before 
 whom no Jew can stand in controversy. 
 And I should like to pay my humble tribute 
 of respectful appreciation of those mis- 
 sionaries of your Society with whom I have 
 had the privilege of becoming acquainted. 
 I would venture to say of the faithful 
 labourers of the two Societies that I 
 am at a loss which to admire most, their 
 fitness for their work or their devotion to it. 
 
 And now to refer more particularly to the 
 work itself. A long period of time is 
 re<iuired in order to judge fairly of the 
 progress of any spiritual work. A jubilee 
 year is, therefore, a favourable opportunity 
 for pa.ssing our work under review. And in 
 looking back over the period during which 
 this Society has been carrying on its opera- 
 tions and comparing the religious attitude of 
 the Je-wish peopjle towards Chri.stianity at 
 the commencement of that period with their 
 attitude to-day, we see a marvellous change 
 for the better. The progress has been 
 gradual, undeniable, and universal. I would 
 emphasize each of these descriptive terms. 
 Let us first look at the growth of the 
 result for which we this day thank God. 
 In the mission to Lsrael, you will not, as is 
 frequently the case in missionary work among 
 the heathen, meet with conversions in any 
 large nunil:ers. The cjise of the Jew is 
 peculiar and q\iite different from thnt of any 
 other people among whom the Chiuch of God 
 is labcuiing, inasmuch as they are alrtady 
 passessed of a Divine revelation, to which 
 they very naturally and tenaciously cling. 
 Moreover, such multitudinous convei-sions 
 
 would not be in harmony with distinct pro- 
 phetic intimations upon that very subject. 
 " Ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye 
 children of Israel." And again, " I will take 
 you two of a family and one of a city and will 
 bring you to Zion." It Ls important to notice 
 this divinely ordered peculiarity of Jewish 
 missionary work, so that we may not be 
 disappointed if we do not see those results 
 which strike one in other mission fields. A 
 more marvellous change is predicted con- 
 cerning Israel than of any other people, 
 when " a nation shall be born in a day ; " 
 but the time is not yet. 
 
 Fiuther, the advance of Christianity is un- 
 deniable. I do not mean that there are not 
 those who doubt of the progress which 
 Christianity is making among the Jews. But 
 these doubtei-s are not found among the Jews 
 themselves. They are the best judges of the 
 inroads which Christianity is making in the 
 synagogue. And it would be easy for me to 
 produce their evidence, and that, too, in a form 
 the most unexceptionable. Jewish Rihbis in 
 their sermons and Jewish editors in their 
 newspapers are everywhere loudly comjjlain- 
 ing of the defection of many of their people, 
 and rallying their forces to meet the aggres- 
 sive efforts of the missionary. 
 
 And, finally, the advance of Christianity 
 is universal. It is not, of course, uniform, 
 but from no mission station is there a cry of 
 failure. And this is true not only of the 
 great centres of Jewish population, both in 
 our own country and abroad, but all along 
 the line. On border lands, in remote and 
 semi-civilized parts, where the lonely mis- 
 sionary is keeping watch and guard over the 
 Christian camp, there is heard the cry, " the 
 morning cometh." Night may intervene, but 
 the day is at hand. 
 
 It is an interesting fact that the attention 
 of the Jewish community isbeing increa.singly 
 drawn towards our Anniversai-y Meetings. 
 Now, more than ever, we notice the 
 attendance of Jews at the mLssionaiy 
 meetings of our various local associations. 
 This watchfulness over our work is surely 
 an indication that that work is considered 
 worthy of their attention. An instance of 
 what I refer to came under my own experience 
 a few weeks ago. I was deputation to a town 
 in the north of England, where there is an 
 important Jewish community. The public 
 meeting was largely attended, and I recog- 
 nized the presence, as I thought — and my 
 surmise proved to be correct — of many Jews. 
 Towards the close of the meeting, a card waa
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs amon;/ (he J< 
 
 ''"VS. 
 
 handed up to me on the platform. I saw at 
 once that it was a Jewish name, and, turning 
 to a clergyman of the town who sat near me, 
 I asked if he knew the name. He said, 
 " Yes ; He is a pioxis and learned Jew." He 
 was invited on to the platform, and in the 
 presence and hearing of many of the 
 audience who remained behind, I had with 
 him a most interesting and important dis- 
 cussion. Among the various points which 
 came under review, it may suffice to mention 
 one. " I have listened," said the Jewish 
 gentleman, " to your speech with great 
 interest, and I may say the same of my co- 
 religionists who are here. I, for one, do not 
 blame you Gentile Christians for seeking to 
 win us Jews to the Christian faith. It is 
 clearly your duty to do so in obedience to 
 the command of j-our Founder. But I wish 
 to piit before you one fact which you will 
 admit to be true. God gave to us Jews the 
 mission and commission to be His witnesses 
 in the world. ' Ye are my witnesses, saith 
 the Loi'd of Hosts.' Kow, I submit, can it 
 be right ou your part to assume an office 
 which you youi-selves admit God gave to our 
 fathers ? And not only to assume that office 
 in i-eference to the world, but also in 
 reference to the 'witnesses' themselves ? " I 
 replied, " Your objection is plausible, but I 
 think I can give to it a satisfactory answer. 
 I admit, to the fullest extent, that God did 
 constitute your nation as His witnesses in 
 the world. But I make the admission with 
 soiTow, inasmuch as it constrains me to put, 
 for your thoughtful and candid consideration, 
 one or two questions in reference to your 
 witness-bearing. I want to know where, 
 and how. and to whom, and of whom you 
 Jews are bearing witness ? There is a 
 heathen world crying out for light — that 
 light which you profess to have. I have yet 
 to learn that either India, or China, or 
 Japan, or Afiica have heard any ■svitness for 
 God sent out from the synagogue. Why do 
 you not — following the example of us 
 Christians — seek to enlighten these dark 
 nations with the true knowledge of God ? 
 It is in vain for you and a self-comdemna- 
 tion, to boast of your being appointed by God 
 to be His witnesses, while you are making 
 no eifort to fulfil your high commission. 
 And to leave the case of the heathen, look 
 at Christendom. As consistent Jews, you 
 must believe that we Chi-istians are in deadly 
 error. Nay, we are even guilty of idolatry, 
 for we are worshipping as divine One whom 
 you believe to have been only a man. Now, 
 
 why do you not, a,s a religious people, seek, 
 in an organized and earnest way. to reclaim 
 us from our error ? I repeat that I have 
 never heard of any direct effort on the part 
 of the synagogue to win over either the 
 heathen or Christian world to that pure faith, 
 which it is your boast that you alone pos s&ss." 
 He repUed, " The truth to which we Jews 
 are e.specially bearing witness is the unity of 
 God. And our witness though silent is a 
 solemn protest against the polytheisms of the 
 heathen and the Triune God of the 
 Christians." I replied, '■ The world is hardly 
 likely to be converted by a mere ' silent ' 
 witness. It will need something much more 
 vigorous than that. You must imitate your 
 own prophets and ' cry aloud and spare not.' 
 ^Moreover, the Mohammedans boast tliat they 
 are specially appointed as witnesses for the 
 ' unity of God,' and you are only, therefore, 
 placing yourselves on a level with them in this 
 matter. I must remind you further of what, 
 a.s a man of leai-ning you must know full 
 well, that your forefathers believed in the 
 doctrine of the Trinity. You modern Jews 
 have departed from the ancient faith. The 
 Sohar clearly teaches the Di\-inity of the 
 Messiah and the Trinity of the Godhead." 
 
 " We have done something more," replied 
 the Jew, '• than bear silent witness, for you 
 will admit that we Jews have given to the 
 world the Old Testament Scriptures." I said, 
 " True, God inspired holy men among your 
 fathers to write His revelation and that book 
 we have received from you and all honour be 
 to you for it. But, observe, it was from con- 
 vex ted, believing, and Christian Jews that we 
 received those Scriptures. These were the 
 fii-st converts to the Christian faith and they 
 brought these Scriptures into the Christian 
 Church with them and from them we have 
 received them. But now as then, your 
 nation as such, is doing nothing to spread 
 throughout the world those Scriptures which 
 you believe contain the only inspired revela- 
 tion of the true God and the way of accept- 
 ance with Him." 
 
 I am sure that such friendly discussions 
 are productive of much good, but the general 
 attitude of the Jewish community convinces 
 me more and more that the open door now 
 set before the Church of God may not be open 
 long. This is emphatically the day of oppor- 
 tunity. The Jews are everywhere becoming 
 increa>ingly re.stive under aggressive mission- 
 ary effort. Inflated with the idea of their 
 own sacred mission, they cannot lirook being 
 themselves the objects of missionary labour.
 
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 23 
 
 Incrwused jwlitical iuHuence and social eleva- 
 tion foster their national pride by placing 
 them more and more on an equality with the 
 nations among whom they dwell, and the 
 terrible persecutions to which they are ever 
 and anon sulijected, fail toijuenchthe aspira- 
 tions which burn within them — all tend to 
 narrow the field and shorten the time for the 
 Christian missionary. We are probably on 
 the eve of a conflict such as the Church of 
 God has never yet witnessed. The Jews 
 wei-e the earliest and tlie bitterest foes of 
 the Christian faith. They will be its last 
 and most formidable antagonists. For this 
 struggle they are themselves preparing. 
 Will the Church of God prepare too ? Alas ! 
 there are but few .signs of this. Our mis- 
 sionary societies to Israel are but meagrely 
 supported and what support is received is 
 got with surprising difficulty. Let us strive 
 anil pray and determine that it shall be 
 otherwise. Let us be more faithful to our 
 Redeemer and theirs — until that hour shall 
 come when He shall say to Israel, " Arise, 
 shine for thy Light is come and the glory of 
 the Lord is risen upon thee." 
 
 Dr. Adams proposed the following resolu- 
 tion, which was seconded by the Rev. Aaron 
 Sternberg, supported by the Rev. Wm. 
 Walton Clark, and uuanimou.sly carrieil : — 
 
 " That this meeting thanks Almighty 
 God for the formation, successful 
 career, and present work of the 
 British Society for the Jews ; it 
 earnestly commends the Society to 
 the generous interest and support 
 of the Christian Churches ; and 
 expresses sorrow and indignation at 
 the cruelties inflicted on the Jews 
 in Russia, and heartfelt sympathy 
 with the unhappy suflFerers." 
 
 Speech of Rev. Aaron Sternberg. 
 
 Mr. Chairman and Christian friends, — I 
 deem it a grejxt privilege to be permitted to 
 Btand here on the occa.sion of our jubilee 
 meeting in Exeter Hall, and I feel con- 
 strained to congi-atulate the Secretary on his 
 ■wonderful .sketch of the history and progress 
 of the British Society. A friend said to 
 me : " I only know of two men who.se 
 report-s have been so profoundly interesting 
 that people first listened to them and after- 
 wards read them with avidity. The one was 
 the late Rev. Dr. Moodj' Stuart, Convener 
 of the Jewish Committee of the Free Church 
 of Scotland, and the other Is the Rev. John 
 
 Dunlop, the Secretary of the British Society 
 for the Propagation of the Gospel among the 
 Jews." (Cheers.) Although our Secretary 
 has given us .so many masterly reports, year 
 after year (I speak from knowledge), this 
 evening, I think he has surpa.s.sed himself. 
 (Applause.) !Mr. Sternberg handed to the 
 Cliairman a X'lO note entrusted to his care 
 by a lady whose name was not given. Mr. 
 Sternberg's words on the unspeakable sufl'er- 
 ings of Jewish men, women, and children in 
 Russia were so touching that the reporters 
 stopped taking notes and sat enchained. 
 
 Tiirough his kindness, we are glad to be 
 able to give our readers his translation ofthe 
 pathetic addre.ss of the young Russian Jewess 
 who appeared in tiie pieturescpie dress of her 
 country, and whose beautiful simplicity, sin- 
 cerity, and sympathy won all hearts. In 
 introducing her, he said, she had resided at 
 Moscow, and though anxious to complete her 
 medical studies at St. Petersburg, was com- 
 pelled to leave Russia. She arrived in 
 England in an exhausted condition, and 
 was sheltered and cared for by Mrs. Stern- 
 berg. 
 
 MR. .Sternberg's traxslatiox of the 
 
 ADDRESS OF THE RUSSIAN JEWESS. 
 
 As a Russian Jewess, I speak in the 
 interest of iny son-owing and afflicted people. 
 The words of Jeremiah maj- fitly be applied 
 to us at this time — " All her people sigh, 
 they seek bread. Is it nothing to you all ye 
 that pass by ? Behold and .see, is there any 
 sorrow like unto my sorrow ? " The awful 
 and humiliating sights which I have wit- 
 nessed, depressed my spirits, and, for a time, 
 my health entirely gave way. Oh, if I could 
 only approach our own Czar, who is the 
 father of nearly one hundred millions of 
 people, I would fall at his feet and implore 
 him to vLsit the Jewish pale of settlement. 
 He woidd then be convinced of the calamity 
 that has overtaken those of my nation who, 
 in his name, have been mercilessly deprived 
 of their homes in the interior of Russia, and 
 sent to the already overcrowded pale, where 
 only disease and death are awaiting them. 
 
 I am told that Ru.ssia could easily accom- 
 modate twenty more millions of Jews, if 
 they were allowed to settle in any other pai-t 
 of the empire. What crime have we com- 
 mitted that the poisoned arrows of perse- 
 cution .are suffered to pierce us on eveiy side 
 by the enactment of special laws against us 1 
 We are loyal subjects. In our synagogues 
 we pray fervently every sabbath for blessings
 
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 Memones of Gospel Tnumpha among the Jeics. 
 
 from On High to descend upon the Czar and 
 his exalted imperial family. When oiu- 
 native land is in aflliction, we sorrow. 
 When the people are suflering, we sufler 
 with them. Our Jewish hearts melt in pity 
 for those stricken by famine ; and even the 
 poorest of us have sent some little token of 
 sympathy to the stai-ving peasants. 
 
 It is not true, as alleged by official 
 Kussia, that the people hate us. I know 
 that, as a people, they do not hate us. Many 
 may despise us, as a i-esult of the exceptional 
 laws directed against us, causing the people 
 to look upon us as a kind of Pariahs, as 
 outcasts, that ought to be despised. 
 
 A JEWISH MAIDES'S PRATER FOR HER CZAR. 
 
 Our Father, who art On High, may it 
 please Thee to guide and fill with Thy Light 
 
 to say a good word for my people. Thank 
 you for wiping awaj' many a tear from the 
 eyes of those who came broken-hearted for 
 refuge to your sacred and hospitable shores. 
 May God richly reward you. (Applause.) 
 
 The Chairman stated that the Board of 
 the Society had sent a letter of remonstrance 
 and entreaty to the Czar, but had received no 
 response. He called attention to Isaiah xlix., 
 24, 25, 26, as indicating the divine inten- 
 tions concerning the favoured people. 
 
 Diu-ing the progress of the meeting, a 
 telegram was received from the Communi- 
 cants' Class assembled in Christ Church, 
 Teddington, of which the Rev. E. Theodore 
 Hitchens Ls Minister, expressing good wishes 
 for the Society and rejoicings over its past 
 history. 
 
 While the collection was being taken, the 
 
 REV. A. STERSBKRG. 
 
 MBS. STERSBERG. 
 
 and Love, the heart of the man in whose 
 hands are the lives and happiness of my 
 sorrowful and unhappy brethren and sisteis, 
 and of the poor and good Stundists. Dear 
 Heavenly Father, be pleased to give him to 
 realize his enormous responsibility as in the 
 light of the Day of Judgment, and forgive 
 him the wrongs and cruelties committed in 
 his name, who also is subject to the King 
 of kings. Amen. 
 
 Theie is a promise made by Cod Himself. 
 She quoted it in Hebrew : in Engli.sh it is : 
 '• I will bless them that bless thee, and cui-se 
 him that curseth thee ; and in thee shall all 
 families of the earth be blessed." Russia will 
 3'et be blessed if she seeks to bless my poor 
 afflicted brethi-en and sisters. 
 
 I do not stand here to accuse anyone, but 
 my heart bleeiLs for the w-rongs done to us 
 because we are Jews, and I ask you kindly 
 
 following hymn, which was brought by the 
 Secretary from Vienna, was sung with great 
 spirit : — 
 
 Hail to Jerusalem I 
 . Hail to Jerusalem I 
 Arise from the ashes of mourning and sing, 
 
 Set up the throne again, 
 
 Bring forth the diadem. 
 Prepare thou th-! way for David Thy King. 
 Long thou wast desolate, poor and foi-saken, 
 
 By Heathen and Christian aud Mussulman scorned, 
 Xuw the time hastens for thee to awaken 
 
 As a bride with her jewels thy beauty adorned 
 
 Trumpet of JubUee, 
 
 Sound over laud and sea ; 
 The year of Jehovah accepted draws near ; 
 
 Let not the South keep back, 
 
 Let not the North be slack ; 
 Israel is waiting your aid to come home ; 
 The remnant of Jacob shall be as a lion, 
 
 To tread down in fury and auger his foes • 
 Ephraim and Judah shall come back to Zioii, 
 
 And woe to the nation, that dares to oppose.
 
 Thu Jubilee Meetings of the British Society. 
 
 Then sliall the wiMoriiesa 
 
 Put (in her gala dress. 
 Ami lilies nnd roses bedeck Sharon's plain, 
 
 IViice like a river. 
 
 Shall flow on for ever, 
 Eschol bring forth her rich clustera again : 
 The Lord is thy She[iUerd no harm can befall thee, 
 
 God in thy Saviour now 
 
 Then let the Gentiles Ijow, 
 Bringing their fr)rce3 to build up thy walls ; 
 Zion the joy and the praise of all nations, 
 
 Uidiant with beauty and splendent with gold, 
 Sapphires ami Kinjralds are thy found itions, 
 
 iSluMLid are they who thy atones shall behold . 
 
 TOUNO RUSSIAN JEWESS. 
 
 From the Kast and the West He thy children 
 will bring, 
 Xo longer the nations an imtcjwt will call thee, 
 But Zion the city of earth's greatest King. 
 
 City ..f Holine.-*s, 
 City of righteousnes.s. 
 Past La thy mourning, no tyrant enthralls, 
 
 No s<in or moon is there. 
 
 Glory shines everywhere. 
 Sorrow and suH'ering and crying have ceased, 
 
 God makes his dwelling place 
 
 Xow with his chosen race. 
 ^Tan inna his enemy <leath is relea.se<l. 
 K.'joico then with Zion and speed the glad 
 tidings,
 
 26 
 
 Memcnnes of Gospel Tnunvphs ninon;/ the Jeivs. 
 
 On wiugs of the wind and in tUunder-Iike 
 strains 
 Till all creatiun sings Hail the King of kings ! 
 Jerusalem triumphs ! Immanuel reigns. 
 
 W. U. H. 
 
 Address of Rev. Wm. Walton Clark, 
 of New York. 
 
 We have just listened, with great interest, 
 to an account of the work in London, and I 
 have been a-sked to speak of the work in New 
 York, and to set before you some of the best 
 ways of leading the Jews to Christ. About 
 twelve years ago a Hebrew Christian C'hni-ch 
 was organized in New York City, under the 
 auspices of many of our leading clergymen. 
 Rev. Jacob Freshman, a converted Rabbi, 
 was chosen the Pastor, and has laboured 
 faithfully in the building up of God's king- 
 dom among His chosen people. Services 
 are held every Lord's Day and dui-ing the 
 week, and a goodly number of converts have 
 been baptized and admitted into the commu- 
 nion of the Church. 
 
 But the most remarkable work has been 
 done in the West side by a Polish Jew, by 
 name Hermann Warszawiak. This devoted 
 man has made house-to-house visitation for 
 two years, and it is no uncommon thing to 
 see 700 or more at his services. Over 16,000 
 copies of the Salkinson Hebrew New Tes- 
 tament have been circulated through his 
 efforts, and it is estimated that full}' 50,000 
 Jews have listened to his preaching. Rev. Dr. 
 Schauffler says : "The largest male audiences 
 that this city affords are now to be seen 
 listening to him, and not for a thousand 
 years has God shown such favour to one 
 preaching to the Jews," and he further de- 
 clares that " this is the most important work 
 for the Jews in the whole world." 
 
 In the sight of God there are three classes 
 of people — the Jew, the Gentile, and the 
 Church (1 Cor. 10—32). All Scripture is 
 addressed to one or another of the three 
 classes. The Old Testament is for the Jew, 
 the New Testament is for the Church, while 
 some portion of each Testament is for the 
 Gentile. 
 
 The great bulk of the Bible is for or about 
 the Jews. The great blessings in the Old 
 Testament are for God's ancient people. 
 And, strange to say, that mo.st Christians, 
 failing to appropriate the spiritual blessings 
 of the New Testament, want to absorb the 
 temporal blessings of the Old Testament, 
 which were not promised to them. They 
 are willing to concede all the cursings to 
 
 the Jews, but they want all the blessings for 
 tliemselves. 
 
 But how to reach the Jew is the question 
 before us. The best way, and only effectual 
 way, to win him to Christ, is to fhow him 
 from his own Scriptures that Jesus of Nazareth 
 was their promised Messiah, the Son of 
 David, the Son of Abraham. Speak not 
 at first of the Christ of the Gospels, 
 or of the Epistles, but of the Chi-ist 
 in the Old Testament. This was the theme 
 of Paul and the theme of Apollos. For 
 three Sabbath days Paul, in the synagogue, 
 reasoned with the Jews out of the Scriptures, 
 showing that Jesus was the Christ. And 
 Apollos mightily con^■in^ed them of the 
 same truth. This was the theme of that 
 blessed interview on the road to Emmaus 
 between our Lord and the two disciples. 
 Last week I saw in the National Gallery a 
 large and beautiful pictuie of this famous 
 interview. One could almost hear the 
 Master "expounding unto them in all the 
 Scriptures the things concerning Himself." 
 
 1. The Lam of Moses. — In Genesis He is 
 the Seed of the Woman. In Exodus He is 
 the Passover Lamb. In Leviticus He is the 
 High Priest. In Numbei-s the Rock 
 smitten and the Serpent uplifted. In 
 Deuteronomy the Prophet like unto IMoses. 
 
 2. The Prophets. — In Isaiah, He is the 
 Branch, the Ensign, the Child, the Son, 
 the Man of Sorrows, the Redeemer, and the 
 Leader of His people. In Ezekiel He is 
 the Shepherd and the Plant of Renown. 
 In Daniel He is the Hilessiah, the Prince. 
 In Joel He is the Hope of His People. In 
 Micah He is the Ruler in Lsrael. In 
 Haggai He is the Desire of All Nations. 
 In Malachi He is the Sun of Righteousness. 
 
 3. The P.mliiis. — Here Jesus is described 
 as the Lord's Anointed, the Son of God. the 
 Shepherd, the Lord of Hosts, and the King 
 of Glory. 
 
 In Proverbs He is the Friend that sticketh 
 closer than a brother. In the Canticles He 
 is the Rose of Sharon, the Lily of the Valley, 
 the Chiefest among Ten Thousand, and the 
 One altogether lovely. Well may the Master 
 say, Search the Scriptures, for they are they 
 that testify of Me. In the Old Testament 
 we read of His sufi'erings. His Pa.ssion, His 
 death, His burial, His resurrection, and His 
 ascension. 
 
 He is the Holy One, the Wisdom of God, 
 the Word of God, the Redeemer, Mediator, 
 Advocate, Messiah, the King of Kings and 
 Lord of Lords. If we look for Jesus in the
 
 The Jah'dee MeettwjH of the lirifMh Socb'iy. 
 
 OKI Testament we will find llim. Let us take 
 one impression after another of Ilis lovely 
 face, and the King Himself will stand out 
 in all His beauty. 
 
 In Prang's chromoestablishment, in Boston, 
 a visitor was shown a large number of stones 
 from which were produced the famous pic- 
 tures of this renowned studio. It took over 
 twenty impressions from as many stones to 
 complete a picture. No single stone would 
 give any idea of what the portrait in figure 
 was to be. But one impre.s.sion after another 
 would produce the desired result, presenting 
 that bleniling of colouring and matchless e.x- 
 pression for which this establishment was 
 famed. 
 
 And so let a succe.ssion of impressions 
 of Jesus Christ be taken from the Ijaw, the 
 Prophets, and the P.siilms, and we will be led 
 to e.xclaim as we see Him lifted up on the 
 Cro.ss, Ecce homo, ecce Deus, Behold the JIan, 
 beho!d the God. Then will the luibelieving 
 Jew- be led to cry out with joy unspeakable, 
 " We have found Him of whom Moses and the 
 prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the 
 Son of Joseph." — (Cheers). 
 
 This memoiable meeting was most appro- 
 priately closed with the Do.xology. 
 
 Letter from Dr. Edmond. 
 
 60, BeUES1-oIU> llOAD, N. 
 
 Ith November, 1892. 
 ilv Dear Mh. Dunlop, 
 
 I was much obliged by your letter 
 informing me of the meeting of your British 
 Society to be held this evening, and inviting 
 my presence. 1 had hoped to answer it by 
 pei-sonal appearance, but I feel that I must 
 forego that satisfaction. Let me say, there- 
 fore, iu this form, that I was exceedingly 
 gratified to learn from you that in every 
 respect your Society is at present prosperous 
 and hopeful. And may we not say that the 
 cause which you and other associations have 
 at lieart is in a hopeful hour? Surely the 
 eastern skies are reddening towards morn.- — 
 Believe me, Yours very truly, John Edmoxd. 
 
 Letters from Two of the First 
 Subscribers. 
 
 34, Albion Koad, S. Hamp.stead, 
 
 Xoveiiiber, 1892. 
 Dear Mr. Dinlop, 
 
 I am sorry I have not been well 
 enough to answer your note sconer. 
 
 I was present at one of the lirst public 
 
 meetings of the British Society in 1842. It 
 wa-s held at Craven Chapel. Dr. Hamilton, 
 Dr. Leifchild, and many other celebrated 
 ministers anil friends of the Jews were 
 present. My sympathy for the latter was 
 first aroused by the preaching of the Uev. J. 
 Denham, .at St. Mary-le-Strand, and when I 
 afterwards joined the t'hurch at Craven 
 Chapel, I did all in my power to induce Dr. 
 Leifchild to take an interest in them. It 
 would lie too long a story to tell yon how I 
 did this, but I so far s\u-ceeded, that I had 
 the pleasure of handing to him .£5 as my 
 contribution to the funds of the Society 
 befoi-e it wa.s brought to the notice of the 
 public. Some time afterwards I had to 
 leave Craven Chapel, and I then attended 
 the ministry of the Bev. Ridley Herschell. 
 While there, I was glad to learn that an 
 au.xiliiiry of the British Society had been 
 established at Craven. — Believe me, dear ]Mr. 
 Dunlop, very sincerely yours, Anne Neuman. 
 P.S. — I .should have liked to have said 
 more about the Rev. J. Denham. His 
 tender I'eferences to the Jews and to their 
 ciuel treatment by Gentile nations, were most 
 touching. I often wish nonconformist 
 ministers woidd more frequently do the 
 same. 
 
 lOti, Bui.vroN Hill, S.W. 
 
 December i)i\\, 1892. 
 Dear Christian Friend, — As this month's 
 llernld has to-day been read and interest 
 increased, sympathy is afresh excited. Being 
 a subscriber and worker in earlier days in 
 a small degree for the Jews from 1842, I feel 
 it a pleasure to send for the relief of the 
 famishing Jews all I can spare. Many 
 pressing cases are coiistantly coming before 
 the eye. But praj'er ascends and prevails. 
 To it there is no limit. " A.sk what ye will 
 and it .shall bo done, for Jesu.s'.sake ! " I see 
 the Jeinlsh lleraUl through the Auxiliary 
 connected with the chapel I belong to here — 
 Trinity Congreg.ational Chapel. The January 
 number will be looked for as extra interest- 
 ing. In 1842, at the Society's hou.se, Black- 
 friars Road, Ml-, and JNIrs. Yonge formed a 
 ladies' committee of which, while it continued 
 or till dear Mrs. Yonge w-as suddenlj- called 
 home, I was a member. Most who thus were 
 united probably have followed in the tniin to 
 glory, and I expect naturally to be called 
 shortly, being now 85 years of age. I hoj)e 
 much help iu money, itc, will reach you in 
 the.se trying days. — Yours faithfully, C. Njsw- 
 SOM SHAur.
 
 28 
 
 Memories of Gospel Trmrnphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 THE LAST DAYS OF MR. M'CHEYNE. 
 
 By the late A^'DREW A. BOyAIi, D.D. 
 
 RETURNING to liLs beloved flock on 1st 
 March, in good health, but much 
 exhausted, he related, next evening, at his 
 prayer-meeting, what things he had seen and 
 heard. During the next twelve days he was 
 to be found going out and in among his 
 people, filling up, as liis manner was, every 
 inch of time. But he had been much 
 weakened by his unceasing exertions when in 
 the north, and so was more than ordinarily 
 exposed to the typhus fever that was then 
 prevailing in his parish, .several cases of 
 which he visited in his enfeebled state. 
 
 On Sabbath, the 5th, he preached three 
 times ; and two days after, I find him 
 writing to his father : " All domestic matters 
 go on like a placid stream — I trust not with- 
 out its fertilizing influence. Nothing is 
 more improving than the domestic altar, 
 ■when we come to it for a daily supply of soul 
 nourishment." To the last we get glances 
 into his soul's growth. His family devotions 
 were full of life and full of gladness to the 
 end. Indeed, his very manner in reading 
 the chapter reminded you of a man poring 
 into the sands for pieces of fine gold, and 
 from time to time holding up to you what he 
 deUghted to have found. 
 
 On Sabbath, the 12th, he preached upon 
 Heb. ix. 15 in the forenoon, and Eom. ix. 
 22, 23, in the afternoon, with uncommon 
 solemnity ; and it was observed, both then 
 and on other late occasions, he spoke with 
 peculiar strength upon the sovereignty of 
 God. These were his last discom-ses to his 
 people in St. Peter's. That same evening 
 he went down to Broughty Ferrv, and 
 preached upon Isaiah Ix. 1 : '• Arise, shine," 
 etc. It was the last time he was to be en- 
 gaged directly in proclaiming Clu'ist to sin- 
 ners ; and as he began hLs ministiy with souls 
 for his hire, so it appears that his last dis- 
 course had in it sa\ang power to some, and 
 that rather from the holin&ss it breathed 
 than from the wisdom of its words. After 
 his death, a note was found unopened, which 
 had been sent to him in the course of the 
 following week, when he lay in the fever. 
 It ran thus : " I hope you will pardon a 
 stranger for addr&ssing to you a few lines. 
 I heard you preach last Sabbath evening, 
 
 and it pleased God to bless that sermon to 
 my soul. It was not so much what you 
 said, as yovu- manner of speaking that struck 
 me. I saw in you a beauty in holiness that 
 I never saw before. You also said something 
 in your prayer that stiuck me very much. 
 It was, ' Thou knoirest that we love Thee.' 
 Oh, Sir, what would I give that I could say 
 to my blessed Saviour, • Thou knowest that 
 I love Thee ! ' " 
 
 Next evening he held a meeting in St. 
 Peter's, w^th the view of organizing his 
 people for collecting in behalf of the Free 
 Protesting Church, — the disruption of the 
 Establishment being now inevitable. He 
 spoke very fervently ; and after the meeting 
 felt chilled and unwell. Next morning he 
 felt that he was ill ; but went out in the 
 afternoon to the marriage of two of his flock. 
 He seemed, however, to anticipate a serious 
 attack, for, on his way home, he made some 
 arrangements connected with his ministerial 
 work, and left a message at Dr. Gibson's 
 house, asking him to come and see him. He 
 believed that he had taken the fever, and it 
 was so. That night he lay down upon the 
 bed from which he was never to rise. He 
 spoke little, but intimated that he appre- 
 hended danger. 
 
 On Wednesday, he said he thought that 
 he would never have seen the morning, he 
 felt .so sore broken, and had got no sleep ; 
 but afterwards added, " Shall we receive 
 good at the hand of the Lord, and shall we 
 not receive evil also I " He seemed clouded 
 in spirit, often repeating .such passages as — 
 '• My moisture is turned into the drought of 
 summer ;" — " My bones wax old, thi-ough my 
 roaring all day long." It was with difficulty 
 that he was able to speak a few words with 
 his assistant, Mr. Gatherer. In the fore- 
 noon, Mr. Miller, of Wallaeetown, found him 
 oppressed with extreme pain in his head. 
 Amongst other things they conversed upon 
 Ps. cxxvi. On coming to the 6th verse, Mr. 
 M'Cheyne said he would give him a di\'i.sion 
 of it. 1. What ig sowed — ''Precious .seed." 
 2. The manner of sowi 11// it — "Goeth forth 
 and weepeth." He dwelt upon " weep^th," 
 and then said, " MinLstei-s should go forth at 
 all times." 3. The Jruit — " Shall doubtless
 
 The Liud Diiys of Mr. M-Cheync. 
 
 iiO 
 
 come ngaiii witli icjoiciiif;." ^Ir. Miller 
 pointed to the certainl)/ of it ; 31r. M'Clieyne 
 assented, " Yes — douhtlens." After praying 
 with him, Mr. Miller repeated Matt. xi. 28, 
 upon which Mr. M't'heyne clasped liLs hands 
 with gi-eat earnestness. As he became woree, 
 his medical attendants forbade him to be 
 visited. Once or twice he asked for me, and 
 was heard to speak of " Smyrna" as if the 
 associatinns of liLs illness there were recalled 
 by his burning fever now. I was not at 
 that time aware of his danger, even the 
 rumour of it had not reached us. 
 
 Next day, he continued sunk in body and 
 mind, till about the time when his people met 
 for their usual evening prayer- meeting, when 
 he requested to be left alone for half an hour. 
 When his servant entered the room again, 
 he exclaimed, with a joyful voice, " My .'oul 
 is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the 
 fowler ; the snare is broken, and I am 
 escajied." His countenance, as he said this, 
 bespoke inward peace. Ever after he was 
 observed to be happy ; and at supper-time 
 that evening, when taking a little refresh- 
 ment, he gave thanks, '• For strength in the 
 time of weiikness — for light in the time of 
 darkness — for joy in the time of sori'ow — 
 for comforting us in all our tribulations, that 
 we may be able to comfort those that are in 
 any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we 
 ourstlves are comforted by God." 
 
 On Sabbath, when one expre.ssed a wish 
 that he had been able to go forth as usual 
 to pi each, he replied, " My thoughts are not 
 your thoughts, neither are Jly ways youi- 
 ways, saith the Lord : " and added, " I am 
 preaching the seniion that God would have 
 me to do." 
 
 On Tuesday (the 21st), his sLster repeated 
 to him several hymns. The last words he 
 heard, and the last he seemed to understand, 
 were those of Cowper's hymn, " Sometimes 
 the light surprises the Christian as he sings." 
 And then the delirium came on. 
 
 At one time, during the delirium, he said 
 to his attendant, '' Mind the text (1 Cor. xv. 
 58) : ' Be steadfast, unmoveable, always 
 abounding in the work of the Lord,' " dwell- 
 ing with much empha.sis on the last clau.se, 
 ^^ forasmuch as ye know thai your labour is 
 not in rain m the Lord." At another time 
 he seemed to feel himself among his brethren, 
 and said, " I don't think much of policy in 
 church courts ; no, I hate it ; but I'll tell 
 you what I like, faitlif\ilness to God, and a 
 holy walk." His voice, which had been 
 weak befoi-e became very strong now ; and 
 
 cften was he heard speaking to or praying 
 for his people. " You must be awakened in 
 time, or you will be awakened in everlasting 
 torment, to your eternal confusion." " You 
 may soon get me aw.iy, but that will not save 
 your souls." Then he prayed, " This parish, 
 Lord, this people, this whole place ! " At 
 another time, " Do it Thyself, Lord, for Thy 
 weak servant." And again, as if praying for 
 the saints, " Holy Father, keep through 
 Thine own name those whom Thou hast 
 given me." 
 
 Thus he continued most generally engaged, 
 while the delirium la.sted, either in prayer or 
 in preaching to his people, and always appa- 
 rently in happy fi-ame, till the morning of 
 Saturday, the 25th. On that morning, while 
 his kind medical attendant, Dr. Gibson, stood 
 by, he lifted up his hands as if in the attitude 
 of pronouncing the blessing, and then sank 
 down. Not a groan or a sigh, but only a 
 quiver of the lip, and his soul was at rest. 
 
 As he was subject to frequent sickness, it 
 was not till within some days of his death 
 that serious alarm was general!}' felt, and 
 hence the stroke came with awful suddenne.ss 
 upon us all. That same afternoon, while 
 preparing for Sabbath duties, the tidings 
 reached me. I hastened down, though scarce 
 knowing why I went. His people were that 
 evening met together in the church, and such 
 a scene of sorrow has not often been wit- 
 nessed in Scotland. It was like the weeping 
 for King Josiah. Hundreds were there ; the 
 lower part of the church was full ; and none 
 among them seemed able to contain their 
 sorrow. Every heart seemed bursting with 
 gi-ief, so that the weeping and the cries could 
 be heard afar ofT. The Lord had most 
 severely wounded the ]>eople whom He had 
 before .so peculiarly favoured ; and now, by 
 this awful stroke of His hand, was fixing 
 deeper in their souls all that His servant 
 had spoken in the days of bis peculiar 
 ministrj'. 
 
 Wlierever the news of his departure came, 
 every Christian countenance was darkened 
 with sadne.ss. Perhaps never was the death 
 of one, whose whole occupation had been 
 preaching the everlasting Gospel, more felt 
 by all the saints of Gcd in Scotland. Not a 
 few also of our Presbyterian brethren in 
 Ireland felt the blow to the very heart. He 
 himself used to say, " Live so as to be 
 mLssed ; " ami none that sjiw the tears that 
 were shed over his death would have doubted 
 that his own life had been what he recom- 
 mended to others. He had not completed
 
 30 
 
 Memories nf Gospel Triumphs among the Jens. 
 
 more than twenty- nine years when G^d took 
 him. 
 
 On the day of his burial, business was 
 quite suspended in the paiish. The streets, 
 and every window, from the house to the 
 grave, were crowded with those wlio felt that 
 a prince in Israel had Jallen ; and many a 
 careless man felt a fccnt awe creep over his 
 harilened soul as he cast his e^'e on the solemn 
 spectacle. 
 
 His tomb m:iy be seen on the pathway at 
 the north-west corner of St. Peter's burying- 
 groiind. He has gone to the " mountain of 
 myrrh and the hill of frankincense, till the 
 day break and the shadows flee away." His 
 work was finished ! His heavenly Father 
 had not another plant for him to water, nor 
 another vine for him to train ; and the 
 Saviour who so loved him was waiting to 
 greet him with His own welcome : '" Well 
 done, good and faithful servant : enter thou 
 into the joy of thy Lord." 
 
 But what is the voice to us ? Has this 
 been sent as the stroke of wrath, or the 
 rebuke of love? "His way is in the sea, 
 and his path in the great waters, and His 
 footsteps are not known." Only this much 
 we can clearly see, that nothing was more 
 fitted to leave his character and example 
 impressed on our remembrance for ever than 
 his early death. There might be envy while 
 he lived ; theie is none now. There might 
 have been some of the youthful attractiveness 
 of his graces lost had he lived many years ; 
 this cannot be impaired now. It seems as if 
 the Lord had struck the flower from its stem, 
 ere any of the colours had lost their bright 
 hue, or any leaf its fragrance. 
 
 OUR DUTiT TO ISEAEL. 
 
 A Sermon Preached by the late Rep. Robert M. 
 
 M'Chpyne, November 17th, 1S30, after 
 
 returning frnm a Mission to the 
 
 Jews in Palestine, etc. 
 
 " To the Jew first."— Ron. i. 16. 
 
 MOST people aie ashamed of the Gospel 
 iif Christ. ?V(e wise are ashamed of 
 it, because it calls men to believe, and not to 
 argue ; t/ie great are ashamed of it, because 
 it brings all into one body ; the rich are 
 ashamed of it, if it is to be had without 
 money and without price ; the gay are 
 ashamed of it, because they fear it will 
 destroy all their mirth : and so the good 
 news of the gloiious Sen of God havinsr 
 
 come into the woi Id a surety for lost sinners, 
 is despised, uncared for — men are ashamed 
 of it. Who are not ashamed of it ? A little 
 company, those whose hearts the Spirit of 
 God has touched. They were all like the 
 world, and of it ; but He awakened them to 
 see their sin and misery, and that (Jhrist 
 alone was a refuge, and now they cry, 
 " None but Christ— None but Christ ! God 
 forbid that I should glory save in the Cioss 
 of Christ." He is precious to their heart — 
 He lives there — He is often on their lips — He 
 is praised in their family — they would fain 
 pioclaim Him to all the world. They have 
 felt in their own experience that the Gospel 
 is the power of God unto salvation, to the 
 Jew first, and also to the Greek. Dear 
 friends, is this your experience ? Have you 
 received the Gospel, not in word only, but in 
 power ? Has the power of God been put 
 forth upon your soul along with the word ? 
 Then this word is yours, — I am not ashamed 
 of the Gospel of Christ. 
 
 One peculiarity in this statement I wish 
 you to notice. — He glories in the Gospel as 
 the power of God unto salvation, to the Jew 
 first, from which I draw this doctrine, — That 
 the Gospel should be preached Jir^t to the Jeios. 
 
 \. Because judgment will begin with them. 
 — Rom. ii. 6 — 10. 
 
 " Indignation and wrath, to the Jew first." 
 It is an awful thought that the Jew will be 
 the first to stand forward at the bar of God to 
 be judged. When the great white throne is 
 set, and He sits down upon it from whose 
 face the heavens and earth flee away — when 
 the dead, small and great, stand before God, 
 and the books are opened, and the dead are 
 judged out of those things that are written 
 in the books, is it not a striking thought that 
 Israel — poor blinded Israel — will be the first 
 to stand in judgment before tied ? 
 
 When the Son of Man shall come in His 
 glory, and all the holy angels with Him, when 
 He shall sit upon the throne of His glory, and 
 before Him shall be gathered all nations, and 
 He shall separate them one from another, as 
 a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats, 
 — when the awful sentence comes forth from 
 His holy lips, "Depart ye cursed," — and when 
 the guilty many shall move away from before 
 Him into everlasting punishment, — is it not 
 enough to make the most careless among you 
 pause and consider, that the indignation and 
 wiath shall first come upon the Jew — that 
 their faces will gather a deeper paleness, and 
 their hearts die within them more than 
 others ?
 
 Sei'tnoii liij llic late licr. Rolx'ii M. M^Chej/ne. 
 
 31 
 
 Why is this ? Because tlipy liave had 
 more liglit than any other people, (iod cl)oso 
 them out of the world to be His witnesses. 
 Every prophet was sent first to them ; every 
 evangelist and apostle had a message for 
 theui. Mes.siah came to them. lie siiid, 
 " I am not sent but to the lost sheep of tiie 
 House of Israel." The word of (Jod is still 
 addre.s.-ied to them. They still have it pure 
 and unadulterated in their hands ; yet they 
 have sinned against all tiiis light — against 
 all this love. " O Jeru.salein, Jerusalem, 
 thou that killest the pro[)hets, and stonest 
 them which are sent unto thee, how f)ften 
 would I have gathered thy children together, 
 even as a hen gathereth her chickens under 
 her wings, and ye would not! Their cup 
 of wrath is fuller than that of other men — 
 their sea of wrath is deeper. On their very 
 faces you may read in every clime that the 
 curse of God is over them. 
 
 Is not this a reason, then, why the Gospel 
 should first be preached to the Jews ? They 
 are ready to perish — to peri.sh more dread- 
 fully than other men. The cloud of indig- 
 nation and wrath that is even now gathering 
 above the lost, will brc:tk iir.st upon the head 
 of guilty, unluip|)y, unbelieving Israel. And 
 have you none of the bowels of Christ in 
 you, that you will not lun fast to them that 
 are in so sad a case? In an ho.spital, the 
 kind physician runs fiist to that bed where 
 the sick man lies who is neare.st to die. 
 When a ship is sinking, and the gallant 
 s;iilors have left the shore to siive the sinking 
 crew, do they not stretch out the arm of help 
 first to those who are readiest to perish 
 beneath the waves ? And shall we not do 
 the same for Israel ? The billows of God's 
 anger are ready to dash first over them — 
 shall we not seek to bring them first to the 
 Rock that is higher than they? Their case 
 is more desperate tlian that of other men — 
 shall we not bring the Good Physician to 
 them. Who alone can bring health and cure ? 
 — for the Gospel is the power of God unto 
 .salvation, to the Jew first, and also to the 
 Greek. 
 
 I cannot leave this head without .speaking 
 a word to those of you who are in a situation 
 very similar to that of Israel ; to you who 
 have the Word of God in your hands, and 
 yet are unbelieving and un.saved. In many 
 re.spects, Scotland may be called God's second 
 Israel. No other land has its Sabbath as 
 Scotland has — no other land has the Bible as 
 Scotland has — no other land has the Gospel 
 preached, fi-ee as the air yre breathe, fresh as 
 
 the stream from the everlasting hills. then, 
 think for a moment, you who sit luider the 
 shade of faithful ministers, and yet remain 
 unconcerned and unconverted, and are not 
 brought to sit under the shade of Christ, 
 think how like your wrath will bo to the 
 inibclieving Jew ( And think, again, of the 
 marvellous grace of Cln-ist, that the Gospel 
 is first to you. The more that your sins aro 
 like scarlet and like crimson, the more is tho 
 l>lood free to you that washes white as .snow ; 
 fortius is still His word to all His ministers, — 
 Begin at Jerusalem. 
 
 2. It is like God to care first /or lite Jews. — 
 It is the chief glory and joy of a soul to be 
 like (ii)d. You remember this was the glory 
 of that condition in which Adam was created. 
 " Let us make man in our image, after our 
 likeness." His understanding was w'ithout 
 a cloud. He .saw, in some measure, as God 
 seeth. His will flowed in the .same channel 
 with God's will. His aifections fastened on 
 the same objects which God also loved. 
 When man fell, we lost all this, and became 
 children of the devil, and not children of 
 God. But when a lest soul is brought to 
 Chri.st, and receives tlu; Holy Ghost, he puts 
 off the old man, and puts on the new man, 
 which after God is created in righteousness and 
 true holiness. It is our true joy in this world 
 to be like God. Too many rest in the joj' of 
 being forgiven ; but our truest joy is to be 
 like him. O rest not, beloved, till you are 
 renewed after this image, till you partake of 
 the Divine nature ! Long for the day when 
 Christ shall appear, and we shall be fully 
 like Him, for we shall .see Him as He is. 
 
 Now, what I wish to insist upon at present 
 i.s, that we should be like God, even in those 
 things which are peculiar. \\"e should be 
 like Him in imderstanding, in will, in holiness, 
 and also in His jieciiliar affections. " Love is 
 of God, and every one that loveth is born of 
 God and knoweth (iod. He that loveth not, 
 knoweth not God, for God is love ; " but the 
 whole Bible shows that God has a peculiar 
 afl'ection for I.srael. You remember when 
 the Jews were in Egypt, sorel}' oppressed by 
 theii- taskma.sters, God heard their crj% and 
 appeared to Moses. —" I have seen, 1 have 
 .seen the afUiction of My people, and 1 have 
 heard their cry, for I know their sorrows." 
 
 And again, when (»od brought them through 
 tlie wilderne.s.s, Mo.ses tells them why He did 
 it. Deut. vii. 7 : The Lonl did not set His 
 love upon you, nor choose 3'ou, because ye 
 were more in numlier than any people, for 
 ye were the fewest of all people, but because
 
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 Memories of Gospel Triumph 
 
 IS (IIIUJI 
 
 If) the Jeivs. 
 
 the Lord loved you." Strange, sovereign, 
 most peculiar love ! — He loved them because 
 He loved them. Should we not be like God in 
 this peculiar attachment ? 
 
 But, you say, God has sent them into 
 captivity. ICow, it is true, God hath scat- 
 tered them into every land — " the precious 
 sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how 
 are thej- esteemed as earthen pitchers ! " 
 But what says God of this ? '• I have left 
 Mine house, t have left Mine heritage, I have 
 given the dearhj beloved of My soul into the 
 hand of her enemies." It is true that Israel 
 is given, for a little moment, into the hand 
 of Her enemies, but it is as true that they 
 are still the dearly beloved of His soul. 
 Should we not give them the same place in 
 our hearts which God gives them in His 
 heart ? Shall we be ashamed to cherish the 
 same affection which our heavenly Father 
 cherishes ? Shall we be ashamed to be 
 unlike the world, and like God, in this 
 peculiar love for captive Israel ? 
 
 But vou say, God has cast them off. "Hath 
 God cast away His people which He foreknew ? 
 God forbid ! '"' The whole Bible contradicts 
 such an idea. Jer. xsxi. 20 : " Is Ephraim 
 my dear son ? is he a pleasant child ? for 
 since I spake against him, I do earnestly 
 remember him still. Therefore my bowels 
 are troubled for him : I will surely have 
 mercy upon him, saith the Lord." " I will 
 plant them again in their own land assui-edly, 
 with My whole heait. and with My whole 
 soul." " Zion said. The Lord hath forsaken 
 me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can 
 a woman," itc. "And so all Israel shall be 
 saved, as it is written. There shall come out 
 of Zion the DeHverer, and .shall turn away 
 ungodliness from Jacob." Now the simple 
 question for each of you is, and for our 
 beloved church, should we not share with 
 God in His peculiar affection for Israel ? If 
 we are filled with the Spirit of God should 
 we not love as He loves ? should we not grave 
 Israel upon the palms of our hands, and 
 resolve that through our mercy they also may 
 obtain mercy ? 
 
 3.- Dscaiise there is peculiar access to the 
 Jews. 
 
 In almost all the countries we have visited, 
 this fact is quite remarkable : indeed it seems 
 in many places as if the only door left open 
 to the Christian missionary is the door of 
 preaching to the Jews. 
 
 We spent some time in Tuscany, the freest 
 state in the whole of Italy. There you dare 
 not preuuli the Gospel to tlie Roman Catholic 
 
 population. The moment you give a tract, 
 or a Bible, it is carried to the pri&st, and by 
 tiie priest to the government, and immediate 
 punishment is the certain result. But the 
 door is open to the Jews. No man cares for 
 their souls ; and therefore you may carry 
 the Gospel to them freely. 
 
 The same is the case in Egypt and in 
 Palestine. 
 
 You dare not preach the Gospel to the 
 deluded followers of Mahomet ; but j-ou may 
 stand in the open market-place, and preach 
 the Gospel to the Jews, no man forbidding 
 you. We visited every town in the Holy 
 Land where Jews are found. In Jerusalem, 
 and in Hebron, we spoke to them all the 
 words of this life. In Sychar we reasoned 
 with them in the synagogue, and in the open 
 bazaar. In C'haifa, at the foot of Carmel, 
 we met with them in the .synagogue. In 
 Zidon, also, we discoursed freely to them of 
 Jesus. In Tyre, we visited them in the 
 sj'nagogue, and at the House of the Eabbi, 
 and then they returned our visit ; for when 
 we had laid down in the khan for the heat of 
 mid-day, they came to us in crowds. The 
 Hebrew Bible was produced, and passage 
 after passage explained, none making us 
 afraid. In Saphet, and Tiberias, and Acre, 
 we had the like freedom. There is, indeed, 
 perfect liberty in the Holv Land to carry the 
 Gospel to the Jews. 
 
 In Constantinople, if you were to preach 
 to the Turks, as some have tried, banishment 
 is the consequence ; but to the Jew you may 
 carry the message. In Wallachia and Mol- 
 davia, the smallest attempt to convert a Greek 
 would draw down the instant vengeance of 
 the holy Synod, and of the government. 
 But in every town we went freely to the 
 Jews — in Bucharest, in Foxany, in Jassy, 
 and in many a remote Wallachian hamlet, 
 we spoke, without hindrance, the message to 
 Israel. The door is wide open. 
 
 Ill Austria, where no missionary of any 
 kind is allowed, still we found the Jews 
 willing to hear. In their synagogues we 
 always found a sanctuary open to us, and 
 often when they knew they could have 
 exposed us, they concealed that we had been 
 theie. 
 
 In Prussian Poland, the door is wide open 
 to nearly lOO.OOll Jews. You dare not 
 preach to the poor Rationalist Protestants. 
 Even in Pi-otestant Piussia this would not be 
 allowed ; but yo>i may speak the Gospel to 
 the Jews. By the law of the land every 
 church is open to an ordained minister ; and
 
 Sei'mon by the late Rev. Robert M. M'Cheyne. 
 
 33 
 
 one of the missionaries assured me that he 
 often preached to 400 or 500 Jews and 
 Jewet^ses at a time. Sclioolti for Jewish 
 ciiildren ai-e also allowed. We vi.-ited three 
 of them, and heard the children taught the 
 way of salvation by the Kedeemer. Twelve 
 years ago the Jews would not have come 
 near a church. 
 
 If the.se things be true, and I appeal to all 
 of you who know these countries if it is not 
 — if the door in one direction is shut, and 
 the door to Israel is so widely open — Oh, do 
 you nof think that God is .saying by His 
 providence as well as by word, "Go rather 
 to the lost sheep of the hou.se of Israel ? " 
 Dj you think that the Church, knowing 
 these things, will be guiltless if we do not 
 obey the call ; for the Gospel is the power of 
 God unto salvation, to the Jew first, and also 
 to the Greek. 
 
 4. Jiecatiae they will give life to the dead 
 trorld. 
 
 I have often thought that a reflective 
 traveller, pa.ssing through the countries of 
 this world, and observing the race of Isi-ael 
 in every land, might be led to guess, merely 
 from the light of his natural reason, that 
 that singular people are preserved for some 
 gieat purjiose in the world. There is a 
 singular fitness in the Jew to be the mis- 
 sionary of the world. They have not that 
 peculiar attachment to home and country 
 which we have. They feel that they are 
 outca-sts in every land. They are also inured 
 to every clime; they are to be found amid 
 the snows of Ru.ssia, and beneath the burning 
 sun of Hindostan. They are also, in some 
 measure, acquainted with all the languages 
 of the world, and yet have one common 
 language — the holy tongue, in which to 
 communicate with one another. All these 
 things must, I should think, suggest them- 
 selves to every intelligent traveller as he 
 passes through other lands. But what says 
 the Wr/rd (if God ? 
 
 Zechariah viii. 13 : "It shall come to pass, 
 that as ye were a curse among the heathen, 
 house of Judah and house of Israel, so 
 will I save you, and ye shall be a blessing." 
 To this day they are a curse among the 
 nations, by their unbelief — by their covetous- 
 ness ; but the time is coming when they 
 shall be as great a blessing a-s they have been 
 a curse. 
 
 Micah v. 7 : " And the remnant of Jacob 
 shall be in the mid.st of many people as a 
 dew from the Lord, as the showers \ipon the 
 gra.ss, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth 
 
 for the sons of men." Just as we have 
 found, among the parched hills of Judea, 
 that the evening dew, coming silently down, 
 gave life to every plant, making the gra.ss 
 to spring, and the flowers to put foi-th their 
 sweetest fragrance, so shall converted Israel 
 be when they come as dew on the dead, dry 
 woild. 
 
 Zechariah viii. 23 : " In those days it .shall 
 come to pass, that ten men shall take hold, 
 out of all languages of the nations, even 
 shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a 
 Jew, saying, We will go with you : for we 
 have heard that God is with you." This 
 never has been fulfilled ; but as the Word of 
 God is true, this is true. Perhaps someone 
 may say, " If the Jews are to be the great 
 missionaries of the world, let us send missions 
 to them only. We have got a new light — ■ 
 let us call back our missionaries from India. 
 They are wasting their precious lives there 
 in doing what the Jews are to accomplish." 
 I giieve to tliink that any lover of Israel 
 should so far pervert the truth as to argue 
 in this way. The Bible does not say that 
 we are to preach only to the Jew, but to the 
 Jew first. " Go and preach the Gospel to 
 all nations," said the Saviour. Let us obey 
 His Word like little children. The Lord speed 
 our beloved missionaries in that burning 
 clime ! The Lord give them good success, 
 and never let one withering doubt cross their 
 pure minds as to their glorious field of 
 labour! All that we plead for is, that in 
 sending out mis.sionaries to the heathen we 
 may not forget to begin at Jerusalem. If 
 Paul be sent to the Gentiles let Peter be 
 sent to the twelve tribes that are scattered 
 abroad; and let not a by-corner in your 
 hearts be given to this cause — let it not be 
 an appendix to the other doings of the church, 
 but rather let there be written on the fore- 
 front of our hearts, and on the banner of 
 our beloved church, "To the Jew first," and 
 "Beginning at Jerusalem." 
 
 Lastly, Because there is a great revmrd. 
 " Blessed is he that blesseth thee ; cursed is 
 he that curseth thee." " Pray for the jjeace 
 of Jerusalem ; they shall prosper that love 
 her." We have felt this in our own souls. 
 In going from country to country we felt 
 that there was One before us preparing our 
 way. Though we have had perils in the 
 waters, and perils in the wilderness, perils 
 from sickness, and perils from the heathen, 
 still from all, the Lord has delivered us ; and 
 if it shall please God to restore our revered 
 companions in this missioi" in peace and
 
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 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 safety to their anxious families, we shall 
 then have good reaf on to say, that in keeping 
 His Comniandment there is gi-eat reward. 
 
 But your souls shall be eni-iched also, and 
 our chui'ch too, if this cause find its right 
 place in your affections. It was well said by 
 one who has a deep place in your affections, 
 and who "is now on his way to India, that our 
 church must not only be evangelical, but 
 evangelistic also, if she would expect the 
 blessmg of God. May I not take the liberty 
 .of adding to thLs striking declaration, 
 that we must not only be evangelistic, but 
 
 evangelistic as God would have us to be — not 
 only dispense the light on every hand, but 
 dispense it first to the Jew ? 
 
 Then shall God revive His work in the 
 midst of the years. Oar whole land shall 
 be refreshed as Kilsyth has been. The 
 cobwebs of controversy shall be swept out of 
 our sanctuaries — the jarrings and jealousies 
 of our church be turned into the harmony 
 of praise — and our own souls become like 
 a well-watered garden. 
 
 [Extracted, by permission, from the Memoir and 
 Remains of the Rev. R. M. M'Cheyne.] 
 
 THE BIBLE IN JACOB S WELL. 
 Bv THE LATE ANDREW A. BONAR, D.D. 
 
 MR. BONAR engaged a very affable 
 Jew to show him the road to Jacob's 
 Well, who, after leading him through the 
 town, gave him in charge to another that 
 knew the place. They went out at the 
 Eastern Gate and proceeded along the Vale 
 of Sychai-, keeping near the base of Gerizzim 
 
 * From " Narrative of a Mission to the Jews." 
 
 for nearly two miles, till they arrived at a 
 covered well, which is marked out by tradi- 
 tion as the memorable spot. It is imme- 
 diately below the rock}' path by which we 
 had travelled the day before, at that point of 
 the road where we tui-ued from the spacious 
 plain into the narrow vale, lietween Ebal 
 and Gerizzim. The guide removed a large 
 stone that covei-s the mouth of the low vault
 
 Th<' Bihh- 
 
 J.iroh's IIW/. 
 
 .35 
 
 Imilt over tho well ; and thou thrusting him- 
 self through the narrow aperture, invited 
 Mr. Bonar to follow. This he accordingly 
 did; and in the act of descending, his Jiiblo 
 escaping from his breast-pocket fell into tho 
 well, and was soon heard plunging in tho 
 water far below. The guide made very sig- 
 nificant signs that it could not be recovered, 
 " for the well is deep." The small chamber 
 over the well's mouth appears to have been 
 carefully built, and may have been originally 
 the lodge which is often found round the 
 mouth of Eastern wells, affording a resting- 
 place for the weary traveller. Hut the w(^ll 
 itself is cut out of the rock. Mr. Calhoun, 
 who was hero lately, found it seventy-five 
 feet deep, with ten or twelve feet of water. 
 In all tho other wells and fountains which 
 we saw in this valley tho water is within 
 reach of the hand, but in this one the water 
 seems never to rise high. This is one of tho 
 clear evidences that it is really the Well of 
 Jacob, for at this day it would require what 
 it re(|uiie<l in tho days of our Lord, an 
 " avrXtifia," ".something to draw with, for 
 it was ilcep."* On account of the great 
 depth, the water would be peculiarly cool, 
 and the associations that connected this well 
 with their father Jacob no doubt made it 
 to be liighly esteemed. For the.so reasons, 
 although there is a fine stream of water close 
 by the west side of the town, at least two 
 gushing fountains within the walls, and the 
 fountain Kl Defna nearly a mile nearer tho 
 town, still the people of the town very natu- 
 rally reverenceil and freqiiented Jacob's 
 Well. This maj' in j)art account for tho 
 Samaritan woman coming so far to draw 
 water, even if the conjecture be disregarded 
 that the town in former times extended much 
 farther to the east than it does now. The 
 narrative itself soems to imply that tho well 
 was situated .a considerable way from the 
 town, lie who " leads the blind by a way 
 which they know not," drew t\w woman that 
 day by the invisible cords of grace, past all 
 other fountains, to the well where she was to 
 meet with one who UAd her all that ever she 
 did — the Haviour of the world and the Saviour 
 of her .soul. 
 
 The Romish hymn seemed peculiarly im- 
 pressive when remembered on this hallowed 
 spot : — 
 
 Qii«!reu8 me .serlisti la.s.sii8, 
 ){e(lemisti oruceni p.is.'^n.'^. 
 Tautus labor iion sit co^us ! 
 
 • 1 John iv. 11. 
 
 (Weiu-y — tlidu KitHt Reeking mc ; 
 Cniuifieil--Tliou setst me free ; 
 Let iiut «iu-li pains fruitless be !) 
 
 But nothing can equal tho simple words of 
 the Evangelist, "Jesus therefore being 
 wearied with his juuniey sat thus on the 
 well." 
 
 One evening, after our visit toSychar, Mr. 
 M'Ch(!yne referred to tlu; Bible which I had 
 dropped into Jacob's Well. We were then 
 resting from our journey in our tents. Soon 
 after he penned on a leaf of his note-book 
 the following fragment : — 
 
 My own loved Bil)Ic. must I |i;irt from tliei', 
 
 Companion i>t' my toil.s by lanil and .se.a ; 
 
 Man of my oouusi'I.h. sootber of di.Mtress, 
 
 Ouide of ni}- step.-s tbruugli tbis world's wilderne».s ! 
 
 In darkest niglil.^*, a lantui-n to my feet ; 
 
 In glad.some days, ;is ilroppiug lioncy sweet. 
 
 Wben first I jiartcd from my quiet borne, 
 
 At tby oonnnand, for Israel's good to roam. 
 
 Tby gentle voiee said, *' For .leru.salem pray, 
 
 So sball .Tebovab prosper all tliy way." 
 
 Wben tbrougli tbe lonely wilderness we straved, 
 
 Sighing in vain for palm-trei!s' eooling sbade, 
 
 Tby words of comfort luisbed each rising fear, 
 
 "Tbe sbadow of Thy mighty Hoek is near." 
 
 And wben we pitched our tents on Judah's bills 
 
 Or thoughtful nmsed Ijeside Siltia's rills ; 
 
 Whene'er we clindieil Mount Olivet, to gaze 
 
 Upon the sea, where stood in ancient days 
 
 The heaven-struck Sotlom — ■ — 
 
 Sweet record of tbe past, to faitli'.s glad eyes, 
 Sweet proniiser of glories yet to rise ! * 
 
 [This story of the Bible in Jacob',s Well has 
 influenced thou.sandsof tlie young to give and 
 collect for the Jewish Mission. — Eu.] 
 
 • It is a somewhat curious occurrence, that the 
 remnants of this Wble were found and drawn up 
 from the bottom of the well, in .July, I.SIH. liy Dr. 
 Wilson and his fellow-traveller, who enii>loyed a 
 Samaritan from Sychnr to descend and examine tho 
 well. 
 
 D 2
 
 36 
 
 Memories of Gospel TrlunipJts among the Jeivs. 
 
 REV. J. DUNLOP'S TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF 
 DR. ANDREW BONAR. 
 
 IN tlie good pro\4dence of God, Dr. Andrew 
 Bonar, before he passed away, was per- 
 mittetl to give the last finishing touches to a 
 new and improved edition of his Memoii- of 
 the Eev. R. M. M'Cheyne, which Las only 
 been recently published. The preface to this 
 incomparable edition is dated Glasgow, July, 
 1892. It is in larger type than the pre\"ious 
 edition ; it has got facsimiles of Mr. 
 M'Cheyne's hand-wi-iting, and an appendix 
 with important additional information. 
 
 At the urgent request of friends. Dr. 
 Bonar has furnished some interesting notes 
 of the membei-s of a society which waj; called 
 The Exegelical, on account of its object. 
 Dr. Bonar, his brother Horatius, Mr. 
 M'Cheyue, Dr. Somerville, and fourteen 
 other students belonged to the Exegelical. 
 They were all attending the Theological 
 Classes in the Divinity Hall, in Edinburgh, 
 and during the four sessions, they met on 
 the Satui'day mornings, at half-past six 
 o'clock, for prayer and exercises in exegesis, 
 &c. On one of these occisions, Mr. M'Cheyne 
 read an essay on " Lebanon — Its Scenery 
 and Allusions," and later in life he " spoke 
 of himself as indebted to this society for 
 much of that discipline of mind on Jewish 
 literature and Scripture geography which 
 was found to be so useful in the ilission of 
 Inquiry to the Jews in after days." 
 
 Dr. Bonar very appropriately introduces 
 these charming little biographies of his 
 brethren by the follo^^ing interesting par- 
 ticvilai-s respecting himself and his brother 
 Horatius : — 
 
 " Spared, by the good hand of God upon 
 me, until now, 1892, when nearly every one 
 of the eighteen friends who formed our 
 morning-meeting have passed away, and 
 having been urged to give some brief notes 
 in regard to each of these friends, I shall try 
 to do so very briefly, taking each in alpha- 
 betical order. All I need to .say of myself 
 may be easily stated. Born in 1810. Born 
 again and fully brought to Christ in 1830. 
 Studied Divinity under Dr. Chalmei-s and 
 Dr. Welsh, — teachers I will never forget. 
 Licensed by Jedburgh Prasbytery. and 
 laboured for eighteen months there as mis- 
 sionary, and then, during two yeai-s, in Dr. 
 Candhsh's parish, St George's, Edinburgh. 
 
 Was ordained to the ministry at Collace in 
 1838. Went on the mission of inquiry to 
 Palestine and the Jews in 1839. On return- 
 ing, carried on my ministry in the Free Church 
 at Collace till the year 1856, and then 
 removed to Glasgow. Was Modei-ator of the 
 Fi-ee Chinch General Assembly at its meet- 
 ing in Glasgow in 1878. It seems strange 
 that such a ministry as Mr. M'Cheyne's 
 should be finished in seven years, while his 
 biographer has passed his jubilee. But the 
 Lord's ' thoughts are not our thoughts.' 
 John the Baptist in sis months fulfilled his 
 course as the prophet whom the Master 
 declared to have been greater than all the 
 prophets who went before him ; while to 
 John the Apostle sixty years were given for 
 his work. 
 
 " 1. Horatitis Bonar, D.D. Born in 1808. 
 He was ordained to the ministry in 1837. 
 After a preparatory season of mission work 
 in Leith, under Dr. James Lewis, Kelso was 
 the first scene of his labours ; and very soon 
 the Lord gave him many souls for his hire. 
 There it was he ^Tote his earli&st hymns, and 
 I believe it was there, in the writing of hymns 
 for the young in the Sabbath school, that he 
 discovered the gift with which the Lord had 
 endowed him. And there, too, the • Kelso 
 Tracts,' and many of his most useful books were 
 ^vritten. He removed to the Free Church, 
 Grange, Edinburgh, in the j-ear 1866. He 
 was Moderator of the Free Church General 
 Assembly in 1883, and was able to continue 
 all his usual work till two yeai-s before his 
 death, which took place 31st July, 1889. 
 One grand characteristic of his ministry was 
 his unwearied setting forth of the blessed 
 hope of the Lord's Premillennial Coming, 
 but e%'en more, the Gospel in its simplicity, 
 fulness, and freeness, — in his preaching, in 
 his writings, and in his hymns. ' Believe 
 and live,' and ' God's way of peace,' have 
 bten much owned of God. On the day of his 
 funei-al in the Canongate churchyard, a 
 young gentleman quietly said to me : ' It 
 wa.s about eight years ago I was led to rest 
 in Christ as I read your brother's hymn, — 
 
 ■' I }iear the words of love, 
 I gaze upon the blood : 
 I see the mighty sacriBce, 
 Aud I have peace with God.'"
 
 Rer. ./. Diinloj/s Tribute to the Memcn^y of Dr. Andreiv Bonar. 
 
 37 
 
 UNCONSCIOUS BEAUTY AND INFLUENCE. 
 
 During 1890, the Rev. H. C. G. Moule, 
 Principal of Kiilley Hall, Canibriilge, liadthe 
 great privilege of hearing Dr. Bonar speak in 
 public, and talk in private. The impression 
 left wji.s that he '• was one of the very sunniest 
 Christians he hail ever met, and one of the 
 wi.sast." When the subject of his intellectual 
 and pliysical vigour was referred to, he re- 
 marked : — 
 
 " Scripture says that Barzillai was a very 
 aged man, even foui-score years old ; so I 
 know by God's Word that I am a very aged 
 man. but I don't feel it a bit." 
 
 The lowe.st moral deformity and the highest 
 spiritual beauty are alike unconscious. Sam- 
 son was unconscious that through sin he had 
 lost his strength. Moses wa.s unconscious, 
 that through Communion with God on the 
 Mount, his face was bright. 
 
 Dr. Bonar wa-s unconscious of physical 
 decay and dissolution, because he was tilled 
 with the brightne.ss of the glory of God, by 
 continually looking into the face of Jesus as 
 he beheld it in the perfect mirror of the Bible. 
 
 DR. Sonar's last two letters to mr. duxlop. 
 
 It seems only yesterday since our vener- 
 able friend pa-ssed through the press that 
 beautiful edition of the immortal " Memoir," 
 and penned those two lovely letters, which a 
 voice from within says give here in full, as 
 his sudden, trium])hant departui-e has in- 
 vested every word of them with a new pathos 
 and power which we now most deeply feel 
 but cannot expr&ss : — 
 
 " Glasgow, 29,th October, 1892. 
 
 " Dear Mr. Duxlop, — Had I been able, I 
 should have reckoned it .a great privilege to 
 be at the Jubilee Meeting of your Jewish 
 Society. But I fear I could not undertake 
 the journey to London at this season ; for, 
 though I still divide the work of the ministry 
 with my colleague, I do not take on hand 
 extra services. And further, I suspect my 
 voice would not at all be such as would reach 
 an Exeter Hall audience. One rea.son for my 
 colleagueship was the unquestionable fact that 
 my congiegation felt the lowness of my voice. 
 
 " What memories you call up by your 
 reference to Robert M'Cheyne in 1S42 ! 
 How he loved Israel ! I often felt rebuked 
 by the tone of his prayei-s in their behalf — 
 such j-earning earnestness when pleading 
 witli God for them, and such affectionate 
 ompa.-*ion when advocating their cause 
 
 before his fellow Christians. Wlio is it of 
 our sacred poets that sings, as he would 
 have sung ? — 
 
 " How long .shall Jacob's offspring prove 
 Tile sad suspension of Thy love '. 
 Arise, C) God. and let Thy gniue 
 Shed its glad l)eani.s on .Jacob's race. 
 Itestore the long lost, .scattered band, 
 And call them to their native land. 
 
 " Did you notice thLs week the death of his 
 elder brother — the last of the family ? But 
 God's ways are net our ways ; the one brother 
 is taken away in his thirtieth year, and the 
 other in his eighty-second. But the God of 
 Israel has ftirried on His work marvellously, 
 even when those were called away whose 
 sickle seemed the sharpest and whose arm 
 seemed the strongest for cutting down the 
 fields that were " white and ready to 
 harvest." — Believe me, dear Brother, youi-s 
 truly in Him " Whose we are and Whom we 
 serve,'' Andrew A. Bonar. 
 
 "Glasgow, \9,th Xov., 1892. 
 
 " My dear Mr. Dunlop, — There was 
 never a very good likeness* of R. 51'Cheyne. 
 The enclosed is ;us good as any, but it was 
 taken after his death. 
 
 " As to myself, I fancy the one I enclose 
 will serve your purpose as well as any other. 
 You are welcome to both. I only hope they 
 will be of use to you. — Yours truly, dear 
 Brother, Andrew A. Bonar." 
 
 DR. BONARS PEACEFUL DEPARTURE. 
 
 We have been favoured with the following 
 most interesting account of Dr. Bonar's last 
 hours, by hLs daughter : — 
 
 " My father .seemed to be in his usual 
 health on Wednesday (Decemboi- 28Lh), 
 and visited for some hours in the 
 afternoon. In the evening he took part in 
 his weekly prayer-meeting, when many 
 noticed the earnestness of his [ji-ayers. Ne.\t 
 morning he awoke with a chill and was ill 
 all day, though we did not feel alarmed about 
 him. On Friday he was no better, and con- 
 tinued to grow gradually weaker all day, 
 sinking very rapidly after seven o'clock. His 
 mind wa.s clear and full of his much-loved 
 work. In the morning he spoke of several 
 things to lx> attended to on the coming 
 Sabbath, and rememl)ered that a collection 
 for the Jewish Jlission was to be taken that 
 day. He often put his h.md to his li< nd. but 
 
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 38 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 when we asked him if he were siiflering, he 
 said : ' No, only ver^- tired.' About sis 
 o'clock he called us all together for family 
 worship. We sang the 23rd Psalm, and 
 he joined in it as he usually did. Then our 
 brother-in-law read Psalm 62, and was 
 just beginning to pray when my father 
 folded his hands, and broke out into a pi-ayer 
 in a clear, distinct voice : ' Oh, Lord, Thou 
 art our Eock and our defence.' Tlien 
 followed confession of sin and prayer for 
 acceptance through the merits of the gi-eat 
 Intercessor, with a committal of us all to the 
 Ix)rd's care for the coming night. Then he 
 bade us each • good night.' He never said 
 ' good-bye.' He did not .seem to know he 
 was dving, and we did not speak of it to him. 
 Living or dying he was the, Lord's. As one 
 wrote : — 
 
 " ' He was in the dark vaUey and did 
 not know it. It was not so much that God 
 was with him, as that God had been one with 
 him this long time, and sustained him equally 
 at all times without disturbance, and needed 
 no special call at an emergency.' 
 
 " For a time his weakness and restlessness 
 were very great, then he gi-ew more quiet, 
 and lay gently bi-eathing awaj- his life. At 
 half-past ten o'clock he closed his eves, and 
 gentlj' ' fell asleep ' in Jesus, so gently, that 
 we hardly knew when life was gone. A look 
 of beautiful peace, almost of delighted sur- 
 prise, rested on his face, as if he had suddenly 
 and unexpectedly found himself in the 
 presence of his Lord and Saviour, and had 
 heard the welcome ' Come ' from the hps of 
 Him with Whom he had walkedall these yeai-s, 
 and Who now ' received him into glory.' 
 
 ' There no stranger, God, shall meet Thee, 
 
 Strsiiiger, though, in courts above ; 
 He who to His rest shall greet thee, 
 Greets thee with a weU-knoicn love.' " 
 
 Who that reads this touching nan-ative 
 of Dr. Bonar's last hours, will not exclaim 
 " Let me die the death of the righteous, 
 and let my last end be like his.'' Death ! 
 To him there was no death ! 
 
 '■ Can that man be dead 
 Whose Spiritual influence is still upon his kind ? 
 He lives in glory ; and his speating dust 
 Has more o£ life than half its breathing moiUd^." 
 
 " More of life ? " Yes ; all round and all 
 through. Measured by the highest standard, 
 not by yeai-s, but bj' loving thoughts, feelings, 
 and deeds, his was a long, sublune Ufe. 
 
 " We Uve in deeds, not years ; in thoughts, not breaths. 
 In feelings, not in figures on a dial, 
 We should count time by heart-throbs — He most 
 
 lives 
 Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best." 
 
 As we look back upon him, and then 
 forward and upward, we see 
 
 " Life's race well rim, 
 Life's work well done. 
 Life's crown well won." 
 
 Dr. Andrew Bonar's departure wasa trans- 
 lation, an ascen.sion ! It had less to do with 
 the dark pageantry of death and the funeral 
 than with the lushing wheels and the pranc- 
 ing footsteps o the chariots and horses of fire. 
 It reminds us of our Sa\iour's words to His 
 disciples, '• I ascend to My Father and your 
 Father, to My God and your God." It was 
 the onward, upward journey of immortal, 
 uninterrupted, ever broadening, brightening 
 Life in Eternal Light. 
 
 And so now a voice, sweeter than Apollo's 
 lute, comes to us ironx the heights of glory : 
 
 " I shine in the light of my God, 
 
 His likeness stamps my brow, 
 Thro' the shadows of death my feet have trod, 
 
 And I reign in glory now. 
 No breaking he,irt is here, 
 
 No keen and thrilling pain. 
 No wasted cheek where the frequent tear 
 
 Hath rolled and left its stain. 
 
 " I have found the joy of Heaven, 
 
 I am one of the Angel band ; 
 To my head a crown of gold is giv'n, 
 
 And a harp is in my hand. 
 I have learned the song they sing, 
 
 Whom Jesus hath set free, 
 And the glorious walls of Heav'n now ring 
 
 With my new-born melody. 
 
 ' No sin, no grief, no pain. 
 
 Safe in my happy home ; 
 My fears all fled, my doubts all slain, 
 
 My hour of triumph come. 
 friends ot my mortal years. 
 
 The trusted and the true, 
 Ye are walking still in a valley of tears, 
 
 But I wait to welcome you. 
 
 " Do I forget .' Oh, no ! 
 
 For memory's golden chain 
 Shall bind my heart to the hearts below 
 
 Till they meet and touch again. 
 Each Unk is strong and bright, 
 
 And love's electric flame 
 Flows freely down like a river of light 
 
 To the world from which I came. 
 
 " Do you mourn when another star 
 
 Shines out from the glittering sky 
 Do you weep when the raging voice o war 
 
 And the storms of conflict die .' 
 Then why should your tears run down, 
 
 And your hearts be sorely riv'n, 
 For another gem in the Saviour's crown, 
 
 And another soul'in Heaven ? "
 
 liev. J. Dvnlojj's Trihvti' to the Memory of Dr. Andrew Bonar. 
 
 ! n^i^^r 
 
 HALLELUJAH !
 
 40 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OP REV. RIDLEY HAIM HERSCHELL.* 
 
 Drawn from an admirable memoir written hy his daughter, and printed for 2>rirate circulation. 
 
 HIS BIRTH. 
 
 THE yeai-s I8O0 to 1808 were memoiiible 
 ones in Prussian history. NajMjleou 
 ■was at the height of his power, and all 
 Germany was at liis feet. After the battle 
 of Jena the fortified towns of Prussian 
 Poland were ganisoned by French soldiers ; 
 and when subsequently to the victory at 
 Eylau, Xapoleon put his army into winter 
 quarters, the cavalry were posted in the 
 towns and villages along the valley of the 
 Vistula, from Thorn to the Baltic, the 
 supplies for these troops being extorted from 
 the inhabitants of the occupied districts. 
 Thus it happened that in the spring of 1807 
 a French camp was stationed at Strzelno, a 
 small town about thirty English miles from 
 Thorn, and situated in the midst of a rural 
 district. At the approach of the foreign 
 army the greater part of the inhabitants of 
 the small towns and ^dllages fled for security 
 to the larger towns; for property, and, 
 indeed, life, were scarcely safe in the more 
 remote districts, and the unsettled state of 
 the country rendered communication almost 
 impossible, even between places at no great 
 distance from each other. 
 
 In Strzelno, at the time to which we refer, 
 only four Jewish families remained, and one 
 of them was that of Judah of Strzelno, as he 
 was designated, in accordance viith the 
 ancient custom which prevailed even up to 
 that period among the Jews, of using only 
 the fii-st name. In the spring of 1807 Judah 
 was absent from home, having gone to 
 Warsaw on business, and his return was so 
 much delayed by the difficulty of travelling, 
 that his w ife was kept in a state of the utmo.st 
 anxiety as to her husband's safety. All the 
 inhabitants of the little town, indeed, were 
 in terror for tiieir lives and property, for the 
 soldiei-s had lighted .a large camp-fii-e in the 
 streets, in close proximity to the houses, and 
 'either accidentally or by design a cannon-ball 
 was fired into the very room where Judah's 
 wife was lying, which not only destioyed 
 much of the furnitirre, but actually struck 
 the waU close to the head of her bed. In 
 
 * For an account of the spiritual crisis of Mr. 
 Herschell's life-histoi'y see p. 
 
 such trying circumstances her thii-d sou, 
 Haim, of whose useful life we propose to give 
 a very brief sketch, was born on the 7th of 
 April. 
 
 HIS EARLY WAXDERINGS FROM HOME. 
 
 Trained up most carefully and devoutly in 
 all the sacred observances of the synagogue, 
 and accustomed to mingle with the Jewish 
 students and other guests who wei-e freely 
 welcomed to his father's table every Sabbath- 
 day, young Haim at eleven years of age 
 carried into execution a bold project for so 
 young a child, characteristic enough of the 
 energy and enterprise which distinguished 
 him through life. Having set his heart on 
 being a rabbi, he determined to leave his 
 father's house and travel alone to a rabbinical 
 school at a great distance, the fame of which 
 had reached him ; and it is remarkable that 
 from this time he w-as never entirely depen- 
 dent on his parents. Going on foot the 
 greater part of the way, receiving the hospi- 
 tality which in those days was always freely 
 accorded to every traveller by Jewish families, 
 and on one occasion facing a band of robbers 
 and diverting their attention from the little 
 stock of money he carried by asking one of 
 them for a piece of bread, he reached his des- 
 tination, and having introduced himself to 
 the presiding rabbi as desirous of an engage- 
 ment to teach three languages — Hebrew, 
 German, and Polish — he became installed 
 in a .Jewish household as tutor to two little 
 pupils. Here he spent two years, and, after 
 returning for a time to his fathei's dwelling, 
 proceeded, at fourteen years of age, to Pieter- 
 kowo Trebonalski, the former abode of his 
 grandfather HiUel, to place himself under 
 Rabbi Aaron, one of the sect known as the 
 Cha.sidim, who "seek and find in every 
 picture, in every story, symbolical, allegorical, 
 or cabalistical meaning," .so that they 
 spiritualize the whole Bible. Two years 
 passed in this kind of study ended in a severe 
 illness brought on by the unhealthy character 
 of the neighbourhood, and leading him once 
 again to his parents" roof. We next find 
 him encountering the strange influences of 
 I'niversity life at Berlin, and then about 
 1825, stiirting on foot for Hamburg, a walk of
 
 Incidents in the Life of Rev. Ridley Haim, llerachdl. 
 
 41 
 
 200 miles, l)ut contriving, when his feet were 
 too sore for further piogress, to arrange with 
 a voitiirier who was conveying a huly and 
 gentleman to Hambm-g, for a seat on the 
 box, provided the consent of the hirer was 
 obtained. This led to a conversation with 
 the gentleman, Herr Heintz, who was so 
 pleatied with him that he invited him to take 
 a seat inside the carriage, entertained hiui at 
 llamlmrg, paid his fare to England, and gave 
 him introductions to several of his acijuaint- 
 ances in London, and, among the rest, one to 
 the Duke of Wellington, which it does not 
 appear that JIaim ever used. 
 
 From Hamburg, after a seven days' 
 voyage, he reached the English metropolis, 
 which was afterwards to become his home 
 and the sphere of his devoted labours. After 
 this he is again in Berlin and then in Paris, 
 where, while living a gay and thoughtless 
 life, he was thrown into deep grief through 
 the death of his beloved mother, and this, 
 together with a second illness, led to a power- 
 ful awakening of conscience. Referring to 
 this period, he siiys, " I had no place nor 
 rest. I could say with Job, ' The arrows of 
 the Almighty are within me, the poi.son 
 wheieof drinketh up my spirit.' " 
 
 HIS DELIVERANCE FROM DESPAIR. 
 
 In his spiritual distress he sought help 
 from a Komish archbishop ; and although 
 neither the prelate nor a distinguished lay 
 member of the order of Jesuits, to whom he 
 was transferred for instruction, had succeeded 
 in bringing any peace to his troubled soul, 
 the fact that he had become an inquirer into 
 Chi-istianity at once awakened the bitterest 
 anger in his relati\-es, and severed him from 
 all further means of temporal support. One 
 afternoon, after walking about the Chamjas 
 Elysfees in despair, not having ta.sted food all 
 day, he returned to his lodgings to seek for 
 something that he could exchange for a bit 
 of bre.id, when his eye lighted upon a letter 
 which he had long ago brought from London, 
 addressed by his former landlady to a 
 Christian woman who kept a respectable 
 lx)arding-house in Paris. Making use of 
 this as his introduction, he was kindly 
 welcomed, rescued fi-om despair, and filled 
 with Christian jieace and hope. This perhaps 
 was the night when he was led to pray in 
 the name of Jesus, and when the light from 
 on high Ijroke in upon his .soul. Jle was 
 now strongly recommended to seek a home in 
 England, and while pondering the (pie.stion 
 Jiow he was to obtain the means of getting 
 
 there he received from his generous hoste.s.s a 
 present of 250 francs, with lettere from some 
 of his fellow-boarders, by delivering which 
 he made the acfjuaintance of several 
 Chri.stian persons in England, among whom 
 was Hannah More. lie desired now the 
 companionship .and sympathy of those who 
 like himself, desired to follow Jesus Christ. 
 For this purpose he .sought and gained ad- 
 mission into an institution which had recently 
 been established for the reception of Jewish 
 converts and intjuirers in London, conducted 
 by Mr. Erasmus Simon, a Christian Jew, and 
 un<li-r the superintendence of a committee, of 
 which the Bishop of London was a member. 
 Here he gave himself to the study of the 
 New Testament especially, and at the same 
 time, according to Rabbinic law, contributed 
 to his own maintenance by manual labour. 
 Although he now experienced spiritual re.st 
 and joy, the enemy, ius might be expected, 
 did not forget him ; and his former associates 
 were so enraged at his forsaking their ways 
 that one fellow actually carried about a loaded 
 pistol for several d.ays, and watched for an 
 opportunity to take his life. But this did 
 not frighten him, and on the Ltth of A])ril, 
 1830, he was baptized in St. James's, West- 
 minster, by the then Bishop of London, with 
 eleven other inmates of the Home, and took 
 the name of Ridley from one of his sponsors, 
 the Rev. Henry Colborne Ridley, rector of • 
 Hambledou, Bucks. Friends at Clifton, to 
 whom Ridley had been introduced by Dr. 
 Grey, Bishop of Bath and Wells, and of 
 whose families he had l)ecome an object in 
 great admiration throutrh his intere.sting ex- 
 positions of the Scriptures, urged him to take 
 orders in the Established Church ; but con- 
 scientious objections stood in his way, and, 
 indeed, the perilous influence of the excite- 
 ment into the midst of which he had Vjeen 
 thrown warned him that, for the present at 
 least, sechhsion was what he needed. He- 
 therefore returned to the in.stittition in 
 London, resumed his former humble occupa- 
 tions, and exerted himself in a variety of 
 ways for the good of his Jewish brethren. 
 
 In September, IS.'Jl, Mr. Herschell was 
 man-ied to Miss Mowbray, the daughter of a 
 merchant in Leith, a young lady whose 
 friendship he had made at some meetings 
 often attended liy Kdward Irving for reading 
 and conversations on the Scriptures, and who 
 for two-and-twenty years was the faithful, 
 wi.se, anil loving companion of all his 
 cheiiuered history of toil and .self-denial, 
 freely devoting every power of her highly-
 
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 Memcn'ies of Gospel TnuTnphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 cultivated mind and all the characteristic 
 energy and refinement of her soul, to the 
 greut object which he had nearest at heart — 
 the glory of Christ in the salvation of 
 Israel. 
 
 A LITTLE BIRD WITH A MESSAGE. 
 
 In the next few yeai-s we find Mr. Her- 
 schell seeking to establish a home for Jews 
 inWoolwich, where, in a year and a half, he 
 received more than a hundred, whose temporal 
 and spiritual wants he did his best to supply, 
 his wife not only acting a.s a missionarj' 
 among",them, and often reading and explaining 
 the Hebrew Bible to them, but many a time 
 preparing their mealii with her own hands. 
 Such an undertaking as this naturally in- 
 volved heavj- care, and sometimes it was all 
 .she could do to sustain the mind of her 
 husband under his anxieties. In one of his 
 moments of depression, however, he was 
 cheered in a very singular way. His 
 attention was aiTested bj- a tapping sound at 
 the window, and -after this had been several 
 times repeated, he opened the window to 
 ascertain the cause, when a frightened little 
 bird flew in and alighted on his hand. " This 
 is a message from God," he said to himself ; 
 " ye are of more value than many sparrows," 
 and so fresh hope sprang up in his heart. 
 
 It was about this time, too, that a Hebrew 
 letter written by Mrs. Herschell to her 
 father-in-law at Strzelno, opened the way for 
 a happy reconciliation between her husband 
 and his Jewish relatives, which led to his 
 visiting the synagogues in a large number of 
 continental towns, preaching the Gospel to 
 many hundreds of his brethren, and after- 
 wards publishing his " Brief Sketch of the 
 Jews." 
 
 HOME MTSSIOXAEY. 
 
 The year 183i was spent in a humble 
 dwelling at Camden Town, and was a time 
 of hard struggle for a maintenance. But 
 whUe he worked indefatigably as a teacher, 
 giving lessons in Hebrew and German, he 
 did not relax his efforts for the salvation of 
 souls. In October of that year, he wrote, — 
 " The Lord has graciously opened a way of 
 usefulness for me. I have the use of a large 
 infant school, in a very poor, dirty, and low 
 situation, where I expound the Scriptures 
 twice a week. I had j-esterday upwards of 
 fifty persons, many workmen and work- 
 women, and also two or three ladies with 
 fine trimmed bonnets I" In January, 1835, 
 he had an offer to become the minister of a 
 
 congregation in Scotland, but belieWng that 
 his call from God at present was to the work 
 of the Evangelist, and not to the pastorate, 
 though the appointment promised every 
 pixjspect of life-long comfort, he declined it. 
 Not many montlis afterwards, however, he 
 took a temporary engagement as a home 
 missionary in the little village of Leigh, near 
 the mouth of the Thame.-;, where many a 
 happy Christian in after days bles.sed God for 
 having been brought out of darkness into 
 marvellous light through his faithful and 
 solemn ministry, and where in the latter 
 yeais of his life he received many a party 
 of delighted children, teachers, and others, 
 whom he invited for a holiday out of the 
 smoke and toil of London life. 
 
 When a curate was appointed to Leigh, 
 Mr. Herschell left for Brampton, in Hunt- 
 ingdonshire, another little missionary station, 
 supported by Lady Olivia Sparrow, but car- 
 rying with him, as a proof of the love he had 
 won, a Bible and Prayer-book, purchased by 
 the penny subscriptions of 700 fishermen. 
 In two years the aguish nature of the soil 
 in this neighbourhood obliged him, " by dili- 
 gent prayer and meditation," to seek divine 
 direction as to another abode. Thus he was 
 guided to Founders' Hall Chapel, in Loth- 
 bury, where he began to preach in December, 
 1838. There the " Rabbi," as some people 
 called him, used to stand with a small pocket 
 Bible in hand, and with a solemnity, sim- 
 plicity, and earnestness which fixed every eye 
 in the densely-crowded place, delivered what 
 everyone felt to be the real Word of Life. 
 
 FOUNDING AND FOSTERING THE BRITISH 
 SOCIETY. 
 
 Among his hearers were many Jews, and 
 thej' not only came to listen when he 
 preached, but they literally besieged his 
 door, and would watch for his coming out, 
 to ask relief in their poverty. Within six 
 months persons were sent to him from Con- 
 stantinople, Bucharest, Berlin, and Basle, 
 wholly or nearly penniless, besides crowds 
 who found their way to him without being 
 sent. To such an extent was he tasked in 
 this way that he said, " This life of a parish 
 oflicer, burdened with the additional duty of 
 finding funds for relief, I am unable to 
 endure longer ; health, energy and spiritual 
 usefulness mu.st sink under it if continued." 
 But though the over-taxed labourer uttered 
 the cry of distress, he did not remit his exer- 
 tions. In 1841, after a second tour of 
 evangelization among the Continental Jews,
 
 Incidents in the Life of Rev. Ridley Haini Ihrsckell. 
 
 43 
 
 .1 " .li'ws' Benevolent Fund" was established, 
 by means of wliich, in four 3'ears, seven 
 individuiils liiul been enabled to proceed to 
 America, and forty to retni'n to the Con- 
 tinent ; seventy-five wcreassisted in business, 
 and nearly 5IM) received casual aid. About 
 the same time Mr. ITerschell opened a 1 Ionic, 
 where, in the course of time, hundreds of 
 believing and inquiring Jews were welcomed 
 and aided both temporally and spiritually, 
 and then followed the birth of the " British 
 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel 
 among the Jews," in the Scotch Church, 
 Regent S(piare, on the 7th of November, 
 1842, and he continued to be its devoted 
 friend to the last days of his life. No man 
 ever s;>t on its committee who.se counsels 
 were more valued or whose active service 
 was more faithful and unremitting than hi.s. 
 In May, 1S44, after returning from a vi.sit 
 to Palestine, Mr. Herschell brought out the 
 fir.st number of Tlie Voice of Isriiel, a peiiodi- 
 cal intended to serve as a medium of mutual 
 comnumication between Jewish converts, and 
 as their united testimony to the great car- 
 dinal truths of Christianity. In the conduct 
 of this interesting journal, during its cour.se 
 of four years, its editor was constantly aided 
 by the untiring hand and eyes of Mrs. Her- 
 schell : for not only did every manuscrijjt 
 pass through her hantls before it was .sent to 
 the press, but she had to read about thirty 
 Jewish publications every month, most of 
 them in (Jerman. 
 
 GIFT OK A BIBLE IN EIOHT L.^NOU.VfJES. 
 
 It was in the midst of these toils that Mr. 
 Heischell and his excellent wife were cheered 
 by a token that their united efforts for the 
 good of Israel were not in vain. Si.xty 
 " members of the house of Israel who 
 believed in the Lord Jesus Christ as their 
 Messiah and Saviour " had .subscribed to 
 present tlieir friend and benefactor with a 
 hand.some Bible in eight languages, and the 
 addre.'^s accompanying it bore signatures 
 which were <lateil from all the civilized coun- 
 tries of the world. The same year (1S4.5) in 
 which he received this expression of love, 
 Mr. Her.schell took a journey to the chief 
 cities of America, where, at the earnest 
 request of the American Society for Amelior- 
 ating the Condition of the Jews, he stirred 
 up a wide and fervent interest on behalf of 
 Lsrael. In April, 1839, he had removed 
 from Founders' Hall to Chadwell Street 
 Chapel, Islington, which he thought ofi'ered 
 a good field for work, as" being in a poor and 
 
 thickly-populated neighbourhood. It was at 
 the opening .service in that place that the Rev. 
 Thomas Binney preached his celebrated dis- 
 coui-se on " Conscientious Clerical Noncon- 
 formity," and there for six years Mr. Hei-schell 
 carried on his mini.stry, until the place was so 
 inconveniently crowded, that it became neces- 
 .sary to think of eidargement. This, however, 
 was impossible, the chapel being too clo.sely 
 surrounded with houses, and the only alterna- 
 tive was to seek for a new site, and to build. 
 One day, when in the west of London, Mr. 
 Herschell noticed that ,a large livery stable, in 
 a situation which seemed all he could desire 
 for opportunities of iisefulness, was to be sold. 
 His fir.st step was to " tell God," and very 
 soon afterwards his friend. Sir Culling Eardley 
 Eardley, generously ofiered to procure the 
 property. On the Sth of April, 184.5, the 
 foundation-stone of Trinity (Jhapel was laid, 
 amid a vast concourse of deeply- interested 
 spectators ; and on ii bright May day in 
 1846 the building was opened for worship. 
 Dr. Leifchild preaching in the morning, and 
 the Rev. Thomas Binney in the evening. 
 Connected with this edifice 'there sprang up 
 a Home for Jews ; a Sunday-school, with 
 many hundreds of children, which became 
 under the superintendence of j\tr. Habershon, 
 a power for good among the vast masses 
 that crowd the region of the Great 
 Western ; and other institutions of a simi- 
 larly benevolent and Evangelical character. 
 Here for twenty years Mr. Herschell 
 wrought incessantly among Jews and 
 Gentiles, int(>nt upon the good of all 
 whom he could reach. The first seven 
 summers hardly brought a cloud upon his. 
 happy and earnest life, but in the autiimn of 
 1853 a terrible grief befell him. Bereaved 
 of his dearly loved wife, he wrote to his 
 children, — " To be separated from such a 
 bosom friend, coun.sellor, guide, exemplary 
 Christian, and such a devoted wife, is hard 
 to bear. And oh, my darling children, how 
 to be Ix)th father and mother to them is 
 difficult indeed ; and need I say that ni)' 
 brothers have lost a mother, and the poor 
 Jews have lost a mother in Israel ! Alas ! 
 for us, alas ! Lord, my trial is bitterne,ss 
 itself, but Thou wilt sweeten it, yea, Thou 
 dost already enable me to feel the peace 
 which passeth all understanding. I sorrow 
 not as these who have no hope." 
 
 For some months after this terrible blow, 
 Mr. Herschell kept steadily at work, but it 
 soon became evident that ho needed rest and 
 recreation. With him, howevei-, rest only
 
 44 
 
 Mmwries of Gospd Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 meant a change in the scene of labour, and 
 so we find him, when it was determined that 
 he should go again to Palestine, stopping on 
 his way to Paris, inviting to his hotel the 
 most earnest pas/eurs, the Monods, 
 Grandpierre, and others, and laying before 
 them a proposal to have a meeting of 
 Protestants to organize an association for the 
 distribution of tracts, and for preaching in 
 different languages, similar to one that he 
 had set on foot in England in 1851. As it 
 was expected that there would be a great 
 gathering of all nations at the French 
 Exhibition of 1855, the plan was well 
 leceived, and measures were taken to carry 
 it out. So, too, in Jerusalem. There he 
 held a meeting at the house of the Bishop 
 to consider the feasibility of establishing a 
 model farm and agricultural school for the 
 benefit of converted Jews, and he lived to 
 see the scheme fully i-ealized. 
 
 In 1855 Mr. Herschell was married to 
 Miss Fuller Maitland, who ministered to his 
 comfort and happiness with the tenderest 
 devotion to the end of his life. But this 
 was no reason to him for any i-elaxation of 
 his accustomed labours, and so we find him 
 through the remaining ninr) years of his 
 course, going on still, ho'di. g fast and holding 
 forth the Word of Liio both to Jews and 
 Gentiles, at home and abroad. 
 
 HIS LAST DATS SPENT IN THE INTERESTS OF THE 
 BRITISH SOCIETY. 
 
 His last days of active labour in this 
 world were spent in the service of the British 
 Society for the Jews. As soon as Italy was 
 liberated his thoughts turned to the state of 
 the Jews in that country ; and after a 
 journey there at the end of 1860, he advised 
 the establishment of a Mission at Leghorn, 
 the residence of many influential Jews. 
 This Mission was greatly prospered ; and in 
 1863 he again travelled in Italy for the 
 purpose of arranging, if possible, a Mission 
 to the Jews in other large towns. This was 
 in fact the close of his ministry on earth, 
 for on his way home he was attacked with 
 fatal illness. 
 
 HIS LAST WORDS. 
 
 No notes were taken during his illness 
 of any of the things he said. We have only 
 reminiscences, afterwards put down in 
 writing, by diflerent members of the family, 
 which are liero given just as they were 
 received : — 
 
 "Owing to his bodily weakness, he was 
 
 unable, during the last few weeks of his 
 life, to conver.se for any length of time, and 
 we so little apprehended this sad blow, that 
 we did not treasure up what he said, as we 
 should have done, could we only have fore- 
 seen what was before us. The last woids of 
 affection and intelligence are very precious. 
 Little more than the general impre.ssion 
 remains. That which to me seemed the 
 great characteristic of his state, might be 
 best described by the words, ' Perfect Peace.' 
 He had no apparent wish to depart, and yet 
 no shrinking from the summons ; and he 
 often thanked God that he was able to feel 
 such perfect acquiescence in the Divine will 
 respecting him. During his whole illness, 
 down to the last night of his life, he always, 
 1 efore letiring to bed, engaged in prayer 
 with such members of his family as were 
 )iresent; and more than one of us remarked 
 that those pi'ayers seemed to become more 
 childlike and trustful, often but very few 
 words, anil yet expressive of the mo.st perfect , 
 qontidence in God. His congregation, as far 
 as I remember, was never forgotten, and in 
 the last prayer I ever heard him of.er, only 
 two days before his death, one of his petitions 
 was, that if he was spared, it might be to tell 
 his people once more of the love of Christ. 
 And though all these utterances weie but 
 what had been natural to him for years, yet 
 there seemed to be a more intense realization 
 than ever of God's presence and glory. He 
 would at times, after lying long silent, utter 
 an ejaculation of thanksgiving, or of pi'ayer ; 
 and latterly he used to like to sit in the 
 twilight, as he said, very expressively, talking 
 to God ; because he seemed to feel that he 
 liked that better than formal prayer — just to 
 sit and realize the Divine presence, and then 
 speak to God, like Moses, as a man speaketh 
 to a friend — the utterance of the lieart going 
 forth to the Father. But it would create a 
 false impression if I were not to add that, as 
 through his life, so too in his latter days, he 
 did not exclusively so occupy his thoughts, 
 but he had to the last a deep intere.st in the 
 things around him ; and on the day before he 
 died he had all the news read out to him, 
 and when I saw him on the previous Satur- 
 day, having been absent for six weeks, he 
 made me tell him of all my doings, and 
 inquired with as much loving inteiest as 
 ever how I had got on ; and he smiled too, 
 with all his old appreciation, at what was 
 .amusing and pleasing in the story. He was 
 full of kindly interest in the concerns of the 
 many friends who relied upon his advice. It
 
 Incidents in the Life of Rev. Ridley Haim Herschell. 
 
 4.J 
 
 was a great pleasure to him to be at Brighton, 
 and he looked from his bed at the great 
 expanse of sea, and was constantly gazing at 
 it .iiid noting all the changes. A friend has 
 told mo since his death, that one day, while 
 they were looking at the sea, she repeated 
 the text, ' All thy waves and tiiy billows are 
 gone over me,' on which he immediately 
 replied, ' ]Jut remember, it is '' t/i>/ waves," 
 and '• </(// billows ; " that is the comfort of 
 it ; oh ! if it were any one else's ! ' " 
 
 One of his brothers, in saying good-bye on 
 one occasion expressed a hope that he would 
 soon be better. " I shall be better," he 
 replied, " but not here. I have placed myself 
 in the arms of my loving Father, who has 
 fed me and kept me during all my pilgrimage, 
 and has bound me up in His everlasting 
 covenant in Christ." 
 
 Another member of the family says : — 
 " What struck me most of all was his great 
 humility. On one occasion when he was 
 told that his congregation had met to ofl'er 
 prayer for his recovery, he exclaimed, • Who 
 am I, Lord, that Thy people should thus 
 plead with Thee for my poor, unworthy life ? 
 But since it is so, grant, Lord, if it be Thy 
 will, that I may be laised up again in answer 
 to their prayers, that they be not discouraged. 
 Not my will, but Tliine, O Lord, be done.' 
 He had often pre\iously pi-ayed for patience, 
 and for relief from suffering, but this was 
 the lirst time that I had heard anything like 
 a petition for recovery." 
 
 "Great thankfulness for God's mercies, 
 and an intense rt^alization of His love, were 
 most ob.servable in all his words during his 
 illne.ss," is the testimony of one of his children. 
 " He once siiid to me, ' If ever I preach again 
 I will tell the people more of the love of God. 
 It is not the doctrine of election or any other 
 doctrine — as a doctrine — that gives me com- 
 fort now ; but to know that Gad is my 
 Father. I rest simply on the love of God ; 
 that is all my religion now.' A friend one 
 day remarked to him that it must be a 
 comfort to him to think of the good he ha<l 
 been the means of doing, and added, men- 
 tioning by name one who had been converted 
 under his teaching many years bjfore, and 
 who had since been the means of bringing 
 the truth to othe:-s, 'You mu;t ba happy in 
 
 having teen the means of 's c inversion, 
 
 even if lie were the only one.' He sever.al 
 times alluded to this afterwards, saying, 
 ' This is no consolation to me. Of course I 
 am thankful if God has ma<'o me of Bome use 
 in the world : but I have no pleasure in 
 
 dwelling upon this. To know that God is 
 my Father, and Jesus Christ my Saviour, 
 this is my comfort now.' At different times 
 when I was with him he spoke of various 
 incidents in his early life, and always with 
 an exclamation of thanksgiving for God's 
 merciful dealings with him. A fortnight 
 before his death, when I was at Brighton, he 
 read and prayed with us tis usual before 
 retiring to rest. That evening he chose his 
 favourite psalm, the twenty-third, and then 
 he sjiid : ' It is wonderful to look back and 
 sea how literally true it is that goodness and 
 mercy have followed me all the days of my 
 life — wonderful ! Every step has been mercy. 
 Before I knew the Lord He kept me from 
 falling. What dangers He has preserved me 
 from precipices on the brink of which 1 
 stood ready to phuige down — but He pre- 
 vented me. I should have made shipwreck 
 over and over again if He had not saved 
 me — in Irving's time, and at other periods.' 
 His wife remarked to him, ' It is a great 
 blessing you have held on your way,' to 
 which he quickly replied, ' J/e held me, I 
 did not do it myself. Goodness and mercy ! 
 You can't set yourself to believe this — to 
 reflect upon it as a task — you must realize it 
 as you look back upon your life. I shall 
 always be thankful for this illness. If God 
 raises me up again 1 shall always rejoice that 
 I have pas.sed through it. I cannot alwaj's 
 think ; sometimes I feel dull and stupid ; still 
 1 have glimpses. At night when I lie awake, 
 or sit up and look into the lire, 1 feel very 
 happy ! ' 
 
 " Thus we see that patience was having her 
 perfect work, that the sutVering one might 
 become perfect and entire, wanting nothing. 
 
 "On the 6th of March, 1864, my father 
 went to Brighton, with the hope that the 
 sea-breezes might e.xert a beneficial influence 
 upon hLs health. This hope was not realized, 
 but he was much more cheerful during his 
 sojourn there, and thoroughly enjoyed the 
 bright clear atmosphere, and delighted to 
 watch, as he could do from his bed, the 
 varying aspects of the ' ever-changing sea.' " 
 
 At home he had not liked to refu.se to 
 .see many kind friends who came to express 
 their sympathy and love ; while others he 
 wished to converse with, trusting that God 
 woulil bless to their souls the few words 
 uttered l)y him in his weakness. And thus 
 he sometimes got wearied beyonil his strength. 
 But at Bi-ighton he was able to be more 
 quiet, and .seldom saw anyone except the 
 members of his own family, whom he always
 
 MR. HERSCHELL'S MESSAGE TO HIS HEBREW CHRISTIAN 
 BRETHREN, AND HIS FAVOURITE PSALM. 
 
 *lt3pri Tiyn N"!''!?"'?^ " THE LOKD IS MT SHEPHERD."— Pso^m arm.
 
 Incidents in the Life of Rev. Hi i lie;/ Hniin HeracheU. 
 
 wi'lcouied witli liis old wai'inth and adection. 
 Daily he rose Irom his bed, and sat up in an 
 aimohair in his bedroom ; only once he 
 ventured to a sitting-room on another floor, 
 and he wsis not able to repeat the attempt. 
 Very little change was observed in his con- 
 dition nntil the evening of the 13th April. 
 Alter praying as usvwl, with his wife, who 
 was alone with him, he got up from his chair 
 to walk a few steps to the bed, but fell in the 
 attempt. He got up again immediately, 
 and succeeded, though with some difficulty, 
 in undre.s.-ing. His hand and one side were, 
 he complained, benumbed, but ho passed a 
 quiet night, and continued in the .same state 
 till about three o'clock on the afternoon of 
 the following day. Two of his brothel's had 
 gone to Brighton that day to visit him. In 
 spite of the doctor's prohibition, he insisted 
 on seeing them for a few minutes, as well as 
 one of his children who had arrived at the 
 same time. Soon after three o'clock in the 
 afternoon he was suddenly seized with 
 extreme oppression of breathing, which he 
 recognized as the summons to depart. Hut 
 he wa.s perfectly self-possf>ssod, though 
 labouring sorely for breath, and told his 
 daughter that he was dying; he diiected her 
 where to find something she thought 
 might relieve him, and explained to her the 
 warning he had had in the attack of the 
 previous night. He noticed the distress of 
 those who .stood near, looking on the suH'er 
 ing they could do nothing to alleviate, and 
 suggested, more apparently for their satis- 
 faction than his own, that one of them 
 should fetch the doctor ; for as soon as that 
 gentleman arrived, he accosted him with the 
 word.s, '■ I am dying." He gave an emphatic 
 as.sent, when in the midst of his struggles for 
 breath it was remarked, " God is near you." 
 In mercy the agony was not long protracted ; 
 in about three quarters of an hour the 
 bi-eathing became more and more quiet, 
 till at four o'clock it ceased, and the happy 
 spirit was set free. 
 
 DR. NORMAN MACLEOD'S TRIBUTE 
 TO MR. HERSCHELL. 
 " My dear Mrs. Sanderson, — You have 
 asked me to write for the memoir of your 
 dear father any of my reminiscences of him 
 which may be helpful to you in the pleii-sant 
 but .sad task your love to him has prompted, 
 and which is shared by Mrs. Her.schell and 
 every member of your family. I have the 
 greatest satisfaction in complying with this 
 request, for you know how long and how 
 
 intimately we werj ac.juainted — the happy 
 days I spent under his roof when, year after 
 year, I preached for him in the chapel ; the 
 frankness of our intercour.se, and the oppor- 
 tunities which I had in family and in public 
 life ; in hours of sorrow and of joy, at the 
 fireside and when travelling together, of 
 knowing him thoroughly in every pha.so of 
 his iimer and outer life ; and how sincere 
 was my regard for him. And yc^t, as [ call 
 to remembrance the.se past years, there are 
 few incidents I can i-ecord which are likely 
 to interest any beyond the circle of his more 
 immiidiate friends. I can no doubt give a 
 full account, for example, of our journey, in 
 1847 to Prussian Poland, when he visited 
 Czerski and Post, whom I first met in his 
 house; but that narrative was published by 
 me in Eiiamjelical i'hristendoni, and what- 
 ever interest it had was derived more from 
 public than from personal events. Nor could 
 I trust myself in recording what, I doubt not, 
 you will have done more correctly — incidents 
 r hjive heard from him at different times 
 regarding his own life, which in many ways 
 was so i-emarkable. Yet there ai'e a few- 
 impressions of his character and ways made 
 upon me that I must briefly indicate. 
 
 " He was very sincere in his religious con- 
 victions, without any pretence or an atom of 
 fanaticism, but simple, devout, truthful, 
 eai'nest. 
 
 " Never was there a more loving ' family 
 man.' His love for his children, his open- 
 nesi< and frankness to them, his unfailing 
 sympathy with them in all that could ailect 
 their good and happiness, from the veriest 
 trlde up to the most momentous concerns of 
 their eternal well-being — all was so unaf- 
 fectedly real and hearty, combining the 
 authority of the father with the alxindon 
 and joyous fellowship of the companion, as 
 I have never seen surpassed and very .seldom 
 eijualled. 
 
 " Your father was also a loyal man in his 
 fiicndships. He could be relied on at all 
 times for genuine sympathy, wi.se counsel, 
 and for active exertion.s in helping any friend 
 in trouble. He had admiral)le tact in 
 managing any delicate or diflicult business, 
 arising from his good sen.se, knowledge of 
 mankind, and warm sympathie.s. I h.ul tho 
 best opportunities for noticing the.se and 
 other similar traits in our journey to Poland 
 alre.-uly alluded to. Could Czerski and Post 
 write to you, I feel a-ssured they would 
 gratefully record all he had done for them, not 
 only at the time of our visit, but before and
 
 48 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triuinp}is among Die Jervs. 
 
 smce. His sympathies also were remarkably 
 catholic, and it would, I am sure, form a 
 deeply interesting portion of j'our memoir, 
 could it be there told in how many ways he 
 came into contact \vdth God's work through 
 living men in every part of the Continent, in 
 how many ways he influenced it by personal 
 intercourse with all parties, all ranks, and all 
 conditions of men. The report, could it be 
 furnished, of any one of the private parties 
 or conversfizioni, such as I have attended in 
 London, Paris, or Berlin, would illustrate 
 his catholic sentiments and influence. 
 
 " There is another point in his character 
 which 1 must mention, though I feel that I 
 am taking up too much of your valuab'e space, 
 and that is his feeling towards his ' brethren 
 according to the flesh ' — the Jews. You 
 know that I did not agree with him in some 
 of his views regarding the future of Israel. 
 But I never knew a ' Christian Jew ' who 
 had such a genuine love of the ' Hebrew Jew,' 
 with a more constant desire for his i;oOd, or a 
 more charitable, generous, chivalrous feeling 
 towards him. I have more than once had 
 the means of testing their feelings towards 
 him both at home and abroad, and have been 
 delighted to see how thoroughly Jews appre- 
 ciated and trusted him. I shall never forget 
 a supper-party in Posen to which we were 
 both invited as guests, where all present, 
 including some of his own nearest relatives, 
 were Jews in religion as well as blood. I 
 carefully noticed, and marked with peculiar 
 pleasiue, how he was respected and honoured, 
 
 and how much it affected me as shedding a 
 light on the character of both him and them. 
 I remember also, when saiUng up the Rhine, 
 in winter, a few years ago, along with our 
 common friend Saphir and others, how a Jew, 
 when we mentioned your father's name, and 
 asked if he knew him, expressed, in the 
 most livelj- manner, his respect and affection 
 for him, declaring him to be a good and kind 
 man. 
 
 " The last time I saw your father was the 
 night before leaving London en route for 
 Palestine. I found him alone with his present 
 devoted and much-loved wife. Let me here 
 sa}' in passing that I only saw your dear 
 mother once, and that I know htr cliiefly 
 from your own memoir of her. I found 
 jour father better than I had anticipated, 
 and rallied him on what I really thought was 
 a despondency as to his health, resulting 
 from his long weakness. We spent, as usual, 
 a very plea-sant, and I hope profitable even- 
 ing together, and the talk about my journey, 
 connecting my prospects with his retrospects, 
 so roused him up that I fully expected he 
 would recover, and did not attach the solemn 
 meaning I might otherwise have done, to the 
 last words with which he parted from me — 
 ' Farewell ! ' he ^aid, ' you are going to the 
 Old and 1 am going to the New Jerusalem, 
 and, thank God, I go without the slightest 
 uneasiness or alarm, but in perfect peace.' 
 There he Ls, and there may we meet with 
 him. — I remain, yours affectionately, 
 
 '•N. ^Iacleod." 
 
 THE TENT FALLS, BDT THB IMMORTAL - PILGRIM HOLDS ON HIS WAY.
 
 The British Society's First Chairman and First Two Secretaries. 
 
 49 
 
 THE BRITISH SOCIETY'S FIRST CHAIRMAN, AND FIRST TWO 
 
 SECRETARIES. 
 
 AT tlio pivliiiiiiiiiry meeting, hold on 
 November 7th, 1842, in tlie National 
 Scotch Churcli, Regent Square, the Rev. Dr. 
 Jiiirder, of Hackney, was called to the chair. 
 Tlie Rev. R. M. M'C'heyne opened the meet- 
 ing with prayer. One of the resolutions 
 wa.s moved by the Rev. Dr. Hondeison, of 
 Highbury College, and one by the Rev. 
 James Hamilton, of the Scottish Church, 
 Regent Si|uare. Dr. Henderson and Mr. 
 Hamilton were unanimously reque.sted to act 
 as .secretaries. The meeting was closed with 
 praj'er, led by the chairman, the Rev. Dr. 
 Burder. Believing that our readers 
 
 would like to know something about the 
 British Society's first chairman and first two 
 honorary secretaries, we have done what we 
 could and succeeded in obtaining accurate 
 information in regard to how they lived, how 
 grandly they advocated the good cause, and 
 when their work was accompli.shed, how they 
 passed away in perfect peace, trusting in Jesus. 
 
 The First Chairman. 
 
 REV. HENRY lORSTER BURDER, D.D. 
 
 BiOGHAPHiCAi. Sketch bt the Rev. Joh.n 
 BURDEK, M.A. 
 
 CHRISTIAN PARENTS. 
 
 Henry Forster Burder began at a very early 
 age in some measure to appreciate the piivi- 
 lege of having such a father as George Burder, 
 the author of " The Village Sermons," one of 
 the foundorsof the London Missionary Society 
 and the chief originator of the Religious 
 Tract Society. It is true that Mr. Bui-der's 
 too numerous ])ublic engagements did not 
 allow him to act as a jjrivate tutor in his own 
 family ; but Henry was fond of reading, and 
 had abund.-ince of good books at hand, al- 
 though no great number of such as in more 
 recent days have been expressly prepared for 
 the young. Henry's parents, moreover, were 
 far more careful than some even religious 
 pei-sons are, that their table-tiilk should be at 
 least innocuous even when not ex])re.ssly 
 serious. Tlieir habit was not only to abstain 
 from the use of words of doubtful pro]iriety, 
 but also to avoid the introduction of such 
 topics as, though innocent, were not fit for 
 the ears of children and youth. Blameless 
 
 langviage and good conduct on the part of 
 parents are to children, what dew, .soft j'ain, 
 good air, and sunshine are to plants and 
 fiowers, the beneficial eflects of which are not 
 the less real on account of tlieir being im- 
 perceptible. 
 
 Henry has recorded in his diary some re- 
 collections of instructions received in his 
 boyhood. His mother was a lineal descendant 
 of the pious and lienevolcnt John iMachin,one 
 of the two thousand of the year 1GG2. It is 
 believed that in every successive generation 
 during the following two centuries, among 
 the women of the fanjily especially, the faith 
 which " dwelt first " in Mr. Machin was 
 manifest. Henry specifies the affectionate and 
 tender earnestness with which his mother 
 spoke to him about (iod and the Saviour. 
 He .says, " My heart, I believe, was often 
 deei)ly touched ; but whether by sympathy 
 with her feelings, or by tiie grace of God, I 
 cannot venture to determine." He also re- 
 cords the exalted opinion he entertained of 
 the saintly character of Ijoth his parents, and 
 states that his early impressions of religion 
 and of religious people were all favourable to 
 his best interests, as he very naturally, while 
 a child, regarded his parents as fair specimens 
 of Christians generally. 
 
 SOLEMN DEDICATION AT THE AGE OF TEN. 
 
 Henry also mentions a remarkably solemn 
 hour which his father spent with him in his 
 boyhood. He says, " In the evening of 
 November 27, 1793, when I completed my 
 tenth year, my father converseil with me in 
 his library vei-y seiiously, and urged me, if I 
 could do it, to make a solemn dedication of 
 myself to God, and to do it by a written docu- 
 ment. I reflected deeply on this advice, and 
 endeavoured, with earnest prayer, to examine 
 my own heart, with a view to ascertain 
 whether I was fully prepared for fo solemn 
 an act. The result was that on the 14th of 
 the following month, 1793, I wrote and 
 signed a short paper, and my father, with 
 much solemnity, signed it as a witness, and 
 wrote within the envelope the following 
 words: " Tlie enclosed was written by Henry 
 Forster Burder, and he declared to uii- on 
 December 14, in my library, that he had
 
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 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 seriously thought of it, and signed it with 
 sincerity, as his act and deed. May his 
 review of it in yeai-s to come aflbrd him 
 pleasure ! Grod forbid it should be a ^vitness 
 against him ; and if ever he should depart 
 from it, may a sight of this paper be the means 
 of bringing him back again ! George Burder, 
 his affectionate father." 
 
 Some of our readers may remember that 
 the good Philip Doddridge recommends young 
 Christians so to act. The writer, having 
 known Heni-y Forster Burder from his child- 
 Qood to his death, deems it right to express his 
 conviction that nothing absolutely inconsistent 
 with this document was observable irikis whole 
 life. What inward emotions, desires, and 
 motives constitute his interior character, could 
 certainly be known only to the Omniscient. 
 
 Persons who decline preparing such a doc- 
 ument will do well to inquire whether their 
 objection against it is founded on its appear- 
 ing to them incompatible with the Chi-istian 
 system, or because, in fact, they have not 
 been brought to a decision in favour of giving 
 then- hearts to God. If this be the case with 
 them, surely their personal piety is, to say the 
 least, very questionable. 
 
 About the time last mentioned, a little 
 incident occui-red, which, though in itself 
 trivial, was indicative of character. Henry 
 and a younger bi-other, though generally very 
 good friends, one day had a quan-el, and the 
 younger, being very angry, struck his brother 
 in the face ; but the observable circumstance 
 to which we call the attention of our juvenile 
 readei-s is, that the elder bi-other, though the 
 stronger of the two, did not return the blow, 
 but contented himself with giving a friendly 
 admonition. The younger brother never 
 forgot this, and there is reason to believe that 
 he was the better for it. 
 
 heney's schools, colleges, tutohs, asd 
 mixistebs. 
 
 Good schools in Coventry at that time 
 were very scarce ; but in addition to what 
 could be learned in a common school, Henry 
 obtained some valuable classical knowledge 
 from Mr. Brooks, a minister of the Estal> 
 lished Church, in Coventry, and a good 
 scholar. In his twelfth year, Henry became 
 a boarder in the school of the Rev. John 
 Eyre, at Hackney. While there, Mr. EjTe 
 resigned his school to the Rev. Charles Buck ; 
 but neither of these gentlemen was actually 
 a teacher in the school. The actual teachere 
 were Mr. WeUs Mr. Fitzgibbon, and Monsieur 
 Bizet, a French refugee. Mr. WeUs was 
 
 much attached to his diligent pupil, and took 
 great pains with him. 
 
 So strong was Henry's desire to gain 
 knowledge, so encouraging was his progress 
 at school, and .so good was his general con- 
 duct, that man}- parents would have deemed 
 it proper that he should have spent a year or 
 two more at some college-like school ; so that 
 in case he should after that time appear to 
 be a suitable candidate for the Chiistian 
 ministry, he might be the better prepared 
 for entering a theological eoUege. His father, 
 however, seems to have been of opinion that, 
 as it was not unlikely he might after all 
 enter on commercial life, it would be well for 
 him to prepare for it. Accordingly, he was 
 articled to a whole-sale firm, whose business lay 
 partly in Nottingham and partly in London. 
 
 He was first located in Nottingham, where 
 he attended the ministry of Mr. Alliott, 
 father of the late Dr. Alliott, and of Mr. 
 Alhott, of Bedford. After a while his 
 ser\-ices were required in London, and he 
 then became a member of the church at the 
 Weigh-house Chapel, of which Mr. Clayton, 
 senior, was minister. About this time he 
 was brought to a full decision, not only 
 for serving Grod, but, if possible, for serving 
 him in the Christian ministry ; and then liis 
 father gave his full consent that he should 
 enter on a coiu-se of study. 
 
 Mi\ H. Burder was for some time a student 
 in Hoxton Academy, afterwards called High- 
 bury College. In 1804, in company ^vith 
 his two friends, George Payne and Joseph 
 Fletcher, he went to Glasgow. These dear 
 friends occupied the same lodgings, and were 
 mutually useful to one another. They soon 
 became acquainted, not only with Mr. Ewing 
 and Mr. (afterwards Dr.) Wai-dlaw, but with 
 several other Christian persons, at whose 
 houses they were welcome friends as often as 
 they could find time to call. Their more 
 usual place of worship, especially in the 
 morning of the Lord's Day, was the large 
 Tabernacle in which Mr. Ewing preached, 
 whose Oriental and Biblical knowledge, in 
 connection with his love of the Gospel, ren- 
 dered his Sabbath morning lectures on the 
 Old Testament peculiarly instructive and 
 edifying. At the termination of three sessions 
 every one of the three took the degree of 
 M A., and in subsequent years the diploma 
 of D.D. was sent to every one. 
 
 TfTOR AXD PASTOR. 
 
 Mr. Burder, after finishing his studies at 
 Glasgow, accepted an invitation to a tutorship
 
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 51 
 
 at Wymondly, which ho resigned at the 
 expiration of one year. He afterwards 
 became assistant to the Rev. Samuel Palmer, 
 at Hackney, and after the death of Mr. 
 Palmer became his successor. During several 
 years Dr. Burder contrived to tind time to 
 take part in the tutorship at Highbury; but 
 at length deemed it right to resign that 
 important work, that he might secure more 
 time for pastoral visitation. 
 
 .wtd of man. These topics accordingly were 
 prominent, both in his preaching and in his 
 prayers, and the result in some measure 
 corresponded with the efforts made. The 
 church in St. Thomas' Square was as "afield 
 which the Lord had ble.ssed." 
 
 But alas, at length " roots of bitterness 
 spning up," and occasioned deep regret both 
 to the pastor and to the flock. 
 
 Those circumstances, in connection with his 
 
 BEV. HENRY POBSTER BCKDEU, D.D. 
 
 Dr. Burder set out on his work on right 
 principles. ] le determined, after the example 
 of holy Paul, to '" know nothing among the 
 people but Jesus Christ, and Him crucified." 
 Moreover, he had a deep conviction of the 
 vast impoitance of the work of the Holy 
 Spirit, both for the commencement and the 
 maturity of the truly Christian life in the 
 
 advanced age, induced him to resign his 
 charge, after a pastorship of about forty 
 years. 
 
 PRESENT OF XI ,000. 
 
 Joy and sorrow are often close companions 
 in human life ; and the combination of joy 
 and sorrow characterized the meeting of
 
 Memories of Gospel Trivmjjhs <i.mong the Jews. 
 
 Dr. Burder's friends at Hackney, when, on 
 completing the 70th year of his life, and about 
 the 40th of his ministry, he said to them 
 Fareiiiell, and received from them, witli their 
 affectionate thanks, the substantial present 
 of XI, 000, which was not the less valued on 
 account of the benevolent purpose to which, 
 at his request, the interest of the money was 
 to be yearly applied. 
 
 Dr. Burder was favoured with generally 
 good health, and with a large share of 
 domestic happiness, although no stranger to 
 anxiety and grief. 
 
 TWICE MARRIED. 
 
 In the year 1810 he married Ann, the 
 eldest daughter of Joseph Hardcastle, Esq., 
 of Hatcham House, New Cross, London, a 
 lad}^ who sustained through life a consistent 
 Christian character, and could say, when near 
 death, " I have a foretaste of the felicity of 
 heaven." She was taken from her sorrowing 
 husband and family as early as in 1827, 
 leaving a daughter and three sons. 
 
 In the year 1833 Dr. Burder married 
 Mary, the eldest daughter of the Rev. J. 
 Tayler, of Whitlinge, Worcestershire, a union 
 in which the whole family rejoiced ; and 
 proportionably did they sympathize with the 
 husband on the occasion of her death, which 
 took place in 1859. 
 
 DR. BURDER LIVING WITH HIS ELDEST SON. 
 
 In one lespect Dr. Burder's mournfulne.ss, 
 after the death of this excellent person, was 
 gieater than it had been after his first 
 bereavement. On the former occasion one or 
 more of his children were with him ; whereas, 
 in the latter case, they were all usually 
 at a distance, and he consequently felt the 
 solitude the more deeply. Besides this, on 
 tlie former occasion, urgent business almost 
 daily obliged him to leave his solitary room ; 
 whereas, in the latter, he was much alone. 
 
 But after a while he very judiciously 
 accepted the invitation of his eldest son at 
 Hatcham, where he was again in the midst 
 of a family. In this situation he contentedly 
 and thankfully remained, until called up to 
 the "house not made with hands." 
 
 On November 27, 1864, the day on which 
 he completed his 81st year, the family con- 
 gratulated him on his healthful appearance 
 and continued activity ; but the end was then 
 near. Very shortly after that day he became 
 seriously unwell ; and though, by the blessing 
 of God on the means Dr. Mitchell recom- 
 mended, he once or twice partially rallied, on 
 
 the whole his illness became more threaten- 
 ing. But he was mercifulh' dealt with. He 
 suffered very little bodily pain, and, as his 
 son sent word to relatives at a distance, his 
 mind was unclouded. He had not only 
 habitually peace, but often joy, and sometimes 
 what might almost be called " joy unspeak- 
 able and full of glory." 
 
 He was thankful to his son, his daughter- 
 in-law, and his grand-daughter, for their un- 
 failing care and attention ; but, above all, 
 was he thankful to the Giver of all good, for 
 the blessings of a long life and the hope of 
 everlasting life. He died early on the morn- 
 ing of December 29, 1864. 
 
 THE son's DESCRIPTION OF HIS FATHER'S 
 DEPARTURE. 
 
 H. H. Burder, Esq., who watched his 
 father's last hours, wrote : — " My dear 
 father was only confined to his room about 
 six weeks. He did not appear to sufler pain, 
 except from weakness, which at times was 
 very great. During the last few days and 
 nights (especially), he was continually 
 pra^■ing. We frequently heard him say, 
 " Ah ! my dear Lord, when will the Throne 
 be open ? " And, " Jesus, Jesus, liave mercy 
 on me!" Then, "After the warfare the 
 crown," which he repeated several times with 
 a kind of plaintive confidence. Once he rose 
 up in his bed ; he was looking upwards, and 
 the expression of his face was most beautiful 
 as he exclaimed with great earnestness and 
 unutterable joy, " I see Him ! Jesus, my 
 Saviour and God ! " On the Wednesday lie 
 seemed insensible, or nearly so, but free from 
 pain. His kind medical attendant. Dr. 
 Mitchell, was with him until 12 o'clock. He 
 did not appear to have moved, and those 
 who watched him with sorrowing hearts, 
 heard only a gentle sigh as his spirit left his 
 body, and then the Throne he so longed to 
 behold was unveiled, in all its glory, and the 
 Saviour he so much loved, and so faithfidly 
 served, we doubt not, received him into ever- 
 lasting rest." 
 
 OUR DEBT TO THE JEWS. 
 
 A LECTURE, BY THE REV. H. F. BURDER, D.D., OF 
 HACKNKV. 
 Komaus xi. 30, 31. 
 For as ye in times past have not believed (rorf, yet 
 have noio obtained tncrei/ throwjh their unbelief; 
 even so have these also now not believed, that 
 throu'jh your mercy they clso iiuiy obtain merey." 
 If those to wliom the present lecture is 
 addressed weie labouring under vulgar pre- 
 judices against the Jewish people, I might
 
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 deem it necessary to attempt to conciliate 
 their kindly feelings and benignant sympa- 
 thies, in favour of the nation which has too 
 often been treated with contempt. Such 
 prejudices, however, prevalent as they still 
 are, I will not impute to the assembly of 
 Christian friends now convened. The asso- 
 ciations of thought with this ancient and 
 interesting people, which are cherished in 
 1/our minds, my brethren, are such, I trust, 
 as are suggested by a familiar acquaintance 
 with the sacred oracles. In those faithful 
 records you trace the origin of this peculiar 
 people to the most renowned of all the 
 patriarchs, " the friend of God," the father 
 of the faithful. You find their history 
 spreading over a period approaching a dura- 
 tion of four thousand years, embracing the 
 most .signal and stupendous of Divine intei'- 
 positions, and enrolling in its annals a 
 glorious succession of prophets, historians, 
 and poets, gifted not with imaginary but 
 with real in.spiration, and bearing their pre- 
 dictive testimony to Him who in the fulness 
 of the time arose out of the stem of Jesse 
 and the root of David, whose name is 
 "Wonderfid, Counsellor, the Mighty God, 
 the Father of the everlasting age, the Prince 
 of Peace." 
 
 Dark, however, and dreary has been for 
 many ages, and is still, the condition of this 
 singular people. Disper.sed they still are 
 over almost all countries, dwelling, to a great 
 degree, ''alone, and not reckoned among the 
 nations " ; looking .still with vain and delusive 
 hope for the advent of Mes.<iah the Prince ; 
 reading the Scriptures of the Old Testament 
 with a veil upon their minds, and closing 
 their eyes against the light ar.d evidence of 
 the glorious Gospel. 
 
 Let, then, our prayers continually ascend 
 up to the God of Abraham, that the veil may 
 be removed, and that they may discern and 
 acknowledge Him whom their fathers cruci- 
 fied to be their Lord and Christ. May the 
 blessed Spirit of truth and grace now enable 
 tis to clearly perceive, and deeply to feel 
 "our obligations to labour for the conversion 
 of the Jews." That we may take first the 
 lowest, yet the widest ground, let me 
 endeavour to exhibit : 
 
 First, The obligations to labour for the 
 conversion of the Jews, as a part of the 
 human Jamily. 
 
 " Go ye into all the world," said our 
 ascending Saviour, " and preach the Gospel 
 to every creature." Is there any intimation 
 which would authorize us to append to this 
 
 commission the limiting and interdicting 
 words, " with the exception of the Jews ? " 
 It is true that they rejected and crucified the 
 Lord of Glory. But are we under the painful 
 necessity of concluding, that in consequence 
 of their enormous and atrocious guilt, iLiey 
 ai-e excluded from that commission of 
 grace and mercy ? So far from the least 
 inclination to pass a sentence of exclusion 
 was the compassionate Saviour, that, before 
 He left our world. He expressly enjoined upon 
 His apostles, that repentance and remi.=sion of 
 sins should be preached in His name among 
 all nations, beginning at Jerusalem ; " anil 
 how distinctlyand correctly theapostles under- 
 stood their Lord's intention is sufficiently 
 apparent from the records of the day of 
 Pentecost. Those intrepid witnesses of the 
 resurrection and ascension of their Loi-d did 
 not hesitate, indeed, to charge upon the 
 inhabitants of Jerusalem the awful guilt of 
 ha\nng crucified and slain David's Son and 
 Lord ; yet when pricked in their hearts with 
 pungent anguish, they exclaimed, " Men and 
 brethren, what shall we do ? The apostle 
 Peter .said to them. Repent and be baptized, 
 every one of you, in the name of Jesus 
 Christ, for the remission of sins, and ye shall 
 receive the gift of the Holy Ghost ; for the 
 promise is unto you and to your children. 
 Then they that gladly received His Word 
 were baptized ; and the same day there were 
 added unto them about three thousand souls. 
 And they continued steadfastly in the 
 apostle's doctrine and fellowship." Thus 
 commenced the Christian Church, formed, 
 not in part, but altogether of Jewish con- 
 verts. What a glorious beginning at Jerusa- 
 lem ; to the joy of the heart of our enthroned 
 Redeemer ! Has there ever been poured out 
 upon the Gentile, world such an efTusion of 
 the Holy Spirit as was then poui-ed out at 
 Jeru.salem on the seed of Abraham ? 
 
 And what was afterwards the conduct of 
 that ambassador of Christ, who may be pro- 
 nounced the greatest of the apostles, in regard 
 to the abundance of his revelations, the 
 extent of his labours, and the splendour of hLs 
 triumphs ? Although the apostle of the 
 Gentiles, yet, wherever he opened his com- 
 mission, he took his station first in a syna- 
 gogue of the Jews, if a synagogue was to be 
 found, and afterwards addressed himself to 
 the Gentiles. Here, then, my brethren, is 
 our authority, and our encouragement to 
 preach the Ctospel to the Jews. Can you 
 doubt that in thus fulfilling the commission 
 of his Lord, the apostle Paul acted under a
 
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 strong sense of obligation? Can you doubt 
 whether the obligation which rested upon /lim 
 i-ests also upon its'i And if the apostles, aim- 
 ing at the conversion of the Jews, began their 
 efforts at Jerusalem, ought not we, in pursuing 
 the same grand object, to begin our labours 
 in Britain, and in the very heart of Britain — 
 our own great metropolis ? Are not the Jews 
 in England a component part of the subjects 
 of our own empire ? Do they not profess 
 allegiance to the BritLsh crown ? Are they not 
 contributoi-s to Britain's wealth and pros- 
 perity ? As fellow-subjects, do we not owe 
 them much good-will ? On Christian prin- 
 ciples, do we not owe them our best and 
 kindest wishes, our best and kindest efforts 
 to bring them to the faith of Christ, that they 
 may be " fellow-citizens with the saints and 
 of the household of God, built on the founda- 
 tion of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ 
 Himself being the chief corner-stone." 
 
 We admit, we feel, we act under the 
 obligation to send the Gospel to the heathen ; 
 but can we maintain any consistency of 
 principle or conduct, or attempt any justifi- 
 cation of ourselves, either before God or 
 before man, if we admit not, if we feel not, 
 at least in an equal degi-ee, the obUgation to 
 labour for the conversion of the Jews ? 
 
 Let me direct your thoughts : 
 
 Secondly, To the debt we owe to the Jews, 
 for the benefits w/iich we ourselves have received 
 from their ancestors. 
 
 There was established with their great 
 progenitor a covenant, in which we ourselves, 
 if partakers of the tiue faith, are compre- 
 hended. " In thee," .said Jehovah to Abraham, 
 " shall all nations be blessed." " 80 then," 
 argues the apostle, " they who are of faith 
 are blessed with faithful Abi-aham," who, 
 in a spiritual sense, is designated " the father 
 of us all ; " and thus " the blessing of Abra- 
 ham comes on us Gentiles, through Jesus 
 Christ, that we may receive the promise of 
 the Spii-it through faith, being the children 
 of God, by faith in Christ Jesus. And if 
 Christ's, then are we Abraham's seed, and 
 heirs according to the promise." 
 
 Now, consider, dear brethren, under what 
 an amount of obligation we lie ; what a debt 
 of gi-atitude we owe to the liwng representa- 
 tives of their patriarchal ancestors, and, in 
 the sense explained, of our own. Can we be 
 unwilling to admit the obligation, or uncon- 
 scious of any glow of gratitude, impelling to 
 some kindly and practical expression ? How 
 natiual and how lovely was the feeling 
 evinced by David, when, the Lord having 
 
 delivei-ed him from the hand of his enemies, 
 he said, " Is there yet any of the house of 
 Saul, that I may show him kindness for 
 Jonathan's sake ? " Ought we not thus to 
 feel towards the hoiLse of Israel, in this the 
 day of their adversity and depression ? 
 
 And there is an interest in our father 
 Abraham which even his own descendants do 
 not feel, which it is our heart's desire and 
 pi"ayer that they men/ feel, and even feel with 
 an intensity of gi-atitude and delight surpas- 
 sing our own. Hear the benignant apostle, 
 pouring out his heart's desire " for his 
 brethren, his kinsmen, according to the 
 flesh ; who," said he, " are Israelites ; to 
 whom pertain the adoption and the glory 
 and the covenants, and the giving of the law 
 and the promises : whose are the fathers ; 
 and of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ 
 came, who is over all, God blessed for ever." 
 Yes ; it was the crowning glory of the Jewish 
 nation, that from them, as to His human 
 nature, sprang the true Messiah, " the seed 
 of the woman," the Son of David, Who, 
 as to His Divine nature is, " God over all, 
 blessed for evermore." As such, may the 
 house of Jacob be prepared to receive Him, 
 to ti'ust in Him, and to obey Him ! And if, 
 in heaven, saints redeemed by His precious 
 blood sing a song of ecstatic praise and 
 ardent love, transcending that which even 
 unsinning seraphs uplift to His honour, 
 what must be the love and gi-atitude of 
 redeemed Israelites ? If we Gentiles claim, 
 by reason of the humanity of the Son of God, 
 a nearer affinitj* to Him tlian angels can 
 boast, what must be the thrilling nearness of 
 the tribes of Israel — of the tribe of Judah ? 
 
 And think, my brethren, how much we 
 owe them on the scoie of Di%'ine revelation. 
 Of Moses it is said by Stephen, " He received 
 the lively oracles to give unto us ; " and from 
 the days of Moses to the days of Malachi, 
 " Holy men of God spake and wrote as they 
 were moved by the Holy Ghost." " All 
 Scripture was given by inspiration of God." 
 How inimense then is the debt of gratitude 
 which we owe to the writers of the holy 
 volume, who faithfully discharged their high 
 and sacred trust ! Think what we owe to 
 the inspired historian of tlie creation, of the 
 first ages of the world, and of the piomulga- 
 tion of the holy law ! What do we not owe 
 to the incomparable psalmist of Israel for 
 those songs of Zion which, with marvellous 
 adaptation, meet every changeful feeling of 
 the heart, and cheer us on, in every stage of 
 our- earthly pilgrimage, and will not be
 
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 obsoU'te or forgotton, even among the new 
 songs of tlie New Jerusalem ! W'liat tlo we 
 not owe to the sublime Isaiah for tlie gaspel 
 of the Old Testiimeut ; to the dauntless 
 Danii'l, the man greatly beloved of Heaven, 
 who was entrusted with the unsealed roll of 
 future destinies ; and to the other holy 
 prophets who were honoured as witnesses for 
 Goil, to bear their successive testimony to the 
 appioach of Jlim who, at length, came to be 
 " a light to ligiiton the Gentiles, and the 
 glory of His people Israel." 
 
 And have not the Jewish people beea the 
 faithful conservators and guardians of the 
 Old Testament Scriptures? " Unto them," 
 says the apostle, "were committed the 
 oracles of God." Does the apostle insinuate 
 the slightest doubt as to the fidelity of their 
 transmi.ssion ? Neither docs he nor his 
 Lord. The Saviour Himself gives His 
 sanction and authority to the lx)oks of 
 Scriptvne which liad been received into the 
 Jewish canon, and which were read by Him- 
 self and 1 lis apostles in the various .synagogues 
 of the Jews. " These are the words," said 
 Jesus, " which I spake unto you, that all 
 things must be fulfilled which were written 
 in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, anil 
 in the Psalms, concerning me." " Search the 
 Scriptures ; for in them ye think ye have 
 eternal life : and these ai-e they which t&stify 
 of me." How great then is the obligation 
 under which we are laid to the Jewish people 
 for preserving and transmitting, in all their 
 purity and genuineness, the Ixjoks of inspira- 
 tion ! 
 
 And do we not owe to them still more than 
 even tliis? Were not the a/iostles of our 
 Lord and Saviour of the Jewish nation ? Do 
 we not owe to them and to the evangeli.sts, 
 as the penmen of the Holy Spirit, the books 
 of the New Testament, containing the full 
 and entire conveyance of the glorious Gosjiel 
 of the grace of God, and the complete revela- 
 tion of His mind and will ? Do we not owe 
 to them, under the agency of the Holy Spirit, 
 the establishment and propagation of 
 Christianity in tlx? world ? and are we not 
 thus indebted to them for our churches, our 
 privileges, and our hopes of immortality ? 
 
 But have Christians acted towards the 
 Jewish people under a grateful impres.sion of 
 the benefits they have received ? How was 
 it during many of the ages which are pfust ? 
 Century after century the Jews were 
 oppre.s.sed, per-secuted, and harassed by every 
 form of exaction, outrage and barbarity. 
 England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, 
 
 Portugal, and many other countries, have 
 been the scone of their protracted sullerings. 
 Do we not owe to them, then, ample compen- 
 sation for injuries so greiit ? and how can we 
 attempt that comjiensation so efficiently or 
 availaldy, as by endeavouring to bring them 
 into the fold of the good She[)herd, Who 
 giveth to His sheep eternal life, and Who has 
 said of His flock, " They shall never perish, 
 neither shall any one pliu-k them out of My 
 hand ? " 
 
 Let mo place before you — 
 
 Thirdly, the obligation to labour for the 
 conversion of the Jews, arising from our 
 permutitivn of the ynilt vJi'wh they are contracl- 
 ing bij their rejection of ('hrist. We are alive 
 to the claims of the heathen. We pity their 
 ignorance, their wretchedness, and theii' 
 guilt. Even they, affirms the apostle, are 
 " without excuse," because they overlook and 
 disregard the evidences of Jehovah's power 
 and Godhead, which are visible on the face 
 of nature, and thus wilfully reject the light 
 the}' have. On this ground the apostle 
 asserts, that " as many as have sinned with- 
 out law," that is, without the written law, 
 "shall perish without law ;" having sinned 
 against the liiw of their own con.science, and 
 their own heart, and having fallen fai- .slioit 
 even of their own defective standard. Should 
 not, then, our compassion be still more 
 powerfully moved by a contemplation of the 
 fearful responsibility of the Jewish nation ? 
 Oh, that thf'i/ would consider, and that vm 
 ourselves might consiiler more deeply and 
 feelingly the solemn and spirit-stirring words 
 of the venerable Simeon, when taking up 
 the infant Jesus in his arms, he sid<l, " Be- 
 hold this child is set for the fall and rising 
 again of many in Isi-ael ; and for a sign 
 which shall be spoken against ; that the 
 thoughts of many hearts may be revealed." 
 " Everj' Jew when Chri.st ctime," says an 
 aoite writer, "had the alternative placed 
 before him, to fall by unbelief, or to rise by 
 faith. And wherever Christ is preached, 
 the same result follows, as to every indi- 
 vidual. Let no one suppose, whether Jew or 
 Gentile, that he can reject the gospel through 
 infidelity, or neglect it through indiflerence, 
 and remain irresponsible. He that will not 
 ri.se through the appointed Redeemer, must 
 fall under His sentence as a judge." Never 
 has there been such a test of the moral 
 .state of the heart of man, or of the spirit of 
 oljedience or disobedience to God, as the 
 reception or the rejection of the Lord Jesus 
 Ohri.st.
 
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 What are we to think of the moral state 
 of the intidel among oui-selves. who has 
 never studied with careful attention, with 
 seriousness of mind, and with honesty of 
 purpose, the oracles of God ? And what must 
 ■we think of the moral state of any one of 
 the Jewish nation, who has never entered on 
 the study of the Kew Testament, never care- 
 fully compared it with the Scriptures of the 
 Old Testament, never earnestly implored of 
 the God of Abi-aham, the light and guidance 
 of His promised Spirit, to dispel from his 
 mind all darkness, and error, and prejudice, 
 and to lead him into all truth ? Can we re- 
 press our fears that many of them are 
 neglecting altogether the means of instruc- 
 tion and conviction which God has placed 
 within their reach ; and that thej- are spend- 
 ing their days in -wilful ignorance of the 
 character and claims of Christianity, amidst 
 the blaze of hght which is thrown around 
 them by ourlvew Testament, our sanctuaries, 
 and the living example of thousands, w^ho 
 reflect in their holj- character and useful 
 lives the light of the gospel of Christ. 
 
 Is it not the dictate of Christian mercy ; is 
 it not the imperative requirement of Chris- 
 tian benevolence, that we should endeavour 
 with blended kindness and faithfulness to 
 put them into possession of the views which 
 we deliberately entertain of their responsi- 
 bility and their guilt, and to place before 
 them most pei-suasively the claims of the 
 true Redeemer of Israel ? 
 Let us well consider : 
 
 Fourthly, The obligation arising out of the 
 disclosure of the purposes of God, to briny thf. 
 Jewish peopk into the church of Christ. 
 
 I am fully aware that it is not in predic- 
 tions of the future, that we ai-e usually to 
 seek a guide to duty or a directory of con- 
 duct. Over many of them there Ls inten- 
 tionally thrown a veil of obscurity, one 
 object of which may be to prevent any 
 agency on the part of man, with an express 
 design to impede their accomplishment. 
 Disclosures, however, of the purposes of God 
 may be given with so much clearness, and 
 may be so ob^^ously interwoven with inti- 
 mations of our duty, as to be evidently de- 
 signed for our practical guidance and en- 
 com-agement. Such, if I mistake not, are 
 the revelations which are given us of the 
 future history and destinies of the Jews, and 
 especially of their conversion to the 
 Christian faith, and their full participation 
 of the .spiritual privileges which we ourselves 
 enjoy. Such appears to me to be the 
 
 character of the predictions and assurances 
 given us by the apostle Paul in his Epistle to 
 the Romans. In the chapter from which 
 our text is taken, he thus writes : " I say 
 then, have they (the Jewish people) stum- 
 bled that they should (utterly and finally) 
 fall ? God forbid ; but rather through their 
 fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for 
 to provoke them to jealousy. Now if the 
 fall of them be the riches of the world, 
 and the diminishing of them the riches of 
 the Gentiles ; how much more their f ulue.ss ? 
 . For if the casting awaj- of them be the 
 reconciling of the world, what shall the re- 
 ceiving of them be, but life from the dead ? " 
 Shall it not give a new animation and a 
 glorious revival to the Gentile Church ? The 
 apostle afterwards asserts, that " blindness 
 in part is happened to Israel, until the ful- 
 ness of the Gentiles be come in ; and so all 
 Israel shall be saved. As concerning the 
 gospel, they are enemies for your sake ; but 
 as touching the election, they are belo%-ed for 
 the fathers" sakes. For the gifts and call- 
 ing of God are without repentance. For as 
 ye in times past have not believed God, yet 
 have now obtained mercy through their un- 
 belief ; even so have these also now not be- 
 lieved, that through your mercy they also 
 may obtain mercy.' 
 
 Now, without attempting to plunge into 
 the depths of this interesting subject, it is 
 important to observe, that some great princi- 
 ples and some powerfully impelling motives 
 are here represented by the apostle, as having 
 a direct bearing on the conversion of the 
 Jews. I will endeavom- to state them with 
 cle;\rness and conciseness. 
 
 The first is, that the fall and rejection of 
 the Jewish people, in consequence of their 
 unbelief, are neither total, so as to involve 
 without exception the entire nation; nor /ijio/, 
 so as to exclude the prospect of their con- 
 version to Christ. 
 
 2. Their rejection of the Gospel, in the first 
 age of Christianity, and their persecution of 
 its propagators, was overnded for its more 
 rapid extension among the Gentiles, so that 
 they were gainers by the loss of the Jews. 
 
 3. A sense of the benefits thus received 
 should urge Gentile believers, on principles of 
 genuine benevolence and incumbent gratitude, 
 to endeavour to impart their most valued 
 privileges to the nation from which the}- were 
 originally derived. 
 
 4. Such an attempt, instead of being ^-ision- 
 ary and hopeless, has the sanction of the 
 Divine will, the encouragement of the Divine
 
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 purpose, and the assurance of ultimate suc- 
 cess. 
 
 5. Asthe blindness of Israel has never been 
 total in its extent, we need not defer our 
 attempts at their conversion, as if, for the 
 pressent, such attempts were hopeless ; a 
 partial success, in the conversion of indi- 
 viduals, having by Divine grace been already, 
 in numerous instances, attained. 
 
 6. The conversion of the Jews, as a nation, 
 to the faith of Christ, is to be effected, as soon 
 as the fulness of the Gentiles is brought into 
 the Church. And here let me observe, that 
 we should guard against exaggerated notions 
 of the extent of that preparatoiy fulness 
 which might induce us to place it at too remote 
 a period. Is there sufficient reason to sup- 
 pose, that even during the millennium itself, 
 the entire population of the world will be truly 
 converted to God ? If that supposition be 
 entertained, let me ask, out of what materials 
 and under what circumstances, could arise 
 that awful outbreak of wickedness which will 
 succeed the millennium, as is clearly set fortli 
 in the twentieth chapter of the Book of the 
 Revelation? It Ls enough, I conceive, to sup- 
 pose that the mass of the people, during the 
 millennium, will be real Christians. If, then, 
 even during the millennium, " thefulne.ssof the 
 Gentiles" will not consist exclusively of real 
 Christians, much less can we suppose that 
 such will be the case before the commence- 
 ment of that happy period. In the sense, 
 then, intended by the apostle, will not " the 
 fulness of the Gentiles be brought in," when 
 Christianity shall have been fully introduced 
 into everj' land, in its purity and in its power, 
 and when, by the ample eflfusion of the Holy 
 Spirit, multitudes shall have become obedient 
 to the faith of Christ ? 
 
 7. It appears to be the design of God, that 
 through the agency of the Gentile church, His 
 ancient people should be converted to Christ. 
 " As ye have obtained mercy," says the 
 apostle in our text, " through their unbelief, 
 even so have these not believed, that through 
 your mercy they also may obtain mercy." 
 Does not this plainly intimate, that by the 
 great mercy of God your instrumentality Ls to 
 be employed, and to be rendered successful in 
 the conversion of the Jews ? Can you desire, 
 then, dear brethren, or even conceive of a 
 greater encouragement or a more powerful 
 incentive to enter on the labours of this bles- 
 sed and benignant undertaking ? " Be ye 
 merciful, even ;is your Father in heaven is 
 merciful." Think what mercy towards the 
 seed of Abraham He must have in store, since 
 
 He has placed upon record promises such as 
 those which we read in the prophecies of 
 Zechariah : " I will pour upon the house of 
 David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem 
 the Spirit of grace and of supplication : and 
 they shall look upon Me whom they have 
 pierced, and shall mourn as one moumeth for 
 hLs only son, and shall be in bitterness, as one 
 that is in bitterness for his first-born. In 
 that day there shall be a fountain opened to 
 the house of David, and to the inhabitants of 
 Jerusalem, for sin and for uncletiuness. They 
 shall call on ily name and I will hear them. 
 I will say. It is My people, and they shall say, 
 The Lord is my God." Let that glorious 
 effusion of the HoJy Spirit take place, and 
 how bliss-inspiring must be the results I And 
 who can estimate the efficient in.strumentalit}' 
 of the converted Jews, in their turn, in pro- 
 moting real, vital, spiritual religion among 
 the Gentiles them.selves ! " What shall the 
 effect be," asks the apostle, " but life from 
 the dead ? " 
 
 Such, as it appears to me, are some of the 
 most binding and sacred obligations under 
 which it becomes the imperative duty of all 
 Christians, and all Christian Churches, to 
 pray earnestly, and to labour diligently, for 
 the conversion of the Jews. 
 
 Are they not an important and interesting 
 part of the human family, to every division 
 of which the Redeemer's commission 
 extends ? 
 
 Do we not owe them a heavy and unpaid 
 debt, for the benefits which we have received 
 from theii nation ? 
 
 Ought not our compassion to Ije deeply 
 moved by the persuasion which we feel of the 
 guilt they are contracting by their rejection 
 of Christ ? 
 
 And has not God Himself summoned and 
 encouraged us to aim at their conversion, by 
 the purposes which He has disclosed, and by 
 the promises recorded in His Word ? 
 
 Aid now, beloved brethren, ought not all 
 these considerations to tell, with combined 
 and resistless force, on our consciousness of 
 culpable neglect ? There may, probably, be 
 but very few of us ; perhaps there may not 
 be any, who, on examining themselves by the 
 principles which I have now laid down, and 
 supported b)' the Word of Grod, can lay their 
 hand upon their heart, and saj-, " Verily, / 
 am not guilty concerning m)' brother." 
 Ought we not to humble ourselves before 
 God, and with grief and .self-aba.sement to 
 acknowledge our culpable omission and 
 neglect of incumbent and imperative duties,
 
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 towards our brethren of the house of Israel ? 
 Let. then, the painful consciousness of past 
 negligence urge us now to prompt, to liberal, 
 to vigorous, and to prayerful exertions, to 
 promote an object so momentous in itself, so 
 accoi-dant with the will of God, and so calcu- 
 lated to bring relief to our own self-upbraid- 
 ing hearts ? 
 
 If we were conscious of owing a debt 
 which had been long unpaid and even unac- 
 knowledged, would not the thought of its 
 unceasing accumulation press heavily and 
 sevei-ely upon our minds ? What then 
 should be the workings of the heart and the 
 dictates of the conscience in regard to the 
 Jews ? li pecuniary contributions in support 
 of missionaries to them have been due from 
 us, ever since we have had the responsibilities 
 arising out of property or income, is it not 
 our incumbent duty to inquire into the extent 
 of our obligation, and to act under tlie con- 
 viction that we are deeply in arrears ? 
 Should not thLs thought tell with powerful 
 efl'ect on the conscience and on the contribu- 
 tions of the affluent ; and should it not 
 constrain them to pour into the treasury of 
 the Society for which I now plead, offerings 
 which bear some proix)rticn to the estimate 
 of past and lamented omissions ? 
 
 1 rejoice that the basis of an efficient 
 co-operation in this good work has been 
 recently laid in a union of Christians and of 
 Christian ministers, firmly attached to the 
 gi-and essentials of our most hoh' faith. 
 
 Feeling that we are one in our glorious 
 and exalted Saviour, let us take solace and 
 delight in the thought, that in the one ample 
 fold of the one great and good Shepherd, 
 " there is neither Greek nor Jew, circum- 
 cision nor uncircumcision, lx)nd nor free, but 
 Christ is all and in all." And now, to the 
 loved and glorious name of Him who loved 
 us and gave Himself for us ; to the Father of 
 mercies, the Giver of the unspeakable gift ; 
 and to the Holy Spirit, the Sanctilier, be 
 equal honour and glory and power, now and 
 for ever. Amen. 
 
 The First Secretaries. 
 
 EEV. EBEXEZER HENDERSOX, D.D. 
 
 Ebenezer Hendei-son was bom in the 
 city of Dunfermline, in Fifeshire, on 
 November 12th, 1784. He was brought 
 up in a godly home, and was early led to 
 give himself to the Saviour and His cause. 
 Youth is the season when the soul takes on 
 
 the finest heavenly tints, and learns to serve 
 God best. This was pre-eminently the case 
 with young Henderson, as the sequel will 
 show. 
 
 In Edinburgh he laboured diligently in 
 connection with the church under the 
 pastoral care of the Rev. John Aikman ; 
 and so efficient were his occasional services 
 deemed, that he was recommended to the 
 notice of Messrs. Haldane, under whose 
 auspices he was provided with the college 
 tuition that was requisite to promote his 
 more extensive usefulness. While pursuing 
 his studies he became acquainted with Dr. 
 Patei"son, who was to be his companion 
 thi-ough many years of Christian service, 
 and his friend throughout the course of a 
 long life. 
 
 In August, 1805, the two were ordained 
 to missionary service in India, and pro- 
 ceeded on their route, via Copenhagen, as it 
 was only in Danish or other foreign vessels 
 that English missionaries could at that time 
 obtain a passage to the British pos.sessions in 
 the East. Their intention of prosecuting 
 their voyage to Asia was, however, frustrated, 
 one hmdi-ance being interposed after another 
 to detain them in Xoithern Europe. Un- 
 wilHng to lo.se theu- time, and spiiit-stii-red 
 when they saw a so-called Christian city 
 wholly given to all manner of .spiritual 
 idolatry, they put forth active efforts in cir- 
 cidating tracts amongst the Danes, as well 
 as in preaching to the English at Copenhagen 
 and Elsinore. The great destitution of 
 Scriptm-e was the next thing that arrested 
 theu- attention. On this subject they entered 
 into correspondence with the British and 
 Foreign Bible Society. The institution was 
 then comparatively in its infancy, but wa.s 
 ah-eady in a position to respond to their 
 appeal, and disposed to accept as its agents 
 the men whom Providence had thus sent 
 forth to prepare the way. 
 
 The ware in which Denmark became in- 
 volved with England on the one hand, and 
 Sweden on the other, often retarded the pro- 
 gress and impeded the plans of the liboui-ers ; 
 but, with an equal amount of prudence and 
 of zeal, they succeeded in turning even 
 apparent hindrances into eventual further- 
 ances of their work. Dr. Hendei-son's 
 waiting-time at Gottenberg, <tc., was not 
 lost, inasmuch as it enabled him to perfect 
 his acquaintance with the Scaudina^'ian 
 languages, to pursue his study of the original 
 text, and to superintend the press-work for 
 various editions of the Bible.
 
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 In the year 1814 lie jirocccdod to Icclaml, 
 wliere he remained for tliirteou months, 
 travfllinj,' from district to district with the 
 Word of life, and welcomed, to use his own 
 words, " as an angel from heaven." He then 
 visited many of the chief towns in Denmark, 
 waitiiij; on the dignitaries hoth of the stiitc 
 and of tlio cliurch, witli a view to the 
 formation of Bible Auxiharies, in which 
 
 C/.ai', returned home to seek a new com- 
 mission, indiflerent whether it was in the 
 Bible or the missionary service, and whether 
 it were to the wilds of Siberia, or among the 
 pagodas of China, so long as Ids Master's 
 honour could be subserved by him. Thin 
 was in the year 182.5, and the need of a 
 succes.sor in Dr. Bogue's place, to train tlie 
 mi.ssionary students at Gosport, led to liis 
 
 >'»>'■ 
 
 ijqrtsefiacif 
 
 REV. EUENEZER HENDERSON, D.D. 
 
 attempt he met witli ultimate success. 
 Bussia was the ne.xt land wliich occupied 
 him in " bibUcal researches." That mighty 
 empire lie travei-sed, passing fiom Peters- 
 burg and Moscow, onward through tiio 
 Crimean and Caucasian territories, to 
 Astraclian and Tilhs. 
 
 After liis return to St. Petersburg, tlie 
 imperial favour having been withih-awn from 
 the Society, Dr. H., finding that there was 
 no work for him to do in the city of the 
 
 speedy appointment to that post, and his 
 subsequent removal with tlioj^students to the 
 Mi.s.sion College then established at Hoxton. 
 In 18.30 he was invited to occupy a similar 
 and yet wider si)h(ire, in reference to 
 students for tlie mini.stry at home. Of 
 Highbury College he was theological tutor 
 for nineteen years. The testimonies of 
 I'espect and affection, reverence and grati- 
 tude, entertained towards him by tlie many 
 who thus passed beneath his influence, sho\y
 
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 that his firmness was attempered with kind- 
 ness, no less than his characteristic gentle- 
 ness was accompanied by an tincompromising 
 adherence to truth, rectitude, and tidelity. 
 
 His Sabbaths in the meanwhile were well 
 tilled with preaching engagements, often 
 three in the day. His leisure time in the 
 week he devoted to authorship ; and as his 
 " Iceland " and his " Eesearches in Russia " 
 had borne witness of his " journeyings 
 often," so his " Lectures on Inspiration," lus 
 " Defence of the Great Mystery of Godli- 
 ness," and his various Commentaries on the 
 Prophets, remain as a memorial of his 
 theological and critical labours. 
 
 Dr. Henderson rendered invaluable service 
 to the British Societj- from its beginning in 
 1842. It was he who arranged the first 
 course of lectures "to wliich he himself so 
 ably contributed, and which went so far to 
 gain over the intelligent sympathy of the 
 Christian community." It was he who pre- 
 pared the first reports and appeals which 
 were printed at the request of the Committee 
 " with a view to awaken throughout the 
 Churches a deeper interest in the circum- 
 stances and claims of the descendants of 
 Abraham." To his pen we are indebted also 
 for " Scriptui-al Selections " from the Old 
 Tastament, all pointing to the Messiah, 
 which were published in Hebrew, German, 
 Dutch, and English, and which have been 
 a means of great blessing to many Jewish 
 souls. 
 
 The effect of his devotion to the cause of 
 Jewish evangelization as Honorary Secretary 
 of the British Society cannot be measured. 
 
 From the hoiu- of his surrender to Christ, 
 when a lad, his life had been spent in many 
 ways for the good of others. 
 
 When we review his work as an agent of 
 the Bible Society, as a Biblical commentator, 
 as an evangelical pastor and preacher, as a 
 friend of the Religious Tract Society, and as 
 Honorary Secretary of the British Society 
 for the Jews, from 18-12 until he ascended to 
 the upper sanctuary very earlv on the 
 Sabbath morning of May 16th, 1858, we feel 
 constrained to exclaim : As " a burning and 
 a shining light," he was the instrument of 
 Divine brightness and bHss to many souls. 
 
 How did he die ? " More than a con- 
 queror through Him that loved him." One 
 star of God's Word lighted up the valley 
 with the brilliancy of a sun. In spite of 
 the difficulty of speech, through the enfeeble- 
 ment of paralysis, he was able to make his 
 dear ones understand the source of his 
 
 peace and joy. He said again and again : 
 " God is the strength of my heart and my 
 portion for ever." 
 
 Dr. Henderson's lecture on "The Con- 
 version of the Jews," which we reproduce, 
 sets forth the supreme object of the 
 British Society, and ought to be read and 
 studied by every Christian. 
 
 THE COJTV'ERSIOX OF THE JEWS. 
 
 A LECTURE BY THE BEV. E. HESDERSOS, D.D., OF 
 HIGHBURY COLLEGE. 
 
 Jeremiah xxxi. 18 — 20. 
 
 " / have surely heard Eiihrnlm bemoaning himself thus: 
 Thou hast chastised in€, and I was chastised, as a 
 buUoek unaccustotned to the yoke : turn Thou me, 
 and I shall be turned ; for Thou art the Lord my 
 God. Surely after that I was turned I repented ; 
 and after tliat I was instructed, I smote upon my 
 thiijh : I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, 
 because I did bear the reproach of my youth. Is 
 Ephraim my dear son > is he a pleasant child ? 
 for since I spake against him, I do earnestly 
 remember him still : therefore my bowels are 
 troubled for him ; I will surely have mercy upon 
 him, saith the Lord." 
 
 In whatever light we view the Jewish 
 people : — whether we regard the peculiar 
 relation in which they stood to Jehovah ; 
 whether we contemplate their connection 
 with the introduction of the Christian 
 economy ; or, whether we take into con- 
 sideration their subsequent history and their 
 future destiny, we cannot fail to be pene- 
 trated with feelings of intense interest on their 
 behalf. Depositories of the most ancient 
 hLstorical and religious records ; conservators 
 of holy, good, and just laws, and of prophe- 
 cies which, though tremendous in many of 
 their bearings upon themselves, are big with 
 the most brilliant hopes for the human 
 family ; witnesses of the unity, holiness, 
 justice, mercy, and other sublime attributes 
 of the Deity ; objects of continuous super- 
 natui-al interposition ; observers of an appro- 
 priate typical ceremonial ; and, examples of 
 signal Divine retribution — they stood forth 
 conspicuoush^ to view in the very centre of 
 the world — a pharo.s, the light of which was 
 reflected on the gloom of sui-rounding poly- 
 theism, superstition, and idolatry. While 
 the faint light of nature and the glimmer- 
 ings of tradition only tended to render the 
 darkness in which the Pagan nations were en- 
 veloped more palpable, the Hebrews enjo3-ed 
 the glorious manifestations of God as their 
 Sun and Shield — aflbrding them all needful 
 instruction, and according to them his omni- 
 potent protection and blessing. We study 
 their laws, and we recognize in them the
 
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 gi-and outlines of moral obligation, and the 
 wisely-adapted foreshadowings of better 
 things to come. We chant the Psalms of 
 the sweet singer of Israel, and our hearts 
 thrill with exquisite delight. We peruse the 
 ethical aphorisms aud maxims of his illus- 
 trious successor, and become pos-^e-ssed of a 
 body of the soundest practical wisdom. We 
 read the prophets, and admire the Divine 
 prescience which announced through those 
 holy men the fortunes of states and empires, 
 ages before they came into existence, and 
 especially the blessed advent, the mediatorial 
 work, and the spiritual kingdom of the great 
 Messiah. 
 
 'i'here are, however, i other aspects of the 
 Jews which are highly calculated to excite 
 our interest. Abraham, tiie progenitor of 
 their race, was constituted the father of the 
 faithful from among all nations, by the 
 promise of Him in whom he believed ; as it 
 is written : " I have made thee a father of 
 many nations." (Gen. xvii. 5 ; Rom. iv. 17.) 
 Jesus of Nazareth, our Divine Lord and 
 Saviour, the Author and Finisher of our 
 faith, on whose only merits and mediation 
 we depend for eternal life, was as to his 
 human nature a Jew. The apostles, whom 
 he selected to pi-opagate His Gospel, were 
 all Jews. The members of the churches 
 of Judea, which were in C'hiist, were made 
 up almost exclusively of the same people. 
 And there can be little doubt that, at lir.st, 
 a great proportion of those originally for- 
 ming the churches in other countries were 
 Hellenistic Jews. 
 
 To the fact that Christianity was originally 
 founded, professed, and propagated by Jews, 
 the attention of that people has never been 
 sufficiently directed. Yet it is beyond all 
 contradiction. A number of credible Jewish 
 witnesses — men of integrity and disinterested- 
 ne.ss, came forward in Jerusalem, the metro- 
 polis of the nation, and boldly challenged 
 theu- contemporaries, who were privy to the 
 traiLsactions, to a denial of their- averments 
 respecting the birth, life, death, and resurrec- 
 tion of Jesus. Their challenge was not 
 accepted. On the contrary, an acknowledg- 
 ment was made by the Sanhedrin, that the 
 miracles wrought by the apostles, in proof of 
 their divine commission, could not be called 
 in question. And what was the consecjuence ? 
 Not only did many myriads Troaai fivptucig 
 Acts xxi. 20) of the Jews believe, but a 
 great multitude even of the priests became 
 obedient to the faith. Fi'om Judea the 
 Hebrew converts carried the Gospel intoother 
 
 lands, by the inhabitants of which it was 
 embraced ; and it has come down to us, 
 presenting the most incontestible proofs of 
 its Jewish origin, in the idiomatic structure 
 of its language, and in the peculiar cast of 
 its doctrines and institutions. If we are 
 Christians, wo have unquestionably become 
 such, instrumentally, through the testimonies 
 and reasonings of Jews — testimonies and 
 reasonings, in which no Haw, either in point 
 of integrity or of logic, has ever been 
 detected. 
 
 And, though the great body of the nation 
 have to this daj' rejected Him, in whom such 
 multitudes of their brethren formerly 
 believed, and in whom they have taught us 
 to believe as the only Messiah ; and have, in 
 couseiijuence, been expatriated, and subjected 
 to the most awful calamities ; they have, 
 nevertheless, served, by their preservation of 
 their sacred books, and by their very 
 experience of the miseries which we deploi-e, 
 to throw aiound the cause of Christianity a 
 wall of defence which the boldest attacks of 
 Infidelity have never been able to over- 
 thi-ow. 
 
 Who, that is conversant with the history 
 of the human race, but must be struck with 
 astonishment at the perfectly anomalous 
 condition of the Jewish people. While the 
 celebrated luttions of antiquity — the 
 Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Persians, 
 the Romans, the Carthaginians, the Egyp- 
 tians, the Goths, and others, have all in 
 their turn disappeared from the theatre of 
 the world, the Jews .still remain as dLstinet 
 as ever ; a people dwelling alone among the 
 nations. For nearly eighteen centuries they 
 have been in a .state of exile from their 
 country, and disper.sed over the face of the 
 earth — without a king, without a central 
 government, without territorial possessions ; 
 and, what is more, without temple, without 
 prophet, without priest, without altar, 
 without sacrifice ; the objects of universal 
 execration and scorn ; afHicted, oppressed, 
 robbed, tortured, and subjected to every 
 species of cruelty which the fiendish 
 depra\dty of man could invent. Look at 
 Judea capta. Behold her still sitting under 
 the palm-tree, with one hand i-lacklv reclin- 
 ing over her knee, while with the other she 
 supports her drooping head, and covers her 
 weeping eye.s — the very image of incon.solable 
 grief. Listen to her plaint : "Is it nothing 
 to you, all ye that pass by ? Behold, and 
 see if there be any sorrow like unto my 
 sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith
 
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 the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his 
 fierce anger.' (Lam. i. 12.) 
 
 And are the Jews always to remain in 
 these circmustiuices of exile and oppression ? 
 Is Judah's harp never to he taken down from 
 the willows ? Is it never more to be tuned to 
 the sweet sti-ains of Zion's melody and song ? 
 Is no melioration to take place in their eoudi- 
 tion ? Is the penal sentence never to be 
 reversed ? Is the malediction of heaven 
 never to be removed ? Are they to drag out 
 their present unsettled and unhappy exist- 
 ence till the end of time ? Are there no 
 blessings in stoi"e for them ? Is there no 
 hope concerning them, that the Lord will do 
 them good at their latter end ? Hath He 
 cast them oft' for ever ? These, my brethren, 
 are questions which must touch the tenderest 
 chords of every Christian heart, and which 
 Christian sympathy and love must earnestly 
 desii-e to have answered in favour of that 
 ancient, and once pri\"ileged, but now sunk 
 and sufiering people. This answer, however, 
 must depend upon the reply to be given to 
 another question, viz., L'pon what condition 
 is a change in their cii'cumstances to be 
 expected ? Now, the only reply which the 
 Scriptm-es warrant us to make is this : thfir 
 conversion to God. While they continue in 
 an unconverted state, they must inevitably 
 remain under the frown of the Almighty. 
 While they walk contrary to Him, He will, 
 according to His unalterable declaration, 
 walk conti-ary to them. And this brings me 
 to the subject of the present lectuie : — the 
 coyvERSiox OF THE Jews, in discussing which 
 I shall— 
 
 First — Explain what we rsDERSXASD by 
 
 THE COXVEB.SIOX OF THE JeWS. 
 
 Secondly — I SHAiL state the gbocnds 
 OS which we expect that their coxvek- 
 
 SIOX WILL ACTCALLY BE EFFECTED : and, 
 
 Thirdly — I shall advert to ose or two 
 
 QUESTIOXS COXXECTED WITH ITS OCCURREXCE. 
 
 I. In the first place, I am to Explaix 
 
 WHAT WE USDEBSTAXD BY THE COX-VERSIOX 
 
 OF THE Jews. 
 
 That the phrase requires explanation, and 
 that it is highly important we should possess 
 clear and definite ideas upon the subject, all 
 must be aware who are familiar with the fact, 
 that it is viewed in different lights bv 
 difTei-ent minds, according as their habits of 
 thought are shaped and formed by their 
 religious connexions, or by the political and 
 social relations which thej- respectively 
 sustain. To prevent all misconception or 
 mistake, I observe — 
 
 1. That by the conversion of the Jews, 
 we do not understand a political or national 
 regeneration, either in their present dis- 
 pereion, or on their restoration to Palestine. 
 That the members of the Hebrew community, 
 speaking of them generally, require to be 
 elevated in the scale of society c;\nnot 
 admit of a doubt. Whatever exceptions 
 exist, and we rejoice to know that there are 
 splendid exceptions — individuals, who, in 
 point of intellectual cultui-e, blandness of 
 mannei-s, and respectability of character, 
 may compete with most of those who profess, 
 and call themselves Chri.'itians ; yet it is un- 
 deniable that the cruel and shameful mock- 
 eries, the grievous oppressions, and the long- 
 protracted persecution to which as a people 
 they have been exposed, together with the 
 peculiar modes of obtaining the means of 
 subsistence to which they have been com- 
 pelled to have recourse, have exerted a most 
 unhappy influence both upon their outward 
 manners and upon the tone and feelings of 
 their minds. Add to which the eSect of the 
 puerile and cramping studies with which, as 
 di.seiples of the Talmud, they have been more 
 or less occupied. Such is particularly the 
 case in Poland and other countries on the 
 continent of Europe as well as in the East, 
 where the rights of men, as members of 
 civil society, are denied to them, and where 
 the oppressive yoke of rabbinical intolerance 
 is most severely felt. To elevate them to 
 their proper rank as citizens and in every 
 Avay to advance then- ci^-il improvement, are 
 not only objects of the highest ambition with 
 many of them.selves, but are regarded by 
 some of our own statesmen as matters of 
 lesrislative soHcitude and enactment. 
 
 Now, without for a moment disputing the 
 abstract right of every Israelite to the full 
 enjoyment of all ci\-il privileges, in common 
 with his fellow-citizens, or contending that it 
 is not our duty towards them, as our neigh- 
 bours, living in the midst of us, to do all that 
 lies in our power to improve their outward 
 and social condition, yet I may be pei-mitted 
 to express my firm and honest conviction, 
 founded upon the analogy of the Divine 
 conduct towards them, as recorded in their 
 own Scriptirres, and exhibited in their subse- 
 quent history, that no complete political 
 emancipation can legitimately be expected by 
 them, or can possibly be effected by others on 
 their behalf, while the cause continues to 
 which their banishment from Palestine is to 
 be attributed. 
 
 But supposing their external condition
 
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 were to be entirely changed ; supposing they 
 were to be placed in every respect upon the 
 same footing with the native inhabitants of 
 the countries in which they sojourn ; or even 
 supposing them to be carried back to Canaan 
 itself, and put in possession of every advan- 
 tage which the restonition of their forfeited 
 iidieritance niigiit allbrd — sudi a cliange, 
 though tlie only conversion n^-lfn which the 
 gi-eat body of tlie nation anticipate, would 
 fall infinitely short of wliatwe understand by 
 the term. We believe, that were they to 
 enjoy all conceivable worldly happiness, with- 
 out being the subjects of that conversion 
 which we contemplate, they would still be in 
 the gall of bitterness, and in the bonds of 
 iniquity. To u.se the emphatic language of 
 Zophar: " In the fulness of their suUiciency 
 they would still be in .straits." (Job xx. 22.) 
 
 2. Again : By the conversion of the 
 Jews, we do not understand a philosophical 
 emancipation, such as that contemplated by 
 Moses Mendelssohn and many of his school. 
 Tired of the yoke, and disgusted with the 
 absurdities of Rabbinism, and, admitting 
 into his mind the influence of certain deistical 
 notions, which had become prevalent in 
 France and Germany, that philosopher 
 advanced principles which not only shook the 
 foundations of tlu; Talmud, but struck at the 
 root of all revealed religion. Having been 
 written in a tluent and refined style, his 
 works created among his Jewish brethren a 
 taste for the German literature of the day, 
 in cultivating which, numbers of them im- 
 bibed the principles of Infidelity, and ulti- 
 mately sank down into a state of pure Dei.sm. 
 From this school sprang a division of the 
 Hebrew people, who were bent on obliterating 
 the religious peculiarities of their ancestral 
 ci-eed ; but who, along with the dross of 
 human traditions, tlu'ew away the precious 
 metal of Divine Truth : — invalidating the 
 authority of Scripture ; and, by bringing 
 everything to the test of what they called 
 rea.son, rejected or explained away whatever 
 surpa.ssed their comprehension, or whatever 
 they could not reduce to the operation of 
 mere natural causes. On such an emancipa- 
 tion as this we cannot congratulate them ; 
 such couvei-sion we cannot but deeply deplore, 
 as at once subversive of all that is essentially 
 religious in the Old Testament faith, and 
 productive of universal .scepticism and un- 
 belief. 
 
 3. Nor by the conversion of the Jews do 
 we mean the assumption either of a pseudo- 
 rational, or of a superstitious system of 
 
 Christianity. By embracing the former they 
 would become posse.ssed of little else than a 
 meagre scheme of pm-e negatives, and thus 
 place themselves in a position alike ho.stile to 
 the legation of Moses and the true dignity 
 and claims of the Messiah : by surrendering 
 themselves to the latter, they would be 
 brought into a bondage to tradition and 
 usages, fiibles and falsehoods, .scarcely less 
 foolish and debasing than tho.so taught in 
 the Talmud, or imposed upon them by the 
 authority of the rabl)ins. So far from wish- 
 ing to see the posterity of Abiaham attaching 
 themselves to any such systems, we make it 
 matter of earnest prayer to God that they 
 may be preserved from their pernicious 
 influence, and that they m.ay embrace and 
 hold nothing but what bears the unequivocal 
 stamp of Divine Truth, and has a blessed 
 tendency to sjinctify and save their souls. 
 
 4. Moreover, by the conversion of the Jews 
 we understand something very different from 
 a merely speculative reception of the doctrine 
 of Christ. Were nothing more than this in- 
 tended by the term, it would be compara- 
 tively a matter of very small moment whether 
 a Jew became converted or not. It is 
 true, there would be an avoidance of the 
 awful blasphemies which are indulged in 
 when the miserable fabrication, the Toldoth 
 Jeshu is being read ; there would be a dis- 
 carding of the prejudices which so fatally 
 blind and enslave the Jewish mind ; there 
 would be a systematic harmonizing with the 
 creed of the overwhelming majority of pro- 
 fessing Christians : — but, as a subject of the 
 moral government of God, the convert would 
 be in no degree benefited by his knowledge, 
 more than multitudes of Gentiles who avow 
 their belief in Christianity, and are prepared 
 accurately to propound, and ably to defend 
 its several doctrines, but have never felt their 
 practical influence, nor attained to the 
 slightest discoveiy of their spiritual excel- 
 lence and beauty. Light they possess, but 
 it is of that description respecting which 
 our Saviour declares : " If the light that is 
 in thee be darkness, how great is that dark- 
 ness ! " They have no spiritual perception, 
 no saving apprehension of Divnne Truth. 
 They belong to a class of which the apostle 
 speaks when he says : " The natural man 
 receiveth not the things of the Spirit of 
 God ; for they are foolishness to him ; neither 
 can he know them, l)ecause they are spirit- 
 uallj' discerned." To true conversion this 
 spiritual discernment is indi.spensably neces- 
 sary. Its absence can be compensated by no
 
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 intellectual conceptions, however bright : by 
 no orthodoxy, however strict and severe. 
 
 5. Once more : by the conversion of the 
 Jews, we do not understand a mere adoption 
 of the Christian name and profession. A 
 Jew may adopt these, just as a Mohammedan 
 or a Pagan may do, from low and sordid 
 motives. He maj' have so conducted himself 
 amono- his brethren, as entirely to have for- 
 feited their confidence. He may have become 
 an outcac^t from their society, and thus have 
 been compelled to endeavour to make his 
 way among Christians ; or, he may be ac- 
 tuated by the consideration of some special 
 pecuniary advantages, which he expects to 
 secure by professing his belief in the Gospel. 
 And he may withal make a very specious 
 profession; and, by practising upon the 
 credulity of those to whom he applies, he 
 mav attain the object which he has in view. 
 Instances have been known of Jews who 
 have repeatedly submitted to baptism — 
 betaking themselves to diflerent and distant 
 places, in which they imagined they would 
 not be detected, and obtaining in each coun- 
 tenance and support from the followers of 
 Christ. Were such the converts whom we 
 wished to make, there would be no lack, if 
 we only held out to them the suitable induce- 
 ments. Against all the arts and schemes of 
 such hollow-hearted pretenders it behoves 
 Christians ever to be vigilantly npon their 
 guard, and never for a moment to listen to 
 any proposals on the part of Israelites pro- 
 fessing Christianity whom they have reason 
 to suspect of hypocrisy or double-dealing. 
 No bribe or lure sbould be held out to induce 
 the Jews to assume the Christian name; on 
 the contrary', all applicants should lie faith- 
 fully warned of the folly of supposing that 
 godliness is to be regarded onl_v as it may be 
 subsei-vient to worldly gain ; or that, by 
 making a profession of the Gospel, they will 
 infallibly better their circumstances in life. 
 
 Entirely renouncing all such notions of 
 conversion, as repugnant to the Word of 
 God and ruinous to the souls of those who 
 cherish them, I proceed to state wherein 
 that conversion really consists, to the expe- 
 rience of which it is our hearts' desire and 
 prayer to God the children of Jacob may be 
 brought. 
 
 I observe, then, that by the conversion of 
 the Jews, we understand essentially the same 
 thing that is intended when we speak of the 
 conversion of the Gentiles, — namely, the 
 spu'itual change implied in turning from 
 darkness to %ht, and from the power of 
 
 Satan iinto God. For whatever cucum- 
 stantial differences may otherwise exist 
 between them, there exists no difference 
 as it respects their moral relations to the 
 Most High. Jews and Gentiles are alike by 
 nature in a state of rebelhon against His 
 holy and righteous government. They 
 cherish principles which ai-e subversive of 
 all moral order and happiness. Not only 
 are they destitute of love to God and good- 
 ness, but they are filled with positive hatred 
 of holiness, as existing in Him, or in anv of 
 his creatures with whom they are brought 
 into contact. They delight in the practice 
 and enjoyments of sin, and strive, as much 
 as possible, to live without God in the world. 
 They are universally under the controlling 
 influence of supreme self-love, or a supreme 
 regard to the gratificati<m of their depraved 
 tastes and feelings. Now, conversion in- 
 volves a complete change in all these 
 respects. The subject of it, whether Jew or 
 Gentile, throws down the arms of his hos- 
 tilitv, and submits, cordially, practically, and 
 unconditionally to the authority of God. 
 He transfers the affections of his heart from 
 earthly and sinful objects, on which they 
 had been supremely fixed, to Jehovah, as the 
 Great Exemplar of spiritual excellence, and 
 the only adequate, because the only satisfy- 
 ing portion of the immortal soul. 
 
 Conversion is a tuining-point in a man's 
 existence. Till he reaches it, the whole of 
 his life proceeds in an ubiquitous, downward 
 course. He removes continually further and 
 further from the source of life and blessed- 
 ness; and, with accelerating rapidity, approxi- 
 mates the regions of eternal death. His 
 guilt is every moment accumulating, and his 
 habits of moral turpitude liecome more and 
 more obdurate. At conversion, on the other 
 hand, he stops in the course he has been 
 pursiung ; recoils with horror from the yawn- 
 ing gulf at his feet ; becomes sensible of the 
 absolute insecurity of everything around him 
 to which he may cling ; discovers that there 
 is no refuge for him except in the mercy of 
 that God whom he has slighted and con- 
 temned ; and in the exercise of deep humilia- 
 tion and powerful emotions of penitential 
 sorrow, he earnestly implores, and graciously 
 obtains forgiveness thi-ough the mediation of 
 the Redeemer. He becomes a new creature 
 in Christ Jesus ; old things are passed away ; 
 behold, all things are become new. Reconciled 
 to his offended Maker and Judge, and en- 
 joying the ethcaciously restorative inliuences 
 of the Holy Spii'it, he commences a new life.
 
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 Like Enoch, he hencfforth walks with God. 
 His coiivei-sjition is in lieavi-u. He sets his 
 afi'fctions upon tliiiijis which are alx)ve. 
 Thither his footsteps tend. His fruit is unto 
 lioliness, and the end everlasting life. 
 
 Of the nature of the conversion of the 
 Hebrew people, as well as of the manner in 
 which it is to take place, we are furnished 
 with an afl'ecting and instructive illustration 
 in the words of the text. The language, you 
 perceive, is descriptive of gi'eat .spiritual 
 trouble, or the exercise of deep godly .sorrow, 
 springing from convictions of the intrinsic 
 malignity of theii- guilt. Proofs of the 
 greatnes.s of this guilt they discover in the 
 severity of the punishment with which, as a 
 people, they have been visited, and in their 
 indomitable perseverance in the evil which 
 has drawn down upon them the inflictions 
 of Divine wrath. " I have surely heard 
 Eph:-aim bemoaning himself thus : Thou 
 ha.st chastised me, and I was chastLsed, as a 
 bullock unaccustomed to the yoke." Jv"orcan 
 we conceive of anything more powerfully 
 calculated to operate upon their minds, and, by 
 the blessing of the Holy Spirit, lead to their 
 conversion, than a serious examination of the 
 question, " What adequate cause can be 
 assigned for our long-protiucted and un- 
 exampled chastisement ? Our fathei-s, who 
 were guilty of idolatry — the greatest crime 
 they could possibly commit against God, 
 as their King and Lawgiver — were only 
 punLshed with a captivity in Babylon of 
 seventy- yesirs' continuance ; but, though we 
 have ever since entertained the utmost 
 abhorrence of idols, and have not, as a people, 
 l>een chargeable with gi-eater vices than 
 other nations, yet the captivity in which we 
 at present are has hasted more than five-and- 
 twenty times seventy. What can that crime 
 be, which our ance.stors committed, and of 
 which, to this day, we have not repented, 
 that the hand of the Lord has lain, and still 
 lies, so heavily upon us? Whatever it is, it 
 must be some act or deed of a most ati-ocious 
 character, which they pei-peti-ated before our 
 dis[)ei-sion — an act or deed in the approval 
 of which we have immovably jjersisted, and 
 the guilt of which we have obstinately refused 
 to acknowledge." 
 
 Now it must be convincingly e\ndent to 
 every Jew who impartially rends the history 
 of his nation, that there is not any one 
 public or national act of their fathers before 
 the destruction of the second temple by 
 the Romans, from which period all their 
 calamities are dated, to which they have 
 
 perseveringly and most cordially given their 
 adhesion, except the crucifixion of the inno- 
 cent Jesus of Nazareth. With this guilty 
 act they stand accusetl in the annals of the 
 world. Nor are there wanting testimonies 
 in their own writers which go to substantiate 
 the charge. In the Talmudic tract, entitled 
 " Yoma," fol. 9, col. 2, the question is a.sked : 
 " Why was the second temple destro3-ed ? " 
 One of the principal causes a.ssigned in the 
 answer is, D:n nN"w' ':SD : "On account 
 of the hatred vnthnut cause." Now it will be 
 recollected that this is the very charge 
 brought l)y our Saviour against his enemies — 
 those of his own nation — in the .sixty-ninth 
 Psalm, a p.salm which Abenezra himself 
 admits to be pi-ophetical of the Messiah : 
 " They hated me without a cause." Cotton 
 Mather, in his "Faith of the Fathers," 
 relates of Rabbi Solomon Marochan. that, 
 speaking of the crimes of the Jews, he said, 
 " The Projihet Amos mentions a fourth 
 crime — of selling the Ju.vt One for silver, for 
 which we have teen in our captivity. It 
 manifestly appears to me, that for selling 
 that Just One we are justly punished. It is 
 now one thousand years and more, and all 
 this time we have made no good hand of it 
 among the Gentiles, nor is there any likeli- 
 hood of our ever any more turning to good. 
 Oh, my God ! I am afraid lest the Jesus 
 whom the Christians worship be the Just 
 One we sold for silver." 
 
 That a discovery of the guilt contracted by 
 this nefarious act will be the principal cause 
 of the heart-rending gi'ief in which the Jew.s 
 will indulge when converted to God, we are 
 expres-sly taught, Zech. xii. 10 — 14. What 
 a scene that will be, when they shall thus be 
 seen universally bewailing their conduct 
 towards their bles.sed Redeemer ! Instead of 
 sneering at, or turning away with contempt 
 from Him as the Talui, or Crucified One, 
 behold them humble at the foot of His cross ! 
 With their mental eye intensely fixed upon 
 the pierced Messiah, wounded for their 
 transgressions, and bruised for their iniquities, 
 their grief will be poignant — their lamenta- 
 tions loud and aflecting. They will bitterly 
 reproach themselves for their blindness and 
 obduracv, their impenitence and unbelief ; 
 and be utterly confounded at the part which 
 they have acted. When the Spirit of God 
 shall convince them of sin, because they 
 have not believed in Jesus, all their other 
 iniquities will be absorbed in the 3"] ^l-'S 
 the yreut trnnsgressiin of crucifying the Lord 
 of Glory. How strikingly are their fieling-
 
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 emloilii'tl ill tlio Imii^iimj;i' of K|iliraiiii : 
 " Surely utter tliat I was tiirnoil, 1 refionti'd ; 
 and after tliiit I was instructed, 1 smote 
 »ipon mv thifzli : I was ashamed, yea, 
 even coiit'ouiuk'd, lucause I did bear the 
 reproach of my youth ! " lie smote upon 
 liis tliigh — a most expressive token of the 
 holy self-indif;iiation, of whieli he was con- 
 scious, at the state of unbehef in which he 
 had lived from his earliest days. 
 
 It also deserves our notice, that, afraid 
 lest, after all, his conversion iiiif.'ht not be 
 found genuine, and might merely have sprung 
 from a desire to escape from punishment, 
 Ephraim earnestly prays for the exi'rcise of 
 converting giace, fiom the deep conviction 
 that nothing but the effectual working of 
 the omnipotent power of God could th(^roughly 
 produce the change, and inspire him with 
 supreme love to God and His ways. " Turn 
 thou me, and I shall be turned ; for thou 
 art t he Lord my God." 
 
 W'iien tli(^ Jews shall ha\e become the 
 subjects of this Divine and saving cliange, 
 they will no longer look to the merits of 
 Aliraham.or to circumcision, or to any of the 
 thousand things prescribed by the rabluns for 
 acceptance with (!od ; but turning away from 
 the righteousness of all creatures, and entirely 
 renouncing their own righteousness, they will 
 place their reliance solely upon the righteous- 
 ness of God, which is by faith of Jesus 
 Christ, unto all, and upon all them that 
 believe. They will no longer draw near to 
 God with their mouth, and honour him with 
 their lips, whih^ their hearts are far from 
 Him, but they will worship the Father in 
 spirit and in truth. They shall be the cir- 
 cumcision, which worship God in the .spirit, 
 and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no con- 
 iidence in the flesh. They shall be a holy 
 j)eople — trees of righteousness, bringing forth 
 fruit to the praise and glory of God. 
 
 I would only add, that, although, as you 
 must have perceived from the desciiption I 
 have given of conversion, it must necessarily 
 from its nature be personal, i.e., it must be 
 realized in the actual experience of individuals, 
 yet when we speak of the Jews, we refer to 
 that people in the aggregate, or to the great 
 body of the nation, as consisting of indi- 
 viduals who shall have thus been converted. 
 It will include not a convert here and a con- 
 vert there ; not a mere remnant, accoiding 
 to the election of gi-ace, as was the case in 
 the days of the apostles, but the vast multi- 
 tude of the people, according to the same 
 gracious election. 
 
 II. I [iroceed now- to state Tfie ckounds 
 
 ON Wllll'II WE EXPECT THAT THE CONVERSION 
 
 or 'I'liE Jews will actually ue effected. 
 
 1. And here I observe, that our first 
 ground is the possibilifi/ of its occurrence. 
 To .some this may appear to be low, and, 
 indeed, altogether unnecessary ground. W ho, 
 it may be asked, for a moment doubts of its 
 possibility ? To this I reply : The Jews not 
 only doubt, they ab.solutely deny it. That, 
 in the latter day, they shall bo brought to 
 repentance on account of their sins in 
 general, they readily admit ; but, that they 
 shall ever be convinced of the divinity of 
 Jesus, or bo induced to acknowledge Him as 
 the promised Messiah, and to trust in His 
 death upon the cross for the pardon of their 
 sins, are ideas which they allege they never 
 can admit. Upon the grand turning-points 
 between them and Christians, they consider 
 theuLselves impregnable. No arguments can 
 ever move them ; no motives ever induce a 
 change of mind. And, unquestionably, no 
 one who reflects upon the jiertinacity with 
 which, as a people, they hold out against all 
 attempts to prevail u(ioii them to embrace 
 the Go.spel of Christ, but must admit the 
 justice of the apparently harsh language of 
 Luther, " ein Judeiiherz ist stock, stein, eiseii, 
 teitfel h'lrdt." * Indeed, one of these terms 
 has been admitted by a Jewish rabbi himself 
 to be appropriately de.scriptive of the Jewish 
 mind, in reference to the truth as it is in 
 Jesus. Arguing with the late Mr. Thorpe, 
 of Bristol, he pointed to the hearth, and 
 said, " Mr. Thorpe, do you see that stone? 
 The fire will not melt it : water will not 
 dissolve it. Such is the heart of a Jew." 
 
 And what is by the Jews themselves 
 regarded as impossible, seems by many pro- 
 fessing Christians to be viewed in neai'ly the 
 same light. You no sooner broach the sub- 
 ject of the conver.sion of God's ancient 
 people, than you are either met with the 
 qualified avowal. To tell you the truth we 
 have no gi-eat faith in any such event ; " or 
 you are gravely told that it does not come 
 within the range of po.ssible occurrences. 
 
 Now we at once frankly admit, that, 
 viewing the subject merely as a matter of 
 human calculation — viewing it as that which 
 a man may eflect in himself, or which one 
 man may efiect in another, we should 
 certainly consider the case of the Jc^ws to be 
 desperate beyond all remedy. With man it 
 
 * The heart of a Jew is stock, stone, irou, devil 
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 is impossible. No operations of the natural 
 mind ; no force of mere moral suasion ; no 
 arguments, however powerful : no proofs, 
 however convincing ; no eloquence, however 
 distinguL^hed, can produce that i-adical 
 change of heart which is es<ential to con- 
 version. But, brethi-en, we are never to 
 forget that though " with men this is impos- 
 sible : with Gk)d all things are possible." 
 Wliat saith the Lord by the mouth of the 
 prophet ? " Behold, I am the Lord : is there 
 anytliing too hard for me ? " Let the house 
 of Israel be hai-d-hearted as they may — be 
 it that the stone to which the rabbi compared 
 the Jewish heart is its fittest emblem, hath 
 not God expressly promised : " A new heart 
 also will I give you, and a new spii-it will I 
 put within j-ou ; and I will take away the 
 STOSY HEAKT out of your flesh, and I wUl 
 give you an he<art of flesh." (Ezek. xsxvi. 
 26.) Though, as it respects man. the bruise 
 of Jacob is incurable, and his wound grievous; 
 yet, " I will i-estore health unto thee, and I 
 will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord.'' 
 (Jer. XXX. 12, 17.) The apostolic weapons 
 are still what they were — " not carnal," and 
 consequently weak and inefficient, " but 
 mightj' thi-ough God to the pulling down of 
 strongholds ; casting down imaginations and 
 every high thing that exalteth itself against 
 the knowledge of God, and bringing into 
 captivity every thought to the obedience of 
 Christ."' (2 Cor. x. 3—5.) What the Gospel, 
 in the hand of the Spii-it efl'ected in the 
 apo.stolic age, it may effect still. If thousands 
 and tens of thousands of Jews were subdued 
 by it then, why may thousands and tens of 
 thousands not be subdued by it still ? The 
 Lord's arm is not shortened that it cannot 
 save, nor is His ear heavy that it cannot 
 hear. " God is able to gi-afi' them in again." 
 (Rom. xi. 23.) 
 
 2. But I pass on to notice another gi-ound 
 on which we base our hopes of the conver- 
 sion of the Jews — Its prolahiUtij. It is not 
 merely possible ; it is in a high degi-ee pi-ob- 
 able. Xow this proljability may be inferred — 
 
 (1.) From the analogy of the Divine con- 
 duct towards the Jews in every part of their 
 former history. Did the Lord permit them 
 to be enslaved and oppressed in Egypt ? It 
 was that He might be glorified by rescuing 
 them from the grasp of its tyrant king. Did 
 he lead them about for forty years in the 
 wa-ste howling desert of Ar-abia ? It was to 
 train them for the enjoyment of the rest in 
 Canaan. Did he frequently suffer them to 
 be harassed by the PkUistines, the Moabites, 
 
 the Amorites, the Syrians, and other neigh- 
 bouring nations ? It was to wean them 
 from their earthly objects of attachment, re- 
 claim them from their idolatrous compliances, 
 and teach them to cleave to the worship and 
 fear of their God. Did He peimit the kings 
 of Assyria and Babylon to carry them away 
 from their father-land, and locate them in a 
 land of gi-aven images ? It was that He 
 might efl'ectually cure them of their prone- 
 ness to idolatry, and teach them, in all 
 coming time, to acknowledge no God but 
 Himself. In all the painful dispensations 
 with which He visited them He had ever a 
 gracious end in view. His ultimate thoughts 
 towards them have always been thoughts of 
 peace, and not of evil, to give them an un- 
 expected end. Have we not, therefore, 
 every reason to hope that such is His purpose 
 respecting them still ? The very fact of their 
 wonderful preservation amid all the annihi- 
 lating elements of then- present dispersion, 
 ought to go far in satisfying us that " there 
 Ls hope" in their end." (Jer. xxx. 17.) As 
 the Lord hath brought all this evil upon 
 them, and yet sustained them under it, is it 
 not that He maj' bring upon them all the 
 good which he had promised them ? 
 
 (2.) Again : We derive our hopes respect- 
 ing the conversion of the Jews from the 
 present attitude of the Christian Churoh in 
 relation to that people. How much more 
 closely have Christians been brought into 
 contact with them ! How much knowledge 
 has been acquired of their number, the 
 countries where they live, the sects into 
 which they are diwded, their prejudices, 
 changes of opinion, language, literature, <tc. ! 
 How minutely in every point of view have 
 the circumstances of their condition been 
 investigated ! Instead of being any longer 
 the objects of universal neglect on the part 
 of Christians, they are now regarded with 
 deep and lively commisei-ation. A tender 
 concern has been awakened on their behalf. 
 They are not now looked upon as a people 
 doomed to perpetual blindness and obduracy 
 of heart ; or, as being beyond the influence of 
 tho.se means to the use of which God hath 
 promised his blessing ; but viewing them in 
 the light of fellow-sinners, involved in guilt, 
 and standing in need of the gi-eat salvation. 
 Christians are anxious that their feet should 
 be directed into the way of life. Hence the 
 sf)ecial and fervent prayers in which they 
 have been excited to engage on their own 
 behalf; hence the individual efforts which 
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 the> light of the Gospel. Hence the 
 foniiiition of Societies, haviiiji: for their ul)j('ct 
 the coiivei-sion of Israel to God. Of tlieso 
 the oldest and most extended in its opera- 
 tions, composed of members of tlie Church of 
 Eiifjiand, support.s at the present time 
 upwards of fifty missionaries and agents in 
 dilfercnt parts of the world. By means of 
 its Auxiliaries, Branch Societies, and As.so- 
 ciations in almost every jiart of England, an 
 extensive interest in liehalf of the Jews has 
 lii'en excited : and many thousand petitions 
 daily ascend to the throne of grace for the 
 Divine blessing upon Israel. Nor has a less 
 degree of intei'est been excited in tlie Church 
 of Scotland. No sooner was an appeal made 
 to the .sympathies of her members, than it 
 was instantly responded to; and a zeal and a 
 iilx'rality have been displayed which evince 
 a determiuation that, if in that division of 
 the island but little comparatively had 
 previously been done, the reproach shall now 
 lie wiped away, and noble elTorts made in 
 promoting the common object. The numerous 
 attendance u[M>n the lectures delivered upon 
 the subject may also be adduced in proof of 
 a revived concern for the salvation of the 
 seed of Jacob, and leads us to anticipate the 
 co-operation and support of many Englisli 
 Christians who have not hitherto been em- 
 barked in the benevolent undertaking. 
 
 And are all these movements in the Church 
 of God to be regarded as visionary and 
 chimerical ? Has He excited His people .so 
 generally to inquire of Him concerning this 
 thing, and will He not listen to their 
 supplications? Ha-s He raised holy and 
 s|)iritual expectations which he does not 
 intend to fulfil? Do HLs servants take 
 pleasure in the stones of Zion, and favour 
 the dust thereof ? and are we not taught to 
 n-g.ird this as a token that the time to 
 favour Zion, yea, that the set time is come ? 
 (Ps. cii. 13, II.) Has He drawn the hearts 
 of so many thousands towards Judah's 
 scittered ones, and encouraged them to 
 persevere in the liberal things which they 
 have devised for their good, and will He leave 
 them to conclude that they have merely 
 Ijeen sparks of their own kindling, and that 
 the issue of all their exertions will be that 
 they must lie down in the sorrow of dis- 
 appointment ] We dare not entertain the 
 idi'.i. Xo, brelhri'ii, we will thank tiod, and 
 take coui-age, persuaded that our labo\n- shall 
 not be in vain in the Lord, and that in due 
 time we shall reap, if Ave faint not. 
 
 (3). Farther, we tind in the horizon of 
 
 the Jewish world itself numerous phenomena 
 which portend a speedy and important 
 revolution in their circumstances, and many 
 which point to theu' conversion as the grand 
 event in which they may be expected to ter- 
 minate. I have already adverted to the 
 opinion-; broached by Mo.ses Mendelssohn. 
 Now, without in the least retracting wliat I 
 have advanced respecting the infidelity in 
 which, in many instances, the.se opinions 
 issued, 1 believe it may confidently be 
 a.s.serted that, in another point of view, the 
 impetus given by that celelnated philo.sopher 
 to the minds of his Jewish lu-ethren has been 
 ])roductive of consequences which cannot be 
 contemplated without satisfaction, both as it 
 respects the good which has already been 
 experienced, and the more extensive benefits 
 which may yet be expected to accrue from it. 
 Not only have the trammels of rabbinical 
 authority been burst asunder, the absurd 
 fables of the Talmud given to the winds, and 
 the veil of superstition rent in twain ; but by 
 many the exclusive claims of Mo.ses and the 
 ]iro[)hets have been admitted, a desire for 
 intellectual and religious improvement has 
 been created, and studies are being pursued 
 wiiich must prove highly favourable to the 
 interests of truth and righteou.sness. The 
 very opposition which is made by the 
 members of the old school excites to more 
 extended inquiry ; and if what is now going 
 forward among the Jews in this metropolis 
 and in many cities of Germany only continue 
 its course, there can be no doubt that the 
 impression produced will ere long be felt 
 through the whole Hebrew community. 
 
 It is a remarkable feature in the history 
 of this people, that within the last twenty 
 years, their attention has been specially 
 drawn to the study of the prophecies. No 
 longer intimidated by the interdict of the 
 rabbins, tliey calculate the prophetic ])eriods: 
 and finding that most of the.se periods have 
 expired, many of them have been conducted 
 to the conclusion that the Mes,siah must 
 either have already come, or that His advent 
 is just at hand. Dis.s;vtisfied with the past, 
 they fix their eyes intensely on the immediate 
 future — carefully watching every springing 
 event, and praying with gi-eater earnestness 
 than ever that the Lord would turn again 
 the cjiptivity of Jacob. 
 
 Another promising feature is presented iu 
 the diminution of the ancient prejudices 
 which the Jews liave continued to cherish 
 against the name and religion of Je.sus. 
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 ever wciMiil lc> lli sr |iri'jii(li{es, there are 
 Miimlicrs wlio Jiavo sliaki-n thcni ofl', and 
 nut cuily do not oliject to, but oven couit 
 convi'i'sjition with Christians upon subjects 
 connected witli rclifjion. Many ot" them 
 listen with candid attention to what may bo 
 advanced respecting; our Redeemer, and 
 manifest a disposition to embrace whatever 
 can be proved to them to be tlie Truth of 
 God. 
 
 Tlio eagerness witli wliich the Jews apply 
 for, and tlie rea<liness with wliich tliey 
 receive Chiistian books, and especially the 
 New Testament, as well as the extent to 
 which these books are actually read, are also 
 circumstances wliich inspire the hope that 
 the day is not disUmt when the evidence of 
 the Divine autiiority of the Gospel will be 
 discovered by tliem, and the glorious scheme 
 of redemption which it reveals be highly 
 appreciated and cordially embraced. Indeed, 
 every year is la-inginj; more and more to 
 light the fact that tliere are multitudes of 
 Jews wlio have liecome convinced of the 
 Messiahship of Jesus, and who are only 
 waiting for what they deem favourable 
 opportunities of coming out, and making an 
 open proftwsion of faith in His name. 
 
 Add to all these considerations — what must 
 greatly rejoice the heart of every true 
 follower of Christ the Lord — that within the 
 last forty years many hundreds of the 
 children of Abraham have aflbrded satis- 
 factory evidence of genuine convei-sion to 
 God, and of these, upwards of thirty are at 
 the present time employed either as minis- 
 ters of the Gospel, or as missionaries among 
 theii- lirethren according to the fle.sh. 
 
 Wlio now can view the altered position of 
 Juilaism, or contemplate the fuither changes 
 which may speedily be anticipated, without 
 perceiving that it is in a transition state, and 
 without regarding it as highly probable that, 
 ei-e long, the leaven which has begun to bo 
 introduced into it will leaven the whole 
 lump, and Israel redeemed, will celebrate the 
 song of Mo.ses and the Lamb ? 
 
 3. But leaving these probabilities, I 
 hasten to the consideiation fif the last ground 
 on which our expectation of the conversion 
 of tlie Jews is built — its absolute certainty. 
 Upon this point it will only be necessary to 
 produce one or two of the many positive and 
 uncontradicted testimonies of Scripture in 
 which it is a.sserted, since thej' cannot fail to 
 compel the assent of every unprejudiced 
 mind. 
 
 The first to which I \\(.ulil request your 
 
 attention is in that particular portion of the 
 15ook of tho Pioplict deremiali which com- 
 pri.ses the thirtieth and thirty-lirst chajiters. 
 That tlie.se chapters treat of a restoration of 
 the llebi'ews yet future, and not of their 
 restoration from Babylon, will appear con- 
 clusively evident to all who will give them an 
 attentive perusal. Now, not only is Ephraim 
 introduced in our text as repenting, and con- 
 fessing his guilt, whereupon the J^ord declares 
 his tender compassion towards him, conclu- 
 ding with the absolute assurance, " I will 
 surely have mercy uiion him, saitli the 
 Loril; " but at the thiity-Crst ver.se Jehovah 
 promLses to make a new coven.-int with the 
 house of Israel and with the house of 
 Jiidah. " Behold, the days come, saith the 
 Lord, that I will make a new covenant with 
 the house of Israel, and with the house of 
 Judah." That this new covenant is the 
 same with that usually called the covenant 
 of giace, is manifest from the nature of the 
 ble.ssings which it secures. These are not 
 mei-e temporal mercies, such as were granted 
 under the Sinaic Covenant, but spiritual and 
 saving mercies Divine illumination, renova- 
 tion of heart, pardon of sin, and the enjoy- 
 ment of God as an everlasting portion. 
 They are, in fact, the distinguishing ble.ssings 
 of the Gospel, which flow to the guilty 
 through the mediation of the Son of God. 
 To a participation in these blessings, in all 
 their fulness, we Gentiles have been admitted. 
 They are dispensed to us by the ministiation 
 of the Spirit. But the making of the cove- 
 nant here predicted by Jeremiah has not yet 
 taken place. For those with whom it w-as to 
 be made are expressly declared to be the 
 house of Israel, and the house of Judah — 
 phrases wliich are never employed by the 
 prophets to designate any but the Hebrew- 
 people. When the apostle (piotes the pro- 
 phecy in the eighth chapter of his Epistle to 
 the Hebrews, it is not for the purpose of 
 showing tlmt the new covenant had actually 
 been made with Israel and Judah, but in. 
 order to prove from their- own Scriptures 
 that the old covenant was abolished. Ho 
 leaves tho ))eriod of their actual investment 
 with the bles.sings of the Gospel undetermined. 
 The Divine declaration by the mouth of the 
 prophet, therefore, furnishes us with an infalli- 
 ble guarantee that the Jews, as a iicople, are 
 yet to become the subjects of new covenant 
 privileges and blessings. The time will 
 a.ssurei1ly arrive when God will put His law 
 in their inward parts, and write it in their 
 hearts ; when He will be their God, and they
 
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 shall be His people : when they shall, all 
 know Him ; when He will forgive their 
 iniquity and remember their sin no more. 
 
 Another remarkable prediction respecting 
 the conversion of the Jews is contained in 
 Ezekiel xxxvi. 24 — 28, which we have 
 already in part quoted. " For I will take 
 you from among the heathen, and gather j-ou 
 out of all counti'ies, and wall bring you into 
 your own land. Then will I sprinkle clean 
 water upon you, and ye shall be clean : from 
 all your tilthiness, and fi'om all your idols, 
 will I cleanse you. A new heait also will I 
 give you, and a new spirit will I put within 
 you : and I will take away the stony heart 
 out of your flesh, and I will give you an 
 heart of flesh. And I w-ill put My Spirit 
 within you, and cause you to walk in my 
 statutes, and ye shall keep My judgments, 
 and do them. And ye shall dwell in the 
 land that I gave to your fathei-s; and ye 
 shall be ily people, and I will be yoiu- God." 
 Here the bestowment of convei-ting and 
 sanctifjTng gi-ace is connected, not with the 
 return of the Jews from Babjlon, but with 
 their being gathered out of all countries, 
 and brought anew into a church relationship 
 to God, when the Messiah is to be their 
 Prince for ever. 
 
 I will only adduce one other prophecy from 
 the Old Testament, as aflbrchng an indubit- 
 able proof of our position. You will find it 
 in Eosea iii. 4, 5 : '• For the children of 
 Israel shall abide manj' days without a king, 
 and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, 
 and without an image, and without anephod, 
 and without teraphim : Afterward shall the 
 children of Israel return, and seek the Lord 
 their God, and David, their king ; and shall 
 fear the Lord and His goodness in the latter 
 days." The former of these verses contains 
 a de.scription of the circumstances of the 
 Israelites in their present dispersion. To no 
 otlier period of their history can it with any 
 pi-opriety be applied. They hare no civil 
 polity, either under regal or princely rule. 
 They have no priest, no sacrifice ; and at the 
 same time, no idolatrous statues, no images 
 or tutelary deities. And in this condition 
 they have been " many days," even eighteen 
 long centui-ies. In the latter veree, a blessed 
 reversal of their circumstances is expressly 
 predicted. After this protracted anomalous 
 period shall have elapsed, they shall again 
 seek the Lord their God, and Messiah their 
 King, the illustiious descendant of David, 
 whose name, which signifies The Beloved, 
 he figiu-atively bears. 
 
 In addition to these unequivocal testi- 
 monies from the Old Testament, in which 
 the certainty of the futiue conversion of the 
 Jews is set forth, I must advert to two in 
 the New Testament, in which it is as un- 
 equivocally taught. The first of the.se is 
 2 Cor. iii. 16. After describing the state of 
 moral blindness or hardness in which they 
 now are, declaring that '" even unto this day, 
 when Moses is read, the vail is upon their 
 hearts," the Apostle contrasts with it a 
 futui-e condition, when the vail shall be re- 
 moved. " Nevertheless," he says, " when 
 it," i.e., the Jen-ish people, " shall turn from 
 the Lord," i.e., the Lord Jesus Christ, " the 
 vail shall be taken away." 
 
 The same doctrine is taught in the cele- 
 brated argument of the apostle in theeleventh 
 chapter of his Epistle to the Romans : an 
 argument which it is impossible for all the 
 arts of sophistical subtlety to turn aside 
 from its direct and conclusive bearing upon 
 the subject. He first shows that the rejection 
 of the Jews is neither total nor final, verses 
 1 — 1 1 : " I .say then, hath God cast away HLs 
 people ? God forbid. For I also am an 
 Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe 
 of Benjamin. God hath not cast awav His 
 people which He foreknew. Wot ye not what 
 the Scriptures saith of Elias ? how he maketli 
 iuterce.ssion to God against Isi-ael, saying Lord, 
 they have killed Thy prophets, and digged down 
 Thine altars; and I am left aloneand they seek 
 my life. But what saith the answer of God 
 unto him ? I have reserved to Myself seven 
 thou.sand men who have not bowed the knee 
 to the image of Baal. Even so then at this 
 present time also there is a remnant accord- 
 ing to the election of grace. And if by gi-ace, 
 then it Ls no more of works : otliei-wise grace 
 is no more grace. But if it l;e of woi-ks, then 
 is it no more grace : otherwise work is no 
 more work. What then ? Israel hath not 
 obtained that which he .seeketh for ; but the 
 election hath obtained it, and the rest were 
 blinded (according as it is written, God hath 
 given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that 
 they should not see. and ears that they should 
 not hear) ; unto this day. And David saith, 
 Let their table be made a snare, and a ti-ap, 
 and a stumblingblock, and a recompense 
 unto them : let their eyes be darkened, that 
 they may not see, and bow down their back 
 alway. I say then. Have they stumbled that 
 they should f.all ? God forbid : but i-ather 
 through their fall salvation is come unto the 
 Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealous}-." 
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 back into tlio Clnircli will lie an iiinui'iifc 
 benelit to the (ieutiles, lli — 15 : "Now if tlio 
 fall of tiieui lie tlic riches of the woilil and 
 the tliiiiinishing of them the riches of the 
 Gentiles, how uiuch more their fulness ? 
 For I speak to j'ou Gentiles, inasmuch as I 
 am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify 
 uiine ollice : if by any means I may provoke 
 to emulation them which are my flesh, and 
 might save some of them. For if the casting 
 away of them be the reconciling of the 
 world, what shall the receiving of them be, 
 but life from the dead?" He then proves 
 that in their relative capacity they are still 
 holy, or separated from tlie rest of the woild, 
 and destined for the service of God, ver. IG : 
 '• For if the fii-stfruit be holy, the lump is also 
 holy : and if the root be holy, so are the 
 branches ; " and that, although foi- the present 
 they are without the pale of the true Church 
 — their place being occupied bj' Gentile be- 
 lievers, — yet. on their renouncing their unbelief 
 they shall be reinstated. 17 — 24 : " And if 
 some of the branches be broken oft", and thoii, 
 being .i wild olive tree, wert grafted in among 
 them, and with them partakest of the root 
 and fatness of the olive tree ; boast not 
 against the branches : but if thou boast, thou 
 bearest not the i-oot, but the root thee. Thou 
 wilt say then. The branches were broken ott' 
 that r might be gralVed in. Well ; because 
 of unbelief they were broken off, and thou 
 standest by faith. Be not highminded, but 
 fear : for if God spared not the natural 
 branches, take heed lest he also spare not 
 thee. Behold therefore the goodness and 
 severity of God : on them which fell, severity ; 
 but toward thee, goodne.ss, if thou continue in 
 His goodness : otherwise thou also shall be 
 cut oil'. And they also, if they abide not in 
 unl)elief. shall be grafted in ; for God Ls able 
 to graft" them in again. For if thou wert cut 
 out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, 
 and wei-t giafl'ed contrary to nature into a 
 good olive tree ; how much more .shall these. 
 which be the natural branches, be grafted 
 into their own olive tree ? " To remove nil 
 doubt upon the subject, he further declares 
 in e.xpress terms, that the state of judicial 
 insen.sibility in which the Jews now are, is 
 only to be partial or limited in duration : it 
 is only to contiinie till a widely-extended con- 
 version of the Gentiles shall have been 
 ett'ected, and then, through the reciprocal 
 action of the merciful favour shown to the 
 latter, the great body of tin- Hebrews shall be 
 brought to a saving participation of the bles- 
 sings of the Gospel, (an event anticipated by 
 
 Isaiah in the tifty-ninth chapter of his 
 prophecies) : 25 — 32 : " For I would not, 
 brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this 
 myst(ay, lest ye should bo wise in your own 
 conceits ; that blindness in part is happened 
 to Israel, until the fulness of the Gcnitiles be 
 come in. And .so .all Israel shall be saved : 
 as it is written. There shall come out of Sion 
 the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodli- 
 ness from Jacob : for this is my covenant 
 nnto them, when I shall take away their sins. 
 As concerning the Gospel, they are enemies 
 for yoin- sakes : but as touching the election, 
 they are beloved iov the Fathers' sakes. For 
 the gifts and calling of God are without re- 
 pentance. For as ye in times pa.st have 
 not believed God, yet have now ob- 
 tained mercy through theii- unbelief : 
 even so have these also now not be- 
 lieved, that through your mercy they also 
 may obtain mercy. For God hath concluded 
 them all in unbelief, that He might have 
 mercy upon all." 
 
 With these jjassages of inspired writ present 
 to his view, with what shadow of consistency 
 C!xn any Christian deny the future conversion 
 of the posterity of Jacob? It is asclearly re- 
 vealed as any doctrine of Scripture ; and con- 
 se(iueritly, demands to be received, not as 
 a matter of human speculation, but .as the 
 Word of that God who worketh effectually in 
 all them that believe. 
 
 III. Before conclmling, there are two 
 questions intimatel}' coiniected with the 
 subject, to which I must briefly advert ; 
 namely, whether the conversion of the Jews 
 will take place before or after their return to 
 Palestine? and, whether it is to be etfected 
 by the blessing of (Jod's H0I3' Spirit upon 
 the vise of ordinary means ; or by the inter- 
 vention of renewed miraculous agency ? 
 
 The practical bearing of these questions 
 upon the efl'orts of Christians to promote 
 ( 'hiistianity among the lo.st sheep of the 
 house of Israel must be obvious. For, if 
 they are not to be brought to the knowledge 
 of the truth till after they shall have been 
 I'estored to their own land, it must be in a 
 great measure fruitless to engage previously 
 in any attempts to effect their conversion. 
 Seed may indeed b(> sown ; knowledge may be 
 increased ; and thus preparations may be 
 made for the future accompli.shment of the 
 work ; but we shoidd Ijc warranted to e.xpect 
 no actual or immediate ^aving success. And, 
 if they are to be converted by miraculous 
 agency, then it would be impioasly pre- 
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 Almighty God, aud arrogate to our agency 
 what He has reserved tor the excliisi\e 
 exertion of His own power. 
 
 That the Jews will be restored to the hind 
 of their fathers is a question upon the dis- 
 cussion of wliich I cannot now enter. I may, 
 however, simply state my lirm conviction 
 that such will actually be the ca-se — a con- 
 viction |iroduced by an impartial study of 
 the prophetic oracles, in which, as appears to 
 me, are numerous pas.siiges which on the 
 contrary hypothe.si.s admit of no consi.stent or 
 satisfactory interpretation ; and confirmed by 
 the continued miraculous preservation of 
 that people in an unamalgamated state, and 
 the impo.ssibility of their obtaining a settle- 
 ment in any other country under heaven. 
 
 H now we inquire what opinion we are to 
 hold respecting the order of connection 
 between their conversion and their restora- 
 tion, there can, I conceive, bo no doubt that, 
 as to the great body of the nation, the former 
 will j)recede the latter. Such is the order 
 ob.-erved in the prophecy of Moses, recorded 
 Dent. XXX. 1 — 5. The prayer of Solomon at 
 the dedication of the tem|)le proceeds upon 
 the same jirinciplc, I Kings viii. 4(5 — 51. 
 Nor can we discover any congruity whatever 
 in the removal of the curse, while the cause 
 of its infliction remains in all its force. If 
 the Jews have been expatriated, and dis- 
 per.^ed among all nations for their rejection 
 of the Messiah, it would be contrary to the 
 known principles of the Divine government 
 that they should be restored during the con- 
 tinuance of their impenitence and unbelief. 
 But we are not left to rest our conclusion 
 either upon analogy, or upon those pa-S-siges 
 of Scripture in which their restoration only 
 upon their repentance is taught as a general 
 doctrine. There are pa.ssages prophetic of 
 the very events in question, in which the 
 same order is clearly maintained. Thus in 
 Jer. xxxi. 9, it is predicted : " They shall 
 come with weeping, and with supplications 
 will I lead them ; " — language evidently 
 descriptive of the penitential .son-ow and 
 devotional exerci.ses with which they shall 
 procesd from the places of their dispersion. 
 This order is likewise observed in verses 
 18 — 21, in which, after describing the con- 
 vereion and repentance of Ephraim, and 
 announcing the con.sequent exerci.se of the 
 mercy of his God, the prophet thus addre.s.ses 
 him.self directly to regenerated Israel : " Set 
 thee \ip waymnrks, make thee high heaps : 
 set tlii.ie heart towanl the highway, even 
 the way which thou wentest : turn again. O 
 
 virgin of Israel, turn again to these tiiy 
 cities." Thus, too, the building of the city 
 of Jerusalem, predicted in the concluding 
 verses of the chapter, is represented as conse- 
 quent upon the making of the New Covenant 
 with the house of Israel, and with the house 
 of Judah. 
 
 At the same time, it does appear from 
 Isaiah Ixvi. that certain members of the 
 Hebrew family will, in their unconverted 
 state, follow their believing brethren to 
 Palestine. Some of them will vainly 
 attempt to restore the temple and the temple- 
 worship, with the whole .sacrificial system 
 connected with it. The.se, however, will, in 
 all probability, be few in numl^er, and will 
 only be spared for the Siike of the righteous, 
 until they either shall have perished along 
 ■with the final Antichristian confederacy, or 
 been converted from the error of their ways. 
 
 So far, therefore, are the representations 
 of Scripture from teaching the subse(|uent 
 conversion of the Jews, that, on the con- 
 trary, they unequivocally teach the indis- 
 pensable necessity of su( h conversion in order 
 to their national restoration. 
 
 With respect to the second question, 
 touching the employment, or non-em|>loy- 
 ment of miraculous agency in effecting this 
 great work, while it becomes us with all 
 humility and modesty to speak of what God 
 may, or may not do, I may be permitted to 
 say that I can find nothing in the Bible 
 which leads us to expect the renewal of the 
 age of miracles. Of an abundant outpouring 
 of the influence.s of the Holy Spirit, both 
 upon Jews and Gentiles in the latter day, wo 
 there read ; but these influences are never 
 represented as operating indej)endently of the 
 use of means. It is thiough the mercy of 
 the Gentiles that the Jews are to obtain 
 mercy. (Rom. xi. 31.) I am aware that 
 there are prophecies which have been othei-- 
 wise construed ; but 1 am convinced, that on 
 careful examination, apart from .all precon- 
 ceived opinions and systematic prejudice.s, 
 they will be found either to refer to what 
 took place under the theocratici»l dispensiv- 
 tion, or that they are clothed in highly 
 figurative language, borrowed from some of 
 the distinctive features of that economy. 
 The Church which the Saviour loved, and 
 for which he gave Himself, whether made uj) 
 of Jews or Gentiles, is to be -sjinctified and 
 cleansed with the w-ishing of water by tiik 
 VVoHi). (Eph. V. 2G.) It is th.- Gospei, 
 which is " the power of God unto salvation, 
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 first, and also to the Greek." (Rom. i. IG.) 
 Even in the apo.stolic age, which was in so 
 distinguished a mar.ner an age of miracles, 
 the use of means was not superseded. The 
 ambassadors of Christ preached the things 
 concerning the kingdom of God, in oitler 
 that men might believe, and believing, might 
 be saved ; and no intimation is any whei-e 
 given that this order of instrumentality 
 would ever be changed. 
 
 Our ultimate conclusion then is, that if 
 the Jews are not to be restored until they 
 are converted, and if they are not to be con- 
 vei'ted except by means of the Gospel, it is 
 the duty of all who ai'e in possession of this 
 Gospel to contribute by every means in their 
 power towards its propagation among them, 
 that they may become acquainted with Him 
 who is the subject of its testimony, and be 
 saved in Him with an everlasting salvation. 
 And surely it is only necessary faiily to 
 bring the case of the outcasts of Israel before 
 the view of Gentile Christians, and directly 
 to appeal to their spiritual sympathies on 
 their behalf, in oi'der to excite that pity 
 ^^■hicll the deplorable circumstances of theii' 
 condition demand ; and to call forth into 
 zealous activity that .self-.sacrilicing lo\"e 
 which the contemplation of the love of Christ 
 is eminently calculated tt) inspire. Men and 
 Brethren ! Iielp. Hasten to the relief of the 
 spiiitual destitution of tiiose whose rejection 
 has been tlie occasion of onr being favoiii'ed 
 with the Gospel of reconciliation. They are 
 now perishing, as we must have been but for 
 the knowledge of the Saviour whom that 
 Gospel reveals. Let us do what in us lies to 
 rescue them from perdition by furnishing 
 them with the means of grace, and uiging 
 upon them the necessity of fleeing from the 
 wrath to come to Him whom their forefathers 
 crucified and slew, but who is exalted a 
 Prince and a Saviour for to give repentance 
 to Israel and forgiveness of sins. And to 
 Him he ascribed all honour and gloiy, 
 dominion and power, now and for ever. 
 Amen. 
 
 REV. JAMES HAMILTON, D.D. 
 
 Sketch by Dr. Weir. 
 
 James Hamilton seems never to have 
 been robust, his figure was tall, but not 
 stalwart, and ever and anon he gave signs, 
 during his public career, that the intellect in 
 its intense exercise, was somewhat like a 
 
 caged eagle, impatient of the ob.structing 
 bars that fettered it to earth. We consider 
 tliat James Hamilton, from early years, and 
 onward, was physically and mentally over- 
 taxed. He was so, as a boy at school ; as a 
 student at college ; as a preacher proclaiming 
 the glad tidings ; as a pastor feeding the 
 flock ; as a son of consolation weeping with 
 bereaved and suffering ones; as a platform 
 speaker; as a man of wise counsel, whose 
 advice was often sought. In all these rela- 
 tions, James Hamilton's labours were exhaust- 
 ing. He was a diligent and constant .student, 
 a brilliant writer, a zealous pi-omoter of the 
 cause of Christian Missions both to Jews and 
 Gentiles, and among the foremost of the band 
 of holy men who formed and afterwards cher- 
 ished and fostered the Evangelical Alliance. 
 He was taken from us in his fifty-third yeai'. 
 And yet, into that comparatively brief life, 
 what an amount of u.sefulness was concen- 
 tiated ! and how little of it, with all his 
 natural delicacy of constitution, was free 
 fi-om active services ! He went to Glasgow 
 University as eaily as his eleventh year. 
 His undergraduate course extended over 
 several sessions, during which he had as 
 fellow students Ai'chibald Tait, the late 
 Archbishop of Canterbury, and Halley " The 
 Successful Student," whose memoir was 
 written by Dr. Norman McLeod. Then 
 came the Divinity and Church History 
 Classes in successive years. Next, his recog- 
 nition as a Licentiate of the Church of 
 Scotland, a jsastoral charge foi' some time in 
 the country, two or three years moi'e as the 
 Minister of Roxborough Church, Edinburgh, 
 and then his translation to the National 
 Scotch Church, Regent Square, London, 
 where he exercised his ministry for twenty- 
 five years. Thus, with pauses caused by 
 illness and occasional summer sojourns out 
 of town at the seaside, oi- on the continent, 
 considerably more than a quarter of a cen- 
 tury was spent in the active service of his 
 Lord, and in diflusing far and wide the 
 savour of Messiah's name. 
 
 In social and brotherly intercourse with 
 his fi'iends ; in the reception and welcome 
 given by him to strangers from afar, includ- 
 ing American Christians who had loved him 
 for his writings and learned at first sight to 
 honour him for his own sake ; as the host at 
 his own table, or the guest at the hoard of a 
 f 1 lend ; at the meeting of Presbytery or 
 Synod, gentle and courteous amid diversities 
 of opinion and warm debates ; among the 
 savants of the metropolis, for he was promi-
 
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 nent among the geologists and botanists, and 
 a Fellow of tli« Linneiin Society; in all these 
 sjiheres he showed the virtues which endear, 
 ami that gladseiiie, chaste, and radiant wit, 
 which was I'lee IVoni all hiUerness. Jle was 
 pre-eminently " A tiooi) Man," anil a ti-iio 
 Christian (jlentleman. 
 
 "the saint, th(^ t'alher and IIh' Inisband," at 
 the I'auiily altai\ iMay the Gcid of all con- 
 solation, (Miiiilort (heir hearts ! May they 
 dwell continually henoath the shadowing 
 wings of the Almighly 1 
 
 Janus Jlaiiiilton was the first London 
 Minister, who, when waited on by our excel- 
 
 HEV. JA.MKS hamu.ton. n.D, 
 
 . And in his own family ciicle, what a lius- 
 band and a father was there I How did liis 
 children see in him the reflected image of the 
 " (ieiitle Jesus," and how beautiful was the 
 Keligion of the Cross thus made in their 
 eyes ! W(^ mourn, and thous;xnds are mourn- 
 ing also with that bereaved circle; no more 
 will they hear his cheerful tones as he comes 
 back from jiublic toll, or kneel with him as 
 
 lent missionary, Mr. Naphtali, endorsed the 
 idea of establi.shing an unsoctarian evan- 
 gelical mission to the Jews, in which true 
 Christians of every denomination might co- 
 operate, and which they might aid by their 
 contributions and their ])rayers. He then 
 opened his vestry for the representative 
 gathering of eminent and godly men, 
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 and love laid the foundations of '• The 
 British Society for the Propagation of the 
 Gospel among the Jews." Amid his multi- 
 plied pastoral and public engagements Dr. 
 Hamilton devoted much time to this Society, 
 and delivered many powerful addresses on its 
 behalf, thus nourishing and strengthening it 
 in its career of usefulness. He was one of 
 the Honorary Secretaries from the beginning, 
 and rendered noble service towards the 
 enlargement of its funds and resources. 
 
 Dr. Hamilton's Last Words. 
 
 " On Wednesday, and again later in the 
 week, to his biother, Mr. Andrew Hamilton, 
 who, from the time of his removal to Margate, 
 had been constantly ^\ith him, he gave direc- 
 tions respecting his funeral, expressing a 
 wish, that should a service be thought useful 
 or desirable, a minister of some denomination 
 other than his own should take part ; ' I 
 have always,' he said, ' loved those who loved 
 the Lord Je.sus.' And thus in death, as in 
 life, he testified that his affection for the 
 followers of Jesus was broader than the 
 limits of his own denomination. 
 
 " On the evening of Thui-sday, he took 
 leave of his son-in-law. About seven o'clock, 
 the hoiu- of the weekly prayer-meeting, after 
 speaking tendeily to his daughter, Mrs. 
 Wills, Mrs. Hamilton read to him the 
 paraphrase — 
 
 ' Where high the heavenly temple stands ; ' 
 
 and afterwards, at his request, they sang 
 Mrs. Cousins' beautiful paraphrase of the 
 dying words of Samuel llutherford. When 
 they reached the last verse, as if the words 
 had touched a chord to which he must re- 
 spond, he joined, in a voice weak indeed, and 
 feeble, yet distinct — 
 
 ' I stand upon His merit ; 
 I know no other stand ; 
 Not e'en where glory dwelleth. 
 In Immanuels land.' 
 
 " On Friday, he spoke little. His symptoms 
 were evidently aggi-avated ; and, though he 
 still -wore the same placid, patient aspect, it 
 was plain that he was much distressed. In 
 the evening, and, indeed, throughout the day, 
 he had become so prostrate, that even the 
 exerti.jn of speaking for a few moments was 
 almost more than he could bear. 
 
 " Xoxt day, Saturday, was to be his last on 
 earth. In the morning, after an aflectionate 
 reference to his son James, then absent at 
 school in Scotland, and who had been .sent 
 
 for, he reverted to the directions he had given 
 earlier in the week, respecting his funeral. 
 On his brother inquiring if he had any other 
 wish that he desii-ed to express, he said, ' I 
 have not an earthly desire : my only desire is 
 soon to be gi-atified.' Later in the morn- 
 ing his brother, the Eev. W. Hamilton, 
 arrived from Stonehouse. He was able to 
 receive him with all his old afTection, and to 
 converse with him at intervals during the 
 day. Towards the evening he said to him, 
 ' There is one line in that hymn which begins 
 with ' The hour of my departure's come ! ' 
 which exactly describes my feelings at this 
 time — 
 
 ' I le-ive the world without a tear, 
 Save for the friends I love so dear.' 
 
 On his brother reminding him of his father's 
 favourite verse which he frequently repeated 
 in the pulpit, — 
 
 ' Jesus I the vision of Thy face 
 Hath overpowering charms ; 
 I scarce would feel Deaths cold embrace. 
 If Thou wert in mine arms ! ' 
 
 he replied, ' Xo, I had forgotten it ; but there 
 is no cold embrace.' 
 
 " About ten o'clock, he grew rapidly worse, 
 again complaining of oppressive tightness in 
 his chest. To his brother William he said, 
 ' Would you feel my pulse and teU me if it 
 has stopped, for I feel that I am sinking 
 very fast ; perhaps, as it is getting late, it 
 miffht be well to send for Dr. Williams, for I 
 should not like to disturb him if he were once 
 in bed.' 
 
 '■■ A little after thLs he took an aflectionate 
 fai-ewell of his dear wife, adding, ' The Lord 
 bless you and keep you, and l>e ever with 
 you ! ' to which she replied, ' As He is with 
 vou.' A sweet smile of assent lighted up 
 his features as he said, 'And with you!' 
 After a short interval he clasped his hands 
 upon his breast, saying, ' Come, Lord Jesus, 
 COME griCKLT.' 
 
 " After this he spoke little, save to recog- 
 nise gratefully the Httle attentions rendered 
 to him in his extreme weakness, and to ex- 
 press his anxiety that his dear wife should 
 not sufler through her loving care of him. 
 By-and-bye the shadows gathered ; but with 
 them came the Master, and carried away 
 His dear servant to his rest and his reward. 
 
 " He fell asleep in Jesus on Sabbath 
 morning, Nov. 2-tth, at a quarter past 
 three."* 
 
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 printed for private distribution.
 
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 The Closing Similitude from Dr. 
 Arnot's " Life of James Hamilton." 
 
 .VII i.s nut lu.st to till- world wlii'ii ;i j;ooil 
 man (lies; liis ch;iracti'i- remains lu'hind ti> 
 L'lirich the community, as certainly as tlie 
 rich man's wealth remains behind to increase 
 the estate of liis lieir. We watch with 
 expectant interest the swelling of a rose-bud 
 in the spring ; we luxuriate in the posses-sion 
 of the full-blown tlower while it lasts, and 
 we sigh in sadness when its glory departs. 
 Hut, moved by a proplietic instinct, we 
 gravely gather the shed leaves from the 
 ground, and deposit them in a place of safety ; 
 and soon we make tlu! glad discovery that in 
 these leaves, even when withered, we retain 
 for enjoyment the fragrance of the rose in 
 the dull winter days that follow, when we 
 can no longer look \ipon the living flower, 
 fi-esh and dewy on its leafy stem. 
 
 Dr. Hamilton on " Christian Union." 
 
 One of the great thoughts from which 
 sprang the British Society for the Propaga- 
 tion of the Gospel among the Jews, which 
 is as unsectarian as the light, the rain, 
 and the dew, has been beautifully put by 
 Dr. llanu'lton in the following passage, 
 extracted from his little book, " The Dew of 
 Herman." 
 
 " Heaven is Uw abode of unity, and when 
 the spirit of \inity comes into a sjul or into a 
 church, it cometli from above. The Comforter 
 brings it down. Discord is en earth, or from 
 beneath. The divisions of Christians show 
 that there is .still mncn carnality amongst 
 them. The more carnal a Christian is, the 
 more sectarian will he be ; and the more 
 spiritual he is, the more loving and forbearing 
 and self-renouncing are you .sure to find him. 
 And it is with Christian communities as with 
 individual Christians. \\'lien the tide is out, 
 you may have noticed as you rambled along 
 the rocks, little pools with little tishes in 
 them. To the shrimp in such a p.xil his foot- 
 depth of salt water is all the ocean for the 
 time being. He has no dealings with his 
 neighbour shrimp in the adjacent pool, 
 though it may be only a few inches of sand 
 
 that divide them. But when the rising ocean 
 begins to lip over the margin of his lurking- 
 pl.ice, one pool joins another, their various 
 ten.ants meet, and, by-and-by, in place of 
 their little patch of standing water, the}' have 
 the ocean's boundless (ields to roam in. When 
 the tide is out - when religion is low — the 
 faithful are to be found insulated, liere a few 
 and there a few, in the little standing pools 
 that stud the beach, having no dealing with 
 their neighbours of the adjoining pools, 
 calling them Samaritans, and fancying that 
 their own little communion includes all that 
 are precious in God's sight. They forget for 
 a time that there is a vast and expansive 
 ocean rising — every ripple, every reflux, 
 brings it nearer — a mightier communion, 
 even tlu! communion of saints, which is to 
 cngnlf all minor considerations, and to enable 
 the fishes of all pools, the Christians, the 
 Christ-lovers of all denominations, to come 
 togethei-. When, like a flood, the Spirit flows 
 into the churches, church will join to church, 
 and saint will join to .saint, and all will 
 rejoice to find that if their little pools have 
 perisheil it is not by the scorching summer's 
 drought, nor the casting in of earthly rubbish, 
 but by the influx of that boundless sea whose 
 glad waters touch eternity, and in whose 
 ample depths the saints in heaven as well as 
 the saints on earth ha^'o room enough to 
 range. Yes, our churches are the standing 
 pools along the beach, with just enough of 
 their peculiar element to keep the few inmates 
 livitig diu'ing this ebb-tide period of the 
 church's history. But they form a very little 
 fellowship, the largest is but little ; yet is 
 there .steadily flowing in a tide of universal 
 life and love, which, as it lips in over the 
 margin of the little pool, will stir its inhabi- 
 tants with an unwonted vivacity, and then 
 let them loose in the large range of the 
 Spirit's own communion. Il.ippy church ! 
 furthest down upon the strand ! nearest the 
 rising ocean's edge ! Happy church ! whose 
 sectarianism shall tirst be swept away in this 
 ininidation of love and joy ! — whoso com- 
 munion shall fir^t bi eak forth into that purest 
 ami holiest, and yet most comprehensive of 
 all communions — the communion of the Holy 
 Ghost ! Would to Cod that church were ours!" 
 
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 Meinories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeivs.
 
 Tlic Dcsfi iiiifioii of the Jews. 
 
 81 
 
 THE DESTINATION OF THE JEWS. 
 
 nv THK KEV. JaMKS HAMIl.TiiN, MINISTER OF THE NATIONAL SCOTCH cnfRCB, UKGENT SQCARE. 
 
 Luke xxi. 21. 
 
 "Jerusalem ahtU he trodden down of the Gentiles, CNTII. the times of tJie Gentiles lie fulfilled." 
 
 Romans xi. 25, t^ti. 
 
 " ISlindness in part is happened to Ismel, niitil the fulness ff the Gentiles lie rnmt in. An<l sn nli Israel 
 
 sliall lie saved." 
 
 IN submitting a few remarks on the 
 Destination of the Jews, I liave selected 
 tliese two passages, not because they are the 
 fullest predictions on this momentous mattei-, 
 but l)ecause they are among the latest. When 
 you s:iy that Israel will yet be restoied and 
 converted, and quote in support of your 
 position Old Testament predictions, their 
 force is often evaded on no other jiretext but 
 because they are found in the Old Testament, 
 as if the Old Testament were not as authori- 
 tative as tlie New — or as if the Old were all 
 ful611ed and finislied the instant the New 
 began. Hut leaving the Old Testament 
 entirely out of view, tiie destination of the 
 Jews might lie sutlieicntly gatheied from 
 what Chri.st and his ins|>ired apostles have 
 told us. Had we no .Scriptures but the 
 Gospels and Epistles, it would be extremely 
 probable that the hou.'^e of Judah should till 
 their old seats again, and absolutely certain 
 that they should Itecome the conspicuous and 
 favoured people of ( Jod once more. 
 
 However, I confess that I have no desire 
 thus to narrow the field of presumption and 
 proof. I would read these New Testament 
 prophecies in the light of the Old, and fill up 
 these more recent hints from the ampler 
 information of earlier predictions. 1 would, 
 on the one hand, learti more fully what 
 God's purpose is, and on the other, would 
 ascertain that this purpose is not yet fullille<l 
 — in other words, that it is God's purpose 
 .still. The New Testament allusions to 
 Israel's last return are cursory and few, but 
 it is enough that there are allii.sions. If yon 
 get a letter from a friend in India telling 
 that he proposes to take .a journey home, and 
 fixing the very time of hi.s intended depai-- 
 ture, describing the route he intends to 
 pursue, the length of time which he is 
 likely to tarry at such a place, and the 
 bvisine.ss which he hopes to transiict at such 
 another place, and the time when he hop&s 
 
 to arrive in lii itain ; should his next despatch 
 relate to some affair which has occurred in 
 the meanwhile, you would not expect that 
 this .second letter should repeat all the details 
 of its predeces.sor. It would be enough if he 
 did not intimate any change of plan — it 
 would be more than enough if he made the 
 most casual reference to the subject ; if he 
 said, for instance, " When I take my journey 
 homewards," or, " as soon as I .set out ; " 
 however .slight the allusion, you would know 
 to expect him still. And when the Psalms, 
 and Isaiah, and Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, and 
 Daniel, and Micah, and Zechariah, and 
 Mabichi ; when the < »ld Testament is full of 
 .Jud.ih's i-i'storation and conversion — of all 
 the accompanying signs and sub.sequeul 
 eflects, it is enough for us if Luke, and Paul, 
 and John — if the New Testament penmen 
 writing on another errand and a new 
 emergency, do not supersede or disallow the 
 predictions of their predecessors. It is more 
 than enough, when I find by frequent 
 allusions and explicit statements, that they 
 a.ssume and .sanction the whole. 
 
 Abstaining from all speculations regarding 
 the period when, and the agencies by which 
 the residt is to be brought about, it will be 
 the object of this lecture to show — 
 
 I. That the Jews are to be restored to 
 their own land ; and — 
 
 II. That they are to be converted. 
 
 In other words, the destination of the 
 Jews includes their restoration and con- 
 version. 
 
 I. It is God's jiurpose to restore the Jews. 
 "Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the 
 Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles be 
 fulfilled ; " in other words, when the Gentile 
 lease is out, Jerusalem shall be trodilen down 
 no more. 
 
 W'hen a gi-eat city is overthrown, and the 
 first outbur.st of sorrow ilies aw.-iy, it is 
 eitlier quietlj- rebuilt and re-occupied, or 
 
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 82 
 
 Memories of Gospel Trmmphs among the Jen's. 
 
 foi-saken and forgotten. In either case it 
 is only one generation which suflej-s. If a 
 new city rise on the ruins of the old. the 
 conquerors and the conquered usually blend 
 more or less together, and in some future 
 age they live promiscuously and rejoice in 
 common on a soil which their fathei-s 
 moistened with one another's blood. What 
 modern Roman lays it the least to heart that 
 the grass waves in tlieatras where his fore- 
 fathers sate the long summer day, and 
 laughed, and cheered, and shouted ; or, who 
 
 Xineveh and Babylon ? And what emotion 
 beyond a vague and impersonal sadness, a 
 general impression of the melancholy, a 
 sense of dreariness without any touch of 
 tenderness, is ever called forth among the 
 broken shafts of Palmyra, and empty rock- 
 nests of Petni ? Wliere are the people who 
 have the hereditary right to sit downi among 
 such ruins and recognising emblems of 
 departed glory, the right to weep because 
 their •' hou.se is left unto them desolate ? " 
 Where are the old inhabitants ? They were 
 
 JEWS AT THE WAIUNG ILACE, MOUa>I>G JERUSiLE.\l'S RUDJ, AND TRATIXG FOR ITS RESTORATIOS. 
 
 feels it personalhj that the bramble grows 
 out of the riven altar on which Romulus or 
 Numa laid the struggling victim ? The 
 chain of identity is broken, and the new 
 race is clean severed from the old. If, on 
 the other hand, no new city be suffered to 
 arise, if the shock which evertm-ned its walls 
 have also dispersed its people, like the 
 shattered fragments of the avalanche, they 
 soon melt and are lost atoms in the stream 
 of some mightier population. Where is the 
 bosom in which Troy awakens the faintest 
 throb of patriotic feeling? What nation 
 pays its pUgi-imnge to the swampy sites of 
 
 not exterminated, and yet they have 
 vanished. Merged in the nations, and 
 mutually commingled, there is no pi-ecipitate 
 which can decompose them and bring them 
 out in their original di.stinctne.ss again. 
 The house is desolate ; but no one feels that 
 the house is his, so no one mourns its desola- 
 tion. But there is a city whose case is quite 
 peculiar. Captured, i-avaged, burnt, razed 
 to the foundation, dispeopled, carried captive, 
 its deported citizens sold in slaveiy. and 
 forbidden by severest penalties to visit their 
 native .seats again ; though eighteen centuries 
 have passed; and strangers still tread its
 
 The DestliKil'njii of tin' Jews. 
 
 83 
 
 liiilloweil soil. tliMt c-ity is still the iiiM<rnet 
 of iiiiiny lieiirts, ami awakens frniii time to 
 time pangs of as keen emotion as when its 
 fall was recent. Ever and anon, and from 
 all the winds of heaven Zion's exiled children 
 come to visit her, and with eyes weeping sore 
 hewail her widowhood. No city was ever 
 honoured thus. None else receives pilgrim 
 ages of atlection from the fiftieth genera 
 tion of its outcast people. None else after 
 centuries of dispersion could at the first c;ill 
 gather beneath its wings the whole of its 
 wide-wandering family. None else lias 
 po.s.se!;sed a spell sutlicient to keep in re- 
 motest regions, and in the face of the 
 mightiest inducements, its people still 
 distinct ; and none but itself can now be re- 
 peopled with precisely the same race which 
 left it nearly two thousand years ago. The 
 rea.son of this anomaly" must be sought, not 
 in Jeru.salem, but in the purpo.ses of Ood. 
 
 Here are two familiar facts. The Jews 
 are still distinct, and to the Jews Jeni.salem 
 still is dear. What is the final cause — the 
 Divine rea.son for these singular facts i Why, 
 when all other scattered nations mix and 
 mingle- -wliy is it that, like naphtha in .a 
 fountain, or amiicr floating on the sea, this 
 people, sh.iken hither and thither, are found, 
 after all their tossings and jumblings, 
 separate and immiscible ^ And whj', again, 
 when every other forsaken city after an age 
 or two is foigotton by its people — why has 
 Jeru.salem such .strong affinity for its outcast 
 population, that th(> city refuses any other 
 permanent inhabitants, and the old inhabi- 
 tants refus(> any other .settled home .' Why 
 these anomalous and mutually adapting facts, 
 unless ( lod has .some jiurpose with the place 
 and with the jjcople, and >inless the place 
 and the people have yet something to do 
 with one another ? 
 
 This prounijition becomes an absolute 
 certainty when wo consult the sure Word of 
 propliecy ; and, in order not to confuse your 
 ideas and oppress your memories with a 
 multitude of tjuotations, 1 would by way of 
 specimen select the following three : — 
 
 " In that day there shall be a root of 
 Jes.se, which shall stand for an ensign to the 
 people ; to it shall the Gentiles seek : and 
 His rest shall be glorious. And it shall come 
 to pass IN Tii.VT iwv, that the J>ord shall set 
 His hand ag.-iin the second time to recover the 
 remnant of His people, which shall be left, 
 from A.ssyria, and from Egypt, and from 
 Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, 
 and from Shinar, and from Hnmnth, and 
 
 JKW OF .lEHl'S.M.EM. 
 
 from the islands of the sea. And He shall 
 .set up an ensign for the nations, and shall 
 a.ssemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather 
 together the dispersed of Judah from the 
 four corners of the earth." 
 
 " For 1 will take you from among the 
 heathen, and gather you out of all countries, 
 and will bring j'ou into your own land. 
 Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, 
 and ye shall be clean ; from all your filthi- 
 ness, and from all your idols will I cleanse 
 you. A new heart also will I give you, and 
 a new spirit will I put within you ; and 1 
 will take away the stony lieait out of your 
 flesh, and I will give you an he.-irt of llesh. 
 And I will put My spirit within you, and 
 cause you to walk in ^ly .statutes, and ye 
 shall keep i\Iy judgments, and do them. 
 Ami tje sltall dwell in the html that I r/are to 
 i/oii r fatlters ; ami ye shall he Mi/ people, ami 
 J 71-111 he yinir God." 
 
 "Therefore shall Zion for your sake be 
 plowed a.s a field, and Jerusalem shall become 
 heaps, and the mountain of the house as the 
 high places of the forest. But in the last 
 days it shall come to pa.ss, that the mountain 
 of the house of the Lord shall be established 
 in the top of the mountains, and it shall be 
 e.xalted above the hills; and people shall 
 fiow unto it. And many nations shall come 
 and say, Come, and let us go up to the 
 nioinitain of the Lord, and to the house of 
 the God of Jacob; anil Ho will teach us of His 
 ■ways, and we will walk in His paths; for 
 
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 84 
 
 Memories of Gospd Triumphs among the Je^cs. 
 
 the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word 
 of the Lord from Jerusalem." 
 
 I would only further remark, that agree- 
 ably to these prophecies, no nation has been 
 allowed to settle in Jerusalem. It has all 
 along been "■ trodden down " of the Gentiles ; 
 but no one set of the Gentiles has been 
 aUowed to tread it long time together. It 
 has been '•successively occupied by the 
 Romans, the Pei-sians, the Saracens, the 
 Turks of the Seleucian jace, the Egyptian 
 caliphs, the Latin Christians, the Egyptian 
 
 and Egyptians, have fought for the Holy 
 Cit}-. and posses.sed it all by turns ; but 
 never any of them been able to keep it long. 
 And whilst in their struggles for its custody, 
 the Gentiles have trodden Jerusalem down, 
 the pei'secuted people whose it is. await in 
 calm a.ssurance the day when the Lord him- 
 self shall put them in perpetual possession. 
 
 Looking to the present languid and 
 withered aspect of the country, it may be a 
 (juestion with some whether a literal restora- 
 tion to Palestine would be a blessins to the 
 
 GARDEN" IN" THE HOLY LA>"D. 
 
 caliphs a second time, the Mamalucs, and 
 the Turks of the Ottoman i-ace." And by 
 this ceaseless change of occupants, it has 
 been very plainly hinted that all were in- 
 truders and usurpers, and that the rightful 
 owner had not yet appeared : so much so, 
 that I greatly err if it be not the conviction 
 of the present posses.sors, both Frank and 
 Moslem, that they are the locvni tenentes, 
 sitting there by sufTerance till the way be 
 ready for the retiu-n of the ancestral lords. 
 Christians and Infidels, Papists and 
 Mahometans, Franks and Saracens, Turks 
 
 Jews. On that question we deem the people 
 themselves the best judges, and if they 
 desire it, it must be a blessing — a blessing 
 because they desire it. The question with 
 the exile is not whether his native land or 
 his place of banishment be the fairest and 
 most fruitful ; but all the question is, how 
 he shall get home. But independently of 
 this, Palestine is "a goodly land." Its 
 intrinsic resources are far from despicable, 
 and its position, relatively to other lands, 
 perhaps the mo.st advantageous in the world. 
 Spread out beneath a sky whose severest
 
 The DestiiKilioit of the Jews. 
 
 85 
 
 aspect is mikl, and wlioso suinmei' g 
 
 low is 
 only intense enough to elaljorate those 
 aromatic liai'vests unknown in more moist 
 ami chill}' climes, Palestine used to he a land 
 of sj)ri>;htly music and long livers. In those 
 regions where the air is sluggish, life is 
 dull, and men do theii' work in silence. 15ut 
 in healthful climes, muscular energy is 
 redundant, and the animal spirits overflow, 
 and the prodigal excess of life and power 
 escapes in joyous shouts and nimble move- 
 ments, — in leaping and dancing, in melody 
 and song. And just as you infer, not more 
 from its long livers — those gay old " grass- 
 hoppers " than from its merry singers, 
 
 a land of lirooks of watei-, of fountains, and 
 depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; 
 a land of wheat and barley, and vines, and 
 fig-trees, and pomegranates, a land of oil- 
 olive and hone)'." The long desolations have 
 dried up many of its fountains, blasted its 
 vines, anil sadly thinned its fig-trees ; but 
 the bee still murmurs on the fragrant clifl's 
 of Carmel, and the sleek olive yields its fat- 
 ness in Gethsemane. The ruthless natives, 
 and more ruthless strangers, have not been 
 able to exterminate the cedars of Lebanon ; 
 sycamores giow by the wayside as when 
 Zaccheus chunbered up to catch a glimpse of 
 the illustrious stranger; and the Arabian 
 
 MOUNT CABMEL. 
 
 that ancient Attica must have been a genial 
 lifesome land, jw you may gather, not more 
 from the frecjuency of fourscoie and ti\escore 
 among its patriarchs, than from the abun- 
 dance of its popidar minstrel.sy and daily 
 music, that Palestine was a cheerful anil 
 salubrious land. From the matron at the 
 well, to the watchman on the walls, — from 
 the strain that gushed with earliest spring, 
 to the shout which clo.sed the vintage, there 
 were tokens unei|uivocal of life in its sun- 
 shine, and inspiration in its air. And 
 perhaps nothing can show the change more 
 solemnly than that a land once so vocal 
 should be so silent now. And as it was a 
 salubrious, so it was a fertile land. In its 
 better days it was '■ the garden of the Lord. 
 
 pitches his tent beneath the Terebinth, like 
 his father Abraham when angels visited him 
 at Mamre. The almond-tree flourishes along 
 the Jordan, and like a |)yranud of silver 
 cleaves the azure of a cloudle.ss spring, even 
 .as when its glad signal announced to the 
 youth of Judah the winter past, and its 
 snowy lilossoms on leafless branches reminded 
 the monarch-preacher that his own almond- 
 tree would soon be flourishing. Jericho was 
 the city of palm-trees in the days of Closes. 
 The palm-leaves of Jericho carpeted the path 
 of the Prince of Peace on the only triumphal 
 procession thisworld ever gave him. Jericho 
 is the city of palm-trees still. 'l"he trees 
 who.se boriowed foliage spread a canopy of 
 Kreen o\er Jerusalem at each Feast of
 
 86 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumplts among the Jews. 
 
 Tabernacles, have not entirely vanished. 
 And even those humbler glories of the field, 
 which no goodlj' land can want, may still be 
 recognized. Sharon has not lost its rose, and 
 among the hills of Galilee you still may 
 gather the gorgeous amaryllis, descendant of 
 tho.se very lilies to which the Divine Teacher 
 pointed one autumn evening eighteen hun- 
 dred years ago, and bade his disciples " con- 
 sider" them. A traveller speaks with 
 rapture of the delicious odour which sprang 
 at every footstep from Jerusalem to Jafi'a, 
 
 of melon-seed, and is rewarded with the 
 must delicious produce in the world. The 
 mountain ranges to the north are as green 
 as when the bulls of Bashan rioted on their 
 dripping slopes. And the very thistle- 
 forests, which dense and tall usurp its plains, 
 show that these plains are capable of yield- 
 ing again their heaps of com. In short, the 
 Lord has only to tui'n that captivity like 
 streams in the south, to fill the channel of 
 that dry and thirsty land with the stream of 
 its returning population, in order to clothe it 
 
 JUirsALK.M. 
 
 when the long-looked for rains had revived 
 the rosemary and other .scented tiowers. 
 IlasselquLst was charmed with the jasmine 
 of Palestine, a trivial circupistance, were it 
 not that a prophecy of many a sweet Jewish 
 home and rural dwelling may be enfolded in 
 that flower. But what is economically of 
 far more moment, amidst all the recklessness 
 of its tramjiling invaders, and all the re- 
 sourceless poverty of its abject cultivators, 
 the soil gives .symptoms of its exuberant 
 fertility. The lazy boor on the sea-coast 
 scratches the mould and flings in a handful 
 
 on ever)' side with the fertility and glories of 
 unexpected spring. ]^et but the seed of 
 Jacob people it once more, and its pa.stures 
 will be clothed with flocks, and its valleys 
 will be covered over with corn. And whilst 
 the little hills exult on every side, the people 
 that went forth weeping shall doubtless come 
 again rejoicing. 
 
 There Ls only one circum.stance moie 
 which I would mention in this connexion. 
 It is that the geographical position of Pales- 
 tine will make it now far more important to 
 the people who possess it than it ever was
 
 The Di'stl Kdtioit of the Jetrs. 
 
 87 
 
 before. So remarkably situateil is it, tliat it 
 forms tlie bridge botwoeii two coiitiniMits, 
 and a gateway to a third. Were the pojiul:i- 
 tioii and tlie wealth of Eiin)[>o, Asia, and 
 Africa condensed into single points, Palestiru^ 
 wonld bo the centre of their common gravity. 
 And with tho amazing facilities of modern 
 intercourse, and the prodigious extent of 
 modern trallic, it is not easy to estimate the 
 commercial grandeur to which a kingdom 
 may attain, planted as it were on the very 
 ape.x of the whole world, — with its thiee 
 continents spread out beneath its feet, and 
 with tlie Ifed Sea on one side to bring it all 
 tho golden treasures and spicy harvests of 
 th(> Kast, and the Jlediterr.-mean lloating in 
 on tlie other side all tho skill, and enterprise. 
 
 original transgression they can render a 
 ])ure and acccptablo obedience to that law. 
 They have wrong ideas of sin, for they fancy 
 that tho fasts, and jirayers, and teai-s of the 
 sinner can atono for insults olVored to the 
 almighty Majesty and sin-repelling llolinej-s 
 of (iod. And they have wrong ideas of 
 (iod himself; for his ama/.ing gift of a free 
 forgiveness is too magnificent for tlicm to 
 receive it, and the condescension of the 
 Son of Cxod in coming down and dying is too 
 divine for them to believe it. If the Jew.s 
 had right views of tho law of Cod, of sin, 
 and the Saviour, they would be converted. 
 Wo believe that tho Spirit of God will give 
 them such views ere long. Eut whether 
 theii- conversion is to precede or accompany 
 
 
 vn-:w i]i- jKRUsAi.r.M kkdm .\ii>i;nt ziun. 
 
 and knowledge of the ^\'est. For the .sake 
 of higher ends it seems the purpose of (Jod 
 to make the Holy Land a mart of nations; 
 and by l)ringing tlie forces of the Gentiles 
 to Jeru.salem, to send the blessing of 
 Abraham among the Gentiles. 
 
 II. I now [lass on to prove a point with- 
 out which the restoration of the Jews would 
 be a blessing neither to themselves nor to 
 the world. I mean their conversion. 
 There are some thing.s from which the 
 Jews do not need to be converted, e.i/., 
 they are not idolaters, and do not need to be 
 turned from image-worship. They are better 
 than some called Christians in this respect. 
 But they are self-righteous. They have 
 mean ideas of God's holy law, for they think 
 that with hearts and hands tainted by the 
 
 or follow their rest()rati(/n, or rather whether 
 .some of them may not be converted before 
 the restoration, and tho remainder after- 
 ward ; and what are to bo the agencies 
 emiiloyod, whether there is to be a .second 
 jior.sonal appearing of the Son ot God 
 beforehand, or whether the work of their 
 conversion is to be consummateil solely by 
 the plenteous outpouring of the Spirit, 
 without whose working the bodily presence 
 of tho Son of (Joil would make little impres- 
 sion on corru]it huiiianity ; and whether the 
 time is now fully come ; these (jue.stions I 
 do not at present iliscuss, on some of them 
 having formed no conclusive judgment, and 
 because on all of them you will more readily 
 come to a clear light and sound conclusion if 
 you be first fully persuaded of the fact that
 
 88 
 
 Mcinuricti of Gospel Trmmphs anion;/ the Jews. 
 
 the Jews are to be conveited. And here, as 
 ia the former instance, I prefer quoting, 
 without comment, the sure woid of prophecy. 
 " Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, It shall 
 yet come to pass that there shall come 
 people, and the inhabitants of many cities ; 
 and the inhabitants of one city shall go to 
 another, saj-ing, Let us go speedily to pray 
 before the Lord, and to seek the Lord of 
 Hosts ; I will go also. Yea, many people 
 and sti-ong nations shall come to seek the 
 Lord of Hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray 
 before the Lord. Thus saith the Lord of 
 Hosts, In those days it shall come to pass, 
 that ten men shall take hold, out of all 
 languages of the nations, even shall take 
 hold of the skii-t of him that is a Jew, 
 s;iying. We will go with you ; for we have 
 heard that God is with you." 
 
 " And it .shall come to pass in that day, 
 that I will seek to destroy all the nations 
 that come against Jerusalem. And I will 
 pour upon the house of David, and upon 
 the inhabitants of Jeru.salem, the .spirit of 
 gi-aee and supplications ; and they shall look 
 upon Me whom they have pierced, and they 
 shall ]\Iourn for Him, as one mourneth for 
 his only son, and shall be in bitterness for 
 Him, as one that is in bitterness for his first- 
 born. In that day shall there be a gi-eat 
 mourning in Jeru.salem, as the mourning of 
 Hadadrimmon in the valley of ilegiddon. 
 And the land shall mourn, every family 
 apart ; the family of the house of Da\-id 
 apart, and their wives apart ; the family of 
 the house of Nathan apart, and their wives 
 apart; the family of the house of Levi 
 apart, and their wives apart ; the family of 
 Shimei apart, and their wives apart ; all the 
 
 famOies that remain, every family apart, and 
 their wives apart. In that day there shall 
 be a fountain opened to the house of David, 
 and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin 
 and for uncleanue.ss." 
 
 " For I would not, brethren, that ye should 
 be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should 
 be wise in your own conceits ; that blindness in 
 part is happened to Israel, until the fulness 
 of the Gentiles be come in. And so all 
 Israel shall be saved. . . These also have not 
 believed, that through your mercv they also 
 may obtain mercy. For God hath concluded 
 them all in unbelief, that he might have 
 mercy upon all." 
 
 But I feel that I would not be doing 
 justice to my subject if I ended here. I 
 doubt not that the Jews are to be the 
 possessors of Palestine and the people of 
 God again. This is their destination ; but 
 this is not all. As was truly said in the 
 opening lecture, " The Jews possess no pre- 
 i-ogatives for themselves. Whatever im- 
 munities and distinctions they enjoy, they 
 hold for the world." So is it with their 
 destination. God has great things in store 
 for Israel, for he has great things in storo 
 for all mankind. And to understand the 
 destination of the Jews you must go back to 
 the day of their original segi-egation from 
 the nations, and rec^ill God's promise to the 
 Chaldean shepherd, " In thee and in thy seed 
 shall all the fainiUes of the earth be blessed." 
 A promi.se already most bounteously fulfilled 
 in the " one " seed, " that is Christ ; " but a 
 promise whose riches, as prophecy assures us, 
 are far from being exhausted yet. From 
 Isaiah, and Zechariah, and Paul, it is very 
 plain that Israel's restoration is to be the 
 
 world's elevation ; that Israel's injfatherins: 
 ... ~ ® 
 
 is to conicide with the world's great harvest- 
 home. Their fall was a blessing to a few of 
 our Gentile families ; their rising again in 
 their fulness will be a blessing to the whole. 
 How it may produce its full effect of blessing, 
 I cannot tell ; but, with Bible help, may 
 ofl'er the following hints : — 
 
 1. The restoration and conversion of the 
 Jews will be striking facts. Whether 
 efiiected in the more ordinary ways, or, as is 
 almost certain, with miracles intermingled, 
 the result will be abundantly remarkable. 
 It is not probable. Many of the Jews sneer 
 at the devout expectation of their brethren, 
 that they will yet be planted as of old in 
 Palestine. Many of them smile at the idea 
 of a restoration, simply because there are 
 such hindrances in the way. Very well
 
 The Destlitation of Ih/e Jetrn. 
 
 89 
 
 AVlicu the restoriitioii takts place it will be 
 all the more wonileif 111. "When the Lord 
 turns the captivity of Zion, you will be like 
 theui that dream. Your own mouth will be 
 (illed witli huij^htor, and it will beBaid among 
 the Gentile.s, The Lord hath done f;reat 
 things for them." The event is not probable. 
 You do not all expect it youiselves, and 
 many Cientiles do not. 80 it will be very 
 surprising when it does take place. Again, 
 much as many of the Jews desire a restora- 
 tion, and coniidently as some look forward to 
 it, they all with one accord deprecate con- 
 version, and are confident that such a 
 calamity never can befall them. Now, of all 
 prophetic truths, this i.s the plainest and 
 most positive ; and when it does take place 
 — when over the face of most staggering 
 dilliculties and stupendous prejudices, the 
 great consummation is brought about — when, 
 probably all of a sudden, the world sees the 
 spectacle of the inhabitants of Jeru.salem 
 with glistening eyes looking to the; Pierced 
 One, and sees all Israel actually saved, a 
 result so strange mu.st needs be striking. 
 The moment the veil is rent from Isiael's 
 eyes, the veil will be rent from a thou.sand 
 prophecies ; and, read in the light of restored 
 and regenerate Judah, the Word of God will 
 sparkle with unwonted corruscations, and 
 like deep-coloured gems that look dusky in 
 cloud-light, many of its dark sayings will 
 brighten up into its divinest truths, when 
 the beam breaks forth from Salem. And it 
 is not .so much the new evidence as the new 
 impulse which this event will give. It is 
 not so much that it will merely illustrate or 
 fulfil the prophecies, iis that it will arrest 
 the world and animate the faithful, and by 
 giving palpable reality to the things of faith 
 make unbelief as impracticable as it is al- 
 ready inexcusable. It has been admirably 
 shown in a recent es.say, that foreign missions 
 have exerted a most quickening power on 
 domestic Christianity ; and that every 
 triumph of the Gospel abroad has pioneered 
 a corresponding victory at home. WIkmi 
 (Jhnstendom was stagnant, when preaching 
 had come down to a few meagre common- 
 places, when ministers preached with slight 
 expectation that they were to impre.ss or 
 change their hearers, and when hearei'S 
 heard with no intention of being im- 
 pressed or changed, woril came home that 
 the Gospel was proving itself the power 
 of God unto .salvation among savages, 
 Indians, Esquimaux, and South !»ea 
 Islandei-s. Why should it not prove it- 
 
 .self the .same to the Greek which it had 
 j)i-oved to the barbarian^ The cause got 
 a new impul.se, the Gospel got a new trial, 
 and the work of evangelization went on with 
 new .success in Britain. If this wa.s the reflex 
 influence of a few Pagans converted, what 
 would be the effect of like c(mvei-sions among 
 the Jews? Woulil it not be as life from the 
 dead to tlie once more drooping Churches of 
 Christendom ^ The Gospel has already 
 proved itself the jxiwerof (Jod and the wisdom 
 of God unto the salvation of Gentiles, and 
 that on a .somewhat extensive scale. But to 
 com]ilete the case, let it prove itself the power 
 of God and the wi.sdom of God unto the 
 salvation of the Jews. They are confessedly 
 
 
 FIG TKEK AND KllUIT. 
 
 the hardest and most impracticable materials 
 on which it has yet been brought to bear. 
 Are they beyond its influence? In the infancy 
 of chemistry half the sub-stances in nature 
 ■were reckoned insoluble, not because there 
 was no power in nature to dissolve them, but 
 because men were ignorant of that power, or 
 knew not how to apply it. And after the 
 poor alchymist had laboured in the fire, 
 heated his furnace seven times, and spent all 
 his acids and alkalies, there still remained in 
 the alembic a relentless mass which laughed 
 at all his labours; a tiresome earthy residuum, 
 a capitl vwrluma, which woidil neither eva- 
 porate, nor melt, nor burn. But as knowledge 
 grew, solvents multiplied, till the intractable 
 substances became very few". Still, however,
 
 90 
 
 Memories of Gufipel Trivmphs among the Jeics. 
 
 men would say that a thing was as hard as 
 adamant, that 3011 might as soon melt marble 
 or fuse platiiuim as make an impression on 
 that thing. But these comparisons are no 
 longer significant. There is a power in nature 
 which can melt marble, fuse platinum, and 
 burn the adamant. In the infancy of 
 evangelic effort, even Christians looked 
 despondingly on some sections of the human 
 family ; and it was a grave question with 
 some whether it was better to extirpate 
 cannil)als or evangelize them ; whether the 
 Gospel should be preached to the Indians ; 
 and a lai-ge mass, consisting of Negroes, and 
 Hottentots, and " Chineses," were set aside 
 as utterly out of the question, a caput 
 mortumn, of which nothing could be made. 
 These despondencies, which were unlawful 
 from the moment it was said, " Preach the 
 Gospel to ererij creature," have now been 
 eftectually refuted by the partial success of 
 the Gospel on every creature ; partial, but 
 .still enough to show that every creature is a 
 fit subject for the Gospel to act upon. But I 
 can quite see in some brethren a suspicion 
 that the Hebrew .subject will prove refractory 
 — that there is a peculiar impi-acticability 
 about the Jew. Be it even so : that the Jew's 
 heart is the hardest of all hearts ; that 
 peculiar hardness has happened unto Israel. 
 There is a power, an agent which can dissolve 
 this stony heart ; and just allow that they 
 are the most obdurate people in the wojld, 
 and it follows that when the Gospel has 
 proved itself the power of God, and the wisdom 
 of God to the salvation of the Jews, it will 
 be seen how omnipotent is the Gospel of 
 peace in the hand of the Spirit of Love. 
 When the Jews are converted, it will be a 
 most singidar event ; the final evidence of 
 the Gospel's Divine original, and a mighty 
 impulse to its spread. 
 
 2. But, secondly, the Jews are likely 
 themselves to be most energetic and efKcient 
 evangelists. I.saiah says (ii. 2, 3), that, "in 
 the last days the law shall go forth out of 
 Zion, and the word of the Lord from 
 Jerusalem." And Zechariah says, " Many 
 people and strong nations shall come to seek 
 the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to pray 
 before the Lord . . . Ten men out of all 
 languages of the nations shall take hold of 
 the skirt of him that is a Jew, .saying, We 
 will go with you ; for we have heard that God 
 is with you.' (viii. 22, 23.) Jerusalem, by 
 that time possibly the great centre of wealth 
 and influence, will be the source of light and 
 evangelization ; the emanating fountain and 
 
 the converging focus, whence truth shall 
 issue and whither inquiry shall return ; from 
 which the Word of the Lord shall go forth, and 
 to which all tribes of awakened people shall 
 go up — the missionary metrojsolis of the 
 world. 
 
 3. And a third and more important way in 
 which I believe that Christianity is to profit 
 by the conversion of the Jews, in which all 
 families of the earth are to be blessed in 
 Abraham, is that in that converted nation 
 we may e.xpect to see a reproduction of 
 Christianity in its noblest and purest style ; 
 the graces of the Gospel exemplified as they 
 have not been since the day when the very 
 chiefest Christians were Jews. It ought ever 
 to be remembered, that whether for the 
 purposes of ulterior conversion of the world, 
 or for the elevation of the existing Church, 
 the instrumentality most needed is a normal 
 piety of the highest type ; a living Chi-istianity 
 so full-gi-own, and so full-hearted, that no 
 man shall despise it, and no man shall mistake 
 it. And in reading the prophecies I see 
 many proofs that legenerate Pale.stine is to 
 present the woi-ld with a living epistle largely 
 written of this fii-st-nite Christianity. The 
 paradisaic scenes of peace and harmony 
 delineated, streets without violence, and 
 sanctuaries without profanation ; the wor- 
 shipping concourse and the rapt adoration, 
 and the manifested presence of Jehovah ; the 
 blending of Sabbath sanctity with week-day 
 actixaty, bespeak a piety of the most exalted 
 order. And I stagger not at the promise 
 becaiise of what the Jews are now — I believe 
 that they are much maligned, and I also 
 believe that they are not too moral. But I 
 also believe that, though everything which 
 prejudice has suspected and malignity 
 invented were true, the miracle of grace, 
 which makes them a pattern to all people, 
 will only be the more adorable. I do not 
 stop to say that if they be abject, persecution 
 has made them so ; nor do I interpose the 
 names of ReuchUn and Benezra and 
 Neander in ariest of that sweeping sentence 
 which would adjudge them to irretrievable 
 degradation. But I fall back on the un- 
 questionable fact that the finest specimens 
 of redeemed and regenerate humanity which 
 mother eaith has ever borne upon her surface, 
 or I'eceived into her bosom, are the men 
 gathered to their fathei-s in the sepulchres of 
 Israel, the saints that sleep in Palestine. 
 
 I do not forget that the Church's finest 
 models and most stimulating examples are 
 men who answered to the name of Jew.
 
 Tlw Destination of the Jews. 
 
 91
 
 92 
 
 Memones of Gospel Triumphs amoixj the Jews. 
 
 And jubt as from the indevotion of a prayei- 
 lestruining and irreverent age, I look back 
 to the son of Jesse praising seven times a 
 day, and soliciting the lyre familiar with his 
 ecstasies, to a strain moie seraphic yet, till 
 the labouring lyre could do no more, and his 
 own awe-struck hand trembled into silence : 
 so from the stinted devotion and phlegmatic 
 praises of our Gentile churches I look for- 
 ward in hope to the day, when other Davids 
 shall lead the choir, and sweet singers of 
 Israel sound the key-note of the Church's 
 gi-atitude ; and if without the temple puniji. 
 at least with Hebrew fervour, we shall 
 answer one another — Praise ye the Lord, for 
 His mercy endureth for ever. • 
 
 And just lus from the selfishness and 
 caution, and wary worldly wisdom of 
 modern preaching, I look back with amaze- 
 ment at that meteor of mercy, that burning 
 and shining light, wlio self -forgetful and self- 
 spending, flamed round the benighted earth, 
 knowing and making nothing known but 
 Christ, then exhausted, shot back into that 
 
 sun which bad fii-ed him at the fii-st ; so 
 looking round on our glow-worm regiment, 
 to the leeward side of the hedge, and then 
 looking out on dark Britain, and a darker 
 world, I am ready to exclaim, " The Lord 
 send us another Jew like Paul 1 ' And then, 
 when I look round on the Church of Christ 
 comminuted into a thousand fragments, and 
 every day shattering more and more the 
 stone which ought to till the earth — when I 
 think how fallen out by the way are the 
 pilgrims, the brethren journeying to the 
 same land of peace and love, I look back 
 with wistfulness to the Daniels and Johns of 
 better days — who exerted such healing and 
 harmonizing influence on all their coevals, 
 and when I think of it as one most likely 
 source of Christian union, I pray the Lord 
 to hasten in His time the day when Epbraim 
 shall no longer envy Judah, but from 
 Ephraim and Judah, converted and restored, 
 shall come forth a company, the models of 
 THE Church, the missionaries of the 
 
 WORLD. 
 
 MR. GEORGE YONGE, THE FIRST GENERAL SECRETARY. 
 
 {From 1842 to 1867.) 
 BRIEF SKETCH BY HIS BROTHER, THE REV. W. C. YONGE. 
 
 '' rilHEEE were three years diflerence 
 _L between us, and so it may be con- 
 ceived that in boyhood, I must have known 
 him as the elder, loving and fostering the 
 younger. To me, knowing, from my own 
 experience, what human nature is, and 
 having a consciousness that I greatly be- 
 trayed it, it is indeed a wonder that I do 
 not remember a single instance of misdoing 
 in my dear brother through all his days. 
 But notwithstanding his unexceptionable 
 moral character through life, he loved to 
 think of himself as a sinner saved by gi-ace. 
 It fell to his lot to be at a school in Margate, 
 under the Eev. ]Mr. Lewis, a Baptist 
 minister, and it is presumed that there he 
 received his religious bias. I remember the 
 rewards he won there. When, in the year 
 1809, the Sunday School at New Court was 
 originated by William F. Lloyd, he, with my 
 dear departed sister, was among the first 
 teachers, and I presently became an assistant 
 
 teacher. The spirit, the uniformity, the 
 consistency of m}' brother in that relation, 
 could not but be marked, and the fruits of 
 his labour have, in most remarkable instances, 
 remained, proving that what he asked in the 
 name of Jesus, he received. His distinctive 
 success was, perhaps, in those who had been 
 under his caie in the school, but with whom 
 he managed to preserve an acquaintance 
 afterwards. No pains, and no cost, were too 
 much with him to accomplish this. For how 
 many years he was a deacon of the church 
 at New Court, I know not. I think he was 
 so in the year 1823. Dr. Winter knew how 
 to value him, and succeeding ministers found 
 him their encourager. He was one with 
 whom there could be no variance. He had bis 
 judgment, but he knew how to appreciate 
 the opinions and intentions of others. I 
 was present with him at the preliminary 
 meeting, in Dr. Hamilton's church in Regent 
 Square, with a view to the foimation of the
 
 The Destination of the Jews. 
 
 93 

 
 The First General Secretary. 
 
 95 
 
 Bi-itisli Sneiety for the Propao;ation of the 
 Gospel ainimg tlie Jews. Years before, 
 eflbrts had been made, an address pubhshed 
 in tlie Evavydical Jfayazine, correspondence 
 lield with leadiiij; ministers, but my brother 
 was the one, notwithstanding his character- 
 istic diflidcnco, to bring it to a jn-actical 
 bearing ; and it has been a mutual happiness 
 to experience how eflbrts, weak indeed as 
 compareil with tlie magnitude and interest 
 of the object, have been encouraged by the 
 Church, and owned and blessed of God. 
 
 " il y biother's passiige through the Valley 
 was well and cheerfully ciiai-aeterized by him 
 — ' I walk — I cannot run.' Medical advice 
 prevented the visits of others than the family, 
 but his long and gradual decline was charac- 
 terized by peace and even joy in the Holy 
 Ghost. 
 
 " On Friday, the 16th of August, 1867, hi.s 
 eartlily remains were connnitted to the grave 
 in Kensal Green Cemetery, close to the 
 resting-place of bis friend and c()mi)ani()n in 
 labour, llev. llidley II. Ilei-schell. Although, 
 by his own direction, no one beyond the 
 circle of his immediate rcLitives was invited 
 to attend, the little ch.ipel was filled with 
 worshippci-s, among whom were many mem- 
 bers of the Committee, with all the Agents 
 and Mis.sionaries of the Society stationed in 
 London, and several other attached friends 
 who had been associate.s in the bonds of 
 Chui'ch fellow.ship and Chiistian sympathy. 
 The ser\ice was conducted by the Kev. James 
 Rowland, of Henley-on-Thames.' 
 
 The address referred to by the Rev. W. 
 C. Yonge in the foregoing sketch, appeared 
 in the January number of the ('onr/ret/atioiial 
 Magazine for 1829, in the form of a long 
 letter to the editors. That a[)peal to 
 Christians, on behalf of the Jews, we had the 
 pleasure of reading lately, in a volume of 
 that journal, which belonged to Mr. George 
 Yonge himself. At the top of the page 
 where the letter begins, he had put in a 
 little slip of paper, evidently for future 
 reference. 
 
 In searching among Mr. Yonge's papers 
 for details of his life anil work, we were 
 delighted to find a manuscript containing the 
 whole of that addres.«, entitled '• The Jews," 
 clearly and beautifully written with his own 
 hand, signed " Monitor," and with pas.siiges 
 of it specially emphasized, as if intended 
 for reproduction. These pa.s.sages we give 
 here, as we consider that they had much 
 to do with the formation of our beloved 
 Society. 
 
 PASSAGE.S FROM THE APPEAL FOR THE JEWS 
 WUICH APPEARED IN 1829. 
 
 THE JEWS. 
 To the Editors. 
 
 The subject to which I would invite your 
 attention, is one which has occupied many 
 anxious moments of my life, and from the 
 firet time 1 became interested in the (juestion, 
 now thirty years since, I have continued to 
 read the Scriptures from a very different point 
 of view to that which 1 had previously been 
 accustomed; with members of the Hebrew- 
 nation constantly before my eyes, and meet- 
 ing them, as everyone may, at the corners of 
 every street, I see the vexacity of God exem- 
 plified, and His justice manifested in the 
 fulfilment of those awful denunciations of 
 wrath for transgression contained in His 
 Word, and the consetjuent dispersion of a 
 nation, once beloved and chosen as His 
 pecidiar people. Uut I cannot read those 
 remarkable delineations of wrath thus exem- 
 plified, without also tracing the loving kind- 
 ness and mercy of God in the miiLst even of 
 threatened and deserved judgments. The 
 Spirit of (lod foresaw that there would be a 
 dereliction from His law, and a departure 
 from His paths ; and proclaimed that this 
 nation, who were once to be considered in the 
 eyes of all nations a-s " a great, imse, atid 
 understanding people," in consequence of the 
 wise, and righteous, and holy statutes given 
 to them by the God of their fathers, would 
 become the scorn and contempt of all nations; 
 a proverb, a by-word, and a reproach of the 
 people amongst whom they should be called 
 to dwell ; yet has He ever accompanied every 
 sentence of His w-rath with invitations to 
 retiu'n and repent, and with the promises of 
 abounding mercy and compa.«sion, exceeding 
 even their former condition. For He has 
 said that then " He will gather them, even 
 were they ca-st out to the outmost parts of 
 heaven, and bring them into the land which 
 their fathers pos.sessed, and will midtiply 
 them, and do them good, more titan their 
 falhers." There is no people upon earth, 
 therefore, which have such special promises, 
 and none upon which Christian labour may 
 be bestoweil with more hope of success. God 
 will surely work with them who seek their 
 w^elfare, and who endeavour to bring back 
 His people to a sense of their departure from 
 Him ; and it may be believed that they are, 
 nt the present time, chiefly wrought u|)on by 
 the frigid conceits of their rabbis; the strange 
 and outree interpretation of Isaiah liii. being,
 
 96 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 that they themselves are tlie party predicted, 
 sufiering for the sins of other nations. It 
 may be questioned whether the knowledge 
 they possess of the Scriptures of truth, 
 limited, I admit, because chiefly confined to 
 the Pentateuch, does not supply a lietter 
 foundation on which to erect a superstructure, 
 a li\-ing edifice of souls, to the glorv of God 
 our Sa\-iour. than to any other people on the 
 face of the earth. 
 
 But, Gentlemen. I would remind our 
 Christian friends of the mass of misery which 
 exists amongst the Jews resident in this 
 countr}', even from the influence of our own 
 statute and municipal laws ; shut out, as 
 they also are, from parochial relief, and 
 therefore not capable of reaping the common 
 advantages of society, to which, a.s a body, 
 they proportionally contribute. Nor are 
 they allowed, by the laws of the land, the 
 law of God in reference to the Sabbath, or 
 seventh day, which they feel bound to observe, 
 and their own rabbinical injunctions of fasts 
 and festivals, to devote more than 200 out of 
 the 305 days of the year to their daily main- 
 tenance. I know that many of these people 
 feel it to be a burden to be compelled to s\ich 
 observances, but, conscientiously so acting, 
 and not led away so completely as manv 
 suppose in this world's dirt and dross, as if 
 their whole soul were bound up in its gain, 
 I would ask, Are they not then precisely the 
 characters on which Christian benevolence 
 might hope to act with infinite force ? I am 
 not ambitious of the distinctive title of fanatic 
 and enthusiast, which there is too much 
 reason to beheve have been so denounced, 
 even from the assumed chair of God, on those 
 who have presumed to advocate such a cause. 
 " y^importe." I shall remain precisely the 
 same being in believing that of the Jews to 
 be the cause of God and of truth. All that 
 occurs to my mind at this moment is. whether 
 our Dissenting or Congregational friends are 
 not bound more deeply to consider whether 
 they have dischai-ged the character of the 
 Good Samaritan, or are now, or have been, 
 poiu-iug oil and wine into the wounds of their 
 afflicted brother, Isi-ael ; and whether they 
 have conducted him to the inn, and pledged 
 themselves to the Great Giver of all good, 
 that they would provide, out of the abund- 
 ance bestowed on them by the God of mercies, 
 those means needful for their distressed 
 friend and neighbour. 
 
 Xeed I call to your recollection, Gentle- 
 men, the benefits which Christians have 
 received at the hands of the Jewish nation ; 
 
 their only Ciod and Saviour ; their Bible ; 
 and those Missionarias who fii-st promulgated 
 the grace of God to o\ir pagan ancestors i 
 Do you imagine. Gentlemen, that the Apostles, 
 or apostolic men, sent to you were so sent 
 without cost ? or that the Scriptiu-es were 
 transcribed for j'our information without 
 expense ? Are we not also in possession of 
 the personal spoOs of the people of Israel, 
 and yet boasting ourselves as being the Zion 
 of the whole earth, and pretending to the 
 glory of being the most enhghtened and 
 polished Christian nation of the habitable 
 globe ? And, after all. Gentlemen, I would 
 ask. What have we done for the Jews ? the 
 very people we have robbed and spoiled, and, 
 as an evidence of our sincere repentance, like 
 Zaccheus of old, to whom restitution must be 
 made ? Xothing, and less than nothing. We 
 might now have been on the point of reaping 
 the fruit of any labour bestowed, had not the 
 pi'inciple of duty been sacrificed in the sur- 
 render of dissenting privileges, from which 
 moment either to preach or pray on behalf 
 of the Jew has been deemed a work of supere- 
 rogation 
 
 After a reference to the Tendon Society, 
 and the voluntary withdrawal of the Non- 
 conformist members from it, the wi-iter con- 
 tinues in the language both of praise and 
 reproof, thus : — 
 
 But, admitting every disadvantageous cir- 
 cumstance, were the principles of love on 
 which the dissenting body originally acted 
 good ; and I would contend that they had 
 been for years the main support of the 
 Society ; on what gi-ound, I would ask, have 
 they departed from their first love, and cast 
 out the daughter of Zion as a widow or 
 woman forsaken, unless they can prove her 
 recent crimes, and are compelled to adjudge 
 her to final separation ? Alas ! Gentlemen, 
 I fear that we are enveloping ourselves in 
 webs of our own wea\"ing, and forget that 
 the same beloved wife of youth is perishing 
 for lack of comfort. Oh I she is still precious 
 in the sight of Gcd ; though the gold has 
 become dim, and the fine gold changed, she 
 will shine in the future day in the resplendent 
 glory of her Sa^■iour's righteousness, and in 
 the beauteous garments of His holiness. 
 
 It would be to impeach your general know- 
 ledge of ecclesiastical afTairs to suppo.se you 
 ignorantthat the Missionary Society embraced 
 the Jewish cause as one of their objects in 
 the early stage of their proceedings, and 
 appointed a missionary to that people ; that 
 they sacrificed this object only in considera-
 
 Till' First diiieral, Secretary. 
 
 97 
 
 tion of a separate Institution being estab- 
 lished, anil I admit tliat tiiero were, as there 
 may be still, sufficient grounds for such a 
 reparation of objects. Nor are the Jews to be 
 considered in the light of heathen. The 
 ramitiaitions of Jewish society require an 
 almost intense and exclusive applic;ition of 
 mind. It is a question to be studied per se, 
 and without due attention not easily tangible, 
 and must therefore be met in every form and 
 shape, chameleon-like, into which the Christian 
 character dare enter. I would not, however, 
 forego a duty because it may be dillicult, for 
 " such as thy day is, so thy strength." 
 Abandoned, however, as this cause has been 
 during many years, I would again call, 
 through your pages, on the worshippers of 
 the True God to arouse from their slumbers, 
 and rally round the standard of the Cipss, 
 that they may carry conviction and truth 
 into the Jewish camp. If they can do no 
 more than advance to the outposts, and 
 invite its intrenched possessors to their festive 
 board, in the language of conciliation and 
 love, they will have fuUillcd the righteous 
 injunctions of their Saviour, for even com- 
 passion Ls dear to His loving heart. If ye 
 did it, might He not say to one of these, as 
 to one of my kinsmen, ye did it to Me ; but 
 full fraught with the eternal ble.ssings of the 
 Gospel, and the declaration that His Word, 
 preached or distributed, shall not return to 
 Him void, there is every encouragement to 
 proceed in this cause. Surely I might appeal 
 to the honourable and venerable names of 
 many departed this life, and of many still 
 living, who were the first to advocate the 
 cause, and entered upon it con amore — -et cum 
 spirilu. They did run well, what doth 
 hinder ? It may indeed be said, as it hath 
 been said, " If the Lord would open windows 
 in heaven, then might this thing be ! " and 
 miracles, as aforetime, may be required. 
 Means, however, are in our hands ; let these 
 first be tried, because God works by means, 
 and never fails to ble.ss the eiTorts of His 
 servants. If report speak truth, there is 
 now a work silently proceeding which may 
 astonish and confound the minds of gain- 
 sayers, perhaps such as may not have taken 
 place since the Apostolic times. 
 
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 His Letters. 
 
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 the heart, and the life of a man by his 
 lettera. The creed, character, and conduct 
 
 Ml{. OEOItGK YONGE, THE FUtST GENERAL SECRETARY. 
 
 of Christians like Peter and Paul are reflected 
 in their lettei-s as in a number of polished 
 mirrors. 
 
 Wliat a mine of spiritual wealth is dis- 
 closed to us in Paul's Epistles ! In them we 
 see shining the priceless gems of love, faith, 
 trast, meekness, peace, patience, tenderness, 
 long-suftering, purity, humility, patriotism, 
 philanthropy, courage, self-sacrifice, hope, 
 joy. In them we see the Christian as a Son, 
 a Saint, a Servant, a Suflerer, a Suppliant, a 
 Succourer of many, a Spiritual Sovereign 
 ari-ayed in robes of beauty, with palm and 
 crown, in the Kingdom of Eternity. 
 
 Could we gather together and spread out 
 before our readers a few typical bundles of 
 jNIr. Yonge's letters sent to our devoted 
 Missionaries, and to the friends of Jewish 
 Missions at home and abroad, wo should find 
 that he possessed, more or less, all the 
 features of Christian love as described by 
 Paul in the 13th chapter of his Epistle to 
 the Corinthians ; feat\ires absolutely indis- 
 pensable in a Christian gentleman and in 
 the General Secretary of the British Society 
 for the Propagation of the Gospel among 
 the Jews. 
 
 We regret that we cin only find sp.ace 
 for a few of the letters of 'Sir. Youge, two 
 specially addressed to the young, one to the 
 Editor of the Jeunsh Iferahl, a circular letter 
 to the Missionaries,and a letter of sympathy to 
 Mrs. Ilei-schell when she met with her gi-eat 
 bereavement.
 
 98 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeius. 
 
 TWO LETTERS TO THE YOUNG. 
 I. 
 
 WTial can the Yoiing do for the Jews ? 
 
 I am glad that this inquiry is addressed to 
 me by young Chiistians ; for the cause of 
 Israel has much to commend it to their atten- 
 tion, and its best hope, under God, rests on 
 the zeal and devotedness of such as you are. 
 My dear young friends, you have hitherto 
 stood as spectators, but must now enter upon 
 the course of holy effort for the good of souls. 
 You will soon receive from the dying hands 
 of your fathers the torch which they have 
 borne as they ran. You must bear it onward 
 and aloft. It will brighten as you advance ; 
 and when you close your career, God will 
 raise up others to succeed you. I rejoice that 
 in seeking to enlist your best powers on 
 behalf of the Jew, I have no need to with- 
 draw your attention from other objects of 
 Christian benevolence and .sympathy. You 
 must take no diminished interest in any one 
 good thing to which your fathers have given 
 their sanction : you must, by grace, carry out 
 every wise plan which it was only in their 
 hearts to accomplish ; you must tend the 
 very field they have sown, and rejoice in the 
 hope of the same harvest. But the cause of 
 the Jews, and of their conversion to God, has 
 not received its due meed of attention ; and 
 it is for you, whom tlie Shepherd of Israel 
 has gathered into His fold in the morning of 
 your days, to take it up, and make it pecu- 
 liarly your own. The origin and antiquity of 
 the Jewish nation, their language and cus- 
 toms, their connexion with tlie greatest 
 empires of the world, and their singular 
 preservation, ought to attract youthful study 
 and research ; while, in addition to these, 
 most affecting appeals are made to your 
 spiritual sympathies and to your Christian 
 expectations, by the prophecies of God con- 
 cerning them, and His conduct towards them. 
 " He shall dwell alone, and shall not be 
 reckoned among the nations," points out 
 Israel as the object of an attention challenged 
 by no other. And " Blessed is he that 
 blesseth Thee," gives, or ought to give, all the 
 force of personal interest to every thing that 
 affects their welfare. 
 
 My dear young friends, let me reply to 
 your inquiry, first, by proposing another. 
 What ought you to feel towards the Jews ? 
 Ought not your emotions on seriously con- 
 templating them to be those of deep and holy 
 reverence ? You feel a mystic awe as you 
 survey the ivy-crowned walls of some vener- 
 
 able buildhig in which the people of God 
 have once worshipped, or some " man of God " 
 has dwelt. Anti(piity gives to almost shape- 
 less masses an attractiveness which no grace 
 or form of modern art could supply. You 
 love, too, the stafl" on which your fathers 
 leaned ; and there is no Bible like that which 
 has come down to you through a long series 
 of pious ancestry. But where is the object 
 that c.an compete with the nation of Israel 
 for antiquity ? Before the earliest historian, 
 Moses wrote, and with the most ancient of 
 empires the Hebrews were contemporary. 
 Do we not owe reveience to them also as the 
 people whom God chose for His own —to 
 whom he assigned a land for their everlasting 
 posse.ssion — whom He has preserved amid the 
 file and the flood — to whom Himself, by the 
 hving voice and the handwriting of God, gave 
 laws — whom He fed by daily miracle, and 
 guided by the nightly tire — before whom He 
 divided the river and the sea — for whom the 
 .stars fought in their courses, and the sun and 
 moon stood still in the heavens ? Trace, too, 
 the illu.strious list of sages and holy men 
 whose names stand on the page of their his- 
 tory, and with whom the Most High held 
 converse, as " a man with bus friend." Read 
 their poetry — revisit theii' temple, " beautiful 
 for situation, the joy of the whole earth " — 
 and as you wander among its ruins, you will 
 not treat as a people unworthy your venera- 
 tion the scattered tribes of Israel. 
 
 But I would awaken the more tender feel- 
 ings of your nature, and thei'efore I ask your 
 love for Israel. They are the kinsmen, the 
 brethren of your Redeemer. It was a Jew 
 that was "fairer than the sons of men." 
 They were the lips of a Jew that said, " Come 
 unto Me, and I will give you rest." They 
 were Jewish tears that fell at the grave of 
 Lazarus, and JewLsh aims that enfolded the 
 smiling infants of Judea. It was as a Jew 
 that your Saviour lived and suffered, agonized 
 and (lied ; and in that nature He ascended to 
 heaven. Identify the Jewish suppliant of 
 your Christian affection with Him whom 
 you esteem the " altogether lovely," and my 
 claim for your love will not be disallowed. 
 All the penmen of your Scriptures and the 
 first preachers of the Gospel were Jews. The 
 words which brought you to a Saviour's feet 
 — the precepts which guide your way — the 
 promises which soothe your spirit — the hand 
 that lifts the veil of futurity and shows you 
 the Lamb in the midst of the throne and the 
 countless myiiads there — were all of the 
 people for whom now I ask your love ; and
 
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 for whom else could it be asked with so much 
 reason and emphasis ? 
 
 Again : I a-sk your compassion and your 
 piti/. A man of lofty int<?llect, fallen into 
 the decrepitude of age, and the imbecility of 
 childhood ; a man of renown, and once the 
 idol of popular worship and affection, now 
 poor, foi-sakei), despised, friendless; the 
 inmate of the poor-house, dying without one 
 kind hand to closehis eyes, or one gentle accent 
 to bid his spirit go in peace, and borne to his 
 lonely grave without any of all his former 
 friends to shed over him a single tear : such 
 would move your pit}' ; but see how these 
 features of distress are combined, and this 
 interest increased, in the condition of fallen, 
 outcast, forsaken Israel, " whom no man 
 hath pitied, and no man wUl save." No 
 uninspired appeal can equal that of the 
 prophet. Hear him as he speaks of Zion 
 and her children : " She weepeth sore in the 
 night, and her teai-s are on her cheeks : 
 among all her lovers she hath none to com- 
 fort her." " All her people sigh, they seek 
 bread ; they have given then- pleasant things 
 for meat to relieve the soul. See, O Lord, 
 and consider ; for I am become vile." " The 
 elders of tlie daughter of Zion sit upon the 
 gi-ound and keep silence. . . . The virgins 
 of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the 
 gi'ouud." " Thy prophets have seen vain and 
 foolLsh things for thee ; and they have not 
 discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy 
 captivity." " How is the gold become dim! 
 how is the most fine gold changed ! The 
 precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine 
 gold, how are they esteemed as earthen 
 pitchers ! " " The crown is fallen from our 
 head : woe unto us that we have sinned ! 
 For this our heart is faint ; for these things 
 our eyes are dim."* Dear young friends, 
 the history of centuries past, and the state 
 of the Jews at present, verify the picture. 
 Once more would a voice arrest you amidst 
 your privileges, "Is it nothing to you : all 
 ye that pass by ? Behold, and see if there be 
 any sorrow hke unto my sorrow which is 
 done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath 
 afflicted me in the daj' of His fierce anger."t 
 
 I might go on and show 3-ou how we owe 
 a debt of gratitude, if not to the Jews, at 
 least on their account — as the careful de- 
 positaries of the Old Testament Scriptures — 
 as the living and ever-teaching types of the 
 Church of God in every age, and as affording 
 
 * Lamentations i. 2, 11 ; ii. 10, 14 ; iv. 1 ; y. 10. 
 t Lamentations i. 12. 
 
 in themselves one of the strongest evidences 
 of the fulfilment of prophecy, and conse- 
 quently of the truth of Scripture, which 
 with almo.st gi'aphic accuracy describes them 
 in Dent, xxviii. 25, 29, 37, 49, 64. 65 : " The 
 Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before 
 thine enemies : thou shalt go out one way 
 against them, and shalt flee seven ways before 
 them : and shalt be removed into all the 
 kingdoms of the eai-th. . . . And thou shalt 
 grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in 
 darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy 
 ways : and thou shalt be only oppressed and 
 spoiled evermore, and no man shall save 
 thee. . . . And thou shalt become an aston- 
 ishment, a proverb, and a byword among all 
 nations whither the Lord shall lead thee. . . . 
 The Lord .shall bring a nation against thee 
 from far, from the end of the earth, as 
 swift as the eagle flieth ; a nation whose 
 tongue thou shalt not understand. . . . 
 And the Lord shall scatter thee among 
 all people, from the one end of the earth 
 even unto the other ; and there thou shalt 
 serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy 
 fathers have known, even wood and stone. 
 And among these nations shall thou find no 
 ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have 
 rest ; but the Lord shalt give thee there a 
 trembUng heai't, and failing of eyes, and 
 sorrow of mind." 
 
 But let us now more directly, and tinder 
 the influence of emotions thus enkindled, 
 inquire what j'oung Christians can and ought 
 to do. 
 
 1. Lay the subject of the Jews more 
 seriously and devoutly to heart. If a 
 Christian is to look at all beyond the 
 enclosure of his own soul, and if he is called 
 to seek the salvation of any, the Jew presents 
 himself as a first object. The Jews " are not 
 cast off that they should fall " finalh'. God 
 " is able to graft them in again," and He 
 will do it. The first preachers of the Gospel 
 were commanded to begin at Jerusalem, and 
 God signalized the beginning there by the 
 conversion of at least five thousand souls. 
 God is now bringing them, as He promised, 
 " one by one," and " one of a city and two of 
 a famil}-, to Zion." The evangelization of 
 the world hinges on the conversion of the 
 Jews, and of this event nationally there can 
 be no dotibt. On no portion of futinity does 
 the light of prophecy beam so brightly as it 
 does on their recovery. The period has com- 
 menced and must be far advanced, the con- 
 clusion of which will see "all Israel saved." 
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 nothing to do with this ? Can tlie j'oiing 
 Christian forget the Jew and be blameless i 
 Carry the subject, then, into your closets ; 
 spread it before God in prayer ; be a party 
 interested in everything that concerns the 
 Jews; and bo always ready to plead for them 
 in your familiar intercourse with fellow- 
 Clvristians. 
 
 2. Further, let me urge you, jis a part of 
 your duty to the Jews, to read and increase 
 your knowledge of all that concerns them. 
 No study ought to be more interesting, and 
 certainly none will yield a more beneficial 
 result. I believe that if we pursued this 
 course, our Christianity would be improved ; 
 the levity with which prophecy is sometimes 
 treated woidd be subdued ; we should Jiave 
 more exalted views of the Cod of Israel, and 
 worthier and more compreliensive ideas of 
 His government ; and we should be prepared, 
 by an enliglitened advocacy of the cause of 
 the Jews, to put to silence the ignorance of 
 foolish men, and to advance a cau.se dear to 
 the heart of the Son of (iod. 
 
 3. Summon to the cause of Israel those 
 principles wliich are the germ of Christian 
 character — the very life of your religion. 
 
 Let love to your risen Lord constrain and 
 impel you here. In every converted Jew a 
 subject is won to Him who is his rightful 
 Sovereign. A Jew converted is an illustrious 
 proof of the power of your Saviour. That 
 Jew feels, as no other can, for the conversion 
 of his brethren, and he is qualified to become, 
 more tlian any other, an instrument of good 
 to the world. Is it. think you, the mind of 
 Christ, that while the perishing condition of 
 the heathen awakens your sympathy, the 
 Jew should be neglected ? 
 
 Exercise y'rtiVA. Tlie ca\iso is encompassed 
 with ditliculties — discouragements are fre- 
 quently presented ; but it has the sanction of 
 Heaven, and the promise of the God of 
 Abraham for its security. Come, then ; in 
 the spirit of faith meet every opposition, 
 and in the strength of God you shall 
 overcome. 
 
 It demands your moral courage. Through 
 indiflference or misapprehension — and, per- 
 haps, still more through the error of 
 regarding circumstances and individuals 
 more than the testimony of God, the con- 
 version of the Jews is contemplated by many 
 professing Christians as distant, if not 
 altogether chimerical and liopeless. My 
 dear young friends, read the mind of God 
 concerning Israel in His wi-itten Word, and 
 consider 'well His ways. Pour out your 
 
 hearts before Him. Ai-m yourselves with 
 holy fortitude. Let the keen edge of satire, 
 and the shaft of ridicule, fall on the shield of 
 .scriptural faith. Meet tlie luke-warmness of 
 the age with the helmet of salvation, and 
 aim directly at the heart of unbelief with 
 tiie Sword of the Spirit. Go, and the Lord 
 will bo with you. 
 
 Once more, let hope inspire you. Realize 
 to yourselves the spiritual deliverance and 
 final conversion of the Jews as a thing 
 infinitely to be desired, and with all your 
 hearts yield to the e.xpectation which the 
 Scriptuie warrants. Indulge the hope that 
 Jacob, though he be small, shall yet arise ; 
 that the olive tree, though it has been scathed 
 by the lightning, shall yet strike its roots 
 deeper into the earth, and that " it will 
 blossom and bud, and fill the whole earth 
 with its fruit." And anticipate tlie day when 
 it shall be .said to you, and to all the friends 
 of Judah : "Sing with gladness for Jacob, 
 anil shout among the chief of the nations." 
 
 Oh, forget for a moment intervening days 
 and years; pass bj' the series of events which 
 may yet occur, and dwell on the happy scenes 
 blended with Israel's restoration, and of which 
 that restoration will form one of the brightest 
 gems. How full will be the joy ! how irre- 
 .sistible the mutual love ! how deep, how 
 overwhelming, how ecstatic the emotions that 
 shall centre around the Lamb once slain ! 
 This will be the Joy of the Lord. Oh, to have 
 helped it forward — to have blessed one child 
 of Abraham ! Talk we of sacrifice with such 
 a view before us? In such a cause what self- 
 denying efibi't can be too great ? 
 
 But the day is not yet. The voice of the 
 Bridegroom is only heard in the distance. 
 Still it is His voice, and the note of prepara- 
 tion may be discerned : let us joyfully hail it. 
 Young people, .see that you not only have the 
 oil in the lamp, but that you are awake and 
 doing. 
 
 And lastly, let me appeal to your devotional 
 feelings. You sometimes love to meet as " a 
 little band whose hearts the Lord has touched." 
 Be it your frequent employ on those occasions 
 to plead with God for the fulfilment of His 
 own promises concerning the benighted Jews, 
 now perishing in sin. Perhaps in answer to 
 your players some wanderer may lay down 
 his weaj)ons of rebellion at the crass — some 
 soul may be won to Christ — some one engaged, 
 like Said of Tarsus, to preach the faith he 
 once laboured to destroy. The prayer of 
 youthfid zeal will wing its way to the Angel 
 who stands at the " golden altar," and may
 
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 be returned in blessings on the heads of those 
 who know Him not. 
 
 That yoii may plead m/tiilh, acquaint your- 
 selves with the promises of God, as recorded 
 in His Woi'd : and rememlier that they are all 
 " }'ea and amen in Christ Jesus ; and follow 
 out the prayer of faith, by contiibuting ac- 
 cording to your ability in aid of efforts made 
 for the spiritual good of Israel. Seek out 
 the.se children of Abraham yourselves. Put 
 the tract or the Word of God into their hand.s ; 
 make the youthful Jews especial objects of 
 your solicitude and prayei's ; and let all your 
 spirit and conversation recommend the Gospel, 
 that by your cheerful, consistent, affectionate 
 piety, you may, by the Divine blessing, subdue 
 prejudice, excite to holy jealousy ; and win 
 the soul. 
 
 Ponder such passages as the following ; and 
 as you read let your hearts go up in Ijelieving 
 prayer to the God of Abraham. " Ye that," 
 as youthful disciples, make " mention of the 
 name of the Lord, give Him no rest till He 
 establish and till He make Jerusalem a praise 
 in the earth." " And ye shall be unto Me a 
 kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. 
 These are the words which thou shalt speak 
 unto the children of Israel " (Exod. xLx. 6). 
 " For thou art an holy people unto the Lord 
 thy God : the Lord thy God hath chosen thee 
 to be .a .special peojile unto Himself, above all 
 people that are upon the face of the earth " 
 (Deut. vii. G). " And to make thee high above 
 all nations which He hath made, in praise, and 
 in name and in honour; and that thou mayest 
 be an holy people unto the Lord thy God as 
 He hath spoken"(Deut. xxvi. 19). "Oh, that 
 the salvation of Israel were come out of 
 Zion ! when the Loi-d bringeth back the cap- 
 tivity of His people, Jacob shall rejoice and 
 Israel shall be glad " (Ps. xiv. 7). " Awake, 
 why sleepest Thou, O Lord ? arise, cast us 
 not ofl' for ever . . . Wherefore hidest Thou 
 Thy face and forgettest our affliction and oiu' 
 oppre.ssion " (Ps. xliv. 2.3, 24). " Do good in 
 Thy good pleasure unto Zion : build Thou 
 the walls of Jerusalem " (Ps. li. 18). " Thou 
 shall arise, and have mercy upon Zion : for 
 the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is 
 come. For Thy servants take pleasure in 
 her stones, and favoui- the dust thereof. So 
 the heathen shall feai' the name of the Lord, 
 and all the kings of the earth Thy glory. 
 When the Lord .shall build up Zion He shall 
 appear in His glory " (Ps. cii. 1 3, 16). " Save 
 us, O Loi'd our God, and gather us from 
 among the heathen, to give thanks unto Thy 
 holy name, and to triumph in Thy praise" 
 
 (Ps. evi. 47). " Pray for the peace of 
 jeiusalem : they shall prosper that love thee" 
 (Ps. cvii. 6). " And many people shall go 
 and say, come ye, and let us go up to the 
 mountain of the Lord, to the house of the 
 God of Jacob, and He will teach us of His 
 way.s, and we will walk in His paths : for 
 out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the 
 Word of the Lord from Jerusalem " (Isaiah 
 ii. 3). " Foi' the Lord will have mercy on 
 Jacob, and will yet choose Isr.ael, and set 
 them in their own land : and the strangeis 
 shall be joined with them, and they shall 
 cleave to the house of Jacob. And the people 
 shall take them and bring them to their 
 place : and the house of Israel shall possess 
 them in the land of the Lord for servant's 
 and handmaids : and they shall take them 
 captives, whose captives they were ; and they 
 shall rule over their oppressors " (Isaiah 
 xiv. 1, 2). " In that time shall the present 
 be bi-ought unto the Loi-d of hosts of a people 
 scattered and peeled, and from a people 
 terrible from their beginning hitherto ; a 
 nation meted out and trodden under foot, 
 whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the 
 place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the 
 mount Zion" (Isaiah xviii. 7). "He shall 
 cause them that come out of Jacob to take 
 root : Isi'ael shall blossom and bud, and fill 
 the face of the earth with fruit " (Lsaiah 
 xxvii. 6). "Comfort ye, comfort ye My 
 people, saith your God. O Zion, thou that 
 bringest good tidings, get thee up into the 
 high moimtain ; O Jerusalem, that liringest 
 good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength ; 
 lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities 
 of Judah, Behold your God ! " (Lsaiah xl. 
 1, 9). " Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I 
 will lift vip Mine hand to the Gentiles, and 
 set up My .standard to the people : and they 
 shall bring thy sons in their arms, and 
 thy daughters shall be carried upon 
 their shoulders. And kings shall be thy 
 nursing fathers, and theii' cjueens thy 
 nui'sing mothers ; they shall bow down 
 to them with their face toward the earth, 
 and lick up the dust of thy feet ; and thou 
 shalt know that I am the Lord : for they 
 shall not be ashamed that wait for j\Ie " 
 (Isaiah xlix. 22,23). " For the mountains 
 shall depart, and the hills shall be removed ; 
 but My kindness shall not depai-t from thee, 
 neither shall the covenant of My peace be 
 lemoved, saith tlie Lord that hath mercy on 
 thee" (Isaial liv. 10). "Whereas thou 
 hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man 
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 eternal excellency, a joy of many genera- 
 ticiis. . . . Violence shall no more be heard 
 
 shall be no more thy light by day ; neither 
 for brightness shall the moon give light unto 
 
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 in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thee ,- but the Lord shall be unto thee an 
 
 thy borders : but thou shuU aiil thy walls 
 Salvation, and thy gates Praise. The sun 
 
 fverla.sting light, and the days of thy mourn- 
 ing shall be ended" (Isaiah Ix. 15, 18, 19,
 
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 20). "And their seed shall be known among 
 the Gentiles, and their oflspiing among the 
 people I all that see them shall acknowledge 
 them, that they are the seed which the Lord 
 hath blessed " (Isaiah Ixi. 9). " I have set 
 watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, 
 which shall never hold their peace day nor 
 night ; ye that make mention of the Lord, 
 keep not silence. And give Him no rest, till 
 He establish, and till He make Jerusalem a 
 praise in the earth. . . . And they shall call 
 them. The holy people. The redeemed of the 
 Ijord ; and thou shalt be called, .Sought out, 
 A city not for.saken " (Isaiah Ixii. 6, 7, 12). 
 " Oh that Thou wouldst rend the heavens, 
 that Thou wouldst come down, that the 
 mountains might flow down at Thy pre- 
 sence " (Isaiah Ixiv. 1 ). " Rejoice ye with 
 Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that 
 love her : rejoice for joy with her, all ye that 
 moiu-n for her. . . . And I will set a sign 
 among them, and I will send those that 
 escape of them unto the nation.s, to Tarshish, 
 Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, 
 and Javan, to the isles afar oft", that have not 
 heard My fame, neither have seen My glory ; 
 and they shall declare My glory among the 
 Gentiles" (Isaiah lx\-i. 10, 10). "Go and 
 proclaim these words toward the north, and 
 say, lletuin, thou backsliding Israel, saith 
 the Lord ; and I will not cause Mine anger 
 to fall upon you : for I am merciful, saith 
 the Lord, and I will not keep anger for 
 ever. . . . And I will give you pastors ac- 
 cording to !Mine heart, which .shall feed you 
 ■with knowledge and undei-standing " (Jer. 
 iii. 12, 15). " Behold the days come, saith the 
 Lord, that I will raise unto Da\id a righteous 
 Branch, and a king shall reign and prosper, 
 and .shall execute judgment and justice in the 
 eai-th. In His days Judah shall be saved 
 and Israel shall dwell safely, and this is His 
 name whereby He shall be called, " The Lord 
 our Righteousness " (Jer. xxiii. 5, G). •' For 
 I will restore health unto thee, and I will 
 heal thee of thy wounds, stxith the Lord ; 
 because they called thee an outc^ist, saying, 
 This is Zion, whom no man seeketli after. 
 Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I wall bring 
 again the captiwty of Jacob's tents, and have 
 mercy on his dwelling-place ; and the city 
 shall be builded upon her own heap, and the 
 palace shall remain after the manner thereof. 
 And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving 
 and the voice of them that make meny : and 
 I will multiply them, and they .shall not be 
 few ; I will also glorify them, and they shall 
 not be small" (Jer. xxx. 17 — 19). "For 
 
 thus saith the Lord, Sing with gladness for 
 Jacob, and .shout among the chief o? the 
 nations : publish ye, praise ye, and say, O 
 Lord, save Th}- people, the remnant of Israel 
 . . . Hear the Word of the Lord, O ye nations, 
 and declare it in the isles afar oft', and say, 
 He that scattered Israel will gather him and 
 keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. . . . 
 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have 
 watched over them, to pluck up. and to break 
 down, and to throw down, and to destroy, 
 and to afflict, so will I watch over them to 
 build and to plant, saith the Lord. . . . But 
 this shall be the covenant that I shall make 
 with the house of Israel : after those days, 
 saith the Lord, I will put My law in their 
 inward parts, and wiite it in their hearts, 
 and will be their God, and they shall be My 
 people. And they shall teach no more every 
 man his neighbour, and every man his brother, 
 saying. Know the Lord ; for they shall all 
 know Me, from the least of them unto the 
 greatest of them, saith the Lord ; for I will 
 forgive their iniquity, and I will remember 
 their sin no more. Thus Siiith the Lord, 
 Which giveth the sun for a light by day, and 
 the ordinances of the moon and of the stars 
 for a light by night, which divideth the sea 
 when the waves thereof roar : The Lord of 
 hosts is His name : If those ordinances depart 
 from before Me, saith the Lord, then the seed 
 of Israel also shall cease from being a nation 
 before Me for ever" (Jer. xxx. 7, 10, 28, 
 33 — 36). " And I wnU make an ever- 
 la-sting covenant with them, that I will not 
 turn awaj' from them, to do them good ; but 
 I will put Mj' fear in their hearts, that 
 they shall not depart from ile " (Jer. 
 xxxii. 40). " Behold, I will bring it he;ilth 
 and care, and I will cure them, and will 
 reveal unto them the abundance of peace and 
 truth. And I will cause the captivity of 
 Judah and the capti\'ity of Israel to return, 
 and viiW build them, as at the first. And it 
 shall be to Me a name of joy, a praise and 
 an honovn- before all the nations of the earth, 
 which shall hear all the good that I do unto 
 them : and they shall fear and tremble for 
 all the goodness and for all the prosperity 
 that I procure unto it. . . . The voice of 
 joy, the voice of gladness, the voice of the 
 bridegioom, and the voice of the bride, the 
 voice of them that shall saj*. Praise the 
 Lord of Hosts ; for the Lord is good ; for His 
 mercy endureth for ever ; and of them that 
 shall bring the sacrifice of praise int" the 
 house of the Lord. For I will cause to return 
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 the Lord" (Jer. xxxiii. C, 7, 'J, 11). "My 
 sheep wandereJ fchiough all tlie monntains, 
 and upon every lii<;h hill ; yea, My Hock was 
 scattered upon all the face of the earth, and 
 none did search or seek after them. . . . 
 And I will make tliem and the places round 
 about My hill a blessing ; and I will cau.se 
 the shower to come down in his sea-son ; there 
 shall be showei-s of blessing" (Ezek. xxxiv. 
 G, 26). "A new heart also will I give you, 
 and a new spirit will I put within you : and 
 I will take away the stony heart out of your 
 fl&sh, and 1 will give you an heart of Hesh." 
 (Ezek. .\x.\vi. 26). " Thou shall ascend and 
 come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud 
 to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, 
 and many people with then " (Ezek. xxxviii. 
 9). " Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion : 
 for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the mid.st 
 of thee, .saith the Lord" (Zech. ii. 10). 
 " And it shall come to pass, that as ye were 
 a curse among the heathen, O house of Judah, 
 and house of Israel : so will I save you, and 
 ye shall be a blessing : fear not, but let 3'our 
 hands be .strong " (Zech. viii. 13). "And I 
 will pour upon the house of David, and upon 
 the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of 
 grace and of supplication : and they shall 
 look upon Me Whom they have pierced, and 
 they shall mourn for him, a,s one mourneth 
 for his only son, and shall be in bitterness 
 for him, as one that is in bitterness for his 
 firstborn. In that day there sh.all be a great 
 mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning 
 of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon " 
 (Zech. xii. 10, 11). In that day shall there 
 be upon the bells of the horses lioliness unto 
 the Lord ; and the pots in the Jx)rd's house 
 shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea, 
 every pot in Jeru.-^alem and in Judah shall be 
 holiness unto the Ix>rd of ho.sts : and all they 
 that sacrilice shall come and take of them, 
 and .seethe therein : and in that day there 
 shall be no more the Canaanite in the house 
 of the Lord of bests" (Zech. xiv. 20, 21). 
 " And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the 
 midst of many people as a dew fi-om the Ix)rd, 
 as the showei-8 upon the gi-ass, that tarrieth 
 not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men " 
 (Micah V. 7). " Who is a God like unto 
 Thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and pa.sseth 
 by the transgression of the remnant of His 
 heritage ? He retaineth not His anger for 
 ever, because He delighteth in mercy. He 
 ■will turn again, He will have conipa.s.sion 
 upon us; He will subdue oiu- iniijuities ; and 
 Thou wilt ca-st all their sins into the depths 
 of the sea. Thou wilt perform the truth to 
 
 Jacob,and the mercy to Abraham, which Thou 
 hast sworn unto our fathers from the days 
 of old" (Micah vii., 18—20). "Brethren, 
 my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel 
 is, that they might be saved. For I bear 
 them record that they have a zeal of God, but 
 not according to knowledge " (Rom. x. 1, 2). 
 " Now if the fall of them be the riches of the 
 world, and the diminishing of them the riches 
 of the Cientiles, how much more their fulness. 
 . . . For if the casting away of them be the 
 reconciling of the world, what shall the 
 receiving of them be but life from the dead? 
 . . . For I would not, brethren, that ye 
 should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye 
 sliiiuld be wi.se in your own conceits; that 
 blindness in part Is happened to Lsrael, until 
 the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. And 
 .so all Israel shall be saved : as it is written, 
 There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, 
 and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. 
 . . . For as ye in times past have not believed 
 God, yet have now obtained mercy throiigh 
 their unbelief : Even .so have the.se also now 
 not believed that through your mercy they 
 also may ol)tain mercy. ... the depth of 
 the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge 
 of Gotl ! how unsearchable are His judgments, 
 and His ways past finding out" (Rom. xi. 
 12, 15, 25, 26, 30, 31, 33). "And not as 
 Mo.ses, which put a vail over his face, that 
 the children of Israel could not steadfjustly 
 look to the end of that which is abolished :• 
 But their minds were blinded : for until 
 this day remaineth the same vail untaken 
 away in the reading of the old te.stament ; 
 which vail is done away in Christ. But even 
 unto this day, when Moses Ls read, the vad is 
 upon their heart. Nevertheless when it .shall 
 turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken 
 away" (2 Cor. iii. 13—16). 
 
 n. 
 
 My Dear Young Friesds, — You know we 
 are very fond of remembering last words. 
 
 If any of you have ever left your father's 
 house to be away for a long time, you often 
 thought of that last loving look from your 
 mother's eye ; and the last words of that dear 
 father have followed you day and night. 
 Still more impressive is the orphan's recol- 
 lection of the last advice of a pious parent 
 just before the moment when, for the first 
 time, that orphan felt himself alone in the 
 world. 
 
 Those of you who are familiar with your 
 New Testament, and who have learned to
 
 106 
 
 Memories of Gospel Tnumphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 admire the character of the Lord Jesus 
 Christ, even if you cannot yet s;\y that you 
 love Him (O that you would love Him ! for 
 you will not be safe, nor happy, nor holy, 
 until you do), have hung upon His words, 
 and, fancying j'ourselves, perhaps, among 
 the listening throng, have said, " Never man 
 spake like this man ! " And those of you 
 who, by grace, have yielded your hearts to 
 Him have been ready devoutly to exclaim, 
 " It is the voice of my beloved ; " you have 
 been delighted to follow in His footsteps, to 
 catch the utterance of HLs heart, as He 
 moved through the varied scenes of His 
 mortal history, until all the tale of woe 
 was ended, and " It is finished : Father, into 
 
 f&t-: 
 
 
 WALLS OF JERUSALEM. 
 
 Thy hands I commend My spirit," proclaimed 
 that '• the Man of Sorrows" had completed 
 the work of human redemption, and that from 
 thenceforth He was to '■ see of the travail of 
 His soul and be satisfied." He rose from the 
 gi-ave : for a little while He blessed the 
 chosen few of His friends by intercourse 
 with them, and then leading them out to a 
 spot endeared by many a hallowed recollec- 
 tion, He was parted from them, and a cloud 
 received Him out of their sight. And 
 amongst the latest words caught by their 
 listening ears were th&se : " Let repent- 
 ance and remission of sin be preached in 
 My name among all nations, beginnhir) at 
 Jerusalem." And why this special dii-ectiop ? 
 
 Because, perhaps, their own timid spirits 
 ivould have sent them anywhere else than 
 into the midst of Jerusalem to preach the 
 Gospel. Because, perhaps, their own natural 
 feelings would have withheld them from 
 lirst prei^enting news of mercy to those who 
 had .so cruelly treated their Master and 
 Friend. StiU more probably, because the 
 Saviour would show the love of His own 
 forgiving heart to those " who with wicked 
 hands had crucified and slain" Him. And 
 because He would testify to all mankind 
 that His Gospel, accompanied by the power 
 of His Hpii'it, was able to soften and change 
 even JewLsh hearts — hearts capable of a 
 crime never committed by any other people 
 under heaven. Yes, and because He would 
 have inhabitants of Jerusalem, converted 
 sinners of Abraham's seed, to be the mes- 
 sengers of redeeming love to a perishing 
 world. (See Isaiah Ixvi. 19.) 
 
 You know, my dear friends, that the Jeru- 
 salem of which Jesus spake was soon after 
 laid in ruins, and the ploughshare driven 
 over the Zion where Jehovah had dwelt ; but 
 not until in Jerusalem multitudes had heard 
 and received the Gospel to the salvation of 
 their souls, nor until from Zion had gone 
 forth messengers over the whole known world 
 to tell " the story of peace " through the 
 blood of the Crucified One. The city that 
 now occupies the site of ''the city of the 
 Great King, the beauty of all lands." possesses 
 none of its ancient glories. Held, though 
 with a trembling hand, by a ^lahommedan 
 government, it is trodden under foot of the 
 Gentiles. The ways of Zion do mourn. Her 
 children sit in the dust, or wander around 
 some fragment of her walls, to pour out 
 their mournful supplications where once " the 
 tribes went up, the tribes of the Lord, unto 
 the testimony of Israel, to give tlianks unto 
 the name of the Lord." 
 
 Yes, my dear children, the people live. 
 Distinct fiom every other, they live among 
 all nations ; for Jehovali had said of them, 
 "The people shall dwell alone, andshall net be 
 reckoned among the nations." You laay 
 read their history in the language of their 
 inspired leader more than three thousand 
 years ago. (Lev. sxvi., Deut. xx%-iu). 
 
 You may learn the heart of God concerning 
 them in the writings of the Prophets. And 
 in the same sacred records yo>i may ascertain 
 the facts of their- future conversion to Christ 
 — of their becoming a blessing to the whole 
 world, and of their restoration mingling 
 with the glories of that day when the Lord
 
 The First General Secretary. 
 
 107 
 
 Jesus Christ, once proelaimeil liy a heathen 
 f;overnor Kiiif;of the Jews, sliall wear on His 
 brow tlio '• many crowns " of all the world, 
 and when "on His vesture and on His thigh 
 the name shall 1)0 read — King ot Kings, and 
 L<jrd of Lords." 
 
 I said that the Jews are scattered through- 
 out the earth. They are in Asia, in Africa, 
 in America. There are in Constantinople 
 80,000, in Russia 2,000,000, in Poland 
 80,000, in Austria 670,000, in Holland 
 
 still true of them, " They will not come unto 
 Je.sus, that they might have life." They 
 cling profe.ssedly to the hooks of Mo.ses, and 
 yet the words of Moses will accuse them 
 before God, and insure their condemnation ; 
 because, " had they believed Moses, they 
 would have believed Jesus ; for he wrote of 
 Him." (See John v. 45.) 
 
 Death comes into their dwellings, my 
 children, and it is a dark and cheerless day ; 
 nn cm-tain hope of futurity sheds a ray of 
 
 DAMASCUS. 
 
 3.0,000. and in England .30,0(10; 20,000 of 
 whom are generally to be found in London. 
 They live quite distinct from us, many of 
 them in a part of London almost entirely 
 Jewish. Happily there is far more of 
 mutual courte.sy and kindnes.s between us 
 than when I was a boy. We have ceased to 
 despise and calumniate them because they 
 are Jews ; anil they, by reading the New 
 Testament, have been led to respect our 
 Saviour's character and to admit e his dis- 
 courses. But in heart they are opposed to 
 the Truth, which, on the authority of God's 
 Word, we believe can alone save them. It L* 
 
 light in that chamber. The dearlj' loved and 
 honouied parent " gives up the gho.st," and 
 there Is no an.swer to the awful in(|uiry, 
 " Where is /(«/ " They live without Christ 
 — very many of them moral, amiable, benevo- 
 lent, and intelligent ; but as they go down 
 to the shades of death, I hear the voice of 
 the Son of David — the Son of God — -exclaim. 
 " E.xcopt ye believe that I am He, ye shall 
 die in your .sin.s." 
 
 My dear young people, .shall we suflFer the 
 Jew thus to live and thus to die, and in our 
 own country, and at our own door ? 
 
 Why does be not believe Moses and his own
 
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 109 
 
 prophets, so as to bo Icil hy their writhigs to 
 i>i>lievo in Jesus? Bucause "the veil" of ig- 
 iioiiiiK'otmd projudicc is upon his heart; and 
 lieeaiise, hy listening to " the traditions of 
 Mien, he makes (he Word of tiod of none 
 .■llVc-t." 
 
 Jlas the veil ever been removed, and are 
 the Jews ever persuaded to lay aside their 
 traditions ? 
 
 Yes, on the day of Pentecost, three 
 thousand were " pricked to the heart," and 
 turni'd to the Lord. At the gates of Damascus 
 a young man, full of enmity against Christ, 
 a Hebrew of the Jlelirows, and one who, 
 after the straitost sect of tlu^ Jt-ws, had lived 
 a Pharisee, was laid at the foet of the Saviour 
 l>y a sinirie word; and he who just l>8fore 
 had asked a commission to halo the discijiles 
 of J'isusto prison, now, in the spirit of a 
 little child, in(|uires of that very Jc^sus, 
 " Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" My 
 dear children, " The Gospel is the power of 
 God \into salvation to everj' one that believeth, 
 to the Jew first, and also to the Greek." 
 And I coidd tell you of many instances, even 
 in our own day, in which it has pleased God. 
 Iiy means of His Word, to awaken the con- 
 science, to melt the heart, and to savi; the 
 soul of the Jew. 
 
 To this I may add, that it is much more 
 easy now to gain the attention of the Jews 
 to the truths of the New Testament than it 
 was. Vei-y many of them rend it. Some 
 have purchased it for themselves. Many of 
 their children areallowed to receive Christian 
 instruction, and a very lai'ge number of 
 intelligent and thoughtful Jews have dis- 
 carded their volumes of traditions and com- 
 mentaries, which they call the Talmud, 
 altogether. 
 
 Now, my dear children, 1 want you to lay 
 tho.se brief and plain statements to heart, 
 and seriously to incpiire whether you cannot 
 and ought not to do something for the salva- 
 tion of the poor, the peiishing Jews- the 
 decendaiits and relics of the holie.st and 
 happiest people the woild ever saw, of whom 
 Jehovah spake as "the dearly beloved of 
 His soul," and who are still " beloved for the 
 fathers' .sakos ; " " to whom pertaineth the 
 adoi)tion, and the glory, and the covenants, 
 and the giving of the law, anil the service of 
 (Jed, and the promises ; whoso are the 
 fathers, and of whom. , as concerning the flesh, 
 ( 'hri>t came, Who is overall, God blesseil for 
 ever." (Rom. i.\. l, 5.) Eea<l very seriously 
 the thirty -seventh chapter of Ezekiel to the 
 tenth verse. It will ''ive vou a true and 
 
 very affecting view of the present spiritual 
 condition of the Jews; and I think it indi- 
 cates tho course which ('hiistians are to 
 ])nrsne for their hclj). They are to speak to 
 them to let them know tho Truth of God ; 
 and to cry eaniestly in pray<M- and sup|ilica- 
 tion for th(^ Holy Spirit to breathe \ipon the 
 .souls dead in trespas.ses and sins, that they 
 may wake and live, and become a faithfid 
 band of soldiers for the Lord and His 
 Christ. 
 
 My dear friends, tho people of God are 
 doingthis, and even the children in Christian 
 families and in our Sundav-schoolsare uniting 
 ill the work. Will you bo persuaded to join 
 with them ? 
 
 V^ou have learned much from le.ssons of 
 Jewish piety in the JJible. The Saviour, of 
 wlidiii you love to hc.ir and think, was in 
 human nature a Jew; and that precious 
 book, which speaks comfort to you in sorrow, 
 guides your feet in the way of peace, and 
 opens for you the prospect of heaven, if you 
 love and follow the Saviour, was written, 
 under the influence of the Spirit of God, by 
 Jews. 
 
 Cultivate, then, very kind and alTectionate 
 feelings towards them. liear them upon 
 your hearts when you pray ; and spare a 
 few of your pence to enable Christians to 
 send them tho New Testament, and men of 
 God to preach to them the (iospel. — Believe 
 me to lie, my de.ar young friends, yours with 
 Christian alVection, Geokiie Vo.ncie. 
 
 LETTER TO THE EDIl'nlt OF THE .IKWISII 
 UERAI,1>. 
 
 ]\'Ii(i,l has been done bij the Society ? 
 
 ]My Deaii Sir, — Ob.servations on the eflbrts 
 of other Societies for the ev.mgeli/.ation of 
 Jews which have recently met my eye, have 
 induced mo to make a more careful review of 
 the history and present position of lliln 
 institution. Having been entrusted by the 
 successive committees with the direction and 
 oversight of its agencies from the commence- 
 ment, I may perhaps be (lualilied to form 
 some accurate estimate, however I may fail 
 in giving adequate impressiveness to the 
 statement. 
 
 I may, in the first place, bear testimony 
 to the adherence of the Society to its original 
 unsectarian and catholic spirit, and to the 
 uniform endeavour of its committees to pre- 
 serve and awaken a spirit of prayerful 
 dependence on the Holy Spirit ; appealing
 
 110 
 
 Memm'ies of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 tor support to Christians of every name for 
 the one object of Israel's convei-sion to " the 
 obedience of faith." And, secondly, I may 
 refer to the fact that the eflfort has been made 
 exclusive of any temporal relief to necessi- 
 tous Jews. 
 
 This principle has not been preserved 
 without self-restraint, but while it has not 
 interfered with the actings of private 
 benevolence, it has preserved the Society 
 from imposition and misrepresentation. 
 
 Xo one can be more painfidly aware than 
 myself of the manifold imperfections which 
 have attended the conducting of this 
 Society ; and yet when I regard it as having 
 presented a new appeal on behalf of an 
 unpopular cause, to those whose hearts were 
 pledged to other missions, I cannot but 
 rejoice with thankfulness at the progress it 
 has made, and at the hold which it now has 
 on Christian sympathy and devotion. The 
 committee of the Church of Scotland pre- 
 sented us with e£500 at our commencement. 
 But with the exception of that, and a 
 donation of £600, we have not received any 
 very large gifts or bequests. The whole of 
 our income has been expended, and we are 
 entirely dependent on Christian liberality 
 for sustaining and extending the effort. 
 The Society has at different times employed 
 about thirty agents, and has for some years 
 sustained a college, for the board, lodging, 
 clothing, and education of pious young men, 
 chieflj' Israelites, for the work of missions 
 among the Jews. It has also, assisted by 
 occasional gi-ants from the British and 
 Foreign Bible Society, and from the Religious 
 Tract Societ}', distributed very extensivelj", 
 the Word of God, and scriptural publications 
 appropriate to its object. 
 
 The Society commenced its course in 1842, 
 with one missionary. It has now one mis- 
 sionar}- at Beyrout, two at Tunis, one at 
 Fi-ankfort, one at Breslau, one in Wirtem- 
 berg, one just leaving for Strasburg, one in 
 Bavaria, two in Lyons and the south of 
 France, one in Paris, eight in London, one 
 in Manchester, one in Birmingham and 
 Hull, and one in Devonshire. Of the.se, 
 eight were educated in the Society's college. 
 Although the committee have been compelled 
 to relinquish this branch of its undertaking, 
 chiefly because of its expensiveness, and the 
 inability of the Society, with its present 
 resources, to provide for the support of an 
 increased number of missionaries, I believe 
 we may well praise the Lord that it has 
 existed, since it has supplied for the J ewish 
 
 mission fields nine approved and well qualified 
 labourers, besides three who are completing 
 their education under private tuition. 
 
 A question has been sometimes proposed 
 as to the number of Jews convert€d by our 
 instrumentality. For an answer I may refer 
 to each of our annual reports, and to the 
 pages of our monthly periodical for a reply 
 to the former inquiry. As I have retraced 
 these instances, and followed, so far as I 
 could, the histories of those who seemed to 
 have been led by our missionaries to the 
 faith of Jesus ; it has been a source of 
 unspeakable delight to find several of them 
 among our own missionaries, some studying 
 for the Christian ministry, and others con- 
 sistent members of Christian churches ; and 
 of some to retain precious testimonies that 
 in death Christ was their hope and joy. 
 Several have gone with the tide of emigra- 
 tion, bearing with them, I believe, to new 
 climes, the gospel of the Lord Jesus in hearts 
 renewed by His spirit. 
 
 I have been in constant intercourse with 
 the missionaries, and can remember scarcely 
 any instances in which we have witnessed 
 the apostasy of those whom once we num- 
 bered among the believers in Jesus. 
 
 But to my own mind these results, grate- 
 fully as they should be lecorded in our 
 holiest memories, form but a very small 
 portion of the satisfaction with which the 
 progi-ess of the Society should be regarded. 
 The Word of God has been widely dissemi- 
 nated and cordially received ; sometimes as a 
 gift, in many instances by purchase. The 
 truths of the gospel have been proclaimed to 
 thousands of listening ears, pressed home 
 with earnestness on the heart and conscience, 
 and, as I believe, recommended bj' con- 
 sistent piety. A spirit of mutual confidence 
 and respect has been engendered between us 
 and our elder brethren. They read the 
 words of the Saviour, and admire them : 
 they study His character, and honour Him. 
 Should it please God to awaken their con- 
 sciences, the}' will thus kiiow the way of 
 salvation ; and when they feel their danger 
 they will not doubt as to where their con- 
 fidence must be placed. 
 
 I am quite conscious that we have hitherto 
 done little in comparison with what ought to 
 have been attempted. Limited resources 
 have made us timid ; and in the want of 
 spontaneous co-operation on the part of some 
 whose help would have borne us onward, we 
 have sometimes exposed ourselves to the 
 rebuke, " Why are ye so fearful, O ye of
 
 Till- First (leiwral iSecrclnri/. 
 
 Ill 
 
 littlo fiiitli/" J think :i iiioro clicoiiiii; day 
 is ojii'iiiiij; upon us ; ami assurciUy a day of 
 soli'tnn rt'spousiliility is passing over us. Can 
 wo neglect the .Jews and be <;uilt]ess ? Does 
 not thi' honour of oui- l^ord reiinire that we 
 shouhl enorgetically, in faith and love, pursue 
 tlie jjood of Israel ? In the contlict gathering 
 around ns, would it not be worth our utmost 
 ondeavoius to have the Jews on our side ? 
 Is not the Jew the missionary for the world ? 
 I have drawn much moie largely on your 
 space than I intended. I write as a witness 
 of what has attended the progress of the 
 Society ; and with the deepest convictions of 
 the scriptural character of our enterprise, 
 and of the scri])tural warrant of our succes.s, 
 I would fain jdead for prayer, for counsel, 
 for binthcrly conlideuce and co-operation, 
 with all who love tlie Lord Jesus Christ, and 
 de.siie His universal reign. Keserving a few 
 remarks for a future note, — I remain, my 
 dear sir, youi-s most sincerely, Geo. Yonge, 
 Eesident .Secretary. 
 
 CIRCULAR LETTER TO THE MISSIO^JARIES. 
 
 My Dear Sir, — Having just entered on a 
 new year, and on the la.st quarter of the 
 Society's year, we are solemnly invited to 
 stand still, and to review the way by which 
 the Ix)rd has led us, and especially in refer- 
 ence to the work entrusted to us. The 
 mercies be.^towed on us, the fears dispelled, 
 the hopes inspired, and the prospects realized, 
 should now be contemplated " before the 
 Lord," and the results concisely and truth- 
 fully presented to those who have followed us 
 with their prayers and sustained us by their 
 contributions. I gather from observation, 
 and from your oc;'asional reports, very much 
 to assure me of the progress of our cause, and 
 of the gr.idual fidfilment of thn prophecies, 
 in the faith of which, and in dependence on 
 tiie Holy Spirit, we have passed through 
 another period of service. 
 
 General conclu-sions may well awaken 
 gratitude, but real details fi-oui each por- 
 tion of the fielil are needful to identify the 
 members of the Society with the cause itself. 
 
 Will you, therefore, take a little time for a 
 thoughtful review and a diligent impiiry. 
 Please to let me know what information you 
 have gained of " the propagation of th-; Gospel 
 amoH'j the Jeim" and especiall}- what facts 
 have pas.sed under your own eyes, indicating 
 the awakening, converting, and confirming 
 intluences of the Holy Spirit on those around 
 you, and those who have gone from yoiir 
 
 immediate instruction into regions far and 
 near. Tell us of the actual state of the 
 Jewi.sh mind in relation to Judaism, Christi- 
 anity, and (so-called) Kutionalism, and what 
 amount of spiritual impression ha.s been 
 rc;ili/.ed. 
 
 I .am not more desirous to present to the 
 public now cases, than I am to hear of the 
 satisfiictory state of those which you have 
 been enabled to report from time to time. 
 And I shall al.so be glad to afford to the 
 Committee an early opportunity for consider- 
 ing any suggestions as to modes of operation 
 for strengthening or improving the agency of 
 the Society. 
 
 Let me avail myself of this opportunity to 
 solicit constant, earnest, individual and social 
 prayer for those inlhicnees so deeply needed 
 for ourselves and for those among whom you 
 labour. And, O, let us take home to our- 
 selves the solemn charge of the Great Mis- 
 sionary, " Let your light so shine before men, 
 that they may see your good works and 
 glorify your Father who is in heaven." Re- 
 member Jesus Chri.st — exalt Him ! To Him 
 I hiinibly lecommend you and yours. — Your 
 brother in the Lord, Geo. Yoxge. 
 
 January Wth, 1864. 
 
 LETTER TO MRS. HERSC'IIELL IN'TRODfCI.VC A 
 RESOLUTION OF SYMPATHY. 
 
 Dear Madam, — In conveying to you the 
 enclosed copy of a resolution agi'eed to by 
 the committee at the la.st meeting, they are 
 most anxious that I should so present it as 
 to render it most expressive of tlieir deepest 
 sympathy and most respectful feelings. 
 
 I .should have declined the office from 
 consciousness of incompetence to fulfil it 
 acceptably, but for the experience I have 
 had of your kindness. Allow me, then, to 
 speak to you of the deep an<l hallowed 
 alleclion I have for many years cherished of 
 ^Ir. Ilerschell, and from whom I have 
 received so many lessons of spiritual instruc- 
 tion. I shall indeed miss his paternal 
 instructions, and we shall all regret his 
 vacant chair in the Committee Room. 
 Thousands will mi.ss liim to whom he has 
 been a coun-sellor and a friend, but he lives 
 unto God — and yet speaketh to us by his 
 example and his written words. 
 
 May every blessing attend your path untU 
 his home is again your home ff)r ever. — I 
 remain, dear madam, your obliged and 
 obedient .servant, Geo. Yoxce. 
 
 A]>ril i:>th, 18Gt.
 
 112 
 
 Mertiories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 THE RESOLUTION. 
 
 " That the Committee record on their 
 Minutes with deepest sorrow, the removal, 
 by the hand of God, of their reveied and 
 beloved friend and associate, the Rev. Eidle}- 
 Hei-schell. 
 
 " The Society originated in his an-ange- 
 ment with the Committee of the Genei-al 
 Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1842, 
 and he continued to watch its progress, to 
 direct its movements, and to exert hLs best 
 energies in its service, until the voice that 
 has summoned him to the work said, ' It is 
 enough,' and bade him enter into rest. 
 From his position among the converted 
 Israelites, he was exposed to manj' anxious 
 and peculiar trials, but he had the joy of 
 gathering around him several of his own 
 family, and many othei-s who have witnessed 
 a good confession and proved themselves able 
 ministei-s of the Kew Testament. His pub- 
 lications were well adapted, as mattei-s of 
 fact, and e.speeially by the unction of 
 evangelical piety which pervaded them, to 
 awaken prayerful and intelligent concern 
 for the spiritual state of the people of the 
 God of Abraham. His prayers in the com- 
 mittee-room were distinguished by much of 
 that deep solemnity and filial devotion which 
 breathed in the psalms and prayei'S of his 
 inspired forefathers ; and his counsels were 
 ever urged with fraternal kindness and 
 temper, and were, we believe, the result of 
 much secret intercoui-se with God. It is not 
 too much to say of him, that in hLs life and 
 
 conversation he was the reprasentative of 
 Christian piety to the Jew, and the type of 
 a Christian Israelite to the Church. 
 
 •' His memory will be precious to us. His 
 last active service was one on which he had 
 long set his mind. He had taken a second 
 visit to our station at Leghorn ; he fulfilled 
 his mission and came home to die. Those of us 
 who had the piivdege of visiting him in the 
 interval of his lingering departure were 
 deeply affected by the calm and filial i-epose 
 of his spirit as he spake of the probable 
 issue of his illness. It was like the .spirit of 
 his devotion — a child with his father — a 
 traveller at the threshold where all within 
 was peace. 
 
 " We are glad to leave this simple anil 
 imperfect testimonial in the hands of the 
 bereaved widow and family, assui-ing them 
 of our sympathy in their sorrows and con- 
 solation, and with them lejoicing in hope of 
 eternal reunion with the departed where ' they 
 cannot the,' and 'are as tlie angels of God.' 
 
 " The Committee do indeed wejp with those 
 who weep, and e.speeially with her who, 
 united with their endeared friend in the 
 tenderest bonds, was one with him in tliis 
 and every work of faith and labour of love ; 
 but we listen to this voice from Heaven 
 which .so distinctly says, 'Blessed are the 
 dead who die in the Lord, from henceforth ; 
 Yea, saith the Spirit, for they rest from 
 their labours and their works do follow them. 
 
 " Signed on behalf of the Secretaries and 
 Committee. "Resident Secretary." 
 
 REMINISCENCES OF REV. W. C. YONGE. 
 
 FROM THE " CONGREGATIONAL YEAR BOOK." 
 
 WILLIAM CLARKE YONGE, of 
 Henley, was born at Andover, 
 Hants, July 1st, 1793, where his parents 
 then resided. The family shortlj- afterwards 
 removed to London, and were long known as 
 residents in the Strand. 
 
 Mr. Yonge had the advantage of a good 
 boarding-school education, and the gi-eater 
 advantage of the pious example and teach- 
 ing of his elder brother, and of an only sister 
 long since deceased ; and greatly through 
 their influence, while under the ministry of 
 Dr. Winter, at New Court Chapel, he 
 became a member of that Church when 
 about eighteen years of age. He soon dis- 
 tinguished himself as a teacher in the 
 Sunday-school, and a devoted visitor of the 
 sick poor. The early part of his life was 
 
 occupied in business as a law-stationer, 
 which required and received his constant 
 attention ; but, while diligent in business, 
 he e^adenced to all who knew him best that 
 " he was serving the Lord." For several 
 j-eai-s before he became a stated minister, he 
 exercised his gifts of preaching in itinerating 
 labours in the neighbourhood of London ; 
 and at length, in 1835, he undertook the 
 charge of a small interest at Strandon-the 
 Green, near Kew Bridge, from whence he 
 removed to Brentford — first to Albany 
 Chapel, and afterwards to Boston Road. 
 Here he continued, respected and beloved by 
 all, for twenty-two years. During a con- 
 siderable part of this period he added to his 
 other labours of love that of assisting in the 
 preparation of Jewish converts for missionary
 
 Reminisee'nces oj Rev. 11'. C. Vonge. 
 
 113 
 
 ■work, by instnictin},' them in Hebrew, iiiid 
 in teaching them the way of the '• l^onl 
 more perfectly." For this most vahialile 
 work he had for many )'ear.s prepared liim- 
 self. Feeling deeply interested in the con- 
 vei-sion of the Jews, and witii that view as 
 much as for liis own more intimate acquaint- 
 ance with tlio Scriptures, lie devoted himself 
 to the study of the Hebrew, and was one of 
 the earliest studi'uts of that language at the 
 Lomlon irniversity, under the (Ustiuguished 
 profes-sor, llyman llurwitz. He joined the 
 Philo-Juda^•ln Societj', at that time one of 
 the few institutions formed in aid of the 
 conversion of God's ancient people ; and 
 when, in the year 1842, the Ri'ilish Society 
 for the Propagation of the CJospel among 
 the Jews was formed, bv the united efforts 
 of the late Rev. Ptidley Herschell, Dr. K. 
 Henderson, Dr. James Hamilton, and others, 
 and of which his lat(> brother, Mr. Cieorge 
 Yonge, was until liis death the resident 
 secretary, he lent to the cause his un- 
 remitting and devoted energies. 
 
 After lea\Tng Erentford, in LS.jO, he 
 resided at Henley-on-Thames, occasionally 
 a.ssisting the Hev. J. IJowland in the 
 ministry, but not having any stated charge. 
 There, however, as well as at Brentford, Ik; 
 was ever known, and will ever be remem- 
 bered, as indefatigable in his visitations 
 among the poor. He was a man of prayer, 
 and the universal testimony of him — by 
 those who knew him when in business and 
 wlien he had (iiiitte<l it, and to tlie end of 
 his days — -wjis, that he was a hfily man. His 
 illness was protracted, but he was sustained 
 and cheered by the presence of his gracious 
 Jjord and Mastei-. ]}y one saj-ing on liis 
 dying-lied, his state of mind as well as hi.'^ 
 general character may be judged of : " I can- 
 not speak of ecsta.sy and triumphs as some 
 do, but I have the le(/aci/ Chri.st left to His 
 Church — Peace. Lord, I am thankful for 
 that." " Peace I leave with you." 
 
 Mr. Yonge died at Henley, jNIay 8tli, 
 1870, aged seventy-seven years, and was 
 buried in Henley Cemetery. 
 
 Letter in the Jewish Herald, 
 December, 1847. 
 Mr. William Yonge, like his l)rother, the 
 Secretary, was an admirable letter writer. 
 We have chosen, for reproduction here, one 
 of his letters which contains some interesting 
 pei-sonal allusions, and shows with what 
 wisdom, zeal and liberality, he ti-ied to 
 
 
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 REV. W. C. TONOE. 
 
 strengthen the hands of his brother, and to 
 further the interests of the cause so dear to 
 the Heart of our Adorable Redeemer. 
 The letter appeared in the December 
 number of the Jewish Herald for 1847, with 
 an introduction by the editor. We subjoin 
 both, as they indicate the way in which the 
 grand work of the Society was maintained 
 and e.xtended at the beginning, and how it 
 may be promoted now. 
 
 THE C'LAI.MS OF Till; BUITISII SOCIETY FOR THE 
 
 pkopa(;ation of the (iosi'Ei. amo\o 
 
 THE JEWS. 
 
 We must bespeak attention to the follow- 
 ing letter. It has been received, together 
 with the accompaniment of a i.'10 note, by a 
 member of the committee of the British 
 Society, from a minister in the neighbourhood 
 of London. It has but to be read to secure 
 attention. It remains for the churches of 
 ('hrist in this land to say whether the Society 
 .shall .still be fettered by debt. Shall not the 
 committee be still encouraged to enter in at 
 the open door which the (Jcxl of Israel .sets 
 before them, or must they draw back, and 
 fold then- hands in despair, and say, "The 
 land waiteth to be possessed, but the people 
 that are with us, are not willing to go up to 
 pos.sess it. Shall Israel be left to perirh for 
 
 I
 
 114 
 
 Memories of (lospel Triuiiiiths among the Jews. 
 
 tlie laok of knowledge, and to say, ' No man 
 careth for my soul '? ' " 
 
 We would urge upon our friends who are 
 employed in advoc;iting the cause of the 
 Society, to begin the year by a renewed 
 effort. Are not some of them discouraged 
 because of the coldness of those from whom 
 they expected a warm co-operation, and 
 because of the plausible, but unchiistian and 
 inconsistent objections, by which they find 
 their enterprise assailed ? Let the exercise 
 of prayer, and the study of the commands 
 and promises of God's Word, clieck dis- 
 couragement. The linger of .'corn may be 
 pointed against this work, but it is a Divine 
 work, and it shall be established. The seed 
 may lie long buried in the JewLsh heart, bat 
 it is the seed of the kingdom, and it is 
 incorruptible. " The husbandman waiteth 
 for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath 
 long patience for it, until he receive the 
 early and latter rain : " and shall tee, who 
 are watching for a harvest of souls, grow 
 weary in our expectations ? 
 
 Again we would solicit an attentive 
 peru.sal of the letter which follows. 
 
 " My Dear Fkiend — I was concerned to 
 hear yesterday that the British Society is so 
 deeply in debt to the treasurer. What is to 
 be done ? Has the Society made out its 
 claim on the confidence and support of the 
 churches ; and will the churches now with- 
 hold themselves from such an enterprise ? 
 
 " As to what the Society has done, and 
 what it is now doing. It has existed ioi-Jive 
 years. Its income has risen from .£427 to 
 JJ2,000. It has trained, and is employing, 
 fourteen Jewish missionaries, and one 
 Christian missionary. It has pi'inted many 
 thousands of tracts, and circulated a large 
 number of copies of the W^ord of God. It 
 has a foreign missionary at Frankfort at 
 £100, and secures the services of an agent 
 at Jaffa, at a moderate remuneration. Its 
 object is purely religious, although those 
 intimately connected with its operation, fiud 
 themselves pressed by the temporal I'esults 
 arising from the success of their enterprise — 
 the change of connection and pursuit with 
 Jews who become Christian;, producing, of 
 course, considerable difficulty, at least for a 
 time. This, however, has not been per- 
 mitted to encumber the Society. The Jeinish 
 Herald has a wide circulation, and has been 
 the means of diifusing a knowledge of the 
 Society's object and operations. The College, 
 founded during the past year, and ardently 
 sanctioned at the last annual meeting, has 
 
 been conducled with a harmony between the 
 resident teacher and other tutors, and the 
 six students in the house, and two 
 boarded without, which has given the most 
 favouraljle assurance that those training 
 shall, by the blessing of God, be workmen 
 fitted for their work. The amity in which 
 the students dwell, and their concerts for 
 prayer, indicate that it is a school of prophets' 
 sons, as well as of the sons of the prophets. 
 It has been my privilege to have a sort of 
 nursery, through which some passed to labour 
 before the college was formed, and through 
 which now some pass to college. Thirteen 
 have been with me, three of whom aie still 
 under my instruction ; one, indeed, supported 
 by private funds, but a young man of strong 
 recommendations. I have found my labours 
 with them to be profitable to myself. I give 
 them aliout two hours every morning ; and 
 having, previously to engaging in the ministry, 
 taken Hebrew lessons at the London Uni- 
 versity, I have had no student yet to whom 
 I could not be of some service in gi-ammatical 
 Hebrew ; and whom I could not also help in 
 Greek and in English as required, together 
 with the rudiments of Latin. The students 
 with me are lodged and boarded in the town 
 at 12s. per week. They have 2s. a week 
 themselves for washing, &c., and this, with 
 the occasional cost of a garment, is all their 
 expense. Being somewhat at liljert}', a test 
 is afl'orded of their disposition for their 
 destined work, as also their ability; and 
 hitherto they have secured the Christiaix 
 regard and confidence of those who have 
 observed them. The question used to be : 
 ' How can we hel]) the Jews, and do that 
 which shall tend to their conversion : for there 
 requires a specific agency on their lielialf?' 
 Now this question is surely answered, and 
 the inquiry is returned : ' How shall wo con- 
 duct that which your judgment as practicil 
 Christians approve, unle.-s we have that which 
 doeth all things, namely, money ? ' I feel 
 ashamed that this should requite to be so 
 much dwelt upon ; surelj', it can only be be- 
 cause the exigency is unknown. The com- 
 mittee must deal with the matter with a 
 conviction that they must bear the burden 
 till the constituency relieve them. As one of 
 the committee, you will intimate that I am 
 ready to advance ten pounds to the help of 
 the current expenses. May the Lord appear 
 in this exigency ; and, as it is a new reason 
 for appeal, may it prove an occasion of larger 
 resources ! — Yours, afl'ectionately.
 
 Reminiscences of Rev. 11'. C. Yonr/e. 
 
 115 
 
 The Fall and Restoration of Jacob. 
 
 Uv Ukv. \V. C. VUNGK. 
 
 "By whom shall Jacob arise ? for he ia gmall." — 
 A iiiitA vii. 2, 5. 
 
 Twice tlie homely propliet iiKiiiircs tliis, 
 jinil the Lord wa.s pleased witli the 
 iniiiiiry. He was anxious for .some better 
 advocate than himself, but the Lord accepted 
 his advocacy. In the cau.se of benevolence, 
 as we treat with that God who is love, while 
 within the sphere of Scripture, we have per- 
 fect liberty. 
 
 Jacob Ls fallen, and has been long fallen : 
 and, in some sen.se, he is small. 
 
 The (juestion is an individual one — " By 
 whom sliall he arise?" 
 
 The example may excite the reader's 
 emulation. We ask not of what tribe the 
 descendant and representative of him who 
 wi-estled with God and gained the name of 
 Israel is. If he want IsraeVs spirit, he ha.s 
 Jacob's nature, and he knows Jacob's trouble. 
 Whenever a Jew presents him.self, there is a 
 picture of him who, not without ofleiice, Hed 
 hi.s father's house, and was a hapless sojourner, 
 but not foi-saken of God. Laban did not 
 deserve the honour pat upon him ; he was a 
 mercenary, crafty man ; he made Jacob serve 
 his turn. HLs question was, " By whom 
 shall Laban rise, that he may te greater?" 
 And by the Jew he rose. But still God made 
 him serve the Jew. Laban could not, even 
 with his ill gi-ace, be the means of Jacob's 
 rising without advantage to himself. 
 
 Jacob fell under the hand of Laban, and 
 yet with Liiban he increased. He got his 
 family ; he got his flocks ; and he who fell 
 by Liiban w;vs raiscfl by Laban. How much 
 more to Laban's credit if it had been with 
 his design I 
 
 Laban would amalgamate with Jacob, if 
 Jacob could not with Laban ; and the com- 
 bination gave Liiban an advantage, but no 
 thanks to Laban that it gave Jacob one. 
 Jacob dearlj- bought every advantage. He 
 maintaineil his independency, sind grudged 
 not to presei-ve it iit much cost. His family, 
 though numerous, was not beholden to 
 Ijiban. 
 
 Strange are the blendings of moral appli- 
 ances and delinquencies ! The subtilty of a 
 Jacob forsiikes not an Israel, but with Israel 
 thei-e is a plainness notwithstanding ! He 
 hius an instinct by which he miide himself 
 rich ; but hLs wealth fails not to benefit a 
 Laban. 
 
 Reader ! behold in Jacob, as yet not Israel, 
 a type of a people now — his own descendants 1 
 
 See the good and the evil respectively deline- 
 ated ; but shun not to ask for a Laban too. 
 It may Ix) that the pei-secutor shall not 
 fail to find out, as between Jacob and Ijiban, 
 thiit what has damaged Jiicob chiefly, — has 
 been those images belonging to the House 
 of Laban. There has been little good for 
 Jacob to gain from Labiin, and there has 
 been direful c\i\ ! 
 
 " By whom shall Jacob arise ? for he is 
 small." He has reached a crisis. His face 
 Ls away from the land of his sojourning now. 
 He is not without wealth, but he is not at 
 home. He Ls still subject to rapine and 
 violence ; but he can plead much inde{)en- 
 dence and many virtues. He has lost the 
 purity of the faith of Abraham, and the 
 " Fear of Isaac " Ls not prevalent with him. 
 The weaker part of Jacob has admitted some 
 Gentile abuses ; and he is too much like 
 Micali, of Bethlehem Judah, who thought 
 all Wius well because he had " a Levite for 
 his prie.st." 
 
 And, woi-st of all — Oh, how depressing is 
 this ! — -the Shiloh of Israel is not as yet the 
 Peace-maker of Jacob I The gra.sshopper 
 yet consumes him, and the fire thiit devoured 
 the gi-eat deep is yet eating up a part. 
 
 Say then, reader ! " By whom shiill 
 Jacob ari.se, for he is small ? 
 
 As yet, with J;icob jit hLs crisis, the stone 
 of Israel was but iis a pebble, The lovely 
 Joseph was quite in his childhood. By a 
 Joseph, Jacob should arise by-and-bye 
 There is many a Joseph now growing up, 
 who shall sutler bondage, if it is necessary, 
 in order to secure the liberty and promotion 
 of Israel, witli his sons, in the hitter day. 
 The members of the Jewish nation, who 
 .shall be promoted to honour that they may 
 combine their brethren with them in honour, 
 must be conducted through schools likethose 
 of Joseph, and ilo.ses, and Daniel, and of 
 many be.sides. God makes not champions 
 without drilling them to their work. There 
 are such, but they are in their minority. " By 
 whom .shall Jacob arise?" Amos would plead 
 he was an husbandman, and no prophet ; 
 but he contended for Jacob, and he was 
 honoured with succe.ss. He said, " By whom 
 shall Jacob arise '. " And God said, " Thy 
 sympathy sh;ill have its reward." It is true 
 the decreed calamity came ; but the.sjnnpathy 
 of Amos wi-ought its good: and the near 
 aspect of woe was relieveil l)y the distant 
 rising of that day so beautifully depicted at 
 la.st : — 
 
 " Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,'
 
 IIG 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, 
 and the treader of gi-apes him that soweth 
 seed ; and the mouutains shall drop sweet 
 wine and all the hills shall melt. And I will 
 bring again the captivit)' of my people of 
 Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, 
 and inhabit them ; and they shall plant vine- 
 yards, and drink the wine thereof ; they shall 
 also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. 
 And I will plant them upon then- land, and 
 
 chickens under her wings, and ye would not ?" 
 thinks with thee and feels with thee, too ! 
 Thou canst not pray, but thou art " in com- 
 pany with him (the Apostle of the Gentiles) 
 who now waits and watches for the arrival 
 of •' all Israel " destined to be saved, ^^'hy 
 shoiUd we want the feeling with' which, 
 eighteen hundred years ago, a Paul yearned 
 over those whom he knew, as a people, to be 
 rejected ? Why not be thankf iil as he was. 
 
 JACOB BLESSING HIS SONS. 
 
 they shall no more be pulled up out of their 
 land which I have given them, saith the Lord 
 thy God." — ix. 13 — 15. 
 
 Reader I hast thou proposed the question 
 — "By whom .shall Jacob arise, for he is 
 small?" Know thou that thou canst not 
 begin to think rightly of Jacob, but He who 
 wept over Jerusalem, saying, '• O Jerusalem, 
 Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, 
 and stonest them which are sent unto thee, 
 how often would I have gathered thy chil- 
 dren together, even as a hen irathereth her 
 
 that "there is a remnant?" And while time 
 has brought us abundantlj' nearer to the 
 period of theii- gathering as a people, how 
 rich are the earnests of God's gracious pur- 
 pose ! 
 
 Oppression has not fused Jews and Gentiles 
 into one mass, nor seduction drawn them into 
 luiitv. But pure Christianity can make us 
 substantially one. It did so in the first age 
 of the Church, it can do so again. Jews, 
 though mi.xed with us iu the nation, are as 
 much a distinct object of operation as any
 
 Reminiscences of Rev. W. C. Von^e. 
 
 11' 
 
 "3s birta flging" (i.e., as fairts ticfcnli^.tijcir gouiig iBitjj tl)cir toings) "so toill t|)C 3Lorii 
 of J^osts protect Kctusaltm," &t. — isaiah xxxi. 5.
 
 118 
 
 Memcn'ies of Gospd Tmnnphs among the Jews. 
 
 tribe of the human family can be. however 
 sepai-ated by distance and disjoined by 
 tongue ; but they are at our door, and they 
 understand our speech. 
 
 " By whom shall Jacob arise ?" 
 
 Reader ! hast thou a Jew in thy locality ? 
 Fray fcr him, and furnish him with a tract 
 of the British Society. It may be that thou 
 hast STOipathy, which operation shall draw 
 out, and which God shall honour. 
 
 If you have the Society's designs and 
 operations, in miniatiu-e. in your eye or under 
 your hand, then help others to do for the 
 hke object, what you cannot attempt. The 
 work is a noble one ; one that, like the re- 
 building of the walls of Jerusalem, in 
 Nehemiah's time, has long been neglected. 
 Yea, past efforts have been such that the 
 enemy may say, " if a fox got up he shall 
 even break down " all that has been attempted. 
 But there is better hope now. The founda- 
 tion for the rebuilding is pure Truth. Those 
 combining, though of different garb, do so 
 upon one principle ; the}' recognize the 
 Scriptures alone. Their aim is to build the 
 wall, and then leave the forming of the 
 households to those who shall succeed to their 
 operations. They form no Church. They 
 aim at no distinctive denomination. Whether 
 they ask singly or unitedly — " By whom 
 shall Jacob arise ? " their aim is an indi\-idual 
 restoration ; and they wait to \'iew with 
 gladness, how one and another shall be 
 domiciled in the church of God. Theirs is 
 rather the work of bringing in ; others 
 must aim to keep in and estabHsh. A Laban's 
 fare towards Jacob is not that of the Church ; 
 but a Jethro's may picture it. Liberal man ! 
 He loved to visit Israel in the wilderness, 
 for he honoured Moses, and woidd gladly 
 have .sojouined with him and have shared his 
 burden. He advised for Jacob's better rule, 
 and to help his more legitimate helper. He 
 returned bles.sed to his own land. He left 
 with them an Hobab, who could be " instead 
 of eyes " to lind Israel water when it was 
 needed ; and bj- a Hobab could Jacob arise 
 on his way to his home. Hobab's posterity 
 fared well for his love to Israel. None ever 
 served the welfare of Jacob in vain. It is 
 not left to Egypt to pay the wages of those 
 who help Jacob ; God Himself will do it ? 
 
 Who, then, will come forth to the help of 
 the Lord, to the help of the Lord on behalf 
 of the feeble ? 
 
 By whose mei-cv shall Jacob find mercy ? 
 Who shall have " the Gentiles' fulnes.s,'' 
 along with " the salvation of Israel ?" 
 
 " Arise, O Lord ! and have mercy upon 
 Zion ; for is not the time to favour her — 
 yea, the set time, come ; since thy servants 
 take pleasure in her stones, and favour the 
 dust thereof i " 
 
 An Extract from Mr. Yonge's Book, 
 " The New Testament Seer." 
 
 "How amazing has been the forbearance 
 of God for nineteen centuries with the 
 Gentiles, and pecidiarly with the Gentile 
 Church. Let it be asked, What should have 
 been ? 
 
 " The church should have been united, but 
 it has been divided. 
 
 ■• It should have been spiritual, liut it has 
 been carnal. 
 
 " It should have been humble, but it has 
 been proud. 
 
 " It should have repudiated idolatry, but it 
 has adopted it. 
 
 " It should have been 'not of this world,' 
 but it has been of the world. 
 
 It should be propagating the truth, but it 
 is restraining it. 
 
 " It was always said that if the Jew did 
 not continue in unbelief, he should be 
 restored ; but the Church directly and in- 
 directly ob.sti-acted the Jew. They should 
 have been provoked to jealou.sy, by seeing 
 how the Gentile Church was adorned by her 
 Bridegroom ; but the}' have seen that which 
 professed to be the Church dressed as a 
 harlot. And the real Church has not 
 responded to the tears of Jesus, or the heavi- 
 ness of Paul." 
 
 THE COMMITTEES RESOLUTION OF SYMPATHY 
 WITH MRS. TOXGE. 
 
 At a meeting of Committee held on the 
 18th May, 1870, the following resolution 
 was unanimously carried : — 
 
 " The Secretary having referred to the 
 recent decea.se of the Eev. W. C. Yonge, 
 who departed this life on the 8th of May, 
 the Committee requested him to convey to 
 Mrs. Yonge our expression of their heart- 
 felt sympathy, and to assure her that they 
 share most deeply in her bereavement, for 
 they feel that the cau.se of Israel, and this 
 Society in particular, has lost one of its very 
 best and most endeared friends." 
 
 There is living now, we are glad to saj', 
 a Hebrew Christian, eminent for cultiu-e 
 and grace, who, many years ago, as a student 
 preparing for mis.sion work in connexion
 
 Two Promment Members of our First Committee. 
 
 119 
 
 with the British Society, Civme under the 
 blessed Christian influence of Jlr. W. Yonge 
 in his liouie at iin^iitford. We iisked our 
 friend to prejiaro for us a short memoir of 
 Mr. Yonge. In order to gratify our wish, 
 he sat down and tried and tried again, 
 but failed. Tlieu after these unsucctssful 
 attempts, ho came to us and .^aid : " I am 
 sorry I cannot comply with your recjuest. 
 My own early life hail been so intei'wo\en 
 with Mr. Yonge's, and our friendship so in- 
 timate and sacred, tliat I cannot write about 
 it. But I will mention one thing which you 
 may use. Very shortly before Jlr. Yonge's 
 departure, at his special re(iucst, 1 paid liim 
 a visit at his home in Henley-on-Thames. 
 The communion was unspeakablj- pe.iceful 
 and blissful ; and the memory of it is .still 
 fresh and fragrant. Smiling as he looked up 
 and rubbing his hands together for joy at 
 the glorious prospect before him, he ex- 
 claimed : ' Dear friend, I wanted to tell you 
 that I have received a summons. I am 
 going away soon to see my dear Redeemer.' " 
 
 Our friend and many othei-s, both Jews 
 and Gentiles, had received impulses from 
 Mr. W. Yonge that would last as long as 
 eternity. Whence came they ? They came 
 from the power of a new personality within 
 
 liiiii, the power of Christ Who is love. The 
 phrase " God of love," means much, but the 
 averment " God m love," infinitely more. 
 The Father is love ; the Son is love ; the 
 Spirit is love ; the Triune Jehovah is love. 
 Mr. Yonge was distinguished aliove many of 
 his brethren because of the large measure of 
 this love shed abroad in his heart. He could 
 say : " All thoughts, all passions, all delights, 
 Whatever stirs this mortal frame — All are the 
 ministers of this love, And own its sacred 
 flame." This was the secret of his intense 
 interest in God's ancient and everlasting 
 people. It was not his learning, but his love, 
 that won the hearts of the students under 
 his care, and the missionaries and the com- 
 mittee, and all others with whom he came 
 in contact. This love urged him out with the 
 power of a flood in the direction of the Jews; 
 constrained him to make many sacrifices for 
 them ; inspired him to think, feel, give, live, 
 and if necess<iry, to die on their behalf. 
 
 The three brothers Yonge — George, 
 William and Walter, consti-ained by the love 
 of Christ, worked in connection with the 
 British Society for the conversion of souls, 
 for many years, and in due season passed 
 from their peaceful deathbeds on earth to 
 thrones in Heaven. 
 
 TWO PROMINENT MEMBERS OF OUR FIRST COMMITTEE. 
 
 REV. JOHN GUMMING, D.D. 
 
 JOHN GUMMING was born in the parish 
 of Fintray, Aterdeenshire, on the 10th 
 of November, 1807. He was educated at 
 the Aberdeen Grammar School, and in 1822 
 became a student at the University. In 
 1827 he graduated M.A. He then studied 
 in the Divinity Hall, and during vaciitions 
 acted as a private tutor. He was licensed 
 to preach the Gospel on the 3rd of May, 
 1832, by the Aberdeen Presbytery. Soon 
 afterwards, while acting as tutor in Ken- 
 sington, he was inWted to preach in the 
 Scottish National Church, Crown Court, 
 Covent Garden. On the 18th of Aug\ist, 
 1832, he received a call from the Church. 
 In 1833 he married Elizabeth, daughter of 
 James Nicholson, one of the eldei's. The 
 church was then very small and inconvenient, 
 and the minister's income not over i!200. In 
 1844 he received from the EiUnburgh Uni- 
 versity the degree of D.D. 
 
 Dr. Cumming's power as a preacher soon 
 attracted a very large congregation at Crown 
 Court; and in 1S47 the church was rebuilt, 
 at a cost of J5,()()0. It was opened in 1848, 
 with sittings for a thou.sand persons. The 
 income from pew-rents reached A'1,500 ; but 
 Dr. Gumming refused to receive more than 
 i'OOO, the remainder paying oft' the debt in- 
 curred for rebuilding. He afterwards rai.sed 
 fluids by which schools in Little Ilussell 
 Street were added in 1849, and Ragged 
 Schools, with a church, in Brewer's Coiut, in 
 1855. Dr. Gumming died on the 5th of July, 
 1881, and his remains were buried in Kensal 
 Green Cemetery. 
 
 STILL SPEAKING. 
 
 Dr. Gumming " being dead yet speaketh." 
 He took an active part at the formation of 
 the British Society on the 7th of November, 
 1842. He seconded the tiret resolution;
 
 1-0 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeivt 
 
 MOSES ON MOUKT KSGAH.
 
 Tii;i I'rtitiiliiciil Mi-iahers of our First Committee. 
 
 121 
 
 REV. JIIIIN tr.M.MI.NlJ, U.I). 
 
 nioveil tlie spcond and the fourth ; and did 
 what he coidd to give the Society a good 
 start. 
 
 He was a distinguished (iospcl prciiplier 
 and lecturer, a very al)Ii! controversialist, a 
 fearle.ss expounder and defender of evan- 
 gelical truth, a loving fathei- and faithful 
 friend, a Christian patriot and philanthro- 
 pist, and the author of many excellent liooks 
 on such subjects as Pojjery, Protestantism, 
 Prophecy, Palestine and its Wonderful 
 People, iSic. lie has left behind him up- 
 wards of a hundred publications, all more or 
 less characterized by (.'hristian earnestness 
 and eloijuence. As a specimen of his 
 manner and matter we gi\-e the following 
 passages on 
 
 The Land and the People. 
 
 "Palestine itself, at this moment, seems 
 almost overspread by the cur.se. Its cities 
 are the cities of the dead ; its every 
 acre is covered with the tombs of departed 
 ages ; it has a .soil fit to grow corn that 
 would positively crowd and overflow all the 
 granaries of the world ; but it cannot provide 
 corn enough to feed its miserable, its starved 
 and wretched pea,santry. At this very 
 moment there is no Mount Nebo, or Mount 
 PLsgah, from whidi a successor of Moses c:in 
 see a goodly land overflowing with milk and 
 honey. On every part of that land the iron 
 hoof of the Arab steed, and the naked foot 
 of the papal monk, have trod in succetision, 
 
 and warred for supremacy. In rapid 
 succession the Roman, the Persian, the Arab, 
 the Turk, the robber, have taken possession 
 of Palestine ; and the poor Jew— the fig-tree 
 l)lasted -lias a home anywhere and every- 
 where, but least a home in his own home ; 
 has pos.sessions everywhere, but none in that 
 land, which is held by title-deeds more lasting 
 than tho.se of the aristocracy of England ; 
 liis title deeds are in E/.ekiel, in Jeremiah, in 
 Isiiiah, in the Psalms, and must last and live 
 for ever and ever. You have then in the Jew, 
 wherever you find him, a bla,sted fig-tree, a 
 iiiiraclestricken nation; a people scathed by 
 a curse which cleaves to them and consumes 
 them ; the people of the weary foot, the 
 exiles of the earth ; in it, and not of it, as if 
 their very existence was a symbol of what 
 God's people should lie —in the world, and 
 not of the world. 
 
 '• They are like the gulf sti-eam, which flows 
 fi-om America to our Wf'stern shores ; dis- 
 tiiict from the ocean in colour and warmth, 
 yet flowing through it. 
 
 " They have been sprinkled like millions of 
 globules of (juicksilver over the length and 
 breadth of the world ; every drop reflecting 
 bright beams from the past, and mirroring 
 forth the morning of a gloi-ions future." 
 
 UEV. JOSEPH FLETCHER, D.l>. 
 
 Joseph Fletcher was born on the 3rd of 
 December, j784, at Chester, where his father 
 
 KEV. JOSKrH n.KTCUHH, D.D.
 
 122 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 was a goldsmith. In his boyhood he was 
 deeply impressed by the Gospel, and after 
 attending the Grammar School of his native 
 city, prepared for the ministry in the 
 Independent Church by stiid3'ing, first at 
 Hoxton and then at the University of 
 Glasgow, where he took the degree of M.A., 
 in 1807. 
 
 Receiving a call from the Congregational 
 Church of Blackburn, Lancashire, he began 
 his ministry the same year, and continued 
 there till 1823, when he became pastor of 
 the Independent Church, Stepney, London. 
 
 Dr. Fletchei' published tracts and treatises 
 that won considerable fame. His lectures 
 on the " Principles and Institutions of the 
 Roman Catholic Religion " were highly com- 
 mended by Dr. John Pye Smith, Robert 
 Hall, and others. In 18.51 the senatus of 
 the Universit}' of Glasgow conferred on him 
 the degree of D.D, 
 
 DR. Fletcher's last words. 
 
 The utterances which fell from his lips, 
 whether in prayer, or praise, or devout ob- 
 servation, all savoured of a mind emanci- 
 pated from earth and filled with heavenly 
 aspiration. Often did he repeat those 
 touching and appropi'iate lines : — 
 
 " Yet a season, and we know 
 
 Happy entrance shall be given, 
 All our sorrows left below. 
 
 And earth excliauged for heaven." 
 
 Once his beloved daughter gently asked him 
 if he wanted anything ? His reply was, 
 " There wants nothing, my dear girl, but 
 more conformity to the mind and will of our 
 best Friend." 
 
 That his views of affliction were the re- 
 verse of gloomy, was rendered obvious by 
 the following .striking remarks ; — " He has 
 put that," said he, " into the cup of affliction 
 which enables us to enjoy it ;" and, after a 
 short pause, " He has taken away all the 
 gall, and all the bittei'ness, and has given us 
 all the sweetness and all the e.xcellency." 
 
 On one occasion, when obviously in deep 
 thought, he exclaimed, emphatically, " It is 
 a great thing to be habitually right ! " 
 
 He seemed to triumph in the thought of 
 the resurrection-body, and, in an energetic 
 tone, quoted the words of Paul to the Philip- 
 pians : " Who .shall change our vile body, 
 that it may be fashioned like unto His own 
 glorious body," &c. 
 
 On his la.st earthly sabbath he observed, 
 " I wonder what my Lord's will is; it may 
 be for life, or it may be for death. I wish 
 
 I were away ! " and soon after, " I .shall be 
 with my Lord this day ! " 
 
 He felt great consolation in hearing of the 
 united prayers of his flock on his behalf ; 
 and though he seldom prayed audibly foi- 
 himself he often did so for his family, and 
 for the universal triumph of Christ's gospel. 
 Once, referring to his beloved children, he 
 supplicated : " The Lord bless them, pre- 
 serve them, guide them, comfort them. 
 Father, I will that they also whom Thou 
 hast given me be with me where I am." 
 
 Being asked by his dear wife if he was 
 afraid of death, he replied, "Oh, no ; I know 
 in whom I have believed, and am persuaded 
 that He is able to keep that which I have 
 committed unto Him until that day." 
 
 Expressing some anxiety about his family, 
 Mrs. Fletcher said, "The Lord will provide for 
 us." He replied, emphatically, "lie will." 
 
 His interviews with his friends, and par- 
 ticularly with Mr. Hankey, Mr. Garman 
 (his medical attendant), and Dr. Burder, 
 were all very touching, and evinced the firm- 
 ness of his faith, and the calm, undisturbed 
 tranquility of his hope. After the last- 
 named friend and college companion had 
 prayed with him, he faintly remarked, " As 
 one whom his brother comfortethi" and, on 
 seeing him retire, he quoted the expressive 
 lines — 
 
 " One there is, above all others, 
 
 Best deserves the name of friend ; 
 His Ls love beyond a l>rother's ; 
 Costly, free, and knows no end.' 
 
 In a great agony of suffering, but a short 
 period before he entered into glorious rest, 
 he poured out the following tender tind 
 importunate pra3'er : " O Christ, forgive 
 me ! Immaculate Jesus, help me ! " On 
 the night before his decease, the storm of 
 bodily anguish had subsided ; and on his 
 daughter asking him if he were in much pain, 
 he softly whispered " No ! " which was the 
 last expression that fell from his mortal lips. 
 
 On Thursday moi-ning, the 8th June, his 
 spirit fled peacefully, as on angels' wings, 
 into the bosom of his Lord. 
 
 INSCRIPTION ON THE MONUMENT IN ABNEY 
 
 PARK CEMETERY. 
 
 Sacred 
 
 to the ilcnwry 
 
 of the 
 
 REV. JOSEPH FLETCHER, D.D., 
 
 Of Stejiney ; 
 
 Born at Chester, Dec. 3rd, 1784 ; 
 
 Died, June 8th, 1843. 
 
 " -A. Faithful Minister of Christ."— Co/, i. 7.
 
 Ret: Thomas Binney, LL.IK, D.D. 
 
 123 
 
 DR. FLETCHER ONE OF THE FOUNDERS. 
 
 Dr. Fletcher's niimo stands next to Dr. 
 BurJer's on the tirst page of the Society'.s 
 fii-st minute book. They went together to 
 the fJhisgow I'niversity, they were college 
 companions and life-long friends. At that 
 fii-st meeting of Committee, Dr. Fletcher 
 seconded the third re.solution. At the second 
 meetingjWhich was held on the 5th December, 
 1S42, the first Sub-Committee, consisting of 
 Dr. Fletcher, Mr. llerschell, Dr. Hendei-son, 
 Ivev. James Hamilton, and ilr. George 
 Vonge, was appointed to prepare a scheme of 
 lectures and make tlie requisite arrangements 
 for their delivery. Thus in this way and by 
 the aid of Dr. Fletcher the tirst operations 
 of the Society were commenced, which like 
 pebbles dropped into lakes, have lieen pro- 
 ducing changes that for 50 years have been 
 moving outward in e.xpanding rings and 
 rippling with joy even the watei-s which the 
 angels drink. 
 
 We regret that we cannot trace the lives 
 and departures of all who attended that 
 meeting at which the Society was formed. 
 But we have succeeded with ten of the num- 
 ber. The tirst called to his rest and reward 
 was Robert M'Cheyne, which took place on 
 the 25th of March, 1843. The second was 
 Dr. Fletcher, who fell asleep in Jesus on the 
 8th of June, 1813. We can imagine the.se 
 two glorious spirits meeting in the New Jeru- 
 salem and expressing to each other their joy 
 that they were divinely directed and stimu- 
 lated to take part in the formation of the 
 British Society. And many a time since 
 then we can imagine them looking over the 
 celestial battlements and watching \rith 
 unspeakable delight myriads of Jews and 
 Jewesses emerging out of the darkness and 
 death of Judaism into the light and life of 
 Christianity through the agencies which they 
 were privileged to begin in 1842. 
 
 REV. THOMAS BINNEY, LL.D , D.D. 
 
 THOMAS BINNEY wa^ Iwrn at New- 
 castle-upon-Tyne on the 30th AprU, 
 1798. After a period of tiution at an 
 ordinary school, he wa,s apprenticed for seven 
 yeiirs to a bookseller. In giving an account 
 of his early life, Binney stated that his hours 
 with the Newca-stle bookseller were for ten 
 years fi-om seven in the morning until eight 
 in the evening, and for five years from seven 
 to seven. He was, however, sometimes 
 engaged from six a.m. until ten p.m. Not- 
 withstanding this pressure he found oppor- 
 tunities, especiaU}- from his fourteenth to 
 his twentieth year, for considerable I'eailing, 
 study and compo.sition ; and by the aid of a 
 Presbyterian minister he gaineil .some know- 
 ledge of Latin and Greek. For three years 
 he attended the theological seminary at Wy- 
 mondley, Hertfordshire, which wa^; subse- 
 quently incorfwrated with Homerton and 
 Highbury in New College. 
 
 THE GREAT CRISIS. 
 
 Mr. Binney was not really converted, 
 although he may have thought he was, when 
 he entered Wymondley Tj-aining Institute, 
 and like his namesike of old he was troubled 
 with doulits. Seveial theological problems 
 were i>ainfully exercising his mind and pres- 
 sing for .solution. One Sunday night during 
 the holiday season he went to hear Dr. 
 
 Fletcher at the Stepney Meeting. The 
 thoughtful, elocjuent and winsome discourse 
 of the preacher drew Mr. Binney at the close 
 of the service into the vestry, in order that 
 he might state his difficulti&s and get them 
 removed. Dr. Fletcher saw at once that he 
 had before him a young man endowed with a 
 mind that required special treatment. He 
 saw that mere ti-ains of reasoning, however 
 cogent, would not tell upon him with sufficient 
 demonstrative force to win him for Christ. 
 Dr. Fletcher therefore in\-ited him to spend 
 his holiday with him. Mr. Binney con.sented. 
 Dr. Fletcher spent a good deal of the time 
 in pastoral visitation accompanied bj' Mr. 
 Binney. As they went from house to house 
 and saw what Christ had done, and w:is doing, 
 chiefly among the poor, the sufl'ering and the 
 dying, Binney 's doubts vanished and his soul 
 became fixed in the Rock of Ages. Taken 
 thus by a kindly hand and wisely and tenderly 
 treated, even as Jesus dealt with Thomas of 
 old, Thoma.s Binney lx)wed before the Christ 
 and exclaimed '• My Lord and my God." 
 
 At the close of his short curriculum at 
 Wymr)nilley, he became the pastor of the New 
 Meeting, Bedford, of which John Howard was 
 one of the founders. In August, 1S24, he 
 accepted the pastorate of St. Jainess Street 
 Chapel, Newport, Isle of Wight. In 1829 
 he removed to London to take charge of the
 
 124 
 
 Memories of Gospel Tnumphs among the Jeios. 
 
 Chuich assemblmg at the King's Weigh 
 House Chapel, where he distinguished him- 
 self as a preaeher, a lectm-er and an author. 
 In 1852, the degi-ee of LL.D. was conferred 
 on him by the University of Aberdeen, and 
 in 18G1 the degree of D.D., came to him 
 from one of the Colleges of the United 
 States. But these he did not use, and 
 " Thomas Binney " without a title, appears 
 on his monument in Abney Park Cemetery. 
 
 KEY. THOMAS BINXET, LL.D., D.D. 
 
 In 1869 Dr. Binney retired from the 
 pastorate of the Church assembling in the 
 King's Weigh House, after a fruitfid 
 Ministry of forty years ; and in Xovember, 
 1873, his last sermon was delivered in 
 Westminster Chapel. 
 
 SUNSET. 
 
 Dr. Allon, his biogi-apher, gives the closing 
 scene as follows : — 
 
 " The sunset was not without clouds. For 
 Kome months he declined under an insidious 
 malady; and, as constitutionally he was 
 liable to states of gi-eat depression, and more 
 than once had to seek in prolonged rest and 
 foreign travel recovery from such, it Ls 
 
 scarcely to be wondered at that physical 
 weakness and the depressing chai'acter of 
 his disease — which was an affection of the 
 heart — acting upon a temperament sensitive 
 almost to morbidne.ss, aflected his religious 
 feelings. A week or two before he died he 
 fell into a condition of great despondency, 
 ' crushed, body, soul, and spirit,' as he ex- 
 pressed it to me ; but it was a failure of 
 feeling rather than of faith. When I re- 
 minded him of the comforts wherewith he 
 had comforted others, ' Yes,' he replied, ' I 
 have preached and written a gieat deal, and 
 both in my preaching and w^iting I have 
 aimed at setting forth these great funda- 
 mental truths, and in the review of them I 
 feel that I have dc:ie right ; I simply rest 
 upon them now.' He found gi-eat comfort 
 in hymns, and especially in the Psalms, 
 which he delighted to hear i-ead to him, 
 more particularly in the sleepless houis of 
 the night ; but at times it was* very dark. 
 He could not be sure about his own spiritual 
 state. The fifty-first Psalm was ever upon 
 his lips ; and he looked to God's mercy, 
 through Jesus Christ, with the humility and 
 docility of a little child. But the cloud 
 lifted ; his la.st words were expressive of re- 
 lief, and faith, and hope ; and ' the fenemy 
 was still as a stone till he went over.' " 
 
 DH. BINNEY's connection with the BRITISH 
 SOCIETY. 
 
 Dr. Binney was one of the founders of the 
 Society. At the very first meeting lettei-s of 
 apology for absence were received, from the 
 Eevs. T. Binney, Blackburn, and others, 
 in which all of them expressed their approval 
 of the object of the meeting. Although 
 Dr. Binney was never able to attend the 
 Committee he proved a true friend of the 
 Society from the beginning until his death. 
 
 INSCRIPTION TAKEN FROM DR. BINNEY's 
 
 MONL'JIENT IN ABNEY PARK CEMETERY. 
 
 In Loving Memory of 
 
 THOMAS BIXXEY, 
 
 Born at Newcastle, 30th .\pril, 1798, 
 
 Died at Upper Clapton, 2-lth February, 1874. 
 
 " I shall he satisfied wheu I awake with Tli}- 
 
 likeness." — Psalm x\Ti., 15.
 
 126 
 
 Memories of Gospel Trumnphs among the Jeics. 
 
 THE FIRST LECTURER ON BEHALF OF THE 
 BRITISH SOCIETY. 
 
 E\}t Setos possess no prcrogatibES for tijcmsclfacs. Mll)ntcl)£r immunities nnti 
 tjistinctions tljeu enjao, tljrg Ijolt) for tijc toorlti.— J. Pye Smith.
 
 The First Lxti 
 
 Ix'liiill III III!' British Society. 
 
 127 
 
 REV. JOHN PYE SMITH, D D., LL.D , FRS., F.G.S., &c, THE FIRST 
 LECTURER ON BEHALF OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY. 
 
 ItlOaRAPHICAL SKETCH. 
 
 JOHN PYE SMITH was born in Sheffield 
 on the 25th of May, 1774. He was 
 tho son of a bookseller, and was intended to 
 follow bis father's biisiness. But bis talents, 
 distinfiuisbed piety, and ardent love of 
 leariiinj,', elearly marked him out for tlie 
 ministry, juid be became a student at Itother- 
 ham C'oUege. When bis own academical 
 course was iini.shod, his .scholarship was so 
 distinjiuished, tliat he was at once chosen 
 Classical Tutor of the College : and the 
 exemplary discharge of the duties of that 
 office, together with his theological learning 
 and the excellence of his character, led to 
 his being invited, at the early age of twenty- 
 live, to become 'I'henlogical Tutoi- .aiid Princi- 
 pal of llomerton College, the oldest of the 
 institutions for training ministers among the 
 Independents. In January, ISO], be entered 
 on the duties of that responsible post, which 
 he filled with untiring devotedne.ss and the 
 highest efficiency for the long space of fifty 
 year.s. A theological professorship is natu- 
 rally combined with ministerial duties ; and 
 in two or tbi'ee yeai-s after his settlement 
 at llomerton, be received a call from the 
 church worshijjping at the Gravel Pit 
 Chapel, to become their pa.stor. He accepted 
 the call, and continued the faithful and 
 airectionate pastor of that church for about 
 forty-seven years. 
 
 The life of a Professor and a Divine is not, 
 in the ordinary sense of the word, eventful. 
 But if ever any man bad the true spiiit of the 
 age of improvement in which he lived, or 
 fought boldl}' in defence of sacred tr\ith, or 
 march of science and social reformation, it 
 was the subject of this sketch. He may, 
 therefore, ^vith justice, be called a soldier and 
 a conipicror in the s:ured war. With his 
 tongue and pen be gained achievements that 
 will endure when the blood-stained exploits 
 of the sword are forgotten, or remembered 
 with .shame. 
 
 It is a key to Dr. Pye Smith's life and 
 character to say, that he seemed ever to aim 
 to be a Christian of fidl stature and perfect 
 mould, yet with no thought of himself, but 
 only of bis Miuster. His sole standard was 
 Christ. That he might follow Him. be was 
 
 ready to be everything, to do everything, and 
 to suffer everything. In bis virtues there 
 was no partial development or distorted 
 growth. He was able to sacrifice bis darlint; 
 tastes, and to tear himself aw.ay from his 
 noblest pursuit.s, at the call of the humblest 
 diiti/. Whatever partook of the char.icter of 
 a duty, was in his eyes sanctified, and be did 
 it as unto Cod. In the pidpit, in the pro- 
 fessor's chair, in the study, in the bumble 
 prayer-meeting, among his own family, in the 
 sick chamber, in the .scientific assembly, at 
 the gathering for some patriotic object, in in- 
 stitutions for the instruction of the poor and 
 the reclaiming of the vicious — everywhere 
 and in eveiything, he displayed such a 
 hearty interest and such a forgetfulne.ss of 
 self as seemed to say — '' I am a dcblur to all." 
 His mind was singularly energetic. There 
 was no department of knowledge which he 
 was not eager and able to explore, so far a.s 
 bis duties permitted. He was critically 
 acquainted both with ancient and modern 
 languages. His theological reading was most 
 extensive. From the earliest of the F.-ithers 
 to the late.st English, Geiman, or American 
 divine, he neglected no author that was worth 
 rea<ling, and that it was po.ssible to read. 
 From every source he gathered materials for 
 the service of truth. He was not deterred 
 by prejudice, but opened bis mind candidly 
 to every ray of light, whencesoever it might 
 come. He studied both the exact and the 
 experimental sciences. When geology offered 
 its somewhat startling I'evelations, he did not 
 turn from it ; but, on the contrary, embraced 
 it as part of the communications of the 
 Author of nature and of truth ; and by his 
 patient investig.-itions bo showed the taugiblo 
 records of creation to be quite accorduntwith 
 the Word of Cod. Thus he rendered a mo.st 
 important service both to religion and to 
 science : and on tho publication of his 
 valuable work, " Scri])ture and Ceolog}-," the 
 Royal Society — the first of our scientific 
 associations — did them.selves and him the 
 honour to enrol him as one of their Fellows. 
 His knowledge of chemistry and most of the 
 branches of natural philosophy was not 
 superficial.
 
 128 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeiis. 
 
 As in all his studies his object was truth, 
 so his clear intellect easily separated the 
 truth from any admixture of error, and re- 
 tained the pure and precious whOst it rejected 
 the evil. 
 
 The chief labour of Dr. Pye Smith's life 
 and his most enduring monument, is the 
 work entitled " The Scripture Testimony to 
 the ISIessiah : an inquiry with a view to a 
 satisfactory determination of the doctrine 
 taught in the Holy Scriptures concerning the 
 person of Christ." This work is admitted 
 by the greatest scholars to be the first of its 
 kind. It is marked by profound and accurate 
 learning, candid criticism, and by that reve- 
 rential and Christian .•spirit which ought to 
 govern every theological inquirj-. It has 
 received the rare honour of being admitted, 
 though the work of a Dissente:-, as an 
 authority in the English Universities. 
 
 Dr. Pye Smith's spirit was generous and 
 noble, and his views of Christian duty made 
 him the patriot and the reformer (not in the 
 political sense only, but in every other). He 
 abhorred injustice, oppres.sion, fraud, political 
 corruption, and all pnrtial legislation. There 
 was not a more ardent friend of civil and 
 religious freedom. In him was seen the 
 enthusiastic advocate of the Abolition of the 
 Slave Trade and Slavery, of Parliamentary 
 Reform, of Catholic Emancipation, of Free 
 Trade, and of Constitutional Government, — 
 all on Christian principles. He gave his 
 support to Literary Societies and Mechanics' 
 Institutions. He was an early and zealous 
 friend of the cause of Total Abstinence, 
 which he practised for many years till his 
 death. And no cause seemed dearer to his 
 heart than that of universal peace. To 
 advance any of these objects he would leave 
 his beloved books, even when prevented, by 
 almost total deafness, from enjoying public 
 meetings, and would be satisfied to add a 
 .single unit to the philanthropic array. As 
 mere specimens of his habitual self-denial for 
 the public good, we may mention that a 
 gentleman calling upon him after he liad 
 retired from tlie ministiy, and was in his 
 75th year, found him going out one dark 
 and wet evening to lectuie at a Mecharn'cs' 
 Institution in Bethnal-green ; and in the 
 vear when the Peace Congress was held at 
 Paris, no persuasions of his family could 
 induce him to stay at home, but he endured 
 the long and fatiguing journey to cheer on 
 the friends of that sacred cause. 
 
 \Mth a dauntless moral courage, Dr. Pye 
 Smith luiiteJ one of the sjentlest and meekest 
 
 spirits that ever dwelt in a human breast. 
 
 The combination was indeed most remark- 
 able, and was manifestly tlie produce of true 
 Christian principle. HLs personal piety was 
 of the purest kind, and ever nourished at the 
 fountain of gi-ace and goodness. He was 
 eminently a man of prayer — in all his ways 
 he acknowledged God. His practice through 
 life was to make use of ejaculatory praj-er, 
 so that he may be said to have lived in the 
 spirit of continual dependence on his Maker 
 and Redeemer. His humihty was really 
 wonderful, considering his great intellectual 
 powers and the honoui-s he had attained. 
 He would not have claimed superiority over 
 the lowliest of his fellow-men. Before God 
 his attitude was that of penitent self-abase- 
 ment, yet also of child-like confidence. 
 Whilst he had a heart that swelled with 
 every noble aspiration, that fed upon the 
 loftiest themes, that turned with abhorrence 
 from all that was unjust and mean, he had 
 also a charity that put the most favourable 
 construction on every virtue, and a modesty 
 that deferred to every judgment, except 
 where deference was forbidden rectitude. To 
 all his fellow-Christians he opened a heart of 
 the warmest afl'ection : prejudice and sec- 
 tarian feeling were quite destroyed by 
 brotherly love. 
 
 His views of the Divine character were not 
 only most exalted, but they so pervaded his 
 life as to make it one act of service and of 
 praise. In the pulpit he often seemed rapt 
 in adoring and loving contemplation of the 
 Divine attributes, and he laboured witli emo- 
 tions too big for utterance. He rejoiced to 
 vindicate all the ways of God to man. His 
 trust in the infinite faithfulness, goodness, and 
 wisdom of God seemed to rise higher when- 
 ever he was called to submit to any affliction. 
 A more absolute resignation to the Divine 
 will can scarcely be conceived : he rejoiced in 
 tribulations. Pride and self-righteousness in 
 him seemed to have no place : they were so 
 continually rebuked bj' his habit of self-con- 
 demnation, that they shrunk quite out of 
 sight of his fellow-men. 
 
 He combined a spirit of the traest inde- 
 pendence with a courtesj- the most sincere. 
 In every word and act he was the gentleman, 
 and his politeness manifestly had its .source 
 in benevolence. He followed the apostolic 
 injunction in " honouring all men." 
 
 The life of Dr. Pye Smith was one of inces- 
 sant activity. He pi-ized his hours and minutes 
 as most precious : he read as one who was 
 devouring what he read : he laboured with
 
 The First Lechirrv ov /ip/ia/f of the British Society. 
 
 129 
 
 intense and unwcaned assiduity: yet Iii.s 
 t^'iniicr WHS not fretted by tlie nwuiljci'less 
 etiiiiiis upon liini. llis acquaintance and 
 conesjx)ndence witii the most learned men 
 of Europe and America wa.s very larjje, 
 and consumed much of his time ; yet lie 
 admitted the claims of the humblest friend, 
 Hstened patiently to every claimant on his 
 sympathy and benevolence, and poured balm 
 into the wounded spirit. 
 
 On Wednesday, the 8th of January, 1851, 
 at the London Tavern, liishopsfjate Street, 
 Dr. Pye Smith was publicly ])resented with 
 .£2,()0I) and an Address on the occa.sion of 
 his retirement from the academical jiosition 
 which ho had held fcr lifty years. 
 
 Mils, nash's narrative of her father's last 
 HOURS (auridued.) 
 
 "Another favour was indeed granted us in 
 the beginning.; of January, 1851. The season 
 was remarkably mild, and he was enabled to 
 be i)resent to receive the Public Testimonial 
 from his kind friends. His visit to us from 
 the 4th to the loth of January, was a lesson 
 of love and lhank.sgi\ing, to God his lle- 
 deemer first, and on all occasions ; and to 
 earthly agents also, did they freely and fully 
 flow. And amid the excitement of nervous 
 weakness and irritation of the system, 
 lamentation and apology would follow ; and 
 it was clear that however uncontrollaV)le 
 were the bodily sensations, still the Divine 
 Spirit dwelt in the calm depths of his .soul. 
 It was on the evening of his arrival at 
 Homerton, that the little circumstance 
 occurred which is lelated in Dr. Harris's 
 Sermon. He was explaining to us how ditti- 
 cult it had long been to him to write, and 
 how lie now found it necessary to a.ssist the 
 .stiff and somewhat paralyzed fingers with 
 the help of his left hand. Taking up one of 
 the pieces of paper lying near, he traced 
 some marks : — and these, hours after, we 
 accidentally found and read — 'To be with 
 Him — to see Him .as He is.' 
 
 " ' The Pilgrim's Progre.s.s,' Jay's ' Morn- 
 ing Exercises,' and ^V'a^den's ' Sj-.stem of 
 Divinity,'* were the only books (T think) 
 into which he looked, at all continuously, 
 during his visit in our house. 
 
 * This work, of which Dr. Smith had a quarto copy, 
 was puMiiihed in 1769. It is a digest of i)as.sages of 
 Scripture in the words of our Authorized version : a 
 book of texts witliout comments, arranged so as to 
 fonn 11 .System of Divinity. It wiui a groat favourite 
 with the Doctor. — Ed. 
 
 "He spoke to some affectionate relatives 
 on the design he had at one time formed of 
 renewing his aci|uaint.ince with the Greek 
 poets. But adverting to his jieru.sal of the 
 Persa; of ^Kschylus, and the picture of the 
 woes produced by the invasion of Xerxes, he 
 added, ' How soon was I fatigued with the 
 comparatively feeble and puerile narrative, 
 and eagerly turned to the Hebrew Scriptures ; 
 cimipariug with the Greek poet the maje.stic 
 descriptions of Jeremiah in his Lamenta- 
 tions. So unspeakably pathetic, powerful, 
 and satisfying is the Inspired Word.'" — Dr. 
 H;iiris's Sermon, p. 49. 
 
 In addition to the.se remarks, which were 
 addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reed, Dr. 
 Smith said : — " Give my love to my dear 
 cousin " — meaning Mrs. Baines, Sen., of 
 Leeds,* the mother of Mrs. Reed, " and tell 
 her Jrom me — - 
 
 " ' When nature sinks and spirits droo]), 
 'I'liy iiroiiiises of grace 
 Are jiilt'irs to support my hope. 
 And there I write Thy praise.'" 
 
 Passing now to the after part of the day 
 when the testimonial was presented, ilrs. 
 Nash's narrative adds, that Dr. Smith " was 
 evidently relieved by our speedily returning 
 home, instead of prolonging the day's pleasure 
 by joining the family party at Ebenezer's. 
 He spoke with much pleasnre of the many old 
 friends he h.ad that day recognized, though 
 he could not exchange a word with them, 
 (Jtherwi.se, he made no allusion whatever to 
 the meeting, nor any observation nor inquiry 
 at all concerning the purport of the speeches ; 
 not a syllable of which had been convej'ed 
 to him. 
 
 " At prayer time (earlier than common, 
 and Searle was not returned from liilliter 
 S(juare) he begged me to read 2 Tim., i. ch. 
 He then offered solemn thanksgiving foi' the 
 peculiar ' mercies of that day, its unmerited 
 favours : ' — he supplicated ' preparation and 
 meetness against another and more mo- 
 mentous day.' He prayed for his children, 
 naming us all separately, ' his beloved ones,' 
 and then added, ' Though wo part now, it is 
 not for ever : and we can never part from 
 THEE!' This with extraordinary anima- 
 tion. 
 
 " January 10th he left our roof for the last 
 time, and got safely back to Guildford. 
 
 "January 23. My brother went to see 
 
 • The venerable lady, to whom this message of 
 Cliristian sympathy w.is sent, die<l just three weeks 
 after Dr. Smith, aged 75 years. — Ed.
 
 130 
 
 Memmnes of Gospel Tritimphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 him. He complained that sleep was often 
 disturbed ; that he awoke unrefreshed, came 
 down cheerless, cold, and found little relish 
 or refreshment from food. ' Sometimes 
 before or after dinner I sleep, for I cannot 
 read or write ; no power or energy. Early 
 in the evening I go to rest, with Mrs. Smith's 
 kind help. And so my days roll on : — 
 'A guilty, weak, and worthltss worm — 
 ' Yes, a guilty, weak, and worthless worm 
 
 ' On Thy kind arms I faU ; 
 Be Thou my strength and righteousness. 
 My Jesus and my all.' 
 
 * I shall never go to town again, perhaps not 
 out of the house again : (though I thank 
 you for your encoui-agements) I shall bless 
 God in either — in erery case.' 
 
 " Wednesday, February 5, we were all 
 summoned, and anived by an early ti-ain. 
 The reveied sufi'erer had passed a sad night, 
 and the laboriousness of breathing could be 
 perfectly heard down staii-s. We saw him 
 in these circumstances, and endeavoured to 
 meet as it were the throes of fainting nature, 
 and alleviate the feeble struggles which were 
 in his case feeble indeed, and every moment 
 diminishing. There was no drowsine.ss now : 
 he looked at all of us ^vitli intense earnest- 
 ness and affection ; at each one succes-sively, 
 whispering, as the iruspirations became more 
 and more embarrassed — ' Ble.ssings ' — ' Bles- 
 sings,' and this was the last word audible. 
 Towards the afternoon, breathing became 
 composed and lulled into quietness. We 
 did not, indeed, apprehend so near a 
 termination of life ; on the contrary, both 
 medical opinions pronounced on the proba- 
 bility of life being still lengthened for even 
 days to come. We passed the evening 
 together, reciting hymns, and recounting 
 past scenes of ble.ssing and priNilege from our 
 earliest recollections of the beloved parent, 
 who was now apparently reposing in slumlaer. 
 
 " Suddenly, and quite unexpectedly, when 
 it was near upon 1 1 o'clock, we heard the 
 sound of his voice. We were all assembled, 
 and I held our precious father's right hand, 
 which was raised as in a listening attitude. 
 The sound wa.s repeated, unintelligible to us. 
 I asked, ' What is this ? ' A third time we 
 heard it : and there was a slight noise in the 
 
 throat, so slight as to be scarcely audible. 
 But IS AN INSTANT, the pallor which 
 can never be mistaken, which can no- 
 where else be seen — the hue and the fixed- 
 ness of death — overspread the countenance. 
 Nothing could he more momentar}', as it 
 seemed to us. And we felt that he was 
 gone. 
 
 " Blessed spirit, emancipated — welcomed, 
 in a presence of inconceivable glory ! We 
 could only give thanks ; and we did so from 
 our inmost hearts for all that God had done 
 in him and bj- him, and that ever he had 
 been bom." 
 
 INSCRIPTION ON THE MONUMENT IN ABNET 
 
 PARK CEMETERY. 
 
 In Memory of 
 
 The Reverent JOHN" PYE SMITH, D.D.. F.R.S. 
 
 Born at Sheffield, May XSV., MDCCLXXIV. 
 
 Forty-five years Pastor of the Congregational Church 
 
 Assembling in the Old Gravel Pit Meeting House, 
 
 and for 
 
 Fifty years Tutor in the Old College for educating 
 
 Pious Young Men forthe Christuvn Mini.-<try, Homertun 
 
 Died, February V., MDCCCLI. 
 
 lu the seventy-seventh year of his age. 
 
 NOT 1, BUT THE GRACe" OF GOD WHICH 
 
 WAS WITH ME. 
 
 Dr. P^'e Smith delivered the fii-st of the 
 series of lectures on behalf of the British 
 Society in the National Scotch Church, 
 Regent's Square, on the evening of Friday, 
 the 3rd of Februarj', 1843. The attendance 
 was " highly encouraging," and the subject 
 was " The Prerogatives of the Jews." We 
 regret that it is impossible for us to reproduce 
 that wonderful lecture. Tliose who would 
 like to get some idea of it wUl find it run- 
 ning like a golden thread through Dr. Pye 
 Smith's " Scripture Testimony to the Messiah," 
 in two volumes, 8vo., and his four discoui-ses 
 on the '■ Sacrifice and Priesthood of Jesus 
 Christ," works that will go on in the hand 
 of the Divine Spirit — convincing, converting, 
 confirming, and comforting Jewish and 
 GentOe souls until they shall all pass through 
 the gate of pearl and pluck the fruit which 
 shall never wound the hand, and whose un- 
 speakable sweetness shall continue growing 
 in intensity, and shall never cloy through 
 the long, long summer of Eternitv.
 
 K L'
 
 132 
 
 Memories of Gospel Trhi'ni'phs among the Jeics.
 
 The Rer. Francis Avfjxistus Co.v. D.I).. LL.D. 
 
 133 
 
 THE REV. FRANCIS AUGUSTUS COX, D.D., LL.D 
 
 THIBUTE 
 
 From "The Evangelical Magazine," October, 1853. 
 
 ITIOR neaily h:ilf a century Dr. Co.\- had 
 . been the prompt and willing advocate 
 of every great and good «uisp, witliont refer- 
 ence to denominational peculiarity ; and, by 
 his truly genial and loving .spirit, had done 
 nuicli to .soften down those asperities which 
 embitter and pollute the religious atmosphere. 
 It was impo.s.sible to be narrow or sectarian 
 in the truly catholic .society of Dr. Cox. He, 
 doubtless, cherished with a conscientious 
 regard his \aew.s of the ordinance of Christian 
 baptism, as his writings prove ; but he was 
 as free as any man we ever knew from any 
 such obtrusion of them as was inconsistent 
 with the most perfect good fellow.ship. He 
 had a large CJu-istian heart that could em- 
 brace the whole household of faith, and more 
 than thirty years ago did his be.st to help 
 forward the great struggle for free communion 
 in his own denomination. 
 
 It will be forty-two years next month since 
 we had the pleasure of lieing introduced to 
 him by a dear friend, whom he has now met 
 in heaven, after a Sabbath evening service, 
 at Shore-place, Hackney, where he preached 
 from the words, " 7%«?-e is one bod;/." We 
 cai\ never forget the large views of C'hristian 
 catholicity be then advocated, nor the cordial 
 reception he then gave to us, tliough alto- 
 gether unknown in the London ciides. We 
 well remember one utterance of liLs on that 
 occji-sion. He said, with his usual animated 
 expression of countenance, " We must all do 
 our part to pull down this Dagon of sectarian 
 communion, until every friend of Chri.st sliall 
 be ashamed of the old ugly idol." The thing 
 was so forcibly said, and was in such good 
 keeping with the sermon to which we had 
 listened, that it could never pass from the 
 treasures of memory. 
 
 Dr. Cox had a highly versatile cast of mind, 
 capable of adapting itself to a vast variety of 
 l>ursuits, without anything bordering on 
 •listraction. In early life his powers had 
 been well cultivated, and, with his Bri.stol 
 and Kdinburgh studies, he might have .shone 
 in our literary circles, had tlie duties of a 
 large pa.storate permitted. His writings, 
 however, will show, especially hiscontributions 
 
 to the " Encyclopa-dia Metropolitana," that 
 he had powers of a high onler for critical in- 
 ve.stigatioii. J5ut, to his la.sting honour, he 
 .sacrificed his early tastes and predilections to 
 the service of the Christian sanctuary, and 
 devoted himself earnestly to the spiritual 
 interests of a deeply attached church, among 
 whom he laboured with giowing tokens of 
 regard, until he had finished his course with 
 joy, and the ministry he had received from 
 the Lord Jesus. 
 
 MR. COTTOS's TRIBUTE. 
 
 The following tribute was recently written, 
 at our request, by our friend Mr. Cotton, 
 who was brought to a knowledge of the 
 Truth by his noble pastor, the late Dr. Cox. 
 Mr. Cotton's daughter has been for many years 
 our excellentlocalSeeretaryin connection with 
 ^lare Street Baptist Church, Hackney ; and 
 to Mr. Cotton we are deeply indebted foi- the 
 portrait of Dr. Cox, which appears on the 
 opi")site page : — 
 
 " Dear Mr. Drxi.op, — 
 
 " You would like to have a few lines, 
 you say, in reference to the last two or three 
 weeks of the life of my pastor, Dr. Cox. 
 
 " Although I saw him daily during that 
 time, yet there was not much to write about. 
 
 "There wa.s, of cour.se, that beautiful 
 patience and resignation which all who knew 
 him would expect to see exemplitied. 
 
 " I was not at all surprised when I 
 entered his room in the morning to see the 
 genial smile .and the hand hold out to me, 
 it Wiis so like him, like the spiritual father 
 to liis child ; and then came the inijuiry, 
 ' IIow are you going on at JIare Street ? ' 
 With all his sufferings — for he suffered much 
 at the last — he was ever ready to listen to 
 what we knew would give him pleiisure con- 
 cerning the Church ; like the Apostle, he 
 also was anxious to learn concerning the 
 faith of his flock. I never saw him angry 
 but once, righteously angi-y, and then all 
 who were present felt that he ' did well to be 
 .angrv,' but although he was firm and im- 
 moveable for the Truth, yet there was in his 
 manner that which even those who were
 
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 Memories of Gospel Tnum/phs among the Jeivs. 
 
 censured woiild thank him heartily for hLs 
 rebuke. In him the suaviter in modo and 
 the fortiler in re were found in due propor- 
 tion and bound together by the silken cords 
 of tenderness and love. 
 
 " How near he lived to, and walked in, the 
 Spirit of his Master ! 
 
 As a preacher — I speak only for myself — 
 I listened to his teaching as a child to the 
 words of a fatlier beloved ! The Tablet tells 
 what his people thought. 
 
 " How much I owe him my heart only 
 knows. He would have marked out for me 
 a diflerent vocation in hfe, and one for which 
 I longed, but alas, it was not to be. 
 
 " How true it is, ' The memory of the just 
 is blessed ! ' — I remain, dear Mr. Dunlop, 
 yours very sincerely, — F. Cotton." 
 
 " Hackney, June llth, 1893." 
 
 IXSCKIPTIOX ENGRAVED ON A JIARBLE TABLET 
 
 IN MARE STREET CHAPEL, HACKNEY. 
 
 In Lasting Memory of 
 
 FR.\XCIS AUGUSTUS COX, D.D., LL.D., 
 
 Bom March 7, ]"S3, died September 5th, 1853. 
 
 His mortal remains, interred in the adjoining ground, 
 
 Await the Resurrection of the Just. 
 
 Converted in Childhood, 
 
 At the age of 15 he entered Bristol College, 
 
 Graduating afterwards in Edinburgh University. 
 
 His labours in the Christian Ministry, 
 
 Begun in 1S04 at Clipstone in Xorthamptcjnshire, 
 
 Weie in ISOtJ transferred to Cambridge, and in ISll 
 
 to Hackney. 
 
 In this Building, 
 
 erected and twice enlarged during his Pastorate, 
 
 His last Sermon was preached July 31, 1853. 
 
 Commanding in person. Winning in Address, 
 
 elocjuent and leanied, 
 
 Bkmelesa, Humble. Amiable, Devout, 
 
 By Example Confirming whom He Persuaded by 
 
 Appeal, 
 
 He Turned Many to Righteousness. 
 
 Prompt in Every Good Cause, 
 
 His Chief Delight was in Proclaiming the Go.spel of 
 
 the Grace of God : 
 
 Having Finished His Course, 
 
 He came to His Grave in a Full Age. 
 
 Like as a shock of Corn Cometh in His Season, 
 
 Honoured .and Lamented by all. 
 
 Chiefly by Them tliat have erected this Tablet, 
 
 His Church and Congregation. 
 
 The following r.^dmii-able lecture of Dr. Cox 
 was one of the eitrliest delivered on behalf of 
 the Society. We are glad to be able to add 
 that the doctor's interest in the Society and his 
 efforts for the extension of its operations, and 
 the accomplishment of its great oliject, were 
 continued until he was called away to higher 
 service in the Upper Sanctuary. 
 
 THE NATIONAL CHAR,\CTERISTICS OF THE 
 JEWS. 
 (lUitstratcd.) 
 er THE REV. K. A. cox, D.P., LL.D. 
 2 Sam. vii. 22-24. 
 ' WliCftfore Thou art great, Lord God : for there is 
 none like Thee, neither is there any yod beside 
 Thee, aceording to all that we have heard with 
 our ears. And- what one jwtion in the earth is 
 like Tliy people, even like Israel, whom O'od 
 went tu redeem for a people to Himself, and to 
 make Him a nanw, and to do for you great 
 things and terrible, for TJiy land, before Thy 
 jirnple, which Thou redeemcdst to Thee from 
 Egypt, from the nations and their god.s f For 
 Thou hast conjinncd to Thyself Thy peojile 
 Israel, to be a people nnto Thee for ever : and 
 Thou, Lord, art become their God." 
 
 The histor}' of nations has always been 
 ju.stlj' deemed a most interesting and in- 
 structive study. It is not merely calcu- 
 lated to gratify a natural and reasonable 
 curiosity respecting the course of events 
 previously to our entrance into the world ; 
 but — by recording the laws which have 
 governed mankind in different places and 
 states of society, and inducing us to observe 
 their habits, to trace their intellectual and 
 moral character, to consider their literature, 
 science, or religion, and, above all, to mark 
 the dispensations of Providence in the revolu- 
 tions which have characteiized them, — 
 history is adapted to furnish lessons of 
 momentous importance, which may in some 
 measure supply the place of experience, and 
 aid both individuals and communities in tlie 
 conduct of their affairs. 
 
 The frequent imperfection and uncertainty 
 of historical documents is, doubtless, a great 
 deduction from their utility. But though we 
 may not fully lely upon them, there is, in 
 general, enough of reality to invite and to 
 repay our researches. We can catch outlines 
 of events and features of individual charactei- 
 that deserve our closest attention. 
 
 There is one histoiy, however, which is free 
 from these defects, being written by an in- 
 spired pen ; and one nation to which it refers, 
 whose peculiarities of situation and of char- 
 acter render it, of all others, the mcst worthy 
 of thought and inquirj- : the nation of the 
 Jews. As a people they are the most remark- 
 able of anj- that have inhabited our earth. 
 They are so, considered in themselves, their 
 high descent and relations ; but still more as 
 having their peculiar destiny linked by a pre- 
 determining Providence, witli tlie idtimate 
 conditions of all tlie other communities and 
 tribes of mankind. They are thus associated 
 with all people and with all time.
 
 The Rev. Francis AuffHstvs Cox. D.P.. LL.D. 
 
 135 
 
 And horo it may be proper to give a brief 
 iicioiinl of tlio origin of the Jewisli nation. 
 In iloing tliis we .-ihall lie conilucted back to 
 a distant antiquity, and in fact to the fonn- 
 tain-liead of all history. 
 
 The e.\aet manner in which the three sons 
 of Noah peopled the earth after the deluge is 
 not determinable ; but in general we may 
 state that the posterity of Japliet, the eldest, 
 possessed Europe and a considerable portion 
 
 Terah and his family not being exempted 
 from the general infection. Resolving to 
 separate this family from the rest of the 
 nations .and raise up a people for Himself, 
 Goil «lirected 'I'eiah to (juit his residence. 
 This he accordingly did, and took with him 
 his son Alji'aui and his wife, with his grand- 
 .son Lot, to go into Canaan ! but died at 
 JIaran, a city in the north-west of Mesopo- 
 tamia. Thence, by Divine dii-ection, Abram 
 
 MOUNT SINAI. 
 
 of Asia ; that of Ham, the youiige.st, spread 
 over Africa, and a large portion also of Asia ; 
 and Shtia occupied parts of botli the Greater 
 and Lesser Asia, as Assyria, Syria, Mesopo- 
 tamia. Arabia Felix, and other countries. 
 The Kebrew nation descended from Shem, 
 who had several sons. One of the.se was 
 Nahor, who luul a .son named Terab,towhom 
 «cre born Abram, Nahor, and llaran. The 
 latter died in Ur, Iea\-iiig one son. Lot, and 
 two daughter.*, of whom the youngest, Sarai, 
 married Abram. Idolatry and polytheism 
 were at this period univer.sally prevalent ; 
 
 departed, not knowing whither he wetit, Init 
 having the encouraging a.s.surance that, " in 
 his seed all the families of the earth .should 
 1)0 blessed." lie pursued his journey, how- 
 ever, to the land of Canaan, a country lying 
 between the Mediterranean and the moun- 
 tains of Arabia. On one occasion he went 
 into Egypt in conse(|uence of a famine, but 
 sul)sei|uently returned. 
 
 Without entering upon the details of his 
 life, it is sufficient to state that, after having 
 had a son by Ilagar, named Ishmael, who 
 was not the heii- of the promise.s, Isaac was
 
 136 
 
 Memories of Gospd Triumphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 born to him of Sarah, in the dii6 line of 
 succession, in respect to Clod's covenanted 
 mercy. Isaac married Rebecca, daughter of 
 Bethuel, and grand-daughter of Kahor ; con- 
 sequently, the uiece of Abraham. She be- 
 came the mother of Esau and Jacob. The 
 latter was sent bj' his father into Mesopo- 
 tamia, to form an alliance with his own 
 family. By Leah and Bilhah he had several 
 sons, and at length by Rachel, the most re- 
 markable of those who have been denominated 
 patriarchs. Joseph, who having been sold 
 into Egypt, became, by a series of extra- 
 ordinary pro\'idences, the instrument of 
 planting his family there. ThLs fact lands 
 us at the commencement of that history 
 which relates the oppression and subsequent 
 deliverance of Israel from Egypt, and their 
 memorable passiige through the wilderness to 
 the promised land. 
 
 I. Among their chief characteristics, we 
 may reckon the compar.\tive smallxess of 
 
 THE ISRAELITISH SATIOX. 
 
 When Jacob removed with his family to 
 Egypt their number was about seventy souls. 
 At the period of theii' departuie from that 
 country, although they had multiplied con- 
 siderably in the course of time, yet on review- 
 ing their host at Succoth, it was found to 
 consist of only six hundred thousand men, 
 which included strangei-s of several nations 
 who accompanied them. Compared with 
 many other people, therefore, they were few 
 and insignificant ; a mere handful to the 
 great nations of antiquity. 
 
 It would seem consonant with our general 
 ideas of the majesty and glory of the Supreme 
 Being, to suppose that when He was about to 
 display His character through the medium of 
 His creatures to others of those creatures, he 
 would have selected the most maguiticent 
 theatre for the operations of His power and 
 benevolence. It might have been imagined 
 that He would have rendered the greatest 
 empire amongst mankind the place of His 
 dwelling, and the appropriate sphere of His 
 marvellous works ; and it might then be 
 asked, what platform could be sufficiently 
 large for the manifestations of Him whose 
 being is infinite and eternal ? " The heavens, 
 yea, the heaven of heavens, cannot contain 
 Him ; " and with wonder inexpressible might 
 the innumei-able multitude of superior intelli- 
 gences in other worlds be supposed to exclaim, 
 " Will ( Jod in very deed dwell with man upon 
 the earth ? " The language, however, of the 
 Highest Himself on this occasion is, '" The 
 Lord did not set His love upon you, nor 
 
 choose you because ye were more in number 
 than any people, for ye were the fewest of 
 all people." 
 
 But God does not need a medium exter- 
 nally great to exalt His own perfections. 
 That which is in itself little becomes gi-eat by 
 an alliance with His attributes, and excels in 
 glory as the instrument of HLs moral opera- 
 tions. WTien it was the Divine purpose to 
 give the richest exhibition of His character 
 in the form of mercy to the rebellious. He 
 selected, as it were, a speck in immensity, an 
 atom moving to and fro in a small .space 
 amidst mighty orbs and congregated worlds ; 
 and in that insignificant atom sought to get 
 to Himself a gi-eat and a gloi-ious name. On 
 this Uttle spot he gathered a few people; 
 among them He performed miracles of gi-ace 
 and power ; there He planted His Truth, 
 which, like a fruitful vine, grew even in 
 an uncnngenial soil ; and at last, having 
 formed them into a nation, and preserved 
 them through the changes and the .storms 
 of many generations, he sent his own Son, in 
 the likeness of sinful flesh, to die for their 
 and the world's salvation, and thus to fulfil 
 a mysterious dispensation of grace, predestined 
 to fill heaven with the redeemed of earth, and 
 eternity with the praises of happy souls. 
 We are taught by all this that it is not the 
 material dimensions of a work which consti- 
 tute it glorious, and render it worthy of cele- 
 bration, but its moral character and gi'eat 
 design. 
 
 It may be further remarked, that if God 
 had chosen any of the great nations of the 
 earth as His peculiar people, the enemies of 
 religion might have objected that their pre- 
 servation was attributable to their own power 
 and greatness ; and this is the very reason 
 which God has Himself assigned for the choice 
 of this insignificant people. He warns them, 
 when they should possess the promised land, 
 and see themselves surrounded with all its 
 beautj- and fertility, against imagining that 
 " their own power and might had gotten them 
 this wealth ; " on the contrary, they were 
 desired to " remember the Lord their God : 
 for it is He that giveth thee power to get 
 wealth, that He may establish His covenant, 
 which He sware unto thy fathei-s" (Deut, 
 viii. 18.) And the same general principle 
 appeal's to govern all the Di\-ine proceedings. 
 The selfishness and self-sufficiency of man 
 peipetually induce him to exalt his own 
 imagined greatness and capacity, and so to 
 regard and magnify second causes as to hide 
 fiom view, if net absolutely to deny the
 
 The Rcr. Francis Augustvs Co-r, D.D.. f./.J). 
 
 137 
 
 providential goverument of tlie greiit Supreme. 
 JIo is ever inclined to attribute to liinisclf 
 wlmt belongs to God, and to come with liis 
 |>rf|M).sterous assumptions in the front of J lis 
 glory, instead of r(>tii'ing humbly behind it. 
 That blaze of light, indeed, cannot be ecliiiscd 
 by such a apeck of dust and ashes, notwith- 
 standing all human presumptions ; yet to 
 corn'ct this vaunting absurdity the Divine 
 Heing is wont to employ small means and 
 inferior agency, that llis own real character 
 
 deities, and at length to the gros.sneKS of 
 idolatry. Error becjimo eveiywhero jirolilic, 
 and all the vices were practi-sed under its 
 dark shadow. It was requisite that the 
 great Supreme should as.sert llis claim and 
 re-a.ssume llis dominion, and amidst the 
 fallacies .-ind follies that [)revailed among the 
 nations, kindle the lamp of Truth, and guide 
 the wanderer in the way of peace. 
 
 For this purpose lie made choice of the 
 Israelitish people, and constituted them the 
 
 .MODKL or TIIK TMll'.llNACI.K. 
 
 and claims may be ap2)reciated. And thus, 
 in the e.xerci.so of His wisdom, and love too, 
 He maintains the prerogatives of His own 
 real theocracy as the (iovernor of the uni- 
 vei-s;il world, and the ruler anient: all nations 
 and generations of men. 
 
 II. The Jewish xatiox was spe( iai.i.v 
 CHosEx OF God as the dei'ositary and 
 
 CONSEUVATon OF THE ONLY TRUE RELIGION. 
 
 Although in Eden the new created man 
 enjoyed the vi.sits of Deity; by his fall man- 
 kind lo.st that favour, and then the right 
 conception of his nature. Low thoughts of 
 God led to the multiplication of imaginary 
 
 sanctuary of Religion. Under this hallowed 
 name, indeed, the nations had deviated into 
 numberless forms of error. All like sheep 
 had gone a.stray. To accomplish llis merciful 
 design of e.stablishing Truth and promoting 
 righteousne.ss in the earth, (iod raised up 
 Lsrael, and proclaimed Himself to them by 
 His name Jehovah — the One — the self- 
 existent Being. Idolatry had displaced llim 
 from ^tlie throne of the' hvunan mind and 
 alTections; in fact, denied liis cxi.stence, and 
 annihilated all thought of Him. This was an 
 act of .self-destruction, in which all nations 
 liad upited a-s consentient to the common ruin
 
 138 
 
 MemoHes of Gospel Triumphs ammig fhe Jews. 
 
 of our rnee. It was, consequently, a deed of 
 mercy to rescue them, by a revelation of His 
 character and Truth. He therefore chose the 
 Je«-ish people — among them declared His 
 name, that they might become the light of 
 the whole earth — vintUcated His claims to 
 their and the world's reverence hj miiacles 
 and manifestations of surpassing grandeur — 
 enacted His Holy Law on Sinai — caused a 
 Tabernacle for His worship to be erected, and 
 religious institutions to be framed — and 
 graciously undertook their guidance and 
 government as their Legislator, tlieir King, 
 and their God. " ^^'hat nation is there," 
 says Moses, " so great, who hath God so nigh 
 unto them, as the Lord our God is in all 
 things that we call upon Him for ? And 
 what nation is there so great, that hath 
 statutes and judgments so righteous, as all 
 this law which 1 set before you this day?" 
 (Deut. iv. 7, 8.) 
 
 Nations have been celebrated in history on 
 various accounts ; some for the extent of their 
 territorj-, some for the prowess of their arms, 
 and some for the degree of their refinement ; 
 but the unrivalled distinction of the people 
 of Israel was, that they were the recipients 
 (if the true religion, communicated to them 
 immediately from Hecven itself. Tbe pen of 
 the secular historian might have described 
 them merely as a cuiious tribe wandering for 
 a time through the dreary borders of the Red 
 b'ea, little calculated either to awaken sym- 
 pathy or dread. But who that entertains 
 just conceptions, whether of Judaism or 
 Christianity, does not perceive that thej' were 
 the very people whom God had chosen as His 
 own, who were encompassed with His pro- 
 tection, and illuminated with His Truth ; and 
 without whom the future generations of 
 mankind must have remained in the depths 
 and darkness of the great apostasy ? The 
 absence of religion, or the prevalence of a 
 false religious faith, universally degrades 
 man ; while the knowledge of God, and the 
 cultivation of piety, dignifies him. B3' this, 
 nations, as well as individuals, are elevated, 
 and in despite of all the disadvantages which 
 may otherwise belong to them, are invested 
 with glory. Although economies have 
 changed, yet whatever any people have since 
 known of religion has been primarily drawn 
 from this source The germ of that Christi- 
 anity which brings '• glory to God in the 
 highest " is found here ; so that all Truth is 
 drawn fiom Israel as its primeval spring. 
 From them we have the essential principle 
 of Christian institutions, the shadowy outline 
 
 of all our good things, the lively oracles of 
 spiritual wisdom, and by descent, promise, 
 and covenant with them, the Saviour of the 
 worlil. As the recipients and depositaries of 
 true religion, therefore, they are pre-eminent. 
 We enter not now into any argument to 
 satisfy a suspicious .scepticism as to whether 
 theirs was indeed the true religion, and 
 whether they were placed under that peculiar 
 dispens:ition which has been denominated the 
 Theocracy. It is suilicient to remark, that 
 botli they and we have good reason to know 
 it by the twofold evidence of miracle and 
 prophecv. A vast series of the former 
 constituted a continued proof of their pecu- 
 liar distinction as a nation ; while the latter 
 has been like a lamp that has shone in the 
 Church ever since the Creation with a per- 
 manent and ever increasing splendour. On 
 how many events has it cast its illustrative 
 light tliat have already transpired, and on 
 how many yet to come, does it cast forward 
 and around it a glorious i-adiance, so as to 
 cheer the Church of God with anticipations 
 of the future and unrivalled triumphs of 
 religion ! 
 
 Some have greatl\' perplexed themselves 
 with the inquiry, Why should one nation 
 only have been selected to receive Heaven's 
 best communications, when all stood in equal 
 need, and in equal relationship to the uni- 
 versal Father ? Why might not the whole 
 earth have been constituted the same theatre 
 of meiciful manifestation.s, so that the evils 
 of the great apostasy might have been at 
 once and for ever removed ? 
 
 Questions of this nature, which will fre- 
 (|uently suggest themselves to intelligent and 
 inquiring minds, are perhaps scarcely suscep- 
 tible of answers that shall convince a dis- 
 putative mind, while they may be resolved to 
 the satisfaction of humble piety. The demand 
 that everything in the dispensations of pro- 
 vidence and grace should be ordered accord- 
 ing to our judgment is unreasonable, since 
 we cannot be competent to take into view 
 all the relations of things, or the vastness 
 of a scheme, with its subordinate and 
 dependent circumstances, that stretches 
 over an illimitable space and an infinite 
 duration. It would seem in some respects 
 as proper to ask, Why the earth was 
 constituted as it is — why there were only so 
 many oceans, or rivers, or mountains — why 
 there are uncultivated wilds and untrodden 
 wildernesses — whj' the earth was placed 
 where it is — or why man was not an angel ? 
 as to appeal against the Divine decisions in
 
 The Rev. Francis Augxtstns Cox, D.D., fJ.jK 
 
 139 
 
 the moral phenomena of his creation. In 
 every final arrangement there must boa will 
 and a decision souicwliere ; and consequently, 
 in the universe thei'e must bo the Creator's 
 sovereignty. Sovereignty is the law by which 
 He alone must neces.sarily act ; and which, if 
 there be anything difficult to comprehend, 
 will be hereafter explained. In the present 
 case none deserved any favour or distinction : 
 and that any were so distinguished, and 
 moreover made the medium of benefiting 
 others, and eventually the whole world, must 
 ha regarded as — sovereignty indeed — but the 
 sovereignty of love, — a cloud of mystery 
 tinged with the radiance of heaven's ov.ii 
 liglit. 
 
 III. The l.vDESTiucriuiuTY or the. Jewish 
 N.VTiuN is another of its striking characteris- 
 tics. 
 
 From the moment of its formation, this 
 was a remarkable feature. The oppressions 
 of Egypt, nol only did not answer the puipose 
 of their extinction, but were made subser- 
 vient to their increase. The inspired testi- 
 mony is, " the more they afflicted them, the 
 more they multiplied and gi'ew. And they 
 (the Egyptians) were grieved because of the 
 children of Lsrael." Nor did it satisfy their 
 enemies to adopt the ordinary methods of 
 injurj' and ruin ; Pharaoh " charged all his 
 people, saying, Everj' son that is born, ye 
 shall cast into the river." 15ut even this 
 decree of a despot was singularly overruled 
 by the providence of God in rendering those 
 W'ho were appointed as the executors of a 
 bloody decree, the very instruments of pre- 
 .serving Hebrew life ; and in particular in 
 the pieservation, by a kind of miracle, of 
 Moses, who was destined to become the 
 deliverer of His people, and their guide 
 through the desert. 
 
 And then, with regard to that extraordi- 
 nary jciuruey of theirs for forty years, in 
 dangers, destitution, and death, they were 
 still preserved. They were as a nation 
 immortal amidst all destructive agencies. 
 The sun could not smite them ; the unpro- 
 ductive wilderness could not famish them; 
 the fiercest foes could not annihilate them. 
 And why ? Never before was any nation in 
 such peril ; never did a people before, nay, 
 scarcely even a retreating army, become 
 subject to such strange encounters. Never 
 did a people before or since live amidst such 
 various and i-oncenlriug evils, — from foes 
 without and di.scords within, contending 
 i>ften with the very means of their preserva- 
 tion, and full of hostile remonstrances agaipsfc 
 
 the best friends of their nation, and the very 
 God of theii- salvation. But Jehovah for.sook 
 them not. Their ingratitude and rebellion 
 did not drive Him from His covenanted mercy 
 and faithfulness. The provocation altered 
 not His chai-acter, withdrew not llis arm, 
 embittered not the ever full and flowing 
 stream of His loving-kindness. " I, the 
 Lord, change not," was the pledge of their 
 security ; the wall of lire round about, and 
 the glory in the midst of them. 
 
 i'.ut a new and surjirising evidence of their 
 indestructibility, and of the character of their 
 God, had since presented itself in their cap- 
 tivity, but still more illustriously in their 
 present state of dispersion. As a people they 
 lia\e been cast off, but not destroyed. Their 
 condition is a perfect anomaly in the history 
 of mankind ; for while other people and vast 
 empires have been annihilated by the progr&ss 
 of concpie.st, or the power of coriuption, they 
 are exhibiting to the view of the world the 
 strange fact of a nation, w ho have sufl'ered 
 the entire subversion of their institution)?, 
 the demolition of their country, and the 
 dispersion of their people, who have been 
 scattered and peeled, scorned and trampled 
 under foot in every land, divided, inter- 
 mingled ; without a territory, without pro- 
 tecting laws, without, as it were, one earthly 
 friend, and yet they live, retain their 
 distinction as Jews, their rites, their language, 
 their features, alas! their prejudices; .sufl'er- 
 ing evtn-ywhere the .self-denounced curse of 
 their forefathers in rejecting Christ as their 
 Messiah, which invoked the blood of the 
 Innocent One upon them.selves and their 
 children. 
 
 A Jew is nowhere to be mistaken. He 
 has the mark upon his forehead of a thousand 
 generations. You .see the son of Abraham 
 living to-day; this cast-ofT branch of earth's 
 teeming population still putting forth its 
 leaves, and pushing its ramifications into 
 cities near, and kingdoms remote ; witnessing, 
 in the veiy curse upon them, the everlasting 
 Truth of God. 
 
 And is this state of anomalous dispersion, 
 it may be inquired, to continue to the end of 
 the world ? This question leads to the last 
 peculiarity to be mentioned, as their national 
 chai-acteristic. 
 
 IV. Their Restoration as a People. 
 
 This is as wonderful a fact, embosome<l in 
 Iuo|)hecy, as any portion of their past history ; 
 and in this too are they distinguished from 
 all other people. We have heard of no 
 resurrection before from the entombment of
 
 140 
 
 Mevwries of Gospel Tnumphs among the Jews. 
 
 a national ruin. We have not heard of a 
 destroyed and scattered people I'evivified, 
 reunited, and built up again into empire. 
 Their birth a.s a nation, their dispersion and 
 their restoi'ation, are all wonderful, —we may 
 say, mighty events ; all bespeak a novel and 
 marvellous character in the general scheme 
 of things ; all outrun probabilities, and defy 
 imitation. The JewLsh nation is in fact a 
 
 Judah: Not according to the covenant that 
 I made with their fathers in the day that I 
 took them by the hand to bring them out of 
 the land of Egypt ; which ISly covenant they 
 brake, although I was an husband unto them, 
 r.aith the Lord : But this shall he the covenant 
 that I will make u^th the house of Israel ; 
 After those days, saith the Lord, I will put 
 My law in their inward parts, and wTite it in 
 
 ■|y!, I 
 
 
 SHADOWS OF GOOD THINGS. 
 
 miracle in the mighty system of human 
 existence ; it stands like a monument, lofty 
 as the skies, and alone ! 
 
 The general restoration of the Jews, by 
 conversion to Christianity, seems to be an 
 event universally admitted and anticipated ; 
 so clearly is it written on the page of Scrip- 
 ture. It forms a part of that new covenant 
 into which God has entei'ed with His ancient 
 people. "I Behold, the days come, .saith the 
 Lord, that I will make a new covenant with 
 the house of Israel, and with the house of 
 
 their hearts; and will be their God, and they 
 .shall be My people. And they shall teach no 
 more every man his neighbour, and every 
 man his brother, saying. Know the Lord : for 
 they shall all know Me, from the lea-st of 
 them unto the greatest of them, saith the 
 Lord : for I will forgive their iniquity, and I 
 wll remember their sin no more." (Jeremiah 
 xsxi. 31 — 34). It is intimated that the uni- 
 versal conversion of mankind will occur about 
 the same period with that of the Jews, so 
 that Jew and Gentile will become " one fold
 
 Till' lifr. Frfiiiris AiKjnxins Co.r. 1).D.. I.L.D. 
 
 141 
 
 under one sliejtlienl " The language of Isaiah 
 is most animate<l and ex](Hcit. Isaiah Ix. 
 1 — 5, " Arise, shine ; for tliy liglit is rome, 
 and the gloiy of the Lord is risen upon tliee. 
 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the 
 earth, and gross darkness the people : but 
 the Lord shall arise upon thee, and His glory 
 shall be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles 
 shall come to thy light, and kings to the 
 brightness of thy rising. Lift up thine 
 eyes round about, and see : all they gather 
 them.selves together, they come to Tliee : thy 
 .sons shall come from afar, and thy daughters 
 shall be nursed at thy .side. Then thou slialt 
 see, and tlow together, and tliine heart shall 
 fear, and be enlarged ; because the abundance 
 of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the 
 forces of the Gentiles .shall come unto thee." 
 The apo.stle also in the Romans not only states 
 the facts, but represents the happy results. 
 " Now if the fall of them be the riches of the 
 world, and the diminishing of them the inches 
 of the Gentiles ; how much more their ful- 
 ness ? . . . For if the casting away of them 
 Ije the reconciling of the world, what shall 
 the receiving of them be, but life from the 
 dead ? ... For I would not, brethren, 
 that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, 
 '.est yo should be wise in your own conceits ; 
 that blindness in part is happened to Israel, 
 until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in." 
 — Romans xi. 12, 15, 2.5. 
 
 Incidental to the general conversion of the 
 Jews to Christianity Ls the question respecting 
 their restoration to their own land. On this 
 there has been a gi-eat division of opinion, 
 arising out of the divei'sity which has obtained 
 with regard to the piinciple of inteipretation ; 
 some maintaining the literal, and others the 
 spiritual appliciition of the prophecies on this 
 subject. With this too ha.s been, a.s it is 
 supposed, naturally connected the further 
 question as to the jwrsonal reign of Messiah 
 on the earth. It may not be wise 
 dogmatically to pronounce on the.se points 
 of controversy, in which di-sputants seem 
 fqually certain of their own opinions ; 
 but this at least may be admitted that the 
 one does not necessarily involve the other. 
 If the return of the Jews to their own land 
 be assumed, we are not compelled to decide 
 on the personal reign. The questions appear 
 to be diflerent in character ; and what Ls 
 literal and what is figurative must lie deter- 
 mined by the considei-ation of many circum- 
 stances and analogies. It seems nothing 
 incongruous to suppose that the Jews may 
 literally re-occupy their country, but tliat 
 
 the coming of Christ to them may be viewed 
 as analogous to His coming at the destruction 
 of Jerusalem, which, however plainly deehired, 
 was not in pei-son, but in judgments. The 
 frequent use of the word land, and the very 
 explicit references given, render it ditlicult 
 to realize the fulfilment of such predictions 
 as othenvise than I'.teral ! while the analogies 
 traceable respecting the manifestations of 
 Christ and His residence in the Church, 
 appear to justify the conception that His 
 final abode in Zion will be that of moral 
 power and .spiritual influence ; and that He 
 will, by the triumphs of His Gospel, have 
 " the heathen for His inheritance, and the ut^ 
 tcrinost parts of the earth for His possession." 
 
 With one thing, at lea.st, we are solicitous, 
 that the Jewish people should be impressed, 
 namely, that we, as Gentiles profe-ssing 
 Christianity, sympathize deeply with their 
 sorrows, and rejoice as strongly in the 
 prospect of their future happiness. Let 
 them be assured that the oppressions which 
 have been, or are exercised upon them by 
 the secular governments of mankind have 
 none of our consent, much less of our 
 co-opei-ation ; Init that we are desiious of 
 lending the lielping hand to the mourning 
 daughter of Israel, to raise her from the dust 
 and depression of so many centuries. We 
 are prepared to show the Jews from their 
 own prophecies that theii- Messiah is come, 
 that their Messiah is ours, and that the 
 blessings we expect for oui-selves in His 
 universal reign are enhanced in value and 
 sweetened in hope, by the anticipation of 
 their being the partners of our jo}', when 
 the earth shall be covered with the know- 
 ledge of the Lord. 
 
 Christian benevolence Ls not of a character 
 to feel satisfaction in the dis;idvantages of 
 others. It has no thought of rising through 
 their depr&sdon. It has nothing in it of the 
 exclusive or monopolising spirit. It would 
 in fact be a serious detraction from our 
 joyfulness, in looking forward to the future 
 condition of the world, if we could imagine 
 that the Jewish nation would still continue 
 prostrate amidst the general elevation of 
 mankind, and in gi-ief amid.st its songs of 
 triumph and of gladness. 
 
 Circumstances have seemed to interpose a 
 great gulf between us and the Jewish nation, 
 even though their dispersions have caused 
 their intermixture with all as individuals. 
 Their prejudices, we doubt not, have been 
 exa.sperated alike by the edicts of govern- 
 ments, and the ridicule and contempt of the
 
 142 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 people. But as Christians, we can traverse 
 this gulf, and are bound to repudiate tins 
 kind of outlawry. It is the tender mercies 
 of God we are to imitate ; His judgments we 
 silently adore. The improved and ever 
 ameliorating state of society ; the movements 
 of tliought, and the progress of inquiry 
 in various quarters; the general coui-se 
 of events in concurrence with the Word 
 of inspiration ; the growing sympathies 
 in tiie seed of Abraham, " the friend of God ; " 
 the spreading light and spreading love of tlie 
 Christian Church, all indicate good to Israel. 
 " Thy kingdom come " is a prayer whicli 
 comprehends their final return and salvation, 
 and ascends from ten thousand liearts every 
 day. And truly we are ready to believe that 
 in this direction, at least, the tide of human 
 things is tuining, and earth's varied popula- 
 
 tion is beginning to How towards the moun- 
 tain of tlie Lord's house, whicli shall be 
 established above the hills. In the inter- 
 mingling waters I see distinctly the stream 
 of the returning people of God, iind hail tlie 
 day, near it may be, bright and blessed it will 
 be, when all shall be one in Christ. The 
 hoGtihty of the Gentile, the prejudice of the 
 Jew, will disappear and be lost in the depths 
 of overflowing love. The heavens will pour 
 down their blessings, the earth yield her in- 
 crea.se. The downcast and discomfited demons 
 of discord will flee away to their hiding-places 
 and their hell ; while, hand in hand, every 
 tribe and people will walk the renovated 
 earth, restored from the fall, adorned with 
 the beauty of holiness, and revisited by its 
 Maker and its God. " Let the people praise 
 Thee, O God, let all the people prai.se Thee!" 
 
 REV. THOMAS ARCHER, A.M., D.D. 
 
 1806— 1843— 1S64. 
 
 THOMAS ARCHER was born in Perth 
 on the 19th of September, 1806, re- 
 ceived the rudiments of liis education at 
 Pei'tli Academy, was brought up under the 
 ministr)' of the Rev. Mr. Aikman, and 
 afterwards of his successor, the Rev. John 
 Newlands, D.D. In his 15th year he went 
 to the LTniver.sity of St. Andrew's, where he 
 attended the elotpient lectures of Dr. Tiiomas 
 Chalmers, and from whom he i-eceived most 
 precious and pernianent moral and spiritual 
 impulses. After this he went to Glasgow, 
 whore he studied theology for five years 
 under Dr. Dick. At the close of 1831 he 
 was sent up to London to supply O.xendon 
 United Piesbyterian Church, which was then 
 pastorless. After preaching there as a pro- 
 bationer for two months, he received a 
 unanimous invitation to become the pastor. 
 Believing the call to be of God, he accepted 
 it heartily, and arrangements were made for 
 his ordination. His own pastor. Dr. New- 
 lands, joui'neyed from Perth to London in 
 order to be present and take part in the 
 solemn service, which took place on the 3rd 
 of May, 1832, and on the following Sabljath 
 he ably and fittingly introduced his young 
 friend to the O.xendon Church and Con- 
 gregation. 
 
 It has been said that there are three 
 kinds of minLsters — those who work for God ; 
 those who work with God ; and those who 
 let God work through them. In Mr. 
 
 Archer we find the three in one. It was 
 his supreme conviction that the channel 
 must ever be flooded with the water of life at 
 the heavenward end ; that " to prayer and 
 pains all things are possible;" that the 
 name of Jesus is the only name that never 
 loses its charm : 
 
 *' It falls like music on the ear, 
 When aotliing else can soothe or cheer." 
 And thus as a pastor, a preacher, and a 
 lecturer, with Jesus only and Jesus always, 
 from the centre to the circumference of his 
 being and doing, he was the channel of 
 divine blessing to many souls, botli old and 
 young. 
 
 In 1839, after the appearance of the 
 tracts for the times, he gave a course of 
 lectures, which were published, on Popery, 
 Puseyism, and Protestantism. The success 
 of these lectures took no one by sui'prise so 
 much as himself. It was the very subject 
 on which the public mind was keenly sensi- 
 tive, and eagerly .sought for information. 
 Accordingly, on the fir.st night, not only the 
 body of the church, but the galleries, which 
 it had lieen thought necessary to have 
 lighted, the aisles, the entrance lobliies, were 
 ci'owded with anxious and attentive listeners. 
 The course was most successful throughout, 
 being attended by High and Low Churchuien 
 as well a.s by Dissenters of eveiy denomina- 
 tion. From this time his course was one of 
 increasing popularity and usefulness. He
 
 Rev. Thomas Arclier, A.}/., />./). 
 
 143 
 
 next gave a public course of lectures on the 
 fultiluent of Prophecy as exemplified in the 
 history of the Jews. 
 
 On Friday evening, the 2 tth of Februarj', 
 1S43, he delivered the fourth of the fii-st 
 series of lectures on the Jews in connection 
 with the British Societj- ; and at its first 
 public meeting, held on Monday evening, the 
 24th April, 1843, he moved one of the 
 resolutions, and gave an earnest and power- 
 ful address. 
 
 At a meeting of the committee, held on 
 Monday, the 1st of April, 1844, it was 
 sUted ''That the Rev. Thomas Archer had 
 delivered his promised lecture to the Jews at 
 Whitefield Chapel on 
 Saturday, the 30th 
 inst., when several 
 Jews and Jewesses 
 were present." 
 
 In the Third Annual 
 Report presented at 
 the public meeting, 
 held in Freemasons' 
 Hall, on Friday even- 
 ing, the 24th of April, 
 184C, we read: "The 
 thanks of the Society 
 are specially due to the 
 Rev. R. H. Herschell, 
 for hLs able advocacy 
 of the cause in various 
 parts of the country; 
 and likewise to the 
 Revs. James Hamil- 
 ton, Dr. Archer, J. P. 
 Dobson, J. A. Miller, 
 Wilson, and others, for 
 their aid in the pulpit 
 and on the platform ; 
 and to ministers and 
 Christian friends in 
 the country who have 
 
 kindly received and co-opei-ated with our 
 deputations." 
 
 Dr. Archer's disinterested labours in aid 
 of the Society continued until his decease in 
 1864. The prayer which he offered up, that 
 he might l)e permitted to engage in Christian 
 work to the very close of his earthly life, w;ls 
 fully answered. He had the unspeakable 
 joy of preaching the Gospel at his latter end 
 as well as ever he did at the beginning of his 
 ministerial career. 
 
 His last illness was brief and free from 
 acute pain. About 10 o'clock on Wednesday 
 morning, November 30th, 1864, he literally 
 fell a.<«leep on the bosom of his Saviour, as 
 
 sweetly as a tired child goes to rest in its 
 niotlier's arms. Without a sigh or a move- 
 ment, without a cloud or a fear, he passed 
 away in perfect peace to his reward in 
 paradise. 
 
 The following 
 
 ISSCUIPTIOX 
 
 we have taken from his monument in 
 Abney Park ('emetery, a sloeping-place which 
 he himself opened in 1840 by a very impres- 
 sive and eloquent adilress, in the presence 
 of the Lord Mayor and a large gathering of 
 citizens; — 
 
 Erected 
 
 By His Congregation, 
 
 In MemDrtj i>f 
 
 THOMAS ARCHER, D.D., 
 
 For thirty - three ye.-.rs 
 the m'jch-lijved Pastor of 
 the United Pre.ibyterian 
 Church, Oxendon Street. 
 
 Born in Perth, 
 19th Sept., ISOG : 
 
 Died in London, 
 30th Nov., 1804. 
 
 A faitlif id Minister of the 
 Lord Jesus Christ. An 
 attractive preacher, and 
 an accomplished public 
 speaker. He long held a 
 high place among the able 
 and eloquent Christian 
 Philanthropists, whose aim 
 it was to maintain the 
 cause of Liberty, anil Truth, 
 and to promote The Best 
 Interests of Men of all 
 classes and climes. 
 
 He was pre-eminently 
 The Friend of Youth. 
 
 " He that winneth 
 Is Wise." — xi. Pror. 
 
 Souls 
 30th. 
 
 REV. T. ARCHER, D.D. 
 
 THE DISPERSION OF THE JKWS. 
 Bv The Rev. T. Archer. 
 Jer. 1. C, 7. 
 " ^[tJ people hath been lost sheep : yea my Hock- was 
 Mattered upon all the /arc of the earth : they ha re 
 gone from mountain to hill, they hare forgottni their 
 resting plare. All that found them hare deroured them : 
 and their adversarica said, We offend not, because 
 they have sinned against the Lord, the habitation 
 of justice ; even the Lord the hope of their 
 fathers." 
 
 Joel, ill 2. 
 " / in'// r>lea€l iclth them for my people ami for my 
 heritage Jxrael, whom titcy hare sfattcrtd among the 
 nati'tns and jMrted my land." 
 
 When, at no remote period, the cry for 
 rescue rose from the shores of the yEgean,
 
 144 
 
 Memories of Gospel Trhinvplis ariioiuj the Jews. 
 
 and reached oui- land, thoijuick ear of poetry 
 caught the sound, and its genius invoked the 
 classic patriotism of Europe in behalf of 
 Greece, — desolate, but lovely in its desolation. 
 Imagination Hew from the scenes of piracy 
 and vassalage and semi-barbarism, of oppres- 
 sion and ignorance and crime, to the land 
 where Homer sang and Demosthenes 
 thundered ; to Athens and its art and refine- 
 ment ; ThermopyL-e and its freedom ; the 
 groves and their philosophy, — their imagina- 
 tive, poetic superstition. The illusion was 
 deep, impressive, magical ; and the thunder 
 of Navarin was the reply of Europe to the 
 appeal of expiring liberty, the groans of the 
 slaves, and the invocations of the siiades of 
 their ancestry. Associations not less truly 
 interesting, and inconceivably more endui'ing, 
 cluster on the Jew. Degraded as the Greek 
 pirate he may have been, ho may be ; but 
 around him plays the twilight of a more 
 brilliant day than ever dawned on the 
 Acropolis. Jewish poetiy had its type in 
 the minstrel monarch of Palestine. The 
 eloquence of Isaiah, rapt in the rushing 
 visions of future glory ; — the genius of 
 Ezekiel, scathing in its impetuous fervour, as 
 if with the power of condensed lightning- 
 gleams ; — the imagination of Jeremiah, now 
 melting by its moving plaintive tendei'ness, 
 now startling by stern, but not less lifelike, 
 truthful portraitures; — the wise expanded 
 legislation of Moses ; — the enlightened ardent 
 philosophy of Paul, sublimely comprehensive, 
 yet beautifully practical; — above all, the 
 character of the Nazaiine, so peifectly unique 
 and sustained, calm, yet sensitive ; majestic, 
 yet simple ; divine, yet responding to every 
 thiob, vibrating with every chord of the 
 human heart ;- -these, for all were Jews, 
 David and David's Lord, Moses, Isaiah, 
 Ezekiel, Jeremiah, Paul, have thrown around 
 the Jewish name imperishable interest ; 
 interest which never can be exhausted, 
 never decay till poetry and eloquence 
 lose their charms, philosophy its authority, 
 freedom its attraction, pure patriotism 
 blended, softened with matchless benevo- 
 lence their wild fascinations, and the 
 plans of mercy, to whose illustration 
 and advancement all were consecrated, 
 their momentous relations, their infinite 
 grandeui'. 
 
 The history of the Jews, besides, embrace.s 
 so wide a field of action, and penetrates so 
 deeply into the remoteness of earth's 
 antiquity, as to stand alone. Since first they 
 were nationalized, the anangements of society 
 
 have been frecpiently changed, its landmark.s 
 removed, and the empires which successively 
 stript them of independence have themselves 
 perished, — palsied by age, disriqitured by 
 their unwieldly bulk, or befoi'e the fresh 
 and .stirring strength of .some youthful 
 antagonist. The Jews, scattered indeed, 
 but linked by the potent though silent 
 sympathies of fatherland, have outlived 
 the dynasties that enslaved them, and now 
 rise among the ruins of ancient thrones, 
 the fragments of ancient institutions, 
 and on the dust of ancient empires ; 
 themselves a ruin, but lofty, noble, and 
 indestructible. 
 
 I'o these considerations let there be added 
 the thoughts that the history of the Jews is 
 a MORAL LESSON, an eloquent enfoi'cement 
 of the great truth, that nations, as such, are 
 responsible, and that having no future social 
 existence, this earth is the only theatre of 
 developed responsibility and felt retribution ; 
 — that the Jews are a miracle, a people pre- 
 served amid the wreck of emjjires, and the 
 heaving, the dischai-ge of storms that have 
 assailed them for three thousand years ; — ■ 
 are a propiiec:y, a people whose movements 
 were mapped in minutest detail, with perfect 
 circumstantial accuracy, ages before they 
 have been realized ! — and who does not 
 feel the force of these united considera- 
 tions ui'ging close, frequent study of Jewish 
 history in the light of moral principle, 
 piedictive statement, and providential 
 control '/ 
 
 THE DIVINE OOTLINE OF JEWISH HISTORY. 
 
 The simplest, and perhaps the most suc- 
 cessful mode of presenting the subject will 
 be to collect the elements of prophecy re- 
 giirding it ; not to test the accuracy of the 
 prediction, to verify its accompli.shment, 
 mei'ely or chiefly, but as containing an out- 
 line of Jewish history, which we shall en- 
 deavour to fill up. For this purpose we quote 
 the following passages of Scripture : — " I will 
 scatter you among the heathen, and will 
 draw out a sword after you .... And upon 
 them that are left alive of you I will send a 
 faintness into their heaiis in the lands of 
 theii' enemies ; and the sound of a shaken 
 leaf shall chase them ; and they sh.'ill flee, as 
 fleeing from a sword ; and they fall when 
 none pursueth. And they shall fall one upon 
 another, as it were before a sword, when none 
 pursueth : and ye shall have no power to 
 stand before your enemies. And ye shall
 
 146 
 
 Memories of Gonpd Tritimplis (tmong the Jeivs. 
 
 perish among the heatlien, and the land of 
 your enemies shall eat j-ou up. And they 
 that are left of yon shall pine away in their 
 iniquity in your enemies' lands ; and also in 
 the ini(juities of their fathers shall they pine 
 away with them." " The Lord shall scatter 
 you among the nations, and ye shall be left 
 few in number among the heathen, whither 
 the Lord shall lead you." " And among these 
 nations shalt thou lind no ease, neither shall 
 the sole of thy feet have rest : but the Lord 
 shall give thee there a trembling heart, and 
 failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind : and thy 
 life shall hang in doubt before thee ; and thovi 
 shalt fear day and night, and shalt have 
 none assuiance of thy life ; in the morning 
 thovi shalt say, Would God it were even ! and 
 at even shalt say. Would God it were moi'ning ! 
 for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou 
 shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which 
 thou shalt see." " And I will deliver them 
 into all the kingdoms of the earth for their 
 hurt, and to be a reproach and a jiroverb, a 
 taunt and a curse, in all places whither I 
 shall drive them. And I will send the sword, 
 the famine, and the pestilence, among them, 
 till they be consumed from off the land that 
 I gave unto them and to their fathers." 
 " My God will cast them away, because they 
 did not hearken unto Him ; and they shall be 
 wanderers among the nations." " I will 
 command, and I will sift the house of Israel 
 among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a 
 sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall ujion 
 the eaith."* The analysis of these combined 
 passages suggests the following jiropositions : 
 — That the Jews should be exiled from their 
 native land ; that they should be universally 
 dispersed ; that their dispersion should be 
 accompanied with circumstances of extreme 
 unparalleled oppression and cruelty ; that 
 nowhere obtaining a national home, they 
 should yet retain their national identity ; 
 and that this dispersion, however severe and 
 protracted, should not be perpetual. 
 
 THE SIEGE AND OVEKTHROW OF JERUSALEM. 
 
 The subject thus sketched is obviously far 
 too extensive for the limits of a single lecture. 
 Instead, then, of weakening the designed 
 impression by the midtiplicity of points of 
 discussion, I shall waive all reference to the 
 ca])tivity of the Jews in Babylon, and the 
 dispersion of the ten trib?s, however inviting 
 these topics of review, and commence a rapid 
 
 *Levit. xxvi. 33, &o. Deut. iv. 27 ; xxviii 05 — 7. 
 Jer. xiv. 9, 10. Ho.sea ix. 17. Amos ix. 9. 
 
 survey of the history of the children of 
 Israel, at the downfall of their country, and 
 their own expatriation by tlie siege and over- 
 throw of Jerusalem. The story of that 
 event is written in blood. Imagination, how- 
 ever vigorous in the creation of the sublimely 
 terrible, cannot add one .shade of horror to 
 its fearful realities. The romance of its facts 
 far exceeds whatever the most energetically 
 morbid fancy could conceive. In the fearful 
 drama, the thoughts, the passions, the 
 countenances, the eyes through which the 
 soul, maddened into fiendish malignity, Hashed, 
 all seemed intensely heated and glaiing with 
 the fires of hell. Having invested the city, 
 Titus resolved to starve it into surrender, 
 and was now employed in constructing a wall 
 in order to intercept succouis, to prevent the 
 egress of its inhabitants, or the admission of 
 provisions to them. To augment the horrors 
 of the scene, the numbers of the citizens 
 were pi'odigiously increa.sed by the circum- 
 stance that then was the paschal season, 
 which periodically brought many thousands 
 to this the city of their solemnities and the 
 habitation of their God. Jerusalem, too, 
 was torn by intestine feuds, suppres.sed but 
 not healed by every assault of the common 
 foe, and bursting forth at every lull of the 
 storm that raged around them, with a ferocity 
 aggravated by their temporary suspension. 
 The city, in the words of Joseph us, "was 
 like a wild beast grown mad, which for want 
 of food from abroad fell upon eating its own 
 flesh." With madness only to be accounted 
 for on the ground of judicial blindness, and 
 the withdi'awment of all moral restraint by 
 God, — who seemed to have adandoned them 
 to their fate, — the granaries, whose resources 
 might have enabled them to protract their 
 defence, were consumed by the lires of in- 
 cendiaries, — moving with the activity of 
 demons amid ruin and confusion, and gloating 
 with demon delight over the moral misery 
 they had produced. Now raged the most 
 malignant passions, awakened by the terrible- 
 ness of famine. Now natural instinct was 
 overborne by the cravings of Inuiger. Self 
 produced uni\ersal alienation. Man was 
 armed against man ; each against the other. 
 The wolfishness of hunger triumphed, and 
 the Jewish mother, for the unnatural horrid 
 food, murdered the child which otherwise she 
 would have nestled from the cold dews of 
 Palestine in her bosom, or covered from the 
 assa.'sin's stroke with her own body. Death 
 seemed to hold its carnival, and the air, 
 steamini; with the exhalations of unburied
 
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 ilead, multiplied and spread death among the 
 living. Then came tlie ■ wf.il, deep, though 
 eloquent silence of desjiair, the time when 
 tears of scalding heat were a luxury, but the 
 heart is so dried and scorched that they can- 
 not flow ; the sullen, lowering, tearless, voice- 
 les-i, hopelessness of desolation. 80 fearful 
 was the catastrophe, and so appalling the 
 havoc within, that when Titus entered and 
 beheld the city, " he turned away weeping, 
 ami cui-sing the wi-etches who had forced him 
 to proiluce sucli misei-y." ^^'ould it not have 
 been well if the anticipation of its possibility 
 had re-strained, or if in reviewing its reality 
 he had uttered some execrations over Roman 
 ambition ? 
 
 Tlius fell Jerusjilem, after a siege rendered 
 more cruel and dis.istrous by the insane con- 
 duct of tlie Jew than by the furious a.s.saults 
 of the Romans ; a siege in which a million 
 of human beings perished by sword, or famine, 
 or pestilence ! Tlic Roman ploughshare 
 pa.ssed over Zion, and from the field of ruin 
 three towers alone arose in this necropolis, 
 the monuments of millions of men, of the 
 foUy and crimes of the Jew, the retributive 
 justice of the Almighty, the faithfulness and 
 in.spiration of His prophets. 
 
 THE FLIGHT OK THE JEWS FROM THEIR 
 NATIVE LAND. 
 
 Signal, however, and unprecedented as 
 were the calamities of the siege of Jeru- 
 salem, they were but the heavings, the 
 angry heavings of volcanic fire, which, 
 bursting forth in a tide of lava, should 
 spread with fearful rapidity over Judea, 
 and before whose biu-ning and rapidly in- 
 creasing line, the Jews must tlee in teiTor 
 from the land of his fathei-s, or perish in the 
 stream. Decrees of expatriation succeeded 
 the downfall of the Holy City ; nor was the 
 Jew allowed a grave in Hebron. It is im- 
 passible to imagine the emotions that now 
 overspread the descendants of Abraham — 
 the thoughts that rose in the mother's heart 
 as, frfjin c;ilm Bethany, she directed the eye 
 of her child to the remains of that city 
 whose glory was now eclipsed — or the feel- 
 ings of the ancient Jew before whom, on 
 reaching a commanding eminence, Sharon or 
 Esdraelon smiled iu all their loveliness, or 
 Tiberias lay in placid sunlit beauty — or 
 while his fancy, bciling with indignation, 
 could almost de.scry the abomination of deso- 
 lation in the holj- place. Is it to be 
 wondered if, with such feelings, ardent. 
 
 deep, imperishable, the outcasts shoidd once 
 more rally, and lured by the statements of 
 an impostor, or the brilliancy, tlie deceitful 
 brilliancy of hope, make an eflbrt to regain 
 their own land? Accordingly, within fifty 
 or sixty yeai-s, we find the wanderere rally- 
 ing and united in one strong but fruitless 
 attempt — an attempt which involved them 
 in greater prostration, because while awaken- 
 ing the jealousy and distrust of their 
 oppressors, it weakened their own resources 
 and power — no l&ss than 580,000 having 
 perished, and theii' firmest strongholds in 
 Palestine being levelled with the dust. From, 
 the time of Adrian, the Jew, lingering at 
 the hazard of punLshment, used to bribe the 
 sentinels to be allowed a glance at Zion and 
 the ruins of the Temple. The decree of the 
 Emperor consigned him to a seemingly hope- 
 less, interminable e.\ile. In bitter sconi 
 and relentless hostility, lie threatened the 
 heaviest penalties on every one who re- 
 mained in hLs native land, while the k)ng 
 last gaze of the departing patriot beheld, in 
 the swine's head on the gate of the Temple, 
 the insolent triumph of HeathenLsui over the 
 glory of Israel. Agonizing, therefore, as it 
 must have been in any circumstances to be 
 torn from his natal soil, how much more so 
 when he left it trodden down by the Gentiles, 
 and the scene of the foidest insult offered to 
 Jehovah ! From it, however, they departed, 
 no more for generations to stand on its holy 
 dust, nor even to survey its mountains, or 
 plains, or lakes ; for, with a fearful refine- 
 ment of cruelt}-, the tp-ant denounced the 
 severest punishment on the Jew who should 
 dare even gaze on the scene where his 
 infancy was nursed, his God adored, 
 and the bones of his fathers reposed, alas ! 
 not to be mingled with hLs own when 
 death .should terminate his sorrows and 
 wanderings. 
 
 THE .lEWS EXILES. 
 
 Ages roll on, changing the hue and 
 fashion of society. Time, in its coiitiiuied 
 ce:».seless cycle, proceeds, and still leaves the 
 Jew a proscribed exile. In Pale.stine every 
 form of religion had been practised with one 
 exception, one fatal exception, its fii-st and 
 loveliest form ; the natives of every land 
 there dwelt, with one exception, one sad 
 exception — the children of its soil. From its 
 walls and minarets had glistened the crescent 
 of the Turk,- the lance of the Arab,— the 
 ciucifix of the Popedom. Still, — excluding 
 
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 148 
 
 Memones of Gospel THwmphs mnoTig the Jews. 
 
 the bright gleam of Julian's attempt, — and 
 it was only a gleam, vivid and transient, — 
 the Jew was exiled, and durst not venture 
 within the confines of his own country, or if 
 in more enlightened policy he did, he could 
 with safety, still was he a stranger, living by 
 sufferance among strangers, and subject to 
 the insults and cruelty of the base vassal of 
 the Ottoman power. Truly did his own 
 Prophet say, " The stranger that is within 
 thee shall get up above thee very high, and 
 thou shalt come down very low."* 
 
 I admit, cheerfully admit, they enjoy pri- 
 vileges within the last twent}- years they 
 possessed not before. But who shall say 
 that they are not, practically, exiles still ? 
 The land is not theirs. Jerusalem is not 
 theu-s. Of the soil of their ancestry not an 
 inch can they claim as their own. They 
 have been merely tolerated. A Turk ma}' 
 drive them from the tomb of Abraham ; and 
 even in Jerusalem, they had access only by 
 purchase to the place from which they ap- 
 proached the site of the Temple to wail and 
 pray over its ruin. A narrow crooked lane 
 conducts to the westein exterior of the gi-eat 
 mosque : — a dead wall at the end shelters 
 from observation ; and there the J ews met 
 stealthily to bow in the dust befoi'e God, and 
 to bedew with their tears the soil which many 
 of their fathers moistened with their blood. 
 When the muezzim summoned the followers 
 of the Prophet to evening prayers, an old 
 Kabbi and Stephens sat on the roof of the 
 little synagogue looking out, as by st'iidtli, 
 upon the sacred mosque containing the hal- 
 lowed ashes of their patriarch fathers. The 
 Turk guards the door, and the Jew and the 
 Christian are not permitted to enter. Still, 
 then, they are exiles. They may, indeed, 
 be allowed to be there. The iron rule of 
 the splendid barbarian, Mohammed Ali, shel- 
 tered them from fieiee violence. The British 
 banner will now protect its native-born sub- 
 jects in Palestine. But, for their tolerated 
 presence there, have they been indebted to 
 money, or to the might of the land which 
 gave them birth ; and other days must come 
 before the children of the patriarchs can 
 tread the banks of Jordan, or repose in the 
 tents of Esdraelon, and feel, with the con- 
 scious dignity of the restored Jew, that the 
 land is theirs ; before they shall journey 
 from Dan to Beersheba, and from Bashan to 
 C'armel, with none to arrest their steps or 
 to make them afraid. 
 
 * Deut. xxviii. 43. 
 
 THE JEWS SCATTERED. 
 
 The decree wLic'i exiled the Jews from 
 their own land dispeised them over the earth. 
 The world became their home — so far as 
 mere locality is concerned ; but how different 
 from the home they had left ! They were 
 now universally scattered, and have con- 
 tinued so. On the coast of Malabar, and on 
 the banks of the Ganges, amid the shivering 
 deserts of Siberia, and among the spicy gales 
 of Arabia, amid the snows of Greenland and 
 in the very heart of Africa have Jews been 
 found ; — the inhabitants of all countries, the 
 jwssessors, the children of none. Go where 
 you will, you meet the Jew, the man in 
 whom have been stereotyped the feelings, 
 the thoughts, the prejudices of those who 
 lived centuries before. " God hath delivered 
 them to be removed into all kingdoms of the 
 earth."* 
 
 While the Jews swarm in Poland to a 
 number exceeding 380,000, in other places of 
 the earth they are found in small groups, 
 just like sifted corn, in small and large heaps; 
 in none rooted and fixed. In the seventy- 
 third year of our era, seventy Jewish families 
 passed through Khorassau into China, where 
 their descendants have still a sj'nagogue. In 
 Algiers they amounted, a few years ago, to 
 5,000, a number now reduced to 3,000 ; but 
 this diminution is to be traced to the fact 
 that masses of them received French pass- 
 ports for the Holy Land. In Cabul three 
 families were found ; while along the ridge 
 of the Caucasu.«, in its villages and towns, 
 there are bodies of fifty and a hundred. On 
 the coast of Slalabar, Dr. Buchanan visited 
 in 1806 about 1,000 Jews, supposed to be the 
 posterity of emigrant refugees after the siege 
 of Jerusalem. In Bussorah they exist, ac- 
 cording to Buckingham, as .separate and 
 well-defined a body as in other parts of the 
 globe, living exclusively among themselves. 
 Go, in short, where you will, you find them 
 scattered, in aggi-egate numbers, as many as 
 in the palmiest days of the kingdom of Israel ; 
 but in their detached isolations, few and 
 comparatively insignificant, and appropri- 
 ately described in the oft-repeated lines of 
 the Hebrew melodies : — 
 
 " Tribes of the wandering foot and weary breast, 
 How shall ye flee away and be at rest ' 
 The wild dove has her ne.st, the fox his cave, 
 ilankind their country — Israel but the grave :" 
 
 and thus verifying ,the Mosaic statement — 
 "The Lord shall scatter you among the 
 
 Jeremiah xxiv. 9.
 
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 nations," and ye shall be left few in number 
 among the heathen, whither the Lord shall 
 lead you."* 
 
 ATROCIOUS PERSECUTIONS. 
 
 This dispersion, however wideand sweeping, 
 did not exhaust their doom ; their disjx'rsion 
 has been marked b;/ crueli'i and oppression. 
 Did we begin our survey of Jewish sufferings 
 in the East, sufficient miglit be urged to 
 move the soul into the deepest sympathy. 
 When Pliny Fisk travelled in eastern regions, 
 he met a dervise beating his ass, and after 
 working his feelings to the highest pitch of 
 excitement, and having uttered his bitterest 
 invectives, he summed up his abuse and 
 curses in the contemptuous epithet — Jew. 
 " Evervnhere," says Wolft', " the Jews are 
 princes compared with these in Pei-sia." And 
 yet there they are so oppressed, the}- flee for 
 refuge into Turkey, where, such is the state 
 of theii- princely Jreedoni, that the proud, 
 lazy Turk punishes the Hebrew fugitive who 
 will not light his pipe. Pass now into the 
 land of their fathers. In Hebron, Stephens 
 met with an old rabbi who many years before 
 had come to lay his bones in the Holy Land, 
 and who thus aiiectingly described his posi- 
 tion : — " He was now eighty years old, and 
 for thirty yeai-s he had lived with the sword 
 suspended over his head ; had been reviled, 
 bufleted, and spit on ; and, though some- 
 times enjo)-ing a respite from persecution, he 
 never knew at what moment the blood-hounds 
 might not be let loose upon him ; that since 
 the country had been wrested from the 
 Sultan by the Pasha of Egypt, they had been 
 comparatively safe and tranquil ; though 
 some idea may be formed of this comparative 
 security from the fact that, during the 
 revolution two years before, when Ibrahim 
 Pasha, after having been pent up several 
 months in Jerusalem, burst out like a roaring 
 lion, the first place upon which his wrath 
 descended was the unhappy Hebron. And 
 while their guilty brethren were sometimes 
 spared, the unhappy Jews, never ofi'endiug, 
 but always suffering, received the full weight 
 of Arab vengeance. Their houses were 
 ransacked and plundered, their gold and 
 silver, and all things valuable, cirried away ; 
 and their wives and daughters violated before 
 their eyes by a brutal soldiery."! Not less 
 decided is the testimony of another recent 
 ti-aveller : — " In other countries the very 
 name of Jew has associated with it cunning, 
 
 * Deut. iv. 2". 
 
 t Stephen's " Incident« of Travel," vol. ii. 157, l.'iS. 
 
 deceit, usury, traffic, and often wealth. But 
 here, in addition to the usual degradation 
 and purchased suffering of a despised, 
 stricken, outcast race, they bend under ex- 
 treme poverty, and wear the aspect of a 
 weeping and a mourning people ; lamenting 
 over their fallen gi-eatness as a nation, and 
 over the prostrate grandeur of their once 
 proud city. Here the usurer is turned into 
 the pilgrim, the merchant into the priest, 
 and the inexorable creditor into the weeping 
 suppliant. Without wealth, without traffic, 
 they arc supported solely by the voluntary 
 contributions of their brethren throughout 
 the world."* Barbary has always been a 
 resort of this people, yet there have they 
 been despised and oppressed. It is true their 
 position there now is very diflferent ; — they 
 having received from France the pi-ivilege 
 of French citizens. But the period is not 
 remote when the Jews were forced to be the 
 public executioners, — an office degrading to 
 the Moor, — fit for the Jews ; and when 
 Israelite money-changei-s and bankers were 
 allowed to ride on an a.ss only, and that out- 
 side the walls of the city. Is it alleged, these 
 instances of Jewish persecution are taken 
 from states involved in oriental degi-adation 
 and bigotry ? Turn, then, to some civilized 
 and refined countries ; turn to Italy. In 
 Rome, the Jews have been for ages confined 
 to a district called the Ghetts, — a narrow, 
 contracted, filthy quarter. In mockery and 
 cruelty combined, or in the irrational belief 
 that opinion can be coerced, and mind con- 
 verted by force, three hundred are compelled 
 every Sunday to hear a sermon for their con- 
 version ; while, as if this was mercy, the 
 proposal was made and entertained in 1829, 
 to banish them from the Pope's dominions. 
 Is it said, this is the treatment of a priest- 
 ridden, intolerant land ? Pass, then, to 
 Germany, distinguished by its free thought, — 
 to Germany under a monarch, who, according 
 to the self-laudation of Infidelity, oii<jht to 
 be tolerant because an Infidel, and as such, 
 above all distinctions of Jew and Christian. 
 Frederic, the correspondent of Voltaire, desi>\te 
 aU professions of independence and toleration, 
 excluded the Jews from office, and enacted 
 most arbitrary and cruel laws to prevent 
 their increase in liis possessions. Who re- 
 quires to be reminded of the sanguinary 
 conduct of the crusaders to the Jews in 
 Germany, — when men, wearing the badge of 
 allegiance to Him whose kingdom is peace, 
 and whose soul gushed forth in love and 
 
 * Wilde's Voyagee, vol. ii. 39;'.
 
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 Memories c^ Gospel Triumphs among ike Jews. 
 
 mercy, seemed to conseci-ate theii- enterprise 
 by the massacre of Jewish victims ? Such 
 was the terror their very name inspired, that, 
 at Treves, the Jewish mother killed her 
 children, fearful of the contamination of 
 Christianity. Such was the havoc they 
 committed, that the Rhine was dyed with 
 blood of murdered Jews, and their march 
 might be traced in marks of gore they had 
 shed. The preaching of some fanatic stirred 
 human passion to an uncontrollable degree, 
 — the fiendish fury of the populace was let 
 loose, and 17,000 Jews murdered, form part 
 of the results of one crusade. As if crueltj' 
 in its old forms had lost its luxury, new 
 means were devised, 'and a vessel at Basle 
 filled with Jews, set fixe to by the crusaders, 
 furnished them with new pleasure in the 
 shrieks of the helpless sufferers. 
 
 If we come to our own land, we there find 
 the same barbarous policy pursued towards 
 the Jew. I refer not to England when 
 emerging out of Heathenism, — such policy 
 might naturally be a portion of its sanguinary 
 spirit, — I refer to those times which some 
 now describe, as the peiiod when England 
 was a truly Christian land (our senti- 
 mental statesmen poetically di-eam over its 
 joys, untainted by the labours of mechanical 
 science, untarnished by the selfishness of a 
 mammon- woi-shipping age !) — the days of its 
 agricultural simplicity, and chivalrous free- 
 dom and honour. By Saxon lx)or and 
 Norman warrior alike was the Jew despised 
 and .spoiled. True, the presence of some 
 feudal lord, to whom the riches of the Jew 
 was an object of interest, might ])iotect him 
 from the insolence of the peasant chui-1 ; but 
 the timid shrinking glance, the furtive look of 
 the Jewish eye. showed eloquently the severity 
 which had changed the son of Abraham into 
 the crouching slave. Avarice clothed itself 
 in the garb of religious zeal, — the honour of 
 a king lost its power, — the rights of jiroperty 
 had no force, — common honesty lost its 
 sanctions, -chivalry was shorn of its lustre, 
 wherever a Jew's interests or character were 
 at stake. One monarch sold them to his 
 brother, while such was the atrocity of 
 English cruelty under another, that 1,500 
 perished by mutual slaughter in York Castle 
 rather than trust to the treaties and honour 
 of Christians, or die by the refined arts of 
 death and suffering the English might 
 practise. It seemed, in fact, as if it was 
 part of Christianity to hate the Jew, and 
 piety to persecute him. 
 
 It was perhaps in Spain, however, that 
 
 the oppre-ssion of the Jews a.ssumed the 
 fiercest aspect. Under the Moslem power 
 they had gi'own up in great prospsritj'. 
 When its star declined, and the Arabs 
 retreated from Europe, the policy of the 
 Spanish government was to foster the Jewish 
 people : — the policy, not of enlightened 
 principle, but of malignant, heartle.s-s cunning, 
 to let them increase in numbei-s and wealth, 
 — to lull them into unsuspecting confidence, 
 and thus into defencelessness. Then came 
 the time for action. The treacherous calm 
 was broken : — the fiends of the Inquisition 
 were let loose ; — the populace aroused bv the 
 most wicked and false representations, — a 
 populace equally delighted with the bull- 
 fight at Madrid, or a Jewish massacre at 
 Se\ille. Under the mask of religion, with 
 the alternative, Christianity or death, 
 thousands refusing to give even the hypo- 
 critical profession of conversion, perished for 
 the amusement of the citizens, and the 
 aggrandizement of the authorities. In the 
 fourteenth centiu-y (a.d. 1391) 3,500 were 
 massacred in Seville, while in Toledo, 
 Valencia, &c.. 20,000 perished. So numerous 
 were the victims of Spanish ferocity, that 
 the people became tired of ordinary murder, 
 and 2,000 nominal converts were, on suspicion 
 of aposta.sy, cooped up in a large building 
 filled with combustible materials, and thus 
 murdered by a slow lingering death. Cruelty 
 at length reached the climax, — it had been 
 glutted with blood, — avarice was now to 
 gorge itself with .spoils, — a decree of exile 
 was publLshed ; oh ! had the way to Palestine 
 been open, it would have beeu a decree of 
 mere)' I But here was the tearing of every 
 fibre that bound them to the land they were 
 leaving, — without giving new scenes where 
 they again might be rooted, — 300,000 .Jews 
 left the land where they had been born, with 
 the melancholy feeling that they were just 
 passing from the grasp of the eagle to the 
 talons of the vulture. 
 
 I cannot close this melancholy lecital of 
 wanton, savage, uniform cruelty, without a 
 reference to the treatment of our Jewish 
 brethren in France. There it was the custom 
 every Easter to smite them on the face at 
 Toulouse. Every kind of story was 
 pubU.shed regarding them. Kings issued 
 edicts requiring them to restore all pledges. 
 To quote the words of Hallam, " It was the 
 policy of kings of France to employ them as 
 a sponge to suck their subjects' money, which 
 they might afterwards express with less 
 odium than direct taxation would incui- ;
 
 n,- 
 
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 151 
 
 wliili' l(ishops stiiuulatod the people by ser- 
 mons from tlic pulpit to revile and insult 
 them." Such was the hostility of nations 
 to the poor Jew, that it mixeil with all their 
 feelings : a word, a name fro/.e admiration 
 into the cold inditl'erence or hate, stript beauty 
 of its fascination, heroism of its fame, 
 benevolence of its charms. By tlio outlaw 
 and ills chief, the lord and liis vassal, the 
 clerfry and the l)\iri;her, the swinelier<l and 
 the thane, by all was the Jew denounced, to 
 all was he the sport of cruelty, the victim of 
 rol)bery, or the butt of scorn. 
 
 In every stage of society, under every form 
 of government, beneath the influence of 
 every form of i-eligion, we find them dragged 
 into notoriety to gratify the avarice of the 
 oppres.sor, or to amuse by theii- tf>rtiues the 
 savage ta.ste of the )>opulace. S])ain, with its 
 romance and chivalry, Italy, the gay, the 
 classic, and refined, alike .sported with 
 Hebrew sensibilities, and gloated over 
 Hebrew agonies; and Britain, the home 
 of freedom, the refuge of the oppressed 
 from every clime, the veiy touch of whose 
 soil enfranchi.ses the slave, has in its annals 
 many a dark scene, where beauty, graceful- 
 ness, piHy, and learning, gathered delight 
 from the sufferings of the Israelite as from 
 the courage of the brute. How long ha.s the 
 very name been a by-word, a scorn, a 
 hissing ! Is a man cunning? he is a Jew; 
 dirty ? he is a Jew ; doe.s he over-i'each his 
 neighbour ? he is a Jew. In the voc;djulary 
 of abuse no term is more contemptuous than 
 this. Monstrous infatuation ! that thus 
 involves a nation in the sweeping censures 
 due to the conduct of individual niembei-s, — 
 and eiTor, not more illogical than cold- 
 heai-ted ! that condemns the slave bec;iuse 
 he ha.s not the manly port of the free, and 
 denoiuices the Jew tecause he is what 
 Europe made him ! 
 
 I cjinnot close this historic sketch without 
 e.xpressing my indignant condemnation of 
 their criminality who thus sought to crush 
 the Jew, and without ailding, that on the 
 t'hristian Church rests the wrongs of eighteen 
 centiu'ies, for which justice and leligion alike 
 demand redress. Let me not be told of 
 pi-ophecy, and that men only executed the 
 plans of God when they persecuted the 
 scittei-ed people of heaven. Prophecy is no 
 rule of action to us. God is justifiable in 
 inflicting the predicted punishment, we are 
 not ; and the fact that in our actions we are 
 ac(f>mfilishing the prophetic will of heaven, 
 does not change the moral a.spect or nature of 
 
 our deed. 'I'he doom was denounced — it still 
 pursues the people who with wicked hands 
 took and slew Him whose death was fore- 
 shadowed and who was a .self-devoted victim. 
 I denounce, then, the policy, not more foolish 
 than malignant, which kindli'd the martyr- 
 fires, or poured out Abrahaniic blood ; and 
 .SJiy that a weight of responsiljility to the 
 Jew, which we can never fully dLscharge, 
 lies on us. Oh, had our cour.se been 
 dill'erent ! ( )h, had it been one of mercy 
 and love ! Had the eye of the Jew not 
 been directed to the cross as the lightning 
 of persecution played around it, or from 
 behind it came the harsh sound, " Embrace 
 this, or die ; " had he gazed on that cross as 
 the emblem of love, and heard its voice still 
 sounding in pity, " Fatlier, forgive them, for 
 they know not what they do ; " in one word, 
 had the cross been the .syndjol of spiritual 
 power and self denial and gentleness, and not 
 the emblem of amliition and cruelty and 
 oppression, the plea for rapine how different 
 had been the Jew now ! how open, how 
 tender his soul ! 
 
 A WONDERFUL FACT. 
 
 Singular it is, is it not ? that amid all 
 the.se dispersions and persecutions the Jews 
 have still retained their national identity I 
 Each is a Jew in feature, not less in habits 
 than in religion. The different nations with 
 which they have mingled have varied in 
 fashions, in their mode of thinking an<l social 
 policy — but the Jew is a Jew everywhere ; 
 and this people form one vast c(mfedenicy, 
 bound by the sympathies of father-land, con- 
 scious of the freema.sonry of home, and re- 
 quiring but a look, a word, to open the 
 welling fountains of affection. 
 
 Now this is anomalous as a fact. It stands, 
 so far as I know, alone ; approaclied only by 
 the case of the Arabs, yet not having in that 
 its parallel. The Ishmaelites have dwelt 
 alone and insulated. Their descent from the 
 I'etreats of their petrified sea on Eui-ope wiw 
 a rapid, mettoi-ic, romantic event, a sudden 
 gleam of power ; they having .speedily re- 
 tired from the polish of Europe to the fast- 
 nesses an<l simplicity of the desert. Besides, 
 they were the oppres.sore, the victors, and 
 commanded then- own terms of intercourse. 
 All is difTercnt here; the Jews ha\'ing 
 mingled for ages with natives of all lands, 
 not as lords, but as subjects. Modern 
 Englishmen are a mi.xed race of Britons, 
 Saxons, Eomans and Normans; but all are so 
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 Memories of Gospel Triii'mphs among the Jeius. 
 
 to distinguish, by physical phenomena, him 
 in whose veins the Norman blood flows 
 clearest and fullest. The French are not 
 less heterogeneous in their lineage, embrac- 
 ing, as it does, Gaul, Roman and Frank ; 
 however sharp and distinct original varieties 
 and aspect, these, too, softened by time, who 
 can discern the ancestry of any no n-? But 
 Jews stand out from all ; they are one, and 
 feeling their oneness of descent from Abi'a- 
 ham and Isaac and Jacob, form earth's most 
 illustrious and ancient aristocracy. 
 
 Besides, we have seen the Jew despised and 
 persecuted, not because poor, not for want 
 of amiableness or talent, but because a Jeiv. 
 If he had intermari-ied with nominal Chris- 
 tians, or settled down, losing his national 
 idiosyncrasy in the adoption of the habits 
 of those with whom he mingled, he might, 
 he would have escaped persecution. Surely, 
 suffei-ing, like fire of a furnace seven 
 times heated, might have fused down their 
 national attachment and induced them to 
 merge themselves in suri'ounding masses. 
 But no, not honour proffered at the expense 
 of abandoning Palestine as their home, not 
 the aim of Napoleon to build a .synagogue at 
 Montmartre, not the record of centuries of 
 persecution and contempt, have shaken their 
 quenchless attachment to the land of their 
 fathers. It is impossible for us to imagine 
 its depth ; it is a passion, it is part of 
 themselves. The language of the Israelite 
 to Kinnear I'epresents their national cling- 
 ings, " I a:n a Jew, and never can be any- 
 thing but a Jew. We never have lost, and 
 never can lose our national character by 
 mingling with all the nations among whom 
 we have been scattered, and we ought never 
 to lose it. We shall always be a distinct 
 people. We may become Christians, but can 
 never become Gentiles." 
 
 Is it asked on what principle we can ac- 
 count for the preservation of this identity 'i 
 Can we trace this i.solation entirely to natural 
 principles ? We may, indeed, represent it as 
 partly growing out of the stubbornness of 
 attachment, the love that deepens to its 
 object by the fierceness of persecution it 
 endures ; partly to the quenchless energy of 
 the home feelings ; and partly to the tlulll- 
 ing hope of restoration that animates all. 
 But especially will true Scriptural philosophy 
 delight in tracking and evolving the power 
 of God in maintaining, amid all that might 
 impair it, the patriotic ardour of the Jew 
 — in arresting or breaking the arm of the 
 persecutor, and shortening the days of per- 
 
 secution ; and thus in beholding the perfect 
 combination, the parallelism of pr'ovidence 
 and prophecy — the arm of the former, noise- 
 less in the calm of conscious power, accom- 
 plishing the declaration of the latter, " Lo, 
 the people shall dwell alone."*" 
 
 I cannot close this department of inquiry 
 without adding, that no such singular pheno- 
 menon could have existed without a reason 
 adei:juate in importance to its singularity. 
 To speak without circumlocution or di.sgutse, 
 and without compromising any one in this 
 opinion, I conceive this presen-ation of lutlional 
 individuality to be a guarantee, as well as a 
 means, of national restoration. I .shall 
 scrupulously avoid the gi'ound hei'eafter to 
 be occupied by those far abler to survey it 
 than I am, except so far as seems requisite 
 to trench upon it in accounting for an extra- 
 ordinary fact in Jewish history, — the retention 
 of national distinctiveness. I know not if 
 our view's harmonize on this subject. It is 
 possible that the lecturer who is to analyze 
 the prospects of Israel may dift'ei from me ; 
 but what of that ? It is only the difference 
 of independent minds, exercised in the 
 examination of Scripture : — and the discovery 
 of truth is surely better than the monotonous 
 sepulchral uniformity of unthinking men. 
 One word, then, and but a word, on this 
 topic. No one can fail to see that the terms 
 in which the prophets speak of Israel's 
 restoration are, if I may use the woi'd, 
 homogeneous to those in which they displayed 
 punishment ; that is, the curse and blessing 
 are of a similar nature. If, then, they speak 
 of a temporal dispersion, their restoration 
 must be temporal too ; if conversely, their 
 restoration be merely spiritual, then must 
 their dispersion have been merely spiritual 
 also. The one limb of the sentence cannot 
 refer to a spiritual, the other to a physical 
 fact. They form parallelisms, and the things 
 parallel and contiasted must ))e of one order. 
 Why, then, dispute or deny the restoration 
 of that people ? Is it on account of the 
 difficulty scarcely expressed, but strongly, 
 although latently felt, of gathering into one 
 so many, so widely-scattered human beings ? 
 I will not throw the point of my reply on 
 the omnipotence of God, which can reunite 
 and reconstruct, and infoi-m with new life, 
 and adorn with surpassing loveliness the dis- 
 solved elements of our frame, and is not less 
 adequate to consolidate in one polity the 
 dispersed elements of the Jewish people. 
 
 * Numbers xxix. 9.
 
 Rev. ThovKis Archer, A.}f., D.D. 
 
 153 
 
 liut I appeal to fact, the fact of their isola- 
 tion which has kept them in a state of 
 pivpai-ation to outer Palestine the moment 
 the way is open. They know their lineage. 
 They bear their heraldry in their faces. They 
 have no ties of fath(>rlan(l to sever in leaving 
 their present homes. The sigh indeed might 
 ri.se as they thought of the protection that 
 Britain extende<l, and the friendships they 
 had cherished in it ; but that sigh would soon 
 be lost in the startling cry — Reti'R.n. They 
 pant, — they turn witli ardent alieclion to 
 the IToly Land, and the blast of the trumpet 
 of their jubilee booming along the shores of 
 the i\lediterranean Sea, over the legion.s of 
 Mesopotamia, along the Himalaj'a and the 
 Andes, to the rugged sides of the Caucasus, 
 and across the waves of the Atlantic, would 
 be instantaneously followed by the rapid 
 march of the ransomed home-bound children 
 of Israel. N;itionally, .socially punished, 
 they shall be then nationally, socially restored. 
 Tlie conversion of each would be individually 
 a proof that his personal sins are forgiven, 
 but no sign that those of his country are. 
 But collectively ransomed, the argument 
 shall be unequivocal, that the hand that had 
 smitten so heavily lias healed and restored 
 them, — that the intercession of the Crucified 
 has at length triumphed over and against 
 the .self-invoked cur.se of Ilis murderers, and 
 that fearful as was the doom they imprecated, 
 " His blood be on us, and on our children," 
 that l)lood has been as rich to pardon as it 
 was mighty to condemn, and that in testi- 
 mony of its power and prevalence, His cry 
 has been heard, " Father, forgive them ! '' 
 
 A QUESTION FOR THE JEWS : WHY SO LONG 
 OPPRESSED ? 
 
 Sons of Abi-aham ! My friends and 
 brethren I^would I could add in Christ ; 
 and yet are you not? for is not He the 
 g:-eat centre and lallying-point both of Jew 
 and Gentile ? I have .sketched faintly the 
 dispersions and persecutions of your people. 
 I have condemned, not faintly, the guilt of 
 the pei-secutors and ojipres.sors. You will 
 not, you must not think, liowever. the cur.so 
 cau.sele.ss has come, or that chastisement un- 
 exampled in severity and duration has been 
 inflicted by man, and allowed by heaven, 
 without reason or justice. Why then, 1 
 ask, all this hea\'y and protracted suffering ? 
 Why this almost unmitigated infliction of 
 apparent wrong ? Your fathers were peace- 
 ful citizens. Their homes were as pure, and 
 the nurse of as rich virtues as those of their 
 
 tyrants ; the Jewish maiden was as lovely in 
 the grace of benevolence as the daughter of 
 the 8axon. The vices of your progemtors 
 were the forced fruit of bondage. They met 
 force by cunning, or .sought to bribe oppres- 
 sion by gold which they hoarded with avarice 
 and obtained by injustice. Allow them free 
 play, trust them ; let the broad shield of the 
 law protect them from the power of 
 fanaticism ; do not oppress them, and they 
 repay coididence by kindness ; the security 
 of the law by the peacefulness of their con- 
 duct, and impro\e their social safety by 
 cultivating the joys and charms of domestic 
 life. Why, then, again I ask, all this 
 oppression ? And wliat duty does its ex- 
 istence urge \ipon you ? I .shall not employ 
 my own language, but fortify myself behind 
 Jewish authority. In the year of the world 
 
 A S.VCRIUCE OF NOBLER NAME AND RICHER HI.OOD 
 THAN THEY." 
 
 5588, or of the Christian era 1827, an 
 Imperial ukase was issued by the Autocrat 
 of llussia refusing to tolerate the presence of 
 the religious functionaiies of the Jews in 
 his dominions ; a severe, stringent, and cruel 
 act. A meeting, in con.seijnence, of Jews 
 was convened in London, and of the address 
 then publislied I quote one paragraph ; and 
 oh, my Israelitish friends, let me beseech you 
 to listen to it as the voice of your brethren 
 according to the flesh : " All these persecu- 
 tions manifest a prevailing spirit whicli 
 should alarm the Israelites of all countries 
 and climes, and incline us to aiou.se our 
 hitherto l)ut too dormant feelings and to 
 search our ways ; that so, by tracing effects 
 to causes, we may attempt to find a remedy 
 for tlie accumulated evils which have
 
 l.J4 
 
 Memories -of Gospel Trimnpfts ammig the Jetvs- 
 
 befallen and still surround us : and that we 
 may acknowledge the justice of our Creator, 
 even the King of Israel, and own that these 
 a^ well as all the other cliastisement.s which 
 have been heaped on our devoted heads, are, as 
 it respects the Almighty, merited by our sins 
 and those of our foi-efathers, as denounced 
 b}- oiu- lawgivers and prophets." My 
 brethren, let the spirit of these words animate 
 you, let your attitude be one of profound 
 pi-ayerful examination and of deep humility 
 before Jehovah, as you ask the solemn 
 question. Why Isi-ael has been so long 
 oppressed and cast off from the favour of its 
 Loi-d ? Look to that cloud which ever since 
 
 the death of Christ has hung over your 
 nation. Trace the period and circumstance 
 of its i-ise in relation to those of His cruci- 
 fixion. Look to it, as over the earth the 
 lightning leaps from its daik bosom, and 
 drinks up the blood of j-our ancestry. But, 
 while you gaze, remember that the Sun of 
 Righteousness is behind ; and that if in 
 pi-o.stnition of soul you bow yourselves in the 
 dust l>efore him, his beams will not only 
 soften your heart, but melt away for ever 
 that heav}' cloud, and introduce you to the 
 peace and joy of everlasting day. Which 
 may the G!od of Israel grant for Shiloh's 
 sake ! Amen. 
 
 THE REV. JAMES BENNETT, D D. 
 (1774—1843—1862.) 
 
 JAMES EENN'ETT was born in the east 
 of London, May 22, 1774. His parents 
 were pious, and their influence on the mind 
 of their .son was mo.~t salutary as long as it 
 lasted ; but it was his unhappy lot, at a very 
 early age, to lose by death one of the best of 
 mothei"s. His father, however, by his con- 
 scientious and consistent deportment, almost 
 imperceptibly restrained the mind of his son, 
 and kept him from the damaging results of 
 influences to which he was exposed. After 
 speniUng a few years with a teacher, from 
 whom he learned very little, he was put 
 under the care of .i tradesman, whose harsh 
 and overbearing conduct led at last to a 
 Termiuation of the engagement. Soon after 
 this he left London and went to Bath, and 
 there sought employment. While in this 
 city in the west, he lodged in a house where 
 he was frequently brought into immediate 
 intercourse Avith some good people belonging 
 to the Moi-avian Brethren, and others 
 belonging to the Wesleyans. It was in 
 the company of the latter that God met 
 him, changed the current of his thoughts. 
 and made him a new ci-eature in Christ 
 Jesus. 
 
 His Conversion. 
 
 Concerning his conversion, he wi-ote : — 
 " Jlonda)^, August 13, 1792. — A day ever to 
 be i-emembered by me. I was unexpectedly 
 invited to take tea with two pious people in 
 the house, at which I wa.s not well pleased. 
 
 as their company and conver.-atioii mside me 
 ffloomv. After tea thev went to pniver, 
 wliich made it still more u-ksome to my 
 carnal mind. But the Lord soon answered 
 their praj'ers for mj' conversion. One of the 
 party, Mr. Shum, a German, who belonged 
 to the ilethodist Society at Bath, on rising 
 from prayer, was seated directly opposite the 
 beautiful hills surrounding that city ; which 
 led him to Siiy, in a spirit which I would 
 were alwavs mine, • How bounteous is the 
 Lord in pro\-iding for His children, not only 
 the necessities, but the superfluities of life. 
 How happy,' said he, ' is the man who, being 
 made partaker of a li%nng faith, can aiU the 
 God who made all these things his own. All 
 mankind are seeking happiness.' For the 
 sake of saj-ing something, I added, ' Some are 
 seeking in the right way and some in the 
 wrong.' I had no .sooner uttered the.se 
 words, than I was struck with the conviction 
 that I was seeking it in the wrong way. A 
 solemn feeling, which I had before expe- 
 rienced, and which I had sought to throw off, 
 now came over mj* mind, but attended with 
 a secret indication to cherish it. Each 
 thought now increa.sed it, so tliat towards 
 the time when they were going to chapel, 
 which was in a few hours, it became intense, 
 ily whole soul was now altered. The bias 
 of my will was turned. My grief now began 
 to be alleviated ; my hope in Divine mercy 
 was strengthened ; and shortly after my 
 load of guilt was entii-ely removed, my eyes
 
 77,, ■ AVr. .hn,u's linnidt. D.lK 
 
 155 
 
 TUK REV. JAMES BENKETT, D.D.
 
 Tl(f lii'v. James Benaeil. P.f). 
 
 157 
 
 were opened, and I found myself ;it the foot 
 of the cross. Such was the eiU'ct of tho 
 delivenince, that 1 was overwhelmed, and 
 was reminded of the words, ' Comfort me 
 with apples : for I am sick of love.' ' Or 
 ever I was aware, my soul made me like the 
 ciiariots of Amminadib.' Throufiiiout this and 
 the two following ihiys 1 continiu^d in a 
 mo.st ecstatic state. I lay down with a heart 
 l)urning with redeeming love, and rose with 
 tlio same delightful sensations. I coidd 
 compare it to nothing hut a gentle fire 
 burning in my breast ; indeed, it seemed 
 to have that physical eflect on my frame, 
 that it seemed to me literally such a 
 thing as a delightful glow kindled in my 
 heart. 
 
 " I now wondered that I had not seen tlio 
 superior happiness of the people of God, 
 and recollected how serene and happy Mrs. 
 Bowen looked. I thought that I had only 
 to relate what I hjid (^xp(a-ienced, in order to 
 induce others to become followers of the 
 Lamb. I therefore made the exi)eriment 
 upon a young man that lived with me. But 
 the sharp repidse I leceived convinced mo 
 of my folly in supposing that the conversion 
 of a sinner was a work .so easily eft'octed. 
 He reminded me how I had myself behaved, 
 and tliough I grieved to find that others were 
 so much like what I just now was, it 
 delighted me to see what cause I had for 
 gratitude to God, who had delivered me 
 from this awful state. But joy was not 
 always to lie my portion. 
 
 " Fridai/. — The Lord hid His face from me. 
 I was called from 'the hauqueting-house' to 
 the fiehl of l)attle, for I had foolishly 
 supyiosed that I was to bo always rejoicing. 
 I now concluded that some great sin must 
 have been the cause of this depression. The 
 opposition and reproach I met with from 
 tlie woild, joined with inward conflict, 
 aflbrded the enemy a fine op[)ortunity for 
 temptation. But though my sovd recoiled 
 with horror at the temptation to return to 
 the drudgery of sin again, yet this imagi- 
 nation filled, haunted and distressed me. 
 This, being my first, was a severe trial ; 
 but being founded, I trust, upon the 
 Rock, the gates of hell could not prevail 
 against me. The most beneficial eflFects 
 were produced by this trial immediately 
 after conversion. 
 
 " I had been much exercised with tlie 
 idea of being called to preach the gospel. 1 
 was with some difficult}' prevented from going 
 out immediately into the higliways and 
 
 hedges, and calling sinners to repentance. 
 Though 1 trust this was from the l^ord, yet 
 1 am aware that Hatan had much to do 
 with it. I vainly imagined that mine was 
 an extraordinary case, that there never was 
 such a conversion as mine, and that I was 
 to do wonders in tho earth. 
 
 " My trial served in some measure to 
 subdue my pride, and make me think my 
 experience would be much like that of 
 others. Yet my desire to preach the 
 go.spel continued; but, by the advice of a 
 friend, I resisted tho temptation to go out 
 immediately." 
 
 Aft('r being thus exercised in mind, he 
 " prayed earnestly that the Lord would 
 show His will by opening a door in provi- 
 dence, resolving implicitly to follow wherever 
 He should lead." 
 
 " This evening," he says, " I was un- 
 expectedly called upon to fill a vacancy in a 
 village, and consented." 
 
 " 1 selected 2 Cor. v. 10:' For w(! must all 
 appear before the judgment seat of Christ.' 
 My doubts and fears ran high ; but I was 
 aided in my meditations and in speaking my 
 heart, my lips were opened ; and, as I 
 received testimonies of the people's satisfac- 
 tion, my mind was fully made up that I 
 wa-s following the path of duty." 
 
 Mr. Bennett under Dr. Bogue. 
 
 From the 21th of December, 1792, when 
 he delivered his first sermon, only about 
 three mouths after his conversion, the work 
 of the ministry was the ascendant thought 
 of his mind. His prayers, his meditations, 
 his conversation with senior Christians, were 
 all directed to the inf|uir\% '" Lord, what wilt 
 thou have me to do ? " While thus anxious 
 to know tho will of the Lord, and the way 
 he should take, the Rev. Mr. Weston, who 
 had been one of Dr. Bogue's earliest students, 
 recommended Mr. Bennett to enter the 
 academy at Gosport. 
 
 On the 17th of October, 1793, he went to 
 Gosport, and commenced and continued his 
 studies with a diligence and ardour which 
 soon .secured for him distinction among his 
 fellow-students, and the special esteem of his 
 honoured tutor. Refening to this period 
 of his histoiy, and the circumstances related, 
 he says, " I gladly seized the oflfer, and 
 went to Gosport, where I became the 
 favourite pupil of good Dr. Bogue ; so that 
 it u.sed to be said, 'Dr. Bogue's idol i.s 
 Mr. Bennett.' "
 
 158 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs amaag the Jeics. 
 
 Mr. Bennett as Pastor. 
 
 In 1795, wliile yet im-.ler the tuition of 
 Dr. Bogue, he received an invitation to take 
 the pastoral charge of the Church and 
 congi-egation at Eomsey. He accepted this 
 invitation, and began his stated ministry 
 at Eomsey, Fehrviary, 1796, and was 
 ordained April 5th, 1797. 
 
 His laboure were so honoured of the Lord, 
 that in taking a review after he had been 
 settled at Eomsey fourteen years, he wi-ote, 
 "The Church is now five or six times a.s 
 numerous as it wa.s fourteen years ago. In 
 one year, we received as many members, 
 within six, as the whole Church consisted of 
 at one time. Among all those admitted, the 
 instances of improper conduct have been few; 
 only one excummunicuted, and he eventually 
 restored." 
 
 Dining his pastorate at Eomsey, he had 
 the high satisfaction of introducing to the 
 work of the ministry, and subsequently to the 
 Chuich at Birmingham, the Eev. J. A. James. 
 In many of the villages around Eomsey, 
 the young minister introduced the preach- 
 ing of the gospel, and established Sabbath- 
 schools. 
 
 One of the most remarkable instances of 
 liberality in the history of chapel building, 
 occurred in connection with the Church at 
 Eomsey. while Mr. Bennett was pastor. On 
 one Sabbath he announced the intention and 
 desire of the people to build a larger place of 
 worship, and on tjie next Sabbath he preached 
 a thanksgiving sermon, that all the money 
 thought to be needful had been promised. 
 And though it was subsequently found more 
 monej'wasneeded, it was promptly guaranteed, 
 and the new chapel was opened free of debt. 
 This was a most substantial testimony of the 
 high esteem and devoted afl'ectiou of the 
 people to their pastor. 
 
 Mr. Bennett as Pastor and Tutor. 
 
 After seventeen year.s' labour in Eomsey, 
 where Mr. Bennett continued to be the 
 diligent persevering student, as well as the 
 indefatigable minister, his eminence as a 
 scholar became known, and he received an 
 invitation, April 5th, 1813, to .succeed Dr. 
 WiHiams as pastor and tutor at Eotherham. 
 Flattering as such an invitation was, to 
 succeed one who bad acquired gi-eat distinction 
 both as tutor and pastor, it was not till the 
 7tli of June, after unich pra3-er, f.asting, and 
 consideration, that ^Ir. Bennett decided to 
 
 accept the in\"itation to Eotherham ; he 
 entered this new spliere of labour August 
 •2-2nd, 1813. 
 
 While at Eotherham, Dr. Bennett's success 
 wa.s very great, both as a tutor and a pastor. 
 Among those who were his students there 
 were many honoured sei-vants of ChrLst, such 
 as the Eev. John Jefferson, Professor Hoppus, 
 Principal Ilaigh, Principal ^McAll, the Eev. 
 •John Eobinson, and othei-s. 
 
 Dr. Bennett in London. 
 
 The arduous and responsible duties con- 
 nected with the College and the Church, and 
 the literarj' studies in which he was engaged, 
 proved too much for his health ; and in 1821 
 he was laid aside by illness. This time of 
 phj'sical suflering was one of high spu-itual 
 enjoyment. Though he partially recovered, 
 so as to resume his duties, and to discharge 
 them with gi-eat earnestness, yet in 1827 his 
 health again gave way. Under these circum- 
 stances, with other concurring intimations 
 of Providence, he was induced to relinquish 
 his position at Eotherham, and to accept 
 the call from the Church in Silver-street, 
 London. 
 
 In this new spliere of labour God was 
 ple.a,sed abundantly to bless him. The Church, 
 which consisted of only sixty membei-s, rapidly 
 augmented to between three and four hundred. 
 A new and lai-ger place of woi-ship became a 
 pressing necessity. A freehold site was at 
 length obtained, and Falcon-square Chapel, 
 without debt, stands a lasting monument 
 to his zeal and to the devotedne.ss of the 
 people whom he bad gathered around him. 
 Here he continued pastor till he reached his 
 85th year. 
 
 Dr. Bennett's Interest in the Society. 
 
 On the 3rd of March, 1843. Dr. Bennett, 
 at the request of the Committee, delivered 
 the fifth in the fii-st course of lecture,* on 
 the Jews — a lecture bristling with facts 
 and arguments as suitable and needful 
 to-day as they were when first presented 
 fifty yeai's ago. \Ve feel constrained, there- 
 fore, to reprint it almost verbatim as 
 a specimen of the elearne.ss and cogency 
 of his style, and as containing a Di\-ine 
 message for the Jews and Gentiles bring 
 now. 
 
 On Monday, the 2nd of October, 18-13, we 
 find liim at a meeting of the Committee, 
 along with Dr. Hendei-son, James Hamilton,
 
 The Rev. .hemes lienneU. It.D. 
 
 159 
 
 llidley llerschell, iind otliei-s. At tliat 
 meeting tliere wivs ;i letter reail from tlic 
 Itev. Dr. Duncan, Missionary of the Vivo 
 Scotch Church at Pesth, in reply to one 
 from the llev. Dr. Keith ; and there was tlie 
 a[)f)ointment of a Sub-Committee, consisting 
 of the Secretaries, the llev. Dr. Bennett, the 
 lev. J. C. Burns, M.A., and the llev. James 
 A. Miller. 
 
 Dr. Bennett was present at the Annual 
 Meeting, held in Freemason.s' Hall, on Fri- 
 day evening, the 'JGth April, 1S41, and 
 moved the adoption of the Beport. 
 
 From that Report we learn that the Com- 
 mittee had established a Lecture specially 
 addre,s.sed to the Jews, which had been 
 appropriately commenced by Dr. Bennett 
 on '' The ^Messiah," and " numerou.sly 
 attended." 
 
 Thus 1 )r. Bennett's infcere.st in the Society 
 began soon after its birth, gi-ew with its 
 growth, and continued until, on the 4th of 
 Deceudx'r, lS(i2, he heard the voice of his 
 Saviour, calling him to ascend and be with 
 Him in the Heavenly Home. 
 
 " During his last illness," says his bio- 
 grapher, " he had large enjoyment of the 
 presence of C'hrist and the comfort of the 
 Holy Spirit. Though sometimes disturbed 
 by delirium, he showed a vigorous remem- 
 brance of Scripture in the original, a clear 
 perception of evangelical doctrine, and a 
 calm consciou.sness of his entire dependence 
 on the perfect righteousness of Christ. His 
 end was peace ami joy : the sweet smile 
 which came over his countenance as he drew 
 his la.'^t breath seemed like the response of 
 his soul to his Master's welcome. "Well done, 
 good and faithful .servant: enter thou into 
 the joy of thy Lord." 
 
 The Committee's Tribute. 
 
 " The recent decease of our dear and 
 honoured fi-iend. Dr. James Bennett, awakens 
 very gi-ateful recollections of what he was in 
 relation to this Society. From almost our 
 earliest history, he was our faithful friend, 
 giving the high sanction of his name and in- 
 lluence when the number of oiu- friends wa-s 
 small, and being always ready to counsel and 
 encounige the eflbrt in its subsequent st.iges. 
 He delivered one in the published course of 
 lectures, on the present condition of the Jews, 
 which h;is had an exten.sive circulation, and 
 lie wjvs the author of some of our most ap- 
 propriate tracts. He took a lively interest 
 in the Hebrew College, and [ileadeil the cau.se 
 
 of the Society on several public occasions. 
 May eveiy blas-iing rest on the bereaved 
 family, and may we follow him who, 
 through faith and patience, now inherits 
 the promises made to Abraham, to Isjiae, 
 and to Jacob." 
 
 TIIK I'UKSICNT CoXDITlON' OF THK .IKWS. 
 
 IIV THE REV. .HMES BENNETT. I). IP. 
 
 Hosea iii. 4. 
 
 " Fur thr childnii nf Tsniil ultall ahiili' tnnni/ /lai/n 
 irifUiiiit II Inmj, anil irithinit a jirim-i; anil wiih- 
 ont a Mcrt/iiv, and irithditt an imiKjr. anil iritli- 
 out an ep/wil, and iritkmit tcrapkim." 
 
 We are this day called to sit, with the pro- 
 phet of the Lamentation.s, on the ruins of 
 the holy eaty and beauteous temple of God, 
 and, bedewing them with our tears, exclaim, 
 " Behold the desolation ! Is it nothing to 
 you, all ye that pass by ? " 
 
 The very ruins tell of ancient glories. 
 The broken pillars, the carved cajiitals and 
 the curious cornices proclaim, " Here (Jod 
 once dwelt ! " but the fearful destruction, 
 the hideous disorder, the wide-scattered 
 fragments, tell — He is gone ! Whatever 
 way we turn the eye is met with this 
 one inscription, " Ichabod, Where is the 
 glory 1 " 
 
 If the fierce Roman concjueror wept over 
 the ruins of (krthage, almost repenting of 
 his own work, and the fulfilment of his oft- 
 repeated cry, Ddenda est Carthwjo ' can we 
 look at the Jewish nation without recalling 
 and adopting the language of their country- 
 man and our apostle, " I ha\e continual 
 heaviness and sorrow of heart for my 
 brethren ; for my heart's desire and praj-er 
 to God for Israel is, that they might be 
 saved i " 
 
 Happily, we are not without our consola- 
 tion, but may smile through our teiirs ; for a 
 voice issues from the desolation and confu- 
 sion, "Those ruins shall be built again, and 
 all that dust .shall rise." For the theme 
 allotted to me, the present stale of the 
 Jeirs, calls me to exhibit them ;us the visible 
 monuments of God's di.spleasure against 
 their sins — but reserved for a ilisplay of 
 .sovereign mercy and final restoration to 
 favour. 
 
 As I have cho.sen a text from their own 
 St^riptures. in whose inspiration and certain 
 fulfilment both they and wo airree, so I have 
 expressed my proposition in terms to which, 
 I suppose, the}- will not refuse to assent.
 
 160 
 
 Memories of Gospel Tnumphs among the Jews. 
 
 For the benevolence which has prompted 
 us to enter on this course of lectures I would 
 maintain in full force tliis evening, admon- 
 ished by him who said, ■' Boast not against 
 the natural branches from the stock of 
 Abraham ; for if thou boast, remember, thou 
 barest not the root, but the root thee." The 
 Christian who indulges any other spirit than 
 that of \eueratioa for the Jewish nation — 
 
 present day, is not so generally known as we 
 could wish. A long list of able writers and 
 learned works, reflects honour on their an- 
 cestors, and tends gieatly to shame their pre- 
 sent inditierence to their national literature 
 and their eagerness after worldly gain. But 
 even now we must not judge of them by 
 what theyappeariuourmoney-lo\-ing country, 
 to which the inferior portion of them have 
 
 WEEPING OVEB THE 
 
 sorrow for their fall — and believing aspira- 
 tions for their restoration, expo.ses himself to 
 the reproof, '• take heed, lest God spare not 
 thee." 
 
 THE JEWISH people's PAST PRIVILEGES AND 
 PRESENT POSITION. 
 
 That they once enjoyed privileges of which 
 they are now bereft, has been demonstrated 
 and vriW not be denied. That they have, 
 ever since their fall, been in a far moie 
 respectable position than they occupy in the 
 
 RCIXS OF CARTHAGE. 
 
 been attracted ; for on the continent of Europe, 
 in Holland, Germany and Poland, they hold 
 a much higher rank among the learned. Of 
 the Jewish converts to Christianity who till 
 the chairs of Hebrew Philosophy and Divinity 
 in Christian universities, I am not called to 
 speak ; for my theme is the Jews. They are 
 far from being what we are accustomed to 
 think them, a nation of pedlars and stock- 
 jobbers. Even those whom we are in the 
 habit of beating down in their prices often 
 put us to shame ; for Christians sometimes
 
 The Rev. James Bennett. D.I). 
 
 1(J1 
 
 Dlit.iiii iiiticlis wliicli .lows uio cnalJod to 
 sell below tlicir real wortli, Ijecause the 
 clmrity of tlio i icli lias t'liriiislieil their 
 poorer bretiireii willi the stock in Mliicli 
 they trade. 
 
 That they are more depressed in onr 
 cimntiy than in many others is our shame. 
 Till the time of Crom\v(>ll they weie not en- 
 couraged to take root ill onr land ; but where 
 they liave been longer settled tliey have ac- 
 iiuired higher respectabilit}', and have won 
 the conlideneeof candid Christians by correct 
 morals, upright dealings, eminent philan 
 thropyand literature of no mean rank. That 
 we may, however, now almost repeat to them 
 the language which their own prophet ad- 
 dres.sod to their conqueror, " How ai't thou 
 fallen from heaven, O brilliant star, son of 
 the morning ! " they as well as we confess 
 and deplore. 
 
 They are no longer a nation compact and 
 resident in their own proper localitj-, but 
 the fragments of a nation scattered over the 
 whole earth, as if a volcano had exploded in 
 Palestine, and driven them everywhere or 
 anywhere, e.\cept over their own land. In 
 what country are they not found ? But 
 where are they not strangers and foreigners? 
 Letvst of all arc they at home in their own 
 land, for there are, perh.aps, as many Jew.s in 
 I^ndoii as in all Palestine. 
 
 That this is a brand of judgment, a mark 
 of Divine displeasure, they themselves 
 confess with tears. For it is a maxim with 
 them, that Jews are not Jews but in the 
 Holy I^and. Canaan was given to their great 
 ancestor, Abraham, and his .seed after him, 
 for an inheritance, when he foi-sook his 
 fatherland, becau.se it was polluted with 
 idols; that, become a stranger and pilgrim 
 in the earth, he might follow the living Cod 
 wheresoever he .shoidd lead. They were put 
 in po.ssession of the promised heritage bj- 
 mighty signs, and the stretched-out arm of 
 (Jod, which shook creation, and .confounded 
 the gods of the nations. 
 
 'J'heir law, proclaimed by the voice of 
 Jehovah from Mount Sinai, and made the 
 commencement of a written revelation, being 
 designed for the land of Canaan, is adapted 
 to it, and is impracticable in any other. 
 
 Hence they exhibit, in their present .state, 
 the strange confounding enigma of a jicople 
 who have received from heaven a law which 
 they cannot obey. For their worship was to 
 be presented to trod liy a priesthood in the 
 tribe of Levi, and of the f;imily of Aaron ; 
 and now, having lost their genealogies, they 
 
 know neitliei- their families nor tribes. 
 The vulgar habit of mentioning their high 
 priest is the olVspring of (ientile ignorance; 
 lor Jews know that they ha\o no priest, and, 
 therefore, call the most distinguished per- 
 sonage among them their chief rabbi, an 
 othcer unknown to their law. They have no 
 temple at Jerusalem, and if they had, have 
 no priest who could offer sacrifice. 
 
 IJut if they have no priest nor sacrifice, 
 what is their substitute ? What atonement 
 have they for sin ? How do they spend the 
 great day of expiation, of which they say, 
 Isr.icl is then made spotless ? Alas ! they 
 have invented rites and ceremonies, the very 
 things their law forbids, and of which the 
 best that they can say is, that they can do 
 nothing better. But is there no mark of 
 Divine displeasure in this state of thing.s, 
 which reduces them to the condition of those 
 who, not having received laws from heaven, 
 devise rites and cei-emonies for themselves i 
 For this wa.s the high distinction of the 
 Jews, which exalted them above every nation 
 on the face of the earth, that, while God left 
 others to walk after their own imagination, 
 ]\Ioses said to Israel, " Ask now of the days 
 that are past, which weie before thee, since 
 the day that God created man upon the 
 earth, and ask from one side of heaven to 
 the other, whether there has been any such 
 thing as this ? " Did ever people hear the 
 voice of God speaking to them out of the 
 midst of fire ? 
 
 A OIIEAT lUVAL TO REVELATION. 
 
 But while their law has become, to a gi-eat 
 extent, impracticable, and they are making 
 .ittempts by their own rea.sonings to .supply 
 its place, they have introduced an enormous 
 rival to Divim- revelation, under a pretence 
 of comment, or explanation, called the Mish- 
 n;ih, or oral law, to distingui.sh it from that 
 which was written. Of this, Kabbi Mo.ses 
 Bon ]\Iaimon, called by them, from his 
 initials, Rambam, and by Christians, Mai- 
 monides, one of their most able doctors of 
 the twelfth centuiy, gives the following 
 account : " All the precepts of the law were 
 given by God to Closes, our master, togetlier 
 with an int(>rpretation of what the authentic 
 text signified. Closes going into his tent, 
 first related to Aaron the text and the inter- 
 pretation. He rising, and going to the 
 right-hand of Moses, Eleazar and Tthamar, 
 the sons of Aaron, ciime and heard the .same 
 tliat had been befon; dictated to their 
 father ; so that he heard it twice. Then
 
 162 
 
 Memcn'ies of Gospel Triumplis among the Jews. 
 
 came the seventy elders, and at last the whole 
 people heard the same. They all committed 
 to memory the text and the interpretation, 
 which Aaron had heard many times, and 
 hence arose the written law, and the oral 
 law, 613 precepts, together with their inter- 
 pretations ; the precepts inscribed in the 
 books ; the interpretations handed down by 
 word of mouth." Of which a specimen may 
 give an idea of the whole. The written law 
 contains this precept : " Ye shall dwell in 
 tabernacles seven days, but God taught Moses 
 orally that this was necessary for men only, 
 not for women, and was not obligatory in 
 sickness, or on a journey." 
 
 " Moses, dying, left these interpretations 
 to Joshua, and he again to the elders, and 
 the}' to the prophets, who handed them down 
 from one to another, without anj- dissent, till 
 the time of the men of the great synagogue, 
 who were Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, Daniel, 
 Hannaniah, Mishael, Azariah, Ezra the 
 scribe, and Nehemiah, C'hacaliae, Mordecai, 
 and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, with 
 others, to the number of 120. But the last 
 of the men of that sacred company was the 
 first of the wise men mentioned in the Mish- 
 nah, Simeon the Just, at that time high 
 piiest. After whom, in process of time, it 
 came to our Eabbi, the Holy, who was the 
 Phii'nix of his age, and the unique glory of 
 that time, a man in whom Grod had accumu- 
 lated such virtues that he merited to be 
 called bj- his contemporaries, our Eabbi, the 
 Holy, whose name was Judah, so that it was 
 said, ' Fiom the days of Moses to the Eabbi, 
 we have never seen law and nobility together, 
 and, from the time he died, humility and the 
 fear of sin ceased ; and so rich was he, that 
 it used to be said, the groom of the stables 
 of Eabbi wa,s richer than Sapor, king of the 
 Persians.' He, tracing his doctorial genea- 
 logy up to Moses, composed the Mishnah, 
 partly from the traditions from the Hps of 
 Moses ; pai-tly from consequences elicited by 
 argument in which there is unanimous 
 consent ; partly from conclusions in which 
 there is a difference arising from two modes 
 of interpretation, (for they have thirteen 
 modes of interpreting) ; so that sometimes 
 our Eabbi saj-s, ' Such an one aihrms this, 
 such another says that.' Hence. Maimonides 
 naturally observes, ' How is it affirmed that 
 the whole law, with its universals and par- 
 ticulars, was spoken from Sinai ? You see 
 them in the Talmud, disputing and bringing 
 their proofs and reasons for their interpi-e- 
 tations, whether " the fruit of a tree," 
 
 mentioned in the law, means an apple or a 
 pomegranate.' " 
 
 There are, then, five classes of interpreta- 
 tions, and it is said, that from the time 
 that the disciples of Shammajus and Hillel 
 were multiplied, dissensions in Isi-ael were 
 multiphed, of which curious specimens are 
 given. 
 
 A succession of ninety-one wise men are 
 mentioned by Judah, as handing down to 
 him their decisions, from Simeon the Just, 
 to the year 1 50 of the Christian era. 
 
 This MLshnah was published to the world 
 by Surenhusius, at Amsterdam, in 1698, in 
 six folio volumes, of which the comments of 
 rabbis and translatois form the principal 
 part. 
 
 The Mishnah is divided into six orders ; 
 the first treating of the vegetable world; the 
 second of feasts; the third of women; the 
 fourth of damages ; the fifth of Holy things; 
 and the sixth of purifications. 
 
 I will give a section from the commence- 
 ment as a specimen. The second is that 
 which I select because it is short, and begins 
 with the opening of the eyes of a -Jew to the 
 light of morning, to show the kind of life he 
 must lead, — " From what time do thej' recite 
 the Shema of the morning?" i.e. the text, 
 " Hear, O Israel I " — " From the time of 
 seeing the difference between blue and white. 
 Eabbi Eleazar says, as soon as the}' can 
 discern between blue and green ; but they 
 finish befoi-e the sun shines. Eabbi Joshua 
 says, before three o'clock ; because the sons 
 of kings used to rise before three. He who 
 recites from that time does not waste time, 
 as he who is reading the law " — i.e., this 
 recital of the Shema is not then considered 
 a mere ordinary reading of the law. 
 
 Let no one suppose that I have selected 
 this section of the Mishnah in order to make 
 it ridiculous, for all that are acquainted with 
 the work know that the second section is 
 respectable, compared with much of what 
 follows, which renders it most absurd to 
 suppose that this was an oral law received 
 from the lips of God. to expound his written 
 \A'ord. With every allowance for orientalisms, 
 many portions might be thought to have 
 been devised to shock common sense, and 
 render the whole religion of the Jews con- 
 temptible. Neither the gravity of this 
 assembly, nor the purity which religion 
 inculcates, nor the charity we owe even to 
 those who err, would suffer me to quote 
 passages which might justify the severest 
 censures I could pass on the whole. Whether
 
 The Rev. James Benmett, D.D. 
 
 163 
 
 a man sliall lift up his fingers and not his 
 thumb in the temple ; how they should keep 
 the high priest from going to sloe]) before 
 the ofTering on the great Day of Atonement 
 by snapping their thumb and middle finger ; 
 and other things of this sort are minor follies 
 of the Mishnah. 
 
 Numerous disquisitions are manifestly alien 
 from the idea of God's giving them to Moses, 
 as an oral interj)retation of the law. For 
 how could this apply to the Megillah, or lloll, 
 including the Canticles and Esther ? yet the 
 Mishnah treats of these. 
 
 I have gi\en Moses Ben Maimon's account 
 of the Mi.shnah; for the Jews say, that from 
 Mcses to Closes there is none like Moses. 
 Their Creed and Liturgy are derived from 
 him. He was a physician to the Sultan of 
 Egj'pt, and steeped to the eyes in the Aris- 
 totelian philo.sophy which was the rage of 
 his day. His famous work called, Moreh ; 
 or, " Guide to the Perplexed," is fitter to 
 teach the peripatetic logic, than Jewish 
 theology; for he now attempts to make 
 Aristotle a Hebrew, and now to transform 
 Moses into a peripatetic. 
 
 ThLs Mishnah is so exceedingly oriental, 
 idiomatic and abrtipt, at the same time .so 
 sprinkled with a kind of Hebrew Greek, that 
 its obscurity has given occasion for a commen- 
 tary called the Gemara, or completion. One 
 composed at Babylon forms, with the text, 
 the BaV)ylonish Talmud i and another in 
 Palestine, constitutes the Jerusalem Talmud. 
 Thus, God's interpretation has demanded 
 interpretations from men, till the whole has 
 swelled into twelve ponderous folios. 
 
 These are the body of Jewish learning, 
 which has thrust out the written law ; so that 
 this is considered but water and Talmud is 
 wine. 
 
 Yet Moses spoke of nothing but the hook 
 of the law, which was laid up in the ark, and 
 was to be read in the ears of all the people, 
 never giving a hint of the oral law, or 
 tradition, wliich was not committed to writing, 
 to form a book, till after Israel cea.>-ed to be 
 a nation. 
 
 Who can read the two laws without per- 
 ceiving that they came from dififerent authors? 
 Who can deny that the written statutes are 
 from heaven, and the oral law from men ? 
 Who does not see in the Scriptures the 
 majesty and sanctity of God, and in the 
 Talmud, the folly of sinners? 
 
 RESULT. 
 
 The withdrawing of the attention of Israel 
 
 from the imspired writings has produced a 
 fatal darkness. For the notion that the 
 interpretation is contained in the Mishnah, 
 produces a formal cursory reading of Moses 
 and the prophets, with a fearful inattention 
 to their meaning and .spirit. During many 
 ages, therefore, the rational, devotional, 
 profitable study of tlie Old Testament has 
 been confined almost .solely to Christians, 
 which serves to prove that the additional 
 book, the New Testament, which we receive 
 as Divine, is no rival or hostile work, but 
 the inspiration of the same Spirit which 
 dictated those Scriptures that are honoured 
 by the Jews with the title of Divine. For, 
 can two walk together, except they be agreed ? 
 We have received another book which they 
 say is not Di\'ine; and it has led us to study 
 that which they own as Divine ; they have 
 received an oral law, which they think Divine, 
 and it has taken them ofi' from God's Word. 
 The worship of the Jews being regulated by 
 the Mishnah, is debased into a bodily ser\-ice 
 of inane rites and forms, the precepts of men, 
 which their prophet declared was in vain 
 offered to God ; while the sacrifice of the 
 soul, the instruction of the mind, the .sancti- 
 fication of the heart, are so completely 
 forgotten, that a stranger entering into their 
 assemblies cannot but blush, or weep, for the 
 loss of the ancient glories of Israel, once the 
 only nation upon earth that offered to God, 
 who is a Spirit, the sacrifice of faith and love. 
 
 Amidst this wide-spread darkness we are 
 cheered by one ray of light and ho])e. The 
 rejection of the oral law, and the exclusive 
 attention to the written Word of God, which 
 has long prevailed among some foreign .Jews 
 has lately appeared in our own country. A 
 new synagogue has been formed in Burton- 
 crescent, where the oral law is abandoned, as 
 destitute of all evidence of a Divine origin ; 
 and worship of a more in.structive and spiritual 
 character meets the eye of the spectator, 
 filling him, on the one hand, with respect for 
 the reformation that has been achieved 
 amidst opposition and the reproach of excom- 
 munication; and on the other, inspiring hopes 
 that the true import of the Scriptures, thus 
 instructively read, may lead, by a Divine 
 influence, to the saving knowledge of their 
 contents. 
 
 Of the ancient Karaites, or Scripturists, 
 w-ho have long ca.st off the Talmud, I know 
 nothing but by travellers' reports ; which 
 I own have filled me with mingled hopes and 
 doubts. But there is another class of Jews 
 on the Continent, termed the Reformed, whom 
 
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 164 
 
 Memones of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 the celebrated German. ^lendelssolm, has in- 
 duced to cast oft" the Talmud, to read the 
 Scriptures, and oft'er their woi-ship, not in 
 Hebrew, but in the vernacular language of 
 the country in which they dwell. Our satis- 
 faction in this change is diminished by 
 detecting the marks of German Neology, 
 which is but a masked Deism. 
 
 From the interest I have long taken in the 
 nation and literature of the Jews, I have 
 been led into an acquaintance with that which 
 is hidden from the public eye, and have 
 detected with grief, and first with surprise, 
 the inro.ads of infidelity among those who 
 still retain their connexion with the Jewish 
 people. One highly intellectual man confessed 
 to me that "Volney's Ruins" had shaken 
 his faith in the revelation of the Old Testa- 
 ment ; and when I expressed my surprise, 
 that a man who had received from his fathers 
 a religion so well attested as that of ]\Ioses, 
 should have been shaken by the baseless 
 speculations of the Frenchman, he owned 
 there was no argument in the work called the 
 "Ruins," but still it had shaken him. 
 Another answered ni}' expressions of aston- 
 i.shment that a Jew should be a Deist, by the 
 confounding question, ''There are Deistical 
 Christians and why should there not be 
 Deistical Jews ? " 
 
 AX UNBELIEVIXG JEW ANSWERED. 
 
 A long oriental apologue was told me Iiy 
 one who wished to ward oft' my appeal in 
 behalf of Christianity. He concluded his 
 story with this infidel sentiment — " You 
 follow what you received from your fathers, 
 and I follow what I received from my fathei-s, 
 and it will all end alike at the day of doom. '" 
 To which I replied, " You follow what you 
 received from your fatliers ! Who was yoin- 
 father? Was it not Abraham?" To this 
 he answered " Ye.s," bridling up with conscious 
 dignity. I then asked " For what was Abra- 
 ham distinguished ? Was it not that he left 
 his own people, and his father's house, because 
 they worshipped false gods, the idols of the 
 heathen, and became a wanderer on the earth, 
 for the sake of the only living and true God ? 
 And do you, who profess to be a son of 
 Abraham, say, 'It will be all the same at 
 Ka-st, if we follow the religion of our fathers, 
 whatever that may be ? ' " 
 
 But that their long dispersion should have 
 shaken their faith we cannot wonder. " Hope 
 deferred maketh the heart sick." " Our 
 eyes fail while we wait for our God," was the 
 complaint of their ancients, and they now 
 
 cry. " We see no more our signs, neither is 
 there any one that knoweth how long." We 
 often hear of movements among them ; some 
 that are ominous and alarming ; others that 
 are pregnant with hope, though, alas ! these 
 hopes often have ended in bitter disappoint- 
 ment. For " the Hope of Israel, the Saviour 
 thereof in time of trouble," they know not. 
 Politicians and conquerors have played with 
 them. Buonaparte, like Cromwell, turned 
 his eyes upon the Jew.s, as a people not to be 
 despised by one who wishes to rule the world 
 over which they are scattered. He assembled 
 a Sanhedrim, and inducing them to flatter 
 him, as if he had been their Messiah, seems 
 to have obtained his object, which was to get 
 military service from them, by abolishing 
 their scruples concerning meats and inter- 
 course with Gentiles. The manner in which 
 they have from time to time caught at these 
 shadows proves that they are conscious of 
 missing the substance of religion ; for while 
 they have set up the Talmud, as if it were 
 to supply the place of those ceremonies 
 which are impracticable out of their own 
 land ; instead of obtaining the righteousness 
 and peace which conscience impels the sinner 
 to seek, thej' are the more tormented with 
 guilt, or mocked with delusive security. The 
 law of Moses made nothing perfect, since it 
 left some sins without expiation, none being 
 provided for murder, adultery, disobedience 
 to p.arents, blasphemy and idolatry. But 
 (his was to teach their need of a Ijetter hope 
 in the Messiah. The Talmud, however, made 
 bad worse. What it requires few of them 
 know ; and how can they tell that they are 
 safe ? Those who know most of it are aware 
 that no mortal can .say he has fulfilled the 
 law. Hence, they are said to kill a fowl, not 
 for sacrifice, but to intim.ate they need one. 
 Death is surrounded with horrors, the dread 
 of being beaten Ijy the evil one. (// t/ie grave, 
 and of enduring a purgatory, they know not 
 where, or how. 
 
 THEIR PRESENT VIEWS OP THE MESSIANIC 
 PROMISE. 
 
 Let us turn now to that which constitutes 
 the chief feature of the present condition of 
 the Jews, — their state of mind with regard to 
 the promise of a Messiah, and its infiuence 
 on their present fortunes. 
 
 We have seen that their Talmud, or the 
 notion of an oral law, has turned oft" their 
 attention from Avritings truly divine to 
 puerile fables, which have bewildered them 
 in a maze of senseless observances, so that
 
 The Rer. June's linnnll, D.l). 
 
 I(i5 
 
 
 THE JEWS simsTirrTE. 
 
 The (hvr-r of the Talmud (in VdUia, fol. 20, col. 2), signifies a "cock'"; the Gcvcr of the I'.iblc (in 
 Zecli. xiii. 7), denotes "a man of strength," — one jieculiarly — man in His noblest ideal— God's unspeakable 
 gift of Love ; His associate. His Sheiiheiil. who, iu the white Sliepheid dress of Humanity, composed of Jews 
 and Gentiles, willingly became their substitute, and wtis (^mitteu unto death that thev uiiilht have Kverlasting 
 Life.
 
 166 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 they study not the true meaning of what 
 was given to make tliem wise unto salvation. 
 That the inspired writings promise a great 
 deHverer we and they agree. So numerous 
 and so complete are these jiromises that a 
 picture of the person, and the history of His 
 life and death, and empire, may be drawn 
 out from the pi'ophecies. The time and 
 circumstances of His appearance are clearly 
 defined. It is not my province, and there- 
 fore not my design, to show what these are, 
 which would demand a long discourse ; but I 
 confine myself to the Jewish state of mind 
 with regard to the whole object of expecta- 
 tion. 
 
 They have no definite, certain, avowed 
 knowledge of the time for Messiah's appeai-- 
 ance. That there was a general expectation 
 of Him, .and a strong persuasion that the time 
 for His coming had arrived, when Jesus of 
 Nazareth appeared, is plain from the conduct 
 of the multitudes who received Him as the 
 Messiah. This the Jews must admit, though 
 they will say that these Juda'o-Christians 
 were deceived. We can, however, produce 
 the writings of these first believers to prove 
 that they were well-info?'med men, who could 
 adduce their reasons, which will bear exami- 
 nation, while their suffeiings and martyi'dom 
 show that they were sincerely and forcibly 
 persuaded of the truth of what they pro- 
 fessed. ^^'hat have contemporary .Jewish 
 writers produced which can bear comparison 
 with the Christian Scriptures ? 
 
 But we appeal, not merely to Christians, 
 in proof of the expectation of the Messiah at 
 the time that Jesus appeared; for the 
 heathen historians, Tacitus and Suetonius, 
 who wrote of this era, not onlj' declare the 
 fact, but showed that the Jews shared in 
 that expectation ; while Josephus, their own 
 historian, proves that it deeply influenced 
 them to desperate resistance to the Roman 
 jiower, in hopes of deliverance by the 
 Messiah. After this Barcochab, an im- 
 poster, was received ; from the persuasion 
 that the time was come, which brought 
 upon them under Hadrian more dreadful 
 slaughter than before. They have ever 
 since been liable to imposture, from the deep 
 conviction that the time is past. This they 
 have often confessed, but have attempted to 
 escape from the consequence by saying that 
 His coming is put off on account of their 
 sins. But at that rate, He may never come ; 
 for their sins may always put Him oft', as it 
 is supposed they have for many liundreds of 
 years. If they say that God will turn them 
 
 from their sins, then why not do this at the 
 very time originally fixed for Messiah's 
 coming I ^^'hy was any time fixed if the 
 event depended on their state of mind ? 
 The deliverances from Egypt and Babylon, 
 fixed to a certain time, happened at the 
 exact year, though their sins might then 
 have put off the fulfilment. 
 
 It is said that they have now abandoned 
 all pretence to a knowledge of the time, and 
 to guard against disappointment, have pro- 
 nounced an anathema, saying, " Cursed be 
 he that shall calculate the time." If this be 
 a fact, is it not flying in the face of Him, 
 that by HLs prophet marked out the time ? 
 One thing I know, that they have removed 
 Daniel, the prophet, who most clearly 
 assigned the time for Messiah's appearance, 
 from his place in this ijn and made him, not 
 one of the D'X'33) oi" prophets, but one of 
 the writers of the D'3inD, or hagiogi-apha. 
 I have found in conversation with a Pro- 
 fessor of Hebrew that he was sceptical 
 about the inspiration of Daniel. The Jews, 
 therefore, know not the time for Messiah's 
 appearance. How then can they tell but 
 the time is past ? How should they know 
 that it was not at the very period when 
 Jesus came ? How can they assert that the 
 event was put off? If they could be sure of 
 this, how can they be sure that He ever will 
 appear? What a state of uncertainty con- 
 cerning the most glorious promise ever made 
 to their nation, on which they now profess 
 to hang all their hopes ! How unlike is this 
 to the dealings of God with their nation, 
 which always found him fulfilling the words 
 of His servants in their appointed season ! 
 No candid Jew can deny that all the proba- 
 bilities are against them, and in favour of an 
 ojiposite train of thinking, which they have 
 been led by the false position they are in, to 
 oppose. Thus far concerning their notions 
 of the time of Messiah's coming. 
 
 But they do not even pretend to know who 
 or what He is to be when He does come ; so 
 they cannot tell whom they should receive 
 or reject, with a single exception, which I 
 shall shortly notice. They .say He will make 
 manifest His claims when He appears. But 
 this supposes that there are some criteria, 
 though they now know them not. What can 
 these be, but his agreement with the pre- 
 dictions of Scripture i How know they that 
 any such Messiah is to come ? Is it not, be- 
 cause God has promised Him ? And how has 
 He promised ? Without any information 
 whether the Messiah is to be a man or angel.
 
 TJie Rev. James Bennett, D.D. 
 
 167 
 
 Jew or Gentile, priest or king 1 No ; they 
 profess to know somethin};, and from whom ? 
 Is it not from tlie prophets t Then why can 
 we not know m\K-h aljout Him, before He 
 comes? Why do they not study, and discover, 
 and declare to the world what may be known i 
 i*'or in pi-oportion as they profess knowledge, 
 we can compare the Messiali whom they de- 
 scribe, with Him in wiiom we l)elieve. In 
 jiroportion as they are ignorant, they know 
 not but He has already come ; and cannot 
 tell whom they should receive, if He is yet 
 to come. Should a conqueror appear, this 
 would not prove him Messiah, any more than 
 David's contiuests, or those of Judas 
 Maccabeus, could prove those persons to have 
 been the promised deliverer. 
 
 Even if one should come and woi'k miracles, 
 He must be tested liy Scripture. This they 
 acknowleilge, so far as to admit that He must 
 prove Himself the .son of Abraham, and 
 Judah, and David. Here, then, are scriptural 
 definitions. But who eouhl prove his 
 
 genealogy now ? No one of the Jews knows 
 how to prove his family or tribe. They say 
 the genealogies will be restored, when 
 Messiah come.s, by miracle. What sense is 
 there in this theory ? Genealogies are records. 
 If they mean that the genealogies are to be 
 created, this is contrary to the very nature 
 of such documentary proofs. A regi.ster of 
 ages created at one time, is a forgerv com- 
 mitted. For the essence of such proofs of 
 genealogy lies in their being transmitted 
 through all former ages, down to the present 
 time. The very necessity for such a theory 
 as the Jews have invented shows that the 
 lime is past, and the Messiah should have 
 appeared when He could show His descent 
 by the national records. 
 
 But if the .Jews admit that the Mes.siah 
 must thus far prove Himself the promised 
 person, is this enough ? May not many 
 pei-sons prove themselves descended in the 
 same line ? Are there not other maiks by 
 which He must be tested i What are they ? 
 If the Jews know not, how great is their un- 
 certainty ! if they know, why do they not 
 tell ! Without such knowledge, how can 
 they be sure that He is not come ? That 
 Jesus of Nazareth was not the Messiah ? 
 Was He to Ije a prophet, or .a prie.st, or a 
 king, or all three? How was He to live? 
 Was He ever to die? If .so, — how? Was 
 He to live again ? The very rejection of Jesus, 
 and, since His time, of a host of pretenders, 
 a-ssumes a knowledge of what the Jews seem 
 to profess not to know. 
 
 In one point, however, I must admit that 
 they declare them.selves certain — that 
 Messiah was to be a temporal deliverer, one 
 who should give deliverance from temporal 
 ills, and reverse the present afflicted .state of 
 the Jews, by conferring temporal dominion, 
 honour, and prosperity ; especially by giving 
 them the triumphant po.ssession of their own 
 land. What would this prove ? That when 
 Me.«siah should come, He would find them in 
 'iieedof temporal deliverance, being in advei-sity, 
 and their land under the dominion of others. 
 What, then, wa.s their state when Jesus 
 came ? Were they not a conquered people, 
 under the Roman j'oke ? Was not Herod, 
 the Edomite, their kingling, ruling under 
 Caesar, with an iron rod which entered into 
 the soul? 
 
 But they will naturally say, " .Jesus was 
 no tem[ioral delivei-er from this hated domina- 
 tion." We shall .see. To say nothing of the 
 prophet's description of a Messiah, first 
 suffering, and then conquering, which has 
 driven the Jews to invent a double Mes.siah, 
 — Ben Joseph the Sufferer, and Ben David 
 the Conqueror ; how was ile.ssiah to be a 
 conqueror ? Was He not to crush His foes ? 
 If the Jewish nation had embraced Him, there 
 might have been more show of rea-son in 
 reproaching Him for not granting them the 
 temporal deliverance they expected. But 
 they who suppose that the very coming of 
 the Me-ssiah was put off on account of their 
 sins, might surely find no ditKculty in con- 
 cluding that when He came, and the nation 
 rejected Him, He refused to grant the sinners 
 temporal deliverance. W,as not Messiah to 
 crush His foes, and bless His friends ? Have 
 no temporal judgments fallen upon those who 
 rejected Him ! No tempf)ral blessings rested 
 on tho.se who embraced Him ? Jesus wept 
 over Jeru.salem, at the prospect of its punish- 
 ment for killing Him. Josephus, their own 
 historian, shows that his nation never before 
 suffered such calamities, which he ascribes to 
 their iniquities, observing that " if God had 
 not sent the Piomans a-s His executioners, the 
 earth would have opened and swallowed us 
 up." Was not then such a people capable of 
 rejecting the Just One ? 
 
 But the Jews may ask, what deliverance 
 did Jesus work for His friends who believed 
 on Him ? I answer, deliverance from the 
 unparalleled calamities which overwhelmed 
 those who crucified Him. He told His dis- 
 ciples, that amidst the tremendous wreck, 
 " not a hair of their head should peri.sh," and 
 He fulfilled His promise. For He warned them
 
 168 
 
 Memories of Gospel Ti-iurnphs aviong the Jews. 
 
 to flee to tlie mountains, -wlien they shoulil 
 see Jerusalem compassed with armies, of 
 which then there was no probability, for the 
 Eomans were already in possession of the 
 city. The Christians hearkened to Jesus, 
 and rode out the storm in safety. 
 
 It will still be said, " Ay, but has He put 
 our nation in possession of the promised 
 
 Jews ir/ien the.ij bdieve on U'lni, I may safely 
 say, will be shown by a futui-e lecture. 
 
 l>ut has Jesus wi-Qught no temporal 
 deliverance for His friends ? When the 
 Eomans fought against us, as the Jews had 
 done, Jesus broke that iron empire and 
 planted the banner of the cross on the 
 Capitol. A Christian Church was enjoying 
 
 JEWS .VXD JEWESSES IJJ THEIR SYXAGOCiUE FASTING AXD niAYING ON TUE DAV 
 OF ATOXEMEN-T, IN ORDEIt TO MERIT THE PAKDOS OF THEIR SINS. 
 
 We will answer that question, 
 your nation has embraced Him ; or 
 
 land ! ' 
 when 
 
 when you can show that Messiah was to 
 put His enemies in possession of thatl and. 
 Is it not foretold, " He .shall smite the land 
 with the rod of His mouth, and with the 
 breath of His lips slay the wicked?" We 
 could show that the land was to be theirs, till 
 Messiah came, and what He will do for the 
 
 prosperity in Jerusalem and all Judea, when 
 no Jew could approach the spot. Alas ! I 
 may almost say, we have had too much 
 temporal prosperity. We have oaten of that 
 honey to a surfeit. Temporal blessings, 
 though magnified as the best which other 
 conquerors can give, are but the minor 
 blessings of our Saviour's reign. Nations 
 pros{^>er in proportion as they are Christian.
 
 Thi> Rrv. .hnaen Bntncif, D.D. 
 
 169 
 
 Cliristeudoni now nilus tliu wotld, from polo 
 to pole, fn>ni the rising to the tsotting sun. 
 Heathen powei-sare ashelple.ss as their iilols. 
 Mohamiucdans are as weak as their prophet 
 was false. His sword is now as ru.sty as it 
 always was bloody. The Jews are at the 
 mercy of Christians, who can give Palestine 
 away, when and to whom (hey plea.se. What 
 could resist those who blew up Acre, the 
 ancient Ptolemais ? 
 
 But we are told that miracles shall make 
 Messiah victorious. This is taking other 
 ground ; for he that works miracles is no 
 mere tem|X)ral conciueror. Where miracles 
 intervene, the spiritual world is called into 
 action, and the whole scene is changed. Talk, 
 they, however, of the miracles of their ex- 
 pected Messiah ? Ijet them road the history 
 of Jesus ; which of all the temporal ills of 
 man did He not relieve, down to death 
 itself? 
 
 But why are the [)resent .Jews so exclu- 
 sively doting on a temporal deliverer. Is 
 this the sole characteristic of the promi.sed 
 Messiah ? Is He to achieve nothing spuitual ? 
 Do they look for a mere Alexander, Ctesar, 
 or Buonaparte, working miracles ? Would 
 this accord with the .sacred genius of the 
 ancient prophecies ? Was not the bl&s.sing 
 of Abraham spiritual, rather than temporal? 
 Wa.s he not a pilgi-im confessor for Truth, 
 quitting his native land, and having not a 
 foot of ground in that which was promised, 
 except the gi-ave he bought, to bury Sarah ( 
 W.as not the mi.ssion of Moses eftected by a 
 fall from the palace of Phanioh to a .shep- 
 herd's toil in the desert ? Was not his Ufe 
 made a burden liy the provocation of Israel, 
 and did he not tell them that their true bliss 
 lay in loving the Lord their God, for which 
 he had not yet circumcised their hearts ? 
 Did he not warn tliem that their prosperity 
 and siifety, even in the promised land, would 
 depend on their spiritual state ? 
 
 Is this the people to own, without a blush, 
 that all they want is a temporal Me.-.siah ? 
 What could .such a ime do for them ? What 
 would Palestine be for tho.se who live in it, 
 without deliverance from prideand sensuality, 
 envy, and malice, a guilty conscience and the 
 dread of death 1 Can a change of soil 
 renovate the heart, or man be happy without 
 being holy? The mind is its own place, and 
 can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. 
 What though the temple were restored, and 
 the external worship were like that of 
 Solomon in all his glory ; if the internal be 
 like that exhibited in the synagogue of Duke's 
 
 Place ? What a sign of a cainal mind, to 
 think nothing of the .spiritual glories ex- 
 hilnted in the P.salm.s, and e.specially the 
 seventy-second, which descrites Slessiah's 
 reign ! Alas, such a mind may easily mis- 
 take an imposter for Massiah, Messiah for 
 an impostor ! 
 
 But the carnal expectations of the present 
 Jew.s, so unlike the hopes of their pious 
 fathers, arise from their al)andonment of the 
 ancient faith concerning Messiah's person ; as 
 their false views of His person have, in their 
 turn, debased the national hope. Were I to 
 say to them, "What think ye of Christ: 
 whose Son is He?" They would reply, "The 
 Son of David." But if I ask again, " Why, 
 then, does David call Him Lord ? saying, 
 ' The Loril said unto my Lord, Sit thou at 
 my right hand, till 1 make thine enemies 
 thy footstool ? ' " They would say, '• Ah, 
 you call Him Son of God !" and I will not 
 shock you, or venture to accuse them, by 
 repeating the awful things which I have 
 heard them say against the term. Son of 
 God, which we apply to Christ. I would 
 rather imitate Stephen, the first martyr, 
 whom they .slew, and .say, "Lord Jesus, lay 
 not this sin to their charge." Hut when I 
 have asked them, how they could pour 
 contempt on the language of their own 
 Scriptures ? it has been said, " Ah, you 
 mean nashku bur, which you render ' Kiss 
 the Son ; ' but it means kiss, purely." When, 
 however, I replied, "I do not apjieal to that, 
 but to the former verse, which admits of no 
 dispute, ' I will declare the decree, the Lord 
 said to me. Thou art .My Sou,' " it seemed to 
 create surprise, as if they liad never noticed 
 that expre.ssion. This "Son given" is de- 
 scribed by Isaiah in as lofty terms as the 
 New Te.stament a.scribes to Him, and the 
 Targum of Jonathan applies to Messiah the 
 words, " Unto us a Child is born." 
 
 Oh, that this people would search their 
 own Scriptures, which speak of Messiah, and 
 take their views of His person from the only 
 authentic source, the very Oracles of God, 
 which have created the expectation that 
 there ever would be such a Deliverer ! 
 
 PERSECUTIONS PRODCCIXG EXMITY TO 
 CHRISTIANITY. 
 
 Of their rejection of the Scriptural doctrine 
 concerning Messiah's jjriesthood and His 
 sacrifice, I .shall not speak, and will but 
 glance at one more feature of the present 
 character of the Jews — their enmity to the 
 Christian name. But I cannot approach
 
 170 
 
 Memories of Gospel Trium'phs among the Jews. 
 
 this subject without bkishing for ourselves 
 as much as for them. Those who are called 
 Christians are guilty of the blood of the 
 Jews, both literally, by horrible persecutions, 
 and spiritually, by hardening their hearts 
 against Christ. But the Jews might have 
 known that Jesus died praying, " Father, 
 forgive them," and that these persecutions 
 were the mark of the apostate Rome, whom 
 the apostle warned, that if they thus gloried 
 over the natural branches of Abraham, God 
 would cut cfT these proud grafts. In pro- 
 portion as a man is a persecutor, he is not a 
 Christian. 
 
 But, after all, one sin cannot justify 
 another. Why, then, is the enmity of the 
 Jews inflamed against those who believe in 
 Jesus, especially when any of the children of 
 Abrvaham believe ? Have the Jews studied 
 our Scriptures, as we study theirs ? Is not 
 he who has considered both sides most 
 entitled to respect ? Should not the seed of 
 Abraham rejoice that so many nations have, 
 by becoming Christians, received Moses and 
 the prophets as divine ; and, putting away 
 idols, as true Protestants have done, lear'ned 
 to adore the God of Abraham ? Did we not 
 learn fr-om their Scriptures to expect a 
 Messiah to come? Can they deny that 
 Jesus lias brought the nations into a, better' 
 state than when the Jews imitated their 
 neighbours in making their poor children 
 pass through the fire to Moloch? Are there 
 not at least some Christians who are just and 
 kind to the Jews, and should not the conse- 
 quence be a willingness to confer candidly 
 with us on the points of deep inter-est 
 wlierein we differ ? 
 
 I forbear to dwell on the sor'rowful theme, 
 the guilt of the pr'esent state of the Jews in 
 rejecting Je.<us, and thus making themselves 
 sharers in the cr'imes of their fathers, who 
 crucified Him ; for time admonishes me to 
 proceed to show that their present faith is 
 far difi'erent from that of the better times of 
 their nation. The Tar-gums are ancient 
 versions of the Scriptures, from the pure 
 Biblical Hebrew, into a Ohaklaic dialect, 
 which, after the Babylonish captivity, 
 became the national tongue. Some of them, 
 as more ancient and more strictly literal 
 translations, are entitled to more credit ; 
 others, more paraphr-astic, are rather com- 
 mentaries, and are interlarded with fables. 
 Birt they are testimonies to the faith of 
 Isi'ael at the time they were wi'itten. That 
 of Onkelos is the most esteemed for' arrtiquity 
 and purity. Here we find Genesis xlix. 10, 
 
 to which Christians appeal, thus rendered, 
 " There shall not pass away one exercising 
 dominion from the iiouse of Judah, nor a 
 scribe from his son's sons for ever, until 
 Messiah shall come; and His is the kingdom, 
 and to Him the people shall hearken;" 
 wliicli proves that Messiah, who is in 
 Hebrew called Shiloh, is come; for dominion 
 has passed away from the house of Judah. 
 
 Tlie Targum on the Psalms, of which it is 
 uncertain whether it is by Jo.seph the Blind, 
 or not, makes the same application of the 
 second and fortieth Psalms to Christ, as our 
 Apostle Paul has given. The Targum on the 
 prophets ascribed to Jorrathan introduces the 
 theme of the fifty-third of Isaiah, commencing 
 from the preceding chapter, thus, " Behold, 
 My Servant the Messiah shall prosper and be 
 exalted ; " and the whole of the celebrated 
 propliecy is applied to Clirist, nearly as it 
 would be by a Christian. That the ancients 
 saw the justice of our applications of these 
 texts, and that the darkness has thickened 
 over the present Jews, should awaken their 
 serious reflections. Instead of being guided 
 l)y the torch of Scripture, they have put out 
 the light which their fathers enjoyed, 
 because it bore witness to Him whom we 
 receive. 
 
 I have already reminded you of the superior 
 learning displayed by the Jews of other 
 countr'ies and former ages, which is attested 
 by a long catalogue of works, unkrrown even 
 to literary Christians who have not made 
 this department of bibliography their special 
 study. "The Sight of the Eyes," "The 
 Bundle of Myrrh," " The Branch of David," 
 ar'e titles of works, which seem to us quaint, 
 birt are in oriental style, and bear witness to 
 the learned labours of Israel, during the 
 ages that we are accustomed to call dark. 
 But the rabbis, Solomon Jarchi, Aben Ezra, 
 David Kimchi, Levi Ben Gersom, and 
 Abarbanel, with a host whose names I can- 
 not repeat, have left behind them commen- 
 taries on all the books of the Old Testament, 
 and tr'eatises on almost all theological themes. 
 The later writers, while labouring to refute 
 tire interpretatiorrs of Christians, are com- 
 pelled to admit that they contradict their 
 predecessors. David Kimchi applies the 
 second Psalm to David alone : birt he con- 
 fesses that the words 13 tp-^y: should be 
 translated " Kiss the son," and that the 
 Psalm had been applied to Messiah by their 
 rhasters of pious memory, observing, " if tlie 
 Psalm be interpreted thirs, the meaning will 
 be clear : though it seems more likely that
 
 The Rev. James Bcnitdt, D.D. 
 
 171 
 
 Daviil composed this Psalm concerning him- 
 self, as we have explained." 
 
 Concerning Messiah we find the following 
 Rabbinical sentence : " What is the name of 
 the King Messiah ? Eabbi Aba, the son of 
 Cananah, s;xid, ' Adonai is his name,' because 
 Jeremiah xxiii. 6. says, ' This is his name by 
 which he shall call him, Jehovah [which the 
 Jews exchange for Adonai\ our righteous- 
 ness.' For Kabbi Levi said, " Ob, hajjpy 
 city, whose name Ls as the name of its king, 
 and the name of its king is as the name of 
 its God.' " 
 
 THIS people's 
 PROSPECTS. 
 
 But that the Jews 
 are reserved for mercy, 
 1 could prove, not 
 meiely from the New 
 Testament, which all 
 Christians must admit 
 to be decisive on this 
 point, but from consid- 
 erations which should 
 touch the heait of 
 the Jews. They are 
 witnesses for God 
 against idols, and if 
 the Governor of the 
 world gave extensive 
 dominion to Mahome- 
 dans when they were 
 the great iconoclasts 
 (image breakers), it is 
 no small consolation 
 to think that I.«i'ael had 
 been preserved from 
 falling into its ancient 
 sin. I know that 
 ■when this was once 
 urged as a proof that 
 they were under dispersion, not for idolatry, 
 but for their treatment of Christ, it was 
 denied by a very distinguished Jew. For 
 there is a Latin work entitled, " Amica 
 CoUatio," a friendly conference between a 
 Christian, Limborch, and Orobio, a learned 
 Jew. It well deserves its name, for it is a 
 beautiful specimen of cool rea.soning and 
 respectful differences on 'ooth sides; and if 
 Limborch had Ijeen a more Scriptural Chris- 
 tian, it might have led to a happier result. 
 But the Jew affirms that his brethren ex- 
 tensively practice idolatry in Catholic 
 countries, and says, " the Tx)rd forgiv^e me, 
 that I have myself bowed the knte in the 
 house of Baal." Under the terrors of the 
 
 THE FRUrr OF THE OI.IVE. 
 
 Inquisition he had profusse<l to be a Christian, 
 in Portugal ; but, haunted by conscience, he 
 made his escape to Holland, where he main- 
 tained the disputation, which was published, 
 not altogether to his di.sgrace. Multitudes 
 are said to be even in the piiesthood and 
 among the bishops, in Spain and Portugal, 
 still continuing Jews at heart. But Chris- 
 tians must blush to think that our religion 
 has been perverted to a sj'stem of iiuage- 
 woiship, and by infernal cruelties has induced 
 Jews to act the hypocrite and officiate in 
 .services which their souls abhorred. This 
 enormity is, we hope, 
 passing away; and cer- 
 tainly, as a body, the 
 Jews have been pre- 
 served from idolatry, 
 have maintained a rev- 
 erence for the Scrip- 
 tures, and kept them- 
 selves distinct, as re- 
 served for mercy. 
 
 Of the better part 
 of the conduct of the 
 present Jews towards 
 each other, a brief 
 sketch has been given 
 by a Chri.stian Israelite, 
 Mr. Ridley lierschell. 
 Minister of Trinity 
 Chapel, Edgeware Rd , 
 in a truly Scriptural 
 spirit, which I would 
 commend to the perusal 
 of all who wish to be 
 well in formed on a most 
 interesting theme. He 
 could speak of them as 
 they are seen at home; 
 I have chosen to exhibit 
 them in the library of 
 the'learned, the chair of the Rabbi, and in the 
 worship of the synagogue. Here we have 
 seen enough to draw tears from the eyes of 
 Christians, to pierce our hearts with sorrow 
 for those who were broken off from the stock 
 of Aljrahani, that we might be grafted in. 
 If there they lie scattered and withered, we 
 dare not glor}- over the natural branches, but 
 must remember, that, if we of the wild 
 olive were inserted into that stock ; then 
 how much more shall the natural branches 
 be grafted into their own olive tree? Though 
 lilindess in part has happened to Isniel till 
 the fulness of the Gentiles be come in, we 
 must, indeed, seek to gather to Christ all 
 nations, in order to provoke Israel to jealousy
 
 172 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triinnphs aniDn;/ the Jeim. 
 
 by the glories of Clirist's kingdom : Imt as 
 tlieie has always been " a remnant according 
 to the election of grace," " beloved foi' the 
 fathei's' sakes," so we may always laboui' for 
 them, in hope of glorious iii'st-fruits, ere the 
 whole lump shall be consecrated to God. But, 
 at last, all Israel shall be saved, raised, as 
 the prophet says, from the dead, over whom 
 the Gentile Church shall exult and say, 
 " This our brother was dead, and is alive 
 again ; was lost, and is found." God has 
 concluded us all. Gentiles first and then Jews, 
 in unbelief, that He may have mercy on all. 
 When Jews were the only people that wor- 
 shipped the God of Abraham tliey prayed for 
 us, saying, " Let the people praise Thee, O 
 God ; let all tlie people praise Thee. Then 
 shall the earth yield her increase. God sh.-dl 
 bless us, and all the ends of the eartli shall 
 fear Him." >Should not we who have entered 
 into their inheritance return the kindness 
 sliown to us by their fathers ? But to our 
 prayers, if we would prove them sincere, we 
 must add our efforts for their conversion. 
 The.se liave been long intermitted, and when re- 
 sumed, haveof ten been rendered feeble bygro.ss 
 ignoi'ance of the Jews, their language, litera- 
 
 ture and sentiments ; or by no less ignorance 
 of the nature of true Chiistianity, the king- 
 dom of the Me.s.siah, which has been exhibited 
 as a Jewish hierarchy, while its ti'ue glory 
 lies in its spirituality. Jews are not to 
 be made Christians by making Christians 
 Jews. 
 
 But may not those who understand Christ's 
 kingdom, and are acquainted with the Hebrew 
 language and literature, obtain some confer- 
 ence witli the seed of Abraham, either by 
 conversation or the press, to discuss in a be- 
 nevolent .spirit, the doctrine of a Messiah, 
 even though we shoidd agree to waive, at first, 
 all distinct reference to Him whom we be- 
 lieve to be the Hope of Israel and the Saviour 
 theieof ? Might we not hope to diminish 
 their prejudices and aversions l)y proving to 
 them that ti'ue Christianity is fai' I'emote 
 from that spirit ))y which they have been 
 ciuelly persecuted ? Should we not learn 
 better how to address them, and be roused to 
 address Heaven with the inspired prayer, 
 " O that the salvation of Israel may come out 
 of Zion ! When the Lord hringeth back the 
 captivity of Israel Jacob shall rejoice and 
 Israel shall be glad." 
 
 .VN OI.TVU GliOVE IN I'.iLESTlNE.
 
 R<' 
 
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 173 
 
 KEV. J. C. BURNS, A.M., D.D. 
 {Wil/i Portrait.) 
 
 JAMES CHALMERS BURNS was bom 
 at Brecliin, ancl spraiif; from a clericivl 
 family, hLs father, tlie Rev. Jame.s Burns, 
 being minister of the Cathednil Church 
 there. He liaj three uncle.s well known to 
 the SeottLsh Church, one of whom was a 
 founder of the Preshvterian Church of 
 Canad.i. They were the 
 Rev. WilHam PUirns, 
 J). IJ., mini.-iter of the 
 parish of Duns before 
 the Disruption, and of 
 the Free Church at 
 Kil.syth ; the Rev. 
 Robert Burns, D.D., 
 before 1843 a minister 
 at Paisle}', and in after 
 yeai-s a prominent 
 leader of the Presbj-te- 
 rian Church in Canada, 
 and Profe.ssor in one 
 of its colleges; and the 
 Rev. George Bin-ns, 
 minister of the parish 
 of Tweedsmuir, and of 
 the Free Cliurch at 
 Coj-storphine. On his 
 mother's side Dr. Bums 
 was also descended 
 from a clerical family 
 — the Chalmers ot 
 Aberdeen. Hisgiand- 
 father, Mr. Chalmei-s, 
 a printer, was founder 
 of The Aberdeen 
 Jofurtinl. 
 
 After his education 
 at tlie I'nivei-sity of 
 Clasgow, to which he was sent, according to 
 the old custom, when a mere boy. Dr. Burns 
 attended tlie Divinity cla.s.se.s in Edinburgh, 
 and came like so many othei-s, under the 
 s[)ell of Chalmers' teaching. His first charge 
 wa-s as a.s.si.stant to Dr. Rol)ert Buchanan in 
 North I.«ith Parish Church. In 1S37 he was 
 calked to the Scotch Church, London Wall, 
 London, where he ministered for sever.al 
 years. At the Disruption he did mucli to 
 interest the EnglLsh people in tlie cause of 
 •too ministers who. for conscience sake, left 
 the Estjiblishment and all its pmolmnents; 
 and in that year ]io wa.s called to the Free 
 
 liEV. J. L. BLU.S5, A.M., D.D. 
 
 Church of Kirkliston. Dr. Burns always 
 spoke with feeling of what he regarded as 
 the distinctly Providential way in wliich his 
 connection with Kiikliston commenced. He 
 had come from London to attend the famous 
 General A.s.seml)ly of 1843, and was persuaded 
 to pass a Sundaj- in Edinburgh. On the 
 Saturday he was over 
 taken by a shower of 
 rain, and took shelter 
 in a bookseller's shop 
 in Leith Walk. He 
 there met a clergj-man 
 who asked him to fill 
 the pulpit in the new- 
 station at Kirkliston. 
 This he agi-eed to do, 
 and after accepting 
 a unanimous call he 
 gatliered ai-ound him 
 an influential and ap- 
 preciative cougi-ega- 
 tiou. 
 
 In supplying the 
 summer stations at 
 Lausanne, Canne.s, 
 and Aix-les-Bain-s, Dr. 
 Burns became ac- 
 (juainted with Conti- 
 nental life, and widened 
 liis tiieological outlook. 
 For a long period he 
 tilled the office of 
 Convener of the Colo- 
 nial Committee of his 
 Church, and in that 
 capacity showed an 
 enlightened zeal in .all 
 that concerned the welfare of Canada. In 
 the winter of 1849 -.50 he .spent six months 
 in the Dominion. For some weeks he sup- 
 plied the pulpit of C'halmers' Church, Quebec, 
 with so much acceptance that he was 
 urgently refjuestcd to remain as permanent 
 minister. Then he went to Montreal, where 
 he preached for five months in the Colte 
 Church. There also he won golden opinion.s, 
 and wa.s cordially invited to undertake the 
 pa.storal charge of the congregation. Once 
 more, in 1874, he crossed the Atlantic 
 in companj- with the Rev. J. II. Wilson, 
 B.arclay Church. ?Minl)urgh. Thcv went as
 
 174 
 
 Meniones of Gospel Triwnphs amx/tig the Jews. 
 
 a deputation to the Presbyterian Assembly 
 of America, which met that year at 
 St. Louis. Thereafter the}' passed on to 
 Halifax, where the Synod of the Canadian 
 Church was gathered. The deputies met 
 everywhere with a hearty reception, and 
 some idea of their work may be gathered 
 from the fact that during their short visit 
 they had to preach thirtj- sermons and 
 give one hundred and twelve addresses. In 
 1879 the Free Church recognized its sense 
 of Dr. Burns' services by raising him to the 
 Moderator's Chair in the General Assembly. 
 When Dr. Burns joined the Presbytery oi 
 Linlithgow, which had the oversight of his 
 parish, he was recognized to be a man of 
 great moral and spiritual worth. His wealth 
 of experience, his manly %\isdom, his generous 
 culture, his commanding gifts, his ripe Chris- 
 tian graces, his influence in the highest 
 places in the Church, his long and varied 
 usefulness, and his frnnk and genial ways, 
 were always at theidisposal of his colleagues 
 in the discharge of Presbyterial business 
 and in the fulfilment of Presbyterial respon- 
 sibility. His theological attainments, his 
 marked preaching ability, and above all, his 
 earne^t piety, made him a power in the 
 pulpit; while his genial manner won for liim 
 a hearty welcome at the fireside. He was 
 an ardent supporter of the total abstinence 
 cause, and all along gave the Blue Ribbon 
 movement his cordial s}Tupathy. 
 
 When Dr. Burns entered upon his 
 ministerial juliilee, the Kirkliston congrega- 
 tion presented him with his portrait, painted 
 by Mr. W. B. Hole, A.E.S.A. The membeis 
 of the Free Church Presbytery of Linlithgow 
 also entertained him to dinner. 
 
 Dr. Burns was connected with the British 
 Society fi'om its beginning, 50 years ago. 
 He was present at the meeting held in the 
 National Scotch Church, Regent Square, 
 London, on November 7th, 1842, at which 
 the British Society was formed. One of the 
 resolutions unanimously carried at that meet- 
 ing, was proposed by Dr. Hamilton, of the 
 Scotch Church, Regent Square, and seconded 
 bv Dr. Burns, of the Scotch Church, London 
 Wall. At the meeting of Committee held 
 on March 6th, 18-13, Dr. Burns was pre.sent, 
 and crowned it with prayer. He also 
 crowned the first public meeting of the 
 Society, by seconding and supporting the 
 closing resolution. That meeting was held 
 in Freemasons' Hall, on Monday evening, 
 April 24th, 1843. 
 
 Dr. Burns gave the seventh of the first 
 
 com-se of lectures delivered by ministers of 
 difl'erent evangelical denominations, on be- 
 half of the Society, in the spring of 1843. 
 
 He selected a.s his text : Romans x. 1. 
 "Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to 
 God for Israel is, that they might be saved." 
 Romans si. 1 , 2, "I say then : Hath God 
 cast away His people ? God forbid. For I 
 also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, 
 of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath not cast 
 away His people which He foreknew." 
 
 We are sorry that we can only give 
 here a few extracts from that admirable 
 discourse. 
 
 I. 
 
 Tlie subject of this evening's Lecture is, 
 ''The encouragement which Christians have 
 to undertake the conversion of the Jews," in 
 other words, to endeavour to turn to practical 
 account the doctrine set forth in the lectures 
 which have gone before, to do something for 
 the good of Israel. Although the seventh in 
 order, it is, perhaps, the first in importance, 
 inasmuch as practice is more important than 
 speculation,— deeds are better than words: — 
 and inasmuch .as the success of any measures 
 that may be adopted of a practical kind, how- 
 ever wise and well meant, must, humanly 
 speaking, depend very much on the amount 
 of encouragement we feel we have in under- 
 
 takinsr them, — on the confidence with which 
 
 . 1 • 
 
 we begin ! And, in proportion to the im- 
 portance of my theme is, I am aware, its 
 difiiculty, considering that in the exposition 
 of it I shall have to encounter perhaps a 
 greater amount of incredulity and prejudice 
 than has any of mj' predecessors ; that very 
 many, it may be most, of my hearers come 
 to the consideration of it, with the latent 
 feeling in their minds, if not with the 
 avowed conviction, that we have little or no 
 encouragement to this work at all : that the 
 conception, though a benevolent one, is more 
 Utopian than wise. 
 
 Nor. we admit, is it much to be wondered, 
 that such a feeling should exist, when we 
 remember how recently the missionary 
 enterprise, in every shape and form, was 
 similarly regarded ; that half a century has 
 not yet elapsed since the Church of Christ 
 was first awakened to a sense of its duty, in 
 reference to the Gentile nations, — and that 
 only now, within these few years, has the 
 name of a missionary ceased to be one of 
 reproach, or his work to be deemed hopeless 
 and visionary, since the progress and success 
 of the work have enabled us to point to 
 results, and in answer to every sceptical
 
 Rev. J. C. Burns, A.M., D.D. 
 
 n 
 
 doubt, every incredulous inquiry, — '■ Can 
 any good thing come out of it ? " has entitled 
 us to say, " Come and see ! " The occult 
 (juality or power which was said to lie in 
 the Gospel to change tha aspect of the moral 
 world, to rectify its disorders, and to dry up 
 the source of all its sins, and sutlerings, and 
 sorrows, wiis long treated very much in the 
 same way as was the occult 'principle in 
 matter which Sir Isaac Newton was sup- 
 posed to announce, when he made known his 
 theory of gravitation, — -a theory, of which it 
 his been truly said, if " it had not the per- 
 secution of violence, it had, at least, the 
 persecution of contempt to struggle with, 
 and had associated with it for years a kind of 
 obscure and ignoble sectarianism," although 
 now it is acknowledged by the world as 
 being equally suie and stable with nature 
 itself, as a principle, which " reigning over 
 the material system of the universe gives 
 harmony to all its movements." 
 
 li- 
 lt is sometimes objected, that "the time is 
 not come ; the time that the Lord's house 
 should be built ; " and the objection even 
 assumes the aspect of piet}', of a tender care 
 lest we interfere with the jjrovidence of God. 
 We answer, Jirst, that it is an objection 
 which no one has a right to make ; for what 
 do we, what does any man know " of the 
 times and seasons which the Father has re- 
 tained in HLs own power ? " Xexl, that for 
 anything we know to the contrary, it may 
 be the very time — it is, at all events, eighteen 
 centuries nearer than when Paul laboured 
 and prayed for it ; and deep, surely, is the 
 res[)onsibility we incur if we act on a mere 
 hypothesis, which may turn out to be false. 
 Next, that we as little know about the time 
 when "the fulness of the Gentiles is to come in 
 — when our own land, e.g., is to be thoroughly 
 Christianized (which, alas ! it is not now) 
 And, Jlnallij, that even supposing the time 
 for the conver.sion of the Jews as a nation has 
 not come — that, according to the sacred 
 calendar of prophecy, it could be clearly 
 made out that it is not to arrive for several 
 centuries (and on this point the best inter- 
 preters of prophecy are not agreed), does 
 that show that the piesent is not the proper 
 time for the conversion of individuals I — 
 that though the temple may not be built in 
 our day, or by our hands, there is nothing to 
 do in the way of preparing for it ? — no mate- 
 rials to collect, no willing otVerings to conse- 
 crate, no prayers to put into exercise ? No, 
 
 it is always the time to be labouring and 
 praying for the conversion of individuals, 
 both Jew and Gentile; souls are ever pre- 
 cious, ever perishing ; the blood of Christ is 
 always the same to cleanse from sin, "to 
 cleanse the inhabitants of Jerusalem ; " and 
 the Holy Spirit is ever near to legenerate 
 and sanctify. " Behold, now is the accepted 
 time ; behold, now is the day of salvation." 
 
 III. 
 
 Let me further add, that the futility of this 
 objection has Vjeen proved by e.rperience. 
 Those eflbrts which have been made in recent 
 times for the conversion of the Jews have 
 not issued in failure — not always, not even 
 generally ; on the contrary, they have been 
 attended with a large measure of undoubted 
 success. 
 
 The details I cannot stay to record at 
 length, but there is one general statement 
 which has been made, I believe, on good 
 authority, and which, if true, ought to be 
 decisive, viz., that in proportion to their 
 numbers, there have been as many converts 
 from among the Jews as there have been 
 from among the heathen, if not more ; — at all 
 events, there has been more than enough of 
 real, undoubted conver.sion to put down the 
 injurious allegation that all pa.st efforts have 
 issued in complete failure. 
 
 IV. 
 
 There is one peculiar feature, besides, in 
 Jewish conver.sions, not to be overlooked. 
 Men of cultivated understandings and great 
 learning among the Jews have embraced 
 Christianity. There are at present several 
 ministers, and one BLshop of the Church of Eng- 
 land, of the natural seed of Abraham. Among 
 the Lutheran Reformed clergy on the Conti- 
 nent, not a few. Besides many physicians 
 and lawyers, there are five professors and 
 two lecturers in the University of Breslau ; 
 five professors in Halle ; in Petersburg a 
 professor of medicine ; in Warsaw, Dr. Leo, 
 one of the most celebrated jjhysicians ; in 
 Erlangen, Dr. Stahl ; in Amsterdam, Dr. 
 C.ipadose (whose narrative of his conversion 
 is so widely and deservedly known) ; and in 
 Berlin, the famous historian. Dr. Neander, 
 • — all of them converts from JudaLsm. 
 
 There is no doubt that among Jewish 
 converts there have been backsliders — that 
 some have made shipwreck miserably of faith 
 and of good conscience ; but that is no more 
 than may be said of Gentile converts, whether 
 abroad or at home. The number of such
 
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 Menwries of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 cases of apostacy has, on the whole, been 
 ■wonderfully small : and thoiiirh it had been 
 much larger than it is, it would have afforded 
 no reason for our appUing a rule to them 
 which we could not bear to have applied to 
 oui-selves, which the Saviour of the world 
 never acted upon, which the whole spii'it of 
 His Gospel disowns. 
 
 V. 
 
 The crowning encouragement of all, 
 especially to those who have been wont to 
 regard Gentile missions as ha\-ing the prefer- 
 able or the exclusive claim upon them, is, — 
 that by helping on the convemou of the Jews 
 we do most effectually promote the conversion 
 of the Gentiles also. Xative agency is now 
 genemllv recognized as the be.st for mission- 
 ary labour, the che:ipest, the most suitable, 
 the most easily and rapidly multiplied ; and 
 so it is, :vs compai-ed with the agency of for- 
 eignei-s, men of '• a stKinge speecli and of a 
 hard language," of a colovu- and constitution 
 unlike those of the people among whom tliey 
 labour. But there is another kind of agency 
 which we have rea.son to l)elieve will be found 
 better stUl, that of Christian Jews, or Jew- 
 ish Cliristians, — of men, who already know 
 almost every language, as they inhabit every 
 clime, — who have in mo.st ca-ses the learning 
 both sacred and pi-ofaue, wliich native idola- 
 tors have not : who as a people are distin- 
 guLshel by their intellectual abiUty : whose 
 wealth and consequent influence is unbounded 
 (the commei-cial destinies of Europe ha^-ing 
 sometimes depended on the will of a single 
 family of that despised and afflicted i"ace,) and 
 who only need thei-efore to have the "veil 
 lifted from off their eyes in i-eading the Old 
 Testament," to become the ready-made, accom- 
 plished expositoi-s of the Xew. who only need 
 to get a sight of Christ, as Paul did, to Ije- 
 come in many inst^mces, Pauls themselves. 
 Wei-e the Jews converted, the world would 
 at once be supplied with missionaries, " an 
 army of living men exceeding gi-eat." The 
 very spectacle of their conversion would lie 
 like a new revelation to the world : — and then 
 might we not expect the prediction of Zecha- 
 
 riah to receive a literal accomplishment, that 
 " many people and strong nations, shall come 
 to seek the Lord of Hosts in Jeriisaleai. and 
 to pray before the Lord, that men of all lan- 
 guages of the nations, shall take hold of the 
 skirt of him that is a Jew, saying. We will go 
 with you. for we have heard that God is with 
 you?" 
 
 ThLs, in truth, is the very expectation 
 which the Church of Christ is warrantetl to 
 entertain, which in these chaptei-s the in.spii-ed 
 apostle unfolds. ''Their fall and diminution 
 have Iseen the riches of the Gentiles, how 
 much more their fulness ! " — " the casting 
 away of them has been the reconciling of the 
 world," their reception back again shall be as 
 " life from the dead ; " the " good olive-tree of 
 the Church " will be stunted and feeble till 
 they, " the natural branches, are graffed in 
 agam:" — when '• the fulness," or multitude, 
 of the Gentiles has come in, i.e., the people 
 whom Crod revealed His purpose to " take out 
 of the Gentiles for His name " (and whose 
 number, for aught we know, is already nearly 
 completed,) t/ien "the blindness which has 
 hapj>ened to Isi-ael" shall be cleared away. 
 "And .so all Israel shall be saved," — and in 
 them as the seed of Abraham," "whase ai-e 
 the fathers, and of whom as concerning the 
 flesh, Christ came," shall the old prophecy be 
 fulfilled, that '"all the families of the earth 
 shall be bles,sed!" Xeed we wonder the 
 apostle winds up the wondrous nari-ative of 
 Israel's former and futui'e glory, of her sin 
 and punishment and pardon, of our debt to 
 her, and of her debt, yet undischarged, to us 
 — she our benefactor, we hei-s, and she the 
 world's, — by giving utterance to this .sublime 
 apostrophe, " O, the depth of the riches, both 
 of the wisdom and knowledge of God, how 
 unsearchable are His judgments, and His 
 ways p.i.st finding out !" 
 
 1842—1892. 
 
 In November, 1842, Dr. Bums took part 
 in the formation of the British Society. In 
 November. 1892, at the ri|)e age of 84 year.s, 
 he died in harness, and ascended to receive 
 from his Saviour's hand the victor's crown.
 
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 17: 
 
 THE REV. JOHN HARRIS, D.D, 
 
 1802— 1843— 185G. 
 
 With Portrait. 
 
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 Oil's HARRIS was bom on the Sth 
 March, 1802, in the village of 
 Ugborough, Devon. His father carried on 
 a small business as a village tailor and draper. 
 His mother carefully tended and brought up 
 her children, so far as she was able, in the 
 fear of (iod. She died when he was about 
 fo\u-ti'en years of age. He grew up a 
 thoughtful, contemplative child, and was 
 early known, from the sedateness of his 
 manner, and the delight he took in reading 
 aloud for the amusement of othei's, by the 
 name of •' Little Parson Harris," wliich title 
 he was reminded of by one of the old people 
 of the village, when last he visited his n.ative 
 place. 
 
 About the year 1815, his parents removed 
 to Bristol, and occupied apartments in the 
 vicinity of the Tabernacle. Soon after their 
 ariival in that city, a hea\-y fall of rain one 
 Sunday morning prevented their going to 
 the cathedral, which had been for a short 
 time their accustomed place of worship, and 
 they were induced, on the repre.sentation of 
 the child John, to go to the Talicrnacle. A 
 few months only elapsed when both the 
 parents joined the church at the T;ibernaele, 
 and five of their children, including the sub- 
 ject of this memoir, were entered as scholars 
 in the Sabbath school. 
 
 His earliest devotional exercise in public 
 is known to have been his taking part in a 
 prayer-meeting, conducted by the boys in 
 connexion with the Sunday school. He was 
 soon after induced to deliver an address at a 
 branch school, at Bai)tist Mills, on the occasion 
 of the death of one of the scholars, and 
 spoke with great beauty and modesty on the 
 character of Jesus, as the resurrection and 
 the life. 
 
 In the year 181G his mother died: and, 
 while sorrowing deeply on account of her 
 removal, he continued to address himself to 
 the im]X)rtant work of mental improvement. 
 Toward the close of this year he was brought 
 under the notice of the late e.xcellent Mr. 
 Wills, the manager of the Tabernacle, in 
 consequence of his having compo.sed a poem 
 on the perfection of God, after hearing a 
 lecture on .-ustronomy. The lines evinced .so 
 much of promise, that Mr. Wills procured 
 
 their in.sertion in Felix Farley's " Bristol 
 Journal," on the 11th January, 1817, .and 
 from that time forward became the friend 
 and adviser of John Harris. In his sbcteenth 
 or .seventeenth year, he became a member of 
 the church at the Tabernacle. 
 
 At this time he was employed with his 
 father, in the shop, during working hours, 
 but .so anxious was he for the acciuisition of 
 knowledge, that he devoted much of the 
 night to study. He soon began to preach in 
 villages around the city, in connexion with 
 the Bristol Itinerant Society. The little 
 chapels were alw.iys crowded to hear him ; he 
 was called " the boy preacher ;" and was 
 highly popular with his rustic auditors. His 
 piety, zeal, and extraordinary gifts pointed 
 him out as a suitable candidate for the work 
 of the Christian ministry ; and with a view 
 to this, Mr. Wills introduced him to 
 Mr. Thomas Wilson. He was .sent to Rowell 
 to pursue preparatory studies, under the 
 Ecv. Walter Scott, to whose kindness an<l 
 erticient teaching he never referred but with 
 pleasant and gi-ateful emotion. At the end 
 of a year he was admitted to the Hoxton 
 Academy. During his academic course he 
 was distinguished by all tho.se .social and 
 mental excellencies which endeared him to 
 his fellow students ; and those who knew 
 him best were able, hopefully, to predict that 
 he would rise to great eminence and dis- 
 tinguished usefulness. 
 
 In the year 1825, he left the Academy, and 
 became the pastor of the Congregational 
 Church at Epsom, over which he presided 
 for twelve j'ears. The seclusion of this 
 sphere was adapted tf) his tastes, which were 
 rural, and to the condition of his health, 
 which was far from robust ; while its limited 
 character enaljled him to pursue his studies, 
 and thus secure preparation for enlarged 
 future u.sefulness. His preaching, at this 
 time, was di.stinguished by a large degi-ee of 
 that intelligence, unction, and earne.stne.ss, 
 which so fully marked him when he after- 
 wards became a more popular preacher. 
 
 In the year 1838, he was invited to become 
 the theological tutor and President of 
 Che.shunt Collegt;. Toward the end of the 
 same year, he received the degiee of Doctor
 
 178 
 
 Memories of (iospel Triuiiijihs itinoni/ the Jeivs. 
 
 in Divinity from Brown University, in the 
 Tnited States of AmericM. In the year 
 1843, he surt'ered from a paitial failure of 
 sight, which it was feared would end in total 
 blindness ; but tlie next winter, spent in Italy, 
 did much to restore his power of vision, and 
 to le-establish his health. He returned to 
 Cheshunt in the summer of 1844, and con- 
 tinued to dischaige his duties at the College 
 with vigour and efficiency. It was his 
 happiness to be instrumental in sending forth 
 from that Institution a number of well- 
 trained, devoted ministers of the Gospel, in 
 whose welfare he cherLshed a lively interest. 
 In the year 1850, New College, London. 
 wa.s established by the union of Coward, 
 Homerton, and Highbury Colleges. Dr. 
 Harris was unanimously chofen Profes.'or of 
 Systematic and Pastoral Theology, and was 
 subsequentlj' appointed the Principal of the 
 College. In connexion with the opening of 
 the building, which took place October 1, 
 1851, he delivered a valuable discourse on 
 the inspiration of the sacred Scriptures, and 
 entered fully upon his duties, which were 
 continued without interruption till the middle 
 of the month in which he died. 
 
 On his return, in the autumn of last year, 
 from an exteniled continental tour, heappeai'ed 
 unusually well, and frequently said that he 
 had never enjoyed such robust health before, 
 lie undertook many public services, and even 
 did that which for some years he had seHom 
 ventured to do from a regard to his health, 
 preached in the evening. His la.st public 
 service was on the evening of December .3rd, 
 in connexion with the recognition of the Rev. 
 R. MacBiair, M.A., as the pastor of the 
 chui'ch a.ssembling in the Barbican Chapel, 
 London. A few days after that he took 
 cold. He called in the aid of a skilful 
 physician and friend. For a week or ten 
 days no danger was apprehended, but suddenlv 
 symptoms of a serious order manifested them- 
 .selves, additional aid was obtained, and the 
 case was at once pi-ononnced to be dangerous, 
 and soon was felt to be hopeless. Tlie closing 
 hour of life witnessed his feeble attempt to 
 articulate some of the penitential expressions 
 of the fifty-first Psalm, and to breathe out 
 the prayer, " Lord Jesus, receive my spirit !" 
 — " O God be merciful to me !" He then fell 
 asleep, on the afternoon of the Lord's day, 
 December 21st, 185G, in the fifty-tifth year 
 of his age. His mortal remains were interred 
 in Abney Park Cemetery, in the presence of 
 a great company of mourners. The fnneml 
 service was conducted in Stoke Newington 
 
 Chapel. Tlie addres.s was delivered by the Rev. 
 G. Smith, and sermons weie preached on the 
 following Sunda)', in New College Chapel, by 
 the Rev. T. Binney, and the Rev. J. 
 Stoughton. 
 
 Dr. Harris published numerous sermons, 
 essays, and addresses ; his chief works ai'e : 
 " The Great Teacher ; " " Mammon ; " " The 
 Great Commi.ssion ; " "Britannia;" " ChrLs- 
 tian Union ;"' " Pre Adamite Earth ; '' " Man 
 Primeval;" "Patriarchy;" he left another 
 woik nearly ready for the press, " Theocracy." 
 
 He was a poet also, and published a 
 volume, entitled '• The Incarnate One," be.sides 
 other minor poems, which reveal his varied 
 knowledge and exquisite ta.ste. — Tlie Con- 
 (jregational Year Book, 1858. 
 
 Passages from the Lecture of Dr. Harris. 
 
 On Friday evening, 21st April, 1843, Dr. 
 Harris delivered on liehalf of the Society 
 a lecture entitled 
 
 •^THE (iLORY WHICH WILL REDOUND TO 
 
 GOD FROM THE CONVERSION 
 
 OF THE JEWS." 
 
 He took for his test : 
 
 '■ the (IcjAh uf the rlclasi both of the iriMhnu and 
 himdt:(tifc of iiml ! how unxi-arrhahlv arc His 
 j tidffnients. awl His wai/x po.U jindiivf out .' " — 
 Romans xi.. 33. 
 
 We regret that we have only room for the 
 following passages, which form the concluding 
 part of this wonderful discourse. 
 
 And they (the Jews) .shall come from the 
 ea.st and from the west, from the north and 
 from the south, to swear allegiance to the 
 cro.ss of Christ. And, oh ! if when the 
 " Apostles and brethren th.at were in Juilea 
 heard that the (rentiles had also received the 
 Word of (iod, they glorified God, saying, 
 Then hath (Jod also to the (ientiles gi-anted 
 repentance unto life, " what joy will seize 
 thetientile Church when itshall beannounced, 
 " Then hath God also to the J ev.-s granted re- 
 pentance unto life," and they have at length 
 embraced the mighty grant I And if there is 
 joy in heaven among the angels of God over 
 one sinner that repenteth, who can conceive 
 the r.aptnre which shall thrill the ranks of 
 the seraphim when it shall be there pro- 
 claimed, " All Israel is saved ! " 
 
 And this reminds us of the further acces- 
 sion of glory to God from the conversion of 
 the Jews, resiillinf/ from the ejjects of the 
 erent iijjon others. For what an un.surpa-ss.able 
 proof will it furnish of the Diciniii/ of the
 
 Tin' llrr. Jul,,, J I, I, ■,■:.■<. I I.I I. 
 
 7f) 
 
 ir/ialf si'licnii' iifrd'eliitioii, .' As tlu^ oiit|K)iiriii;; 
 III tlic Spiiil upon tlio Jews on tlio day of 
 I'l'nti'cost was rosorvt'il by (lixl for the 
 crowning proof of tlie new economy ; so the 
 ^'reator elliision of tlic same S[)irit, upon the 
 same people, is resei-vod to complete tlic proof 
 of its claims, as it draws towards a close. 
 Siillicient ami snporahnudani as the evidences 
 
 natural ai-p?ct ; a seeiK; which shall .silence 
 the sceptic, and carry the judf,'menl of the 
 in(|Miring, even (hou^'h it fail to win their 
 hearts. 
 
 What an nnsm-passablo [)roof will that 
 event display oi' the iiM-snJ/lc/eiici/ of the </race 
 of God! At the opening of the ('hri.stian 
 economy, Hie conversion of Saul of Tar.sus 
 
 TUK HEV. JOHN HAIililS, D.U. 
 
 of its Divinity already are, God is still 
 holding in store a concluding pioof which 
 shall eclip.se the lustre of all that have gtme 
 Ijefore. For the conversion of the Jews will 
 exhibit a scene in which every event will be 
 seen to be the providential issue of a train 
 of circinnstances laid ages before every 
 movement, the fulfilment of an ancient pro- 
 phecy--everyocciu'reucoiu\ested with a super- 
 
 seems to have l)een designed — indeed, he 
 himself declares, " For this cause I obtained 
 mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might 
 show forth all long-sufiering, for a pattern 
 to them who should hereafter believe on 
 Ilim to life everlasting." In .a similar 
 manner God ;ippe;irs to be reserving the 
 richest display of J I is .saving grace till 
 towards the last. l'"or in the cou\ersion of the 
 
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 180 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triunnphs among the Jews. 
 
 Jews He will be seen concentrating His Divine 
 regards on a people who had come to con- 
 centrate in themselves the woi st elements of 
 rebellion against Him ; doing this at the 
 very time when they had reached the last 
 stage of hopeless depravity — suspending over 
 them a cloud charged with showers of 
 blessing, at the moment when they might 
 have looked for a cloud showing the very 
 blackness of darkness, and stored with all 
 the materials of wrath ; and, amazing 
 wonder ! making the death of Christ — the 
 very act which seemed to complete their guilt 
 and to seal their doom — the reason of their 
 forgiveness, the pledge of their complete 
 salvation. 
 
 What an impulse, too, will he given to the 
 piety of every part of the Christian Church ! 
 " For if the fall of the Jews be the riches of 
 the world, and the diminishing of them the 
 riches of the Gentiles, how much more their 
 fulness." The newly converted Jews will 
 probably exhibit a measure of self-denying 
 zeal for the glory of God, which the Church 
 had come to consider absolutely impracticable. 
 For " he that is feeble among them at that 
 day shall be as David ; and the house of 
 David shall be as God, as the angel of the 
 Lord before them." Fired with the emulation 
 of their example, the entire Church shall be 
 seen girding up the loins of its mind, and 
 kindling its lamp at the altar of their piety. 
 New meaning shall be seen in every state- 
 ment of the Word of God; new value 
 attached to everything that can advance His 
 glory ; new energy be felt in the powers of 
 the world to come. Churches before com- 
 paratively dead shall be aroused to newness 
 of life ; the great experiment shall be made of 
 ascertaining how much prayer can efliect for 
 the conversion of the world ; and while the 
 Church is, wdth one voice, crying, " Come 
 from the four winds, breath, and breathe 
 upon these slain that they may live," the 
 gi'eat valley of spiritual death sliall exhibit 
 the symptoms of I'eturning life. " For if 
 the casting away of the Jews be the recon- 
 ciling of the world, what shall the receiving 
 of them be but life fiom the dead ? " 
 
 How eminently will this reaiiimation and 
 increase of the Church tend to the v.nion oj 
 all its parts. That most ncc'ent of all 
 schisms, between Jew and Gentile, shall then 
 be healed. " For in Christ Jesus there is 
 neither Jew nor Greek ! " the Jew shall have 
 become a Cliri.stian ; and the Christian an 
 Isi'aelite indeed. Every minor distinction in 
 he Church shall cease ; or shall remain only 
 
 to .show the strength of the love which 
 unites all its parts into one. And thus it 
 will be seen that an important step has been 
 gained towards the attainment of the pur- 
 pose " which God hath purposed in Himself, 
 that in the dispensation of the fulness of 
 times. He might gather together in one all 
 things in Christ." 
 
 And will not — must not all this incon- 
 ceivably augment the joy of the Church ? 
 Every ancient interposition of God on behalf 
 of His peculiar people called forth the loftiest 
 flights of sacred poetry. But all these are 
 deemed inadequate to the celebration of their 
 final recovery. The powers of language are 
 to be taxed as they had never been before. 
 A new song is to be raised more worthy of the 
 greatness of the occasion. " Sing to Jehovah 
 a new song," &c. The very site of the ancient 
 city is ui'ged to join in the sacred strain : 
 " Break forth into joy, sing together ye waste 
 places of Jerusalem," &c. Even inanimate 
 nature is summoned to share in the joy, and 
 to assist in the praise: " Sing, O ye heavens ! 
 for the Lord hath done it ; shout, ye lower 
 parts of the earth ; break forth into singing, 
 ye mountains," kc. And amidst this general 
 concert, in which every object shall find a 
 voice and take a part, will the redeemed people 
 themselves be silent ? A part of their song is 
 already prepared : " I will greatly rejoice in 
 the Lord," kc. Indeed, that nothing may 
 be wanting to heighten our conceptions of 
 the sacredness and sublimity of that joy, 
 God Himself is represented as anticipating 
 it with delight, and as calling on the universe 
 to shai-e in His Divine exultation; "For, 
 behold, I create new heavens and a new 
 earth, kc. In that joy of the Redeemer 
 there will be a depth and a peculiarity which 
 no creature will be able to share. When He 
 shall see of the travail of His soul in their 
 conversion, in how peculiar a sense will He 
 be satisfied ! When He who once wept over 
 them bittei- tears, shall behold them prostrate 
 in penitence at His feet ; — when He whom 
 they affixed to the accursed true, shall behold 
 them embracing that cross and exulting, 
 " God forbid that we should glory save in 
 the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ," He will 
 be conscious of a satisfaction which shall fill 
 even His capacity for enjoyment. 
 
 Brethren, the glory of the Lord is yet to 
 be revealed. Would you reflect a portion of 
 its radiance ? " We beseech you, by the 
 mercies of God, that ye present your bodies 
 a living sacrifice." No mere outward homage 
 — no ecclesiastical relations, will suffice.
 
 The Rev. John Harris, D.D. 
 
 181 
 
 Confidence in these was the secret of Israel's 
 fall. And " if Ood spared not the natural 
 branches, takd heed lest He also spare not 
 tliee." Would you promote the f,'lory of 
 God in their recoveiy ? seek the convci-sion 
 of all around you. Aim .it the recovery of 
 the world. For know, that the prof,'ress of 
 the missionary cjiuse hastens the time of 
 Israel's conversion ; for " blindness in part 
 is happened to Israel, until tlio fulne.ss of the 
 (Jcntiles be come in. And so all Israel shall 
 be sjived." Would you accelerate the ar- 
 lival of that bles.sed day ? Then " pray for 
 the peace of Jerusalem." Resolve, " for 
 Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and 
 for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the 
 righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, 
 and the salvation thereof as a lamp that 
 burneth." You could not employ means 
 more appropriate to the Divine greatness 
 than to cry daily, " O that tlie s.ilvation of 
 fJod were come out of Zion ; " 'I'he Churches 
 of Christ generally could not unite for a more 
 worthy object than to send up the earnest 
 invocation, " O arm of the Lord, awake, 
 awake ? " for thine ancient people. The 
 prayer would be mu.sic in the ear of (!od; 
 and would bring a blessing on those who 
 ofTered it. 
 
 Finally, would you .sympathize with and 
 appreciate the glory which shall redound to 
 God from Israel's conversion ? Cultivate the 
 hnmble and adoring spirit of the apostle in 
 relation to it. Your own history exhibits an 
 epitome of the Divine conduct towards 
 Israel. The history of the Jews is but an 
 epitome of the Divine conduct towards the 
 human race — conduct which is destined to 
 fill the universe with His praise. For what 
 is the nature of that glory which is to accrue 
 to God from their conversion ? Is it not 
 the glory of a power which has carried 
 them successfully for ages through every 
 annihilating process that could assail them — 
 liie glory of a wisdom which s:iw tlie end 
 from the beginning, arranging and foretelling 
 the entire plan — of a benevolence which re- 
 sisted every kind of provocation to destroy 
 them, pressed into its service every adverse 
 itilluence, an<l illustrated every great principle 
 of mo:-al government in a manner directly 
 tending to their highest welfare — of a mercy 
 which after following them nearly through 
 all time, and through all lands, takes them, 
 with all theiraccumulated guilt and depravity, 
 and erects them into a monument of His 
 saving grace -and the glory of making this 
 ilispensation the occasion of further joy to 
 
 the Church, and of the greatest good to the 
 world ? In a word, it will be the glory of 
 Divine all-sutliciency receiving from them :it 
 length the homage of creature dependence. 
 And so deep will be their conviction of that 
 dependence, and so vast the views of that 
 all-sutKciency which their history shall afibrd, 
 that language will fail to describe or record 
 them. And what a subject for contemplation 
 to the minds of the ble.ssed ! "Once," .siiys the 
 Apostle John, on the opening of the seventh 
 seal, " there Wiis silence in heaven about the 
 space of half-an hour :" —that was a pause 
 of breathless suspense prior to a tremendous 
 dischaige of wrath. But when by this 
 splendid display of mercy, the principalities 
 and powers in heavenly places, shall behold 
 the manifold wisdom of God, surely the 
 silence of wonder will again ensue — a 
 silence during which e%'ery face will be veiled, 
 every worshipper pro.strate, every heart filled 
 with mental adoration — a silence from which 
 they shall recover only to uttei- the language 
 of awful deHght, "Oh the depth of the riches 
 both of the wisdom and knowledge of God." 
 Brethi-en, the tendency of all His dis- 
 pen.sations, from first to last, is essentially the 
 .same. And never will they know a pause, till 
 this end be gained. Then man will have 
 found hLs proper place — the only spot in the 
 tiniverse which becomes him — at the feet of 
 God. Then God will have recovered his 
 j)roper glory — every rival power will be cast 
 out — the eyes of all will wait upon Him— 
 He will be .seen by the universe as the centre 
 and stay of a dependent world. Then the 
 design of the great constitution of mercy 
 will be completed — the wise man shall no 
 longer glory in his wisdom, nor the rich in 
 his liches, nor the strong in his strength — 
 tlie only glory left will be the high glory of 
 dependence upon God — everything will be 
 seen to have redounded to the glory of His 
 grace alone. And then all flesh shall thus 
 be seen jirostrate before (iod, what will it be 
 but a prelude to the woi-ship of heaven ; 
 what will remain but that the whole should 
 be transferred to the employment of praise 
 above ! And as the righteous at length shall 
 go away into everla.sting life — as the nations 
 of them that are saved shall "pass throtigh 
 the gates into the city," what more ajipro- 
 priate inscription for the triumphal arch which 
 shall receive them than this, "Of Him. and 
 through Him, and to Him, are all thing-:; 
 to Him be glory for ever, Amen!" Be 
 this our sentiment in life, in death, and 
 for ever.
 
 182 
 
 Meiiiorieti of Gospel TriumpfiK avuniij the Jeics. 
 
 JOSHUA WILSON, ESQ. 
 
 ONE OF THE rilt.ST MEMBEUS OF COMMITTEE. 
 
 By His Davghteu, Mary E. Wilson. 
 
 {With rortrah.) 
 
 MR. 1 JOSHUA WILSON liv,-.! Irom 
 171)5 to 1874. Leadiiijj a life ..f 
 letii-wuent, and deeply sympathizing witli 
 the Puritanism of a past age, lie yet touched 
 public life at many points, and there were 
 few great philanthropic movements of his 
 own time which did not feel the influence of 
 his generous spirit. Praying and giving 
 were his two most marked cliai-acteristics. 
 lie Ill-ought the whole world to God in daily 
 prayer, never omitting to pray specially for 
 the conversion of the Jews and of the heathen, 
 and that the divisions of Christ's Church 
 might be healed. 
 
 At least, one-third of his annual income 
 was joyfully given away for the lienefit of 
 his fellow-men, and his hope for them giew 
 brighter and brighter as he neared the end 
 of his earthly life. His whole character was 
 an illustration of the well-known words : — 
 
 " Wc lose what ou ourselves we spend, 
 AVe hiive no tre:i,sure w-ithuut eud, 
 AVhatever Lunl to Thte we lend. 
 Who L'iveth all.'' 
 
 THE SOCIETYS FIRST TWO MISSIONARIES- REV. B. DAVIDSON 
 
 AND MR. NAPHTALI. 
 
 REV. 
 
 DAVIDSON. 
 
 BENJAMIM DAVIDSON AS A 
 LONDON. 
 
 MORl^ than iifty years ago, two sons of 
 Abraham encountered one anothei- in 
 Ijondon under singulai' cii-cumstances. 
 Each was walking in his garden, and over 
 a wall, which was not so high as to pievent 
 mutual observation, each recognized the 
 other as a Jew, and .soon after made the dis- 
 covery that they were old acrpiaintances. 
 The one was Ridley llerscheli and the other 
 Benjamin Davidson. It was long since they 
 had met, though in years gone by their 
 association had been very intimate, and 
 neither knew what had bi ought the other to 
 this country. Both liad left their native 
 
 BENJAMIN 
 
 1842. 
 
 {With Fortran. ) 
 
 MISSIONARY IN land and many 
 
 loved relatives, under the 
 nfluence of the desire to know the Truth as 
 it is in Jesus, and both were now rejoicing 
 that they had found Him of whom their 
 piophets wioto as the Saviour of Isi'ael. 
 
 From that day these two Christian 
 brethren laboured side by side for the good 
 of Israel, and in connection with the British 
 Society, until they were called up higher. 
 
 At the second meeting of the Society's 
 Committee, held on the r)th December, 
 1842, "Mr. Herschell having given notice 
 that at nest meeting he would propose 
 that Mr. Benjamin David.son be appointed 
 one of the Society's agents, it was remitted 
 to the Committee, coutii.ting of Dr. Fletcher
 
 7he Sociflifn Fir.st Tirn Ml.sKlonnries. 
 
 183 
 
 Mr. ll.T.Nciiell, Mr. George Yonp-, ami 
 tin- Sfiiftiirici-, to inquire rcganliiij; his 
 (|ualitications and report." 
 
 At the third meeting', iitdd on (ith 
 .lanuary, 1S4.'?, it was decided to empower 
 Mr. Ilei.'-cliell to employ such an assent as 
 he may deem most littiiig to jruidc imniirers. 
 
 At the fourth meeting, held on (ith 
 February, 184o, Mr. Herschcll .stated that 
 he h.id .SI cured the .services of ^Ir. David.son 
 iis a temporary agent for visiting Jewish 
 inipiirers. Mr. David.son's journal for the 
 bygone month was submitted, and e.xtraits 
 from it were read. 
 
 The Society's Hebrew Christian 
 Prayer Union. 
 
 ImiUNDEIi IX ISJo IIV Kev. KlUI.EV IIeH.s, HEI.I, AM> 
 
 Kev. Benjamin- Davidson. 
 
 At a meeting of the Committee hold at 
 the olKce on Monday, the 4th of September, 
 1843, the Eev. Hidley Her.scliell st.-ited that 
 he had held two meetings with liaptized Jews, 
 for the purpose of promoting their spiritual 
 ediiieation ; and that at the last meeting, 
 rules were adopted, which A\ere now lead, 
 ajiproxed by the Committee and oi'dered to 
 be entered on the minutes, as follow : 
 
 Prayer Meeting of converted Jews. 
 
 Rules. 
 
 1. That the members consist of Jews 
 believing in Christ Jesus ! and that they 
 meet together simply as such, irrespective 
 of any such denominational distinctions, 
 which as Christians, they may conscientiously 
 observe. 
 
 2. The object of this meeting together 
 shall be mutual edification and encourage- 
 ment, Jind the cultivation of hrotJirrl;/ love. 
 
 3. It is proposed that the mendjers meet 
 on every l""riday evening at (J o'clock, that 
 one hour shall be spent in conversation con- 
 nected with the .spiritual and temporal wel- 
 fai-e of Isi'ael ; and that precisely at 7 o'clock, 
 the devotional exercises shall begin. These 
 shall consist of prayer, reading a portion of 
 .scripture and conference thereon ; such por- 
 tions being selected a.s are most connected 
 with jiersonal religion : and all unnecessary 
 controversies to be avoided. 
 
 4. That during the houi- devoted to con- 
 versation, any unconverted .lew may be 
 present, who is inipiiring into Chi-istianity, 
 or who may wi.sh to hear from his believing 
 brethren, rea.sous for their faith in JetiUK of 
 Nazareth as the Mes.siah. 
 
 Tiie membirs who iia\e alieady signed 
 
 W. iietlellirim. 
 W. Stcinhan. 
 A. OlleiidnrlV. 
 i;. II. Ileiscliell 
 11. Davidson, 
 
 I']. Schweitzer. 
 
 I'liilip Levi. 
 .\lc.\r. Levi. 
 Paul Raphael. 
 Samuel Uchrens, 
 C. Uoldberg. 
 
 HI!. OAVJDSON AS AN AI'I'MoK. 
 
 Mr. Davidson was one of the first and 
 ablest contributors to the Jevrish llerahl, the 
 Society's organ, and to the Vuivu of Israel, a 
 journal idited liy the Rev. Ridley ller.scheh. 
 
 HEV. benjamin DAVID.S0N. 
 
 Mr. Davidson showed his eminent fitness for 
 the training of Christian Jews for the 
 Mi.ssion field by his Hebrew, Chaldee, and 
 Syriac works, such as the " Syriac and 
 (Ihaldee Reading Lessons," the " Illementaiy 
 Ai-abic (Jrammai-," kc, and that splendid 
 monument of lexicographical skill, which took 
 seven yc^ars to finish, the '"Analytical 
 Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon," consisting of 
 an alphabetical ari-angement of every word 
 and infiection contained in the Old Testament 
 Scriptines. precisely as they occur in the 
 Sacied Text, with a giannnatical analysis of 
 each word and lexicogra[)hical illustration of 
 the meanings, ic. He also re-edited, after 
 the sixteenth original edition, " Ge.'eniuss
 
 184 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 Hebrew Grammar." For our knowledge of 
 Hebrew and our intense enjovment in the 
 study of the Hebrew Scriptures we owe 
 a deep debt of gratitude to oin- accomplished 
 tutor, the late Professor Weir, of the Univer- 
 sity of Glasgow, and to the last-named works 
 of the Rev. B. Davidson. These invaluable 
 teachers have enabled us to drink with un- 
 speakable joy from the original Fountain of 
 Divine Truth. From our own happy ex- 
 perience we can testify. " Those waters are 
 sweetest that are taken fresh from the spring. 
 As that fruit is by far the most pleasant 
 that you pluck from the tree itself, with your 
 own hand : that wine the most delicious that 
 you take from the very cask in which it was 
 first stored ; so the Divine letters are enriched 
 with I know not what native fragrance, 
 breathe I know not what charm peculiarly 
 original, if read in that language in wliich 
 they wrote, who partly derived it from the 
 lips of the Eternal, and partly delivered 
 them to us by the breath of the same in- 
 spiration." 
 
 MR. DAVIDSON AS THE PRINCIPAL OF THE 
 
 society's JEWISH mission college. 
 
 Mr. Da\'idson was appointed the Principal 
 of the Society's Jewish Mission College in 
 Stamford Street, Blackfriars Road, which was 
 opened on April 16th, 1847. At the close 
 of the first Session, April, 1848, the reports 
 of the Examiners, Drs. Hendei-son and 
 AUiott, and of the Tutors, Dr. Cunningham, 
 B. Davidson and J. A. Miller, were most 
 encouraging. The following is an extract 
 from the Report of the Committee : — 
 
 " Much time had been spent, and many 
 pi-ayers had been poured forth, before the 
 resolution was formed that a College should 
 he instituted for the education of young men 
 for tlie Jewish !M issionary work ; and since 
 it has been opened many anxious fears have 
 been entertained lest our resources should 
 prove iine(iual to the unavoidable expenditure, 
 iiut the advantage and necessity of the 
 measure have been perceived ; help has been 
 atibrded, and this branch of the iindeitaking 
 prospers, and promises well for the cause of 
 Jewish evangelization. 
 
 " Six young men, resident within the 
 College, and two othei's have with them been 
 led through such a course of instruction in 
 the Greek and Latin classics, the Hebrew 
 and Chaldee dialects and literature, and 
 systematic theology, as, when completed, 
 will, it is believed, send them forth qualified 
 by their mental acquirements, combined with 
 
 decided and eminent piety, to occupy any 
 place in the Mission field to which it 
 may please the Holy Spirit to call them. 
 The certificates of the Examiners and the 
 testimony of the Tutors show that the young 
 men have proved themselves worthy of the 
 advantages afibrded to them. 
 
 " Wliile pursuing their studies we feel it no 
 small benefit to them that they enjoy the 
 paternal counsel and oversight of ISIr. David- 
 son, and mingle in the intercourse and worship 
 of his family. It appears, too, that there 
 exists between the respected Tutors and these 
 their younger brethren a unity of purpose 
 and a reciprocity of affectionate confidence, 
 rendering the students' course cheerful, and 
 encouraging hope that the recollections of 
 the College will have a sanctified and quicken- 
 ing influence on the more active labours of 
 their Missionary hfe. By aa arrangement in 
 every point of view highly important, each 
 student is engaged on one day in every week 
 in intercourse with the Jews in London. 
 This gives the service of another labourer to 
 the metropolis, while it affords a stimulus 
 and an exercise to the piety of the young 
 disciples." 
 
 When the C'oOege was relinquished, for 
 want of funds, the Rev. W. C. Yonge kindly 
 and gratuitously undertook the oversight and 
 theological instruction of the three remaining 
 students, and until the end of their term Mr. 
 Davidson continued his lectures with them in 
 Hebrew, Chaldee, and Syriac. 
 
 PROFESSOR DAVIDSON AS VISITING 
 superintendent of the MISSION STATIONS. 
 
 In the report presented at the Fourteenth 
 Annual Meeting, on the 24th of April, 1857, 
 there is the following .statement of the 
 appointment of the Rev. Professor Davidson 
 as Tisittng Superintendent of the Mission 
 Stations : — 
 
 " Unable to locate two Mis^ionaries, as 
 would be most desirable, at every foreign 
 station, and believing that each Jlissionary 
 would be encouraged, and his Mission 
 strengthened by at least a temporary associa- 
 tion with an experienced and well qualified 
 brother, the Committee have engaged Mr. 
 Davidson, Principal of the late Jewish 
 Mission College, to undertake the services 
 and to reside with each Missionary for some 
 weeks. We already perceive very consider- 
 able advantages, and our friend has been 
 received by the Missionaries with confidence 
 and filial aflection."
 
 The Society' K First Two Missionaries. 
 
 185 
 
 Specimens of Professor Davidson's 
 
 Testimonies to Missionaries at Home 
 
 and Abroad. 
 
 AT HOME. 
 
 ^\■ith regard to the Mission Field in 
 London and his visits, Mr. Davidson 
 wrote : — 
 
 " My visits were so many opportunities 
 for speaking the Truth as it is in Cliri.st 
 without reserve, and I am iiappy to state 
 that in many instances we spent several 
 hours, and that not only in the presence of 
 the famil)', but also in the presence of many 
 visitors, expounding the Scriptures, and 
 proving that Jesus of Na/.areth must needs 
 l)e tiie t'hrist who was to come, and that He 
 is the only Saviour of the world. 
 
 "The laboui-s of your Missionaries here 
 do not seem to extend, in general, much 
 beyond the poorer classes, and rarelj' to the 
 I'lnglish Jews, who, from their utter ignorance 
 of the Scriptures and the Jewish religion, 
 and their relentless bigotry, are known to be 
 the bitterest persecutoi-s of those who seek 
 to present Christ to them, whether they be 
 Gentile or Jewish Missionaries. 
 
 " The difficulties the Mis.sionary meets 
 with, in London esptjcially, are vei-y great. 
 1 u general the people are so intent upon their 
 l)usiuess that they cannot afford to lend a 
 listening ear to the sound of the Truth, so 
 that much of his time is spent in calling and 
 calling again before he can get a suitable 
 opportunity for a conversation ; some of 
 the poor, who hear him gladly, or even 
 put faith in the things preached to them, 
 are often too poor to be encouraged 
 to make a public profession, since it 
 is well known that they must lose their 
 last resource by that step. The watchful, 
 jealous eye which the Jews keep upon one 
 another, renders his attempts still more 
 difficult, .and both he himself and the one 
 wIkj is visited are .sometimes exposed to mal- 
 treatment. 
 
 "T.iking the.se facts into consideration, we 
 have tlie more cause for thankfulness, when 
 wf tinil that, in the midst of it all, your 
 Missionaries are by Divine grace .supported 
 in their arduous task, and go on persevcringly 
 seeking opportunities for preaching Christ. 
 For this, I can bear them honest testimony, 
 they appsar to do with conscientious assiduity, 
 from the partial entrance I find alreadv 
 granted them to some Jewish families, and 
 the respect with which they are treated. 
 It is true that they sow with tears : but let 
 
 us patiently and confidently look up to Jlim 
 who gi\i'th the increase, ext)ecting that in 
 due time they will reap with joy." 
 
 M.VNCIIESTER. 
 
 The following is an extract from his rejiort 
 re.specting Man;-hester and Mr. Naphtali. 
 
 " Manch(\ster, besides a considerable 
 number of Jewish residents, is constantly 
 visited by strangers of that persuasion, and 
 especially in large bodies during the different 
 festivals of the year. As such, it is one of 
 the most important stations in England, and 
 justly deserves that consideration which your 
 Committee is ever ready to bestow upon it, 
 and so much participated in by the generous 
 .and active Local Committee of that city. As 
 to the success with which the labours of your 
 Missionary, Mr. Naphtali, have been crowned, 
 under the Divine bles-sing, I .shall leave it to 
 be estimated from the following enumeration 
 of baptisms which have taken place through 
 his instrumentality during the time he has 
 occupied that station : — 
 
 I. 1845. March 26.—./. B., baptized by 
 
 Dr. Burton, All Saints' Chapel. Died 
 in 1856. 
 ■_'. 1S45. July 7. — .S'. ,S'., an invalid, by 
 the Rev. Mr. Griflin, Rusholme-road 
 Chapel. Died in 1848. 
 
 3. 1846. June 4.— Z*. W., by the Rev. Mr. 
 
 Maunder, Oldham-street Chapel. Still 
 a traveller in this country. 
 
 4. 184G. Aug. 5. — v. M., by the Rev. Mr. 
 
 Griffin, Rusholme-road Chapel. 
 
 5. 1847. Jan. 18. — .1. L. without a trade, 
 
 recommended by 51r. N. to London, 
 where he was baptized in the Jewish 
 Epi.scopal Chapel, Hackney-road, 
 (i. 1847. June 5. — J/. J/., also recom- 
 mended to London, and baptized in 
 the Jewish Episcopal Chapel. 
 
 7. 1847 — A*. .S'., without .a 
 
 trade, recommended by Mr. N., and 
 baptized as before. 
 
 8. 1847 — 0. C, recom- 
 
 mended and baptized as before. 
 
 II. 1849. Feb. 26.—//. .V.. by the Rev. Mr. 
 
 Parks, Canon-street Chapel. Removed 
 to the country. 
 
 10. 184'J. March 6. — V. 11'., without a 
 
 trade, recommended by Mr. X. to the 
 Amelioration Society in America, and 
 baptized. Date of baptism not 
 known. 
 
 11. 1851. Jan. .31.— Z. »!'., by the Rev. 
 
 Mr. Parks, Canon-street Chapel.
 
 186 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jetus. 
 
 V2. 1652. Juue29.— Z. O., bvT)r. Halley, 
 Caveiulisli-street Chapel. 
 
 13. 1852. March 15.— )!'. /.., with his 
 
 three sons, about the ages of 16, 14, 
 12, by the Eev. Mr. Parks, Canon- 
 street Chapel. 
 
 14. 1852. Nov. — . — G. S., recommended 
 
 by Mr. N. and the Eev. Mi-. Dean to 
 the English Minister at Hamburgh, 
 wliere he was baptized. Returned 
 to England, and is now in America. 
 
 15. 1853. ,S'. G., student, by the Rev. M. 
 
 !Margalioth, at St. Barthol. Left for 
 the Continent. 
 
 16. 1853. April 9. — F. G., recommended 
 
 by Mr. N., through the medium of a 
 Christian lady, to Dublin, where he 
 was baptized. Date of baptism not 
 known. 
 
 17. 1853. June — . — /. X, without a trade, 
 
 lecommended to 51 r. Yonge in London, 
 where he was baptized, and emigrated 
 to America!. 
 
 18. 1853. Dec. — . — S. E., und his vjife, 
 
 recommended by Mr. N.'s exertions, 
 to ^Melliourne, where he wa.s baptized 
 by the Eev. Mr. Morris. Date of 
 baptism not known. 
 
 19. 1S51. Sept. 18.— At the re.juest of 
 
 one of Mr. N.'s inquirei's, J. II.. three 
 cl ildren were baptized by the Eev. J. 
 Spencer, Ti ppin-street Chapel. 
 
 20. 1856. Oct. 21.-^.1. U., by the Rev. 
 
 Alexander Thomson, Eusholme-road 
 Chapel. 
 
 Out of the number of converts, as given 
 above, there are jit^c only still resident 
 here. 
 
 The access of 5Ir. N., to the more respec- 
 table portion of the Jewish community is con- 
 sideralile. He introduced me, almost daily, 
 when the weather permitted it, to some of 
 the wealthy shop-keepei-s, and some of the 
 officials and learned men belonging to both 
 -synagogues, the Orthodox and the Refoimed. 
 I was ever^'where received with kindness, 
 thougli introLluced as a convert, and frequent 
 opportunity was aiibrded me for preaching 
 Christ. I have read the list of my visits to 
 the Local Committee, as likely to recognize 
 the individuals visited. Mr. N.'s connection 
 lies chiefly among the Reform party, and he 
 is i-ather sanguine as to the ultimate favour- 
 able result. The poor seem to occujiy here a 
 large proportion, among whom some would 
 readily be baptized, but theu' state of desti- 
 tution is such that the ^Missionary cannot 
 encourage that ste]i. fur fear of the scandal 
 
 the neglect of such converts by Christian 
 commuiuties is likely to produce, when the 
 cravings of nature compel them to return to 
 their former communion. 
 
 Upon the whole I was much plea.sed with 
 the Manchester station, which might have 
 usefully employed me a few weeks longer." 
 
 ABKOAD. 
 
 Our able and faithful missionaries abroad, 
 such as the Eev. G. F. Schwartz, of Breslau, 
 and the Rev. P. Jafle, of Nuremberg, paid 
 ^^sits to Jewish families in company with 
 Profe«.sor Da\'idson, which fulh' corroborated 
 the reports which they had forwarded monthly 
 to the Secretary in Ixindon. 
 
 MK. HAVlDSOX's TESTIMONY TI) MR. .SCHWARTZ, 
 OF HKESLAU. 
 
 " By far the lai-ger portion of the Jewish 
 community are to be cla.ssed with the re- 
 formed party, excepting the rabbinical Or- 
 thodox. To this belongs the mere rejector 
 of tradition, as well as he who rejects all re- 
 velation — the infidel, as well as the deist or 
 atheist. And yet, strange to say, large as 
 this body is in Breslau, they have no syna- 
 gogue of their own, but assemble in a spacious 
 hired saloon ; and though they have fcilked 
 for years past of building one, there seems to 
 be no heart nor interest enough to accom- 
 phsh this end, as with their enormous wealth 
 want of money can hardly be the obstacle in 
 the wa}'. 
 
 The testimony borne by our brother in 
 this city to the 'Truth as it is in Jesus I am 
 persuaded is a steady and continuous one, as 
 also as he is himself, by life and conversji- 
 tion, an epistle read and known of the mul- 
 titude. Thefruitsof liislaboursai-ebestknown 
 to Him who searches and disposes the hearts 
 of men ; but still, for the encouragement of 
 us all, there are some unmistakable results not 
 to be undervalued which I may be permitted 
 to record. Besides the baptism of the seven 
 individuals, resulting from 5Ir. Schwartz's 
 ministry, recorded in the /Icnildoi 1857, the 
 following have taken place since : — 
 
 1S60. — His own brother, baptized at 
 Liverpool. 
 
 1861. — Mr. J. P., a wealthy merchant, 
 instructed by Mr. Schwartz, and baptized by 
 the Rev. Mr. Hartman. 
 
 1863.— Miss F. S., Miss R. S., and Mrs. 
 H., baptized by the Rev. Dr. Gillet. 
 
 1864.— Dr. G., J. G., and S. P., baptized 
 at Mitau. 
 
 As of special intere.'-t, I add the baptism.
 
 The. Society's First Two Misdonnries. 
 
 187 
 
 ill 1861, of I'rol'cs.'.or « 's child, who 
 
 hinisi'll' and lady, hoth iiistnicted by Mr. 
 Schwartz., had l>eeii baptized at Hartford, in 
 
 Aniericii, in KS55. Professor S , a native 
 
 of Hreslan, is rej,'ularly installed professor in 
 tlie college of Hartford. His correspondence 
 with Mr. Schwartz evinces true piety and 
 earn&stness of soul." 
 
 HIS TKSTI.MOSY TO Mil. JAFFE, OF NfREMBERC;. 
 
 Mr. Davidson was greatly delighted 
 with the results of Mr. .lallV's labours in 
 NiMcniberg. 
 
 A SPECl.MKN CASK. 
 
 Mr. .laH'c, in referring to a visit lie liail 
 from a young man, who, through his instru- 
 mentality, had embraced the 'I'liith, wrote : — 
 
 '• I cannot sutliciently prai.se and adore the 
 Divine goodne.ss and love in having preserved 
 him in the midst of .so many snares and trials of 
 faith and patience, and having kept liim linn 
 and steadfast in his adherence to those 
 Divine principles which have so enriched 
 and elewited his soul. ' You cannot con- 
 ceive,' he with deep emotion told me, ' the 
 indignities and reproaches I have daily to 
 bear ; and were it not for the consolations of 
 the everlasting CJospel and the Divine sup- 
 port 1 derive from it, 1 must ere now have 
 fainted.' " 
 
 Subsei|uenlly Mr. JatJ'e stated that at a 
 railway station he met this young man, 
 where he joyfully informed him that he wa.s 
 going to America. 
 
 " Our friend also told me that, as his time 
 was limited, I had better fix a day for his 
 baptism, as he wished to have that .sacied 
 rite administered before he left ; and after 
 some conversation he fixed the day and the 
 place where the ordinance was to be cele- 
 bnited. We only invited a few Christian 
 friends to be present. Accordingly, on the 
 day ajipointed, we met in the above-named 
 town, and after spending a great part of the 
 day together in reading and pi~iyer, we were 
 met in the evening l>y a number of Christian 
 frieiuls, in whose presence our dear brother 
 made a clear and bold confession of his faith, 
 and vowed eternal iidelity to his Lord and 
 Saviour, and hoped, through grace, to be en- 
 abled to adorn his confe.'^sion by a holy life and 
 conversation. Upon this, I baptized him, in 
 the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy 
 Ghost, and then commended him in pr.ayer 
 to the guidance, blcs-sing, and protection of a 
 faithful and loving Saviour. It was a highly 
 interesting and .-oul rtfreshing sea.^on ; every 
 
 one present felt the .solemnity of the occa- 
 sion, but none were so happy and delighted 
 as our brother. Our parting was most 
 aflecting ; but it was a parting in the sure and 
 certain hope of another but a still more 
 joyous meeting." 
 
 I'rofessor Davidson, in bearing testimony 
 to the ca.se of this young man, said : — 
 
 " The whole of the circumstances — how lie 
 came to Mr. Jaffe ; how he was received by 
 him ; the kindness rendered him and the 
 Go.spel preached to him, — all this forms an 
 eusemlile of a most striking providential lead- 
 ing of the Ijover of immortal sonls. The 
 whole affair has had a very forcible influence 
 upon my own mind, as an additional )iioof, 
 to many others, of the usefulness, nay, of the 
 imperative necessity of establishing Missions 
 for the .lews es/)f'rir(//.(/ and snjiani/i/!/. This 
 young man, of highly respectable Jewish 
 parents, has been sent here by tliem as an 
 artistical student, recommended to an intlu- 
 ential family. They receive him well enough 
 but he feels the heart being, without doubt, 
 already prepared by the Lord — that no one's 
 kind treatment and conversation mini.sters, 
 in the remotest manner, such comfort to 
 him, and fills his heart for the fir.st time with 
 such a novel and perfect hop<!, as those of 
 the missionary, whose calling it is, who 
 stands, "as the watchman set up by the 
 Lord," to use the like opportunities specially 
 for the roving Israelite^. If we set up the 
 watchmen in the name of the I^ord, and if 
 these were to do nothing more than to look 
 about carefully, the Lonl will send them 
 such as are to be added to the ('hurch. The 
 youth drank tea with me one evening : I 
 could not l)ut admire his anxiety and zeal for 
 the Lord ; indeed, he already uses every 
 opportunity in his cla.ss to preach the Truth 
 to Jew and ( ientile. In conver.sation I made 
 him aware of the consequences his faith in 
 C'hrist are likely to firing upon him, and, 
 among others, the withdrawal from him of his 
 parents' maintenance and support. 'These 
 are things,' observed he, 'that I alistainfrom 
 thinking about. When my father and my 
 mother forsake me, then the Lord will take 
 mo up.' Here we have at once an instance 
 of t\\o uecessiti/ oi missionaries to the Jews, 
 and how cheerfully we may look forward for 
 success among them ; for " if the first fruit 
 be holy the whole lump is holy.'" 
 
 In this way Profes.sor Davidson most 
 satisfactorily fulfilled the important com- 
 mission entrusted to him, in cheering and 
 counselling the Missionaries, in co operating
 
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 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 with them, and in confirming their Monthly ah-eady able to read and translate the first 
 Reports. chapter of the Gospel according to St. John." 
 
 PROFESSOE DAVIDSON AS MISSIONARY IN 
 VIENNA. 
 
 Near the beginning of 1866, when the 
 political changes on the Continent opened 
 the way for missionary work in Austria, 
 Professor Da\ddson accepted the call of the 
 Committee to occupy the important field of 
 Vienna. 
 
 Typical Passages from His Journal. 
 I. 
 
 STATIONED IX THE JEWISH QUARTER. 
 
 " The experience of the few weeks (about 
 a month) that I have spent in this city can 
 hardly serve as a criterion by which to 
 verify the hopeful prospects held out on a 
 former occasion regarding this novel station, 
 and if I am to say anything about it, it can 
 hardly be more and otherwise than in general 
 terms. 
 
 " I have stationed myself in the centre of 
 the Jewish quarter, thus being surrounded 
 with Jews, and live in a Jewish family. I 
 carefully watch every opportunity to form 
 and extend my acquaintance among them. 
 The conversations are more of a general 
 character, though religious ones are also not 
 entirely wanting, and in but few instances 
 has the privilege been afforded me to speak 
 of the person of our blessed Saviour and His 
 doctrines. The family I live with I found 
 at first almost devoid of every Jewish re- 
 ligious characteristic ; they live, as the Jews 
 are wont to term it, ' quite like Christians,' 
 — q.d., ' without God in the world.' We 
 meet now very often in the evening, converse 
 chiefly about religion, and occasionally read 
 a chapter either from the Old or New Testa- 
 ment. They have been induced to purchase 
 a German Bible, which is made the best use 
 of by the mother of the family, who, with 
 her son, seems to have become more inte- 
 rested in the question of religion, while the 
 father and daughter seem to be impenetrable ; 
 the former boasting of the goodne.ss of his 
 heart, and the latter having no .sense for any- 
 thing else than worldliness, in which she has 
 been brought uj). However, the Lord's 
 grace is sufficient for all this ; let us there- 
 fore wait upon Him. I have admitted two 
 young men to English lessons, which, of 
 course, I do with the view of introducing the 
 reading of the Scriptures. One of them is 
 
 II. 
 
 THE PROGRESS OF THE WORK. 
 
 " Since the conclusion of the Austro- 
 Italian peace, the threatening scourge of 
 martial law has been withdi-awn, and most 
 things are allowed to be spoken of pretty 
 plainly but the Truth as it is in Jesus. I 
 am thankful, however, to be able to state 
 that, within the last month, I felt within 
 myself under much less restraint, but, on 
 the contrary, the Lord has, by His grace, 
 much encouraged and emboldened me to 
 speak, but without reserve, and frequently to 
 bear testimony to the claims of Jesus of 
 Nazareth to the Messiahship, the redemption 
 wrought out by Him upon the cross, and by 
 His exaltation to the right hand of God, as 
 the intercessor of His people who come unto 
 God by Him. The opportunities for herald- 
 ing these great Truths were not few during 
 the Jewish feasts, in some of the public walks 
 which surround the city of Vienna. It must 
 sound strange when I assert that the greater 
 part of my time was taken up, with much 
 exertion on my part, in contending for, and 
 tiying to establish the veracity of, the Old 
 Testament Scriptures, with most of the Jews 
 I thus came into contact with. But so it 
 was, and it proves the more the awful declen- 
 sion of multitudes of the nation from their 
 original faith, when one is found to insist 
 upon the primary elements of Mosaic faith 
 even against those who, by their own con- 
 fession, outwardly participate in many of tlie 
 rites, keeping the festivals estabhshed by the 
 Law,and especially those of the New Year and 
 the Day of Atonement, in order thus to lay 
 the foundation for preaching Christ. I had 
 to adduce various facts, as the fulfilment of 
 prophecy, to silence the infidels, exhort the 
 elder, and rebuke the young. Without such 
 procedure I felt I could haidly preach Christ 
 to them ; it would be like building a house 
 without a foundation. But I tlo not wish you 
 to suppose that I stopped short here, for I 
 ever tried to carry the point to its issue, 
 viz., Jesus Christ and Him crucified. There 
 were those also who, I am happy to state, 
 heard me gladly, and even awaited my arrival 
 at the places of rendezvous. In this way 
 my connection has been much extended 
 within the last few weeks. As the result of 
 my humble endeavours, so far as human 
 judgment can venture upon, two inquirers,
 
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 Memories of Gospel Triwmphs amonrj ike Jews. 
 
 to all appearance imuh interested in the 
 question at issue, have presented themselves 
 to me. One is a private teacher, and the 
 other a student of law at the Ihiiversity, both 
 pretty well versed in the original of the Old 
 1'estamcnt Scriptures, but who have never 
 before perused the New Testament, with 
 copies of which I now supplied them. Con- 
 sidering the attention of the latter, his 
 punctuality in attendance, and his manifest 
 peculiar interest in the inquiry, lie is 
 certainl}' the more hopeful of the two. 
 Thus there is nothing more wanting but 
 the Spirit of God to send home to them the 
 saving Truth as it is in Christ Jesus our 
 Lord. 1 may here mention that nnich, it 
 appears, may be done here among the Jewi.^h 
 students at the University, and to these my 
 serious attention is now peculiarly directed. 
 
 You will not tind it uninteresting when I 
 mention here two important admissions a 
 full-educated Jew h.as made to me. I had 
 pressed home upon him the question as by 
 what means idolatry has been expelled, 
 especially from the' face of Eujope 1 1 1 is 
 reply was simply, by mean.s of C'hri.stianity. 
 The like ; nswer I once received from the 
 Morenu of Milan, only that the latter went 
 a goiid deal farther ; he regarded t'hri.stianity 
 as the otlsjiring of Judaism, that did it by 
 means' of Christianity. The individual 
 alluded to above exalted greatly the moral 
 l.iw' of iSloses, and especially the ten com- 
 mandments, so that these aie still the 
 standard of morals among many Gentile 
 nations. ITpon this my (jucstion was, by 
 what means was the transition of these 
 e.\alted commandments brought al)ont from 
 the Jews to the Gentiles, if so be that the 
 revelation of God was confined to the 
 former i His I'eply again was, by means 
 of Christianity. I need hardly mention that 
 these leplies consistently presuppose Chris- 
 tianity to be of Divine origin ; otherwise, 
 how is it that God should h.ive made u.se of 
 a f.ilsehood to bring about that good, instead 
 of using the truth, Judaism ; or could a lie 
 bring about that which the Truth did not or 
 could not do ? " 
 
 III. 
 
 AAIONG THE irNIVERSITY STUDENTS. 
 
 " My acquaintance with the University 
 .students continues to increase, but chiefly 
 with the Jewish students at law. There is one 
 point in the case of the latter which is as 
 curious as it is likely to turn out, under 
 God's blessing, for the furtherance of the 
 
 Gospel. They are compelled to make them - 
 selves acquainted with the Canon Law. They 
 complain of the irksomeness of having to 
 study a subject professedly based upon the 
 New Testament, to which they are strangers ; 
 and yet they cannot be admitted to an 
 examination without fulfilling the require- 
 ment. I have recommended, in every case 
 that has come under my notice, the study of 
 the New Testament, supplying the copies of 
 these Scriptures myself. One of these 
 students is entirely under my instructions. 
 I need hardly expatiate on the importance 
 of this fact, and the good results to which it 
 may lead, if the grace of God steps in to 
 cause the light of His Truth to shine into the 
 hearts of the readers." 
 
 IV. 
 
 A REMARKABLE PACT. 
 
 " I may be allowed to mention heie a re- 
 markable fact lately come under my notice, 
 in which a whole Jewish family has quite 
 providentially been brought to the reading 
 of the New Testament. The circumstances 
 .are as follow : 
 
 " My two youngest .sons happened to form 
 an accpi.aintance with a Jewi.sh boy of evi- 
 dently respectable parents. Calling one day 
 at my house, he noticed a copy of the New- 
 Testament upon the table. After having 
 perused a few lines of it, he expiessed his 
 wish to read it. The elder of my boys 
 obsei'ved that he fthe Jewish lad) woidd not 
 like to read the Christian New Testament. 
 The little Hebrew, however, strongly urging 
 his desire, borrowed the book and took it 
 home with him. A short time .after, his 
 father called at myhou.se during myab.sence, 
 with the book in his h.and, and asked Mrs. 
 Davidson whether she was aware that her 
 boys lent this book to his son. Mr.s. D. 
 re])lied in the negative. " In this c.a.se," said 
 the man, " will you kindly allow my son to 
 keep it^ " As Mrs. D. most gladlj- complied 
 with his request, he very politely thanked 
 her and left, taking the book with him. My 
 children have since .a.sceitained that not only 
 the boy but also his mother and his sister 
 occasionally i-ead it. But what is still more 
 inteiesting is that the father also has been 
 met reading the precious volume as he walked 
 along the street. God grant that the same 
 Divine Providence who thus marvellously 
 introduced the Word of Life into the bosom 
 of that family may also cause the light of 
 His Truth to shine into their hearts. 
 "Vienna, 5th October, 1870."
 
 The Sociflifs First Tiro Mlssionarli'x. 
 
 191 
 
 IMlllKKS.SIlR DAVIDSON AS TlIK SUl'KltlNTKNDKNT 
 
 OK THE soiikty's H',)me at LEYTOX. 
 
 The British Society's Home for homeless, 
 fiiendless younf? Jews, ami Jewish (Orphans, 
 was [iiciiarod and opciu'd at i,eyti)n, Kssex, 
 and sidjstMjuent ovoiUs proved that, the 
 t'oiiuiiittec were wise in removing I'lotVssor 
 Davidson from N'icnnain order to undertake 
 its manaj;i'nient. In the Home l)etween 
 t hirly and forty young Jews receiveil S[)iritual 
 instruction, and a good many of them gave 
 satisfactory evidence of true conversion. 
 'I'herc, up to the very close of his caithly 
 life, Mr. Davidson longed and laboured for 
 the salvation of all the inmates. When he 
 was near his end there were, standing round 
 his be<l young, unconverted Jews, who heard 
 his dyin-; words, and were led by them to 
 the feet of Christ. 80, after forty yeai-s 
 of .self-sjicrificing, successful toil for the 
 conversion of souls, early on Sunday- morning, 
 October 8th, lS7i, this noble servant of the 
 Lord — the British Society's lir.st Missionary 
 
 •was called up to receive the victor's crown 
 of glory, honour, and immortality. 
 
 On October 11th, in \\ est Ham Cemetery, 
 the Rev. D. A. Herschell committed his body 
 to the dust in the bright .and blessed assurance 
 of a glorious resurrection. 
 
 " Willi Wduld licit wisli to (lie liko tliiwc 
 
 Wlidiii Gull's own S[)irit ilfii^ns to IiK-ss ; 
 To .sink into tliiit soft rcposo, 
 
 Tlit'ii wake to pt'i-feft liap[iinpss V 
 
 -MR. ISRAEL NAPIITALI, 
 
 :MANCH ESTER. 
 
 (WUk I'ortrail.) 
 
 1813— ISSfi. 
 
 At a meeting of the Committee held on 
 the 7th of A\igust, 1S43, on the recom- 
 mendation of the Rev. Dr. Henderson, our 
 lion. Secretary, and the Rev. John Jack, 
 of Hristdl, it was resolved that Mr. Israel 
 Naphtjili be engaged on probation for three 
 months as a Missionary to the Jews, under 
 the superintendence of Mr. Jack. Mi-. 
 Naphtali began his missionary career in 
 Bristol, and after labouring there for a short 
 time he was removed to Manchester, where 
 he found a .suitable sphere anil his life work. 
 
 HIS KIUST efforts and SU(CE.SSE,S. 
 
 The following brief summ.-iry of those 
 laboui-s and succe.s.ses will be read with 
 intere.st : — " In the good providence of (iod 
 1 have been permitted to labour nearly live 
 
 years in this corner of (lu; liord's vineyard 
 .as a Jewish Mi.ssion.iry. As I was the (irst 
 Missionaiy to the Jews in this place, 1 had 
 not only to plant, and to water, that the 
 liiird niigld give the increase, but also to till 
 the ground. And my labours have not been 
 ' in vain in the I^ord ' 1 have had acce.ss to 
 a great iiumbrr of the residcnit Jews, and 
 therewith the privilege of pre.ichiiig the un- 
 .seai'chal)lc riches of Chri.st to the sons of 
 Abr.iham, and have distributed among them 
 numerous tracts, and several (topics of the 
 Sciipturiw, in Hebrew, German, and English, 
 all which has been attended with happy 
 i-csiiHs, ;ind calls for loud and loiii; ])r:iise 
 and blessinj; to the Lord, and fuinisbes 
 
 mi:, isjiaei. N.\rnT.M.i. 
 
 strong inducements to per.severe. In my 
 intercourse with the nimieroiis strangers 
 who are constantly visiting this great mart 
 of commerce, I have met with sever.il who 
 gave gratifying evidence of at least a jiartial 
 .■iwakening of their minds, and although 
 their wandering foot has carried them away 
 to some other place, and brought them under 
 the iiilliK'nce of other Christian agencies, 
 where they have tinallyand openly embraced 
 the Truth as it is in Jesus, yet tlii> aim of 
 the Society is accomplished, and all tlu! glory 
 is the Lord's. Nor has the Lord left u« 
 without living witne.s,ses. Our hands liave 
 I een strengthened, and our hearts enconniged, 
 with no less than live immortal souls, who
 
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 Memmnes of Gospel Triumphs amo^ig the Jeics. 
 
 have come forward under our notice ; and to 
 the great joy of our hearts, have confessed 
 the name of the once despised Nazarene as 
 their Messiah and Redeemer. One of these 
 not only lived by faith in the Son of Goil, 
 but has died happily in the same faith, and 
 his spirit has ascended to rest in the bosom 
 of Israel's Redeemer. It has been my 
 happiness to meet many interesting inquirers 
 in Manchester. One of these has, during the 
 past year, been baptized and received into 
 the fellowship of the Church assembling in 
 Cannon Street Chapel." 
 
 The Story of the Life and Death of 
 
 S., one of the first Company of 
 
 Converts. 
 
 HIS EAELY JEWISH TRAIXIXG. 
 
 Mr. S. was bom in Mecklenburg Strelitz, 
 of orthodox Jewish parents. His early 
 instructor, however, whilst he inculcated 
 outward morality, disregarded religion ; he 
 -said to him, " All that you have to observe 
 is honest)' to your fellow-men ; you need 
 mind nothing else." Whilst yet young, he 
 was taken by his father to Berlin, where, in 
 a new synagogue, he heard for the first time 
 the prayers and sermon in his native tongue ; 
 the result was, that on liis return home he 
 was so much struck with the heartlessness of 
 prayers read in a language which not one in 
 ten of the people could understand that he 
 refused any longer to attend the synagogue 
 worship. At the age of fifteen he was 
 apprenticed to an eminent merchant, of 
 infidel opinions, who led him to read Paine, 
 Voltaire, and other like authors, and 
 rewarded him for liLs diligence in business by 
 introducing him to places of worldly amuse- 
 ment and dissipation. What could be 
 expected from such a training but the most 
 melanchoh' results ? Parents little think of 
 the ruin in which they involve their children 
 when they place them under the superin- 
 tendence of men who scoff at religion, and 
 regard the world as the chief good. 
 
 A PROFLIGATE AXD A PRISONER. 
 
 Mr. S. lost his master suddenly, but he 
 had been taught that men were made simply 
 to enjoy life as long as it lasted, and the 
 solemn warning was unheeded by him ; he 
 obtained another situation, and became a 
 decided profligate ; he ran all the lengths of 
 sin, and devoured iniquity with greediness. 
 His father sent for him home to assist him 
 in his business, but he could not now bear 
 
 the restraints of his paternal roof ; and on 
 receiving some property left him by a 
 deceased relative, he went into partnership 
 with a cousin, with whom he went to 
 Hamburg to purchase goods. But neglecting 
 the object for which tliey went, they 
 resolved to see more of the world, and from 
 thence travelled through the south of 
 Germany, crossed the Alps, and visited 
 Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland, and 
 England. Satan now took complete hold of 
 him, and ha\-ing returned to Paris, he was 
 guilty of deeds which he could not afterwards 
 recollect without shuddering ; his property 
 was wasted, and at length he was thro^^■n 
 into prison. His parents sent him money to 
 procure his release, and to enable him to 
 return to his fathers house ; but though he 
 had made many promises previously to his 
 delivei'ance, he was unhumbled and un- 
 changed. He kept away from home, and 
 continued to pursue the paths of sin and 
 death. How dreadful is the fetter of sin 
 when once the soul is enchained by it ; it has 
 not moral power to break it asunder, and 
 nothing can release it but the power of God. 
 To avoid a second imprisonment, he enlisted 
 in a French regiment ; there manj- sufferings 
 were his portion, and especially after being 
 ordered to Algiers, where for two years he 
 could say with the patriarch Jacob, " In the 
 day the drought consumed me, and the frost 
 by night." 
 
 ATTACKED BY THE PESTILEXCE. 
 
 Pestilential disease at length entered into 
 the ranks, and, in addition to those who died 
 on the field of battle, hundreds every week 
 were hurried into eternity. The subject of 
 tliis narrative was seized with the prevailing 
 sickness, and his sufferings were extreme ; he 
 was brought to the gates of death, and 
 though too hardened to think of his sins 
 against God, the reflection was exceedingly 
 painful that he had brought all his troubles 
 on himself, and great distress on his parents ; 
 he feels now what cause he has for grati- 
 tude, that, not^\nthstanding his hardness of 
 heart and the oaths and curses which in 
 the time of his aflliction he allowed himself 
 to utter, his life was spared, and spared to 
 become hereafter a monument of mercy. 
 His kind parent? again interposed on his 
 behalf, and purchased his discharge. In 
 accordance with their wishes, he determined 
 to return home by way of England, where he 
 was cordially received by relatives in 
 Norwich and Leeds.
 
 Tlip. Somety's First Two Missionanes. 
 
 VXi 
 
 Ills AriE.MI'l' AT SlIK'inE PKOVIDEXTIALLY 
 I'llKVKNTKIl. 
 
 Having obtaineil permission to remain for 
 a time in this country, he entered into 
 business, thougli in conihicting it there was 
 tlie same want of principle wliich had 
 characterized him for years. He married at 
 Mancliester a professing Christian ; at first 
 he permitted her to attend Christian places 
 of worship, bnt after a time wo\ild not 
 sufler her to do so. When he had been 
 married twelve months it pleased God to lay 
 him low on the bed of atlliction, and he 
 partially lost the use of one side and the 
 sight of one of his eyes. Two j'ears piussed 
 away, and as he could not labour, his 
 temporal resources were daily diminishing : 
 he repined at this, and what with his mental 
 anxiety and bodily pain he seemed to have 
 more laid on him than he was able to bear, 
 and once was providentially rescued from 
 self-destruction by the unexpected entrance 
 of his wife. 
 
 SAVED AXD BAPTIZED. 
 
 But the Lord had purposes of mercy con- 
 cerning him, and in the beginning of the 
 year 1845, Mr. Naplitali, one of our Jewish 
 Missionarie.s, was led to visit him. He tried 
 to awaken him to a .sense of his own sinful- 
 ness, but he did not feel himself a sinner. 
 He went on to .show him how unable the 
 Jews were to keep the old covenant, and how 
 salvation was provided for them in the new 
 covenant, which was promised hundreds of 
 years before the birth of Him who sealed it 
 with His blood. Mr. S. said in reply, that 
 bo did not believe in the Old Testament, that 
 he had never read the Prophets or the New 
 Testament, and that what ho had heard of 
 Jesus had led him to think that, like Moses, 
 he was a very wi.se man, though he hail no 
 faith in the miracles said to have been 
 wrought by either of them. The Missionary 
 left several tracts an<l repeated his visits 
 everyday. He gave him a Bible, and read 
 with him through the prophecies, and showed 
 that tlie idea of a sa\-ing Me.ssiah is 
 prominent in them all, and that every 
 particular foretold of the Messiah was 
 veritietl in Jesus of Nazareth. Mr. S. was 
 surpri.sed to find the New Testament so very 
 different from what he had expected, and 
 that instead of superseding the Old Testa- 
 ment it confirmed it, and at length he was 
 convinced of the oneness of the.se Ijooks, and 
 the Truth Hashed upon his mind that the 
 
 Holy Bible must be the Word of God, and 
 that the Propiiets must have written by in- 
 spnation from above. 
 
 lie then set himself to study the Bible, 
 with earnest desires for light and instruction, 
 and by the aid of the Holy S[)irit he became 
 at length fully convinced that the Lord 
 Jesus Christ is the only ^Messiah and Saviour, 
 and that he was, did and snJ/iTfl all that 
 the Me.ssiah was to be, to do and to suffer. 
 Now he felt deeply penitent on account of 
 his past sinfulness, was filled with wonder- 
 ing love at the long-suffering goodness of 
 God as manifested in his previous history, 
 and was enabled to lay hold on the hope set 
 before him in the Gospel. Several Christian 
 friends visited him after this in companj' 
 with the Missionaiy, .and were much pleased 
 with the state of his mind : the Missionary 
 took great pains in giving him further in- 
 struction, and from time to time was thank- 
 ful to find him growing in grace and in the 
 knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. In 
 conseqnence of illness he now became an in- 
 patient in the infirmary. There he 
 experienced that it was good for him to be 
 afflicted, and when a little recovered tried to 
 make himself useful to his fellow-suflerers. 
 After he became convinced of the Truth of 
 Christianity he wished to b(^ baptized and to 
 make a public profes.sion of his faith ; and 
 at length, having given full .satisfaction as 
 to the reality of his conversion, to the Rev. 
 J. Grithn and other Christian friends, his 
 wish was gratified, and on the (Ith of July, 
 lS45,at Piusholme Road Chapel, Manchester, 
 he was publicly baptized by that esteemed 
 minister. 
 
 From th.at period until his death he 
 walked consistently with his profession, 
 " and adorned the doctrine of God his 
 Saviovu-." 
 
 UIS LAST DAYS AXD DEATH. 
 
 Our readers will be much interested in the 
 following account of his last illness and 
 death, by jNlr. Naplitali : — 
 
 " As the conversion of his .soul was 
 effected by the operation of the Holy 
 Spirit, working in him a wonderful change, 
 and .spiritualizing his inclinations and affec- 
 tions, he continued ni the exercise of strong 
 and growing faith. His ideas of Divine 
 Truth were especially Scriptural ; his un- 
 shaken confidence in Christ as his all-suffi- 
 cient Saviour, his delight to converse about 
 Jesus and His Ihiished work of redemption,
 
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 MertKyries of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 all went to show that his religion was both 
 firm and practical. 
 
 " He was \er}' much afflicted in body, and 
 distressed in mind through an ungodly wife, 
 yet he did not fall out by the way, nor 
 murmur at the dispensation through which 
 he was called to pass ; j'ea, of his affliction 
 he was often heard to say, ' It is good for 
 me to be afflicted, for before I was afflicted I 
 went astray, but now I keep Thy Woid ; ' 
 and that but for affliction he might have 
 been cut off in his sin without an interest in 
 God's eternal covenant, or the application of 
 the blood of Jesus to his soul, — and with 
 such feelings he often prayed and wept over 
 the sins of his wife. 
 
 " As often as the state of his health 
 permitted, he attended the services of the 
 sanctuary — but he was evidently hastening 
 to another and better world — his seat soon 
 became entirely vacant ; in consequence the 
 brethi-en visited him, and were increasingly 
 delighted with his conversation. 
 
 " At his own request I continued my visits, 
 and my acquaintance with him became very 
 familiar. His prayere were refreshing to 
 me ; he approached the throne of grace with 
 deep humility, and confession of sin — suppli- 
 cating the gift of the Holy Spirit, and 
 wrestling with God to save His people and 
 bless His inheritance. His prayers also 
 were extended to the church of Christ, and 
 the spread of His Kingdom. He wished 
 that the Lord would have spared and 
 employed him as a missionary to his brethren ; 
 he also prayed very importunately that the 
 Lord would own and bless my feeble labours ; 
 and never failed to acknowledge His good- 
 ness in sending me to him, as the means of 
 the salvation of his soul. In a word, he 
 died the death of the righteous, leaning for 
 support on the ' Lord our Righteousness.' 
 
 '•As for myself, I have cause for thankful- 
 ness that the Lord who called me into this 
 corner of His ^-ineyard, has so signally 
 ble.ssed my labours, and carried the soul of 
 our departed brother into the bosom of his 
 Saviour. 
 
 " Four others remain in the faith and 
 hope of the Gospel, who, through my in- 
 strumentality, have been brought to Jesus 
 wthin the space of twenty-one months. 
 Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not 
 these His benefits I " 
 
 "We add the testimonv of a Christian 
 friend with regard to our departed 
 brother : — 
 
 " The last illness of S. was not marked 
 
 by anything of a striking character. He 
 had found peace with God, and was enabled 
 to meet the last enemy with composure, 
 regarding him as a messenger sent to release 
 him from the many sorrows and trials to 
 which he was subject while here. He had a 
 good hope beyond the grave, and this 
 supported him to the last. 
 
 " The last time I conversed with him was 
 a few days before his departure — I said to 
 him, 'Now, Mr. S., are you still enabled to 
 rest upon the same foundation ? ' He replied, 
 ' Yes, I think I have a firmer gra.sp than 
 ever — I rely onh^ upon the Saviour for 
 salvation.' 
 
 " He then spoke of the mercy and for- 
 bearance of God in sparing him and bring- 
 ing him under the sound of the Gospel. I 
 referred to his bodily sufferings. He said 
 that they were painful to endure, and that 
 at times they affected his spirits : he con- 
 tinued, ' I have sometimes doubts and fear.s, 
 but yet I know that God is not capricious. 
 He will not give His grace one day, and 
 take it away the next.' After further con- 
 versation he became exhausted." 
 
 The agent of the Mosley Street Christian 
 Instruction Society visited him during Mr. 
 Xaphtali's absence, and was the last person 
 who had religious conversation with him — he 
 testifies to the firmness of his faith, and his 
 calmness in the prospect of dissolution. 
 
 " I was with him a few hours before his 
 spirit took its flight, but he was too far gone 
 for conversation — he expired on the 23rd of 
 September, aged thirty-two. 
 
 " Mr. S. possessed a vigorous mind, and if 
 his ph^-sical power had been equal, he would 
 have been of great service in the missionary 
 work. It was his desire, after ha%ing become 
 savingly acquainted with the Truth, to pro- 
 claim that Truth to his bi-ethren of the House 
 of Israel. He had acquired much Scriptural 
 knowledge, and had a clear perception of the 
 great doctrines of Christianity." 
 
 The Life, Conversion and Baptism of 
 D., another of the first Compajiy 
 of Converts. An Autobiographical 
 Sketch. 
 
 XEGLECTED. 
 
 I was bom in London of Jewish parents, 
 both of whom were strict observers of those 
 ceremonies which the Jews keep as substitutes 
 for a regular Lord's service. I was very 
 young when my mother died and left a 
 large family ; and as my father was much
 
 The Society's First Two Missionaries. 
 
 105 
 
 engaged in business he neglected to pay due 
 attention to tiie education of his ott'spring. 
 We were sent, indeed, to a Jcnvish school, 
 but nobody looking after us, we visited it 
 very seldom, and passed our time away in 
 tlie London parks. My father having 
 received some intimation of tins, we were 
 subjected to more restriction. The rest of 
 his children were manageable and went to 
 school, but I liad imbibed such a dislike of 
 learning, and took such pleasure in idleness, 
 that I would sooner sutler any punishment 
 rather than relinquish my rambles and go to 
 my books. Conseiiuently I grew up without 
 knowledge, a stranger to the fear of the 
 Lord, and increasing in wickedness as years 
 rolled along. It is easy to imagine that I 
 fell into very bad company ; some of my 
 associates were even worse than myself, and 
 from them I contracted evil haliits, bad 
 expressions, and the utterance of oaths ; and 
 to these I became so accustomed that it was 
 only by great attention, and the especial 
 grace of the Lord that 1 could free myself 
 from them. 
 
 TBAKSPOUTED. 
 
 In due time I commenced business as a 
 clothier, and as I was by no means con- 
 scientious in my dealings — having only one 
 object before me, that of making money — I 
 soon began to better my circumstances. 
 When almost sixteen yeai-s of age I formed 
 a connection with a neighbour's daughter 
 and should have married her, had not my 
 father authoritatively interfered. Enraged 
 I left his house, and settled in another part 
 of the city, living in a most sinful and pro- 
 fligate manner, till a circumstance hurled me 
 into quite a difl'erent sphere. I had pur- 
 chased some woollen articles on what I 
 thought more than advantageous terms, 
 without inquiring whether the person of 
 whom I bought them was the right owner or 
 not ; they proved to have been stolen ; the 
 depredator gave evidence against me as the 
 purchaser, my premises were searched, and 
 the goods found and identified. I took my 
 trial, was found guilty, and condemned to be 
 transported se\en 3'ears. I cried, lamented 
 day and night, toi-e the hair off my head — 
 but it was all in vain, repentance was too 
 late. I cannot expiess my feelings when I 
 saw my aged father entering the prison, to 
 take a farewell the day previous to my 
 departure. Grief had laid him low, and to 
 appeanince had increased his age : I never 
 saw him more ; he died broken-hearted 
 
 after I had left England for New South 
 Wales. 
 
 The sufferings of a transport's life have 
 been so often and minutely described, that I 
 will not be tedious with a repetition of them ; 
 sutiice it to say that I experienced all its 
 horrors, that my miseries were increased and 
 my grief made more poignant through the 
 accusations of conscience, which constantly 
 reminded me, not only that I suffered 
 deservedly, but that I ought to suffer far 
 more, as the occasion of the accelerated death 
 of my father. I was ready to despair, and 
 much more so, as I could not draw consola- 
 tion from religion, being as strange to its 
 healing balm as a Hindoo, and unaljle to 
 read the religious books which were dis- 
 tributed amongst us on the Lord's days. At 
 last the time of my deliverance came, and 
 with a little money I had saved I reached 
 my native shore again — it being about ten 
 years since I left it. My father and several 
 of my relations were dead, my views of life 
 were altered, and my former expectations 
 blighted ; I had undergone a severe correc- 
 tion, and was firmly resolved to lead an 
 honest life in the eyes of the world. I 
 never, however, considered how graciously 
 the Lord had preserved me, and how wisely 
 He had arranged matters to make me a 
 useful member of society. But now, when 
 I look back, I acknowledge with gratitude 
 that the Lord has always been very kind to 
 me, and that what I thought to be mis- 
 fortune, was a part of the plan of infinite 
 wisdom, to bring me to know and love Him. 
 
 CONVINCED AND CONVERTED. 
 
 I did not like to stay in London, and 
 went into the country, where I commenced 
 business as a confectioner, having learnt the 
 trade while abroad. I adhered to my 
 resolution to work and obtain an honest 
 living, dreading a repetition of my former 
 punishment. I now became acquainted with 
 my present wife, and entered into the 
 marriage state. After visiting several 
 towns 1 settled in Manchester, and about 
 four years ago I changed my occupation as a 
 confectioner for that of a glass and china 
 rivetter, which I still follow. 
 
 During my travels in England, and 
 residence in Manchester, I have met with 
 several pious Christians, who, knowing me to 
 be a Jew, have spoken to me about Christ ats 
 the only Saviour, and intreated me to 
 in(|uire diligently into the Scriptures, but 
 owing to my entire ignorance of the Sacred 
 
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 196 
 
 Memones of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 Ora.c\es, I did not comprehend their meaning, 
 and their good advice seemed entirely lost 
 upon me. This went on until some time 
 since I met with Mr. Simon, a man who, a 
 few years back, had lodged at my house 
 when I lived in Leeds. I was forcibly 
 struck with the favourable change in his 
 manner and expression ; the lion was turned 
 into a lamb, his mouth, which formerly used 
 to utter blasphemies, like mine own, now 
 began to preach Clu-ist to me ; and not onlj- 
 once, but whenever he saw me, which was 
 frequently, he began on the same subject. 
 He told me how happy he felt in the Lord 
 Jesus Christ ; how his confidence and reliance 
 in the Lord elevated him above the miseries 
 and trials inseparable from this life. By his 
 behaviour, and even in his countenance, I 
 could .see that he felt as happy as he pro- 
 fessed to be. " He provoked me to jealousy," 
 and when I told him that I .>ihould like to 
 know something about that Saviour, he 
 promised that he would introduce me to the 
 man who bj' the grace of God was the chief 
 instrument in his conversion. 
 
 In fulfilment of his promise he brought 
 Mr. Xaphtali, the Je^^'is]l missionary, to my 
 house, and the Lord has blessed his entrance. 
 At the first interview my heai;t felt inclined 
 to him through his gentle, simple, and 
 instructive conversation, and I begged .sin- 
 cerely for a repetition of his visit, which he 
 most cordially promised. He has called 
 upon me almost every day since, and has 
 been the instrument in the hands of God of 
 convincing me of my sinful state, and that I 
 was in danger of losing my soul. His words 
 came from the heart, and they went to the 
 heart ; I was aroused from nay carelessness, 
 and had a feeling awakened to which I was 
 hitherto a stranger, that of concern for my 
 salvation, and with tears in my eyes, and 
 very little hope, I asked, " Is there forgive- 
 ness for so great a sinner as I am ? Is there 
 a way by which my soul might be saved ? " 
 Then he opened the promises of the Gospel 
 to me, and I felt its healing power refreshing 
 to my wounded and dying .spirit. A new 
 world was opened before me ; I stood gazing, 
 wondering, and lost in amazement, when I 
 heard what our gracious Saviour had done 
 and suffered for us sinners ; such love I had 
 never imagined. Mr. Xaphtali now ac- 
 quainted me particularly with those parts of 
 the Old Testament which refer to Christ as 
 the true Messiah, and at the same time he 
 read to me His life. 
 
 The Lord was gracious, and gave me a 
 
 sincere desire to know the Truth ; I began 
 to comjiare, and meditate upon what I heard, 
 and so became convinced of the great and 
 irresistible Truth. Xo doubt the Lord 
 helped my unbelief. 
 
 COXFIEMED AND COMFORTED. 
 
 I also, through the same means, became 
 acquainted -n-ith the Rev. Mr. ^launder, with 
 whom I had frequent interviews, and became 
 a regular attendant on his ministry ; when- 
 ever I saw him I became stronger in faith 
 and resolution, and was sure to gain instruc- 
 tion. 
 
 The visits and conversations of Mr. 
 Naphtali not only proved profitable to me 
 — my whole household, especially my wife, 
 was benefited. The latter, though a pro- 
 fessed Christian, was a careless one : but now, 
 thanks to the Lord, she is changed, has 
 turned to Him with all her heart, and is 
 delighted in waiting on Him in His house. 
 
 The Si^irit of the Lord has taken 
 possession of my soul and taught me to pray, 
 and whenever I pour out my soul in prayer 
 I feel the comfort of His influence who is 
 promised to the followers of Jesus. 
 
 BAPTIZED. 
 
 Wlien Mr. Maunder had satisfied himself 
 about the state of my heart, he complied 
 with my request to be permitted to make a 
 public profession of my faith. The desired 
 service was fijsed for the fii-st Lord's-day in 
 1846, the -ith of January: and in the 
 Wesleyan Chapel, Oldham Street, before a 
 large congregation. I renounced Judaism, 
 and professed my sincere belief in the Loi-d 
 Jesus Christ, as the only Saviour and 
 Eedeemer : Mr. Maunder then proceeded to 
 administer the holy ordinance of baptism 
 unto me, in the name of the Father, Son, 
 and Holy Ghost. Amen. 
 
 Three Typical Extracts from 
 Mr. Naphtali's Journals. 
 
 I. 
 
 " As to those of whom I have made favour- 
 able mention in former reports, I can happily 
 as-sert that they are in a progi-essive state, 
 and would have joined the Chri.stian Church 
 but for the temixn-al ditiiculties consecjuent 
 on the alteration in their mode of life. The 
 number of persons with whom I have friendly 
 intercourse, and to whom I am able freely to 
 teach and preach Jesus Christ, is above one 
 hundred. The numl>er of those who have
 
 The Socidi/'N Fh-xl Tvo Mieisionarii/^. 
 
 li)7 
 
 embriiced tlie'l'iuth :is .-.iiu-cio converts ilmiiii; 
 my I'liblic labours at Maiiclu'ster, iiichuHiig 
 tlieir t'aiiiilics, is above twenty, who have 
 coiincetecl tlieinselves with various sections of 
 tlie ( 'hristiaii Church. 
 
 "The Jewish faiiiihes are eaeli supplied 
 witli the Scriptures, and by many they are 
 read with great interest. !My residence and 
 operations among them for nine years have 
 abated tlie bitter state of national jtrejudice, 
 anil convinced many that the Mi.s.sionary 
 enterpri.se is one of benevolence. Hence the 
 Missionary is no more a detestable object ; 
 neither is the inquirer, or even the convert, 
 regarded as an apostate. The bigot and the 
 ignorant are now the exception, and lind no 
 sympathy with the generality of the peojile. 
 I have to state that not only have my former 
 iiKpiirers continued their seardi after the 
 Ti'ut h, but an additional number hav(^ applied 
 for instruct ion. And as to those of who)n I 
 entertained previous hopes, I am glad to say 
 that they remain well. In fine, my con- 
 viction of the presi'nt position of the Society 
 is, that if its funds could be inn)roved by the 
 liberality of the Chri.stian Churches, and its 
 elibrts encouraged by earnest prayer for the 
 conversion of Israel, now is the time to 
 propagate the Gospel among the Jews. 'J'he 
 harvest is certainly ripe, and labourers are 
 wanted." 
 
 II. 
 
 " Twelve years ago, when I came to ^lan- 
 che.ster, I found, alas, iiilidelity, with its 
 companion bl.isphemy, threatening to over- 
 throw even the foundations of Judaism, with 
 its national faith in the Uod of Abrah.im. 
 Whereas now, both infamous characters are 
 exchanged for the more wholesome title of 
 Keformers, wherein they .strenuously defend 
 faith in the God of Abraham, and consider 
 the laws of Christ as an intellectual morality. 
 Tlien again, twelve yeai's ago there was no 
 proi>er school for the instruction of the 
 Hebrew youths, whereas now they have 
 established a most useful one. Again, twelve 
 years ago there was not a whol(> IJible foinid 
 in any of their families; but now every Jew 
 boy hath a whoU- I'.ible in Hebrew and 
 Engli.sb. Yea, and not a few of the adults, 
 and even of the older class, are in possession 
 of New Testaments, and select and u.seful 
 Tracts. Again, twelve years ago I could not 
 lind one Jew who was not ashamed to be 
 called a Chri.stian, and now there are sixty 
 families who are in Church fellowship with 
 the German Church, and twenty-tive precious 
 
 souls ihrougli my iliivct instrumentality 
 brought to the .Saviour. Yea, even the 
 lleformers, who are in number about fifty 
 families, are, in my opinion, nearer Chri.sti- 
 anity than Judaism. As for ini parens, if 
 the natural, and moral, yea, and temporal 
 ditliculties, did not impede their progress, 
 there are always not a few on hand. 
 
 " Sui'ely such a result as this ought to 
 call forth our gratitude for the p;ist, and 
 encourage the exercise of our prayer for the 
 future. Seeing when we commenced opera- 
 tions we had faith in God that He would 
 own and bless our feeble efforts, how much 
 more, having blessed us, ought our faith to 
 be .stronger and much more liv(>ly. 
 
 " I hope, therefore, in the future our 
 friends will not be over-anxious to reaj) 
 while they are sowing, and gather while they 
 are scattering, though ev(!n this is po.ssible 
 with Cod. Yet I don't see what right we 
 have to interfere wit li His Divine prerogative; 
 as for my own ]iast experience in the dealings 
 of our Cod, both in Grace awl Providence, I 
 know this nuich, the less we murmur and 
 find fault with the work and the working, 
 the better will be the result." 
 
 III. 
 
 " I will simply remind you that of the 
 twenty converts which ^Ir. Davidson men- 
 ti<med in his Report, most of them are heads 
 of families : their children, therefore, are 
 not to be overlnoked, for of such is the 
 Kingdom of Heaven. Wo may hope that 
 they will grow in grace, and prove that the 
 pleasure of the Lord lias indeed prospered in 
 our hands. 
 
 '• Since then, the Lord has been pleased to 
 manifest fresh tokens, as an answer to oin- 
 prayers and work of faith, in the unexpected 
 and anxious desire of two Jeimsh hrethreii, 
 whose very interesting and affecting narrative 
 of their application for Church fellowship 
 and their subsecpii-nt receiition into the 
 ( 'hurch of Chri.st by the ordinance of baptism, 
 T ha\e already rei>oited to you ; and I am 
 still encouraged to testify, on their behalf, 
 that they are walking according to the 
 ordinance of God our Saviour in Chri.st Jesus 
 our Lord ; and their country uu'U and brethren 
 after the flesh, with whom they had many 
 and scriptural conversations, inducing them 
 to search the Scriptures and incjuire after 
 the Truth as it is in Jesus, have applied to 
 me for regular instruction, and attend, some- 
 times with me, and more generally by 
 themselves, a Chi-istian place of worship."
 
 198 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triunijjhs among the Jeivs. 
 
 Extract from the Twenty-seventh 
 Annual Report. 
 
 In the Report presented at the Annual 
 Meetnig in May, 1870, we read : — 
 
 " In Manchester, where Mr. Naphtali has, 
 in the course of his labours, introduced more 
 than fifty memVjers of the House of Israel to 
 the fellowship of different Christian Churches, 
 a Jewish father has recently made a public 
 confession of faith in Christ, dedicating his 
 little son at the same time to God in baptism ; 
 and a vast number of travelling Jews, as 
 they passed through this mighty capital of 
 commerce, have heard of the Saviour and 
 have been presented with the New Testament, 
 while the Scriptures have been placed in the 
 hands of every resident Jew who could be 
 persuaded to possess himself of the treasure, 
 whether by purchase or by gift. A colony 
 of Turkish Jews having recently sprung up 
 in Manchester and opened a synagogue of 
 its own, has also engaged much of Mr. 
 Naphtali's attention, and has manifested 
 singular readiness to welcome the Word of 
 God." 
 
 Thus Mr. Najjhtali continued to work on 
 with a large measure of success, until the 
 infirmities of age and ill-health compelled 
 him to retire from tlie field. At his own 
 request, his last days were spent in The 
 Home for Aijed Christian Israelites, where 
 we frequently saw him until in May, 1886, 
 he was lifted higher. A few days after that, 
 we officiated at his funeral. 
 
 The Departure of Israel Naphtali, 
 aged 86. 
 
 An address delivered by Itev. J. Dunlop, 
 in Finchley Cemetery, at the funeral : — 
 
 To-day we gather around the remains of 
 Mr. Israel Naphtali. Our departed father was 
 an able and faithful missionary; from his lips 
 there fell no uncertain sound concerning the 
 love of God, the atonement of Christ, the in- 
 fluence of the Spu-it, justification and sanctifi- 
 cation by grace, through faith. His motto 
 was, " Souls to our hire and seals to our 
 ministry." The means he employed to gain 
 that end may be summed up in the pre- 
 sentation of the Truth as in Christ. Mo.st 
 earnestly and lovingly did he define and 
 defend the Gospel of Christ, " which is the 
 power of God unto salvation to every one 
 that believeth, to the .jew first and al.so to 
 the Gentile " ; and in the important mission 
 field of Manchester he was eminently suc- 
 cessful in bringing many .souls to the Saviour. 
 
 Like Paul, anticipating the day when he 
 
 would see the I'esult of his missionary labours, 
 he could say, " For what is our hope, or joy, 
 or crown of rejoicing ? Are not even ye in 
 the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His 
 coming ? " 
 
 Whatever position soul winners may oc- 
 cupy in this world, they will stand high in 
 the worhl to come. "They who are wise 
 shall shine as the firmament, and they that 
 turn many to righteousness as the stars for 
 ever a,nd ever." Mankind may be divided 
 into two classes — the wise and the otherwise, 
 soul winners and so\il destroyers. Which 
 ai'e you ? If not a sovil winner, resolve to 
 be one from to-day. 
 
 Dear dejsarted father and brother in Christ, 
 many a time didst thou .speak to thy brethren 
 of the love of the Heavenly Father as revealed 
 in the great Elder Brother. As a father 
 jirovides foi- his children the necessaries and 
 the luxuries of life, protects them from danger, 
 and comforts them in sorrow, so the Heavenlj- 
 Father provides and succours all who put 
 their trust in Him. As a father welcomes 
 his children home from school, &c., so the 
 Heavenly Father welcomes His children to 
 the Eternal Home. •' Precious in the sight 
 of the Lord is the death of His saints." 
 Why ? because their death is their Home- 
 coming. So another son has been welcomed 
 to the Home above. Another warrior has 
 fallen upon the field only to i-ise and reign. 
 He has exchanged the sword of conflict for 
 the palm of victory, the habiliments of war 
 for the robes of peace and joy. His helmet 
 has been laid aside, and on his head has 
 been placed the Ci-own of Glory. 
 
 During the last few years of his life a 
 cloud seemed to lest over his mind, and 
 it was night ; but there is no night with 
 him now. 
 
 " Oh, the hills are .oweet, and the waters clear, 
 And the meadows green through the whole glad year, 
 And above them all is a radiance rare 
 From the sun of Heaven — there is no night there. 
 
 On the shining waves of the crystal sea 
 
 Ever rests the light in its purity ; 
 
 And the streets and tpires of the city fair 
 
 In its splendour glow - there is no night there. 
 
 Yes, above all Heaven in His gloiious throne, 
 Does the Lamb of God send his radiance down ; 
 And the angel Ipands in the golden .air 
 Breathe eternal joy— there is uo night there." 
 
 Dear departed father and brother, with 
 hands crossing thy sacred dust, we all pro- 
 mise to meet thee again where there is no 
 niifht, for the Lamb is the Light. Amen.
 
 General Description of the First Four Missionaries. 
 
 199 
 
 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE FIRST FOUR MISSIONARIES. 
 
 Fitd.M '• THK First Annl'ai, Kepiiht. 
 
 ONK of the earliest objects to whirh your 
 Coininittee ilirecteil their attention, 
 was the selection of suitable agents to be 
 employed in carrying out their designs for 
 the good of the Jews. And here they would 
 record their gratitude to the all-wise and 
 gracious Head of His Church, according to 
 the nie.asure of whose gifts, instruments are 
 provided for cairying on His work, for 
 iiaving furnished them with four zealous 
 and devoted men of (Jod, three of whom 
 are of the stock of Israel, and all of 
 whom are labouring, in their respective 
 sphere.s, to spread the knowledge of the 
 once crucified, but now glorified and reigning 
 Messiah. 
 
 One of these has been as.siduously occu- 
 pied during the year, in imparting instruction 
 to Jew.s, who have come to his house in the 
 character of inquirers, or who, having 
 been previously baptized, were desirous of 
 learning the way of the Lord more peifecth', 
 in order that they might become (pialified to 
 engage in labo\ns of usefulness among their 
 own people. He has also availed himself of 
 such opportunities as offered, of visiting and 
 conversing with the Jews resident in the 
 Metropolis, inquiring into their spiritual 
 condition, and preaching to them Jesus, as 
 the end of the law for lighteousness, to 
 every one that believeth. It is with great 
 regret that the Committee have not lieen 
 able to prevail upon this valuable labourer 
 to engage in their service as a regular 
 salaried agent ; but they rejoice in having it 
 in their power triumphantly to appeal to his 
 case, as furnishing a refutation of the 
 assertion continually reiterated by Jews, 
 and- too generally believed by Christians, 
 that no Jew makes a profession of the faith 
 of the Gospel, or devotes himself to its 
 propagation among his bi-ethien, except 
 from pecuniary or mercenary motives. Our 
 beloved brother, conscientiously declining 
 all temporal support, will continue to 
 consecrate to the service of the Gospel, 
 in connexion with the operations of the 
 Society, those portions of his time which 
 he cin spare from the honourable avoca- 
 
 tions upon which he is dependent for his 
 livelihood. 
 
 Another converted Jew, of a wealthy 
 family, wlio, ha\nng sacrificed all for Christ, 
 has been recently baptized into His name, 
 and added to His Church, has likewise 
 placed his services gratuitously at the com- 
 mand of the Society, and takes the greatest 
 pleasure in rendering them, so far as cir- 
 cumstances in which he is placed in business 
 permit. Tliis excellent and talented young 
 convert has already, by his advocacy of the 
 cause of the Society, excited considerable 
 attention to its claims ; and is doing all that 
 lies in his power to benefit his Jewish 
 brethren in the place of his residence. At 
 his own recpiest, and on the strong recom- 
 mendation of his minister-, he has been 
 received upon the list of your accredited 
 agents. 
 
 A third agent, also a converted Jew, full 
 of faith and of zeal for the salvation of 
 Israel, has been appointed by your Com- 
 mittee to labour in Bristol, where he has 
 been fully engaged, under the kind superin- 
 tendence "of the Rev. John Jack, till within 
 the last month, when, at their request, he 
 proceeded on a visit to Krmingham, for the 
 purpose of ascertaining the number and 
 state of the Jews in that town, and 
 endeavouring, during his stay, to call their 
 attention to the Gospel of Christ. The 
 report which he has already sent in, is very 
 encouraging. 
 
 Anxious to obtain a labourer, not of 
 Jewish extraction, who might devote his 
 time exclusively to Mi.ssionary work among 
 the Jews of the ^Metropolis, your Committee 
 applied to the Directors of the London City 
 Mission, some of whose agents, it was known, 
 had not overlooked that people in the course 
 of their domiciliary visits. Nor was the 
 applic.-itiou in vain. Their Committee, on 
 taking the subject into consideration, kindly 
 agreed to transfer to your Society Mr. James 
 Thomson, who had for some time been 
 employed as one of their IVIis-sionaries, and 
 to whose piety, zeal and efficiency, they bore 
 sati.-ifactory testimony.
 
 200 
 
 Memw^ies of Gospel Triumphs among the Jetva. 
 
 THE REV. JOHN JACK. 
 By his Son, Johx E. Jack. 
 
 REV. JOHN JACK was minister of Castle 
 Green Chapel. Bristol, for about 23 
 yeare. He went there, iu 1833, from Acre 
 Lane Chapel, Clapham, having previously 
 been a Missionary in 
 Russian Tai-tary. 
 
 When an Auxiliary 
 of the British Societj' 
 was formed in Bristol 
 Mr. Jack accepted 
 the po.sition of Hon. 
 Superintendent. Tlie 
 first convert baptized 
 there in connection 
 with the Society was 
 Philip Jaflc, who af ter- 
 wartls became a use- 
 ful and honoured Mis- 
 sionary to his Jewish 
 brethren. The rite of 
 Christian baptism was 
 administered by Mr. 
 Jack in his own chapel 
 before a crowded con- 
 giegation, and wi\s the 
 means of awakeninL: 
 new interest in the 
 Mission to the Jews. 
 For some time !Mr. 
 JaflV was trained b)' 
 Mr. Jack iu theolog}-, 
 English composition, 
 &c. , and was then appointed Jewish Mis.sionary 
 in Bristol. He joined the church at Castle 
 Green, and weekly, or oftener, ^-isited the 
 pastor to report on his work, at the same 
 time submitting for criticism and revision 
 sermons, essays. Sec, that he had prepared, 
 and bringing hopeful Jewish inquii'ers for 
 help and guidance. 
 
 Mr. .Jack was pre-eminently fitted for this 
 post, being not only an earnest preacher of 
 
 (With Portrail.) 
 
 the Gospel but ako a profound theologian, a 
 thorough Hebrew scholar, largely acquainted 
 with the Rabbinical writings, and speaking 
 the German and Russian languages with 
 extraordinary facility . 
 
 ■j and purity of accent. 
 
 He was visited more 
 
 1 than once by eminent 
 
 \ Jewish Rabbis from 
 
 German}-, with whom 
 
 he had long, earnest, 
 
 and learned convei-se. 
 
 The earnest efforts 
 of Mr. Jaffe for the 
 conversion of his breth- 
 ren were at first met 
 with violent abuse 
 and opposition by the 
 orthodox Jews in Bris- 
 tol, and one of the 
 early converts, on the 
 day before that ap- 
 pointed for his bap- 
 tism, was kidnapped 
 by his relatives, taken 
 into the countrj', 
 and severelj' beaten. 
 He was, however, 
 rescued, and later on 
 baptized into the mem- 
 bership of the Chi-is- 
 tian Church. 
 Notwithstanding many difliculties, good 
 work was done among the Jews in Bristol ; 
 and even after Mr. .Jack ceased to be officially 
 connected with the British Society, he con- 
 tinued to manifest the gi-eatest interest in 
 its work, and the Deputations visiting Bristol 
 were warmly welcomed by him. 
 
 Mr. Jack removed from Bristol to Kings- 
 bridge, Devon, where he died in the year 
 1S61. 
 
 BEV. JOHX JACK. 
 
 ' God calls our loved ones, but we lose not wholly 
 
 \Miat He hath given ; 
 They live on earth in thought and deed as truly 
 As iu His heaven,"
 
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 THE REV, PHILIP JAFFE. 
 {With Portrait.) 
 
 A SkETIH WlUTTEN- BV Hl.Mr-KI.F. 
 
 I WAS born on Dewinher 2()tli, 1S24, 
 ill (Jiu'sen, (iiand Duchy of I'o.sen, 
 wlicro my fiiUuT iillcd Uio ottice of nibbi. 
 At a vei-y early age 1 was taught to lovo 
 anil revcii-nce tlio 
 C4«d of my fathers, 
 and instructed in 
 the principles of 
 the Jewish religion. 
 My mind, in com- 
 mon with the rest 
 of my brethren, 
 was set in enmity 
 against the Saviour, 
 and against ever} - 
 thingthat was called 
 Christian, from the 
 moment I could lis]' 
 my infant, prayer ; 
 ami the noxious seed 
 thus committed into 
 the tender soil did. 
 alas ! too soon yield 
 a most pernicious 
 effect, and spread a 
 moral and spiritual 
 desolation over the 
 soul. I left my 
 home when very 
 young ; and after 
 having travelled for 
 sevenil years on the 
 Continent, I was!e<l, 
 under most remark- 
 able circumstances, to visit England's happy 
 shores. 
 
 Soon after my arrival ] met with several 
 of my relative.s, who very affectionately 
 receiveil me, and urged me to take u[) my 
 abo<le witii them, to whicli I consented : but 
 after I had acquired a sulHcient knowledge 
 of the English language, stimulated by an 
 eager desin? to visit all the principal places, 
 of this kingdom, I left my relatives, and 
 commenced my travels. I visited Ireland, 
 Wales, and many parts of England, and 
 during that period met with many God- 
 fearing men, who spoke to me about the 
 Saviour of sinner* ; but my heart was shut. 
 
 iiEv. I'Hiur j.vKFi; 
 
 and my aft'ections deailened, so that the 
 Truth could not penetrate. God, however, 
 wlio.se ways are wonderful, had, in I lis mercy, 
 a special de.sign in view respecting me. 
 
 MEETJNG WITH TWO 
 I IIKISTIAX I.AniES. 
 
 It happened that, 
 as I was one day 
 travelling through 
 U — , in Gloucester- 
 .sliire, I providen- 
 tially met with two 
 ladies, members of 
 the Church of Eng- 
 land, who, as soon 
 as they had learned 
 that I }>elonged to 
 the family of Abra- 
 ham, received me 
 with the greatest 
 joy into their house, 
 and assured me that 
 they felt the live- 
 liest interest in the 
 Jewi.sh nation ; that 
 their daily prayer 
 is, that Israel may 
 be saved ; and that 
 they esteemed it the 
 highest privilege to 
 be in any way en- 
 gaged in seeking 
 their spiritual wel- 
 fare. They accordingly, in a most pei-suasive 
 manner, began to preach to me Christ and 
 Him crucified, directing my mind from one 
 |ii(ipliecy to another, in order to prove to me 
 that the Me.ssiah mu.st needs already have 
 come, that Jesus proved Ilim-self to be that 
 :Me.ssiah,.ind that He, through His sulfeiings 
 and death, has obtained eternal redemption 
 for all those who Ijelieve in Ilim. I could 
 not but admire the zeal and earnestness of 
 those devoted servants of Christ ; but their 
 statements appeared to me fanciful, con- 
 taining no .sub.stance, and destitute of that 
 Divine power which they claimed for it. My 
 natural heart Wiis opiwsed to the.>e things.
 
 202 
 
 Memories of Gospd Trivmpha among the Jews. 
 
 and hardened, through the deceitfulness of 
 sin — the Truth could find no entrance into 
 it. But these ladies, in spite of all my pre- 
 judices and natural unbelief, still continued 
 to preach Christ ; they were not weary in 
 the service of their ^Master ; they believed 
 His promise, and confided in His faithful- 
 ness : - they detained me for nearly three 
 days, during which time they reasoned and 
 expostulated with me, but my mind remained 
 still unaflected. When I parted with them, 
 they earnestly desired me to write to them, 
 which I promised to do. They had, how- 
 ever, one more request to make of me, and 
 that was, that I should vLsit a clergj-man 
 
 who lived about throe mUes from if , 
 
 and have a short interview with him, to 
 which I consented, and with a letter of 
 introduction departed, and soon after arrived 
 at the clergyman's house. I found him a 
 man full of piety and love, and a warm 
 friend to the House of Israel. He also 
 argued with me for several hours about the 
 Me.^siah, but with little success ; he, how- 
 ever, prevailed upon me to accept a copy of 
 the New Testament, and made me promi.se 
 that I would read it. But, oh ! very httle 
 did I think that by reading it the savour of 
 life unto life would be made known unto me : 
 that in it I should find that repose to my 
 troubled mind, and that peace to my guilty 
 conscience, to which in my naturalstate I 
 was a stranger. 
 
 READING THE NEW TEST.\.MENT FOR THE 
 FIRST TIME. 
 
 I commenced that very day, for the fiist 
 time in my life, to read the New Testament, 
 anl everything appeared dark and mysterious 
 to me. I carefully perused the pages which 
 record the history of the Saviour, but my 
 mind could not at all become reconciled to it, 
 although I admired much the writings of 
 Paul, and now and then discovered a lay of 
 light glimmering from a volume which to me 
 was shrouded in mystery'. 
 
 In about four months I returned to the 
 clergyman from whom I received the Testa- 
 ment, and when, to the inquiry whether I 
 had read the Testament, he received an 
 answer in the affirmative, he was gi-eatly 
 delighted, and asked me what I now thought 
 of Christ. I frankly stated to him my views 
 and feelings on the subject ; and he sat down, 
 with the greatest gentleness and patience, to 
 expound to me the words of eternal hfe, 
 endeavouring to remove all obstacles out of 
 my way, and thus to lead me to the feet of 
 
 Jesus ; and although he disposed of many of 
 my objections, and through his faithful 
 exertions contributed largely to my letting 
 go of many strong prejudices, j^et the 
 question, "How can these things be?" 
 remained unanswered. But when I left 
 him I resolved to read the New Testament a 
 second time- — to study carefully and without 
 bigotry its doctrines — to compare it with the 
 Old Testament Scriptures, and thus see how 
 far they agree with each other. 
 
 CONVERTED WHEN READING THE NEW 
 TESTAMENT THE SECOND TIME. 
 
 I accordingly did so, and it was as I read 
 for the second time the Testament, that it 
 pleased the Lord, in His sovereign mercy, to 
 shine upon the sacred pages, and by His 
 Holy Spu-it, to apply the Word powerfully 
 and effectually to my heart. The Truth of 
 the Gospel flashed as lightning upon my 
 guilty conscience, and pierced through my 
 very soul ; a fearful struggle between Truth 
 and error, light and darkness, hfe and death, 
 took place in my soul. I found myself in an 
 alarming position, for it brought my sinful- 
 ness and iniquity before me, and my true 
 character appeared in a light in which I 
 never beheld it before. I saw that ruin, 
 eternal ruin, must be my position if I con- 
 tinued in that state, and at the same time 
 felt that the Gospel only was adapted to meet 
 my condition, to save my soul from that 
 destruction to which I was exposed. I 
 accordingly went, as a guilty, helpless, and 
 unworthy sinner, to the foot of the cross, 
 and poured out my supplications there, and 
 soon my soul found that peace to which it 
 had been a stranger before, and my spiritual 
 wounds were healed by the application of that 
 precious blood which was shed on Calvary 
 for the remission of all sins. Here then was 
 my help found ; here I found myself on safe 
 ground, and protected under the banner of 
 Immanuel's cross. I began to see with new 
 eyes, to hear with new ears, and to perceive 
 with another mind. I no longer sought 
 the forgiveness of sins through my own 
 merits, for I found that I had none, but 
 looked to Him who His own self bare our 
 sins in His own body on the tree, who made 
 an atonement all-tuthcient for man ; I no 
 longer sought justification in the sight of 
 God through good works, for I found that I 
 had none, but sought to be justified in the 
 all-sufficient and perfect work of the Lord 
 Jesus Christ ; I no longer considered Christ 
 as a mere man, but discovered that in Him
 
 The Rev. Philip Jaffe. 
 
 203 
 
 all the attributes essential to Deity were con- 
 centnited, that He was possessed of the sjiine 
 essence with God, and was thus constituted a 
 " mighty " Saviour. In short, I dLscovered 
 in Him the Antitype to whom the whole of 
 the Levitical law pointed — the great sacrifice 
 which was to be oflered up for the sins of the 
 world, the restorer of depraved and fallen 
 humanity and the giver of eternal life tu all 
 those who come unto Him by faith. I com- 
 menced running the Christian race, exercising 
 faith in the Lord Jesus, rejoicing in the hope 
 of the Gospel, and looking for the mercy of 
 our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. 
 
 ENGAGED AS A .MISSIONARY. 
 
 After I was e.stahlished in the faith under 
 the training and influence of the Rev. John 
 Jack, of Bri.stol, I felt it my duty to preach 
 the Gospel to my brethren, and to devote 
 myself to the ser\-ice of the Saviour. 
 Accordingly, the Briti.sh Society having 
 made me an offer to become one of its 
 agents, I accepted it, and engaged for 
 nearly three years and a half in the 5lission 
 field, and have truly found it delightful to 
 serve under such a Master as Christ the 
 Lord : His yoke has been easy, His burden 
 light, and great have been the encourage- 
 ments I have received from time to time in 
 m}' work ; several conversions have taken 
 jilace, which were so many tokens of the 
 Divine faithfulness and love. 
 
 IS THE society's COLLEGE. 
 
 After this the Society proposed to me to 
 enter their College, in order to (jualify myself 
 for still greater usefulne.ss. I <.>ladly av.iiled 
 myself of the opportunity, and can indeed 
 say that it has been good for me to have been 
 there. I cannot fail here to express my most 
 sincei-e and heartfelt gratitude to all our 
 beloved tutors for the care and labour they 
 have bestowed upon us during our college 
 career, and for the great interest they have 
 ever taken in our welfare. 
 
 AGAIX IX THE MISSION FIELD. 
 
 And now I am about to resume mv work 
 in the mission field. I go forth perfectly 
 conscious of my weakness and utter insurti- 
 ciency; but I go in dependence upon my 
 Ma.ster; I will rely on His faithfulness; I 
 will trust His mercy ; He lias promised to be 
 with His mini.stering servants to the end of 
 time, and upon that promise I will rest. I 
 feel conscious that of myself I can do nuthing, 
 that the means employed would prove useless 
 
 if not accompanied by the Holy Spirit's in- 
 fluence. Paul may plant and Apollos water, 
 but Ciod alone must give the increase. I 
 will, therefore, earne.stly pray to the Holy 
 Spirit, whose office it is to convince of sin, to 
 enlighten the understanding, to dispose the 
 will to embrace the Saviour, that He may 
 ever be pre.sent with mo in my work, and 
 render my message effectual to the conver- 
 sion of those who may hear it, so that God 
 may have all the praise. I will, moreover, 
 not lose sight of the heavy responsibility 
 which rests upon me, as a minister of the 
 Cross ; to my care are committed the souls of 
 men, and from my hands they will be re- 
 quired. I will, therefore, seek a large supply 
 of grace, that I may be faithful to my trust; 
 that I may know nothing among men but 
 Jesus Chri.st, and Him crucified ; that I may 
 preach Him in all the glory of His person, 
 and in all the sufficiency of His work, and 
 thus lie enabled to direct sinners to His 
 atoning blood, and bring glory and honour to 
 His name, ily earnest desu-e and heartfelt 
 prayer is, to spend and be spent in the cause 
 of my Saviour, and to devote and consecrate 
 to His service all my faculties and powere. 
 
 UIS VARIOUS SPHERES OF LABOUR. 
 
 This was the spirit in which Mr. Jaffe 
 went forth to his work in England and Ger- 
 many. The following are the spheres in 
 which he laboured, and in all of them more 
 or less successfully: — Bristol, Birmingham, 
 Stuttgart, Portsmouth, London, Frankfiirt- 
 on-the-Oder, Xiiremberg and Hamburg. 
 
 Nuremberg as Mr. Jaffe's Principal 
 Field of Labour. 
 
 Nuremberg is one of the most interesting 
 towns of Germany. Full of rich antiquities 
 and rare curiosities, it attracts numeious 
 sti-angers, who love to linger within its walls. 
 The Pegnitz, a somewhat muddy and slug- 
 glish river, divides the town ; and on the one 
 side St. Lorenz, and on the other St. Sebald's 
 Church, tower liigh up to the sky. The St. 
 Sebald's part of the town is rather hilly, and 
 the picturesque Castle, built on its highest 
 summit, commands a fine view of the 
 country. 
 
 Christianity was introduced by the Fran- 
 conian King Theodrich, between the j-ears 
 511 — 5.54. The celebrated Bonifacius came 
 later, and with his indomitable zeal for 
 ChrLst, and his indefatigable labours, gj-eatly 
 helped to develope a spirit of piety and 
 beneficence.
 
 204 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jetm. 
 
 Few towns are so rich iu legends as 
 Xiiremlierg. 8ome of them tell of Chiistian 
 love and benevolence, as, for instance, that 
 which is associated with the hospital for 
 poor and deerepid people. It is said that iu 
 
 hood. One afternoon, when resting in his 
 garden, he di'eamcd that an immense treasui-e 
 in gold and jewels was lying before him, but 
 every time he tried to lay hold on it, it 
 disappeared. He proposed to tUg for it, 
 
 SLREMBEIIG. 
 
 « 
 
 the fourteenth century there lived a rich 
 and much respected citizen named Kourad 
 Hainz. In spite of all his riches and the 
 respect he enjoyed, he was unhappy because 
 of an incurable disease, somewhat like leprosy, 
 with which he had been afflicted from child- 
 
 but he could not lind a spade. He then 
 took a handful of leaves and strewed them 
 over the place to mark it. When he awoke 
 he was much exercised in connection with 
 his curious dream ; and he prayed to God to 
 show him what it meant, at the same time
 
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 vnwiiii; if tliero \v;is a tipas\ire to Ir* <lis- 
 closod lie would <levote it to some work 
 honouring to God if it came into liis posses- 
 sion. As he was thougiitfully walking 
 through his garden he saw near to the garden 
 wall a number of linden leaves. Taking tliese 
 as a guide to the interpretation of his dream, 
 he dug in the place and found treasure of 
 immense value. With this ho built the 
 ho.spital, and the first person received into 
 it- a pool- old woman - prescribed for him 
 a Sivlve which completely cured his terril)le 
 malady. 
 
 The cause of the Reformation was warmly 
 espoused by the citizens of Nuremberg, 
 among whom were found some noble men 
 who fought in its defence. 
 
 The Jews early settled in Niireud)erg. 
 Many of them maintain that Jews were 
 found here befoie the Christian era, and that 
 tlie Satdic<lrim appealed to the colony with 
 regard to the judgment they were to pass 
 u|K)n Jesus of Nazareth ! 
 
 In early times the Jews enjoyed complete 
 protection, and were very prosperous. The 
 lii-st persecution overtook them in the year 
 1298, when they were banishe<l from the 
 town under cruel circumstances, and their 
 property confiscated. Again and again they 
 re-entered, only to suffer severer [)er.secuti()ns, 
 and were once more expelled. In IS.'jU (hey 
 were permitted to return, and in ISGl all 
 restrictions to tlieir personal and civil free- 
 dom were removed. Shortly after this, mul- 
 titudes of Jews flocked into the town, and 
 were followed by the Missionary. 
 
 Mr. Jalle laboured twenty-eight yeai-s 
 in and around Niiremberg, and was the 
 instrument of leading to < 'hri.st many 
 Jewish souls in liavaria. We feel con- 
 stifiined to give his own accovint of two 
 remarkable 
 
 Cases of Conversion. 
 
 .\ .lEW COSVEIETKD TnilOUGII A I-O.ST BIBLE. 
 
 About three years ago, when I was visiting 
 Oettingen on one of my missionary toui's, a 
 number of fanatical Jews became so enraged 
 at the truths I ma<le known that ihey 
 literally thrust me out of tlie town, with a 
 good many blows into the bargain. In the 
 scutlle that ensued several Testaments and 
 tracts fell out of my pocket, which I did not 
 miss till afterwards. I have not been there 
 since, and I .-ihould proljably have forgotten 
 the occur.ience but that it was brought to 
 my mind in a remarkable manner. 
 
 A .short time ago a note was .sent me by a 
 gentleman, wlio begged that I would meet 
 him at a certain hotel, as he had something 
 of importance to communioite. At the 
 appointed hour I went to the hotel, and on 
 my arrival a gentleman came forward, shook 
 my hands most cordially, and conducted me 
 to a private room. I felt not a little sur- 
 prised and puzzled, and the more so as I had 
 no recollection of ever having seen that face 
 befoi-e ; but, noticing my embnissment, he 
 said, "Oh, you don't recognise mo! and, in- 
 deed, how should you ? for the circumstance 
 under which I made your acquaintance is 
 anything but plea.sant, at least, for you, al- 
 though I shall have reason to bless God for 
 it to all eternity." He then proceeded to 
 speak as follows : " I was an eyewitness of 
 the scene that occurred in Oettingen three 
 yeai-s ago ; I felt grieved at what took place, 
 but could not prevent it. One of your lost 
 books 1 picked up, and looking into it, found 
 it to be a New Testament. 1 put it in my 
 pocket, and when I reached home pulled it 
 out again, and whether inquisitivene.ss or a 
 vague desire to know what Christians be- 
 lieved was the inciting motive, I know not, 
 but I began to read it. The part I ofiened 
 w:us the Kpistle to the Romans, and I did not 
 cease reading till i had finished it. I felt 
 struck, and I may say, overpowered, with 
 the divine sublimity of its doetiines, and I 
 resolved to begin at the very beginning ; but 
 I had not gone far when I dLscovered that 
 the Author of that Book must have l)een 
 something more than a mere man, for no 
 human being has ever taught .such lofty 
 truths, exhibited such God-like compas-sioii, 
 and lived a life of such unsullied purity. I 
 felt eharmeil, captivated, and subdued, and 
 then very serious thoughts began to trouble 
 my mind. My wife noticed my altered 
 appeirance, .and urged me to tell her the 
 cau.se of it. .She watched me closely, and 
 one evening she surprised me whil.st I was 
 reading and meditating upon the great 
 Truths before me. The whole now became 
 plain to her, and with tears in her eyes she 
 eutieated me to deliver up the book to her. 
 I felt most leluctant to give it, and for a 
 time firmly refu.sed to do so; but at la.st, 
 overcome by her passionate appeals, I yielded 
 and gave it into her hands. For two years 
 the precious volume was secreted somewhere, 
 and efforts to lind it were in vain. It was 
 not till God interposed, and that in most 
 fearful judgment, that I recovered it. My 
 dear wife, after a long and painful illness,
 
 206 
 
 Memories of Gospel TriwmYjhs amonr/ the Jews. 
 
 was taken from me, and left me and four 
 children to mourn her loss ; and then it was 
 that I discovered my treasure carefully hid 
 away in one of her drawers. I now began 
 to study its sacred pages once more, but with 
 a heightened interest and with greater con- 
 cern to know the Truth ; and it was during 
 this second reading that it pleased the Lord 
 to make Himself known to me in all the 
 glory of His Person and in all the greatness 
 of His love, showing me my own guilt and 
 depravity, liut also the depth of His com- 
 jiassion and the yearnings of His heart over 
 mj' helpless state. I prostrated myself before 
 Him, and cried, ' Lord, take me as I am ! for 
 I will from henceforth be Thine, and Thine 
 only.'" 
 
 I am happy to add that the individual who 
 thus introduced himself to me has given good 
 proof of his true diseipleship, and his only 
 desire now is publicly to acknowledge his 
 love and iidelity to the Lord Jesus. I need 
 not say how my heart bounded with joy and 
 gratitude on hearing his interesting story, 
 and I could not helji falling on my knees to 
 bless God, and to ask that He would be the 
 guide and counsellor of my new friend and 
 brother in all his future ways. 
 
 IL 
 
 A Jew's conversion, persecution, and 
 
 RECOGNITION. 
 
 A few days ago, a gentlem.an of the 
 oriental type entered my study, exclaiming, 
 " Blessed be God that I have found you at 
 last !" I looked at him with open eyes, and 
 scanned his features closely, but could not 
 recollect ever having seen him before. 
 
 " What, not know me ?" he asked, " when 
 I have to thank you, under God, for all my 
 present happiness ! " He took hold of my 
 hands, drew me to the window, and said, 
 " Now, look at me again, and perhaps some 
 remembrance of me will dawn upon your 
 mind." 
 
 But no ; I could not recall one of his 
 features. Then he said, somewhat disap- 
 pointed, '• I should not have thought that 
 you would so soon ha^e forgotten me, though 
 it must be five-and-twenty years or moie 
 since we last met, and no doubt j-ou 
 thought me dead and gone ; I knew you 
 again the instant I .saw you, though time 
 has made its changes in your looks. Well, 
 if you can't recognize my face, perhaps you 
 may remember my name V 
 
 The moment his name was uttered, a 
 deeply interesting and affecting story 
 recurred to me. And now I must beg yon 
 to accompany me to Bristol, where, twenty- 
 five or twenty-six years ago, I first made the 
 acquaintance of my visitor. 
 
 One day, a young man rushed into my 
 room, in a state of high excitement, and, 
 without the least provocation on mv part, 
 began to abuse me in the most outrageous 
 manner, and explained his violence by saying 
 that he felt indignant at me for having for- 
 saken the God of my fathers, and brought 
 shame and reproach on our nation. " You," 
 he said, " the son of a rabbi ! Shame, 
 eternal shame on you !" 
 
 " Will you !" I asked him, " listen to my 
 reasons for becoming a Christian ?" 
 
 '■ Reasons ! " he retorted. " Can you 
 adduce any that will stand the light of God' 
 Truth , or in any way justify your denying the 
 God of Israel ? " 
 
 Having obtained his promi.se that he would 
 listen, I began to unfold the way of salvation 
 as revealed in the Law and the Prophets ; 
 but when I came to speak upon the 53rd of 
 Isaiah, he again went into a fearful rage, 
 declaring that that chapter was either inter- 
 polated, or rendered so as best to serve our 
 pui-poses. Upon this I told him to bring his 
 own, orany other Bible, and if, on comparing 
 the two it was found that I had quoted any 
 thing which was not part of the inspired 
 Word, I would renounce my faith and return 
 to Judaism. 
 
 This declaration greatly gratified my op- 
 ponent, and he left me with a triumphant 
 smile, promising to call again the following 
 day. But great was my surprise when, in 
 the evening of the same day, he made his 
 appearance, bringing in his arm an old, well- 
 worn Bible, telling me that he could not 
 wait for the next day, and he would be glad 
 to begin our comparison at once. We did 
 so, and when we came near the end, the 
 young man's countenance grew paler and 
 paler, his self-confidence forsook him, and he 
 evidently underwent a fearful mental 
 htruggle. He sat brooding and contem- 
 plating for nearly half-an-hour, and then rose 
 up to go, saying that he felt so overpowered 
 with the result of the comparison that he 
 could add nothing more now, but would 
 quietly reflect upon it at home. 
 
 For three days I saw no more of him, but 
 early in the morning of the fourth day he 
 came, looking exceedingly pale and agitated, 
 and as if he had been borne down bv a load
 
 The Rev. Philij, Jap.. 
 
 207 
 
 of care. On my inqniiing how he was, he sur- 
 prised iiie witli a confession which thrilled 
 my heart with joy. " Fi'om this day," he 
 solemnly declared, " the despised Nazai'cne 
 shall be my Saviour and my King." 
 
 The oftener he read that 53rd of Isaiah, 
 he said, the stronger the conviction grew 
 upon him, that our view of it could be the 
 only right one, and as he eagerly examined 
 the Psalms and the Propliets, he was over- 
 whelmed with a sense of the harmony that 
 existed between the attributes ascribed to 
 the Messiah there and those which we claim 
 for Jesus of Nazareth. " God only knows," 
 he said, " what a fearful struggle I have 
 passed tlirongh in these last tlnee days : how 
 I have wrestled with God in pi'ayer for 
 divine light, and how my mind gradually 
 became calmed down by an influence which I 
 never felt before. I have counted the cost, 
 and am ready to take up the cross." 
 
 I must here observe that our friend was a 
 native of Poland, he had been destined for a 
 Rabbi, was a thorough Hebi'ew and Rabbi- 
 nical scholar, and had left his home on 
 account of the conscription. He now placed 
 hiuiself under regular instruction, and it was 
 delightful to see with what eagerness he 
 drank in the words of Truth. He was 
 thoroughly in earnest, and though storms of 
 persecution began to beat against him, he 
 was not for a moment shaken in his purpose. 
 
 It was about five or six weeks after, when 
 one Saturday evening our friend came to me 
 in a most fearful state ; his clothes torn from 
 his body, several of his front teeth knocked 
 out, and the blood streaming out of his 
 mouth. I asked what had happened, and he 
 gave me the following account : — 
 
 " In the morning the Jewish teacher had 
 sent to ask whether he would not come to 
 him in the afternoon for a religious discus- 
 sion. He consented. When he came to the 
 place appointed for it, he found a number of 
 Jews collected, who received him with 
 taunts, but not taking any notice of this, he 
 began a religious dispute, in which all 
 present took part. After awhile they began 
 to insult and curse him, and as he bravely 
 stood his ground, they were infui-iated to 
 such a degree that, forgetting themselves, 
 they fell upon him and maltreated him in 
 tbis brutal manner." 
 
 I hastened to a friend in the ministry, a 
 gi-eat advocate of the Jewish cause, and to 
 an excellent Christian man, who was magis- 
 trate at the time, to ask how I was to act 
 under the circumstances, and, after weighing 
 
 thematter well, they both decided to let it 
 re.st, as they thought any legal interference 
 might only increase the ill-feeling. 
 
 On my return home, I told our brother 
 this decision, and upon hearing it he said, in 
 a spirit of great meekness and humility, 
 that he would with all his heart forgive his 
 persecutors, and show them how a believing 
 Jew could sufler for Christ's sake. 
 
 The two following days oin- brother came 
 to me as usual, and then he mysteriously 
 disappeared, and I saw nothing more of him 
 till a few days ago. As you may suppose, I 
 felt very deeply concerned for him, and made 
 every possible inquiry about him, but all to 
 no puipose ; only on the Jewish countenances 
 
 THE KECOGNITIiiX. 
 
 I cc-aid see a triumphant smile, which left no 
 doubt on my mind that they knew more 
 about the alTair than they were willing to 
 own. 
 
 And now let us hear his own account as 
 to his mysterious disappearance. "When I 
 left your house," he relates, "two of my 
 brethren joined me not far from it, and it 
 seemed to me as if they had been waiting 
 for me. They talked veiy kindly to me, and 
 expressed themselves very strongly against 
 the cruel conduct of their co-religionists. 
 When we arrived near my lodgings, I wanted 
 to leave them, but they urged me to accom- 
 pany them a short distance further, I little 
 guessing the plot that was laid for me. We
 
 208 
 
 Mfimorirs of Goftjtd Trlu mjiliK 
 
 II I fhe Jews. 
 
 now reached thp r.iihviiy st:\tion. wlien two 
 other Jews came up to us, .■inil after some 
 talk, they asked me whether I sliould Hke 
 to leave Bristol, as they would be willing 
 to assist me in every way. I toLl them I 
 had no intention ot' leaving, though I felt 
 obliged for their offer of assistance. Upon 
 hearing this, they told me, in a very stern 
 and determined tone, that I must leave, 
 and if I was not willing, they would make 
 me so. ' You lia^e been,' one of the party 
 said, 'a great oflence to us; and your re- 
 maining here may involve us in trouble; 
 we have, therefore, decided that you must 
 leave, and we possess the means of making 
 you go.' I protested against being forced 
 to leave, but all was of no use, and I was 
 so bewildered that I scarcely knew what to 
 do. There was a train just about to start, 
 and before I knew how, I found myself in 
 a railway carriage, with one of the Jews 
 who joined us at the station, by my side. 
 I made a last desperate eflbrt to escape, but 
 was held fast with an iron grasp, and threat- 
 ened that it would cost me my life if I made 
 another attempt to get away. We travelled 
 all night and the following day, till we came 
 to a large town, which, I was told, was Liver- 
 pool. Heie I was conducted by my tra\el- 
 ling companion to a Jewish lodging, where I 
 was kept like a prisoner for three days, and 
 then, to niy great astonishment, was told, that 
 on the following day I was to sail for America, 
 and that everything was already ordered and 
 prepared for my voyage. I was so helpless 
 that I let them do with me whatever they 
 pleased, but my hope and confidence that 
 God would somehow or other interfere for 
 me did not forsake me. In a little more 
 than three weeks after this I was landed at 
 New York, a perfect stranger, knowing very 
 little of the language, and what was still 
 wor.se, destitute of all means. Everything 
 seemed dark ))efore me, and despair was 
 staring me in the face, when, just as my 
 misery had reached its greatest height, God 
 mercifully raised up friends, in an excellent 
 German Christian family, who did all in 
 their power to raise me both physically and 
 spiritually, and through their loving etibrts, 
 others interested themselves so much on my 
 behalf that before six months had passed, I 
 
 had a business of my own. At this time I 
 dedicated myself fully to the ],ord Jesu.s, in 
 baptism, and the Lord was with me, and 
 prospered me exceedingly, filling me with all 
 peace and joy in believing. I am now what 
 you may call a rich man, but far greater are 
 the riches of the grace that has been given 
 me. I am also mariied, and have been 
 blessed with a laige familj', in which the 
 Lord Jesus is loved and honoured. I have 
 written you two letters, but received no 
 reply, and concluded that you had left 
 Bristol, and that they did not reach you. I 
 have made several continental business tours, 
 and it is on business that I am now here, and 
 fancy what was my surprise and joy when I 
 accidentally heard your name mentioned in 
 connection with one of our brethren, I 
 believe a teacher, whom you have lately 
 baptized, and I could not rest till I found 
 you out, and here I am, delighted and happy 
 beyond measure, to see your face again." 
 
 I need not say that my delight was not 
 less, and the three days our brother remained 
 here were days of unspeakable happiness to 
 me. 
 
 HIS TRIUMPHANT DEPARTURE. 
 
 At the age of sixty- two Mr. Jaflfe was 
 called to labour in Hamburg, where he had 
 the joy of baptizing first a Jewess and next 
 a Jew. And then his work was done, for 
 soon after this he was seized with a painful 
 and fatal illne.ss. On November 22nd, 1887, 
 when nearly sixty-three yeais of age, he 
 passed up to a mansion in the New Jeru- 
 salem, Doxopolis — the city of celestial 
 brightness, the abode of endless bliss. 
 
 " Calm on the bo.som of thy God, 
 Fair Spirit ! rest thee now ! 
 E'en while with onrs thy footsteps trod, 
 His seal was on thy brow. 
 
 Dn.st to its narrow house beneath ! 
 
 Soul to its place on high ! 
 They that have seen thy look in deatli, 
 
 No more may fear to die.'' 
 
 Anil I heard a voice from Heaven, saying: "Write. 
 Blessed are the dead who die in I lie Lord from 
 henceforth ; yea, saith the Spirit, that they may 
 rest from their labours, for their works follow with 
 them."' — Rev. xiv., 1^.
 
 ^4 Clv.ster of First Fruits. 
 
 209 
 
 A CLUSTER OF FIRST FRUITS. 
 
 DURING the first few years of the 
 Society's existence the Missionaries 
 were constantly engaged in Christian inter- 
 course with the Jews ; they were received 
 with civility, and in many instances listened 
 to with deep attention while with sim- 
 plicity and holy earnestness they invariably 
 unfolded the Truth as it is in Jesus, and 
 urged its importance on the heart and 
 conscience. 
 
 The Word of God and evangelical tracts 
 ■were extensively circulated, they were read 
 in Jewish homes, and preserved by Jewish 
 travellers in their wanderings, made the 
 subjects of Jewish inquiry, and further sup- 
 plies of them were entreated. 
 
 A spirit of fervent, believing intercession 
 for Israel was far more widely diffused, and 
 a lovelier temper towards them cherished 
 among Christians of every denomination ; 
 and this with a view to no sectarian object, 
 but to the glory of God and the salvation of 
 His ancient people. 
 
 Amid many instances which justified the 
 hope that conscience had been awakened, and 
 the heait savingly impres.sed, there were 
 some of a very decided character. 
 
 I. 
 
 A young Israelite of respectable parent- 
 age, wandering through this countrj- without 
 anv definite object, attracted the attention of 
 some pious females, who first told him of 
 Christ. He obtained and read the 8ci-iptures ; 
 conscience was alarmed, and for nine months 
 he was in a state of great spiritual distress. 
 In prayer he found relief, and, under the 
 affectionate tuition of one of our missionaries, 
 he was taught the Truth, and by gi-ace 
 introduced to a way which he knew not, and 
 in which he walked with f^teadfastness and 
 holy joy. After needful training, he became 
 a successful Missionary of the Society. 
 
 II. 
 
 Another, iu somewhat similar circum- 
 stances, having had his mind partially 
 enlightened, was introduced to the .same 
 Jlissionary, who taught Lim the way of the 
 Lord more perfectly. Many entreaties and 
 many threats were addressed to him to induce 
 
 his return home ; appeals were made to his 
 tenderest feelings is a son and a brothei- ; but 
 he was decided for Christ, and preferred a 
 very laborious occupation as a follower of 
 Jesus to all the comforts which would have 
 surrounded him had he returned to the reli- 
 gious views in which he had been brought 
 up. He was baptized, admitted to a Chris- 
 tian church, and adorned his profession. 
 
 III. 
 
 Another, after being educated in the prin- 
 ciples of Jewish orthodoxy, was exposed to 
 the influence of infidel association and prac- 
 tice, and became regardless of all religion and 
 the servant of sin. Through various scenes 
 on the continent of Europe, and with the 
 French army, he pursued his ungodly course, 
 until God in mercy laid the rod of affliction 
 heavily upon him, and sent to him the mes- 
 sage of salvation by the lips of our missionary. 
 He received the Truth in the love of it, and 
 both in health and in much bodily affliction 
 he manifested its power and enjoyed its 
 consolations. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Omitting other cases equally interesting, 
 we would refer to that of an Israelite in 
 respectable circumstances who, when first 
 visited by the missionary, knew not and 
 .sought no>, the way of salvation ; and if he 
 had hopes, built them on the sand. It 
 pleased God to open his ears to the Truth. 
 He felt himself a sinner, read the New 
 Testament ; and. " as he read," said the 
 Missionary, " his faith became confirmed ; he 
 saw fresh beauty in the Mosaic dispensation, 
 though it was now clear to him that it had 
 given place to a brighter and better, and 
 that the Messiah, the consummation of all, 
 had appeared, as was prophesied of Him. 
 In this state, but increasing in light, he con- 
 tinued for some time as a secret disciple, hav- 
 ing his soul firmly fixed on the Rock of his 
 salvation ; until God, in His infinite wisdom, 
 saw fit to call His new-born son to His 
 heavenly inheritance. He endured the 
 suffering of several weeks with the most 
 perfect resignation to his heavenly Father's 
 will, and frequently conversed with me
 
 210 
 
 Memones of Gospel Trium-phs amonrf the Jews. 
 
 clieerfully, though in prospect of a speedy tlis- 
 sohition. ' I know that my Eedeemer liveth ' 
 was his favourite quotation. Even in his 
 last moments he clasped my hand, and en- 
 deavoured to repeat the passage ; but when 
 he had only uttered the words, ' I know,' his 
 strength failed. They were his last words, 
 and in a few minutes after his spirit Hed. I 
 had never seen death before. May my last 
 end be like his ! " 
 
 The British Society, the Mother of 
 the Netherland Society. 
 
 On October 20th, 184G, our friend, :Mr. 
 Vos, of Amsterdam, wrote : — 
 
 " The following day we attended the 
 meeting, when, after the discussion of one 
 or two topics, the establishment of a 
 Netherland Society for the Propagation of 
 the Gospel among the Jews was proposed by 
 Dr. Capadose; the motion was generally 
 well received. We have made final 
 arrangements with Dr. Da Costa, who has 
 agreed to take the oversight of Cohen, with 
 the help of the Committee which is to be 
 formed in connection with their own Society. 
 The Rev. Mr. Jamieson, the episcopal 
 minister at Amsterdam, is very kind to 
 Cohen, and we may expect the co-operation 
 of Christian friends m Holland. I think it 
 cause for joy that the exertions of our 
 Society should have stirred up the Dutch to 
 wipe away the stain of national indifl'erence 
 towards the Jews." 
 
 LETTERS FROM DR. CAPADCSE. 
 
 ..." I avow to you, very dear friends, 
 that your zeal, your ardent desire to be 
 useful to the children of Abraham, have 
 awakened in me a very deep and lively 
 emotion ; you have excited in me a holy 
 jealousy. No ! I cannot suffer that this 
 shame should remain upon tlie Christians of 
 Holland, that it should be our brethren of 
 England who pray, work, and send forth 
 labourers into Holland, while we content 
 ourselves with seeing you in action. We 
 must absolutely wipe off this disgrace. We 
 hope to be able to announce to you that all is 
 in activity amongst us in this respect ; every 
 month we shall have a prayer meeting for 
 Israel, a colporteur will be employed Ijy our- 
 selves, and I beg you to aid us by your 
 counsels, your prayers, j-our tracts, in order 
 that our little Society scarcely born may 
 increase." 
 
 . . Our prayer meetings are held 
 regularly in several towns ; the distributing 
 of Billies continues as well as that of ti-acts. 
 The .Jews are greatly excited by the rabbis, 
 who have denounced in the synagogue both 
 ourselves and our work. We continue to 
 pray boldly, looking upwards to Him who 
 can alone open the heart. The field must be 
 sown before the fruits of harvest can be 
 reaped. We have begun schools for Jewish 
 children, and this very day my heart has 
 been deeply aflected in listening to Christian 
 hymns sung by Jewish children. The num- 
 ber is very small at present, but my experi- 
 ence has taught me that all that comes from 
 God has a career somewhat like that of the 
 Son of God Himself, whose humiliation pre- 
 ceded His glory. " Through the cross to the 
 crown ! through the combat to the victory ! " 
 The grain of seed has in it a principle of life 
 which extends and developes itself. 
 
 How rejoiced I have been in seeing the 
 blessings which God grants to your Society ! 
 May He multiply them much more ! I pray 
 that He may grant us to love each other as 
 brethren, and to sustain each other by fer- 
 vent prayers. Believe in the attachment of 
 your brother in the faith — C.\padose. 
 
 INCIDENT HELATED BY DR. CAPADOSE. 
 
 " The Jews sometimes display a lofty prin- 
 ciple, which shows that the Divine light 
 exists among them, although frequently con- 
 cealed by the old incrustations of Rabbinical 
 institutions. In my own family an interest- 
 ing and characteristic incident occurred. My 
 worthy grandfather was a man of great 
 sensibility and a warm heart, but easQy 
 excited to wrath. He had a brother, whom 
 he dearly loved. One day they fell into a 
 dispute, and each returned to liis home in 
 anger. This happened on a Friday. As the 
 evening drew near, my good grandmother, 
 who was another Martha, full of activity, 
 began to make preparations for the Sabbath- 
 day. ' Come, dear Joseph,' she exclaimed, 
 ' the night is approaching ; come and light 
 the Sabbath lamp.' But he, full of sadness 
 and anguish, continued to walk up and down 
 the room. His good wife spoke again in 
 anxiety. ' See, the stars are already shining 
 in the firmament of the Lord, and our Sab- 
 bath lamp is not yet lighted.' Then my 
 gi-andfather took his hat and cane, and, 
 evidently much troubled, hastened out of the 
 house. But in a few moments he returned, 
 with tears of joy in his eyes. ' Now, dear 
 Rebecca,' he exclaimed, ' now I am ready.'
 
 The Star// of ilw Uoiivcrnioii. of a Jew. 
 
 211 
 
 He repeated his prayer, and with gladness 
 lighted the Sabliath lamp. Then he related 
 the dispute which occurred in the morning, 
 adding, ' I could not pray and light my lamp 
 before becoming reconciled with my brother 
 Isaac' ' But how did you manage to do it 
 so soon ? ' ' Oh,' he replied, ' Isaac had been 
 as much troubled as I was ; he could not 
 begin the Sabbath either without becoming 
 reconciled with me. So we met in the street ; 
 he was coming to me and I was going to him, 
 and we ran to each other's arms and wept.'" 
 This anecdote may be regarded as a window 
 through which we may see not only the for- 
 
 giving spirit of two unconverted Jews, but 
 also the beautiful spirit which animated Dr. 
 Capadose himself, one of the noblest of 
 Christian Israelites, who aimed at nothing 
 less than complete conformity to Christ, who 
 loved all mankind, and while enduring the 
 agony of the cross, exclaimed, " Father, 
 forgive them." 
 
 Dr. Capadose, of the Hague, and Dr. Da 
 Costa, of Amsterdam, both of them alike 
 distinguished Hebrew Christians, were corres- 
 ponding members of the Committee of the 
 British Society, and the founders of the 
 " Netheiland Society of Friends to Israel." 
 
 THE STORY OF THE CONVERSION OP A JEW. 
 
 By a FniKND to Israkl. 
 
 THE following narrative of the conversion 
 of a Jew may be taken as the pattern 
 of the conversion of thousands bi'ought about 
 by the instrumentality of the British Society 
 during the last fifty years. 
 
 It was in the month of July ; there had 
 been a brilliant day, during which the reajjers 
 had been busily engaged in cutting down the 
 golden crops with which the fields were 
 richly laden ; but now the In hours of the 
 husbandman were over, and the sun, which 
 had been shining without a cloud, was sink- 
 ing below the horizon. As I was walking 
 slowly down a beautiful country lane, was 
 enjoying the evening calm, and listening 
 to the little warblers who were to be seen 
 here and there winging their way and lifting 
 up their voice to celebrate their Maker's 
 praise, I began to picture to myself the scene 
 of rejoicing v^hen the proclamation is made 
 that the harvest of the world is ripe, and the 
 angels thrust in their sickle to gather into 
 the heavenly garner all the precious souls 
 which have ripened under the genial influences 
 of the Sun of righteousness. 
 
 Aj3 I went on the old parish church came 
 into view, standing a little to my left ; it 
 was surrounded by gravestones, manj' of 
 them bearing the impress of age, and I 
 thought of the number.s who were slumber- 
 ing in the dust, who, like the corn, had. been 
 cut down never more to rise till time shall 
 end, but who at the last day will be like the 
 grain which had been sown beneatli the dust 
 of the earth, only to spiing forth into new- 
 ness of life. 
 
 WhOst these thoughts were occupying my 
 mind, the heavens had become black with 
 
 clouds, and a storm was evidently at hand. 
 The rain soon came down in torrents, the 
 darting flash of lighting dazzled the eye, 
 and the thunder clap that followed was loud 
 and long. My musings were over, and I 
 hastened for shelter to the porch of the 
 sacred building where several had already 
 taken refuge ; indeed, it was a frequent 
 resort in times of storm, and many a 
 traveller had also found it refreshing to 
 rest there for a while when his strength 
 was well-nigh exhausted by the length of 
 his walk and the heat of the sun. 
 
 Amongst the number of those whom I 
 found collected here, was a man of reverential 
 appearance and oriental costume. I could 
 easily discover that he was of that ancient 
 race whose countenances bespeak their 
 ancestry, and who call to our recollection 
 Egypt and Canaan, Samuel and David, 
 prophets and priests, Jesus and his apostles. 
 Being anxious to know more of him, I intro- 
 duced myself as a friend to the Jews, and as 
 one who was in the constant habit of reading 
 Moses and the Prophets. I soon found that 
 his views were different from what I antici- 
 pated, for he freely spoke of the new 
 covenant made with Abraham, leiterated to 
 Isaac and to Jacob, and fulfilled in the 
 person of Jesus Chiist. On my speaking of 
 God's dealings with His people, with the view 
 of eliciting his experience, he said : 
 
 " I was born in , of Jewish parents, 
 
 who early taught me to value the precepts 
 which were given to our foiefathers, whU.st, 
 on their way to Canaan, they were 
 wanderers in an uninhabited land. I grew up 
 believing the study of the law as set forth by 
 
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 212 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 the Rabbis to be the most honourable of .ill 
 employments, the most conducive to the gloiy 
 of God, and the best mode of making com- 
 pensation for the sins to which my nature 
 made me prone, and which I found to cling 
 to me, even when engaged in religious duties, 
 but I have since learned that there is nothing 
 vital in rabbinism, and that, had I strictly 
 observed all its ordinances, my soul would 
 have remained nncleansed ; I could never thus 
 have been justified before God. Had he 
 called me to account whilst in that state, how 
 naked and vile must I have appeared in his 
 sight ! But now the robe of my lledeemer's 
 righteousness is my covering, and my sins are 
 washed away by His blood. ' Oh, to grace how 
 great a debtor ! " Befoie, however, this change 
 took place, I felt dissatisfied with myself, and 
 sought to my blind leaders for dii-ection, 
 and to a still more diligent observance 
 of the traditions of the fathers for comfort. 
 Failing in my obseivances as well as in the 
 perfoimance of penances enjoined by those 
 to whom I had applied for counsel, my 
 feelings of dissatisfaction incr'eased, and I 
 began to think that there was somethinij; 
 wanting in order to trne religion which I 
 had never yet found. My dilemma ui:iy be 
 bettei- conceived than described, for I had 
 to contend both with a mind awakened to a 
 consciousness of its own evil tendencifs and 
 with the rebukes and I'emonstrances of my 
 parent for allowing myself to give way to 
 such agitating thoughts. In these circum- 
 stances I began to indulge a secret inclina- 
 tion to listen to the repeated entreaties of a 
 dear C'hiistian friend to search into the 
 Truth of his religion ; the prejudices of the 
 Jew now rose up, and I feared lest I should 
 be tempted to forsake the religion of my 
 people, and so incur the displeasure of an 
 angry God. On further thought I felt 
 jjersuaded that I could soon detect the false- 
 hood of Christianity, and prove that all 
 which is said in its favour is without any 
 solid foundation. With these feelings I 
 secured a little time for solitude, and for the 
 first time in my life opened the New Tes^a- 
 ment. I felt an indescribable chill running 
 through my veins when I came to the name 
 of Jesus ; this, however, subsided, and find- 
 ing nothing to enable me at once to prove it 
 an imposture, I continued its perusah I 
 was startled by the miracles which it 
 records, but attributed them to the know- 
 ledge which Jesus had acquiied of Cabbalah 
 or mystic science. Soon, however, other 
 sentiments took possession of my mind, and 
 
 I began to think of Jesus in .i very different 
 light fi'om what I had hitherto done. I 
 reasoned thus with myself : ' Here is a man 
 devoting himself to the welfare of his fellow- 
 creatures, willing to live poor and needy that 
 he may perform acts of benevolence, and yet 
 receiving scorn and contempt in return. 
 Surely mere human nature could never have 
 borne the weight of oppression and cruelty 
 that was heaped upon him.' I now became 
 more reconciled to and familiar with the 
 language of the New Testament, and began 
 to regard Jesus as a very praiseworthy 
 character. From this I was led to study, in 
 connexion with it, the prophecies of His 
 sufferings and death ; Christ at length gained 
 the victory and became my Lord and 
 Saviour." 
 
 The storm had now subsided, the evening 
 calm was restored, and all nature round 
 appealed to be refreshed. I was reminded of 
 the varying experience of the Christian : his 
 soul is now darkened by the clouds of un- 
 belief and despondency, or he is, perhaps, 
 tossed to and fro by the raging billows of 
 temptation, which threaten speedy destruc- 
 tion ; but presently the clouds disperse, the 
 billows cease to rage, and the beams of his 
 heavenly Father's countenance shine forth ; in 
 the light of which he is enabled to rejoice 
 with a joy unspeakable and full of glory. 
 
 The rain ceasing, our little company, who 
 had been listening with apparent interest to 
 the statements of my Jewish friend, began to 
 separate, and as he also was anxious to be on 
 his way, being unwilling to lose what I con- 
 sidered the substance, or core, of his history, 
 1 asked permission to accompany him part of 
 his journej', which he granted, and then 
 continued his narrative. 
 
 " I now saw it my duty, in obedience to the 
 ordinance of the Lord Jesus, to make a pro- 
 fession of my faith, and to submit to the rite 
 of baptism ; this led to an inward struggle, 
 for my family had expressed their determi- 
 nation to banish me from their presence and 
 house if I even continued to inquire concern- 
 ing the Truth of Christianity ; and I could 
 not be unaware that they would carry their 
 determination into immediate effect should 
 I make a public pi'ofession. 
 
 " The thought of banishment from those 
 whom I tenderly loved I felt to be over- 
 whelming, but then the words came into my 
 mind, " He that loveth father or mother 
 more than me, is not worthy of me." 1 said 
 to myself, Oh that ] had never been born 
 a Jew, that I had been the ofispring of
 
 The Story of the Conversion of a Jeiv. 
 
 213 
 
 Christian parents ; how should I have valued 
 the privilege ! and then, moreover, I should 
 have escaped the trouble and anxiety which 
 are now coming upon me. Still I felt that 
 Jesus must be obeyed and followed where- 
 soever He leads, be it through prosperity or 
 adversity, trial or temptation, sorrow or joy, 
 for I could not receive Him as my Lord with- 
 out doing the things which He says ; and I 
 was much comforted and encouraged by the 
 promise, ' When my father and mother 
 forsake me, then the Lord will take me up." 
 Thus strengthened, I determined to go for- 
 ward, and to conquer through Him who will 
 be more to me than all earthly good ; but 
 the resolution was made in my own strength, 
 and soon gave way before the power of the 
 enemy, and I sank into a state of supineness, 
 in which I learned my own utter helpless- 
 ness. I had, indeed, resolved to do all in the 
 strength of the Lord, but soon found I had 
 not placed in Him that full confidence which 
 leads the mind to look habitually to the 
 Strong for strength. Deeply feeling my 
 weakness, I was led at length afi-esh to the 
 throne of grace, and I asked for renewed 
 strength, while I inquired, as I had often 
 done before, 'Lord, what wilt thou have me 
 to do ? " The words of Scripture now came 
 to my heart with irresistible power, "Arise, 
 and be bapti/.od.' 
 
 " My anxiety is not to be described. The 
 time had evidently arrived when a public 
 profe.ssion of Christianity was indispen.sable, 
 if I would bs indeed a disciple of Jesus, and 
 be establishod in the faith. Fully convinced 
 of my duty, I v.'ent to the Christian friend to 
 whom I have already referred, and told him 
 the circumstances in which I was placed. 
 He entered into my feelings, repeated many 
 of our Lord's injunctions with regard to 
 stedfastness, and urged the importance of my 
 declaring my faith to the church and to the 
 world. It was a critical moment ; my state 
 of mind was such as none can fully realize 
 but those who have exjierienced it. He who 
 searches the heart and trieth the reins was 
 almost the only one who knew of my faith 
 in Jesus ; for unlike my brethren of old, of 
 whom it was said, ' this people draweth nigh 
 unto me with their mouth, while their hearts 
 are far from me," my heart was with Him, 
 though my tongue seemed unwilling to con- 
 fess it. But, on reading the account of 
 Philip and the eunuch, the words ' What 
 doth hinder ? ' seemed a rebuke directed to 
 me from above, and I now resolved no longer 
 to stand aloof from the comforts of the 
 
 Gospel, which are only ours while in the 
 path of obedience, and through Divine 
 assistance, to stand or fall under the banner 
 of Christ, and to be ready to suffer, if called 
 to it, for His name's sake. 
 
 " After this I took the first opportunity of 
 communicating my wish to an esteemed 
 minister, who for some time had taken an 
 interest in my welfare, and under whose 
 instructions I had been gradually taught the 
 doctrines of Him whose name I once regarded 
 with abomination, but whom I now saw to 
 be the chief among ten thousand, and alto- 
 gether lovely. The day and hour were in 
 due time fixed for the administration of the 
 sacred ordinance ; and when they came, I 
 was enabled, before a large assembly, to 
 declare what the Lord had done for my soul, 
 and how He had opened mine eyes to see my 
 danger, and had enabled me to flee to the 
 refuge, and escape the wrath to come. 
 
 " It was a solemn seasDn, a time which I 
 shall never forget, and a. stroke which, 
 though it severed me from kindred and 
 frien<ls, united me more closely to Jesus. 
 Being no longer ashamed of Him, I felt as I 
 never felt before my rehitionship to and 
 interest in Him. 
 
 " My parents and relatives became in- 
 creasingly dear to me, and my heart yearned 
 for their salvation ; no opportunity escaped 
 without my pointing them, through the types 
 and shadows of the Mosaic dispensation, to 
 Him who was to ' take away sin by the 
 sacrifice of Himself." On entering the room 
 one morning where they were sitting, I saw 
 indignation depicted in their countenances, 
 and soon discovered that some one had 
 informed them of my baptism, by their 
 asking me if it were not a false report. I 
 answered in the negative, and was proceeding 
 to explain the motives by which 1 had been 
 led to take such a step, when I was silenced 
 by my father, who rose from his seat, and 
 after bitter exclamations against Jesus and 
 His followers, rent his garment, and 
 addressed me in the most awful language, 
 giving me over to excommunication, and to be 
 hereafter considered as dead by every 
 member of the family ; at the same time he 
 assured me of his willingness to forgive and 
 to restore me to former parental love if I 
 would but recant. ^Nly mother, who all this 
 time had been repressing her emotion, now 
 burst forth into a flood of tears, following 
 tbeui with such expressions of .scorn and 
 contempt as my father had omitted, and yet 
 expressing hei- willingness to join with bun in
 
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 Memories of Gospel Tnitmphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 giving me again a welcome to the accus- 
 tomed share in her affections. The appeal 
 was overpowering ; if I had been possessed of 
 worlds, and the parting with them would 
 have mitigated tlieir grief, I could easily 
 have renounced them all. But my Saviour I 
 felt so precious, that it was impossible for me 
 to sacrifice His love for all the invitations and 
 promises of earthly parents. Finding that 
 they could not shake my attachment to 
 Jesus, and that they were unable to win me 
 back to what they termed the religion of my 
 fathers, they discarded me, and forbade my 
 ever entering into their presence again : but 
 amidst all, the grace of God proved my 
 support, and I bade adieu to kindred, and 
 to all that was dear to me in my 
 nati\'e country, counting it an honour to 
 suffer for Him who had done so much for 
 
 " From thence I tra\elled to 
 
 , whei'e I 
 
 settled for some time, and found many dear 
 Christian friends ; but circumstances proving 
 unfavourable to my continuance, I proceeded 
 
 to England. And here, having arrived at the 
 end of my journey, I must bid you 
 adieu, still, however, rejoicing in the faith- 
 fulne.ss of a covenant-keeping God, and 
 on a review of the path by which 
 I have been led, desiring to raise another 
 stone of Ebenezer to His praise. I leave you 
 with the full assurance that, saved by the 
 same precious blood, we shall again join each 
 other abo\e, and unite in the song of heaven, 
 ' Worthy is the Lamb.' " 
 
 I cannot describe the impression which 
 this simple n.nrrative of the dealings of God 
 with a Jewish heart produced on my own 
 mind. The Hebrew race stood out before me 
 as pre-eminently the object of Christian 
 sympathy and exertion ; and I was led both 
 to look back to the time when Zion and its 
 inhabitants were emphatically the joj" of 
 the whole earth, and forward to the predicted 
 day when Jerusalem shall again lift up its 
 head in glory and majesty, and boast of a 
 King whose sceptre is righteousness, and 
 whose government is peace. 
 
 =5R= 
 
 SIR CULLING EARDLEY EARDLEY, BART. 
 
 1843. 
 (With Portrait.) 
 
 SIR Cl'LLIXG EARDLEY EARDLEY, 
 Bart., was born on the 21st of April, 
 1805. 
 
 HIS JEWISH AND GENTILE DESCENT. 
 
 He was descended, on his mother's side, 
 from the Jewish family of Abudiente or 
 Gideon. The ancestors of Sampson Gideon 
 were the Abudientes of Hamburg and Lis- 
 bon, who were eminent as Talmudists and 
 Le.xicographers. 
 
 Sampson Gideon, jun., mai-ried a lady Vje- 
 longing to the Eardley family — a family 
 originally named Lefevre, then Smith, and 
 then Eardley. This distinguished family 
 came from France in the time of Elizabeth, 
 and settled at Hadley, in Middlesex. Mary 
 Eardley-Wilmot, a great aunt of Sir John 
 Eardley-Wilmot, became Sampson's wife, 
 from whom he derived his Gentile name and 
 many choice possessions. In 1802 he was 
 created a baronet, after having held an im- 
 portant Government appointment in India. 
 
 Sir Culling Eardley, the subject of our 
 sketch, was the only son of 'Sir Culling 
 Smith., (the second baronet), by Charlotte 
 Elizabeth, the second daughter and coheir 
 
 of Sir Sampson Gideon, afterwards Lord 
 Eardley. This title became extinct in 1824, 
 as his lordship left no son. In 1829, Sir 
 Culling Eardley succeeded to his father's 
 baronetcy, and became Sir Culling Eardley 
 Smith. " In 1847, on becoming the repre- 
 sentative of the Eardley family and the heir 
 to the Eardley estates in virtue of his mother's 
 right, he dropped the name of Smith, and, 
 by Royal permission, took the surname and 
 arms of Eardley. It is, to us, exceedingly in- 
 teresting that the distinguished Jew, Sampson 
 Gideon, the great stockbroker, who became 
 Sir Sampson Eardley, Bart., and then Lord 
 Eardley, the possessor of immense wealth, 
 landed estates and exquisite works of art, 
 was the grandfather of Sir Culling Eardley 
 Eardley, Bart., who was the esteemed 
 Treasurer of the British Society for the Pro- 
 p.agation of the Gospel among the Jews, and 
 one of the founders and the first President of 
 The Evangelical Alliance. His Jewish descent 
 was to him a reason for devout gratitude to 
 God, which expressed itself in connection 
 with the British Society and the Evangelical 
 Alliance in prayerful, practical .sympathy 
 right (m to the very close of his earthly life.
 
 Sir CvMiiKj Eiirdkjj Eardlcy, Bart, 
 
 21;
 
 Sir Cidling Eardlcy Enrdlen, Bart. 
 
 217 
 
 HIS FIRST SCHOOLS. 
 
 He was educated first at Eton, and then 
 at Oriel College, Oxford. Before the passing 
 of the Reform Bill, he sought and obtained 
 Parliamentary honoui's. He represented 
 Pontefract, but it was only for a very short 
 time. His subsequent political defeats we 
 regard as triumphs, inasmuch as they pre- 
 pared the way for his entire consecration to 
 tiie highest objects of life. 
 
 HIS MARRIAGE AND MOTTO. 
 
 The marriage of Sir Culling Eardley with 
 Isabella, daughter of Thomas Carr, Esq., 
 took place on tlie 9th February, 1832, and 
 was followed by the happiest results. Both 
 gave themselves to the Lord who had given 
 Himself for them, and then to the further- 
 ance of His cause among Jews and Gentiles 
 throughout the world. The motto of the 
 Eardley family,* Noii, nohis solum (" Not for 
 ourselves alone ") was adopted as the law of 
 their Christian life. This is the law of the 
 material, and ought to be the law of the 
 spiritual universe. 
 
 " A system of bounties and reciprocal ser- 
 vices runs through all this chain of creatures. 
 It is not for the good of the clay that its 
 nourishing principles are elaborated. It is 
 turning what earth and heaven have given 
 it into uses for powers higher up. It is not 
 the grasses that need the seeds of grasses to 
 live upon. It is not the flax that needs 
 either linen or linseed oil. It prepares the 
 material of the one and the other. Not for 
 ourselves. Apple trees do not eat apples. 
 Cotton bushes do not wear muslin. The 
 eucalyptus does not dread malaria. The tea 
 plant or the cofTee plant need no nerve stimu- 
 lant. Rose bushes seek no pleasure in red 
 or white, in exquisite forms or sweet odours. 
 From the moss up to the mighty trees every 
 plant reaches up from the earth towards 
 heaven, having written upon the sap of it 
 and in every limb of it, the law that they 
 shall provide not only for themselves, for 
 
 • The motto appears in the fullowing golden sen- 
 tence of Cicero, and was borrowed from Plato : — " Sed 
 quoniam (ut prjcclare scriptum est a Platone), Non 
 nobis solum nati sumus, ortusque uostri partem patria. 
 Vindicat, partem amici : atque (ut placet Stoicis) qiuo 
 in terris gignuntur, ad usum hominum omnia creari, 
 homines autem hominum causa esse generatos, ut ipsi 
 inter se, aliis alii prodesse possent : in hoc naturam 
 debemus duceni seqiii, ctimmiuies utilitates in me- 
 dium, afferre, miitatione officiorum, dando, accipiundo : 
 tiim artibus, tum opera, turn facultatibus de%'incire 
 h')Uunum inter homines societatem." — Offic. i. 7. 
 
 their own nutrition and reproduction, but 
 shall minister to the want of higher things." 
 
 This law found some of its richest illustra- 
 tions in the disinterested lives of Sir Culling 
 and Lady Eardley. As the coral insects, 
 down in the depths of ocean, build not for 
 themselves their beautiful structures up- 
 wards towards the light, so down in the dark 
 depths of the ocean of life our friends 
 laboured together for others, and always in 
 the direction of God and Heaven. 
 
 As silkworms do not stay in the cocoons 
 which they form, but burst out from them 
 and take wing, not for themselves, so_ our 
 friends, not satisfied with their past philan- 
 thropic and religious attainments, left them 
 behind, and pressed on and up to the noblest 
 and best. Thus, for about 30 years, they 
 were spared to spin together the silken 
 thread of life wisely and well, not for them- 
 selves alone but for others, not for time 
 merely but for eternity. Then Lady Eardley, 
 her heart throbbing "to Christ, the common 
 centre, was lifted higher; then, after the 
 short separation of three years. Sir Culling, 
 at the Master's call, ascended to the enjoy- 
 ment of an everlasting re-union in the 
 Paradise of Truth and Love. 
 
 niS FIRST AND LAST SERVICES FOE THE 
 SOCIETY. 
 
 At the first Public :Meeting of the Society, 
 held on Monday evening, the 24:th of April, 
 1843, Sir Culling Eardley's name was read 
 out as a member of Committee. Then, after 
 a few years had come and gone, he was elected 
 Treasurer, and recognized as President. 
 
 HIS LAST ADDRESS. 
 
 The Seventeenth Annual Meeting was 
 held in Freemasons' Hall, on Friday evening, 
 'the 27th of April, 1860. Sir Culling Eard- 
 ley presided, and delivered the following 
 addre.-s. which proved to be his last, on be- 
 half (if the Society : — 
 
 " Ladies and (Jentleinen, I have to apolo- 
 gise for being somewhat later in my attend- 
 ance than I intended, but I assure you, with 
 the greatest sincerity, that it is not from 
 want of deep and tiirilling interest in the 
 question that brings you together this even- 
 ing, which has become one of the great ques- 
 tions of the day in which we live, namely, 
 the return of Israel to the God of Israel, to 
 Him who is the Hope of Israel. Whilst 
 your Report was being i ea d, in which refer- 
 ence is made to the dest-ny of the Jews to 
 be the preachers of Christianity throughout
 
 218 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 the world, in wliicli I most fully and cordi- 
 ally believe, it brought to my mind , a scene 
 that I witnessed some few years ago in the 
 City of Kome. I was sitting by the side of 
 Dr. Keith, the great writer on prophecy, 
 listening to the speeches which ai'e made 
 annually on the feast of the Eiiiphany at the 
 College of the Propaganda in Rome, where 
 young students from all parts of the world 
 come forward to make orations in their na- 
 tive language — and a very fine intellectual 
 exhibition it is, although totally devoid of 
 unction or any leal religious charactei-. I 
 remember Dr. Keith saying, after we had 
 been listening to speech after speech, not in 
 the Teutonic or in the Scythian tongue, but 
 in language all derived fiom the old L;itin, 
 " True, it is a very tine exhilntion of the 
 power of language, but it is nothing to what 
 we shall have when we get the Jews to em- 
 brace Cliristianity ; then we shall have them 
 teaching the whole of the nations of the 
 earth." I am not a great prophet, neither 
 do I say how such and such things are to be 
 accomplished, but I believe, looking to the 
 passing events of our day, that the Jews will 
 be ours ; that God intends to use them as a 
 mighty machine for the conversion of this 
 woild to Christ. I was also a good deal in- 
 terested by the statement in the Report, that 
 the Jews in Paris have been of late much 
 stirred up by the present antagonism shown 
 to the Papacy. I myself can confirm that 
 statement, that not only in Paris, but in 
 many other parts of Christendom, the Jews 
 feel in the same way, and I, for one, regard 
 this rising feeling amongst the Jews against 
 the papacy as corresponding with what is 
 said by Paul in the eleventh chapter of Ro- 
 mans. Paul is speaking to the Clnistian 
 Church, and warning them against insolence* 
 to the Jews — he is telling them that as by 
 the cutting ofi' of the Jews they were grafted 
 in ; so let Christians beware, lest by the cut- 
 ting off of Christians, the Jews be grafted 
 back again into their own place to enjoy their 
 ancient privileges. It is a remarkable fact 
 that that warning is addressed not to Co- 
 lossians or E})hesians, but to Romans. It 
 does seem to me to indicate a possible purpose 
 in the mind of God that it is by that great 
 heresy, which has its centre at Rome, being 
 overthrown, that the Jews are to be mate- 
 rially helped to come to the Truth of the 
 Gospel. The interpretation of that passage 
 in Romans, whether it be a sound one or not, 
 tallies exactly with what is now happiniing. 
 Nothing, I think, strikes the Jews so much 
 
 throughout Europe as the evident passing 
 away of the pajial power. I have had many 
 conversations with them, and they one and 
 all connect that fact with the prospect of 
 some great change that is going to happen to 
 themselves. Happily the feeling, as regards 
 the passing away of the papacy, has been co- 
 incident with increased tenderness, sympathy 
 and kindness on the part of Protestant 
 Chi-istians. The two things are working 
 together, going hand in hand, as it were. 
 They see the papacy going down on the one 
 hand ; they see Prote.stants treating them 
 with kindness, sympathy and tenderness on 
 the other. Those two principles were strongly 
 illustrated in the case of Mortara ; not only 
 the boy himself, but his father, had their 
 hearts opened to the reception of evangelical 
 Truths by the circumstance of Christians 
 coming forward to protect the child. The 
 father of that little boy sat with me for three 
 quarters of an hour at my house in the 
 country, talking over the subject of Christi- 
 anity with an evident desire to examine the 
 question. I urged upon him this view of the 
 matter — that it was not for the interest of 
 any brother amongst us to have his mind 
 occupied by questions of profession. I said 
 to him, " You are rather younger than me, 
 but we have neither of us probably a great 
 many decades to live ; is it worth our while, 
 as we know not one day from another when 
 we may be called upon to go into eternity, to 
 let ourselves be diverted from sound reason- 
 ing by the question of whether we are to 
 stand to our profession or to leave it ? Is 
 not Christianity after all a question of fact ? 
 Does it or does it not reduce itself to one 
 single fact ? Did or did not a certain indi- 
 vidual, whose existence both you and I admit, 
 although you que.stion His Divinity, die and 
 rise again ? It is a question of fact ; why 
 should not you and I look at that with calm- 
 ness ? If I use wrong arguments, lefute 
 them. If I use right ones, is it not to your 
 interest, I will not say to become a proselyte 
 to me, but is it not a matter of gain or loss ? 
 Therefore, is it not deeply to your interest 
 to examine the question ? If I am right, are 
 you not in a feaiful position in rejecting 
 Him for whom God wrought this great 
 miracle ? If I am wx'ong, all I desire is that 
 you will show me I am wrong." Certainly, 
 some ten years ago, 1 could not have got 
 others, with whom I had similar conversa- 
 tions, to talk to me with the same calmne.ss 
 upon this subject that I have been referring 
 to. In this great metiopolis, at one of the
 
 Sir Culling Eardley Eardley, Baii,. 
 
 219 
 
 theatres wliicli is now open every Sunday for 
 preaching the Gospel, the stage manager is a 
 Jew. He is to be found there week after 
 week, opening the box doors, letting in per- 
 sons to hear the preaching, and manifesting 
 a very considerable interest in it himself, and 
 has shown it by the purchase of the Scrip- 
 tures. I have had several conversations 
 with that individual, and I can assuie you 
 that the single case of Mortara has done more 
 to predispose him and many others to listen to 
 Christianity than anything that has happened 
 for many years. 
 
 I should not do justice to my own feelings 
 if, before sitting down, I did not endeavour 
 to express how deeply I feel the interest we 
 all have in the (juestion before us this even- 
 ing. If we are instrumental in God's hands 
 in converting a Chinese or Hindoo, or any 
 other class of persons throughout the world, 
 there is no Christian who will not be most 
 grateful to God who has permitted him to be 
 so ; but there is no class of people with whose 
 salvation our interests are more bound up 
 and united than those of the Jews. It is 
 impossible to read the Epistle to the Romans, 
 and note the circumstances in which the con- 
 version of the Jews, and of mankind at large, 
 are placed, without seeing',that the conversion 
 of our own countrymen in this i-sland, which 
 is so largely Christian, to becoming altogether 
 and totally Christian — in fact, the conversion 
 of the whole mass of mankind, is to be pre- 
 ceded by the conversion of the Jews from 
 Judaism. We have no need of any addi- 
 tional motive besides our Sanour's glory, and 
 the consciousness of endavouring to serve 
 Him to the best of our ability. But were 
 any additional motive wanted to lead us to 
 exert ourselves for the conversion of the 
 Jews, it surel}' would be enough foi- us to 
 feel that not only the salvation of our coun- 
 trymen, our neighboui'S, those amongst whom 
 we live, but that of the world at large, is 
 bound up with the conversion of the Jews. 
 I cannot avoid expressing a conviction of my 
 mind, to which I have very recently been 
 brought, that if the Holy Land is ever to be 
 restored to the descendants of those who 
 formerly possessed it — and there seem to be 
 very strong indications in both the Old and the 
 New Testament that such will be the case — 
 1 believe it will be pre-eminently accom- 
 plished by Christians who have Vjeen con- 
 verted Jews (our friend, Mr. Herschell, will 
 pardon me for saying this), not by uncon- 
 verted Jews. I am brought to this conclu- 
 sion by a fact that has come to my know- 
 
 ledge very recently — that within the last few 
 months there has been a negotiation going 
 on between some of the most eminent Jews 
 of France, England and America and the 
 Turkish Government. A gentleman of con- 
 siderable influence in London has been the ne- 
 gotiator between the parties. The Turkish 
 Government offered to certain wealthy Jews 
 any quantity of land in Palestine which they 
 chose to purchase, without any restrictive 
 conditions attached to it, including, as I was 
 most positively assured yesterday, the actual 
 site of the Mosque of Omar ; so that, if they 
 pleased, they might become possessed of the 
 very spot on wliich their ancient Temple 
 .stood. Those Jews who had taken the initia- 
 tive in the matter unfortunately found too 
 little zeal amongst their own people to carry 
 it out, and they were unable to iind the re- 
 quisite funds to procure a settlement of the 
 bargain, or persons who would go out as 
 emigrants. After all, I am forced to come 
 to the conclusion that whatever amount of 
 blessing there may be in the old tree, it is 
 Ijut a dormant blessing, which will not be 
 found effective until the tree bring forth 
 fruit to the glory of Christ. I think it is 
 not the unconverted Jews who are destined 
 to work great things for themselves — it is 
 the converted Jews who are destined to work 
 out the spiritual good of the Jewish nation. 
 You will pardon my troubling you by allusion 
 to what seems to me by no means an unim- 
 portant matter as connected with the salva- 
 tion of our fellow-men ; and allow me to 
 conclude by assuring you of my most earnest 
 and deep interest in the promotion of that 
 oVjject which has brought us together to-night, 
 and how much I feel that the accomplish- 
 ment of that object is interwoven with the 
 salvation of mankind and the glory of our 
 Lord and Saviour." 
 
 nlS L.\ST OFFER YIELDED £1,000. 
 THE TREASUREE's OFFER. 
 
 The following was the kind proposal of Sir 
 Culling E. Eardley : — 
 
 Sept. 27th, 18G2. 
 
 My dear Sir, — Your statement about the 
 Jews' Society is deeply interesting. So are 
 letters from Dr. M., sent me by Mr. Her- 
 schell. 
 
 I think I am bound, as Treasurer, to give 
 you a little help ; and it shall be proportioned 
 to what others do from this time. 
 
 I will adil .£10 to every £100 promised 
 from and after the receipt of this letter, up 
 to 41,000. If you can get promises of
 
 220 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeivs, 
 
 ^1,000 I will give XIOO. If ^-500, it will 
 be £50. If X-100, it will be only £\i). 
 
 I wish I could do more, but I am glad to 
 do thif. It is a deeply interesting state of 
 things. — Believe me, faithfully yours, 
 
 C. E. E.\RDLEY. 
 
 THE APPEAL. 
 
 AFTER TWEXTY YEARS' GOOD WORK. 
 
 A FINANCIAI- CRISIS. 
 
 Kov., 1862. 
 
 It is mth unaffected reluctance that we 
 find oui-selvps obliged so frequently to refei' 
 to matters of finance. 13ut we are persuaded 
 that all true friends of Israel will consider 
 that, not only the state of our funds, but the 
 sad alternative of an inadequate supply of 
 means — namely, the withdrawment of true- 
 hearted, devoted labourers from the fields 
 " white to the harvest," whither the Lord of 
 the harvest hath sent them — amply justifies 
 reiteration of appeal and statement. A crisis 
 has come upon us —from the enlargement of 
 efibrt, as well as from expenses incurred by 
 providential events, and from the state of 
 trade, and the large demands made this year 
 for other great religious movements. It is 
 not the first time that we have, as a Society, 
 met with unexpected difiiculties, and we do 
 humbly trust and believe that He who in past 
 days put into the hearts of His people to 
 come forward with the needed succours will 
 not forsake us now. Nevertheless, to avert 
 the threatened evil, there are urgently needed 
 the " labouring in prayer," the personal ex- 
 ertion to obtain fresh supporters and donors, 
 the self-denial and the consecration of gifts 
 to a cause which emphatically is the cause of 
 Him who is the Brother of the Israelitish 
 race, and the King of the Jews, as well as a 
 waking up to the claims of Jewish mi.ssions 
 on the part of the Church of Christ, such as 
 has not yet been witnessed. 
 
 We are thankful to record that, to their 
 power, and beyond their power, a goodly 
 band "have been willing of themselves;" 
 that we receive cheering reports of increased 
 faith, revived zeal, and advancing liberality 
 from the deputations who have vasited dif- 
 ferent parts of the country; It may also be 
 stated that some of our missionaries hai^e 
 done so, and other agents of the Society are 
 offering to give up portions of their salaries 
 towards meeting the emergency. 
 
 Without liberal aid we are at this moment 
 deprived of iini/ iii<irijin, and ai'e utterly un- 
 able to extend operations, which have, not- 
 withstanding all our eflbrts, been lamentably 
 
 limited. Alas ! there are millions of Jews who 
 — living in countries where Greek or Romish 
 superstition and idolatiy prevail — have never 
 yet had the Scriptures put into their hands, 
 nor once heard the joyful sound as to the 
 Redeemer, Deliverer, High Priest, Prophet, 
 and King, who is " mighty to save." 
 
 We take courage whea we look back on 
 the faith, prayer, labours and tears of those 
 who, twenty years ago, founded this Society. 
 We think also of the ripe sheaves already 
 gathered ; of the institution of Bible and Tract 
 Societies by the Jews themselves ; of the .stir and 
 spirit of inquiry now prevailing in London it- 
 self, as well as in foreign lands; of the marvel- 
 lous blessings vouchsafed to the faithful band 
 of missionaries God hath given us among the 
 Italian Jews ; and of the fact that more than 
 eighteen hundred Jews have joyfully carried 
 away from the Bible-stand at Kensington, 
 during four months, copies of the New Tes- 
 tament, Gospels, Psalms and portions, all in 
 Hebrew. Direct conver-sions have, we trust, 
 succeeded this effort. But who shall estimate 
 the futui-e results of the good seed of the 
 kingdom, thus (the Scriptures being taken 
 away to their homes by Jews of almost every 
 nation) so widely sown ? Oh, Lord the 
 Spirit, water it ! Sun of righteousness, with 
 Thy bright warm beams, arise, and quicken 
 the precious seed of the Word, that it may 
 bring forth fruit unto life eternal I 
 
 P.S. — We have received a comparatively 
 small amount as yet in response to the pro- 
 posal of Sir fluUing Eardley, our Treasurer. 
 One gentleman writes to us, offering an ad- 
 ditional donation as soon as a certain sum is 
 made up, and states that he is one of those 
 who " lay by in store," according to the 
 apostolic precept and primitive example. 
 Will not others who act on thai model " lay 
 by" for this cause? Think of Ihe necessities 
 of the perishing Jews ! Have they not an 
 urgent, if not a primary, claim ? Surely, 
 from this time up to the close of our financial 
 year, smaller or larger sums might be dedi- 
 cated monthly to our Special Fund. The 
 emergency, we trust, is but temporary ; but, 
 if not met speedily, we repeat that a sad 
 alternative is inevitable. 
 
 THE RESULT. 
 
 The responses to the Treasurer's offer and 
 the above appeal were slow but sure. He 
 passed away on the 2].st of May, 18G3, but 
 this event did not prevent his last effort to 
 help the Society from still continuing to bear 
 fruit. In the Herald for Ap)'il, 1864, it was an-
 
 Sir CuUiiig Eardley EtirdJey, Bart. 
 
 221 
 
 nounced that a friend of the Jews had given 
 J24 to complete the Special Fund of £1,000, 
 which had been asked for and generously 
 opened by Sir Culling Eardley. 
 
 HIS CHHISTIAN CATHOLICITY. 
 
 The Hon. Baronet was the chief instrument 
 in erecting a sanctuary near Torquay to which 
 members of all evangelical denominations were 
 welcome. He built another at his own ex- 
 pense on his estate at Belvedere, Erith, Kent, 
 in which he placed a baptistry and a font, 
 where he hoped that Conformist and Non- 
 conformist, Calvinist and Armenian, Pasdo- 
 Baptist and Baptist would be able to meet 
 and unite their hearts together in Christian 
 worship and work, service and sacrifice. 
 That church at Belvedere was opened by our 
 friend, the Rev. Thomas Binney, LL.I)., of 
 the King's Weigh House Chapel, London. 
 Sir Culling Eardley possessed that wide sym- 
 pathy which is the cure of narrow-minded- 
 ness, that sympathy which King David and 
 St. Paul had in ocean fulness. David, in 
 looking away back to the glorious deliverance 
 of the Children of Israel at the Red Sea, 
 identified himself with tliem on its shores, 
 and sang, "There did v:e rejoice in Him." 
 Paul, in looking away on to the end of time, 
 identified himself with the people of the Lord 
 on the resurrection morn, and exclaimed : 
 " Ife shall not all sleep, but ire shall all be 
 changed," &c. It was this spirit incarnated 
 in the Rev. Ridley and Mrs. Herschell, in 
 Sir Culling and Lady Eai-dley, and many 
 other holy men and women which led to the 
 foi-mation and extension of those two grand 
 Christian Institutions — the British Society 
 for the Jews and the Evangelical Alliance. 
 
 HIS LABOURS ON BEHALF OF THE OPPRESSED 
 AMOXC; JEWS AND GENTILES.* 
 
 " There were many occasions on which Sir 
 Culling entered with great earnestness into 
 the public wrongs done to liberty, to humanity 
 and to religion, and endeavoured to redress 
 them. It will not be soon forgotten, for 
 example, how he roused the country through 
 the municipalities, beginning with the City 
 of London, against the atrocious act of the 
 Papacy in kidnapping the Jewish child Mor- 
 tara, on the pretext that it had been baptized 
 by its nurse. His whole nature burned with 
 indignation — as what honourable man's did 
 not? — at this flagitious violation of humanity 
 
 * Extracts from Dr. Steane'.s " Memoir of Sir Cul- 
 ling EarcUey Eardley, Bart.'' — Evawjdical Marjazme. 
 
 and justice; while he felt, at the same time, 
 deep sorrow of heart that Chiistianity should 
 be thus dishonoured before the Jewish nation. 
 At the time of the Syrian massacres he 
 formed a committee and raised large contri- 
 butions for the sufferers, uniting with the 
 temporal relief ati'orded, the formation of 
 institutions to promote their permanent 
 .social and religious improvement. 
 
 " The last public labour in which he en- 
 gaged, and while prosecuting which he was 
 so unexpectedly taken from 'us, was one of 
 brotherly love to the persecuted and im- 
 prisoned servants of Christ. The tale of 
 Spanish intolerance excited him to persevere, 
 in the face of much opposition, in those efforts 
 which God so graciously prospered to the 
 libei'ation of its victims. He neither rested 
 himself, nor would sufl'er othei-M to rest, until 
 the resolution was taken by the Evangelical 
 Alliance to summon a large and influential 
 Deputation from all parts of Europe to 
 Madrid. He was prostrate on hLs dying-bed 
 before they had all assembled in that city; 
 and the last spark of con'-cious earthly exist- 
 ence had expired less than six hours when 
 the telegraph brought to his house the glad 
 intelligence of their success. 
 
 HIS SUDDEN ILLNESS AND DEATH. 
 
 " As a precautionary measure against 
 small-pox, which had attacked one of the 
 servants, he had him^elf and all his house- 
 hold vaccinated; and to him it was fatal. 
 The very means used for preserving life 
 destroyed it. His system was already in 
 an exhausted state, ripe for illness to a de- 
 gree unsuspected beforehand, and the latent 
 mischief, brought into malignant develop- 
 ment, with rapid strides hurried him to the 
 grave. From the first theie ensued great 
 prostration ; and, before long, fever, inflam- 
 mation, and other active forms of disease 
 requiring repeated surgical operations, fol- 
 lowed. He did not conceal the danger from 
 himself, but until near the close did not 
 speak of it to those he loved. His work was 
 done ; and realizing the fact sotmer than 
 others, he committed himself with .serene and 
 implicit confidence to the hands of His 
 Heavenly Father. He spoke of his assured 
 hope in Christ, and of the work in which he 
 had been la.st engaged. He sent loving 
 messages to the Deputation in Spain, even 
 though often wandering from increasing 
 weakness, and offered up more than one 
 earnest prayer for ' the one Church.' 
 
 " His patience never failed him, nor his
 
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 Memories of Gospel Triumphs icmong flie Jews. 
 
 thankfulness. He was unable to read at'tei- 
 the first few days, or even to listen, except 
 occasionally while a hjTun or a psalm was 
 read to him. But when sometimes roused 
 by an inquiry, he said that he ' had not a 
 wish or a care,' and spoke of the Heaven 
 that was opening upon him. Thus he awaited, 
 without anxiety or alarm, the approaching 
 final moment. No forebodings of the in- 
 visible futuie distressed him, nor any dread 
 of the coming conflict with ' the last enemy.' 
 He knew ' whom he had believed,' and he 
 now realized the tender, faithful, omnipotent 
 love of his Saviour to bear him triumphantly 
 through. Almost his last conscious words 
 were in answer to the question whether the 
 Lord Jesus gave him peace ? He replied, 
 with deep emphasis, 'Always, hij all means. ^ 
 Thus, in fulfilment of His promise to His 
 people, God ' extended peace to him like a 
 river,' and on the broad waters of that 
 glorious stream he entered gently and calmly 
 into the haven of eternal rest. 
 
 " He breathed his last about three o'clock 
 on Thursday morning, the 21st of May, 
 1863, ha\-ing survived his fifty-seventh birth- 
 day exactly one month ; and his mortal re- 
 mains were interred, amidst the sorrows of 
 devout men, in the family vault in the parish 
 churchyard of Essendon, near his seat at 
 Bedwell Park, in Hertfordshire." 
 
 EEMINISCENCES OF THE LATE SIR Ct'LLING 
 
 E. EARDLEY, AS PRESIDENT OF THE 
 
 EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE. 
 
 BY A. J. ARNOLD, ESQ., THE GENERAL SECRETARY. 
 
 It was my privilege to see much of Sir 
 Culling Eardley during the earlier years of 
 my connection with the Alliance ; the 
 Society was then about ten years old. Sir 
 Culling Eardley was an ideal President. 
 He did not simply take the chair at special 
 meetings, but was regularly present at Com- 
 mittee meetings, and also gave a vast amount 
 of time and attention to the organization 
 which he had taken such a large share in 
 forming. As president of the Conferences of 
 the Alliance, his was not only a distinct and 
 powerful personality, but he exercised a 
 marked influence over popular assemblies, 
 though he would not be called an oratoi-. In 
 many a case, howevei', his wisdom and tact 
 prevented mistakes being made and difficulties 
 created. Perhaps it was in Committee that 
 Sir Culling Eardley was seen at his best. 
 He understood every point that wa.s brought 
 forward, for the simple reason that he was 
 
 in daily attendance and in constant touch 
 with the staff carrying on the active work 
 of the Alliance. It was often a matter of 
 surprise to me as a young man that he should 
 devote so many hours each day to attendance 
 at the office of the Alliance. Here his 
 presence was invaluable, for he saw and 
 conferred with most of the principal visitors 
 from various parts of our counti-y and all 
 parts of the world, who came to consult, 
 regarding the cause of Christian Union. In 
 Committee, when difficult (juestions were 
 under discussion, and leading men repre- 
 senting various sections of the Christian 
 Church were involved in intricate problems, 
 Sir Culling Eardley would, by a few wise 
 words, steer the meeting clear of difficulties, 
 and when this seemed to be impossible, he 
 would suggest, with all the grace and fervour 
 of his nature, that at such a point it was 
 most essential that we should be under the 
 guidance of the Holy Spirit, and therefore 
 he proposed that we sliould kneel down and 
 pray for special guidance and help. It is 
 needless to say that on such occasions difficul- 
 ties were surmounted in the spirit of love and 
 unity. 
 
 Another feature in the active life of Sir 
 Culling Eardley, as President of the Alliance, 
 may be mentioned here. It was his custom 
 during the London season always to reside 
 in town for some months, and his house in 
 the West-end was constantly open, not only 
 for the reception of honoured giiests from the 
 continent of Europe and from America, but 
 .also for a very important innovation, as it 
 was then thought, in regard to Christian 
 work. He would invite, from time to time. 
 Christian people from all the churches to 
 meet .at an evening gathering in his drawing- 
 room, when some distinguished friend from 
 abroad would give an account of the work of 
 God with which he was more immediately 
 associated. Such meetings at the time were 
 unique, and were the precursors of the 
 drawing-room meeting movement of the 
 present day. It is impossible to estimate 
 the amount of good thus accomplished in 
 this direction alone by this honoured servant 
 of Christ, Sir Culling Eardley. 
 
 I may be pardoned for mentioning a per- 
 sonal matter. It was Sir Culling Eai'dley 
 who brought me into connection with the 
 Evangelical Alliance, 35 years ago, and in 
 doing so, I remember his introducing me to 
 the then Secretary (the liev. J. P. Dobson) 
 as "the future Secretary,'' of the Evangelical 
 Alliance. Our Society has grown vastly
 
 Tlie Hon. and Rev. Baptist Nod. 
 
 223 
 
 since those days, but tlie name and memory 
 of Sii' Culling Eardley is still cherished and 
 will be revered until the time when there 
 shall be the great alliance of all the people 
 of God under brighter and happier circum- 
 stances. Sir Culling Eardley saw branches 
 of the Alliance formed in several countries, 
 but now such branches are to be found in 
 almost every land where there are Evangelical 
 Christians. He also lived to see the first 
 four of the gi-eat International Conferences 
 of the Alliance, and it is needless to say he 
 took an active part in each ; but there have 
 been no less than five of these Oecumenical 
 assemblies since that time : and D.V., the 
 Evangelical Alhance will celebrate its jubilee 
 in 1896. 
 
 In regard to one of these early conferences, 
 that at Berlin in 1857, Sir Culling Eardley 
 had a most important share in bringing the 
 arrangements to a successful issue. Many 
 a great difficulty had to be surmounted, but 
 he was not a man to be easily daunted. He 
 visited Prussia, and had an interview with 
 the king (Frederick William the -ith}, who 
 became much interested in the proposed Con- 
 ference, and contributed .£170 towards the 
 special fund needed to meet the expenses. 
 When the Conference was held, the King 
 and Queen and other members of the Prus- 
 sian Royal Family (among them Prince 
 William, who subsequently became the 
 Emperor William I.) attended the meetings. 
 
 His ilajesty also invited the principal mem- 
 bers of the Conference to his Palace at 
 Potsdam, where some 1,200 were royally 
 entertained. Many other details regarding 
 the Christian activity of Sir Culling Eardley 
 might be given did space permit. It may be 
 added, however, that one striking feature of 
 his character was that he consecrated all his 
 talents, including wealth and social position, 
 to the service of Christ. His aristocratic 
 connexions gave him gieat intiuence in 
 Chuich and State ; his polished and suave 
 manner made him a persona grata with 
 Archbishops and Dignitaries of the Church 
 no less than with the state.smen of the day ; 
 yet his liumDity and gentle, gracious bearing 
 towards even the poorest and meanest, made 
 him universalh' beloved and popular. 
 
 [Sir CulUng Eardley made a gi-and dis- 
 covery when he found A. J. Arnold, Esq., 
 and secui-ed him for the Secretariat of the 
 Evangelical Alliance. All the years that 
 have rolled away since then have abundantly 
 justified the wisdom of the choice. Long 
 may our beloved and honoured brother be 
 spared to maintain and extend the work so 
 well begun in the year of grace 1846; and 
 may the jubilee, soon to be celebrated, help 
 to hasten on the day when the Church on 
 earth and the Church in Heaven shall form 
 one visible and blissful communion, radiant 
 as the sun with the beauties of holiness! — 
 Ed.] 
 
 THE HON. AND REV. BAPTIST NOEL. 
 
 1843. 
 
 {With Portrait.) 
 
 THE Hon. and Rev. Wriothesley Noel, 
 M.A., was born at Leithmont, Scotland, 
 on the 10th of July. 1799. He was the 
 eleventh son of Sir Gerard Xoel, Baronet, 
 and brother of the first Earl of Gainsborough. 
 He became a student of Trinity College, 
 Cambridge, where he worked hard and won 
 the degree of M.A. Having received ordina- 
 tion, and an in^-itation to St. John's Church, 
 Bedford Row, he accepted it, and began his 
 ministry there in 1828. His views on the 
 Union between Church and State, Baptism, 
 &c., having changed, on the 3rd of December, 
 18-18, he bade farewell to his people at St. 
 John's, and separated himself from the 
 
 Established Church. On the 9th of August, 
 1849, he was baptized in John Street Chapel, 
 accepted a call to the pastorate, and laboured 
 there with many tokens of the Divine 
 blessing for nearly 20 years. On the occasion 
 of his retirement, our valued friend Mr. 
 Marcus Martin, on behalf of the Church, 
 presented Mr. ]S'oel with £1,000 as a token 
 of "their jarofouud legard." Though freed 
 from the pastoral tie, he did not remain idle. 
 He went from place to place in England, 
 like an angel of mercy, preaching " the 
 glorious Gospel of the happy God," with the 
 richest results. 
 
 His connection with the British Society
 
 224 
 
 Mtmories of Gospel Triwnijjhs among the Jews. 
 
 began in January 1843, and continued until 
 he was lifted higher, on the I'Jth of 
 January, 1873. 
 
 THE HUN. AND REV. BAl'TIST NOEL. 
 
 INSCRIPTION ENGRAVED ON A MARBLE TABLET 
 
 IN JOHN STREET CHAPEL, BEDFORD ROW, 
 
 LONDON. 
 
 In Memory 
 
 of 
 The Honble and Revd. 
 
 BAPTIST WRIOTHESLEY NOEL, M.A., 
 
 For nearly twenty years, 
 
 The houonred and beloved Pastor 
 
 Of the Church worshipping in this place. 
 
 He retiied from the pastorate in July. 18fi8, 
 
 And entered into rest on 19th Jany., 1873, in 
 
 his 75th year. 
 
 " The memory of the just is ble.sspd." Prov. x. 7. 
 
 " They that be wise shall shine as the brightness 
 
 of the firmament, and they that turn many to 
 
 righteousness as the stars for ever and ever." 
 
 Dan. .\ii. 3. 
 
 NOTES OF HIS ADDRESS AT THE TENTH 
 ANNUAL MEETING. 
 
 At the Tenth Annual Meeting, lield on 
 April 29th, 1853, he moved the adoption of 
 
 the Report and the appointment of the 
 officers of the Society for the year ensuing. 
 He said as the Report which they had just 
 heard was being read it must have awakened 
 in the hearts of all present the conviction 
 that the stations of the Society were impoi-- 
 tant and well chosen ; that the men who 
 had been appointed as Missionaries were 
 earnest and faithful labourers in the Lord's 
 vineyard ; and that in the work they were 
 prosecuting tliere was an apparent Islessing 
 from God, which no person coidd properly 
 deny, and that the field of labour among the 
 Jews was obviously extending before the 
 view of Christians. Was not a feeling of 
 regret also produced in the minds of many, 
 as it had been in his own, that they had done 
 so little for this cause, and that .so much 
 remained to be acrompli.shed, accompanied 
 with a determination to do more, and an 
 earnest desire that numbers might feel a 
 deeper and more enlightened interest in the 
 proceedings of this Institution ? Now, if 
 the Report had really excited these feelings 
 in their minds was not this the best proof 
 that it would have the same effect upon the 
 minds of their fellow-men if it should be 
 printed and circulated ? Believing that it 
 was well adapted to promote the ends for 
 which it is designed, he moved with confi- 
 dence the adoption of that very instructive 
 and interesting document. With their per- 
 mission, moreover, he would, for a brief 
 period, in the spirit invoked by the Chair- 
 man, and in the temper whiL-h he had com- 
 meniled each one of them to cherish this 
 evening, endeavour to recall to himself, and 
 mention to the audience, some of those 
 reasons which should make the friends of 
 Truth more interested in this cause, and more 
 zealous for its prosecution. As Christians 
 they were indebted to the Lord Jesus for 
 their happiness and hopes for eternitj'. He 
 was their best friend, and to Him, if they 
 knew anything of His goodnes.s, they must 
 wish to be consecrated. Must it not be 
 pleasing to Him that they should endeavour 
 to promote the conversion of the Jewish 
 millions from their present state of ignoiance 
 and degradation to a .saving faith in Himself 
 as their Lord I It was computed that there 
 were about eight niillions of Jews in the 
 world ; and could any one who felt grateful 
 to the Lord Jesus for his everlasting happi- 
 ness doubt for a moment that every eflbrt 
 .which can be made to bring His claims 
 before the minds of these immortal beings 
 must be pleasing to the Saviour ? But there
 
 The Hon. ami Bit. Baptist Noel. 
 
 225 
 
 wore some things in regard to this oft'ort 
 which spi'oially commenilod it to their atten- 
 tion. The fact of eiglit iiiillions of men, of 
 whatever cliaracter and haliits, beini; in peril 
 of losing their souls must needs excite the 
 compassionate zeal of Christians, but there 
 were some circumstances which made them 
 look upon this number of Jews with peculiar 
 interest. Think how they had been tieated 
 for centm-ies. The harsh and cruel treat- 
 ment which these afilicted people had le- 
 ceived at the hands of Christians — so called 
 — was a very unlikely, and had proved a 
 very unprocUictive, method of schooling their 
 minds for the reception of the doctrines of 
 the Gospel. Men had, it seemed, become 
 possessed with the idea that God had put 
 into their hands the rod of vengeance with 
 which to smite the Jew ; but far better 
 would it have been to remember that every 
 one who had been bi-ought to love the 
 Saviour was a child of wrath till Christ 
 sought him out. lUit, alas ! those who 
 callc<l themselves Christians had treated the 
 Jew with an asperity and contempt which no 
 wrongs inflicted upon themselves provoked. 
 Jews, in all parts of the world, had been 
 treated as " the ott'scouring of all things," 
 fined, imprisoned, tortured, and even burned 
 alive ; and all this without a^ tear of pity 
 being shed over their suffering and helpless 
 condition. They had been taunted for not 
 belonging to tlie nations, while the nations 
 ha<l forbidden their amalgamation, lint, if 
 pei-mitted, how could they have become 
 amalgamate<l with cruel oppressors, who, 
 when they saw them, sneered at them, and 
 treated them with derision ? Thus it was 
 that Christians had treated Jews ; but hap- 
 pily a great and bles.sed change had taken 
 place ; but accumulated centuries of cruelties 
 and wrongs towards the Jews call for special 
 efforts on their behalf. Some countries in 
 the pres<'nt day had placed the Jew on an 
 equality with their own people ; but how' 
 had they done it ? Was it calculated to give 
 the Jew a. favouralile idea of Christianity ? 
 If he were a Frencli Jew, for example, and 
 considei'ed the code by which his rabbi was 
 paid for teaching Judaism, just as the Roman 
 Catholic priest was paid for teaching 
 Romanism, and the Protestant pastor for 
 teaching Protestanism, the result, in his mind, 
 woidd be this — Christian Legislatures care 
 nothing for Christian doctrines. They do 
 not believe their own avowed creeds — then 
 why slunild I believe them ? This was the 
 snare laid in the way of the Jew by modern 
 
 kindness. P>ut when the Jew beheld among 
 the millions who bear the name of ('hrist, 
 those who rejoice in his political elevation, 
 then he was likely to .see the distinction be- 
 tween those who would elevate him in society, 
 and those who evidently cared nothing for his 
 forget fulness of the Truth. He sees men who, 
 on the one hand, would give him the utmost 
 political justice, admitting him to all his 
 rights as a citi/en in the land of his birth : 
 but who, on the other hand, are ever telling 
 him that between God and him there is a 
 debt contracting by his unlx^ief which will 
 one day biing a fearful reckoning. In this 
 day, when cruelty towards the Jew has been 
 changed into kindness, there were special 
 reasons why, for his own welfare and the 
 honour of the Saviour, (Jhristians should put 
 foith additional and zealous effoi'ts for the 
 enlightenment of his understanding in 
 religion. In addition to this very cogent 
 i-eason, there were others, also, why 
 Christians should look with compassion upon 
 the Jew. How different his case with regard 
 to intellectual culture to that of many 
 Hindoos, Mohammedans, or savages, whose 
 minds were steeped in superstition and 
 debased by sensuality and all kinds of vice ; to 
 whom it was exceedingly difficult to convey 
 instruction of any kind, their intellects 
 seemed to be so cramped and beclouded. 
 But when the Christian missionary 
 addrassed himself to the Jews he spake to 
 men as intellectual, as civilized, and as edu- 
 cated as himself, many of whom had attained 
 the higliest literary reputation, and who have 
 only been misled Ijj' prejudice or hindered 
 by worldliness — this sad disease of oui' fallen 
 nature — from investigating the claims of 
 (Christian piinciples or the claims of religion 
 altogether. For his own part, he would feel 
 it .a perfect joy to associate with a multitude 
 of such Jews. He had met with .several, in 
 the course of his life, who, by thcur quick- 
 ness and depth of understanding, liberality of 
 sentiment and pure morality, had very 
 strongly attracted him. Nothing would give 
 him more delight than to go step by step 
 with such men through all the leasons 
 which they might allege against Christianity, 
 and all the reasons that he would have to 
 bring before candid minds for their recep- 
 tion of it. .\s a proof of their enlightened 
 liberality of feeling towards that which they 
 believe to be good he might refer to the fact 
 that in a certain town in Lancashire a Jow 
 contributed X5 toward the support of the 
 Town Mission, alleging, as a reason for his
 
 226 
 
 Memories of Gosjod Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 conduct, that he thought it well for the 
 ignorant people of the town to be instructed 
 by a good man. He had heard, moreover, of 
 many striking instances of generosity on the 
 part of the Jewish people. A case, illustra- 
 tive of this, occurred not long since iu the 
 town of Frankfort. An Englishman called 
 upon a Jewish gentleman with a request 
 that he would lend him £10 to commence a 
 school in a place not far ofi', where he had 
 heard there was an opening for an educa- 
 tional establishment. The Jew said to the 
 man, " I have known you in England by 
 name as having been engaged in certain dis- 
 honest practices, do you, therefore, think it a 
 reasonable request you are making of me ? " 
 The man pleaded that he had not been so bad 
 as he had been represented, although the 
 facts referred to were true ; but promised 
 faithfully to return the money, if it should be 
 advanced for the purpose mentioned. The 
 Jew's clerk keenly observed what transpii-eil 
 between the Englishman and his master, 
 anxious to see whether the latter \\ould be so 
 " gulled," as he expressed it, as to lend the 
 money. The conference ended by the Jew 
 placing the £10 in the hand of the applicant, 
 at the same time .saying, " I lend you the 
 money. God notices it : and, if you deceive 
 me, he will judge you ; that is all 1 say." The 
 man took the money, and went his way. In 
 a few weeks, half the amount was returned ; 
 and, in a very short time after, the other half 
 was returned also. Now, if there are Jews 
 like this, pos.sessing generosity and the 
 fear of God, there must be interest in 
 working amongst them ; for it must be 
 that they have not embraced Ohri.stianity be- 
 cause they have never investigated the claims 
 of the Son of God. In addressing them. 
 
 moreover, Christians have a singular advan- 
 tage — they believe the Old Testament to be 
 in reality a message from God ; and it could 
 easily be shown by the missionary who is 
 fitted to his work, that this Revelation con- 
 tains, though in obscurer terms, all the great 
 Truths to be met with in the New Testament, 
 and that the Old Covenant has its full develop- 
 ment in the New : and it seemed to be 
 almost impossible that, if taught to under- 
 stand the Old Testament, he should not be 
 convinced, and confess that Jes'is is the 
 Christ of God. This, then, is surely a 
 great advantage in preaching Christianity 
 to the Jew. And it would be found, upon 
 investigation, that the results up to the pre- 
 sent time are exactly answerable to the 
 anticipations which this circumstance might 
 produce. There are fifty Jews among the 
 ordained clergymen of the Churchof Enghnd; 
 twenty have entei'ed the ministry of the Free 
 Chuiches of this land ; above two hundred 
 altogether are missionaries to Jews. Is 
 not this sufficient to prove that God is 
 blessing the efforts of Christians on behalf of 
 the Jews, and pointing them to tho.se things . 
 God meant them to attain. One half, more- 
 over, of the m'.ssionaries of the London 
 Society are converted Jews. Are not these 
 facts such as to encourage us in the efforts 
 now being made ? Let us go forth in the 
 spirit of zeal displayed by the Apo.stle Paul, 
 and with the love displayed by our blessed 
 Lord and Saviour, and we shall speedily 
 reap a harvest of these immortal souls, who, 
 being once brought to the Saviour, will 
 assiii'edly prove to be the most zealous and 
 efficient soldiers and servants of their Lurd. 
 
 The I'esolution was seconded by the Rev. 
 Ridley Herschell. 
 
 THE REV. W. M. BUNTING. 
 
 The Buitisii Society's Third Hon. Secret.\ky. 
 
 1843. 
 
 {With Porlrail.) 
 
 THE following interesting passages have 
 been extracted irom an admirable 
 memoir written by his brother, Tbouias 
 Percival Bunting, which forms the intro- 
 duction to a choice selection of .sermons, 
 letters, hymns, .and miscellaneous poetical 
 writings, ably edited by the Rev. (x. 
 Strintrci' Rowe. These charming "Memorials" 
 
 were published in 1870. and may be obtainc<I 
 at the We.sleyan Conference Office, -, Castle 
 Sti'eet, City Road; .-md at ()(i. Paternoster 
 Row, London. 
 
 William Maclardie Bunting, born at Man- 
 chester, on the '2Sii\ November, 1S05, was 
 the eldest child of the late Rev. Dr. Jabez 
 Bunting, ar.d of Sarah Maclardie, his wife.
 
 The Rev. 11'. M. Bunting. 
 
 THE RESULTS OF HOLY AXD HAPPY 
 HOME INFLUENCES. 
 
 He was very sedate and serious. From 
 the time he could frame a sentence his 
 passion was preaching. I cannot say he 
 phiyed at it, for he went as gravely through 
 the exercise when he was three as when he 
 was sixty. Quite as happy as his father 
 was he, as the quiver became fuller of younger 
 children ; for we were his lawful spoil for a 
 congregation. As in later years, his sermons 
 seemed very long, especially to restless 
 hearers. Like many other young, self- 
 constituted priests, he was a Ritualist ; and, 
 if no other vestment could be found, meet 
 to typify his .sacred function, his night-dress, 
 and, under pressure, his bed-sheet, made him 
 feel vastly real and important. 
 
 But happier results followed his domestic 
 training ; he habitually lived in the fear of 
 God. I cannot charge my memory with a 
 single instance in which I suspected him of 
 falsehood or of meanness. He was strictly 
 conscientious ; he was obedient. Generally, 
 he bore himself as though pledged to a holy 
 vocation, and in preparation for it. 
 
 HIS CONVERSION. 
 
 For many months he bore painfully the 
 burden of conscious sin and sinfulness ; and, 
 a hard student, was, at the same time, an 
 earnest seeker of the assurance of God's 
 pardoning mercy. His was by no means a 
 sudden conversion. With thoughtful and 
 instructed men, I think conversions seldom 
 are sudden ; a proposition by no means at 
 variance with the fact that, even in such 
 cases, there must come a time in the soul's 
 history when it first finds peace, by laying 
 hold on the one Atonement. No earnest 
 man, however timid, however unaccustomed 
 to religious ideas or phraseology, mistakes 
 that moment. In my brother's case, it came 
 cue day as, walking over London-bridge on 
 his way to or fi'om school, the Saviour's own 
 declaration that He will " in no wise cast 
 out " an}- that come unto Him, was so recalled 
 by the Blessed Spirit to bis memory, and 
 sealed upon his conscience, that it biought 
 him close to Christ, and, touching Him, he 
 was made " perfectly whole." I cannot fix 
 the date, but I find some clue to it in the 
 fact that in May, 182.3, I heard him preach, 
 with a white sheet upon his shoulders, a very 
 elaborate sermon — a sermon as much in play 
 as, in his case, such exercises ever hn.d been 
 — a sermon in which he scolded his two or 
 three auditors in a garret for our not un- 
 
 reasonable inattention ; whilst in May, 1824, 
 I heard him preach the " Trial Sermon," 
 which is the first ordeal undergone by one 
 who wishes to become even a lay preacher 
 among the Methodists. That sermon rang 
 with the true tone of a man divinely called 
 to the ministry. 
 
 THE KINDNESS OP THOMAS FARMER. 
 
 The late Thomas Farmer had even then 
 commenced that long career of munificent 
 and discriminating liljerality, by which he 
 
 EEV. \V. M. BUNTING. 
 
 subsequently secured the afi'ectionate ad- 
 miration of the religious men of his time. 
 Surely, long ere now, that career ought to 
 have been fittingly recorded by some one of 
 his many friends, not to refer to his number- 
 less beneficiaries. He took much notice of 
 my brother, and prized at their proper value 
 the .advantages of a University education. 
 He therefore sounded my father on the sub- 
 ject ; and his suggestions had the greater 
 force inasmuch as he offered to pay such ex- 
 penses of a training at Cambridge as the 
 
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 a28 
 
 Menumcs of Gospel Triumphs among the Jems. 
 
 Exhibition from St. 8iiviour's School should 
 leave miprovided for. Much was to be said on 
 both sides. On the one hand, here was a 
 promising subject ; he had gone, without 
 any known contamination, through ten 
 years' ordeal at public schools ; the advantage 
 was obvious and inestimable ; and, possibly, 
 my father was of opinion that an infusion of 
 graduates into the ranks of the Methodist 
 ministr}- would promote both its honour and 
 its usefulness. Other considerations, how- 
 ever, tui'ned the scale. After all, there was 
 much danger, greatei- then than now, in the 
 associations and habits of University life ; 
 a new-born soul was sensitive of evil ; all 
 pulpit-service would be stopped for years ; 
 many good people might niisunder.'^tand, and 
 some bad people criticise and cavil. It was 
 decided to the contrary, Mr. Tayloi' again, 
 and Mr. Watson, lieing chief advisers. My 
 brother kept to his old pourso:^ of study ; 
 employing himself in that best preparation 
 for the pulpit, pivacbing itself. Mr. Farmer 
 did not let him entirely escape his bounty, 
 but made him a. present of a hundred pounds, 
 to enable him to lay the foundaticais of his 
 library. Both are dead now. But how do 
 such kindnesses embalm the memoiy of those 
 who have found it "more blessed to give 
 than to receive," — " words of the Lord 
 Jesus " which, omitted from the narratives 
 of all the Evangelists, it wns rosei'ved for 
 the chief of the Apostles to perpetuate. 
 
 HIS HOME AND MINISTRY IN IIACKNEV. 
 
 His earliest ministry in London was in 
 the City Road Circuit ; his residence, and 
 the congregation enti'usted to his chai-ge, 
 being at Hackney. As the scene of his con- 
 version, and the place where he first preached 
 in public, this circuit had its special charm ; 
 whilst the Society with which he most fre- 
 quently mingled was more, perhaps than at 
 any other period of his life, attractive. My 
 father had removed to London in 1JS33; 
 and so it came to pass that when, in 1835, 
 my mother dieil, that great grief was soothed 
 by nuu'li niutunl intercourse and prayer. At 
 that time, too. Hackney ha<l more thnn an 
 Evangolicnl Alliance, Pj'e-Smith, Foster 
 Burder, Francis Augustus Co.x, and the 
 Methodist minister foi- the time being, were, 
 din-ing some years, in the habit of .stated 
 and fi-equent intei'course ; .and there was 
 nothing in the difl'erenccw of opinion which 
 prevailed among men of .such cultivation, 
 and of s\ich excellence of spirit, but what 
 salted their conversations, and made their 
 
 friendship more close and pleasant. With 
 J )r. liin-der especially — who, an old friend of 
 his father, had been his own also, almost 
 from boyhood -his intimacy was very pro- 
 litalile. Here also he led a class, latterly in 
 his own house, where many cultivated women 
 tiilked with him .md with each other about 
 heaven and the way to get there ; he accom- 
 panying on his organ their sweet songs about 
 it. 
 
 A ronTUAIT OF HIM AS A MODEL HEARER. 
 
 I have given this high estimate of my 
 brothel's excellence in th(> pulpit, and I m\ist 
 not omit all mention of one principal can.se 
 of it. He followed his own spiritual instincts 
 and his father's example, by hearing and 
 studying, as often as he could, the great 
 masters of pulpit power. There were doors 
 he never entered ; but, wherever a dis- 
 tinctive orthoclo.xy was taught, there was he 
 to be found. He sat at the feet of the 
 illustrious preachers of bis own denomination. 
 I must not name his favourites among them ; 
 the list would be too long. He loved the 
 ministiy of very many blessed men out of 
 his own jiale. Methodist chapel, cathedral, 
 church in town or country, tabernacle, 
 meeting-house, barn, — it m.attered not to 
 him. The sermon, the wor.ship, the catholic 
 communion with the saints, — these were his 
 attractions. So there wei'e few eminent 
 evangelical ministers in ]jondon, whether in 
 or out of the Establishment, who did not 
 sometimes see, in a corner, oi- behind a pillar, 
 or in some capacious dormitory of a pew, a 
 tall, emaciated man, almost smoothered in 
 kerchiefs and cloaks ; with a high, white 
 forehead, very bald, — what hair was left 
 dark-brown and silky ; his eyes grey, large 
 and luminous ; with a no.se which indexed, 
 as t'oleridge te.iches, a light royal will ! 
 with delicately moulded mouth and chin ; 
 with hands, were they visible, of exquisite 
 form and colour ; with the look, altogether, 
 of a man not of this world; unmistakeably 
 a minister of religion. He made you think 
 of the risen Lazarus, walking pensively from 
 his first to his second sepulchre. He was 
 evidently at home ; joining in the service as 
 though he had never attended any other. 
 He "sat under" the discourse, and never 
 found it burdensome. With feeble voice, 
 he sang the psalm or hymn or spiritual 
 song ; the p.salm, whether plain or para- 
 phrased, whether freshly drawn from the 
 primal source of sacred song, or diluted with 
 hum.an elements.
 
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 229 
 
 ins SECKETAHIAI- CONNEXION WITH THE 
 
 EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE, AND THE 
 
 BUITLSII SOCIETY. 
 
 My brother's connexion with the Evange- 
 lical Alliance must be recorded in the words 
 of Dr. Steane, his colleague in the 
 secretariat. 
 
 " In the earlier part of his ministry," 
 writes Dr. Steane, in Evani/eliad Christen- 
 dom for January, 18G7, " Mr. Bunting, it is 
 imagined, was a more intense We.sleyan 
 than after middle life iind in his closing 
 years. Not that he manifested any dis- 
 position to forsake the church of his 
 fathers, nor betrayed the slighte.st disloyalty 
 toward.s it ; but hi.s Christian sympathies 
 outgrew the circle which in vain attempted 
 to circumscribe them. From the lirst, he 
 rejoiced in tho.se combinations of good men 
 of various sections of the Church, in public 
 worship and special services, which, though 
 only occasional and extempori.sed, were 
 among the preparations for the Evangeliciil 
 Alliance, and premonitory of its noble 
 design. And when that most remarkable 
 'gathering ' wa.s held in Liverpool, in 184.5, 
 he was not only piesent, but took an active 
 part in its proceedings. And again, the 
 following year, in Freemasons' Hall, his con- 
 stant attendance wa-s given at the meetings 
 of the Conference, and his continuous 
 thought to its transactions. On these different 
 occasions he exhibited that decided and 
 strong preference for catholic Truth over 
 that which is strictly denominational which 
 had evidently been growing into an element 
 of hi.s religious character, and moreover 
 formed those friendships which drew him 
 out of his original sphere into a more 
 genei-al a,ssociatiim with fellow-Christians. 
 These frienilships he delighted to cultivate 
 as well with brethren of foreign Protestant 
 Churches as with thase of his own country. 
 Hence he went to the larger Confeiences of 
 the Alliance .succe.ssively held in Berlin and 
 Geneva, and found in them, as they brought 
 him into intercourse with believers from so 
 many communions, scope for the outflow of 
 the noblest sentiments of the renewed 
 heart. 
 
 " On the decea.se of his father he was unan- 
 imously chosen his successor as one of the 
 honorary secretaries of the Alliance and con- 
 tinued until his removal to render it varied 
 and valuable service." 
 
 During a long period, also, he acted as one 
 of the honorary secretaries of the British 
 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel 
 
 among the Jews, an office in which he has 
 been succeeded by his valued friend the 
 Itev. Dr. Hoole. 
 
 HIS LOVE OF DUMB ANIMALS. 
 
 He liived dumb animals; understood and 
 talked their language ; and asserted their 
 rights. Horses, dogs, cats lived long and 
 died under his protection ; and he buried 
 them and wrote their epitaphs. A hedge- 
 hog was, at (me time, a very intelligent and 
 amiable companion. Over what proved to 
 be his dying bed, a wliite mouse escaped from 
 some wandering foreigner, used to c(jme and 
 play ; it shared his meals and was a comfort 
 to him.* Let those laugh who never had 
 cause to say, " / Wius as a beast before Thee." 
 I covet this communion with the groaning 
 universe, this participation in that " pitying 
 tenderne.ss divine," which •' feeds young 
 ravens," — vjhich ojiens its hands, cnul satisfies 
 '■the desire of evert) livitwj thinij." Is there 
 in the Bible itself a grander ring of suc- 
 ce.s,sive woi-ds of emphasis, a brighter reve- 
 lation of the mature which Christians are 
 called to share— of thoughtful, unlimited, 
 exhaustless goodness ? 
 
 niS WIT AND HUMOUR. 
 
 I lis wil was as bright as it was sharp. I have 
 heard people say that it ne\-er wounded any- 
 one ; but bis sword was no plaything and what 
 they mean is that the wound was such as was 
 ea.-iily healed. His sense of humour was all- 
 embracing. He would laugh by the hour 
 with some lively friend, who was quick to 
 notice and to tell the strange things which 
 float on the surface of everyday life. He 
 did not disdain a pun : there is often a latent 
 philosophy in it.f 
 
 HIS PEACEFUL DEPARTURE. 
 
 Midnight came, and he complained of 
 faintness, and soon after was bathed in the 
 
 * A favourite dog died not many mouths before him. 
 He was told that it was dyini; ; he r.ise from his 
 bed. ahuost breathless with asthma, ha.stily dressing 
 himself, warmed Fido's paws in his own hands, and 
 watched him till the " spirit '' went " downwards ; " 
 all the while usmg words of comfort, well under- 
 stood. 
 
 t I am urged to give one specimen. It was his last, 
 .and I shrink from stating it in what might seem to 
 be its natural connexion. It was on the occasion 
 when he had the pleasure of introducing to Mr. 
 Spurgeon, the inost distinguished Calvinist of the 
 day, lirst Mr. Arthur, Wesleyan President for the 
 year, and then his wife. "This," my brother said, 
 " is our Wesley this year, and this,' — turnmg to Mrs. 
 Arthur, — " our Top-lady."
 
 230 
 
 Memories of Gospel THutnphe among the, Jev;s. 
 
 dews of death. " He became troubled, and 
 said, 'Pray with me.' T attempted a few sen- 
 tences, begj;ing God to spare his life 
 
 I repeated .some texts and hymns, among 
 the latter ' Rock of Ages,' and ' How 
 sad our state,' the la.st two verses of which 
 seemed .specially suitable. To both he re- 
 sponded with much feeling. Faintness in- 
 creasing, he directed the lire to be put out, 
 and the window to be opened. He a.sked for 
 wine, and, putting the glass into his hand, 
 I said, ' Shall we do this in remembrance ?' 
 He replied, ' Yes, but let us do it reverently, 
 penitently, and with faith.' Then, after a 
 pause, with eyes lifted to heaven, he added, 
 as nearly as I can remember his words, " I 
 renounce my sins ; I renounce my righteous- 
 ness ; I renounce everything save the blood 
 and merit of Christ.' " 
 
 His daughter, perceiving the symptoms of 
 approaching death, summoned her mother, 
 and both watched for the end. He lay sup- 
 ported by his daughter, and, angel-like, she 
 repeated softly in his ear the text which, 
 forty years before, had opened to him the 
 door of spiritual life, — " Him that cometh 
 unto Me I will in no wise cast out." That 
 balmy promise wafted him to Paradise. Al- 
 most immediately, he went to his Saviour, 
 and was welcomed into " everlasting habita- 
 tions." He died soon after seven o'clock in 
 the morning of November 13th, 1866. 
 
 THE EDITOn's KEMARKS ON THE PASSAGES 
 REPRODUCED. 
 
 We make no apology for giving these 
 pa.ssages a place here. We most heartily 
 congratulate the Wesleyan Methodist Church, 
 the British and Foreign Bible Society, the 
 Religious Tract Society, the London, City, and 
 County Mi.ssions, the Evangelical Alliance, 
 and the members of the British Society on 
 having, in the per.son of W. M. Bunting, 
 such a lofty type of saintliness working 
 with them and for the salvation of Jew and 
 Gentile. 
 
 We should like to see the extract, which 
 we have headed " His Love of Dumb Ani- 
 mals " printed in large type on a card, and 
 hung up in every University, every Labora- 
 tory (especially where Vivisection is prac- 
 tised), every Hospital, and every Day and 
 Sunday School in Christendom. 
 
 The man who really loxes Clirist must 
 love the wor.st Jew and Gentile breathing 
 Heaven's air now, and must treat kindly 
 everything that GoJ has made. We know 
 of nothing that God, as revealed in Clirist, 
 
 hates, except sin. The love of Christ, 
 supreme in the heart of Jew and Gentile, as 
 it was in William M. Bunting and his noble 
 father and mother, would sweep \'ivisection 
 and every other abomination of the Evd One, 
 from the face of God's fair earth. 
 
 SERVII'E RENDERED TO THE SOCIETY FROM 
 
 1843 TO 1866. 
 
 William Bunting took his seat as a member 
 of Committee at the beginning of the year 
 1843 : and at the first public meeting, held 
 at Freemasons' Hall on Monday evening, 
 the •24th of April, 1843, he moved the fifth 
 resohition. At the fifth Annual Meeting, 
 held on April 27th, 1848, he seconded the 
 second resolution. In 1849 he was elected 
 Hon. Secretary, and ably filled that office 
 until his decease in 1866. 
 
 DR. JADE/i BUNTING W. M. BUNTINo's FATHER. 
 
 Dr. J. Bunting became a member of the 
 Committee soon after his son, and continued 
 .so until his death. In a postscript to the 
 Report presented at the Fifteenth Annual 
 Meeting on Friday evening, the 30tli of 
 April, 1858, there are tender references to 
 the deaths of Dr. Henderson, Lydia Monte- 
 fiore and Dr. Bunting. The tribute to the 
 latter runs thus : — 
 
 " The Committee have had to mourn, in 
 common with the Christian world, the de- 
 cease of the Rev. Dr. Bunting, who, cordially 
 approving the character of the Institution, 
 and earnestly desiring its great object, 
 had given the sanction of his name, as a 
 member of the Committee, from the com- 
 mencement." 
 
 IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE REV. W. M. 
 BUNTING. 
 
 At a meeting, held on the 21st of Novem- 
 ber, 1866, the Committee were informed of 
 the recent decease of their valued Hon. 
 Secretary, the Rev. W. M. Bunting, when 
 they " TJnanimously expressed their desire 
 that the Resident Secretary would convey to 
 the bereaved family their sympathy and 
 their high respect to the memory of their 
 departed friend." 
 
 THREE E.\TRA(TS FROM HIS POETICAL WORKS. 
 I. 
 
 SouncE of all our consolations, 
 
 Ever since our woe.s l>egan ; 
 Light of Israel and the nation.s ; 
 
 Seed of David, Son of Man I 
 Sin abolish, 
 
 Eden'.-, blight and Sinai's ban I
 
 Thomas Farmer. Esq. 
 
 231 
 
 By tlie Cross, where Love unsleeping 
 
 Shriuea the lilood for sinners spilt — 
 By the Sword, which, wondering, weeping, 
 Faith sees crimson'd to its hilt — 
 
 Sin abolish ! 
 Slay the power, effivce the giiilt ! 
 
 Pride, and appetite, and passion 
 
 Be by love for Love allayed ; 
 Charms of pomp, and fame, and f.ishion, 
 
 Calvary ! in thy vision fade ; 
 Sorrow's deluge 
 
 Round thine Ararat be stayed. 
 
 Be the blood-bought grateful, holy. 
 
 Loyal to the Sou of God — 
 Tender, self-renouncing, lowly. 
 
 Like Him when their path He trod, — 
 Patient, peaceful, 
 
 "Xeath the yoke, the cross, the rod. 
 
 As Jehovah's chosen nation 
 
 Now be Christ's own Lsrael : 
 Festivals of consecration 
 
 Light the hearts where He doth dwell ; 
 Blended blisses 
 
 Into one deep gladness swell ! 
 
 Sabbath, break on this life's even, 
 Sun of wordly glare, go down ! 
 
 Paschal Feast, on Bread of Heaven — 
 Pentecost, with new renown — 
 
 Life-long JflilLEE-- 
 Let them all Redemption crown ! 
 
 11. 
 
 Hasten, O Christ, Thy victory, 
 Dispread and then complete it ; 
 
 And bring thy royal advent nigh, 
 To such as long to greet it : — 
 
 But ne'er from this devoted he.art 
 
 The mem'ry of Thy Love depart. 
 The mem'ry of Thy Passion ! 
 
 in. 
 
 Then, welcome joys invisible. 
 
 Transcending thought, ineffable ! 
 Fruition and Eternity be mine ! 
 
 Welcome th' iissembly of the blest. 
 
 Whose myriad voices never rest. 
 But in one long triumphant anthem join ! 
 
 Yet, when I mingle with the throng 
 
 That to the upper church belong, 
 
 This, this my first desire shall be, — 
 Give me the sight of HIM, who ransom'd me ! 
 JeSU ! of all the good to Angels given, 
 Of all the beauty anil the bliss of heaven, — 
 Bliss, Beauty, Heaven itself,— I ask a sight of Thee 
 
 THOMAS FARMER, ESQ. 
 
 I84t. 
 
 THE following extra ct.s have been taken 
 from an admirable biographical sketch 
 of Mr. Farmer by his daughter : — 
 
 HIS BIIiTir AND liOYnooi). 
 
 " My father was boin at Kennington 
 Common, Surrey, on the 7th of June, 1790, 
 a few months before the death of the vene- 
 rable Wesley. He lost his mother when 
 only four years old. His father, thus left a 
 widower in middle life, did not marry again, 
 but devoted himself to the nurture and train- 
 ing of Ills two little children. My father 
 was deeply and lastingly attached to his .sur- 
 viving parent, whom he greatly re.sembled 
 in thoughtf ulness and judgment, in integrity, 
 simplicity and gentle goodness. But though 
 he never knew his mother's care and culture, 
 be inherited some portion of her own tender 
 sensibility, vivacity, and -vvit; so that, througli 
 life his solid sense and essential gravity were 
 brightened by gleams of sportiveness which 
 gave a zest to social intercourse, and often 
 made his very reproofs palatal)le. 
 
 (With Portrait.) 
 FuoM A Sketch by Miss Farmeh. 
 
 " When my father left school, my grand- 
 father, who had been successful in business, 
 wished his son to go to college, but failed to 
 gain his consent. He then urged him to 
 enter a prof&ssional career, and placed him 
 with his friend and solicitor, Mr. Marson, of 
 Newington. A year's attempt to meet his 
 fathei-'s views convinced him that he should 
 never like the law as a pursuit. His own 
 spirit was at this time dissatisfied and rest- 
 less ; life and its hard problems lay before 
 him, and he was daily asking the question, 
 ' Who will show me any good ? ' His con- 
 siderate father, ever on the watch to meet 
 his views, took him from the lawyer's office, 
 and brought him into his own chemical 
 works, where he laboured at first for the 
 sake of aiding one whom he heartily ad- 
 mired and loved, but soon with a personal 
 interest in the various processes and their 
 results. Still liis spirit was troubled. As a 
 child and youth his conduct had been ex- 
 emplary. This did not prevent him from 
 being painfully conscious that he had lived 
 without God, and that he had for twelve
 
 Memones of (lospel Trimiqihi^ anonr/ the Jews. 
 
 years, from tlie age of seven to nineteen, 
 resisted the strivings of the Holy Spirit. 
 
 IN HIS father's factoey. 
 
 " With the energ)' that marked the doings 
 of his whole life, my father at this time 
 gave himself to the pr;ittical work of the 
 manufactory through the day and to the 
 acquirement of chemical knowledge in the 
 evening. Thorough in evei-ytlnng, he laboured 
 with liis own hands, beginning with plumb- 
 ing, and measuring his strength and skill with 
 that of every workman in the jilace — till all 
 they could do had been done by their young 
 master, and he knew himself competent to 
 take the lead in each department. Yet 
 paramount to even business success was the 
 welfare of his soul ; and no day passed of 
 which the earliest and the latest horns were 
 not given to religious reading, meditation, 
 and earnest pleading with God. Sometimes 
 he would retire to his room, after a hard day's 
 work in the factory and an evening's attend- 
 ance at a chemical lecture, so weary in body 
 that it was scarcely possible to prevent him- 
 self from falling asleep ; and he has been 
 heard to say that, rather than remit one 
 half-hour of that consecrated time, he has 
 kept awake by pricking himself with pins. 
 He made it a point to count his sleeping- 
 hours, allowing himself only six. His habit 
 was to rise at eight and go to bed every 
 morning at two o'clock ; but he soon changed 
 this custom for one more conducive to health, 
 both retiring and rising earlier. The habit 
 of early rising, acquired in youth, he never 
 lost. Till growing infirmities hindered, he 
 rcse at si.\- o'clock, read and prayed with my 
 mother before lea\'ing his room, and then 
 spent the hour from seven to eight in con- 
 verse with himself and with his God. 
 
 niS SECOND BIRTn. 
 
 "The Gth of September, 1809, was a 
 memorable day in my father's history. He 
 went to his bed-room at ten o'clock, and 
 took up Benson's "Apology for the Doctrines 
 of the Methodists." Whilst reading, his 
 sense of guilt and need liecame burdensome, 
 and he fell on his knees to .seek deliverance. 
 Through the still hours of the night he 
 reviewed his pa.st sins and failures; recog- 
 nized his own impotence and the sufficiency 
 of Christ ; and though his diary, which la- 
 began to keep from that time of decision, 
 does not speak in set terms of pardon and 
 peace, yet it affords ample evidence that 
 from that night he ceased to hear the con- 
 
 demning voice of conscience, received Jesus 
 Christ as his atoning Saviour, and had the 
 faith which gives the victory over the world. 
 Before he slept he wrote out many rules 
 for his futuie guidance. Among them are 
 these : — 
 
 " ' To exercise myself nnich in constant 
 and earnest piayer. 
 
 " ' To beware of the first temptation to 
 sin. 
 
 " ' To watch again.st covetousness. 
 
 " ' To be sincere in all things. 
 
 " ' To beware of acting in any instance 
 conti-ary to conscience. 
 
 " ' To consider seriously as to receiving the 
 S;icrament the first oi)portunity.' " 
 
 Ills CHRISTIAN ACTIVITY. 
 
 "On Good Friday, 1810, my father became 
 a teacher in the Kennington-lane Sunday 
 School, conducted by Congregationalists. 
 Here the lowest class was placed under his 
 cai-e ; a charge that he valued highly and 
 kept faithfully. For many years he acted 
 as Superintendent of this school. Soon after 
 commencing Sunday School teaching he 
 began systematically to visit the poor iind 
 sick. Thenceforward engagements in the 
 church crowded upon him. 
 
 " Perhaps few men have more fully united 
 the active and the contemplative parts of the 
 Christian character than he. It might truly 
 be said of him at this period of his life — 
 
 " * His days were spent in rluing good, 
 Hi« uigfits in i>rai.se and prayer.' " 
 
 THE editor's TRIBUTE. 
 
 In the year ISl 7, under the influence of 
 our friend the Eev. Dr. Jabez Bunting, Mr. 
 Farmer became a Class-leader, and soon after 
 a member of the Committee of the Wesleyan 
 Missionary Society. His early consecration 
 to the service of the Missionary cause was 
 marked by his accompanying the celebrated 
 Dr. Coke from door to door for the purpose 
 of gathering contributions on its behalf. 
 Another ciiTumstance of this early period of 
 his life is exceedingly interesting and sugges- 
 tive. He exerted himself to the utmost in 
 order to secure signatures to petitions against 
 the famous Bill of Lord Sidmouth. 
 
 In 1S20 he liecame ivssociated with the 
 liritisli and Foreign Bible Society, and re- 
 mained so until his death. One of the 
 members of the Bible Society's Committee, 
 speaking from knowledge, once stated that, 
 in a given time, Mr. T^armer and his family
 
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 had contributed moro to its funds than all 
 its titled patrons put together. 
 
 At the beginning of his commercial career 
 he vowed, with Jacob, tliat he would give 
 the tenth unto the Lord. That vow was 
 literally fulfilled, but, as his income grew, he 
 went forward to something veiy much grander 
 than that. He stood forward in the fi-ont 
 rank of the Christian workers and givers of 
 his time. His giving was systematic and 
 proportionate ; with him it was giving and 
 gaining, gaining and giving, until at the age 
 of 60, all the profits of his manufactory 
 were placed upon the altar of his Lord. 
 
 HIS INTEREST \N THE BKITISII SOCIETY. 
 
 At a meeting of the Committee, held on 
 Tuesday, the 2nd of July, 1844, it was re- 
 solved — 
 
 " That Thomas Farmer, Esq., be requested 
 to become a member of the Committee, and 
 also to use his influence with the members of 
 the Wesleyan congregation at Brentford in 
 favour of this Society." His name first ap- 
 pears on the list of the Society's oflicers for 
 the year 1845. He was present at the 
 second Annual Meeting, held in Free- 
 masons' Hall on Friday evening, '25th April, 
 1845, and seconded the last resolution. 
 
 A meeting was held at Brentford on the 
 15th December, 1846, attended by the Eev. 
 R. H. Herschell and Mr. George Yonge, at 
 which Mr. Farmer presided; and on the fol- 
 lowing morning a Committee was formerl of 
 ladies from four congregations. Lady Ellis 
 being appointed treasurer and Miss Farmer 
 secretary. 
 
 HIS LAST DAYS AND DEATH. 
 
 Miss Farmer's account of her revered 
 father's patience and cheerfulness during his 
 long and painful illne.ss, and his peaceful and 
 triumphant departure, thi'ough his entire 
 dependence upon the finished work of Jesus, 
 is a splendid testimony to the saving, sancti- 
 fying and satisfying power of the Christian 
 Gospel. We regret, theiefore, that we have 
 only space here for the repioduction of the 
 closing scene. 
 
 " A few hours before my father's death, 
 Mr. Arthur saw him. He was unable to 
 make Mr. Arthur understand what he wished 
 to .say; but my mother interpreted tlie half- 
 spoken words — ' I wish to glorify God in 
 dumbness.' 
 
 " To a friend he said, ' I like to see that 
 
 smile. Whei-e I am going smile always 
 answers to smile. It is not always so here.' 
 
 " One of these days he called one of his 
 daughters to him, and said deliberately, 
 though with great difliculty, ' May the 
 peace of God, which passeth understanding, 
 keep your heart and mind continually ; give 
 you grace and wisdom to train up all your 
 children for eternity.' He also gave direc- 
 tions to my mother resj^ecting his funeral. 
 
 " May 10th, Friday. — Two of us, standing 
 by him, noticed his eyes fixed a long time, as 
 if looking at something. When asked what 
 it was, he answered, ' Only fresh manifesta- 
 tions of God.' Again, in the afternoon, 
 'Open the gate.' And again, 'Still hoping 
 for heaven.' Late in the evening, as he grew 
 feebler, we sang — 
 
 " ' My God, the spring of .ill my joy.s,' &c. 
 
 " He tried to put in a note or two. When 
 
 we came to — 
 
 " ' The wings of love, and arms of faith 
 Wonld bear me eonijueror through,' 
 
 he said distinctly, ' Yes — faith^prayer — 
 praise Him — for all that is past — Trust 
 Kim ' — the line was finished for him — 
 
 " 'Tru.st Him for all that's to come.' 
 He went on, ' For ever and ever ; His name 
 be glorified ! ' 
 
 " Two of us watched by him alternately, 
 that night. He was heard to say faintly, 
 ' Happy — happy — bless the Lord ! ' 
 
 "11th. — With the dawn of this morning 
 came the conviction that ' the long fight of 
 bodily aflliction was all but over. He had 
 ceased to take notice of the watchers by his 
 side ; yet on receiving aid from one of his 
 servants, who raised him into an easier 
 position, he tried to speak more than once; 
 and at last was heard to say, with his 
 wonted courtesy, ' Thank him for the relief.' 
 Shortly .after, his breathing changed. About 
 half-past ten o'clock his family gathered 
 round his bed. My mother repeated the 
 words, ' Yea, though I walk thiough the 
 valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no 
 evil : for T/wii art with me.' At these words, 
 there was a slight but expressive motion of 
 his head — the last sign of consciousness. 
 Exactly as the clock struck twelve his spirit 
 passed away ! " 
 
 " l'.ut the path of the just is as the shining 
 light, that shineth moro and more unto the 
 perfect day." May that path 1)6 ours !
 
 230 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs (luionj the Jcivs. 
 
 THE FIRST EDITOR OF THE JEWISH HERALD- 
 REV. RICHARD ALLIOTT, LL.D. 
 
 J.S44. 
 
 (iVilh Porlmit.) 
 
 RICHARD ALLIOTT ^.tood in an 
 honoui'able succes.sioii as a uiiuister of 
 the Liird Jesus Ohi-ist. His grandfather was 
 a laljorious, faithful, and useful [ircaclier at 
 Coventiy. His father also devoted liimsolf 
 to the ministry, and fulfilled a course of 
 nearly fifty years with great wisdom, zeal, 
 and honour. 
 
 EARNESTS OF HIS FUTURE CAREER. 
 
 As a " little child " Christ had " suflered 
 him to come unto Him ; " and had tenderly 
 dr.iwn him and made him a disciple. 
 
 Kichard Alliott was born September Jst, 
 ISII-t. As a child, he was extremely delicate, 
 and had no relish fo}- the sports of boyhood 
 which demand physical vigour; but amuse- 
 ments which taxed the mind were a pleasure 
 to him. 
 
 Jlis life had a blessed unity which few lives 
 exhibit. He gave early earnest of his future 
 career. He was diligent in all kinds of 
 Bible-class work, and found his highest 
 pleasure in gathering a circle of young men 
 from the Sunday-school for a course of 
 general instruction. It was no surprise, 
 therefore, when he resolved that his life 
 should be spent in the ministry. 
 
 His father had been a student in the Old 
 College, Hoirierton : and he also studied at 
 Jlomerton foi- a while. Hiscour.se there was 
 unhappily broken by ill-health ; but be 
 passed the sessions of 182() and 1.S37 at the 
 Univeisity of (Jlasgow, where he greatly 
 dLstinguished himself and received both prizes 
 and praises. 
 
 ASSISTANT-MINISTER AND CO-PASTOE. 
 
 In 1828, he was appointed a.ssistant- 
 minister to his father,— an appointment 
 which was the happiest. In 183(1, the 
 assistant became the co-pastor by the unan- 
 imous voice of the ( Jhurch, and was ordained 
 in January of that year. He continued to 
 serve with his father as a .son in the Gospel 
 till that honoured father's deatli in 1840, 
 when the entire charge of the people was 
 committed to him. In the same year the 
 
 Univeis'.iy (jf Glasgow presented him the 
 dipliiiiia of Doctor of Laws. 
 
 He was eminently successful both in the 
 instruction of believers and the conversion of 
 sinners. It were hard to say which most 
 testified his zeal, — the study, the class-room, 
 or the pulpit. 
 
 UU. Al.LIil'JT, I'ASTOli IN LAMBETH. 
 
 In 1843, Dr. Alliott received and accepted 
 a very earnest invitation to the pastorate of 
 the newly-formed Church, York Koad, 
 Lambeth, which consisted of only ninety- 
 two membeis. He was their first pastor, 
 ;ind happy did they account themselves in 
 the services of such a man — learned, wise, 
 devout in the very zenith of his vigour. 
 During the six years of his pastorale, 370 
 were adiled to the Ciiurcb, of whom 2G1 
 were received fiom the world, "many 
 acknowledging with affection and gratitude 
 that to him, vnider God, they owed their 
 conver.sion." 
 
 DIl. AIJJOTT IN THE niOFESSOU's t'HAIR. 
 
 It w:is not unnatui'al that a man of Dr. 
 Alliott's philosophical and theologic.-il attain- 
 ments .should be solicited to examine in our 
 dilierent Dissenting Colleges, and should 
 mark him out as a man for the Professor's 
 chair. So well known did he become, that 
 nearly every Independent College in Kngliind 
 has, at one time or other, sought to secure 
 him as theological, philoso|ihical, or 
 mathematical profes.sor. In 1840, he accepted 
 the Presidency of the Western College, 
 Plymouth ; and one who was well acTjuainted 
 with his ministry there, wrote : — 
 
 " The number of students rapidly in- 
 creased ; their studies wei'e successful, and a 
 high moral tone pervaded the College. In- 
 sensibly his influence was felt ; and the young 
 men who were under his care have fully 
 realized in future life the benefit of his 
 examjjle and instruction." 
 
 Dr. Alliott delivered the " Congregational 
 Lecture" in 1854, on "Psychology and 
 Theology." This is the chief monument of
 
 The FlrHl Editor of tlir Je.vish Ilerahl. 
 
 231 
 
 liis authorship ; liis othor proiluctions being 
 sermons, and .in occasional course of pulpit 
 lectures, as on the " History of the Jews," 
 and the " Evidences of Christianity." 
 
 In 1856, the Trustees of Oheshunt College 
 invited him to the Presidency of their 
 Institution. Tliey remembered his services 
 as examiner, they knew the fame of liis 
 success at Plymouth as tutor, and they ear- 
 nestly pressed the impoitance of the post 
 they offered. The Committee of the Western 
 College deprecated his leaving them, unable 
 to see that it was possible for him to fill a 
 position of higher influence and usefulness 
 than that he had attained to in the West of 
 England. He decided, however, in favour of 
 Che.shunt, and removed thither in 1857. 
 
 The liev. Dr. Heynolds, his accomplished 
 successor at Cheshunt, has communicated an 
 estimate of his work there, the worth of 
 which will amply justify its entire insertion : 
 "He undertook the Presidency of the College 
 at a time of great anxiety and foreboding, 
 and after an interregnum of painful occur- 
 rence and teilious length. He created in a 
 very short time a healthy and reverent 
 spii'it, and effected sundry changes in the 
 discipline of the house, which do not fail, 
 even to the present day, to indicate the 
 wisdom of his covnisel and the strength of 
 his hand. I'he fervour and aff'ectionateness 
 of his disposition did much to promote the 
 efficiency of his administration. His great 
 kindness to individual students will never be 
 forgotten by them ; and the cordiality with 
 which ho always co-ojierated with the other 
 oificials of the College was warm and generous, 
 and abundantly reciprocated. His ministry 
 at the (Jollege Chapel was greatlv valued by 
 the congregation, and highly appreciated in 
 the neighbourhood ; .-ind the kind interest he 
 took in the surrounding village churches was 
 very much blessed by the Great blaster. The 
 stimulus he gave to the students was great, 
 and the information he imp.irtod to them 
 admii'ably digest e<l and wondrously condensed, 
 and yet so arranged as to be easy of repi-o- 
 duction. One of his students said, ' I con- 
 sider that Dr. Alliott's lectures were quite 
 perfect of their kind.' From my own obser- 
 vation, I imagine that the.se lectures were 
 singularly successful in developing the 
 faculties and sharpening the intellects of 
 those who came under their inlluence." 
 
 Ho was held in great honour by his 
 denomination, and in 1858 ably filled the 
 chair of the Congregational Union of England 
 and Wales. 
 
 THE LAST TrillEr, YEARS OF HIS MINI.STRV. 
 
 In 18(;o, the Committee of Spring Hill 
 College, llirmiugham, having heai-d rumours 
 that Cheshunt was not favourable to the 
 health of Airs. AUiott, urged on him the 
 acceptance of their vacant chair of Dogmatic 
 and General Theology and Philosophy. 
 Their invitation was accepted, and in 
 September of that year he deliverad an in- 
 augural lecture at the College, in which he 
 enforced the necessity for a learned ministry, 
 and witheringly exposed some popular errors 
 which had mithered arouml this momentous 
 
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 que.stion. 
 
 KEV. lUCHAItD ALLIOTT, LL.D. 
 
 When Dr. Alliott was appointed Professor 
 at Spring Hill College, he was mast cordially 
 invited to take the pastoral oversight of the 
 infant t'hureh at Acock's Green, distant 
 about two miles from the College. Loving 
 the work of the p.istorate as he did, this in- 
 vitation was very grateful to him. He 
 accepted it, and took up his abode at Acock's 
 Green. His ministry, though shoi-t, was 
 long enough to endear him to everyone that 
 knew him. It was a high privilege to .secure 
 his p.astorate, and to have the foinidations of 
 future church histor}- laid by one who.se 
 wisdom was so ripe, whose spirit was so 
 loving, and whose teaching was so scriptural, 
 clear, and impressive. Scarcely can a
 
 238 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeius. 
 
 stronger attachment be conceived than that 
 wliich (juietly grew up between him and his 
 people ; while they desire to submit to the 
 Divine will, they feel that their loss is 
 irreparable. On June 14th, he preached to 
 them what proved to be his last sermon, from 
 Heb. ii. 10 — 13. His last service was the 
 administration of the Lord's Suppei' in 
 August. His kind deacons were in constant 
 communication with him. Anxious for the 
 Church's welfare, he wished to resign, as he 
 could no longer serve : but they would not 
 hear of such a proposal, desiring to retain 
 their hallowed relation to the last. And so 
 it was. And to the last his care and sympathy 
 were exeicised about tliem, as their prayers 
 and services were multiplied for him. 
 
 The Christian character of Dr. Alliott 
 shone brightly in the spirit with which he 
 bore his last illness. He was very thankful 
 for the retention of his mental faculties, and 
 early in his illness had thought he might 
 attempt a " Handbook of Mental and Moral 
 Philosophy " adapted to students in our 
 Colleges. One of his medical advisers at 
 first encouraged this thought ; but it too soon 
 became apparent that his purpose must 
 remain unfulfilled. 
 
 Whatever concern he had felt about the 
 various human systems of philosophy and 
 theology whose merits it was largely his 
 work to discuss, as a student himself and a 
 teacher of others, — it was joy to him to lay 
 them all aside, and accept as a little child 
 the direct assurance — " God so loved the 
 world, that He gave His only-begotten Son, 
 that whosoever believeth in Him should not 
 perish, but have everlasting life." 
 
 " If," he frequently said, " I had to look to 
 anything I have ever done, I could have no 
 rest. The best deeds are so doubtful, motives 
 are so mixed, that I have no hope but in 
 Christ." " I come to Him as a sinner." 
 Sometimes, pensively and with manifest 
 grief, he said, " I might have lived nearer to 
 God." When a friend said to him, " You 
 have done what you could," he replied, " No, 
 no." Reference was made to our Savioui's 
 commendation of Mary, " She hath done 
 what she could." " Yes," said he, " in that 
 particulai' thing." He had no rapture, but 
 peace. Occasionally, very rarely, a slight 
 cloud seemed to pass between him and God. 
 Waking up one night, he exclaimed, "O that 
 I could read my title clear ! " and instantly 
 the doubt was hushed as if by a responsive 
 word, " What clearer title would you have 
 than that which is in Christ ? " 
 
 The last night but one that he spent on 
 earth was a season of most joyous fellowship 
 with (lod. He recited, with the emphasis 
 of his most vigorous days, the whole of the 
 sublime passage in which apostolic triumph 
 over affliction and death reaches one of its 
 high climaxes — 2 Cor. iv. 17; v. 9 — com- 
 mencing with " For our light affliction," &c., 
 and ending thus : " Wherefore, we labour 
 that, whether present or absent, we may be 
 accepted of Him." On Sabbath morning, 
 December 20th, he ascended peacefully and 
 triumphantly to " the rest that remains for 
 the people of God." 
 
 His body was interred in the General 
 Cemetery at Nottingham, on Monday, 
 December 28th, 1863. Many of his flock 
 assembled in the chapel at Acock's Green, 
 and joining the funeral cortege as it pa.ssed 
 from his house, accompanied it on its way to 
 Birmingham. The Deacons of the Church, 
 and a ileputation from Spring Hill College, 
 proceeded with the mourners to Nottingham. 
 At the station there, a considerable number 
 of ministers, students, and friends were 
 assembled. The mournful procession was 
 soon formed, and passing by Castle-gate, 
 the scene of his early life and labours, was 
 joined at the Cemetery by a very large con- 
 course. Three of the deacons of Castle-gate 
 Church, and three of the deacons of the 
 Church at Acock's Green were pall-bearers. 
 In the procession were the Rev. T. R. Barker, 
 Pi-esident of Spring Hill College, and the 
 Rev. F. E. Anthony, B.A., Classical Pro- 
 fessor of the Western College ; several of 
 the Spring Hill students also were present ; 
 and the Rev. C. Clemance, one of his students 
 at Plymouth, with much .solemnity and 
 pathos conducted the funeral service. Thus 
 were thei'e happily associated in this last 
 tribute of respect, his first and last College, 
 and his first and last Church. These, with 
 the gathered crowd, completed a circle of 
 mourneis as perfect, perhaps, as ever sur- 
 lounded a grave to memorialize departed 
 worth in all the relations in which it had 
 been displayed. 
 
 THE SERVICE HE RENDERED THE SOCIETY. 
 
 Dr. Alliott became a member of the Com- 
 mittee in 1844, and accepted the Editorship 
 of the Jewish Ilerald in October, 1845. The 
 first number was published on the first of 
 January, 1846, and the first article, from 
 the pen of the accomplished Editor, gave the 
 keynote in the following five sentences : —
 
 The First Editor of the Jeivl^h Herald. 
 
 239 
 
 To Our Headers. 
 The Committee of " The British Society 
 for the Propagation of the Gospel among the 
 Jews," have thought it desirable to institute 
 a cheap Perioilical, the object of whicli will 
 be to show the claims to which the ancient 
 people of (iod have on the sympathy and 
 prayers of the church, to diffuse information 
 with regard to their present circumstances, 
 both in England and elsewhere, and to record 
 the progress of the different efforts which 
 are made for their conversion to Christianity, 
 and especially those of the Society whose 
 orgMU the Magazine will be. 
 
 We urge on our fi'iends to promote its 
 sale to the utmost of their power, in the 
 hope that, by the Divine blessing, it may 
 prove an instrument of spiritual benefit to 
 every reader, and because we believe that the 
 state of the Jewish people and the efforts 
 made on their behalf only need to be known 
 to excite more general attention to the duty 
 of seeking their salvation. 
 
 Our readers are aware that '• The British 
 Society " is not a sectarian in.stitution, that 
 it consists of t'hristians of all donominations, 
 and of different views with regaid to the 
 interpretation of unfulfilled prophecy ; and 
 that accordingly its object is simply to ditt'use 
 among the Jews the great doctrines in which 
 true believers in the Lord Jesus are agreed. 
 The Magazine will be conducted in strict 
 accordance with this catholic principle. 
 Believing that the Truths which are most 
 surely received by all Evangelical Christians 
 are infinitely momentous, it will be our 
 anxious endeavour that their spirit should be 
 breathed in every article ; we shall leave, as 
 out of our peculiar province, to othei' publi- 
 cations the piomulgation of doctrines which 
 only a part of the true church receive as 
 Scriptural. 
 
 We ask the prayers of the people of God 
 for our success ; not simply for success in the 
 sale of the work, for if that were all it 
 would be of little benefit ; but for success in 
 our efforts to stir up (Jhristians to more 
 faith, love, and prayer, and to stir them up 
 in particular on behalf of a people through 
 whom we have received all our religious pri- 
 vileges, " and of whom, as concerning the 
 flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God 
 blessed for ever. Amen." 
 
 The second number, published on February 
 1st, 1846, contained among other articles, 
 one by the Editor, the importance of 
 which we think justifies its reappearance 
 here. 
 
 REASONS WHY WE SHOULD SEEK FOR THE 
 CONVERSION OF THE JEWS. 
 
 That Jews stand in need of the Gospel 
 equally with the Gentiles, and that the 
 Gospel is equally adapted to the circumstance-i 
 of both, are indisputable facts. All the 
 arguments, then, by which we are induced to 
 preach Chiist to the Gentiles, are of equal 
 weight to lead us to preach Him to the Jews; 
 the souls of the latter are as precious as the 
 .souls of the former, neither will their con- 
 version bring less glory to C'hrist nor be less 
 advantageous to the church. There are, 
 however, in addition to these more general 
 arguments, special reason for labouring on 
 their behalf. Let us remember that for a 
 long series of years they constituted the only 
 church of God upon earth ; and surely when 
 we call to mind their former condition, their 
 peculiar privileges, their di.stinguished honour, 
 our souls cannot but yearn over them now 
 that they have experienced so melancholy a 
 reverse ; if amongst the poor and destitute 
 we pity those the most who have known 
 better days, ought we not for a like rea.son, 
 amongst the spiritually poor, to feel the most 
 for the degraded Jew i Let us also think of 
 our own obligations to the Jewish people ; it 
 is through their instrumentality that we 
 have received all our spiritual privileges ; 
 they have been the depositary of the law ; 
 to them were sent the prophets ; nay, our 
 Lord Jesus Christ and His apostles were 
 Jews. We owe to Jews, instrumentally, the 
 Old Testament; and to them we owe in like 
 manner the New Testament. How are we 
 to lepaythis debt of gratitude, butby seeking 
 to confer back on them the piivileges which 
 through them we have received ? Ought 
 we irot to lead them to search their own 
 Scriptures, the Scriptures which thei/havi' yitvn 
 Its ; to point them to their own Messiah, the 
 Messiah whom we have found to he so precious 
 to our souls ; to teach them the Gospel of 
 Christ, the Gospel which we have learvedfrom 
 their own people, and which we liave found to 
 he the power of God uido our salvation ? Let 
 us further recollect the great benefit which 
 the Gentile cluu'ch will receive from their 
 conversion : oh ! when we look at the present 
 state of the church, when we see how little 
 of the life and power of godliness is mani- 
 fested, when we observe an eminent deficiency 
 in faith and love, we feel that the church is, 
 in comparison with what she ought to be, 
 spiritually dead ! When, oh when, will she 
 revive ? when, oh when, will there be life 
 in the enjoyment and in the practice of
 
 240 
 
 MemoHes of GoRpel Triumjilis Kmon;/ the Jews. 
 
 religion '? We are told when — told that it 
 will be when the ancient people of (iod are 
 gathered in ; tor " what will the receiving of 
 them be but life from the dead ? " We have 
 indeed been spiritually benefited by their 
 fall; but how much more shall we be bene- 
 fited by their restoration ! " If the fall of 
 them be the riches of the world, and the 
 diminishing of them the riches of the 
 Gentiles, how mnch more their fulness ? " 
 Ought we not, then, for the sake of the 
 church, to seek the spiritual interests of 
 Israel ? What ! can we really love CUirist, 
 can we really desire the prosperity of His 
 cause, and yet be indift'erent to the people 
 whose conversion is to be the grand means 
 of the le-conversion of the church, and 
 therefore also of the salvation of the world ? 
 Some will say, " All this may be true, but 
 the Jews are too prejudiced ever to believe 
 in Jesus of Nazareth." They are prejudiced ; 
 the veil is on their hearts, but surely they 
 are not beyond the povvei' of Divine gi-ace : 
 God can convert them, nay, we know that 
 He will convert them that, "out of Sion shall go 
 forth the Deliverer who shall turn away un- 
 godliness from Jacol) : '' He has promised, and 
 what He has promised He will surely per- 
 form. Perhaps, then, it will be said, Leave 
 it to God ; it is His work, and let us not 
 interfere with it. 15ut does not God work by 
 means, ami does He not tell lis what He 
 purposes to do in order that we may use the 
 means ( The prediction that the world .shall 
 be blessed in Christ encourages lis to laboui' 
 for the world ; why, then, should not the pre- 
 diction that Jews shall be blessed in Christ 
 encourage us to labour for Jews ? Besides, 
 we not only find it predicted that the Jews 
 shall be l)rought back to God, but that this 
 .shall bo through the instrumentality of the 
 mercy conferred on Gentiles. " Even ,so," 
 says the apostle Paid, "have these al.so now 
 not believed, that throiujh your mercy they 
 also might obtain mercy." If so, is it not 
 imlicated that Gentiles who have received 
 mercy ought to seek that tltat merci/ minj he 
 made the Dienns of l.hssinij the Jews ? 
 
 Still, some will say that the time has not 
 yet come. But how do we know th.at it is 
 not come ? it is not for us to know the times 
 
 .and the se.xsor.s which the Father hath put in 
 His own power l)\it to use the means, leaving 
 the result to Him. "Blindness," indeed, 
 " in part, is happened to Israel, until the 
 fulness of the Gentiles be come in ; " but to 
 \\ hat fulness is reference made ? cert.ainly 
 not to their full conversion to Christ, or there 
 would be no force in the passage already 
 rpioted, which teaches that the world and 
 that the Gentiles will be .so greatlj' blessed 
 by the s.alvation of Israel (Romans xi. 12). 
 By the fuln&ss of the Gentiles we must then 
 either understand, the fulness of the numbers 
 to be converted previously to the in-gathering 
 of Israel, or the fulness of the times of the 
 Gentiles, that is, the fulness of the times 
 during which the dispensation of the Gospel 
 is to be pre eminently and peculiarly a 
 Gentile dispensation. Either w.ay, we have 
 no authority to say that this fulness is not 
 now at hand. N.ay, there appear signs in the 
 spiritual heavens indicating that the time for 
 the conversion of the Jews is not distant. 
 Let us tlien labour on their behalf, let us 
 pray for them, saying, in the words of in- 
 spiration, " O Lord save thy i>eopIe, the 
 remn.ant of Israel." 
 
 Dr. Alliott .also rendered invaluable ser- 
 vice to the cause of Jewish Missions, a.s one 
 of the tutors in the Society's Ifebrew 
 Mission College, and as one of the first band 
 of preachers who ad\ocated its claims. In the 
 Jewish. Herald of J.anuaiy 1st, 1804, there 
 is the following notice of Dr. Alliott's 
 decease and disinterested efibrts on the 
 Society's behalf. 
 
 " Our ami.ible, learned, and pious friend, 
 the Rev. Richard Alliott, LL.I)., has been 
 summoned from a course of no ordinary im- 
 portance to the rest of the faithful. The 
 Society had the privilege of his early 
 persevering and valued co-operation as a 
 l)reacher, a tutor, and editor of the Jewish 
 Herald, and a warm-hearted and devout inter- 
 cessor for Israel. 
 
 "The holy man rests from his labours, and 
 his works follow him. The faithful servant 
 has received his gracious reward, and the 
 sower and the reaper shall rejoice in the 
 coming daj- of ingathering. ' "
 
 liev. J. Viney and Mr. Hershon, 
 
 241 
 
 REV. J. VINEY AND MR. HERSHON. 
 
 THE EEV. JOSIAH VINEY. 
 
 {With Portrait.) 
 
 J VINEY was born in London. For 
 a seven years he was in a merchant's 
 office, and he declined an oft«r of a partner- 
 ship in order to enter the Christian ministry. 
 His first pastoiate was at Heme Bay, where 
 he built an Infant School, but, by-and-by, 
 illness compelled him to leave the sea. In 
 1843 he settled at Bethnal Green, where, God 
 helping him, ho had the church built, and paid 
 forachapelandschools which costi'8,000. His 
 health beginning to fail from overwork, he 
 left, in 185G, for Highgate, where the chapel 
 was small. In a year after, he and his will- 
 ing people, built and paid for a new chapel 
 and schools, costing .£10,000. In 1874 he 
 visited Palestine with Drs. Raleigh and 
 Bruce, and the Rev. G. Clark, of Tasmania. 
 He built Verandah Cottages for poor families. 
 In 1883 he left Highgate for Caterham, 
 and in 1884 went to America. He also 
 built the Congregational School, for which 
 he collected £32,000, and which is free of 
 debt. He is Treasurer of the Congregational 
 School, the Evangelical Magazine Fund and 
 Trot man's Trust. He has often gone out as 
 a dejiutation on behalf of the Moravian 
 Missions and the London Missionary Society. 
 He published " Christian Fruitf ulness," " Val- 
 lej's and Villages of the Bible," &c. 
 
 Mil. viney's interest in the society. 
 
 Mr. George Yonge, at the reque.st of the 
 Rev. Josiah Viney, attended a meeting held 
 in his chapel, Bethnal Green, in July, 1844, 
 on behalf of the Society. 
 
 On Friday evening, the 11th of April, 
 184r/, a special .service was held in New 
 Court Chapel, Carej' Street, when Abraham 
 Karpen was baptized. On that occasion Mr. 
 Vine}' addressed the congregation on " The 
 influence such a service should have on the 
 minds of the spectators." 
 
 At the Second Annual Meeting, held on 
 Friday evening, the 25th of April, 1845, he 
 was elected a member of Committee. 
 
 In the first volume of the Jeirish Herald, 
 published in 1846, there appeared in thi-eo 
 paits the sub.stance of an admirable lecture 
 delivered by Mr. Viney to the Young Men's 
 
 Auxihary of the British Society, on "The 
 Characteristics of the Jewish Ritual," the 
 concluding passages of which we give here. 
 After having, with great clearness and 
 cogency deah with the Hebrew ritual as 
 Divine in its origin ; as a compilation of 
 what had been previously in existence ; as 
 the means of calling forth the generous 
 
 REV. JOSIAH VINEY. 
 
 giving and doing of the people ; as securing 
 for them various benefits, moral, physical, 
 civil and domestic ; as symbolical and typical 
 in its character ; as pre-eminently a pattern 
 which was imitated in the rituals of idolatrous 
 nations, he clo.sed appropriately as follows: — • 
 "Once more let me observe to you — that 
 this ritual was but temporary — for where is it 
 now? It was, indeed, deeply interesting, 
 and of vast importance to the age in which 
 it existed, securing, as we have seen, various 
 and important purposes, but where is it 
 now ? Where is the tabernacle, with its 
 curtains, its bars, and its pins ? Where
 
 242 
 
 Memories of Gospel Tnumphs among the Jews. 
 
 is the temple, with its glory and its splen- 
 dour? Where are the priests, the sons of 
 Levi, with their cities? Where is the ark, 
 with its propitiatory and its sacred court ? 
 Where is tlie urim and thummim, glistening 
 with symbolic meaning! Where is the 
 candlestick giving light to the inner sanc- 
 tuary? Where is the show-bread, so regu- 
 larly i-enewed ? Where is the altar of in- 
 cense, by which the angel once stood ? Where 
 are they all? Echo answers, Where! Tiie 
 system has passed away : no longer does the 
 silver trumpet sound the notes of jubilee. No 
 longer do the waving branches betoken the 
 feast of tabernacles, or the slain lamb the 
 feast of the passover. No more do the 
 white-robed Levites, passing the people like 
 celestial visitants, shed a holy and edifying 
 influence. No more does the high priest lift 
 the my.stic veil on the gi-eat day of atone- 
 ment. All, all is gone — and it was meant to 
 go. It has not faded by the natural course 
 of time : it has not mouldered by the lapse of 
 ages. No : it was intended to ilepai't. 
 
 " When that which was perfect had come, 
 tlien that which was in part was done away. 
 That which is comparatively perfect has come : 
 the great High Priest has appeared upon the 
 eai'th ; Aaron may, therefore, lay aside his 
 garments and his vest. The Lamb of God 
 has appeared ; the sacrificial victim is thus 
 needed no more : because the sun has risen in 
 his meridian glory we may be well content to 
 take leave of that which was but the dawn 
 and the twilight, and which had no gl'-)ry by 
 reason of the gloi-y that excelleth. 
 
 "I have thus, my dear friends, endeavoured 
 to place before you some few of the char.ic- 
 telistics of the Jewish ritual. We might 
 easily have extended our observations, and 
 glanced at several other features of interest 
 connected with the sacred institution : for 
 example, — its merciful character; its ten- 
 dency to prevent undue aristocracy of feeling; 
 its -arrangement with respect to proselytes; 
 its singular connexion with the number seven 
 ^seven days, seven weeks, seven years, seven 
 times of sprinkling, and so on ; but let these 
 suflice as topics worthy of greater attention 
 and as suggestive of others of equal interest 
 and importance. 
 
 " In now taking leave of the ancient 
 ritual, and not even waiting to compare it 
 with the sadly trivial lites practised by the 
 Jews now, let me urge upon you, as I would 
 upon myself, a gieater attention to the na- 
 tion whose ritual we have thus reviewed. 
 Very much, my friends, do we owe to the Jewish 
 
 people : and if we are a debtor to the Greeks 
 and to the Barbarians, more es[)ecially are we 
 so to the Jews : and how shall we best dis- 
 charge the obligation under which we are 
 placed? — Partly, by studying their history, 
 familiarising ourselves with then- ancient 
 usages, and endeavouring to understand their 
 true genius and character — partly by circu- 
 lating information among them, and en- 
 deavouring to bring them to a due regard 
 to their civil and religious interests — partly 
 by conciliating them to a better opinion of 
 Christianity, and in order to do this, avoiding 
 everything tliat would stir up animosity 
 and strife: but chiefly by seeking to turn 
 them from darkness to light and from the 
 power of Satan to God. Yes, my friends, 
 pure religion is the same in the case of 
 the Jew as it is in that of the Gentile. 
 We have been consi<lering their splendid 
 and interesting ritual, but never let us forget 
 spiritual religion is one and the same, for 
 God is a Spirit, and requireth spiritual 
 worsliip ; and let us remember whatever 
 modes and administrations there may have 
 been, there is but one way of salva- 
 tion — repentance towards God and faith 
 in our Lord Jesus Christ. To Him, while 
 grateful for spiritual light, let us seek to 
 tuin the Jew. In doing this let us use all 
 compassion towards those prejudices, the 
 strength of which, however they may seem 
 futile, we can but little conceive. Let us 
 exercise all dependence on the Divine influ- 
 ence to which the heart of Jew and Gentile 
 is equally accessible. Let us be urged to 
 duty by the assurance that all Israel shall be 
 saved, and by the conviction that, till tlie 
 nation is converted, the fulness of the Gen- 
 tiles will not be brought in; and let us, too, 
 look forward to that time when Jew and 
 Gentile, barbaiian, Scythian, bond and free, 
 shall all form one church, one holy fellow- 
 ship, and after manifesting the power of 
 religion on earth shall together enjoy that 
 world where no ritual will ever more be re- 
 quired, where they need no sun, no moon, no 
 temple, for the glory of God lightens it, and 
 the Lamb will be the light thereof." 
 
 The Eleventh Annual Meeting of the So- 
 ciety was held on Thursdaj' evening, the 27th 
 of April, 1854. After the Report was read 
 and adopted, the Meeting was specially ad- 
 dressed by the Rev. Josiah Viney on " The 
 Connexion between Missions to the Heathen 
 and to the Jews." 
 
 A few months ago we were delighted to 
 find that Mr. Viney and his excellent partner
 
 R<v. J. Vincy and Mr. llcrshi)n. 
 
 243 
 
 ill litV are still spared, and interested in the 
 gieat work. 
 
 MK. VINEY's letter TO THE EDITOR. 
 
 "Alleyne Hoir.sE, 
 "CATERHAjr Valley, S.E. 
 
 "■2lst October, 1893. 
 "My dear Sir: — I had ijuite forgotten 
 the articles in the Jevnsh Herald, but your 
 note recalls them. 
 
 '• During my pastorate at Bethnal Green, 
 1843 — 1857, I took great interest in the 
 Jews, and some pleasing incidents occurred. 
 A young Russian Jew (Epstein) became, I 
 believe, a sincere Christian. He was bit- 
 terly persecuted, being both anathematized 
 and disinherited by his father. Mrs. V. and 
 I did what we could for him, and for many 
 months obtained for him a living. He went 
 ultimately to Australia, and I do not know 
 whether he is living or dead. He was the 
 youngest son of a large and wealthy family. 
 The letter of cursing his father wrote to him 
 was terrible to read. 
 
 " Another Jew, by name Hershon, -wrote me 
 a letter, of which I send 3'ou a copy, and a 
 cornelian stone with the inscription in He- 
 brew he mentions. I did not know him, but 
 I prize his little testimonial gift. 
 
 ■'During the lifetime of my friend, Mr. 
 George Yonge, I often took part in meetings 
 for the benefit of the Jews, and wrote as 
 stated in the Herald. 
 
 " I send you, as requested, a few personal 
 dales and /acts, of which you can make what 
 use you like for your Jubilee volume, also a 
 photo, which would .synchronize with the 
 times of w-hich I have been writing. 
 
 "With Christian regards, I am, my dear 
 sir, yours truly, JosiAii Viney." 
 
 '■ P.S. — Mrs. Viney has added some par- 
 ticulars about young Epstein which I had 
 forgotten. He was a youth of gi-eat refine- 
 ment and sincere piety." 
 
 " Rev. J. DuNLop." 
 
 MRS. VIXEY's account OF THE CONVERSION OF 
 EPSTEIN AND HIS TWO BROTHERS. 
 
 "A Russian Jew had three sons. One came 
 to England and was converted. His father 
 sent another son to bring him back to the 
 faith of his fathers. The first son was the 
 means of kis conversion. In despair, the 
 parents sent the last son to try to bring them 
 back, and the only address he had was No. 7, 
 London. It so happened as he was seeking 
 them, he knocked at the first No. 7, and to 
 bis surpri.se and joy, fouu'l his lirothers 
 
 tliere, and while trying to induce them to 
 return to Judaism their conversation wsvs 
 the means of /lis conversion. He (the first- 
 mentioned) was discarded by his parents, and 
 disinheiited with parental curses. 
 
 " Though he was often reduced to great 
 poverty he would never accept money, unless 
 it was earned by doing something. At last, 
 he went to Australia, and the last letter 
 received from him showed that he was greatly 
 persecuted for his earnestness." 
 
 PAUL ISAAC HERSHOn's LETTER TO MR. 
 VINEY. 
 
 "Bethnal Green, 
 "August, 18.54. 
 
 " Rev. Sir — Though the occasions on which 
 I had the privilege to hear you ' rightly 
 dividing the word of truth ' were but few, 
 yet the amount of profit and edification I 
 derived Ls inexpressible. I mention thi.s, 
 not to flatter but to ' encoui'age ' you ; and, 
 as a small, insignificant token of my esteem- 
 ing you ' worthy of double honour,' I beg 
 that you would kindly accejit the enclo.sed 
 red stone, with the full assurance that the 
 Saviour will give you a ' white stone,' and 
 may the Hebrew engi-aved prayer on the 
 former — ' The Lord bless thee out of Zion,' — 
 be fulfilled in its widest spiritual .sense ! 
 
 " The enclosed I brought from Jerusalem, 
 and it was engraved by an Israelite there. 
 
 " With much respect and kind Christian 
 regards, I remain, Rev. Sir, yours in the 
 Lord, P. I. Hershon. 
 
 "Rev. J. ViNEY." 
 
 PAUL ISAAC HERSHON, MISSION- 
 ARY AND WRITER OF BOOKS 
 FOR MISSIONARIES. 
 
 (With Portrait.) 
 
 Paul Isaac Hershon was born of Jewish 
 parents at Buczacz (pronounced Bu-clnirch) 
 Galicia, Austrian Poland, in May (8th day 
 of the Jewish month lyar), 1818. Mr. 
 Hershon was an intimate fiiend of oiu-s. 
 Many a conversation we have had on Biblical 
 and Talmudical subjects. He enriciied the 
 pages of the Jtvish Herald w-ith instructive 
 and attractive articles from the beginning of 
 our editorship until his decease. He put 
 into our hands the first four chapters of 
 hLs autobiography, from wiiich we are eon- 
 strained to give here the following three 
 pa.ssages : — 
 
 R 2
 
 244 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 HIS BIRTH, PARENTAGE AND FIRST HOME. 
 
 " I was born and brought up a Jew. My 
 father was neither very rich nor very learned, 
 but he was a very strict and pious Jew, and 
 as such he did his best to bring up his only 
 son. My mother could read her prayers in 
 Hebrew, which not all Jewesses can do, and 
 she also, being no less strict and pious than 
 my father, did her best for me. 
 
 "I was born in Austrian Poland, intheyear 
 1818. Poland is a Roman Catholic country, 
 
 resolved to break up their old and comfortable 
 home,and remove with me to Moldavia, where 
 they thought my Judaism would be safe. 
 Poor Jews! what have they not to endure in 
 Moldavia, simply on account of their Judaism ! 
 yet thousands and tens of thousands of Jewish 
 refugees from the two neighbouring empires 
 of Austria and Russia, willingly endure the 
 bitter and cruel persecutions in Moldavia, 
 simply that they may be free from military 
 service in either of those two countries, and 
 
 MR. PAUL ISAAC HEIiSHON. 
 
 and the Christianity which I .saw there daily, 
 and at every nook and corner, only served to 
 strengthen my Jewish prejudices against it ; 
 and from my earliest youth I was taught to 
 look down upon it as an idolatrous religion, 
 and upon Christians as bitter enemies of God 
 and of God's own chosen and well-beloved 
 people. 
 
 " Having been an only son, .and my parents 
 fearing that in process of time I might be forced 
 into the Austrian army, where no Jew can 
 keep his religion in all its observances, they 
 
 free to exercise their religion, without hin- 
 drance, according to their conscience." 
 
 A WANDERER AND PENNILESS ON HIS WAY 
 TO JERUSALEM. 
 
 " Penniless ! — All ye that have never suf- 
 fered need, be thankful that ye are not 
 penniless ! And all you good and amiable 
 Christians, do not charge every Jew who 
 becomes a Christian, that he does so for 'the 
 loaves and the fishes!' for here I was a 
 penniless Jew, whereas, had I chosen, I might
 
 Rev. J. Viney and Mr. Ilenhun. 
 
 245 
 
 have been a rich man, simply by joining your 
 sister-Church — the Greek Church — and by 
 marrying a Gentile wife. 
 
 " In the very village where I was so unfor- 
 tunate as to become once more penniless, 
 lived a rich farmer who, only a few months 
 before my arrival there, lost all his relations 
 by the plague, excepting only one sister, a 
 pretty girl of seventeen or eighteen years old. 
 This farmer took a great fancy to me, not 
 only because I was a young Jew, and it 
 would be a great merit to win me over to 
 his Orthodox Greek Church, but because he 
 thought me to be more learned, more sober, 
 and more honest than his own ignoi-ant, 
 drunken, and dissolute old priest — (whom I, 
 a mere Jewish youth, had beaten in a public 
 discussion on a Biblical subject, and conse- 
 quently gained a wager of a certain measure 
 of wine lor the villagers to diink) — and that 
 I would make a good match for his young 
 sister, and a worthy heir of his own large 
 property. This farmer did all he could to 
 induce me to become a member of his Church 
 and of his family ; but I do not take even a 
 particle of credit to myself for resisting such 
 a temptation, because I can honestly confess 
 I did not feel in the least tempted. And let 
 me here add, as nothing in the world could 
 have induced me at that time to give up my 
 Judaism, so now nothing in the world would 
 induce me to return to it. Judaism, Eab- 
 binical Judaism, as far as I know ii, is a 
 curse to the Jew ! Thank God for redeem- 
 ing me from that curse ! and I do, and shall 
 for ever, praise Him for the blessing of 
 Christianity. 
 
 " Penniless as I was then, I made up my 
 mind to accept none of the situations offered 
 to me by various parties, for I found them 
 out to be an ungodly and dishonest set of 
 Jews, and I determined to i-eturn to Mol- 
 davia as soon as possible. However, ' man 
 proposes Init God disposes'; and, therefore, 
 instead of my going to Moldavia, the Lord 
 led me to a place I never thought of — to 
 Constantinople. He that sent tlie ravens to 
 feed Elijah in the wilderness, shortly sent 
 me the means to move Zion-ward, where He 
 intended to bless me, and where He had a 
 certain work for me to do." 
 
 AN EXAMPLE OF REAL BROTHEEHOOn. 
 
 " I also, about the same time, became much 
 attached to a young Austrian Jew ; and so 
 did he to me, and we were luiited as brothers, 
 in the following manner :- -On a certain day, 
 after morning prayer, and before we partook 
 
 of any food, we both went to a certain 
 cemetery, and over the grave of a certain 
 ' Jewish saint,' we joined our right hands, 
 and each repeated the formula somewhat to 
 the following effect: — ' I, A. B., son of CD., 
 take God, and heaven and earth, as also the 
 soul of this Tsadrk — peace be upon him ! — to 
 witness that I and tliou, M., the son of N., 
 are, from this day and henceforth, to be 
 brothers. Mine is thine, and thine is mine, 
 and ours is each other's, whether we be rich or 
 poor, single or married, we are always to help 
 and cherish one another as real brothers. 
 Amen. Selah ! So may it be the Will.' We 
 then embraced each other, and went home, 
 rejoicing together for the r-est of the day. 
 
 " No one knew anything about this our 
 sacred union of eternal brotherhood, but our 
 conduct to each otlier was .such as to attract 
 adruiration and inspire good-will and confi- 
 dence in all who knew us. 
 
 " Though my brother and I were in a higher 
 sense real partners, we were not so practically ; 
 we did rrot pursue the same line of business ; 
 we did not call each other to account as re- 
 gards earnings or expenditure ; nor, indeed, 
 did we even live together at one house; yet 
 we were knit together inwardly, though out- 
 wai'dly we were separate — at least for the 
 first few months after our' solemn union had 
 taken place — and then Providence united us 
 outwardly also, and subsequently tied us 
 together by faith in Christ, who ' is a Friend 
 that sticketh closer than a brother.' 
 
 WU. IlERSHON IN BEYROUT, JERU.SALEM, 
 AND LONBON. 
 
 Soon after his arrival at Beyr'out, in 
 the Caravanserai where he was staying, he 
 came in contact with a cultured Karaite, or 
 " Bible Jew," who completely shook his faith 
 in the Talmud as a Divine revelation, and 
 thereby prepared the way for his ultimate 
 reception of the Truth as it is in Christ. His 
 own words are : — " When the Talmud began 
 to give way the light of the Bible did not all 
 at once break irr upon me as a flood, but 
 gradually I felt like a man born and brought 
 up in a dark cellar, who could not possibly 
 comprehend that there is a large world 
 beyond the limits of his confinement, and 
 much more light than that of the scanty ray 
 which penetrates into his abode." 
 
 In 1842, he became a student of the 
 Hebrew College, in Jerusalem ; and after- 
 wards, for years he was superintendent of 
 the London Society's House of Industry 
 there. In 1854 when he was in Loudon, he
 
 24G 
 
 Memoones of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 iittendeil tlie ministry of Mr. Viiiey, a 
 ministry wliicli marked a new turning point 
 in his spiritual history After that, he 
 became a zealous missionarj' to the Jews in 
 Manchester. Then he was the enei'getic 
 Superintendent of the Palestine Model I'arm 
 at Jafl'a, started by a committee of Hebrew 
 Christians, which, in consequence of ill- 
 health, he resigned in 1859, and returned to 
 England. 
 
 MR. IIERSUON AS A MAKER (iF TOOLS FOR 
 MISSIONARIES AND MIXISTEKS. 
 
 Mr. Iler.shon ha.s published " Extracts 
 from the Talmud. Being Specimens of Wit, 
 Wisdom, Learning, etc., of the Wise and 
 Learned Rabbis," London, 1860; "Penta- 
 teuch according to the Talmud. Genesis," 
 1874 (Hebrew; in English, 1883); an im- 
 proved edition of the New Testament, in 
 Juda'o- Polish, published by the British and 
 Foreign Bible Society, 1874; "A Talmudic 
 Mi.scellany," 1880; '-Treasures of the Tal- 
 mud," 1882 ; " A ll.abbinical Commentary on 
 Genesis," 1885; and has left behind him in 
 manu.script " Exodus according to the Tal- 
 mud;" " Key to the Babylonian Talmud " 
 (reference to 1,400 classified subjects); 
 " Modern Orthodox Judaism, and what it 
 teaches about God, Man, and the World to 
 Come," 
 
 Dr. Farrar, Archdeacon and Canon of 
 Westminster, and our departed fiiend Air. 
 C. II. Spurgeon, have acknowledged the 
 value of the results of Mr. Hershon's Tal- 
 mudical re-'earches. The following is an 
 extract from one of our own reviews of his 
 works : — 
 
 MR. IIERSIIOn's "TREASURES OF 
 THE TALMUD." 
 
 When an author who has published a good 
 book has announced a second work, we 
 expect that by it, unlike the clock, he will 
 strike thirtecn-surpass himself — that at least 
 it will be worthy of him who wrote the 
 first. 
 
 All the Divine Author's last works are 
 best. lie made the more simple foi-uis of 
 being first, afterwards the more complex, 
 until at last there appeared u])on the scene 
 woman, the crown of creation. It wasgieat 
 to create, it is greater to redeem. The work 
 of Redemption is worthy of Him who made 
 the four-volum'd, flower-and-star-illumin'd 
 book of nature. Hence, the writer of the 
 
 Letter to the Hebrews says; "It hecume II tin, 
 for whom are all things, and through whom 
 are all things, in bringing many sons imto 
 glorj', to make the AiUlior of their salvation 
 perfect through sufferings. " The work of 
 Redem[)tion, in its means and ends, is woi thj' 
 of Him who made these glorious lieavens, 
 and this I'esplendent earth. 
 
 We are enjoined to be imitators of God, 
 and it would be a grand thing for humanity 
 if all authors would take ///;/( as their model. 
 If the authors of the Tahiiud had done so, 
 Mr. Hershon's delightful task woidd have 
 been to make known to English I'eaders a 
 book characterized by simplicity and sublim- 
 ity, variety in unity, evangelical fulness and 
 freshness, grace and truth. But they 
 did not choose to do so ; and .a sacred regard 
 for truth has compelled Mr. Hcrshon to tell 
 us that their work is a combination of evil 
 and good, deformity and beauty ; that in it 
 there are many i-epulsive things, but wlien be 
 finds among these, beauties, gems of wit and 
 wisdom, he never fails to bring them to the 
 light. 
 
 This new work, " Treasures of the 
 Talmud," is worthy of him who in 1880, 
 published the "Talmudic Miscellany." The 
 numerical plan of the " jMiscellany," is good, 
 but the plan of the "Treasures" is still 
 better. There was a good man, a gardener 
 in a gentleman's place when a boy. Said the 
 gentleman one day, " John, what do yo>i 
 think of the improvements the lord is 
 making ? " John thought a little and replied, 
 " I'll no' say they're all iraprovements-they're 
 alterations at any lute." John was light. 
 Alterations are not always improvements; but 
 in Mr. Hershon's " Treasures " they are. 
 The subjects are cla.ssified alphabetically from 
 A to L, thus ; 
 
 "Adam; Affliction; Alms; Ark and Tables 
 of the Covenant ; Books, sacred and profane ; 
 Commandments; Day of Atonement; Ear; 
 Fasts and F'asting; Good Works; Ho.spitality; 
 Idolatry; Jerusalem ; Kings, &c. ; Land of 
 Israel." English readers who desire to know 
 the thoughts of the Talmudists about the.se 
 subjects cannot do better than buy and study 
 "Treasures of the Talmud." 
 
 A good maxim for readers and re\ iowei-s is : 
 
 *' In every work regard I lie autborV end, 
 Since none can cdinpas.s more tlian they intend." 
 
 Our learned author's end is given, in an 
 interesting and appropriate manner, at the 
 beginning of his preface, thus : — 
 
 " When the Roman Emperor Hadrian was
 
 Rev. J. Viney mid Mr. Jfrrskon. 
 
 247 
 
 The Talmud under the Figure of a Bride. 
 
 SosiE have thrown a veil on all that is had in tlie Talmm!, others on all that is good; few 
 have dealt with it impartially. 
 
 THE TALMUD AS REPRESENTED BY 
 
 E. DEUTSCH. P. I. IlERSnON. J. A. EISENMENGEK. 
 
 3 nai'p:' 
 
 Tlie following is a translation of the Hebrew uiottoe.^, drawn from Scripture and the 
 Tahiuid, which need no comment : — 
 
 E. DEUTSCH. 
 
 Thou hast ravished my 
 heai t, my sister, my Bride ! 
 Thou hast ravished my 
 heart with one of thine eyes ! 
 Thou art all fair, my love ; 
 there is iiu spul in thee ! 
 
 (Song iv. 7, 9.) 
 
 P. I. HERSnON. 
 
 J. A. EISENMENCER. 
 
 The Bride as she is ! ' Fie upon the Bride that 
 Beautiful and gi-aceful (on | is unfaithful during her nup- 
 
 the one hand), lame or blind 
 (on the other). Keep thee 
 far from a false matter. 
 (K'thuboth fol. 17, col. 1. 
 Exod. xxiii. 7.) 
 
 tials !— She is full oj de- 
 formities ! — A contentious 
 and an angi-y woman! (Shab- 
 bath fol. 88, col. 2 ; Nodarim 
 fol. 66, col. 2; Prov. x.\i. 19.)
 
 248 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs amang the Jeivs. 
 
 on a tour of inspection in Palestine, as we 
 are told in a certain Miilrash,* he noticad in 
 a vinej'ard near Tiberias a very aged Israelite 
 planting a young fig tree. ' Old man,' said 
 the Emperor, 'pray what maybe thine age?' 
 ' By the life of my lord the king,' replied 
 the aged Hebrew, ' I am this very day a 
 hundred years old.' ' And dost thou hope 
 ever to eat the fruit of thy labour, seeing 
 thou art so very old?' asked the Emperor. 
 ' I plant this tree with the object that it 
 should bear fruit ; if it please God that I 
 
 A SPECIMEN OF MR. HERSHON S CONTRIBUTIONS 
 TO THE " JEWISH HERALD." 
 
 THE TEMPLE DESTROYED AND FOXES 
 WALKING ON ZION, REASONS FOR HE- 
 JOICIN(i. 
 
 f^Transhifed from the TuliiiuiL) 
 By p. I. Hehshon. 
 Rabbon Gamliel, Rabbi Eliezer ben Azar- 
 yah. Rabbi Yeoshua, and Rabbi Akiva 
 once went on a journey to Rome, and at 
 Puteoli they aheady heard the noisy din of 
 the city, though at a distance of a hundred 
 
 l-l).\ES WALKING ON ZION. 
 
 should eat thereof, well and good ; if not, let 
 others after me enjoy the same even as I 
 have enjoyed the results of the labour of 
 those who weie before me,' was the noble 
 response of the unselfish and industrious Jew. 
 It is with a somewhat similar object and with 
 precisely the same sentiments and feelings 
 that I have laboured to rear this young 
 plant, so to speak, of the old tree of the 
 Talmud, which I now offer to the English 
 public." 
 
 • Based on a Talmudic Legend. 
 
 and twenty miles. At the sound all shed 
 tears except Akiva, who began to laugh. 
 " Why laughest thou?" they asked. " Why 
 do you cry?" be retorted. They answered, 
 " These Romans, who worship idols of wood 
 and stone and offer incense to stars and 
 planets, abide in peace and quietness, while 
 our temple, which was the footstool of our 
 God, is consumed by fire, how can we help 
 weeping?" "That is just the very reason," said 
 he, " why I rejoice ; for if such be the lot of 
 those who transgress His laws, what shall the 
 lot of those be who observe and do them ? "
 
 The Rev. Henry Allan, D.D. 
 
 249 
 
 Again, they were going up to Jerusalem, 
 and on reaching the Slount of the Giiardw, 
 they rent their clothes. Approaching the 
 Temple Mount, and observing a fox issuing 
 from where the Holy of Holies was, they 
 began to weep, and liabbi Akiva to laugh. 
 " Why do you weep ? " he asked. They re- 
 plied: (Lam. V. IS) "'The foxes walk upon 
 it ! ' — upon the very place, concerning which 
 it is said (Num. i. 51) ' The stranger that 
 cometh nigh, shall be put to death ; ' and 
 shall we not weep?" He said: "That Ls 
 j ust the reason why I laugh ; for it is written 
 (Isa. viii. 2), 'And I took unto me faithful 
 witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and 
 Zechariah the son of Zeberechia.' What 
 connexion is there between Uriah, who 
 flpurLshed during the first Temple, and 
 Zechariah (the son of Berechia, not Zeberechia) 
 who lived during the second Temple? But 
 Scripture attaches the prediction of Zechariah 
 to the prediction of Uriah. By Uriah it is 
 written (Micali iii. 12, the commentators in 
 loco are puzzled by the ascription of this 
 prophecy to Uriah) : — ' Therefore .shall Zion 
 for your sake be ploughed as a field ; ' and in 
 Zechariah it is written (Zech. viii. 4); ' There 
 shall yet old men and old women dwell in the 
 street of Jerusalem.' So long as the predic- 
 tion of Uriah remained unfulfilled, I was 
 afr.iid lest that of Zechnriah should also not 
 be fulfilled; but now, the prophecy of the 
 
 former being fulfilled (so that foxes walk 
 upon Zion as on a ploughed field), it is there- 
 fore certain that the prophecy of the latter 
 will also be fulfilled." Tliey all then ex- 
 claimed : " t^n^py ! i:nbn'': xD^py 
 
 ' "l3nJDn*J Akiva ! thou hast comforted us ! 
 Akiva ! thou hast comforted us ! " — Maccoth, 
 fol. 24, A. and b. 
 
 MR. HERSHOX'S PEACEFUL DiPARTUEE. 
 
 In 1888, at the age of 70, our dear friend 
 and brother, Mr. Paul Isaac Hershon, while 
 trusting only in the righteousness of our 
 adorable Redeemer, passed away in perfect 
 peace, to be for ever with Him where He is, 
 and — 
 
 " Where the s-aints in hosts assemble, 
 Where they gather one by one, 
 Homeward through the evening shadows. 
 Turning, when the day is done, 
 Homeward to the God Who bade them 
 Labour on till set of sun. 
 
 " \^ here in one sublime communion. 
 Rapt as one adoring soul, 
 Earth's divisions all fcjrgotten, 
 Each one only aim control ; 
 Where in His dear presence bending. 
 Every heart hath reached its goal. 
 
 " Where the saints in joy's perfection, 
 Strangely like their Saviour grown, 
 Flinging forth one hymn of triumph, 
 As they worship round the throne, 
 Alleluias raise to Jesus. 
 Who redeemed them for His own." 
 
 THE REV. HENRY ALLON, D.D. 
 
 Officially cokxected witk tee British Society from 1845, until his death in 1892. 
 
 {With Portrait.) 
 
 HENRY ALLON was born at Welton, 
 in Yorkshire, in 1818, his parents 
 being of the yeoman class. His early religious 
 impressions were received among the 
 Wesleyans, but on removing to Beverley, 
 in connection with the trade he was learning, 
 he joined the Independent Church there, 
 under the ministry of Rev. John Mather. 
 This gentleman, having discerned in him 
 unusual qualifications for the ministry, 
 secured for him the means of private study 
 in spare hours, and then assisted his entry at 
 Cheshunt College. Dr. Harris was then the 
 principal of Cheshunt, and young Allon 
 became his favourite pupil, and, ere long, 
 his intimate friend. In June, 1843, he was 
 sent to preach at Union Chapel, Islington, 
 whose pastor. Rev. Thomas Lewis, was 
 
 absent on a holid.ay. The impression made 
 by the young preacher was such that soon 
 he was oflered the co-pastorate, an oflice on 
 which he entered on the first Sunday of 
 1844. 
 
 The Church at Union Chapel, of which 
 Mr. Lewis was first minister, had its origin 
 in 1802, in a spontaneous a.s.sociation of 
 Episcopalians and Nonconfoi'mists, who 
 sought for themselves — the former a more 
 evangelical ministry than could be found at 
 the parish church, and the latter some pro- 
 vision for evangelical worship in addition to 
 the two Nonconformist chapels then existing. 
 An improved condition of things in the 
 Anglican churches in the neighbourhood led 
 to tlie gradual withdrawal of the Episcopalian 
 section of the congregation. In 1861 the
 
 250 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs miiong the Jeivs. 
 
 old chapel in Comptoii Terrace was eiihugeil, 
 but even then it was found insutticient for 
 the influential and constantly increasing 
 congregation attracted by Dr. Alton's 
 ministry; and in 1877 the present noble 
 
 Movement long [before thatiphrase was in- 
 vented. _~ 
 
 For twenty years Dr. A lion was editor of 
 ?'/(« ISrllish Qimiierh/ Uerleir. "^ He wrote 
 the Life of James Sherman and the biography 
 
 <4?^ ^^ 
 
 i;ev. HENia ai.uin, u.u. 
 
 pile, which has been called the Cathedral of 
 Nonconformity, accommodating some 2,0U() 
 people, was erected at a cost, including the 
 freehold site, of nearly f.'XJjOOO. Dr. AUon 
 taught his people to be hard workers in every 
 good cause. They were in tiie Forward 
 
 of Mr. Einney, prefLxod to a volume of the 
 latter's sermons. There is a volume of 
 sermons from his pen entitled " The Vision 
 of God," and a new volume, the preparation 
 of which for the Press was one of his last 
 labours. His services in the field of
 
 The Rev. Henry Alton. D.D. 
 
 •2-A 
 
 hymnology and of psalmody were also enough 
 in tiicmselves to secure him abiding fame. 
 
 Tlie degree of D.D., which he received 
 from Yale College, in America, and from 
 Aliei-deen, was a well-earned recognition of 
 ability and culture. He was elected on two 
 occasions to the Chairmanship of the Con- 
 gregational Union, in 1864 and 1881. 
 
 DR. ALLON's sudden DEPARTURE. 
 
 About .3 o'clock on Saturday morning, the 
 IGtli April, 1892, Dr. AUon was aroused liy 
 a sense of depression. He took .a cup of 
 coffee and expressed himself relieved, but 
 soon after he pa-ssed peacefully and painlessly 
 away. 
 
 At the funeral .service held on Thursday, 
 April 21st, Dr. Reynolds, the principal of 
 Cheshunt College, delivered a beautiful 
 addre.ss, near the close of which he said : — 
 " His departure from us is not like the falling 
 crash of a great tree to whose support we 
 had clung fondly while the birds of tlie air 
 sang in the branches, Init it is rather like the 
 reaping of a noble shock of corn fully ripe. 
 The Keaper of this golden grain is not 
 Death, but our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, 
 who had need of these i-ipe eai-s. We must 
 be willing in the day of our Lord's great 
 power. We dare not gi-udge tliis noble 
 worker and soldier of the faith to the armies 
 of heaven. He has long been preparing for 
 the perfect service, for the joy of the Lord. 
 Now he has entered upon it, with all the 
 deep humilit}' of his nature, with all the 
 brightness of a hope no longer deferred, 
 amid the reverence and love of all the 
 churches of Christ. 
 
 " Such a departure is a new argument, if 
 we needed one, for the reality and fulness of 
 the perfect life on which we are certain he 
 must have entered ; so we sing while we 
 weep, we blend our sighs with hopes, untd 
 they break iutohosannas. We cannot define 
 nor oracularly reveal all we hold ; but in the 
 light which breaks through the deep shadow 
 we know that our hope is full of immortality." 
 
 INSCRIPTION' UPON THE MONUMENT IN ABNEY 
 PARK CEMETERY. 
 
 In Memoriam. 
 HENRY ALLOX, D.D. 
 For fiirty-eiglit years minister of Union Chapel, 
 Conipton Terrace, Islington. 
 
 Born .It Welton, York.shirc, October IStli, ISIS. 
 
 Died :it Islington. April Kitli, IS<>2. 
 For it we believe that Jesus ilitd and ro.se agam, 
 even so them also which sleep in .lesus will God bring 
 with Him. ... So sh-ill we ever be with the 
 Lord."— 1 Thes3. iv., 11 & 15. 
 
 1)U. ALLON's early INTEREST IN THE 
 BRITISH SOCIERY. 
 
 Near the beginning of 1845, he became a 
 member of Committee. On the 2;jth of 
 April, 1845, he attended the .second annual 
 meeting of the Society and seconded the 
 fourth resolution. 
 
 Before he ha<l finished his curriculum and 
 had left Cheshunt College fifty years ago, his 
 tutor said of him : " We luive one man here 
 who, if life and strength be granted will .soon 
 outreach and overtop us all." These words 
 were prophetic, and were litei-ally fulfilled. 
 Dr. Allon began to rise by following the 
 good example of his distinguished tutor, Dr. 
 Harris, by lecturing and preaching on behalf 
 of the British Society for the Propagation 
 of the Gospel among the Jews. 
 
 The following extracts have been taken 
 from Dr. Allon's first published lecture for 
 the Society, delivered in Union Chapel, 
 Lslington, on Sundny evening the ISth April, 
 1847, on, "The religion of Moses and the 
 religion of Jesus essentially the same." 
 
 From this grand lecture we quote here 
 his powerful and touching Appeal to the 
 Jews. 
 
 " Now this is all that we a.sk of you, that 
 you should earnestly .and impartially, ex- 
 amine the claims to the Messiahship put 
 forth by Jesus of Na/.areth. Truth has 
 notliing to fear from such inquiry ; it is only 
 error that hides its head and fears to look 
 upon evidence. 
 
 " And as to our.i;eh'es, we ask you to give us 
 credit for the purest motives and for the 
 kindlie.st feelings in the.se our solicitudes. It 
 will not advantage us that you become 
 Christians. We wish it simply because we 
 believe Christianity to be true, and because 
 you have souls for which it proffers a 
 salvation. We have no personal intere.sts 
 involved, no selfish ends to answer. We 
 have no proselyting intolerance, no Gentile 
 animosity. We loathe not at the name of 
 Jew. We repudiate the Christianity that 
 does not love and reverence you. We honour 
 your name. None has so proud a heraldrj', 
 so gloriovis an ancestry ; it is chief in the 
 lists of famr. No chronicle ha-s recorded a 
 history so marvellous — no uunstrel sung a 
 theme so inspiring. All that heroic deed or 
 classic page records fades before its splendour. 
 You are the first-born of the family of God 
 — the eldest of the spiritiial household ; and 
 we accord to you the privilege and honours 
 of primogeniture. At one time you were 
 the sole conservators of true religion; the
 
 252 
 
 Memones- of Gospd Tnuinphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 covenants which enveloped the spiritual 
 destinies of the woikl were made with your 
 ancestors, and deposited in your keeping. 
 God Himself became your king ; Moses was 
 yoiii- prophet, and Aaron your priest. 
 Miracles were the incidents of your history. 
 Your law was God's own Scripture, and was 
 delivered to you amid the awful splendours 
 of Sinai. Yours was the tabernacle upon 
 which the pillar of cloud rested — the temple 
 in which the Shechinah shone. Yours were 
 the prophets whom God Himself inspired. 
 The seed are you of a glorious race. 
 ' While concerning the Go.spel you are 
 enemies, yet as touching the election you are 
 beloved for your fathei's' sakes.' 
 
 " We 7-everence your Scriptures. We believe 
 them to be inspired Truth — the sure Words 
 of God. We I'ecognize tlieir authority, obey 
 their behests, honour them as the first and 
 still binding records of inspiration. We 
 reverence your land. Not more rapturous 
 than that of a Christian is the response of a 
 Jewish heart to its name— not more leverent 
 the tread of a Jewish foot; tremblingly do 
 we gaze on its towers ; breathlessly do we 
 walk its streets ; mournfully do we bend over 
 its ruins; we ' take pleasure in its stones;' 
 we 'favour the dust thereof;' tearfully do 
 we recall its history — its patriarchal glory — 
 its kingly splendour — its mouldering magni- 
 ficence — its M.-iccabeean heroism. The out- 
 line of its land is mapped upon our memories 
 — its names are famili;u' to our ears — its 
 memorials are in our homes as our most 
 sacred treasuries — its history is more familiar 
 than our own — all that is precious to us we 
 associate with its soil — we have all the 
 memories of prophet and of king that you 
 so greatly cherish, and our own Christian 
 associations besides. It is to us the theatre 
 of two dispensations — the scene of two grand 
 histories. We horrour yours ; brrt glorious as 
 it is, it is not the brightne.ss, but the shadow, 
 of our visions of Palestine ; it is faded by 
 the nrore recent interest of the INIessiah, 
 Oh, nrore than even a Jew have we cairse to 
 love Jerusalem. If it be not the land of oirr 
 civil, it is of our .sacred history; if it be rrot 
 the corrntr-y of our ancestors, it is of our 
 Saviour ; if it be not the scene of our 
 natiorral splendour, it is of our common 
 salvation. To us, therefore, it is as the 
 paradise of the earth, as the holy of holies, 
 the place of our Messiah ; holier is it than 
 our household hearth — our Sabbath altar ; 
 holy is it in all its scenes ; in all its parts. 
 He whom we worship has trodden its soil 
 
 and breathed its air — its fields have felt His 
 footsteps — its atmosphere has thrilled to His 
 voice — its r'ocks have rent at His agorry — its 
 sun has dar-kened at His death. Holy is its 
 desert, for He was tempted ther-e ; holy its 
 mountaiirs, for ther-e He prayed ; holy its 
 cities, for He taught in their streets ; holy 
 its houses, for in them He dwelt ; holy its 
 garderr, for there He was in an agony ; holy 
 even its Golgotha, for there He was crucified. 
 Oh, think not that a true ChrLstran carr scorn 
 the name, or slight the Scr-ipture, or think 
 lightly of the land, of the Jews. All that 
 is precious to us — INIoses and the prophets, 
 Jesrrs and the apostles — all are of the Jews ; 
 and veneration, gratitude, yearning afiection, 
 are our emotions at yoirr rrame. 
 
 " The passage that I read at the commence- 
 ment is usirall)' uriderstood to refer to the 
 Messiah, and to declare that between Him 
 arrd Moses there shoirld be a gre^t resem- 
 blance ; and we thirrk it would be very easy 
 to find the analogue in Jesus of Nazareth ; 
 so striking is the similitude, that we deem 
 the one to have been a type of the other ; 
 the history and character of Moses shadowed 
 out with such precision those of Jesrrs, that 
 he may justly be regarded as a prophecy as 
 well as a prophet, an exemplar as well as a 
 herald ; iir the truest arrd most literal .sense 
 ' did God raise irp in Jesrrs a pr-ophet orrt of 
 the midst of His brethrerr, like rrnto Moses.' 
 
 ■'The Christiarr law never varies from the 
 Jewish, save to trarrscend it. The larrguage 
 of Moses is, ' Thou shalt love the Lord thy 
 God with all thy heart, arrd with all thy soirl, 
 and with all thy strength ; ' and such, even 
 to ver-bal identity, is the larrguage of Jesus. 
 The larrguage of Moses is, ' Thou shalt love 
 thy neighbour as thyself ;' and the Saviour 
 has transcribed the iir junction. ' Thou shalt 
 not kill,' said Moses ; 'He that is angry 
 with his brother without a ca.rse,' says the 
 Christian Lawgiver, ' is a violator of this 
 commandment'. ' Thou shall rrot commit 
 adultery,' said Moses ; ' Whosoever looketh 
 orr a woman to lust after her,' said the 
 republisher of the law, ' hath committed 
 adultery with her already in his heai-t.' 
 ' Thou shalt not forswear thyself,' said 
 Moses ; ' Swear not at all,' said the Teacher 
 of Christian morality. ' An eye for an eye,' 
 said Moses ; ' If any one smite thee on thy 
 right cheek,' said the Messiah, ' turn to him 
 the other also' — that is, forbear the retalia- 
 tion, be greater than just, be merciful. 
 ' Thoir shalt love thy neighliour, and hate 
 thirre enemy,' said the Jewish prophet ; ' I
 
 The Rev. Henry Allon, D.D. 
 
 253 
 
 say unto you, Love your enemies ; bless them 
 tliat curse you ; do good to them that 
 despitefully use you and persecute you,' said 
 the Christian Prophet. He reiterated the 
 law, and taught it not merely in the letter, 
 but in the spirit of it. And by so much the 
 more as the spirit is superior to the letter, by 
 so much the more is His morality superior to 
 that of Judaism. ' He came not to destroy 
 the law and the prophets, but [in His teach- 
 ing and in His life] to fulfil it.' " 
 
 " His most indifferent acts 
 Were motives to the good — examples pure. 
 His verj' looks became as founts of grace, 
 Whence timid virtue in her need drew strength.' 
 * * * * 
 
 "What need of law 
 To those who saw His life i Looking to Him, 
 
 The law stond silent bj-, and asked Do more-- 
 He Wivs the holy law impersonate, 
 
 Republished, and divested of its frowns — 
 Winning obedience by no force but love." 
 
 " Instead of abohshing the law, Jesus came 
 to restore and make it honorable, and 
 establish it everlastingly, by shedding HLs 
 blood to pay the penalty of it, due for man's 
 sin. And from Him every injunction of it 
 received the most reverent regard, the mast 
 ample honour, and the most solemn reitera- 
 tion. 
 
 " And now we think you will perceive that 
 in no essential thing does the religion of 
 Jesus differ from the religion of Moses. 
 Their doctrines of God, of human nature, 
 of sin, of e.xpiation, and of holiness, are 
 exactly alike ; in circumstantials they differ, 
 in rites and forms of teaching ; they have 
 different ceremonies and different sanctions, 
 but not different Truth ; they teach the .same 
 Truth, just as I might preach It in different 
 words or in different languages. 
 
 '• The sole and simple question therefore, to 
 bs determined by you is. Is not Jesus of 
 Nazareth the true Messiah ? We hold that 
 He is ; that Judaism, by its ceremonies, 
 typified His work as a Saviour, His death as 
 an atonement ; and that when He appeared 
 the Jewish system came to an end ; there 
 was no longer need of type, for He was the 
 antitype; of symbol, for He was the thing 
 signified. Hence when He had come, the 
 temple was overthrown, sacrifices ceased, 
 and, because of their wicked rejection of 
 
 Him, the Jewish nation was scattered. If 
 He were not the Messiah, then the Messiah 
 has not yet come, and Judaism is not inter- 
 preted, its mysteries have received no 
 solution ; it is, so far as we can estimate it, 
 a mere ceremonial, nor is there likelihood of 
 its ever being otherwise ; for ' prophecies 
 have failed,' — ' the sceptre has departed 
 from Judih ' before the ' Shiloh ' has 
 come. 
 
 " Oh, let me entreat you to examine the 
 claims of this Jesus ; reject him not, as your 
 fathers did. He has wrought miracles — are 
 they not sufficient to establish His claim ? 
 He fulfilled prophecies ; He came at the 
 time that your nation expected the ^Messiah, 
 and no one has come since. And now you are 
 scattered ; your genealogies are destroyed ; 
 you have no means of recognizing a Messiah, 
 even should one come. You conld not prove 
 Him of the seed of David, of the tribe of 
 Judah. You are, moreover, forced to explain 
 away from Jesus of Nazareth the prophecies 
 of your prophets. God has scattered you, 
 just as He threatened if 3'ou i-ejected the 
 Messiah ; and almost you even despair of a 
 Me.ssiah at all. 
 
 " Now look again to Jesus of Nazareth ; 
 read the New Testament to see what are His 
 claims. Surely there can be no harm in 
 that. Look at the facts of His history ; 
 ponder them one by one, and compare them 
 with your prophecies, especially with the 
 fifty third of Isaiah. And then act upon 
 your conviction, whatever it may be. Sal- 
 vation is a momentous matter ; the soul is a 
 thing for eternity ; and it is purely a per- 
 sonal concern. You will not be saved by 
 being nationally either Jew or Christian. 
 Many Jews were cut ofl', and many so-called 
 Christians will be cut off also. Religion is a 
 thing solely between God and yourself. No 
 one else can in this sense meddle with it, 
 either to help or to hinder. You may be 
 saved, a member of an evil nation ; or lost, 
 a member of a holy one. Oh, search the 
 Scripture for yourselves ; pray that God 
 would give you light. Act upon your con- 
 victions : forsake all sin ; and may the ' Lord 
 grant that you may find mercy of the Lord 
 in that day.' "
 
 254 
 
 Meniones of Gospel Triumphs among the Jexvs. 
 
 THE REV. JOHN ALDIS. 
 
 (Wilh Portrait.) 
 
 JOHN ALDIS was born on the 11th of 
 May, 1808; went to Horton (now Kaw- 
 don) College in 1828 ; settled in Manchester 
 1830; removed to INlaze Pond, London, 1838; 
 thence to Heading in 1855 ; then to Plymouth 
 in 1869 ; and finally resigned in 1877. 
 
 In 1870 he married Esther Acworth, a 
 niece of Dr. Acworth, President of Piawdon 
 College. 
 
 The name of Mr. Aldis first appears on 
 the list of the Society's c tficeis for the year 
 1S45-G. 
 
 Mr. Aldis was present at the Nineteenth 
 Annual Meeting, held on the 25th of Apiil, 
 1802, and delivered the following admirable 
 speech. 
 
 SPEECH BY MR. ALDIS. 
 
 Sir — I have been requested to move the 
 following resolution — " That the course and 
 aspect of public events bid us wait in prayer 
 and faith, prepared to improve the fresh 
 openings which may present themselves for 
 extendnig our agency." I was anxious, before 
 I came to this meeting, to secure some mate- 
 rials upon which I might found the few ob- 
 servations I may address to you, and I ^vrote 
 to Mr. Yonge to furnish me with some of the 
 documents which he receives fiom the agents 
 of your Society in refei-eiice to their respec- 
 tive spheres of action ; but I found the mate- 
 rials which the Secretary was so kind to for- 
 ward me were altogether unavailable for me. 
 I fovnid I could not condense the communi- 
 cations with any effect, and that if I read 
 them in detail, I should only be doing the 
 work over again, and in a less desiraljle form 
 than has been done by the Secretary. Yet 
 there were some few suggestions furnished 
 by these \yiitings, to which I will venture to 
 give utterance now. True, most of them 
 have been already adverted to ; still they 
 are essentially interwoven with the whole of 
 the materials with which this Society carries 
 on its work. One thing struck me much — 
 the peculiar qualifications require! by the 
 agents of this Society, and the great and 
 manifest goodness of God in giving to the 
 agents those very qualifications which seem 
 so peculiar, and are yet so indispensable. In 
 these cases our brethren are not called ujiou 
 
 or allowed to address large congregations, to 
 stand up in the synagogue or chapel ; they 
 have to go fiom house to house, to speak 
 man to man ; it is in almost every case an 
 individual affair. Such proceedings require 
 very peculiar qualifications; great personal 
 courage ; a heart steeped in the loving con- 
 sciousness of evangelical religion ; a thoiough 
 conviction that never falters, that no for- 
 malism can either prompt or sustain ; im- 
 mense wisdom to secure access to people 
 most difficult of access, and to retain that 
 access when once gained ; to use it so that it 
 may neither be abused on the one hand, nor 
 rendered impiacticable or of no avail for the 
 future, on the other. Yet the.se men seem 
 to be eminently adapted for their work. 
 Above all men I think they are daserving 
 tlie .sympathies of their friends ; above all 
 agents of any Society they need the prayers 
 of their friends. Wo shall not be faitliful 
 to the work, nor just to them, if we fail to 
 remembei' these beloved brethren when we 
 are nearest to that throne whence all graces 
 are dispensed. Among other things that 
 struck me was the immense extent, and the 
 scattered nature, of their work. You find 
 in Ireland a larger population than that 
 which constitutes the entiie nation of the 
 Jews ; in Delgium you have an equal popu- 
 lation in a .spot not half the size of Ireland. 
 The Apostle James addressed his Epistle to the 
 twelve tribes scattered abroad. You may well 
 do that, for in every city in Europe, nay, in 
 the whole world, you have a dense popula- 
 tion among.st which to pursue your work. 
 There is room for faith and patience in every 
 work of God ; and I know of no work to 
 which the Chui'ch is [jledged that has so 
 much need of faith and patience as this 
 peculiar work. Yet faith can trust to Gods 
 purpose, not to cast off His people, and 
 patience will work, for God's promise is sure 
 — that all Israel shall be saved. Look to. 
 the facilities which 3'our Society possesses of 
 at once taking possession of the most inte- 
 I'esting and useful fields of labour. The Jews 
 are scattered amidst almost every nation ; 
 there is hirdly a cnpital in Europe where there 
 are not a considerable niunbor. In Paris, 
 Home, Berlin — if there is an outburst of
 
 The Rev. John Aldis. 
 
 255 
 
 liberty, an opportvinity of speaking, a move- 
 ment of mintl, an awakening of heart and 
 conscience, thei'e is tlie Jew ; and some one 
 of your agents can reach them at once. As 
 regards the movement in Ital)', one of its 
 grand results must be to convince our Jewish 
 brethren tliat the tyranny which binds tliem 
 by the force and power of tlie tiara is equally 
 the tj'ranny which holils out against our 
 
 obligations exist when they are most 
 forgotten, although we may not like to 
 be reminded of them. It is sweetest 
 and best when the claims of obligation are 
 lost in the impulses of love. The Macedo- 
 nians were Gentiles ; they made a collection 
 for the Jew.s — they were under no obligation 
 to do so ; but they did not think of that — 
 and Paul said, " You have been made par- 
 
 Kf:V. JOHN ALDIS. 
 
 common Protestanti^m ; that we are linked 
 together in the enjoyment of a common lot. 
 Let the Jews feel that the same tyranny that 
 oppresses them is that sy.stem which aims at 
 our destruction, and we shall have .1 common 
 cau.se of sympathy, and it will be one of the 
 means of opening their hearts to the recep- 
 tion of the Gospel Truth. Men are alwajs 
 apt to forget theii' obligations ; they do not 
 like to be leminded of them ; but the 
 
 takers of the Jews' spii-itual things by their 
 means." If you a.sk me what obligation you 
 lie under to them, I would reply in the lan- 
 guage of our Lord, " Salvation is of the 
 Jews." Our forefathers were painted savages 
 and bloody idolators : however much we have 
 gotten it ha.s come to us through the means 
 of human instrumentalities. It behoves us 
 to remember that tiade and commei-ce, phi- 
 lo.'ophy and art, together with all the
 
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 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 resources of wealth, intelligence, government 
 and law have come to us from without — no 
 man can despise them unless he is a fool, or 
 unless he be indolent and vicious in his cha- 
 racter. We have received our trade and 
 commerce from Tyre and Carthage ; our 
 philosophy and art from Greece ; our laws 
 and government from Home ; but all these 
 things are light as air, mean as dust in com- 
 parison with the words of the Saviour. They 
 have helped us that we might remember 
 them ; that salvation is of the Jews. We 
 cannot forget the obligation ; we will think 
 of it; we will not obliterate it; we will not 
 be so wicked as to deny it : we will acknow- 
 ledge it, although we can never repay it. We 
 lie under an obligation to the Jews which 
 we can never repay. I can never pass a son 
 of Abraham but I feel to that man or his 
 race I am indebted for the highest forms of 
 grace and goodness — to all that God has 
 given me here. Was not the author of our 
 religion a Jew ; the Child of Bethlehem ; 
 the Wonder worker of Galilee ; the Victim 
 on the Cross ; the perfect Example ; the in- 
 fallible Prophet ; the atoning Sacrifice ; the 
 justifying lledeemer ; the ever-living Inter- 
 cessor in the person of Jesus Christ ? Did 
 not their whole history, their ancient ritual, 
 embody that which we now embrace in our 
 inmost heart ? Were they not the fir.st 
 heralds of the Gospel ? Did not the Jews in 
 their synagogues, all over the Roman empire, 
 prepare the places in which the new doctrine 
 was first preached? Did they not do all 
 they could to bring the Gospel to us, that it 
 might continue with us ? and can we forget 
 the obligations we owe to the Jews for those 
 glorious prospects on which are foiuided our 
 dearest hopes ? If I feel less interest in the 
 Jews, as a people, I am as unnatural as un- 
 christian. The universal ground of appeal 
 is, " am I not a man and a brother ? " But 
 while man, as man, demands our .sympathies 
 and exertions, all secondary considerations 
 that are natural are not only allowed but 
 required. Grace is intended to refine and 
 sanctify everything that is natural. One 
 law of our nature is, that you always think 
 you see in the face of the child something 
 that has interest for you in the face of the 
 parent. Our Saviour always recognized this; 
 it was always in His heart, often on His 
 lips. When He saw the poor woman bowed 
 down with infirmity and pain. He saw in her 
 a bond-slave of Satan ; and He put forth His 
 hand, saying, "Ought not this woman, seeing 
 that she is a daughter of Abraham, to be 
 
 loosed from her infirmity on the Salibath- 
 day?" So when He called little Zaccheus 
 down from his tree-climbing, who was in- 
 vited to receive the heavenly Guest, He said, 
 '• This day is salvation come to thy house, 
 forasmuch as thou also art a son of Abraham." 
 Again, when the rich man is stripped of his 
 purple, and driven from his banquet into 
 tormenting flames, we hear the familiar cry, 
 " Father Abraham ! " Jesus felt that one 
 of the children of Abraham was exposed to 
 the fire that is not quenched, and His loving 
 heart yearned over, and was anxious to 
 rescue His hearers. These should be our 
 emotions as to the sons and daughters of 
 Abraham, and as I contemplate them for 
 their fathers' sakes I feel that this Society 
 deserves more than any poor eflbrt that I can 
 put forth in its behalf. In regard to the 
 future of Israel, looking to their present 
 condition, it truly is a very mournful one ; 
 yet there is, in immediate connection with 
 it, something that is pre-eminently hopeful. 
 We remember that for Jew and Gentile 
 there is but one salvation, but one way — by 
 faith in Christ Jesus. Wherever I look it is 
 this which must comfort me, that with the 
 heart man lielieves to righteousness. The 
 curse of the Jew is his unbelief. The veil is 
 on their heart. Ic is 1800 years since the 
 Apostle uttered these words ; the same veil 
 remaineth untaken away. We might repeat 
 those words and sink into despair. We 
 might say they have sinned away all mercy, 
 broken the covenant, trampled on the blood 
 that sprinkles, and there is no hope. But in 
 that very connexion there is a word of hope 
 — "when it shall turn to tie Lord." The 
 heart of the Jew, lacerated so long bj' all 
 forms of ignorance, undeserved and bitter 
 reproach ; tortured by all the workings of 
 persecution, in exile, imprisonment, confisca- 
 tion, and murder ; that heart, crushed so 
 long beneath the heavy hand of an oppressive 
 world — when that heart, so tenacious of its 
 faith amongst surrounding Christian idola- 
 tries, so warm and tender in its brotherly 
 love amidst the deepest malignity — when 
 that heart shall turn to the Lord, the veil 
 shall be taken away ; then shall it find rest 
 from its agitation, ease for its anguish, heal- 
 ing balm for its misery, and life from the 
 dead. Jesus Christ will lift up the veil, and 
 let them see His face ; for 
 
 " If the whole workl their Saviour knew. 
 Then tlie whole world would love Him too," 
 
 Extracts fi-om two touching letters written 
 by Mr. Aldis in 1892-3 :—
 
 Dr. Coll/fi-r dill} Jdvu's Mniili/Dmi'rij. Es(j. 
 
 257 
 
 Bradford-on-Avoii, 
 
 October llt/t, 1892. 
 My dear Mr. Dunlop — My dear wife fell 
 asleep in Jesus last July ; from what she left 
 I send cheque for .£25 on behalf of the 
 British Society for the Propagation of the 
 Gospel among the Jews, which she loved 
 well and long. 
 
 Kindly enter it simply — 
 
 "In Memoriam, Bradford-on-Avon." 
 With sincere regards, yours aft'ectionately, 
 
 John Aldis. 
 Rev. John Dunlop. 
 
 Bradford-on-Avon, 
 
 March 11 th, 1S93. 
 Dear Mr. Dunlop — I send cheque for 2l).s'., 
 my subscription to the British Jews' Society; 
 also mj' last piioto. I have just been to my 
 dear wife's grave, on the headstone of which 
 I read — 
 
 " Waiting for the consolation of Israel." 
 I knew good Mr. IJeddow too slightly and 
 recently to furnish any certain particulars, 
 and my shaking hand makes writing painful. 
 With kindest regards, 
 
 Yours affectionately. 
 Rev. J. Dunlop. John Alius. 
 
 DR. COLLYER AND JAMES MONTGOMERY, ESQ. 
 
 {With Portraits.) 
 
 THE Rev. William Bengo' CoUyer, D.D., 
 LL.D., F.S.A , and James Montgomery, 
 Esq., we have linked togetlier here, be- 
 cause they are associated in the following 
 excerpt from the Societv's first Minute- 
 Book. 
 
 At a meeting of tlie Committee held on 
 Tuesday, December 2nd, 1845, "It was re- 
 ferred to the .Sub-(Jommittee to adopt mea- 
 sures for the publication of a collection of 
 original and other liymns, on subjects con- 
 nected with tlie Jews, and es)iecially .adapted 
 for use at prajer meetings for and with the 
 Jews : the Rev. Dr. Collj-er having already 
 promised some hymns, and James Mont- 
 gomery, Esq., having kindly .sent four, one 
 of which has never been published." 
 
 DR. COLLYER AND HIS GIFT OF 
 HYMNS. 
 
 William Bengo' Colljer was born at 
 Blackheath, on April 14th, 1782; was ad- 
 mitted into Homerton College at the age of 
 tliirteen, and at sixteen was enrolled as a 
 student of theolog}'. He remained at 
 Homerton about six years, and, during part 
 of that time had the happiness of sitting at 
 the feet of the Society's distinguished 
 lecturer. Dr. Pye-Smith. Having preached 
 the Gospel at Peckham, with great boldness, 
 and having accepted a call to the pastorate, 
 he was ordained there on the 17th of 
 December, 1801. His ministry was so blessed 
 that soon the old sanctuary was enlarged, 
 and soon afterwards a new one erected, 
 which was called " Hanover C'liapel," in oriler 
 to expre.ss Dr.C'ollyer's intimacy with sevei-al 
 
 members of the Royal Family, and to com- 
 memorate the f.act that on the 1 7th of June, 
 181 7, the day on which it was opened, there 
 was present at the services His Royal High- 
 ness the Duke of Sussex. 
 
 Dr. Collyers ministerial career from his 
 ordination right on to his Jubilee and a-seen- 
 sion into heaven, resembled that of " A star, 
 in no haste, taking no rest, ever fulfilling its 
 liigh behest." 
 
 On Sunday morning, 11th December, 1S5.3, 
 he preached from tlie text : " How wilt thou 
 do in the swellings of Jordan ? ' On Friday 
 evening, .30th December, he went to bed 
 well and liappy, but .soon after, he rang his 
 bell for the servant, to whom when she 
 appeared, he said, " I am so ill I " His 
 medical friend was at once summoned, and 
 was soon by his side, but no relief came 
 until Sunday evening, when he again and 
 again expros-;ed his deep gratitude to God, 
 for all His benefits. On the following 
 evening, he desired the family to come up to 
 liis bedroom for worship. One of the group 
 read the 25th Psalm, and as the Doctor lay 
 in his bed, ho made a running commentary. 
 When the verse was read, " Pardon my 
 iniquity for it is great," he said, " That is 
 the reason wh}' man would not pardon it." 
 
 After a favourable night and morning, a 
 change for the worse took place and lie ex- 
 claimed ; " I know not how it is, but I can- 
 not understand my reading now, unless I go 
 liack a page or two.' This was his last 
 utterance. After this he became unconscious. 
 During the moments that he recovered con- 
 sciousness and these were frequent, his friends
 
 258 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 repeated to him choice passages of scripture, 
 and verses fiom some of his own hymns. At 
 last, without a struggle, lie peacefully fell 
 asleep in Jesus. 
 
 A sermon was preached at Hanover 
 Chapel, Peckham, on the evening of Dr. 
 CoUyer's funeral, by the Rev. John Morison, 
 D.D., LL.D., who was one of the British 
 Society's earliest membei-sof Committee, and 
 one of its first lecturers. From that warm- 
 hearted and touching tribute to his departed 
 friend's Christian piety and scholarship, 
 ministerial faithfulness and wonderful suc- 
 cess, we give the following extract ; — - 
 
 DR. eOLLYEK. 
 
 " How early was his consecration to the 
 service of his Lord ! Before other men enter 
 on their college cour.se for the ministiy, he 
 had not only terminated his, but had filled 
 the old Presbyterian Chapel, at Peckham, 
 with attentive and penetrated hearers. He 
 became eminent while he was only buckling 
 on his armour for the fight ; and before he 
 had been three years in this place, as your 
 pastor, his fame, as an evangelical preacher, 
 not only pervaded the metropolis, but the 
 provinces. When I arrived in London, in 
 1811, no name had the enchantment belong- 
 ing to it of that of Dr. Collyer. Many 
 envied, .some criticized, not a few afTected to 
 wonder at his success j but the best portion 
 
 of the public estimated his real worth, no 
 less than his persuasive eloquence ; and of 
 his critics not a few were left to preach to 
 empty walls, while he was ministering to 
 congi'egated thousands. 
 
 " While admiring crowds flocked to hear 
 him ; when, from his ready addre.'^s, melli- 
 fluous tones, and eloquent appeals, not a few 
 who were either unsound in the faith, or al- 
 together sceptical, were attracted to the scene 
 of his ministry, he never shiank from a full 
 announcement of the humbling doctrines of 
 the Cross, nor in any way accommodated his 
 message to the taste of the carnal mind. 
 However much any of his heaiers might 
 object, on mere questions of ta.ste, if they 
 knew anything of the pure gospel of Christ 
 they must have been constrained to admit 
 tb.at he never concealed it, and never was 
 ashamed of it, as ' the power of God unto 
 salvation to every one that believeth. ' " 
 
 " In his death, Nonconformity has lost one 
 of its brightest ornaments, and the metro- 
 polis one of its most cherished names. But 
 he well sustained the promise of his early 
 years. In his successful ministry, of more 
 than half a century — in his writings, which 
 deserve a place in the be.st collections of the- 
 ology — in his character, so bland an<l gentle, 
 so marked by love, and kindness, and true 
 generosity, — he has left a rich legacy to the 
 church, which the present age can never 
 cease to value, and which generations yet un- 
 born will be taught to cherish." 
 
 The hymns presented by Dr. Collyer to 
 the British Society, were published in the 
 .spring of 1848. They are called "Hymns 
 for Israel : A Tribute of love for God's 
 Ancient People." They are forty-one in 
 number, and all of them deal more or le.s,s 
 with the past history, present condition, and 
 future glory of Israel. They were constantly 
 sung at the early prayer meetings connected 
 with the Society, and " were eminently useful 
 in awakening and sustaining the holy feelings 
 of compassion for Isi-ael, and desire for their 
 recovery to God." 
 
 We -subjoin three, as a fair sample of the 
 collection. 
 
 I. 
 
 SiNiJ and rejoice, Jerusalem ! 
 
 liehold thy Monarch come 
 To re-assume His diadem 
 
 And call His subjects home ! 
 
 All earth shall hsar the signal given, 
 
 Roused by the voice divine ; 
 And every nation under heaven 
 
 Flock to His hallowed shrine.
 
 Dr. Collyer and James Montgomery, Esq. 
 
 259 
 
 Then shall He choose His ancient seat, 
 
 Salem. He loved so well, 
 Ami, fjathcriiig Jiulah to HLs feet, 
 
 In His own portion dwell. 
 
 0, Sun of Righteousness, appear — 
 
 lu all Tliy glory ruse ! 
 The gi-oanings of Thy people hear. 
 
 Hear the creation's cries ! 
 
 II. 
 
 Low the tent of David lies, 
 Prostrate is Judea's throne — 
 
 Who shall bid the fallen rise ? 
 David's Lord, and He alone ! 
 
 He shall rear it from the dust ; 
 
 He again the ruins build : 
 Gentiles in His name .shall trust ; 
 
 Distant nations homage yield. 
 
 Zion then no more shall mourn, 
 Thence shall the Deliverer come ; 
 
 Jacob from transgression turn, 
 And recall His people home. 
 
 In Messiah's diadem. 
 
 Glistening like the morning-star, 
 There shall sparkle many a gem. 
 
 Souls redeemed fnim regions far. 
 
 III. 
 
 Until the Spirit from on high 
 
 Be poured in fulness down, 
 The desolated world must lie 
 
 Beneath Jehovah's frown; 
 But then the wilderness shall yield 
 
 A fru'tful field's supplies, 
 And towering then, the fruitful field 
 
 Shall as a forest rise. 
 
 Then judgment in the waste shall dwell. 
 
 And righteousness remain, 
 And spread o'er every fertile vale 
 
 And cultivated plain. 
 The operation shall be peace, 
 
 Th' effect produced, repose — 
 And that assurance never cease 
 
 The Holy Ghost bestows. 
 
 that the lilissful day were come 
 
 This promise to fulfil ! 
 AVe long to see the desert bloom. 
 
 And verdure crown the hill. 
 Soon may this soul-reviving power 
 
 The sons of Jaccjb prove, 
 And feel the Spirit like a shower 
 
 Descending from above ! 
 
 JAMES MONT(iOMERY, 
 
 Christian Journalist and Poet. 
 
 James Montgomery was born in November, 
 1771, at Irvine, a little Scottish town in 
 Ayrshire built upon the sand, where his 
 father was an honoured Moravian pastor. 
 James, at the close of his fourth year, was 
 removed with his parents to Grace Hill, a 
 
 Moravian settlement, near Ballymena, in 
 Ireland. Two years after, liis father took 
 him to the Moravian seminary at Fulneck, 
 near Leeds, in Yorkshire, where it was 
 intended that he should leceive a thorough 
 training to fit him for the Moravian 
 ministry. While he was still at Fulneck, 
 his parents sailed for Barbadoes, that they 
 might labour in the midst of a community 
 of slave-owners and slaves, and be the instru- 
 ments of putting them in po.ssession of the 
 priceless jewel of freedom by leading them 
 to Jesus. When their life of service, sacri- 
 fice, and sufl'ering in the West Indies was 
 finished, both heard the call of their adorable 
 Master and ascended to be with Him in 
 Paradise., 
 
 In 1787, their .son James left Fulneck, 
 not to preach, hut to enter a retail .shop at 
 Mirfield, near W^akefield, where he continued 
 what he had really began at Fulneck, 
 namely, the cultivation of the fine arts of 
 poetry and music. In 1792, he entered 
 Sheffield without any intention of staying ; 
 and yet there he became the editor of a 
 journal which he called the " Iris," and 
 which he edited for upwards of thirty-one 
 years. There he was twice unjustly fined 
 and imprisoned by the Government of the 
 day, for the courageous expression in his paper 
 of Liberal principles. 
 
 Our own Dr. John Pye Smith, the accom- 
 plished Biblical scholar and distinguished 
 principal of Homerton College, then a lowly 
 village preacher, with the Spirit of a 
 Christian hero defended ISIontgomery, and 
 during his impri-sonment edited the " Iris " 
 with great ability. 
 
 niS CONVERSION. 
 
 Although the atmosphere Montgomery 
 breathed during his childhood and boyhood 
 was intensely Christian, his actual choice of 
 Christ did not take place until after the 
 freshness and fulness of youth had merged 
 into manhood ; and so his public confession 
 of Christ did not occur until lie had attained 
 his forty-third year. Then he became a 
 member of the ^Moravian fellowship of 
 Fulneck, but as the Moravians had no 
 sanctuary at Sheflield, he continued to find a 
 congenial spiritual home among his Wesleyan 
 brethren, whilst his big Catholic heart had 
 room in it for all who love the Lord Jesus 
 Christ belonging to all the evangelical 
 denominations, all "distinct as the billows, 
 but one as the sea."
 
 2()0 
 
 Meifiiones of Gospel Trlidnpfis (nuoiif/ the Jews. 
 
 nis ESTiMA'ri; of himself. 
 
 In his farewell to his readers in giving up 
 the editorship of the "Iris'' lie said :- — 
 
 " From the first moment when I became 
 the director of a public journal, I took my 
 own ground ; I have stood upon it through 
 many years of changes, and I rest by it this 
 day, as having afibrded mo a shelter thiough 
 the far greater portion of my life, and yet 
 ottering me a grave when I shall no longer 
 have a part in anytliing done under the sun. 
 And this was my 
 ground — a plain de- 
 termination, come 
 ^vind or .sun, come 
 tire or watei', to do 
 what was right. I 
 lay stress upon the 
 purpose, not on the 
 performance, for 
 that was the pole 
 star to which my 
 compass was point- 
 ed, tiiougbwdtli con- 
 siderable variation 
 of the needle; for, 
 through character- 
 istic weakness, per- 
 versity of under 
 standing, or self- 
 sufficiency, I ha\e 
 often erred, failed, 
 and been overcome 
 by temptation on 
 the wearisome pil- 
 grimage through 
 which I have toiled ; 
 — now struggling 
 through ' the Slough 
 of Despondency;' 
 then fighting with 
 evil spiiits, in ' the 
 Valley of Ilumilia 
 tion;' more than 
 once e.'^caping mar- 
 tyrdom from 'Van- 
 ity Fair,' and once 
 
 at least (I will not say when) a prisoner 
 in ' Doubting Castle,' under the discipline 
 of Giant Despair. Now, though I am 
 writing this address in one of the shepherds' 
 tents on the ' Delectable Mountains,' yet, 
 like Bunyan's Christian, I can look hack 
 on the pa-st, with all its anxieties, trials, and 
 confiicts, thankful that it is the past. Of 
 the future I have little foresight, and 1 desire 
 none with respect to this life, being content 
 that 'shadows, clouds, and diU'knes3 dwell 
 
 upon it,' if 1 yet may hope that 'at evening 
 time there will be light.' " 
 
 From the address he delivered at an 
 entertainment given him in November, 1825, 
 he very modestly spoke of himself as poet in 
 the following passage which shows that the 
 highest is always the humblest. 
 
 " One publication after another was i.ssued, 
 and success upon success, in the course of a 
 few years, crowned my labours, — not indeed 
 with fame and fortune, as these were 
 lavished on my 
 greater contempo- 
 raries, in compari- 
 son with whose 
 magnificent posses- 
 sions on the British 
 Parnassus, my small 
 plot of ground is no 
 more than Naboth's 
 vineyard to Ahab's 
 kingdom ; but it is 
 my own, it is no 
 copyhold ; I bor- 
 rowed it, I leased it, 
 from none. Every 
 foot of it I enclo.sed 
 from the common 
 myself ; and I can 
 say that not an inch 
 which I had once 
 gained have I ever 
 lost. I attribute 
 this to no extra- 
 ordinary power of 
 genius, or felicity 
 of talent in the 
 application of such 
 power as I may 
 possess : — the esti- 
 mate of that I leave 
 to you who hear me, 
 not in this moment 
 of generous enthu- 
 siasm, but when the 
 cvening'senjoyment 
 shall come under 
 the morning's reflection : — the secret of my 
 moderate success, I consider to have been 
 the right direction of my abilities to right 
 objects. In following this course I hare 
 had to contend with many disadvantages, 
 as well as resolutely to avoid the most 
 popular and fashionable ways to fame. 
 1 followed no mighty leader, belonged 
 to no school of the poets, pandered to no 
 impure passion ; T veiled no vice jn delicate 
 disguise, gratified no malignant propensity
 
 Br. Collycr and James Montgomery, Esq. 
 
 261 
 
 to personal satire ; courteil no powerful 
 patronage ; 1 wi'ote neither to suit the 
 manners, the taste, nor the temper of the 
 age ; but I a2)peal to universal princi[)les, to 
 imperishable alYections, to primary elements 
 of our common nature, found wherever man 
 is found in civilized society ; wherever liLs 
 mind has been i-aised above barbarian 
 ignorance, or his passions piu'ified from 
 brutal selfishness.' 
 
 Professor Wilson once said of Montgomery : 
 " He is like the rose of Sharon, whose balm 
 and l)eauty shall not wither, planted on the 
 banks of that river, wh(.se streams make 
 glad the city of the Lord." 
 
 HIS PRESENT OF FOUR H\MXS TO THE 
 BRITISH SOCIETY. 
 
 What were they ? It is lemarkaljle that 
 the names of the four hymns are neither 
 mentioned in the ^linute Book nor in the 
 Jewish Hernld. We should like to think 
 that one of them was that grand missionary 
 hymn, the subjoined verse of which has been 
 called " Miltonic." 
 
 "O spirit of the Lord prepare 
 
 All the rinind earth her {loil to meet ; 
 
 Breathe thou abroad-like morning air, 
 Till hearts of stone begin to beat." 
 
 Was " Hark to the Lord's anointed ! " Or 
 " Hark ! the song of Jubilee," included in 
 the quartette ? 
 
 " Daughter of Zion, from the dust 
 
 Exalt thy fallen head ; 
 Again in thy Redeemer trust. 
 
 He calls thee from the dead. ' 
 
 Was that one of the four ? We cannot 
 tell ; but we are delighted that our pro- 
 longed and painstaking quest hius resulted in 
 our di.scovery of the hymn described in the 
 Minute Book as the one " that had never 
 been published." 
 
 The Rev. Ridley Herschell prepared and 
 issued a new hymn-book in LSti-i, and there 
 at last we found the hymn with a footnote 
 which makes it absolutely certain. We give 
 here both the hymn and the footnote. It is 
 among the hymns relating to the Jews, and 
 it is the 4:50tli. 
 
 CHILDREN of Zi,jn '. know your King, 
 
 Your own Messiah hail ; 
 Hosamia.s in His temple sing, 
 
 For He hath rent the veil. 
 
 Him.self, the Sacrifice for sin, 
 
 As your High Priest, He died ; 
 With His own blood He entered in ; 
 
 IJeliold the Crucihed. 
 
 Eehrjld Him on the mercy-seat, 
 
 High in the holiest place ; 
 Now ca.st yourselves before HLs feet, 
 
 Then rise to see His face. 
 
 That face with reconciling beam.s, 
 
 Shines foith upon you all ; 
 Xo longer weep by Babel's streams. 
 
 He calls ; obey His c;dl. 
 
 So shall your hearts within you biu'ii, 
 
 While, guided by His voice, 
 With songs to Zion you return, 
 
 And in your God rejoice. 
 
 At His great name, bow every knee ; 
 
 Let every tongue confess 
 Christ, whom vour fathers slew, is HE, 
 
 THE LORD YOUR RIGHTEOUS- 
 NESS. 
 
 This hymn was presented by James Mont- 
 gomery, Esq., to the " British Society for the Pro- 
 pagation of the Gospel among the Jews," and is in- 
 serted here by the kind permission of the Society. 
 
 James Montgomery tlied in his sleep on 
 April the 30th, 18.54, at the good old age of 
 82. As most appropriate, we would quote 
 here those lines of Montgomery's, which 
 ^loore declared he never allowed a day to pass 
 without remembering : — 
 
 " The dead are like the stars by day, 
 
 Withdrawn from morfcd eye ; 
 But not e.\tiuct. they hold their way. 
 
 In glory through the sky."
 
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 Memones of Gospel Trimnphs among the Jeius. 
 
 THE FIRST GROUP OF PREACHERS ON BEHALF OF THE 
 
 SOCIETY. 
 
 TTIE first Annual Sermon was preached 
 by the Rev. Dr. Smith, of Poplar. 
 At a meeting of the Committee held on 
 Monday, 6th May, 1844:, it was unanimously 
 resolved : " That the cordial and respectful 
 thanks of the Committee be presented to the 
 Ivev. George Smith for his excellent sermon, 
 preached at the Weigh House Chapel on the 
 29th ulto., and that he be requested to 
 publish the same." 
 
 On the 21st of April, 1845, the Eev. 
 Richard Winter Hamilton, LL.D., D.D., of 
 Leeds, delivei'ed the second Annual Sermon, 
 whcih is described as " able and appropriate." 
 The doctor was asked to favour the Com- 
 mittee with the MSS. for publication but he 
 refused, a.s he intended to include it in a 
 volume of sermons which he was getting 
 ready for the press. We have searched two 
 volumes of Dr. Hamilton's discourses, and 
 also his woik on Missions, and we have failed 
 to find the sermon he preached on behalf of 
 the Society, but we have found the follow- 
 ing three extracts from it, which we trust 
 our friends will read with pleasure and 
 profit : — 
 
 "BEGINNING AT JERUSALEM." 
 
 Never were there circumstances more 
 wonderful and memorable than those which 
 marked the utterance of these words ! The 
 history of the ^lan of Sorrows is told. He 
 has endured the cross. In this announce- 
 ment an infinite of woe is comprehended. 
 The cross — the death of the cross, are as 
 nothing to His cross. They are only as a 
 .sign and the memorial of a death which takes 
 tliis form and name, but which is unutter- 
 able, lying out of all the known causes and 
 relations of death, affected by considerations 
 which could touch none other death ; person- 
 ally bound to no law, and subject to no 
 sentence, yet itself a legally indicted death, 
 that whose terrors a thousand crosses could 
 not strike, and whose sufferings a thousand 
 crosses could not wreak. He has endured it ! 
 He hath died once. He dieth no more. It 
 is finished ! All the fearful emblems of that 
 deed have withdrawn themselves. The cup 
 no more seethes with its ingredients of 
 astonishment and fury,— it is drained. The 
 
 sivord which has awakened, — quick, bright, 
 consuming as the lightning, — is satisfied, is 
 quiet, and has returned to its scabbard. The 
 day of fierce anger has gone down, setting 
 into an eve of lovely peace. The ^vine-press 
 has been trodden, and the vine-fat has over- 
 flowed. The nail no more suspends His 
 quivering flesh ; the thorn no more pierces 
 His sinking brow ; the lance no more buries 
 itself in His cloven heart. The law and the 
 cur.se, — sin and death, — heaven, earth, 
 and hell, — have completed and spent their 
 wrath, — wrath most differing in its kind 
 and in its motives ; but whether retributive 
 or malignant, most overwhelming in its 
 inflictions. For ever, too, are past the 
 humiliations of the grave, — the cerements 
 are burst ; the barriers are prostrated ; the 
 dominions of death have been entered for 
 conquest and spoliation ; its keys are seized 
 and its strongholds are shattered. For many 
 days He has come in and gone out ; He has 
 appeared and disappeared, gliding ethereally 
 from scene to scene, independently of the 
 local distance, unrestricted by the bolted 
 door. And now the moment of His a.scension 
 hastens ! He knew that He went to God ! 
 The harps of heaven vibrate, as if impatient 
 to send forth their notes of welcome ! The 
 companies of angels are thronging to their 
 stations, that they may on the instant swell 
 the triumph and i-ing out tlie plaudit. The 
 redeemed of every age look down with eager 
 and wistful eyes upon the mysterious pre- 
 parations ! The cloud awaits the signal which 
 shall bid it stoop ! The chariot, invisible to 
 mortal eyes, is, ill-restrained, escaping from 
 the portals of heaven to bear the conqueror 
 thither ! The clo\id has gathered around Him, 
 and it begins to .soar. The chariot has rolled 
 to His feet and is impatient for its burden. 
 Just caught up by that cloud, just bearing 
 away in that chariot, what are His parting 
 regards ? David denounced his enemies with 
 his dying breath, and chaiged it upon 
 Solomon to bring down tlie hoar hairs of 
 Joab and Sliimei with blood to the grave. 
 But does Messiah pass to His glory with the 
 imprecation of vengeance on II is lips ? Doe.s 
 He speak of any with reserve? Does He set a 
 limit, does He make an exception to His mercy ?
 
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 263 
 
 Is there one hoai-ded resentment which He 
 would indulge ? Yonder city, is it not at 
 k'lust proscribed and branded ? Is it not cast 
 otr remedilessly — hopelessly ? Tlie city which 
 had spurned HLs tears when He wept over it ? 
 The city out of which no prophet could 
 perish ? The city, whose walls had echoed 
 with the shriek, and whose streets had been 
 dyed in the gore of every martyred saint ? 
 The city, whose inhabitants had mocked His 
 miracles, called Him blasphemer, proclaimed 
 Him demoniac, and i-aged for His crucifixion ? 
 The city, upon whose people His instructions, 
 His beseechings. His warnings, had all been 
 poured in vain ] Nineveh could be saved ! 
 ^Sodom might have been spaied ! But shall 
 not fire come down and burn up this den of 
 murderers ? Shall not its desolation come 
 in a moment ? Shall not the overflowing 
 scourge sweep it away? •' God, to whom 
 vengeance belongeth, show Thyself ! " Why 
 dost Thou not rise up ? Why is Thy stroke 
 withheld ? Why sleep Thy bolts unhurled ? 
 
 Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered ! 
 
 ^ ***** * 
 
 That city of guilt, of blood, is not cast off ; 
 it is not trodden under foot ! Unconditional 
 judgment has not gone forth against it ! Its 
 doom is not sealed ! Not for a small moment 
 will the Crucified forsake it ! Not in a little 
 ^\Tath will He hide His face from it for a 
 moment ! It shall not forfeit its ancient 
 preeeilence ! To none shall it be postponed " 
 " Beginning at Jerusalem ! " — " Speak ye 
 comfortably to Jerusalem." — Go and cry in 
 the ears of Jerusalem," — to the chair of 
 Moses, and to the scorners who fill it ; to the 
 court of Sanhedrim, and to the malignants 
 who constitute it ; to the tribunal of Pra;- 
 torium, and to the ruffians who enforce it; 
 to the haunts of iniquity, and to the vilest 
 wretches herding there ; to Barabbas; to the 
 spearman who pieired My side and trans- 
 fixed My heart ; to them who gloatingly 
 watched ^Nly tortures, and who cruelly in- 
 sulted My wrongs ; to C'aiaphas and his 
 ministering throng ; to Pilate and his relent- 
 less judicatory ; to Herod and his ruthless 
 soldiery — that they maj' firet, in the earliest 
 possible instance, in very priority, receive the 
 virtues of that death they dealt — the bless- 
 ings of that blood they shed ! 
 
 "TO THE JEW FIRST." 
 
 The principle couched in this fact, so far 
 
 as it is elicited for our guidance, seems not 
 
 to be that we must uniforndy attempt the 
 
 salvation of the Jew before that of the 
 
 Gentile. Because such a jarinciple would 
 abandon home, and kindred, and country, 
 for the sake of what is often a distant and 
 scattered nation ; the very inversion of the 
 Apo.stolic feeling, which was love as 
 patriotism to Palestine, and love as fellow- 
 citizenship with the Jew. But when we 
 stand among the Gentiles, labouring for 
 their Christian conversion — as it might be 
 \>ith our ^Missionaries in the Indies — the 
 Jew may still be found ; then this principle 
 throws a kindly sympathy around him, points 
 him out as no secondary object of prayer and 
 teaching, and commends tbe strong appeal to 
 his sacred writings, as the essential advantage 
 of the controversy, and the main hope of the 
 success. . . . But this we know, that 
 there is dispersed among tlie Gentiles, " this 
 ancient people," " even the people of the God 
 of Abraham." Thousands dwell among us, 
 known, accessible, denizens of our land, 
 partners in our merchandise, yet governed 
 by laws diverse from all other people, 
 insulated from the passions and interests of 
 the communities amidst whom they are cast, 
 not reckoned among the nations. We 
 implore pity towards them. " Is it nothing 
 to you, all ye that pass by ? Behold and 
 see if there be any sorrow like unto their 
 sorrow." " Their sighs are many, and their 
 heart is faint." Plagues and curses are 
 upon them for a sign and for a wonder. 
 Jerusalem is in bondage with her children. 
 She sitteth beneath her withered palm-tree, 
 mourning and desolate. Ashes are on her 
 head. She is clothed in sackcloth. She is 
 mocked and jeered. No eye pities. No 
 hand relieves. No voice soothes. Memory 
 is busy. Hope has fled. She has not 
 learned to raise her eye to Heaven — it bends 
 pen.sively and despairingly upon the ground. 
 Her former griefs are renewed. She 
 trembleth as a bird out of Egypt, and as a 
 dove out of the land of Assyria. Only 
 bitterness is wi-ung out for her. Yet God, 
 when the heathen were the sword of His 
 judgment against this people, '-made them 
 to be pitied of all those that carried them 
 captives." And shall our bosoms be 
 untouched and unmoved when the wrongs of 
 ages not only upbraid us, but whose blood- 
 guiltiness, such as that which only can cry 
 to heaven from the dying soul, loudly 
 accuses us ? But pity cannot suffice. We 
 owe not only reparation of past neglect and 
 grievance. They stand in a foremost place. 
 They demand a primary consideration. And 
 upon this aspect of their cast', if not the
 
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 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 paramount claim, .-,1111 the peculiar urgency 
 of their case, we now ask your attentive 
 thought and your keenest counniseration. 
 
 '' Beginniufi at Jerusalem. 
 
 THK RESrONSlBILITY UF THE JEW A 
 MOTIVE FOR CHRISTIAN EXERTION. 
 Half of revelation is in their hands ; 
 "'enerally, they have access to the whole. 
 They are, in a very extensive sense, placed 
 under the Christian dispensation. This tliey 
 may be sure of, that the Kingdom of God 
 Ikus come nigh unto them. Ingenious theories 
 have been suggested and argued on behalf of 
 their religious safety. They pos.sess, it is 
 said, the former Scriptures of truth ; by 
 these the saints of old were enlightened, 
 renewed, and saved. Why may not these 
 eiuls be still attained 1 The answer is obvious. 
 Their virtue was in their reference. They 
 testilied of Christ. There is but one. He 
 hath appeared. As they are considered by 
 us, thev are fulfilled. "The things con- 
 cerning" Him had an end." But our Jewish 
 opponents look for another. They scorn the 
 Nazarene. They rest upon an abuse, a hope- 
 less application, of their Scriptures. Thus 
 our Lord upliraided them. He forewarned 
 them, if they did not believe on Him, that 
 they should die in their .sins. He declared 
 that they had no cloak for their sin. His 
 words were most emphatic. Temporal and 
 eternal judgments did Ho denounce against 
 His generation. In the game manner did the 
 Apostles speak, "Lest tliat should come 
 upon you which is spoken |in the prophets. 
 Behold, ye despisers, ami wonder, and perish." 
 It is in the Epistle to the Hebrews that we 
 read the solemn remonstrance, " How shall 
 we escape if we neglect so great salvation, 
 which at the first began to be spoken by the 
 Lord?" It is written, " All Israel shall be 
 saved ; " but it is spoken of their conversion, 
 and is coupled with the salvation of the 
 Centiles on their faith, to which event it is 
 postponed : " until the fulness of the Gen- 
 tiles be come in." In the meanwhile, every 
 man who hears the Gospel to reject it, 
 whether of the circumcision or the uncir- 
 cumcisi(m, is "condemned already," and "the 
 wrath of (^odabideth on him." The Israelite 
 must fill his mind with all his terrible asso- 
 ciations of Hinnom, Tophet, and Gehenna, 
 and then think of "the everla.sting tire" 
 into which the disl)eliever, whatever his 
 nation, shall be cast. Do we believe it? 
 The Jew is within our gates. Let us testify 
 to him. Shall he perish unwarned? . . . 
 
 Thev stand to us in the position of a 
 spiritual kindred. "We have Abraham to 
 our father." We call "ourselves by the 
 name of Jacob, and surname ourselves by 
 the name of Israel." " The promise is to all 
 them that are afar off, even as many as the 
 Lord our God shall call." " All things are 
 ours, whether Paul, or ApoUos, or Cephas." 
 Tliis nation may disclaim us, and spurn us : 
 but still we take hold of the skirt of the 
 Jew. And we remember that they are left 
 under our very charge. They are committed 
 to us. Let us be gentle in our eflbrts to 
 convince. " Unto the Jews let us becmne as 
 a Jew, that we ^may gain the Jew." We 
 find them by the wavsi.le, wounded and halt 
 dead ; let us bind up their wounds, pouring 
 in oil and wine. If they see not their 
 friend in the Christian, who will pity them ? 
 Their unbelief is the stirring sight and the 
 loud cry at which our hearts are bid to bleed 
 and our efforts to abound : " For, as ye in 
 times past have not believed God, yet have 
 now obtained mercy through their unbelief, 
 even so have these also now not believed, 
 that through your mercy they also may 
 obtain mercy." 
 
 The third Annual Sermon was delivered 
 in 1846, by the Rev. James Hamilton, M.A. 
 
 JOHN LEIFCHILD, D.D. 
 
 ( With Portrait.) 
 
 John Leifchild was born in Barnet, on 
 the 15th of February, 1780. In 1804 
 he w.as received into Ho.\:ton Academy as 
 a theological student, through the instru- 
 mentality of its treasurer, Thomas Wilson, 
 Esq.,* of Highbury. In 1808, when Mr. 
 Leifchild was 28 years of age, he accepted 
 the invitation of the church worshipping at 
 Thornton Street Chapel, Kensington, and in 
 1809 was ordained there as a minister of 
 the Gospel. In 1824 he was translated to 
 Bristol, and in 1831 to Craven Chapel, 
 London, where he laboured with wonderful 
 success till 1854, when he retired from the 
 pastorate, while he was still physically and 
 mentally vigorous, and the church had 
 reached"'the highest point of prosperity. 
 
 The following passages we have taken 
 from an interesting sketch of Dr. Leifchild's 
 
 * The father of Joshua Wilson, Esq.. who was 
 present at the formation of the British Society, and 
 who remained a faithful and generous friend until 
 the end.
 
 The First Cirovp of PvcnclicrF! on lichaJf of the Society. 
 
 265 
 
 life, labour.-!, and last days, by the Jk'V. 
 James Baldwin Brown, B.A. : — 
 
 THE TlllSING POINTS IN HIS SPIltlTL AI. 
 HISTOKY. 
 
 " Dr. Leifchild seems to have borni'. tKnu 
 a boy, the mark of God upon him. (Shortly 
 
 early manhood he, like all the youth of 
 Eiij,'land, was full of martial enthusiasm as 
 a volunteer. But he was always steady and 
 earnest, with a heart responsive to the elainx 
 of God upon him, and he had been marked 
 by the leaders of the little Methodist com- 
 munity, of which his father had been one of 
 
 before his death he told his grand-nephew 
 the story, that when he was a boy, not more, 
 I thiiik, than six years old, his mother was 
 in peril from some accident, and he ran up 
 into a loft behind the house, and flung him- 
 self on his knees in prayer to (iod that He 
 would help her, and that ' he knew that God 
 had heard him before he came down.' In 
 
 ^=^^ 
 
 the mast earnest and laborious members, as 
 one who would do them good service in time. 
 One night he entered their meeting, and 
 they, always seeking to interest him and 
 eni'af'e him in their work, pressed him to 
 give out a hymn. The hymn began — 
 
 '" () tL;it I coald mv Lord receive .' " 
 
 •' Wcskijs Coll., 125.
 
 266 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 " It so powerfully affected him that he 
 clasped his hands and burst into tears. 
 When he recovered himself, at their earnest 
 request he engaged in prayer ; and then, the 
 foimtains of the great deep within being 
 broken up, lie went home and spent the 
 long night wrestling with God. It was the 
 decisive hovn-. From that Peniel he, too, 
 came forth a 'prince, having power with 
 man and with God.' He became from that 
 moment God's confes.sed and devoted ser- 
 vant — a confession which his life maintained 
 unsullied to the close. The little community 
 with whom he worshipped were eager to 
 enlist him in their ministry; but for a time 
 his soul seemed to shrink back from the 
 work. Shortly after this he married, feeling, 
 perhaps, that for the present he had built 
 lip a barrier between himself and the work 
 which he dreaded, but to which he had been 
 designated b}' the Lord. His marriage com- 
 pelled him to settle steadily to business, but 
 his soul loathed it. It was always an intense 
 weariness and pain. But toil he must, and 
 we can well believe that he wi-ought 
 bravely on. In ten short months his wife 
 was stricken. She brought foith her first- 
 born son, who survived her but one month, 
 and died. He laid them both in the same 
 grave. A horror of great darkness then fell 
 upon his spirit. His passion for her was 
 intense, his agony too bitter to be borne. 
 He shut himself up with his God, and said, 
 ' I have been striving against Thy will, hut I 
 strive no longer. I am Thine now, Thine 
 wholly. Tell me what Thou wouldest have 
 me to do. Show me the door ; I will enter 
 it at any co.st.' He had, I think, the most 
 simple, child-like faith in the workings of 
 God's providence that I have ever met with. 
 To him it was full of significance — he .saw 
 clearly the divine hand — when, after a night 
 of intense mental and spiritual conflict, he 
 found on his table a letter from Mr. Thomas 
 Wilson, of Highbury. He had heard of this 
 young Apollns, and desired to see him. He 
 found him, doctrinally and ecclesiastically, 
 more in harmony with the Calvinistic Inde- 
 pendents than with the Wesleyans, among 
 whom he had passed his early days, and 
 with whom he cherished a warm sympathy 
 during his whole career. In fact, a dis- 
 tinguished Wesleyan preacher, who also had 
 heard of .and conversed with him, and who 
 remained his familiar friend through life, 
 having keen discernment of his nature and 
 tendencies, had told him frankly that he 
 would do better among the Independents. 
 
 An Independent may be pardoned for 
 thinking that no church system less large 
 and free than ours could have held him. It 
 fitted him pei-fectly. It afforded him pre- 
 cisely the platform which he needed for his 
 special work. If any man ever understood 
 ruling an Independent church, he under- 
 stood it. In his hands Independency was a 
 power. He applied, we believe under Mr. 
 Thomas Wilson's influence, for admission 
 into the college at Hoxton, with a view to 
 exercise his ministry among the Independents. 
 They received him gladly. Among the 
 many eminent services which Mr. Thomas 
 Wilson rendered to his generation, not the 
 least was the part he took in the introduc- 
 tion of Dr. Leifchild into the ministry, and 
 subsequently in his .settlement at Craven 
 Chapel, the largest of those five metropolitan 
 sanctuaries which owe their existence to his 
 untiring zeal. At Hoxton he studied with 
 intense avidity the darling theme of his 
 tlioughts to the very last — theology. Many 
 a time during the long winter was he up at 
 six o'clock, in a fireless study, to make a 
 ' Body of Divinity ' for himself. When he 
 had completed his course he went to Ken- 
 sington, and opened, at Thornton Street, that 
 ministry which has probably been more rich 
 in spiritual fruit than that of any other 
 preacher of his time. It would be a grand 
 thing if we could get our eye on the secret 
 working of a powerful nature like his during 
 all these years — the intense mental and 
 moral struggles through which he must have 
 fought his way before his life-path lay clear 
 and fair before him They say that all 
 consummate works of genius for the first 
 moments almost repel the beholder. I am 
 quite sure that every deep heart, like Moses, 
 shrinks back from, and has to be driven to 
 the work appointed, and which will win a 
 deathless fame. For sixteen years he preached 
 at Kensington, ' having found the door 
 and entered ; ' thence to Bristol ; thence to 
 Craven ; thence to an old .age, rich as any 
 living man's in honour, love, and tender 
 ministries ; and thence — home." 
 
 HIS LAST DAYS. 
 
 " How full of beautiful significance is 
 this ! In April, 1861, he was heard to say 
 to himself, ' Calm review, and pleasant 
 anticipations ! Though I walk through the 
 valley of the shadow of death — only a 
 shadow, not death. Walk through — now 
 and then stand still, and look around on the 
 [jrospect behind and before.'
 
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 " And thus it was, only more rapturous, 
 more triumphant, as these words, which are 
 among his last words, reveal. It was not 
 even shadow when he came to it, it was 
 rather the glory of death. Opening his 
 eyes after a dose, he exclaimed — 
 
 " ' Great Comforter de.«cend and bring 
 Some tokens of Thy grace.' 
 
 " One said, ' You have had many sweet 
 tokens as you lay on this couch.' 'Oh,' he 
 replied, ' more than I can ever describe or 
 record ; not only rapture, but peace and 
 confidence. Satan has not been permitted to 
 disturb that for a single moment. O this 
 peace ! this peace ! that the world could 
 know it — the whole world ; but I cannot 
 tell them.' 
 
 " He spoke of his desire that in every 
 thing, in life, and after life, he might do 
 honour to his God. He deprecated exag- 
 gei-ated accounts of what he had been able 
 to accomplish as a minister of Chri.st, but 
 added, ' My rejoicing is this : the testimony 
 of my conscience that in simplicity and 
 godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but 
 by the gi-ace of God, I have had my conver- 
 sation in the world. So many hymns crowd 
 on my mind that I find it difiicult to avoid 
 confusion. Blessed be my God that my 
 heart and lips have cau.sed that name to 
 be reverberated by many hundreds who 
 are now, perhaps, repeating it in sweetest 
 cadence.' On the Thursday preceding his 
 last, he took a most tender but cheer- 
 ful farewell of his son and niece, and 
 sent by her the following message to his 
 brother's children : ' Give my love to them, 
 and say from me, " God is love ; live in love, 
 and it shall be well with you ; and remem- 
 ber, parting is not separation."' This he 
 repeated thrice. His last night on earth 
 was memorable indeed. Though he did not 
 close his eyes, and the restlessness of 
 approaching change was but too apparent, 
 his heart was overflowing with joy. He 
 heard the music and saw the golden gates of 
 the celestial city. ' What ! don't you hear 
 it ] don't you hear it ? those beautiful 
 harps! " He seemed sun-ounded by a throng, 
 to whom he was saying, ' You can't all go in 
 with me. I must go first, but keep close 
 behind me, and open the gates wide, wide, 
 WIDE, for all.' Then he softly added, ' Lord 
 Jesus, receive my spirit.' 
 
 " On the Sunday of his death he was too 
 exhausted to say much ; but he was perfectly 
 conscious, and roused himself to name some 
 
 dear to him. About two hovn-s before his 
 departure he said to his niece, ' Write,' and 
 and in the most collected manner, as if he 
 were composing a sermon, said — 
 
 " ' First, have a gi-eat aim in life. Have 
 you written that ? Well. 
 
 " ' Second, try to please God.' On her 
 repeating this he said, ' Will you ? that's 
 right.' 
 
 " ' Third, shine. But I think that will 
 do now.' His last breath was calm as 
 an infant's. The angels did their oflice 
 tenderly. ' Havnng said this, he fell on 
 sleep.' 
 
 " Very solemn are these words, dictated a 
 few weeks before his death, as embodying 
 the sentiment of his life : ' I will creep as 
 well as I can to Thy gates. I will die at 
 Thy door. Yea, I will be found dead on the 
 threshold of Thy mercy, with the ring of 
 that door in my hand.' 
 
 " One last word to crown the whole. ' I 
 have thought so often of William Bunting's 
 line, " A death-bed witnessing for God." I 
 have wished to bear my dying testimony to 
 His truth and grace, but I have been 
 afraid of self-glorification. I have prayed 
 earnestly to be kept from that. Thank 
 God, I can now say, "I am willing to be 
 forgotten." ' 
 
 " Forgotten ! Never, while there is one 
 left on earth who heard thy thrilling, 
 inspiring tones ! Never, while the soul can 
 review its life-course, and rememlier the 
 hand that led it to Jesus, in the blest homes 
 of eternity ! " 
 
 INSCRIPTION 
 
 Upon the first monument which marked the 
 spot where his lemains rest in Abney Park 
 Cemetery. 
 
 In Memory of 
 JOHN LEIFCHILD, D.D., 
 
 WHO DIED IN LONDON, ON SUNDAY, JUNE '29TH, 1S62, 
 
 IN THE 83d year of HIS AGE; 
 
 WHOSE FAITH FOLLOW, 
 
 CONSIDERING THE END OF HIS CONVERSATION, 
 
 JESUS CHRIST. 
 
 I will creep as well as I can to Thy gates ; 
 I will die at Thy duor ; yea, I will Ije found 
 Deail on the threshold of Thy mercy, 
 With the ring of that door in my hand. 
 
 His own I'orcls. 
 
 That monument, which was in the form 
 of a marble cross rLsing from a base, has 
 been removed, and in its place there is
 
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 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jetvs. 
 
 now a marble ^hib with the following 
 inscription : — 
 
 In Lovinij Mcvwry of 
 THE REV. JOHN LEIFCHILl), D.D., 
 
 BURN KKBRUABY 15tH, 1780, 
 
 WED JUNE '29th, 1862. 
 ALSO OP ELIZABETH, his wife, 
 
 BORN FEBRUARY STH. 1778, 
 
 DIED DECEMBER 2STH, 18.55, 
 
 I.NTEBRED AT BRIGHTON. 
 
 ALSO THEIR ONLY CHILD, 
 
 JOHN ROBY LEIPCHILD, A.M., 
 
 BORN JUNE 26th, 1814, 
 
 DIED DECE.MBEB 6TH, 1889. 
 
 INTERRED AT KENSAL GREEN. 
 
 RE-UNITED. 
 
 DR. leifchild's early intere.st in the 
 
 SOCIETY. 
 
 The tirst act of Dr. Leifchild was to hand 
 over to Mr. Yoiige the tirst Secretary, the 
 very tirst contii))ution in aid of the Society, 
 a £b note, the gift of A. 11. , one of the 
 members of his church worshipping in Craven 
 Chapel, and a genuine lover of Israel, who 
 afterwards became the most excellent wife of 
 our esteemed Treasurer, Dr. J. E. Neuman. 
 
 Dr. Leifchihr.s name ap|)ears on the list of 
 officers for the year 1846 — 47. He preached 
 on the 24th of March, 1847, the day ap- 
 pointed for national humiliation, after which 
 he baptized a spiritual son of the Society, 
 Mr. James Brunner, who is still labouring 
 in the Jewish mission field, an account of 
 whose life, conversion, and work will be 
 found farther on. 
 
 DE. LEirCHILD's .SPEECH AT THE FOURTH 
 ANN'UAL MEET1N(;. 
 
 At the Fourth Annual Meeting, held at 
 Freemasons' Hall on Thursday evening, the 
 22nd of April, 1817, he delivered the follow- 
 ing address : — 
 
 Rev. Dr. Leifchild said : The resolution 
 that has been committed to me is of a very 
 important character. I only regret that I 
 was not acquainted with its purport till I 
 came to the hall. It has been alluded 
 to in the addre.ss of the President at the 
 opening of the meeting, and partially ex- 
 plained and urged upon you in the Report 
 which has been read. It relates to the 
 establishment of a college for the purpose of 
 ([ualifying young men to teach the Gospel 
 to their Jewish brethren, by imparting that 
 knowledge which it is neces.sary they should 
 possess for that express purpose, not classical 
 learning particulaily, but more especially 
 Kabbiuical knowledge and the Hebrew 
 
 language, that they may converse with them 
 in their own way. We must all .see the 
 importance of such an institution. It is but 
 in its infancy, but it has great promise, and 
 it will I'equire great exertion and call for 
 every united co-operation in raising funds 
 for its support. The lesolution is to this 
 efiVct :— 
 
 " That the friends of Israel now assembled, 
 feeling deeply the importance of securing to 
 the Society's missionaries the advantages of 
 such a course of education as shall qualify 
 them for the jieculiarly difficult and arduous 
 work on which they are sent forth, have 
 heard with heartfelt satisfaction of the open- 
 ing of the Jewish Mission College, and 
 would solemnly commend the undertaking to 
 the blessing of Almighty God, pledging 
 themselves at the same time to support it by 
 every means in their power." 
 
 A friend has informed me that at present 
 there are four .students in the house, and 
 others are applying for admission. Provision 
 has been made for the education of the 
 students in systematic theology, biblical in- 
 terpretation, and ecclesiastical history. An 
 eminent Rabinnical scholar has been ap- 
 j)ointed resident tutor ; and if some special 
 donations could be made to that important 
 object, it would be a very gratifying result 
 of the present meeting. I have watched the 
 proceedings of this Society with great in- 
 terest and concern. I saw names associated 
 with it at the tirst which were to me a 
 guarantee of the soundness of its principles. 
 I have not been able to afford it much aid, 
 but 1 have endeavoured to awaken a spirit 
 of co-o[)eration with it in the congregation 
 to which I minister, and not in vain. Cir- 
 cumstances have lately brought me to more 
 acquaintance with its proceedings than 
 before, and have greatly delighted my mind. 
 I felt induced, therefore, to come to the 
 meeting this evening that I might learn 
 something more of its nature and chaiacter, 
 and be prepared to give it all the little 
 assistance that may be in my power. I 
 confess I did not anticipate that the Society 
 had already awakened such an interest in 
 the public mind ; and when I listened to 
 that Report, and looked at this assembly, 
 and considered what a nuiiilier of Christian 
 females were hero present, and the interest 
 with which they have listened to the recitals 
 made, I felt that you were greatly on the 
 advance. If so many Christian females will 
 elicit their sympathies on behalf of this 
 subject, then you cannot fear, but you may
 
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 uua 
 
 "o I'orwaril ami take cniiraf.'e. It ajtpears to 
 mi' that at this jiaiticular time the claims 
 of the Jews on our attention for their con- 
 version to the Christian faith are pressing 
 and paramount. I believe in the approach- 
 ing accomplishment of scriptural prophecy. 
 I helieve that preparation is now making for 
 the conversion of the whole world to the 
 Christian faith. I think a man must be 
 wilfully blind who does not see that prepara- 
 tion to be making. Distant parts of the 
 world are brought into contact with one 
 another : the refined with the barbarous, the 
 intelligent with the ignorant, the rationally 
 pious with the superstitious and idolatrous, 
 for mutual intercourse and for extensive 
 benefit. The Christian Scriptures are multi- 
 plied all over the earth to a surprising and 
 wonderful extent, so as no book was ever 
 multiplied before, or can, oi' will be ; and 
 then the world itself seems opening before 
 Christian eflbrt. We find tiiat the African 
 race, one of whom is on the platform with 
 us at this time, and whose spirit is imbued 
 with the knowledge of the Gospel — are going 
 back from that land to which we send them, 
 as slaves, emancipated by the Gospel of 
 Christ, to teach on the sunny l)urning sands 
 of central Africa that Gospel which makes 
 the believer in it free indeed. Ethiopia is 
 stretching out her h.mds unto God, India is 
 opening her hands to receive the Gosjiel, and 
 C'hina also, forming so large a proportion of 
 the globe. We are most surely on the eve 
 of wonderful time.", and it is on that ground 
 I think we aie called upon to pay particular 
 attention at this moment to the conversion 
 of Jews to the Christian faith. It is clear 
 from prophecy that their- conversion, as it is 
 coincident with the conversion of the world 
 to Christ, will be preparatory to it, and 
 promotive of it ; and therefore anxiety for 
 the welfare of our own race must lead ns to 
 be peculiarly anxious for the conrersion of 
 the Jews a.s a means to the accomplishment 
 of that great end. What shall the receiv- 
 ing of them 136 but life from the dead ? The 
 conversion of the Jews will be the signal 
 for the revival— the triumphant revival, of 
 the religion of Christ among all the Gentiles, 
 and with the convei-sion of the Jews the 
 fulness of the Gentiles shall be brought in. 
 That will be the effect ; and it is the 
 character of Scripture prophecy to foretell 
 events in their effects and their results. It 
 points tliem out — it describes them to us in 
 the most enchanting manner, that we may 
 seek more eagerly for the causes that produce 
 
 them. My conviction is strong that we are 
 going forward to tiie grand accomplislinient 
 of prophecy. The author of 'I'ancred seems 
 to think that we shall all go back to Juda- 
 ism. My conviction is that Judaism and 
 heathenism are going forward to Christianity, 
 and that the world is to be tlie Lord's. 
 But in order that this great event mav be 
 brought about, the conversion of the Jews 
 as instrumental to the convei-sion of the 
 world, our treatment of them as Christians 
 must be very different from what it has 
 hitherto been. They have been in all parts 
 of the world labouring under civil and politi- 
 cal disabilities ; a universally proscribed and 
 persecuted race. They have been regarded 
 bj- the inliabitants of different places with 
 shyness and aversion bordering on contempt, 
 and then we have been wondering that they 
 h.ave been prejudiced against us. It would 
 ha\e been very wonderful if it had been 
 otherwise, for h.atred as surely begets hatred, 
 as love begets love. I thank God that our 
 state in this respect is greatly altered. Their 
 civil disaliilities are partially done away with 
 in many countries, and entirely in our own, 
 and their political disabilities are in the wav, 
 I hope, to be removed. Believing as 1 do 
 that a civil government is for civil purposes, 
 to protect the property, and persons, and 
 lives of its subjects, and to i)romote the 
 temporal weal of all classes in all depart- 
 ments, I conclude that if these ends can be 
 answered, it has notiiing to do with religious 
 peculiai-ities, and that no one who supports 
 the government, and pays for its expenses, 
 ought to be excluded from a share in its 
 privileges and rights. But we are far 
 beneath some countries in this respect. In 
 France the Jews are shut out of no depart- 
 ment. They are to be found amongst the 
 officers in the army ; they form a consider- 
 able portion of the national guard ; they are 
 physicians, professors in universities, and 
 occupy sover.il other places. What is the 
 effect there ? A growing confidence between 
 the Jew and the Gentile. W^e are coming 
 nearer together in intercourse and friendship, 
 and what is more likely to wear away their 
 prejudice, and bring them to the knowledge 
 of the Truth, than this ? This is one of the 
 favom-able symptoms of the times, but it is 
 our duty as Christians to seek their con- 
 vei'sion to the Lord Christ, and we shall ilo 
 tliis by urging the welfare and prosperity of 
 this Institution at .a throne of grace. W'e 
 shall do it also by a kind and conciliating 
 spirit in all the intercourse we can have with
 
 270 
 
 Memories of Gospel Trmmphs among the Jews. 
 
 the Jews. We can do it as Christians in our 
 individual capacity ; and suffer me to ask 
 you, whenever you meet with any of that 
 people, to welcome them, to converse and 
 reason with them calmly, and endeavour to 
 gain their candid attention to the doctrines 
 of Christianity. I thank God that I have 
 never been suffered to treat a Jew lightly in 
 my whole life. The object is not now to me. 
 Between thirty and forty years ago, I 
 belonged to a Society in London for the con • 
 version of the Jews. I preached some of 
 our lectures which we called, in the plenitude 
 of our modesty, Demonstration sermons, and 
 we endeavoured to demonstrate to them the 
 Messiahship of Jesus Christ. But I feel 
 that if you could get the candid attention of 
 the Jew to the doctrines of Christianity 
 fairly laid down, there is that in them which 
 is demonstration, and through the blessing 
 of God will bring them to the right convic- 
 tion. If there is no man of any race under 
 heaven but what has yielded to the power of 
 Gospel Truth, is the Jew alone to be imper- 
 vious to it ? There is a power in that Gosjiel 
 that shall, if it be put fairly and kindly 
 before him, compel his acknowledgment of 
 its claims, and number your converts by a 
 thousand-fold. I think it will become us, in 
 our attempts to promote the conversion of 
 the Jews, to make ourselves acquainted with 
 the topics in dispute amongst us, and to 
 reason with them out of their own Scrip- 
 tures. Will you allow me to say, that in 
 order to win upon their attention, we ought 
 to cultivate simplicity and purity of Chiist- 
 ian worship. They despise the gewgaw of 
 worship, — partly Christian, partly pagan, 
 and partly Jewish. They are cured of all 
 idolatrous tendency. They have suffered 
 enough for that to make them abominate 
 idolatry in every form, and in every approach 
 to it. I do not wonder that in papal 
 countries they have not been converted to 
 Christianity, where they see worship paid to 
 inferior beings. They who are going over 
 to popery are building up a stumbling-block 
 in the way of the conversion of the Jews, 
 instead of taking it down. We must have 
 simplicity and purity in our Christian wor- 
 ship, if we would attract their attention ; 
 and we ought, in reference to this great 
 object, to strive to be at peace among our- 
 selves. When they behold different sects of 
 Christians striving one against another, how 
 are we to expect that they will be induced 
 to join us ? Agree among yourselves, they 
 say, fii-st, and then tell us what party we are 
 
 to join. We shall never make them listen 
 to oin- call to unite with us while our voice 
 is hoarse with calling one another names. 
 We are one in fundamental points ; we are 
 like themselves. They have different tribes, 
 different standards, diff'erent names, but 
 they are all one people, and so the different 
 sects of Christians are one people, one in 
 Christ. But we .shall never make them 
 believe we are one till they see we have the 
 spirit of love and affection towards each 
 other ; and when they see that our hearts 
 are one, and we can combine together in 
 great objects, and live in peace and love, as 
 brethren, it will be a spectacle to win their 
 regards. Oh ! if the time were come when 
 there could be without opposition, without 
 disturbance, a true Evangelical Alliance, it 
 would have a mo.st important effect on the 
 conversion of the Jew, as I verily believe. 
 Then I think we must not be over incredulous 
 about the conversion of those who profess 
 Christianity : I know we ought to be 
 cautious, but there is another extreme, we 
 may be over incredulous, and may refuse to 
 stretch out the hands of kindness, and 
 welcome to one who is feeling his wa\', and 
 groping after the Truth. There is a disposi- 
 tion on the part of the jjublic to be over 
 suspicious. I have taken care to watch the 
 proceedings of the Society. I did not join it 
 at first. 1 did not at first cordially join with 
 Mr. Herschell. I watched you — waited for 
 you — I have looked at the conduct of 
 converts that have been brought under the 
 notice of the Society, and it is not without 
 caution that I give in my adhesion to the 
 Institution ; and he who does it cautiously 
 perhaps is to be valued more than he who 
 does it promptly. When I had to baptize a 
 young Jewish convert at our place of wor- 
 ship, the Society knows that I exercised great 
 caution ; and it was not till I had had more 
 than one conversation with him and knew 
 something of his character that I admitted 
 him to that ordinance, but I was satisfied as 
 far as we can be one of another that he was 
 truly converted to God. After an account 
 of that baptism had been published by some 
 one unknown to me in the papers, I had 
 inquiries from certain (juarters, some inquir- 
 ing after the truth, some indulging in grave 
 suspicion ; and they wislied I might not be 
 wrong. I have had to write, therefore, and 
 publish the account, to show that I have 
 been cautious. A venerable Jew waited 
 upon me to .say that he did not Vielieve it was 
 a conversion, he did not think that Jews
 
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 27 L 
 
 coulJ believe tlie doctrines of Christianity, 
 lie bi'luivetl most respectfully, and seemed to 
 be iiKjuiring after the Truth, and to be ac- 
 quainted with the New Testament. He 
 wanted me to hold a public dispute, but I 
 told him that I was too old to engage in 
 anj'thing of that kind, and that I knew what 
 public di.scussions were ; — that if two person.s 
 were to speak for half-an-hour, they would 
 have their partisans, and, whatever might 
 be the result, both would claim the \'ictory. 
 I told him that the voice of Truth was best 
 heard in the calmness of the closet : that if 
 he would go there and read his scriptures, 
 and pray to Jehovah to give him life and 
 instruction, the Truth, I had no doubt, would 
 be received in his heart ; and I must say 
 that I believe he received that admonition, 
 that advice, very kindly. I must confess 
 that the sight of the audience, the Report 
 itself, and the facts that have been narrated, 
 awaken in my mind the greatest hopes and 
 anticipations ; and, as I have observed, be- 
 lieving the conversion of the Jews to be 
 connected with the conversion of the world, 
 I am very glad that this meeting h.as taken 
 place now, because in a \ery few weeks we 
 are to meet together, on several occasions, 
 for the conversion of the Gentile world at 
 
 large, and I think it is with great propriety 
 that you liave preceded these meetings by 
 bringing before us the claims of the Jew. 
 I do not want the Jews, when they are con- 
 verted, to go back to their own land. I do 
 not want them to go away from amongst us. 
 I am exceedingly delighted with their ap- 
 pearance in our congregations, and I wish I 
 could be at those prayer-meetings where they 
 are pouring out their hearts before God. I 
 should like to see the Gentile and the Jew 
 studying the Old and the New Testament 
 together. I should like to hear their joint 
 praises of the Divine Emmanuel. I should 
 like to .see them sitting down at the sacra- 
 mental table together. Though it is natural 
 for them to love their fatherland, and much 
 to their credit to do it, yet I should like to 
 have them in one fold, under one Shepherd ; 
 and when they are brought to Chiist, 
 methinks they will everywhere feel at home, 
 when they shall stand on a perfect level, and 
 be no longer strangei's and foreigners, but 
 children of the family. Every mountain 
 shall be an Olivet ; every river a Jordan ; 
 every forest will be a Lebanon, and every 
 city a Jerusalem. Oh ! come the time when 
 Jews and Gentiles will join in the prais&s of 
 Messiah Jesus." 
 
 FOR 
 
 THE PRAYER OF A HEBREW BOY WHO 
 
 Loud ! Thou canst make the meanest 
 
 An object of Thy care ; 
 Regard the feelings of my heart, 
 
 And hear a Hebrew's prayer. 
 
 The Saviour died upon the cro.9s. 
 My sins and griefs to bear ; 
 
 For His sake. Lord, turn not awa}', 
 But hear a sinner's prayer. 
 
 I was a helpless Hebrew boy 
 That knew not Christ before 
 
 God took me from my parents' arms 
 His mercy to adore ! 
 
 My lot seem'd hard, yet was ordain'd 
 Thy faithfulness to prove ; 
 
 For 1 was carried far from homo 
 To learn a Saviour's love. 
 
 Mine was a wretched state ; e'cpos'd 
 To men and angels' view, 
 , Slave to the world, a slave to sin, 
 A slave to Satan too. 
 
 THE YOUNG. 
 
 BECAME A MISSIONARY OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY. 
 18i6. 
 
 soul In darkness long my soul remain'd, 
 
 A rebel bold was I ; 
 But love subdued my rebel heart, 
 And proved that God was nigh. 
 
 And if Thy Son hath made me free. 
 
 Then am I free indeed : 
 My soul is rescued from its chains, — 
 
 For this did Jesus bleed. 
 
 Lord ! send Thy word to that far land. 
 Where mj- poor brethren dwell ; 
 
 Teach them (he way, the truth, the life. 
 That saves from sin and hell ! 
 
 O that my father, mother dear. 
 
 Might there Thy mercy see ; 
 Tell them what Christ has done for them. 
 
 What Christ has done for me ! 
 Whose god is like the Christian God ? 
 
 Who can with Him compare ? 
 He has compassion on my soul, 
 
 And hears a Hebrew's prayer.
 
 Meiiiorien of Gospel Trliim)Jif< (imonr/ fhe JcinK. 
 
 Lord Jesus, Thou hast shed Thy liloncl 
 For tliousands such as me ; 
 
 Many despise poor Hebrew boys, 
 But I am lov'd by Thee. 
 
 In henven the hind of glory lies ; 
 
 If I shoidd enter tliere, 
 I'll tell the saints, and angels too, 
 
 Thou heard'st a Hebrew's prayer. 
 
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 REV. G. F. .SCHWARTZ. 
 
 1846. 
 
 (Wifli Portrait.) 
 
 T a Meeting of the Committee held on 
 June 2nd, 1846, it was decided that 
 
 Mr. Schwartz be en- 
 gaged on probation, as 
 a Missionar)'. 
 
 After labouring for 
 a time in London, Mr. 
 Schwartz found his 
 chief fields in and 
 around Rotterdam, 
 Bre.slau, .and Dresden. 
 
 Rotterdam. 
 
 THREE INTERESTING 
 CASES. 
 
 I. 
 
 Dec. 2.3, 1850. 
 
 In one of his visits 
 in a lonely district near 
 Rotterdam, he found 
 in a house an aged 
 Jew, his daughter, and 
 .a Jewish servant. The 
 old man appeared to 
 be sufiering from 
 rheimiatism, and was 
 reposing in a chair. 
 
 "With him," says 
 
 Mr. S , "I first 
 
 entered into conversation, and to my agree- 
 able surprise found him a very f)'ien(lly-dis- 
 posed man, who heard me with more than 
 usual attention. He was particularly pleased 
 when I read to him the Sermon on the 
 Mount, and expressed his wonder and amaze- 
 ment at the excellent doctrines it contained ; 
 and then, looking at me with seriousness, he 
 anxiously asked me, ' Are these really the 
 words of Jesus of Nazareth ? ' I said, ' There 
 is as little doubt that these are the words of 
 Jesus, as that the history of the creation of 
 the world was written by Moses.' He asked 
 
 liRV. G. F. .SCHW.IRTZ. 
 
 me no more questions, but listened while I 
 unfolded to him the gieat plan of salvation 
 tlu'ough .Jesus of Nazareth ; and when I 
 showed him that under pre.sent circumstances 
 it was impo.ssible for a Jew scripturally to 
 expect forgiveness of sin, as he has no sacri- 
 fice of atonement, and 
 then pictured to him 
 the dismal prospects 
 of a dying Jew, he 
 sighed deeply, and be- 
 trayed great uneasi- 
 ness. I then addressed 
 him at .some length, 
 and entreated him to 
 consider his ad\'anced 
 age, and to seek peace 
 with an ofl'ended and 
 righteous Cod, whilst 
 he was still on thi.s side 
 of the . grave, quoting 
 to him the passage in 
 I.saiah Iv. 6, 7, in 
 Hebrew, 'Seek ye the 
 Lord while He may be 
 found, 'etc., itc. I spent 
 nearly two hours in 
 pleaching the Gospel, 
 and admonishing him 
 not to slight such an 
 important message to 
 the descendants of 
 Israel. This, to all ap- 
 pearance, made a dee]i 
 impi-ession njion them all ; and when I left 
 them, I felt .a joy which I have not experienced 
 for a long time, .and prai.sed God for dispo.sing 
 the hearts of these individuals to receive the 
 Word of the Gospel with meekness .and fear. 
 May the Lord grant that these early impres- 
 sions m.iy not soon die ! " 
 
 II. 
 
 In the following interesting case, Mr. S — 
 had been visiting a .son of Abraham, for 
 several months, apparently without any bene- 
 ficial i-esult ; when, on one occasion, after
 
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 273 
 
 they had conversed together for some time, 
 
 and Mr. S was about to leave the house, 
 
 the master offered to accompany him home- 
 ward. 
 
 "We walked towards one of the most seques- 
 tered spots in the city,and herea most interest- 
 ing scenetook place. He said, 'I could not, in 
 the presence of my wife, speak to you as I 
 otherwise would, but now I will tell you what 
 my heart feels. It is more than six months 
 since you first spoke to me on the subject of 
 Chr stianity ; and you know with what in- 
 difference I have listened to you, and how 
 
 adore as my God and my Saviour. (The.se 
 are his own words.) Christ is my God — God 
 is my Messiah ; and this, I take Heaven to 
 witness, is my firm belief, and shall be uttered 
 ■vj'ith my last breath, on my dying bed.' 
 What added to the solemnity of this scene 
 was the awful .silence that reigned around us. 
 The moon shining with unclouded majesty 
 and dazzling brightness, shedding her beams 
 with great lustre on all objects around us, 
 bore witnes,s, as it were, to the declaration of 
 this son of Abraham. Altogether it was a 
 scene calculated to impre.ss the mind with a 
 
 iiuITEKDAM. 
 
 my behaviour was in general calculated to 
 insult you and discourage your visits. Yet I 
 must confess, whenever your back was turned 
 that I felt grieved ; and the words which 
 3-ou spoke were never completely obliterated 
 from my mind. This led me to read the 
 Bible ; and I a-ssure you, more than once I 
 prayed to God to show me the right way. I 
 read the Xew Testament, too, and was struck 
 with the wisdom, purity, and sanctity of its 
 doctrine.s. I considered the fulfilment of all 
 the predictions in the person of Jesus of 
 Xazareth, and I came to the conclusion that 
 Jesus is indeed the true Me.ssiah, whom I 
 
 religious awe which cannot easily be foi-got- 
 ten. As to his sincerity, there cannot, accord- 
 ing to my opinion, be the least doubt. As 
 regards woildly circumstances, he is well off; 
 and the motives which we sometimes su.spect 
 when men are the subjects of poverty, can- 
 not in this ea.se be attributed.'' 
 
 III. 
 
 " You will recollect that .some time ago J 
 mentioned a case of two young men who were 
 much impressed with the Truth, and who, in 
 consequence, often %dsited me in order to be 
 
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 274 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among' the Jeivs. 
 
 instructed ; but which unhappily led to a 
 discontinuance, through the persecution of 
 the Jews here. Since chat time I could but 
 occasionally see them in a garret, together 
 with some other Jews, till even this oppor- 
 tunity was disturbed ; when I altogether lost 
 sight of one of the two young men ; and my 
 only consolation under these circumstances 
 was that, if the Lord has indeed begun His 
 work in his heart. He will continue and per- 
 fect it. In this expectation I am happy to 
 inform you I have not been disappointed. 
 About three weeks since an individual called 
 at my house, at a very late hour in the even- 
 ing, and expressed a wish to see me ; and 
 when entering my room, I was not a little 
 surprised to tind that it was the young man 
 after whom I had so fruitlessly searched. He 
 gave me the following account in reply to my 
 anxious inquiry as to his mysterious disap- 
 pearance. He said, 'Instantly after that 
 unfortunate occurrence, when our occasional 
 meetings were disturbed, I resolved to leave 
 this town immediately, and to return to my 
 native town, Leyden, as I knew if I should 
 have remained there would have been little 
 prospect for me to live in peace. I accord- 
 ingly cariied my resolution into ettect, but 
 was not a little startled that my parents were 
 already infoi'med of the whole transaction. 
 They diligently searched my things, and found 
 several tracts, which they immediately 
 destroyed ; but the small Bible which you 
 procured for me escaped detection. I was 
 likewise constantly watched, so that I dared 
 not write to you, and communicate mythoughts 
 to you ; and so time wore on, until I received 
 a letter from m}' brother, who is in America, 
 to come, to which my parents consented, and 
 provided me with the necessary expenses for 
 my journey ; and here I am, to take a last 
 fai'ewell of you ; and I cannot sufficiently 
 express to _you my joy, that I am going to 
 a place where I shall be able to follow the 
 bent of my thoughts, with regard to my con- 
 victions of Christianity ; and it only no w remains 
 for me to express my heartfelt thanks to you 
 for the kindness you have shown me, and in 
 having been an instrument, in the hand of 
 God, of leading me to the fountain of Truth. 
 Whilst uttering the last sentence his voice 
 was choked with sobs, which wei-e soon fol- 
 lowed by anabundanceof tears. I didnot disturb 
 him for a few moments ; indeed, I was myself 
 so overpowered that I could not help giving 
 vent to my feelings, and sympathizing with 
 emotions which weie .apparently so genuine 
 and sincere. I then proposed to him to bend 
 
 our knees to Jesus, and implore His Divine 
 guidance and assistance, to which he readily 
 assented ; and so I besought the Lord to watch 
 over and prosper the growth of that tender 
 plant, and to carry on the blessed work which 
 He had so graciously begun. My young friend , 
 after that, assuied me, in the most emphatic 
 manner, that if the Lord spares his life, he 
 will certainly make an open confession of his 
 faith in the crucified Redeemer, as his Lord 
 and his Saviour. He then once more bade 
 me farewell, and took his departure. May 
 the Lord follow him with His blessing, and 
 enable him to carry out his noble resolution, 
 for His name's sake ! Amen. I am sure 
 you will bear this young man in mind when 
 you approach the throne of grace, and 
 unite with me in giving thanks to our Saviour 
 for having gi-anted us this proof of our labour 
 that it is not in vain in the Lord. 
 
 Breslau. 
 
 Breslau, Ijuilt at the conflux of the Oder 
 and Ohla, is the capital of Sile.sia, and con- 
 tains 20,000 Jews. The city is very ancient, 
 but has undei'gone great changes. Its walls 
 were demolished b}- Napoleon in 1811. 
 Enough is left to remind one of the middle ages 
 and their barbarous customs. There is the 
 Town Hall, in front of which is the pillory, 
 where many a poor Jew breathed his last, 
 bi'anded with infamy for crimes of which he 
 was innocent. 
 
 The Jews early settled in this city and 
 province. They are supposed to have been 
 brought, with German colonists, by the Dukes 
 of Poland in 065. They amassed a consider- 
 able fortune. In a document signed by the 
 Duke, Henry I., in 1204, two Jews, Joseph 
 and Kurchell, are mentioned, who not onlj' 
 possessed houses near Breslau, but landed 
 property as well. This prosperity was of short 
 duration. The Christian Piinces looked with 
 envy at the property of the despised Jew. 
 All sorts of crimes were imputed to them and a 
 vehement stoi-m of persecution was let loose, 
 the memory of which still lives. One of these 
 persecutions began under the reign of King 
 John of Bohemia in 1341, was renewed four 
 years later, 1.345, and again in 1348. During 
 these eight years many were burned alive, 
 their property confiscated, and others were 
 banished. But notwithstanding these untold 
 sufi'erings, they returned again, but only to 
 be overtaken by a worse persecution. In 
 1452 — 55, John de Capistrano, a Franciscan 
 monk, pieached in Bieslau against the
 
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 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 enemies of the Pope ; Jews, Turks, and wealth, built synagogue after synagogue, and 
 
 Hussites were accused of the murder of established charitable organizations that 
 
 Christian children and of having defiled the command the admiration of all. Numerous 
 
 Holy Sacrament, Many were thereupon descendants of these cruelly persecuted people 
 
 burned alive, others were robbed of all their now believe in Jesus as their Saviour. 
 
 SYNAGOGUE, BRESLAU. 
 
 substance, and ilriven in despair into banish- touching i.vcidests of conversion in 
 
 ment. breslau. 
 
 One would have thought that the poor The Breslau Reports of Mr. Schwartz 
 
 Jewish outcasts would have shunned this contain hundreds of deeply interesting cases, 
 
 place. But no, again they returned, and of which the following is a fair specimen : — 
 
 have greatly multiplied. They have gathered "I became acquainted, .some years ago,
 
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 with the members of a Jewish family in this 
 place, who treated the Gospel of Christ with 
 mockery and coutempt, not because they 
 were strict adherents to the religion of their 
 fathers, but from a total disregard of all re- 
 ligion. Excepting the head of the family, 
 who was originally a native of the neighbour- 
 ing country of Poland, not one of them had 
 any religious knowledge ; and the old man 
 himself purposely neglected the matter, 
 though he was well versed in eveiything 
 belonging to Jewish erudition. Whenever I 
 made my appearance in his house he derided 
 Moses and the prophets, as well as the re- 
 ligion of Christ ; and he was seconded in 
 this by a gentleman of military rank, still 
 older than himself, who had been brought 
 up in the Christian religion. Thus I often 
 witnessed the sad spectacle of the so-called 
 Christian, instead of preaching the Gospel to 
 the Jew, hindering it, and strengthening 
 him in his unbelief of Christ. Among those 
 who often listened when the Gospel was 
 preached, but took no active part in the dis- 
 cussion, was a daughter of the Jew. As far 
 as I could see, she appeared perfectly indif- 
 ferent, as she never betrayed the slightest 
 symptom either of approval or of disapproval; 
 and yet it was otherwise. What seemed so 
 unpromising was, in fact, a deep attention 
 to the Truth, which gradually penetrated 
 the inmost recesses of her heart, where it was 
 hidden until she could no longer conceal it. 
 She ultimately made a public confession of 
 her faith in Christ, though not in this town, 
 and afterwards returned to hei- home. The 
 rage of the father, when he heard of this 
 event, can scarcely be described ; it was, in 
 fact, almost more than his advanced j-eais 
 and feeble health coidd sujiport, and it threw 
 him upon a bed of sickness from which he 
 was not to i-ise again. During his illness I 
 visited him several times ; but his heart was 
 perfectly hardened, and thus he died, blas- 
 pheming and scoffing at religion in his very 
 last moments. 
 
 " From this time, however, a change came 
 over his military friend, in whom I took a 
 great interest. The appearance of this old man 
 was really imposing and very venerable, and re- 
 minded one of the busts of the ancient Greeks 
 seen in the museums. I could not help sighing 
 for the loss of such a noble spirit, through un- 
 belief, and I often remembered him in my 
 prayers, and interceded for him with the Lord. 
 The death, however, of his .Jewish neighbour 
 made a deep impression upon him; and when- 
 ever I met him he was very thoughtful, though 
 
 he still avoided speaking upon the subject 
 which I had at heart. One day, to my agree- 
 able surprise, he came to see me — a thing he 
 had never done before; and throwing ofl' all 
 reserve, he opened his mind to me (juite freely. 
 He said that, since the death of his friend he 
 could not help reflecting upon the state of his 
 own soul, and that having re.solved to examine 
 the claims of the Gospel, as I had often advised 
 him to do, he begged my assistance foi' that 
 purpose. I joyfully embraced the opportunity 
 to instruct him in the way of salvation. 
 
 ''The process which followed was one of in- 
 tense anxiety to my own mind; for he had to 
 pass through the severest mental struggles. 
 and was continually shifting from one point to 
 anothei', until the Lord, in His mercy, made 
 him conscious of his sinfulness ; and then it 
 was that the scales fell from his eyes, and he 
 was able to exclaim, ' My Lord and my God ! ' 
 Not long before he was called away from this 
 world he was chiefly instrumental in bringing 
 a daughter of Abraham to the knowledge of 
 Christ, thus making use of the talent granted 
 to him : and now, having died believing in the 
 Lord Jesus as his Saviour, he is with the 
 spirits of the just made perfect, singing 
 praises to the Lamb slain for the sins of the 
 world." 
 
 Dresden. 
 
 Mr. Schwartz's last centre of work was 
 Dresden. His report, dated 1889, gave a 
 detailed account of the good confession of 
 several Jews, as the representatives of hun- 
 dreds of others of a similar character. 240 
 Jews were received into the Protestant 
 Church by baptism in the old Prussian 
 provinces. The visitors during the year 
 were about 2.38,506, and at lea-st five per 
 cent, of these were Jews from the Conti- 
 nent of Europe, the Ignited States of America, 
 with a small number from the British Colo- 
 nies. Mr. Schwartz sought and found con- 
 stant intercourse with these, and distributed 
 among them 2,856 tracts, Bibles, New Testa- 
 ments, and other publications. 
 
 AN ILLUSTRATIOX OF THE POWER OF THE 
 GOSPEL UPON THE JEWISH HEART. 
 
 The following narrative and summary are 
 taken from the last report of Mr. Schwartz, 
 written when he was nearly 70 j'ears of age, 
 and may be regarded as an appropriate close 
 to his long and successful missionary career : 
 
 " During the gi-eatest part of the summer 
 months, I had the pleasure of having inter- 
 course with live very respec-table young men.
 
 278 
 
 Memories (if Gospel Triumphs amotig the Jews. 
 
 and frnulually they became very attentive, ami 
 expressions also which fell fiom theii' lips at 
 different times, soon convinced me that 
 tliev cherished a secret dissatisfaction with 
 regard to Judaism, and were, like most others, 
 ready to embrace any spurious belief which 
 coukl give them benefit by appeasing an ac- 
 cusing conscience. I must confess, however, 
 that I expected a very unfavourable reception 
 to my message, and thought that minds like 
 
 to them how wonderfully it had permeated 
 and elevated the minds of our Jewish 
 fathers, that it had shown itself to be 
 invincible, that it had defied extreme 
 danger, and scorned the arrogance and 
 pride of the devastating and tyrannical 
 heathen. But the climax was reached when, 
 after all the.se teachings, I pointed out to them 
 the deadly errors of self-righteousness and 
 the proud system of Judaism ; and also 
 
 
 those would spurn from them the Word of 
 God, which requires an absolute surrender of 
 all our favourite speculations. But in this I 
 was most agreeably disappointed. They 
 listened with delight when I spoke to them 
 of the noble faith which animated some of our 
 Jincestors under the old Testament dispensa- 
 tion ; they further had a keen perception of 
 the immense value and importance of this 
 glorious faith, when I declared and explained 
 
 disclosed the snares and dangerous delusions 
 of infidel systems. These words made a deep 
 impression upon them ; and perceiving thi.s, I 
 then proceeded to compare these pernicious 
 doctrines with the sublime teachings of Jesus 
 of Nazareth, which, instead of darkne.ss 
 and doubt, give light and immortality, in- 
 stead of debasing, rai.se mankind. With 
 this they were exceedingly pleased, and ex- 
 pressed their feelings on the sul)ject at issue
 
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 279 
 
 on various occasions in such a way, as 
 solicited explanation rather than discussion, 
 and which gave me ample opportunities of 
 bringing before them the whole counsel of 
 God with regai'd to fallen and sinful men, 
 and then exhorted them most solemnly in 
 conclusion to ponder these things, and read 
 the Word of God with prayer for Di\-ine 
 illumination. This still more impressed 
 them ; and with tears in their eyes, they 
 thanked me for the good done to their souls, 
 and confessed, one and all, their faith in 
 the glorious Eedeemer — Jesus, the Messiah 
 
 Protestant Church by baptism ; that is one 
 hundred and eight more than last year, and 
 one hunth'ed and seventy-eight more than the 
 preceding year. Last year was distinguished 
 by reason of the eighth centennial jubilee of 
 the royal family of Saxony, which attracted a 
 great number of strangers, and among these a 
 great many Jews again. It was not so easy 
 this time to find access to them, as the hotels 
 and inns were overcrowded, but the Lord 
 paved the way, nevertheless ; and I was then 
 able, in all humility, to preach the Gospel to 
 those strangers, to many who had come from 
 
 THE JEWISH MISSIOXARY AT HIS WORK IS A PARK. 
 
 of Israel. Doubtless, they also will soon join 
 those who constitute the visible Church of 
 the Lord Jesus." 
 
 Mr. Schwartz closed his last report ^vith the 
 following statement, and with good reason for 
 believing that his own tearful seed-sowing had 
 contributed something towards the blessed 
 harvest : — 
 
 " An important fact, immediately connected 
 with my mission, is the considerable increase 
 of the case.s of conversions of most lecent date. 
 During the year no les,s than three hundred 
 and forty-eight Jews were received into the 
 
 great distances, and I am convinced the 
 Gospel will be a ' savour of life unto life ' to 
 many of them. I have also distributed 2,985 
 tracts, 5110 Hebrew New Testaments, also 
 Bibles and other books bearing on our sacred 
 work." 
 
 In looking back upon our brother's life 
 work and its end, we are prompted to place 
 him among the most successful of our 
 Hebrew Christian Missionaries, and say of 
 him what was wi-itten concerning Enoch: 
 " He walked with God : and he Wi\s not ; for 
 God took him."
 
 280 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 MR. COHEN, AND LYDIA 
 MONTEFIOKE. 
 
 1846. 
 
 Joseph Philip Cohen was lorn in Prus.sia, 
 find indueetl, contrary to the wishes of his 
 mother, to visit England. "When he arrived 
 in this country he found that his cousin 
 who had invited him was gone to America ; 
 learning, however, tliat a fellow-townsman 
 was living in London, by his advice he pur- 
 chased articles to vend ; but, being ignor.-nit 
 of the English language he experienced 
 considerable difficulty, and at a public- 
 house was shamefully treated. This induced 
 him to take a partnei', 
 who was honest and 
 upright for a time, but 
 at length absconded, 
 and robbed him of his 
 all. In these circum- 
 stances of difficulty he 
 met a Jewish mission- 
 ary, who asked him 
 whether he read the 
 Bible, and who ui-ged 
 him, when he said that 
 he read chiefly the 
 books of Moses, to 
 study carefully the 
 u:hole Bible, and espe- 
 cially the 5.3rd chapter 
 of Isaiah, and told him 
 that be would then 
 find Jesus of Nazareth 
 to be the true Mes- 
 siah. He thought that 
 he could never believe 
 in Jesus, whom he had 
 been taught from his 
 childhood to hate, that 
 he would rather die 
 
 than believe in Jesus, but he was led to read 
 the Scriptures and was much struck with the 
 fifth verse in the 53rd of Isaiah, " He was 
 wounded for our transgressions," &c. He 
 knew that the Jews sometimes applied it to 
 Isaiah, but he could not avoid the conclusion 
 that it must allude to one more than man, be- 
 cause the wounds of a mere man could never 
 expiate our transgressions. He left London, 
 and began to try again to obtain his livelihood 
 by the .sale of small wares; but wdien at Wor- 
 thing he was taken to prison for selling 
 without a license. After his release, one of 
 his brethren who was in good circumstances 
 offered to employ him, but he objected to 
 his reading the Bible, saying that many Jews 
 
 had lost their senses through reading it, that 
 they had left Judaism and embraced Christ- 
 ianity. As he could not give up studying 
 the Bible he left his new friend, and felt 
 then like an outcast. He thought that God 
 had laid too much punishment upon him, but 
 he felt afterwards that it was all in mercy, 
 that if he had not been afflicted, he, perhaps, 
 might never have known the love of Jesus. 
 In his distress he called to the Lord, and 
 coming to Swan.sea, he found a townsman 
 who kindly received him. It was the anni- 
 versary of the great Day of Atonement, and as 
 he was reading the 17th chapter of Leviticus 
 and the 11th verse, "It is the blood that 
 maketh atonement for 
 the soul," he thought 
 that a sacrifice must be 
 offei-ed at Jerusalem ; 
 but reading other pas- 
 sages, he found that 
 God hid His face from 
 sacrifices of bulls and 
 goats as \ictims offei'ed 
 for the expiation of 
 sin. He then asked 
 himself, " Is there no 
 way to be saved 1 " 
 not yet knowing that 
 Jesus shed His blood 
 on Calvary, and that 
 He was a sin-offering 
 made without the gate. 
 He felt so much dis- 
 tress of mind that he 
 thought of the con- 
 verted Jew who had 
 first advised him to 
 read the Bible, wish- 
 ing that he could give 
 him instruction in the 
 religion he praised so 
 much ; but that gentleman was far away 
 from Swansea ; he was recommended to a 
 lady who kindly received him, and intro- 
 duced him to her minister. The minister, 
 the Rev. T. W., reasoned with him from 
 the Scriptures, and asked him to com- 
 pai-e the New Testament with the Old. He 
 hesitated at first about reading the New 
 Testament, but thought, afterw-ards, that it 
 could do him no harm just to look into it. 
 The first verse on which he fixed his eye was 
 this, " Come unto me, all ye that labour and 
 are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." 
 He immediately put the qvie.stion to himself, 
 " Can He mean that I who have rebelled 
 against Him should come? Can He ever
 
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 pardon ray sin, one who has rejected Him so 
 long, who has ti-ampled His blood under foot ? 
 Jesus now became sweet unto his soul, and 
 by comiiaring the Old and New Testaments, 
 he saw that there was no contradiction be- 
 tween them ; the one pi'ophesies — the other 
 fulfils. He renounced Judaism, and embraced 
 Jesus as the Messiah. For Christ's sake he 
 endured many persecutions, and was baptized 
 on the 12th of January, 1845. 
 
 On Tuesday, 2nd June, 1846, the 
 Committee resolved that 3Ir. Cohen be 
 placed under the care and instruction of the 
 Eev. W. C. Yonge, at Brentford, for two 
 months. On the 30th September, 184G, 
 Mr. Cohen was engaged by the Committee, 
 as a Colporteur, to labour among the Jews 
 in Amsterdam under the ■n-ise and kindly 
 supervision of Dr. J. Da Costa. 
 
 Mr. Cohen occupied several important 
 mission stations both at home and abroad, 
 with many tokens of the Divine Blessing. 
 Here is an extract from his account of a 
 year's work at home. 
 
 "During the past year I have visited 
 twenty-two placfs, for the purpose of calling 
 attention to the Jewish cause, and .six places 
 (besides Swansea) for the .spritual good of 
 vay brethren, viz. : Bristol (twice), Cardiff, 
 Newport, Xeath, Cheltenham, and Bath, and 
 I am happy to report, that the Spirit of God 
 seems to be working in the hearts of many 
 Jews in the above-named places. The 
 desire of reading the Word of God has been 
 greater last year than the year before ; for, 
 in addition to the many Bibles and Testa- 
 ments, both in EnglLsh and Hebrew, which 
 I have distributed gratuitously, I have sold 
 seven Testaments, which shows the readiness 
 and willingness of the Jews to possess the 
 Book of Jesus Christ, and many of the Jews, 
 through reading the Scriptures, have declared 
 (even some of the very bigoted) in favour 
 of the Truth as it is in Jesus; and, indeed 
 not a few have told me, that through reading 
 the New Testament grace had obtained the 
 victory in their hearts. I have great reason 
 to be thankful for the many opportunities 
 I have had to declare the Truth of the 
 Gospel to my brethren, which, by the ble.s.sing 
 of God, I trust vnW in due time produce 
 fruits unto eternal life. 
 
 " In August, 1849, we lived in Bristol, 
 where I was one day told by a lad}-, who 
 called on us, that one of my brethren was in 
 the infirm.ary. I called and found him to be 
 vei-y ill, suftering from tits. I told him who 
 I was. and spoke to him about Christ. He 
 
 said, ' I shall never believe in Jesus.' I 
 ■\-isited him repeatedly, and lent him a 
 German Bible, which he returned ; but when- 
 ever I called, he invariably told me that he 
 never could leave the religion of his fathers 
 and believe in Jesus. One day he told me that 
 I was very kind in calling to see him, but he 
 thought that all my labours on his account 
 would be useless : for he said, ' I shall never, 
 no never, believe in Christ ! ' Two years 
 have nearly passed away without hearing or 
 seeing anything of this my brother, while 
 many prayers were offered on his behalf 
 duiing that time ; but veiy lately I was 
 agreebly surprised to see that very man, who 
 so often declared to me that he never could 
 believe in Jesus, brought, through the in- 
 strumentality of another brother-labourer, to 
 confess His name publicly before many peo- 
 ple. The language of my heart is, ' Not un- 
 to me, O Lord, 'not unto me, but unto Thy 
 name give I glory." 
 
 From Bristol, Mr. C wrote, "To-day, 
 
 I saw a man before me with a box on his 
 shoulder. I soon overtook him, and at once 
 saw that he was one of my people. I spoke 
 to him, and after having asked him how 
 business was, I introduced the subject of 
 Christianity to him ; but, to my great surprise, 
 he turned out to be a secret believer in Jesus . 
 He said, ' I wish you could tell me where Mr. 
 Jaffe is. Some have told me that he is in 
 London ; others, that he has gone abroad.' I 
 said, ' Do you know Mr. Jafle ? ' ' Yes,' 
 was the reply ; ' it was through him that I 
 was led to know the Messiah, andit>wasin 
 this way : — Four years ago, I -i-isit^ ttis 
 
 place; I was then lodging in T Street, 
 
 which house Mr. Jaffe used to visit. One 
 day he called, and found us to be six in 
 number ; yet he did not cease, but preached 
 Christ faithfully to us all. Before he left us 
 that day, he gave us a Testament for us to 
 read in turns ; but I took the Testament, 
 and said, " No one shall read this book ; I 
 shall burn it." But I have not burned it yet, 
 and hope that I never shall. Whenever 1 
 attempted to burn the Testament, some fear- 
 ful feeling came over me, which convinced 
 me that I was not right. I left this country ; 
 and on my way home I was, through reading 
 the Testament, '• convinced of sin, and of 
 righteousness, and of judgment to come." 
 I am happy to tell you that the three yeai-s 
 and a half T was at home I ser^■ed the Lord 
 Jesus faithfully, as a secret believer.' I said 
 that I was glad to hear him say so, and 
 asked him whether it was not his duty to be
 
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 baptized. ' For,' added I, ' if we loved a 
 person we would not be ashamed of making 
 known that person as the object of our love ; 
 and so with Jesus ; if you love Him, why be 
 ashamed of Him ? ' He said, ' The reason 
 why I am not baptized is this : you know if 
 a Jew is baptized, he is cast away by all his 
 friends. Now, I have a father, mother, 
 sisters, and brothers; and if I were to be 
 baptized, they would not have anything at 
 all to do with me ; they would not even read 
 my letters, were I to write to them. But 
 now I can ^vrite to them, and they will read 
 my letters with pleasure ; and every letter I 
 send them, I always write to them about the 
 Messiah. This makes them search the 
 
 are beginning to see their ruined condition 
 as sinners before a Holy God, and are inquir- 
 ing the way to Zion ; and those who once 
 denied the existence of God are beginning to 
 love Him and pray to Him." 
 
 IXTERESTISG CASE OF A COXVERTEI) INFIDEL. 
 
 '• About nine months ago, I met one of my 
 brethren in a Jewish lodging-house, which I 
 am in the habit of visiting. His appearance 
 was very respectable, but he was an Infidel ! 
 He told me that he did not believe there was 
 a God or a Devil. He showed me an infidel 
 book, which he said he read daily. I tried 
 all I could to sho w him the error of his way, 
 but all appe ared to be useless ; before I left 
 
 Scriptures, which they would not have done 
 had I been baptized.' I then told him that 
 
 friend Jalfe is in B . On hearing this he 
 
 appeared so overjoyed, that he left me with- 
 out saying anything more." 
 
 Lyons. 
 
 Mr. Cohen began Mission work in Lyons 
 in April, 1852, and in July, 1853, he was able 
 to say : — " If I were asked ' What are you 
 doing among the Jews at Lyons ? ' I could, 
 without any hesitation, give the following 
 answer : — Those Jews who were once deaf to 
 the preaching of the Gospel are beginning to 
 give a listening ear ; and those who were once 
 blind to their spiritual condition, by nature. 
 
 him, however, I succeeded in persuading him 
 to take a Bible from me, and I asked him to 
 read his book one day and the Bible the 
 other ; and to ask that God, in whom he did 
 not believe, to show him the right way ; 
 after which I left him, and did not hear any- 
 thing of him until this month, when I met 
 him in the same lodging-house. He told me 
 that he had burned the inKdel book which he 
 had showed me, and that he was now daily 
 reading the Bible. He said ' I daily pray to 
 God to consume the evils, which that and 
 many other infidel books have nourished in 
 my heart, as the fire consumed its pages ; 
 and to teach me and write upon my heart the 
 Truths contained in this precious Book (the
 
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 I'lible), which has shed so many rays of light 
 into my dark soul since yon kindly gave it 
 to me.' " 
 
 Marseilles, &c. 
 
 In March 1854, Mr. Cohen began work 
 in Marseilles as the British Society's Mis- 
 sionary. There he was the means in 
 the hand of the Divine Spirit of leading 
 many to Christ, and among them, the 
 aunt of Sir IMoses Montefiore. About nine 
 years ago. Mi-. Cohen brought to us the 
 story of her life in MS., and asked us to 
 prepare it for publication if we thought it 
 worth while to do so. We read it, and 
 believing that it was fitted to be useful, we 
 
 to come and take her to Himself This was 
 more than Sir Moses could stand from his 
 aged aunt. Although he had only been a 
 few minutes in her presence he at once lifted 
 his hat and disajipeared from the room. 
 
 After this, and after much waiting upon 
 the Lord ih jsrayer for wisdom, she wrote to 
 her nephew the following letter. 
 
 " Marseilles, Jfarch I6th, 1857. • 
 
 " My Dear Nephew, — In consideration of 
 all your kindness towards me, it is impossible 
 for me to pass over in silence our last 
 momeiitary interview, aiforded me doubtless 
 by yourself from the same affectionate dis- 
 position which you have ever manifested, 
 without expressing my hearty regret at the 
 
 MARSEILLES. 
 
 accepted the post of editor ; we saw it passed 
 through the press, and published in the form 
 of a little book with the title : " The Con- 
 version of Lydia Montefiore, Aunt of the 
 late Sir ^Nloses Montefiore." 
 — This little book gives an interesting and 
 instructive account of the methods of our 
 missionary, the way in which jSliss Lydia was 
 led to Christ, and her intense desire that 
 all her relatives should be saved, among 
 whom was her dear nephew. Sir Moses 
 Montefiore. 
 
 On one occasion Sir Moses paid her a visit 
 when she was ill. Then she bore noble 
 testimony for Jesus. She had the courage 
 to tell her nephew how precious .Jesus was to 
 her .'-oul, and how she was waiting for Him 
 
 sudden 
 
 untoward circumstance of yo\ir 
 withch-awal from my apai-tment. 
 
 " Aware of the short opportunity there is 
 left me by Divine Providence of thanking 
 you for all the kind interest you have taken 
 in my welfare, I desire to do it now most 
 cordially, and to assure you that my heart's 
 desire and prayer for you is, that you may be 
 saved by that only name of Jesus, the 
 Messiah, by which alone man may be saved, 
 even by Him whom you blindly reject. I 
 am aware you would hardly thank me for 
 praying for you in that name, because 
 the veil of unbelief is >till upon you, as 
 it has been the.se eighteen centuries upon 
 our poor, benighted people of the house of 
 Israel, for having crucified their own Messiah,
 
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 the Lord of glory. Nevertheless, I feel it 
 my duty and privilege to bear testimony for 
 the holy name of my Saviour, whom I expect 
 soon to meet in the regions above, where He 
 is gone to prepare a place for me, and for yon 
 also, if you do not persist in your unbelief; 
 but search, as I did, and that honestly and 
 ardently, the Scriptuj-es of Moses, the Psalms, 
 and the prophets, which testify of His passion, 
 death and resuirection. 
 
 " I remain, with much love and gratitude, 
 " Your affectionate, aged aunt, 
 
 " Lydia Montefiore." 
 A few months after, she wrote to him 
 once again, in the hope that lie might receive 
 what she bad written, and that her testimony 
 might lead to his conversion. 
 
 " Marseilles, Octobe?- 23rd, 1857. 
 
 " My Dear Nephew, — I was much surprised 
 to find my letter returned by you without 
 even paying the postage. I could not have 
 suppcsed that you were capable of manifesting 
 such a bad spirit towaids your poor old aunt, 
 merely because she had followed the dictates 
 of her conscience, which God has been pleased 
 to enlighten by His Spirit ; and from that 
 time, I can assure you, I have been happier 
 than ever I was before my baptism, because 
 I know I am in the fortress of Jehovah, the 
 ark of the covenant made to our forefathers, 
 and ratified by the Lord Christ, our true 
 Messiah, when He cried on the Cross, ' It is 
 finished.' This is the only sure hiding-place, 
 where I hope you, and all revolted Israel, 
 may hide from the wrath of an offended Goi, 
 Search the Scriptures as I have : 
 " ' I once was blind, but now I see, 
 Was lost, but now am found.' 
 
 "Iplace mytrust in Jehovah, my Redeemer, 
 who counts me worthy to suffer for His sake, 
 and whilst I live, I shall not cease to pray to 
 Him to save 3'our soul, and I conjure you to 
 be reconciled to God, through His Son. Be 
 ready, for the hour may be near. He will 
 come like a thief in the night. Repent, 
 repent, repent ! He will judge us all accord- 
 ing to our works. 
 
 " I still remain your affectionate aunt, 
 " Lydia Moxtefiore, (your Father's Sister)." 
 
 Mr. Cohen here .says: — " Her prayers for 
 her nephew were frequent and earnest and 
 she would often remark ' that it was her 
 belief the Lord would answer her petitions 
 in his conversion, and show His salvation to 
 all her relatives.' Let us hope that her 
 earnest and importune prayers have been 
 answered. God alone knows what passed in 
 that great man's mind, ere he entered into 
 
 the presence of Him who knows the secret> 
 of all hearts." 
 
 From the day of her conversion until she 
 passed in triumph to glory, we see in her the 
 repose of Christian faith, and the struggle of 
 Christian love for souls. " I shall never 
 forget," says Mr. Cohen, " the happy hours I 
 have passed with her. She was not merely 
 satisfied with the evidences of Christianity, 
 and with the proofs that Jesus is the true 
 Messiah, but deeply felt her own sinfulness, 
 and need of a Saviour. She felt she had to 
 do with a Holy God, and that her life had 
 not been in accordance with His Divine will. 
 She was a Jewess, and belonged to a Jewish 
 aristocratic family ; and had moved in the 
 wealthier walks of Jewi.sh society, but she 
 felt she was a sinner, and needed a Saviour, 
 and as such she went to the Lord Jesus Christ, 
 and as He came to seek and to save that 
 which was lost. He had mercy upon her even 
 at the eleventh hour, filled her with joy and 
 peace in believing, and made her to know the 
 comfort and consolation of the Gospel. With 
 emphasis, she would often say : ' I am a 
 great sinner, but I believe in a great Saviour.' 
 Such was her earnestness of heart and mind, 
 and so deeply was she affected bj' the precious 
 Truths of the Gospel of Christ, that several 
 times I have been obliged to pause in my 
 conversation, or in the reading of the Word 
 of God with her, to let her weep, and often 
 we have wept together." 
 
 THE PREFACE TO HER WILL. 
 
 The following is the preface to her will 
 which she had drawn up with her own 
 hand : — 
 
 " Calling into mind the mortality of my 
 body, knowing it is appointed unto all men 
 once to die, I do make and ordain this my 
 last Will and Testament ; that is to say, I 
 give and recommend my soul into the hands 
 of my blessed Saviour ; and my body I 
 recommend to the earth, to be buried after 48 
 hours, not doubting but at the general 
 resurrection I shall receive the same again, 
 through the redemption of my blessed 
 Saviour." 
 
 Miss Montefiore was born in 1771. On the 
 22nd of June, 18.58, at the age of eighty- 
 seven, death came to her like the dawn, 
 which calmly and gi-adually broadens and 
 brightens into the glory of noon. 
 
 "No earthly clinging, 
 No lingering gaze, 
 No strife at parting, 
 No sore amaze ;
 
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 But sweetly, gently, 
 
 She paEs'd away 1 
 
 Kroui the world's dim twilight, 
 
 To endless day. " 
 
 So too, did Mr. Cohen himself, her beloved 
 spiritual father, our able and faithful mis- 
 sionary, after many years' successful labour 
 in the Jewish Mission field, ascend to glory, 
 triumphing in Christ. 
 
 ME. WILLIAM MANNING. 
 
 Missionary in Palestine. 
 1847. 
 
 At a Special Meeting of the Committee, 
 held on June 19th, 1847, "It was re- 
 solved on a motion by the Rev. H. Allon, 
 seconded by the Rev. J. A. Miller, that Mr. 
 Manning be engaged as the agent of this 
 Society, for seeking the spiiitual good of the 
 Jews in Palestine, at a salary of J^lOU per 
 annum. 
 
 " It was also decided that a devotional 
 Valedictory Service be held prior to Mi-. 
 Manning's departure, in Union Chapel, 
 Islington." 
 
 THE VALEDICTORY SERVICE. 
 
 An interesting service in connection with 
 the British Society for the Propagation of 
 the Gospel among the Jews, took place at 
 Union Chapel, Islington, on Friday, October 
 1st. Mr. Manning, who has been appointed 
 to act as an agent of the Society in Jaffa, 
 was publicly and solemnly commended to the 
 blessing and protection of God previous to his 
 departure. The service was opened by the 
 Rev. Thomas Lewis reading the Scriptures 
 and offering prayer. The Rev. H. Allon 
 presented a sketch of the pi'oceedings which 
 Mr. Manning will conduct in Jaffa, urged 
 upon the assembly the duty of feeling a 
 livelier interest in efl'orts for the welfare of 
 the Jews, and commended the British Society 
 to the warmest support of the friends of the 
 Redeemer, especially its newly formed fund, 
 to be expressly devoted to missionary pur- 
 poses in Palestine. The Rev. Dr. Henderson, 
 one of the Secretaries, offered the com- 
 mendatory prayer ; the Rev. Dr. Bennett 
 addressed Mr. ]\Ianning in a very affectionate 
 and inspiring tone ; and the Rev. R. H. 
 Herschell gave information respecting the 
 scene of INIr. ]Manning's future labours, which 
 he had himself inspected. He pointed out 
 the importance, the necessity, and the diffi- 
 culties of the work, and appealed to the 
 
 sympathy of Christian friends, to support, by 
 their prayers and their efforts, the new 
 attempt to declare the truths of the Gospel 
 in that coutitiy which had been once 
 blessed with the living voice of the Son of 
 God calling men to repentance, but from 
 which the candlestick is now removed. The 
 other devotional parts of the service were 
 conducted by the Revs. J. A. Miller and H. 
 Allon.' Jaifa, the ancient Joppa, is the 
 principal landing place of the Jewish pilgrims 
 as they go fiom Russia and other parts of 
 Europe on pilgrimage to Jerusalem, to weep 
 and pray on the spot where the temple once 
 stood; and Mr. Manning goes out for the pui- 
 pose of showing kindness to them as they disem- 
 bark, and of protecting them from the oppres- 
 sion and insult to which they are incessantly 
 e.xposed. Mr. Manning will superadd to his 
 civil engagements, in which he is supported 
 by many benevolent Christian friends, the 
 duties of a spiritual agent in connection with 
 the British Society for the Propagation of the 
 Gospel among the Jews. A supplj' of 
 Hebrew Bibles and Testaments has also been 
 confided to him for distribution by the British 
 and Foreign Bible Society. 
 
 Specimens of the Society's 
 Fruits in Palestine. 
 
 From Mr. Manning's Journal. 
 
 First 
 
 POINTIXC OUT TO A RABBI THE ONLY WAY 
 OF PEACE. 
 
 Jerusalem. 
 The prohiljition of the Rabbis (which I 
 have prcN-iouslj' mentioned) to the people's 
 working for the Franks, or rather the English, 
 has occasioned some shyness amongst the peo- 
 ple, and thrown some impediment in the way 
 of a free and open intercourse. But, singidar 
 to say, an exception was made in my favour; 
 for on the morning of their meeting, to con- 
 clude and give force to their decision, — by 
 the utterance of some of the most awful male- 
 dictions that can be conceived of, to be vented 
 upon any that should dare to disobey them — 
 the wife of a man whom I had previously 
 employed, and who was wavering on the 
 .subject of giving me two of his children to be 
 instructed, came quite breathless in to tell 
 me that the Rabbis had given their permis- 
 sion to come to my house only, and to work 
 for me : and the reason they assigned was, 
 that I was not a proselyte. I am happy to 
 say, through a blessing on my endeavours, 
 that I am increasing in acquaintance, and I 
 trust in usefulness too, with my neighbours —
 
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 the little Jewish colony around me — where 
 there are from twenty to thirty families, all 
 of them German. There is one of their num- 
 ber, a Kabbi. a man of refinement, and pos- 
 sessing a very great knowledge of Rabbinioal 
 literature, who is frequently my visitor 
 (though often privately, for fear of the Jews), 
 being very much concerned about his eternal 
 interest; and finding, as he says, no ground 
 of satisfaction, in all his learning, on which 
 to rest his agitated mind in the prospect of 
 death. On pointing out to him, the other 
 
 A .JEW IX JAFFA LED TO BELIEVE IN JESUS. 
 DER-EL-KAMAR, XoV. 1, 1850. 
 
 Agreeably to your wish, I hasten to 
 acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 
 ISth September, expressive of a desire to 
 receive statements in full of the present posi- 
 tion and actual results of the mission in Pal- 
 estine. First, then, I would observe, that 
 during my residence at Jaffa, I had almost 
 daily opportunity, of which I availed myself, 
 both in the streets and bazaars, and some- 
 times in the houses, and often on the landing 
 
 JERUSALEM, miH MOUNTAIXS OK MOAB IX THE DISTAX'CE. 
 
 day, the only way of deliverance from con- 
 demnation — through the Lord Jesus Christ, 
 who was rejected by his fathers, and made a 
 .sacrifice for sin, as was foretold of Him, and of 
 which the Jewish sacrifices under the Mosaic 
 dispensation, were only typical ; he replied — 
 " If it be so, the Lord help me to believe !" 
 He is in possession of a Bible, and I have 
 given him some tracts, which I find he reads 
 of a night when his family are in bed; the 
 lamp in a pious Rabbi's house being never 
 extinguished. 
 
 of the Jews from the boats, to meet with and 
 speak to them on the all important subject 
 of our common and only way of salvation — 
 showing them its origin in the free and un- 
 merited mercies of God, flowing to us through 
 the sacrifice of his Son, their promised, but 
 alas ! rejected Messiah — on account of which 
 rejection they were now visiting their earthly 
 inheritance, the land of their fathers' sepul- 
 chres, as aliens and strangers, which they 
 would continue to be till they should return 
 and seek the Lord their God, and D.xvid their
 
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 Meniones of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 King, as was prophesied would be the case in 
 the latter days. At this, as might be supposed, 
 many were found to mock and deride, as did 
 their forefathers of old ; but there were others 
 who heard with respect and attention, and 
 sometimes with evident concern ; but being 
 for the most part mere comers and goers, the 
 message thus delivered could only be in faith, 
 praying that a blessing might attend it though 
 never to be known to myself. Yet I desire 
 to be thankfid that occasional encourage- 
 ments were afforded, that good was effected ; 
 
 CHRISTIAN COXVERSATIONS WITH A RABBI IN 
 QUIET SPOTS AROUND JERUSALEM. 
 
 At Jerusalem I had another case precisely 
 similar, except that the person there was him- 
 self a Rabbi, whom I previously knew, and 
 who, directly I arrived, came and desired to 
 renew my acquaintance, and to receive in- 
 struction in Christianity ; which he regularly 
 continued to do at my lodgings, till it was 
 discovered, and he could do so no longer. 
 Afterwards we used to meet by appointment 
 without the walls, and in case we were seen, 
 
 but in most of the instances injunctions were 
 laid upon me, and often promises extracted, 
 that I would on no account make it known, 
 that the parties might escape the persecution 
 consequent on a discovery. And in the case 
 of the poor man at Jaffa, whom I mentioned 
 in my last, thi'ough the blessing of God, before 
 I left the place, I had the satisfaction to know 
 that an entire change had taken place in his 
 views and feelings, and that he was secretly 
 reading the New Testament with prayer for 
 the Holy Spirit's teaching, and looking to be 
 saved only as a believer in Jesus. 
 
 as if by accident; but when not perceved, we 
 retired to some lonely unfrequented spot, of 
 which there are many ai'ound " the city that 
 is desolate for the Lord's sake ; " and there 
 we used to hold communion on a variety of 
 subjects, — such as the Divinity of the promised 
 Deliverer, and the symbolical nature of the 
 JeTvish institutions, which all prefigured 
 Him, and weie all fulfilled in the person, life, 
 .md ileath of Jesus of Nazareth, with whose 
 history, as recorded in the Gospels, he was 
 not unacquainted. Upon these occasions 
 it was always my anxious desire to lead
 
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 him to see the importance of immediately 
 attending to the salvation of his soul, 
 let the sacrifices be ever so great. 
 After this I left my lodgings, and 
 took a house — the only one I could obtain ; 
 and, singularly, it joined upon his, aflbrding 
 us all the facilities we desired for meeting. 
 Indeed, we could talk with each other over 
 a wall that .separated our teri-ace.'s, and of a 
 night, without being seen ; which period was 
 generally selected for the purpose. The 
 more I became acquainted with him the 
 
 sight, he was waving with his handkerchief 
 a final adieu. 
 
 A JEWISH FAMILY IN JAFFA IMPRESSED WITH 
 THE GOSPEL. 
 
 There is another case of a Russian Jew, 
 who has been some time in the country; 
 who, when I fir.st went to Jafi'a, was there 
 in very comfortable circumstances, having a 
 flourishing busine.ss, and on tliat account 
 was indifferent to the opinion of the Jews 
 concerning him, and on most occasions when 
 
 OS THE ROAD FROM JERrSAI.EM TO JERICHO. 
 
 more my inteiest and concern for him 
 increased, for he was a man of superior 
 manners and refined feelings. Such is the 
 promising state of this case, and such the 
 condition of this tried and afflicted son of 
 Abraham ; who, to show his respect and 
 affection for me, when I left the Holy City, 
 accompanied me some way on the road, and 
 after our last embrace on taking leave, I left 
 him rivetted to the spot, looking after me ; 
 and when about to descend the first hill, 
 where I should be immediately lost from his 
 
 I was in the bazaar, his shop was my usual 
 resort, where I always found a kind and 
 friendly welcome to shelter myself from the 
 sun. Thus our acquaintance commenced, 
 and soon grew into mutual esteem ; and from 
 the frequent conversations I had with him, 
 and others in his presence, on the subject of 
 Christianity, it was e\'ident than an im- 
 pression was made, and a concern awakened 
 in his mind for his own safety and that of 
 his family, of whom he was very fond, and 
 especially of his wife, who v.as quite a 
 
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 290 
 
 Memm-ies of Gospd Triumphs aviong the Jetvs. 
 
 counterpart of himself, and concurred with 
 him in everything — in fact, she was far more 
 intelligent than the generality of the Jewish 
 women. In this state I left them when I 
 went up to Jerusalem, his son, a young man, 
 accompanying me out of respect, neither of 
 us thinking at the time that the fathei- was 
 soon to be affected, as I had been — or, if 
 anything worse — ax'ising no doubt from the 
 Siroccoes, which veiy shoitly brought him up 
 to me with all his family. 
 
 Such are some of the instances in which a 
 blessing seems to have attended my exertions, 
 
 success in any quarter ; and their judgment 
 is perfectly leasonable where it appears to be 
 withheld, to conclude that either the field is 
 not properly cultivated or the spot is not the 
 proper one to occupy. Yet it is a matter 
 most deeply to be regretted, that the tem- 
 poral prosperity of the cause should so fear- 
 fully clash with the fiee and confidential 
 intei-covu-se of the Missionary, — a thing 
 which must ever remain the case in this 
 country, while its present condition con- 
 tinues, which is one of oppression and 
 briber}-, and where the cause of the perse- 
 
 THE JAFiA 
 
 and which I have hitherto felt bound to 
 suppress, though they have caused me verj- 
 much disquietude and often distress of mind ; 
 and I may say, if they have not been the 
 cause of my occasional indisposition, they 
 have greatly retarded the progress of my 
 recovery whenever I have been ill. For to 
 say nothing of the reflection that might rest 
 on myself, I felt tliat the Committee must 
 have reports of a kind calculated to keep up 
 the interest of the Society. The public 
 demand information, and have a right to it, 
 and are not to be blamed in expressing their 
 disappointment at the absence of tidings of 
 
 cuted poor, and particularly the Jew, finds 
 no I'edress. 
 
 M.4KIXG KNOWN CHRIST TO JEWS IN THE 
 MOL'NTAINS. 
 
 I am still staying in the Mountains, where 
 I propose staj-ing for a short time longei', 
 having a considerable sphere of usefulness 
 before me in the manufacturing town, con- 
 taining from 40 to 50 Jewish families em- 
 ployed in the silk and gold embroidery work, 
 many of whom are very accessible, being in 
 a measure independent of the Rabbis, and 
 desirous of possessing the Scriptures in
 
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 Hebrew ; and some are even ready to pnr- 
 cliase them, and one poor man in particular 
 has been with me several times, enti-eating 
 me to spare him a copy. He says he is very 
 anxious to read the prophets himself since he 
 has learnt that there are Christians who 
 believe in them as well as the Jews, but 
 who, as he is informed, understand them 
 differently ; and he should be glad to know 
 who is right. He says, too, there are 
 many other Jews in the place besides himself 
 who have given up all hopes of the Messiah's 
 
 in error, that he would come at the Truth. 
 He sai<l he would do as I wi.shed him, and if 
 even he should find me to be wrong he should 
 respect me, for he believed that I was an 
 honest man, and that my intentions to him 
 were good. 
 
 BACK TO BEYROUT TO OPEN A SCHOOL. 
 
 Beyrout, Jan. 1, 1851. 
 Since writing to you, I have returned to 
 Beyrout, where I am strongly impressed 
 with the desirableness of opening a school ; a 
 
 A DKL"SE VILLAGE AMOM; THE MUUXTAINS OF LEBANuK. 
 
 appealing, though their Rabbis still allege 
 that the delay Ls in consequence of the 
 wickedness of the nation ; but he said, " We 
 are not gi-owing better, but, if anything, 
 worse ; and if that is the case, then where 
 is the use of hoping ? " I told him he mu.st 
 read the Prophets, as he intended, with 
 prayer for the Holy Spirit's teaching ; and 
 afterwards he must read a New Testament, 
 which I would .send him ; and this he mu.st 
 endeavour to do without prejudice — and if he 
 compared the two together, I would venture 
 to affirm, without any fear of his finding me 
 
 thing, too, that meets with the 'united con- 
 currence of all the American ilissionary 
 brethren, who have had very much expe- 
 rience in these parts ; though theii- advice, as 
 well as my own conviction, is, that it shoulil 
 not be exclusively for the Jews, for that 
 they would be sure to take fright at and 
 f.void. For it is remarkable that, in this 
 country, whatever has been projected on a 
 footing solely with a view to their benefit, 
 has invariably failed of attaining the object 
 desired. My plan, therefore (D.V.), and 
 which I shall immediately endeavour to 
 
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 carry out, and trust it will meet the 
 approval of the Committee, is to procure a 
 place such as they use here for store-rooms, 
 in the most public part of the town, and if 
 possible on the landing-place, where I shall 
 have an opportunity of meeting and speaking 
 with the pilgi-im Jews directly on their 
 arrival, as they are all now,, from all parts, 
 obliged to come here — the steamer, for these 
 three months past, having ceased to go to 
 Jafl'a, and not likely again to be put on — 
 so that they will be compelled to perform 
 the rest of their journey to Jerusalem, either 
 by land, or by Arab boats, as formerly ; 
 which will render this a much more impor- 
 tant Missionary station. I have also con- 
 
 the leadings of Providence, I am very much 
 inclined to believe, and I trust, too, it is an 
 answer to my prayers, in which I have been 
 of late earnestly imploring the Lord that he 
 would direct me to some sphere of operation, 
 and if agreeable to His will, to crown with a 
 manifest blessing my anxious endeavoure to 
 make known the way of salvation to His 
 ancient people Israel. And as an indifcation 
 of a furtlier result of my supplications, I 
 have had the ofler of a most desirable and 
 efficient peison to help me — a young man of 
 prudence and zeal, and of sterling piety, who 
 has been educated in the American Mission- 
 ary College, and for the last three years has 
 been conducting a school for them in the 
 
 A H]T UK BEYRdUT. 
 
 suited some of the resident Jews on the 
 subject, who appear to be very much pleased 
 with the idea of their children receiving 
 instruction in English, and they promised to 
 send them. But, besides the benefit of a 
 school, there is another advantage, as 
 affording a central place for a meeting, 
 and where I can meet the Jews for dis- 
 cussion ; for I cannot express to you the 
 <lifficulty of continually visiting tliem at 
 their houses and shops, where there are 
 visitors or customers to serve, and before 
 whom many wovdd dislike to be spoken to on 
 the subject of religion, and especially those 
 who are disposed to favour the visits of a 
 missionary. That we shall thus be following 
 
 mountains — and it is only in consequence 
 of the interest that they take in my 
 object that they would at all consent to give 
 him up. 
 
 At Der-el-Kamar, which means the " Con- 
 vent of the Moon," I have lieen \'ery kindly 
 received by the Jews, who were very free 
 and open for communication, and amongst 
 whom I have left many tracts and books, — 
 that is, detached portions of the Scriptures ; 
 but, on my leaving, they expressed much 
 disappointment that I was not able to leave 
 them some entire copies of the Hebrew 
 Scriptures, which they said they would have 
 read with great diligence until I came again. 
 But I could only promise them as I had done
 
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 before, that I would send them some as soon 
 as they arriv'ed. 
 
 In my last to you I intimated my inten- 
 tion to open a school, but the difficulty of 
 procuring a jsroper and convenient place for 
 the purpose, has hitheito prevented. How- 
 ever, I have hired a room in the Caravanserei, 
 where there are many Jewish families 
 residing, consisting mostly of artisans, and 
 of the poorei- sort, and with whom I am in 
 continual intercourse ; and some of their 
 children attend me for instruction, though 
 but irregularl}-, being veiy unused to the 
 order and discipline I endeavour to maintain ; 
 and besides, the apartment is so exceedingly 
 small (and no other can possibly be obtained), 
 that I can only admit a few at a time, and, 
 when called upon by Jews, which I frequently 
 am, to converse with me, they are obliged to 
 go out. 
 
 NOT IN VAIN. 
 
 Yet we are not without occasional intima- 
 tions that our labour is not altogether in 
 vain — an instance of which I was favoured 
 with the other day, in a person fiom Jeru- 
 salem, who came all the way from thence to 
 find me out. He told me that as soon as I 
 had left him there he felt a degree of fHs- 
 quietude that he could not account for, 
 especially as he was very comfortable in his 
 situation, and in a worldly point of view was 
 doing well. But he had never met with any 
 one before from whom he learned so much of 
 Christianity, or whom he seemed to under- 
 stand so well, though he had been for some 
 time an inquirer ; and, as he said, he con- 
 sidered the salvation of his soul as a matter 
 of the highest impoi'tance, he hoped he was 
 ready to make any sacrifice for it. Indeed, 
 such is his eagerness for knowledge that he 
 comes to me upon every opportunity for 
 instruction, and to him the consolations of 
 the gospel appear like cold water to a thirsty 
 soul. 
 
 There is also another person here, whose 
 shop is at the entrance of the Caravanserei, 
 and with whom I have been in frequent 
 communication ever since my first arrival 
 here in 1848 ; and to his credit I must say 
 he was always respectful, and never indulged 
 in those expressions of contempt and dis- 
 respect of the Sa^■iour which so many do, by 
 way of woiuiding our feelings ; though I 
 was sorry to see that no manifestation of 
 serious impressions appeai'ed to be made. But 
 on returning from the mountains the other 
 day, and calling upon him as usual, he received 
 
 me with the greatest kindness, and anxiously 
 inquired what were my intentions, and where 
 I was going ; and on learning that I purposed 
 remaining where I was, at least for a time, 
 his pleasure became very gieat. He then 
 told me that since he had seen me he had 
 been deeply afflicted, and that it had pleased 
 the Lord to take from him his whole family, 
 consisting of three boys, at a stroke; and that 
 since his bereavement lie had often wished to 
 know where I was, that he might come to 
 me. " For," he .said, " I was not an indifierent 
 observer, though you might think I was, of 
 your continued attention and kindness to old 
 Moses," — who was a man affiicted with the 
 dropsy, and died in the Khann while I was 
 waiting so long for my luggage. He .said 
 that his poor wife was under the impression 
 that the death of the children was a mark 
 of the Divine displeasure, and in consequence 
 of their not living in one of the Holy Cities, 
 and that she had left him for a time, and 
 gone to live at Safet ; but his own impression 
 was that she would return disappointed. 
 " For," he .said, " how is it possible, if religion 
 can aflbid us no consolation, that any par- 
 ticular locality should be able to do it ? " He 
 then asked me what I would advise him to 
 do : which was, that he should immediately 
 set about reading the New Testament, with 
 prayer for the Sjjirit's teaching, and that I 
 doubted not but he would find all the support 
 and comfort there that he needed, and that 
 perhaps the loss of his children might be the 
 saving of himself. And for that object I 
 supplied him with a copy of the German 
 Bible, as be was better acquainted with that 
 language than the Hebrew. I have, too, 
 lioth here, and from other quarters, had 
 frequent applications for Hebrew Bibles ; for 
 excepting the English, they are more in 
 demand than in any other language, which 
 may appear strange, but such is the rage for 
 learning our tongue, that I have been 
 applied to by many to teach them, and with 
 the ofier of being handsomely rewarded for 
 my trouble. I have hopes to be able very 
 shortly to gratify their ^-ishes by turning out 
 two well-educated young German Jews, who 
 are receiving instruction from me for that 
 purpose, though before they commenced to 
 read they wished it to be understood that 
 they were not intlueneed by any religious 
 motives in coming to me. But as they made 
 no objection to the use of the Scriptures as a 
 class-book, I saw no objection to teach them ; 
 and it is remarkable that, on beginning with 
 the Gospel of John, because it was the
 
 294 
 
 Memcyries of Gospel TriurapJia ainiong the Jews. 
 
 easiest, they wei'e very much struck with 
 the coincidence between the first chapter of 
 that book, and the first of Genesis ; and 
 their attention being directed to the phiraHty 
 of the Divine name in the original, they 
 seemed greatly surprised, and departed with 
 apparently very much less confidence in that 
 boasted article of the Jewish creed, the unity 
 of God. We are at present in a great bustle 
 here, on account of the return of the 
 Turkish pilgrims from Mecca, who have 
 been this year most fearfully diminished in 
 number, on their route home, by the cholera 
 and the cold. It is said that as many as 
 five thousand persons and twelve hundred 
 camels have died ; so that it is not very sur- 
 pri.sing that the whole distance across the 
 Desert, fi'om Damascus to that horrible and 
 debasing shrine of idolatry, should be marked 
 by the decayed carcases and the bleached 
 bones of those who have fallen a sacrifice on 
 the way. And now the impediment is re- 
 moved to carrying on the conscription, which 
 so lately occasioned such dreadful and de- 
 structive work in Damascus and Aleppo. 
 But it is hoped that the triumph of the 
 government in those places, and tV'e summary 
 treatment of the rebels, will have a salutary 
 eflect here ; but I do not think, from my 
 knowledge of the Druses in the mountains, 
 that it will deter them from making resist- 
 ance, and I exceedingly fear for the poor 
 Jewish families at Der-el-Kamar, who, in 
 the event of an outbreak, will be considered 
 by all to be lawful game, and be preyed upon 
 without leave or licence. But may the 
 Keeper of Israel appoint otherwise and 
 defend them ! 
 
 LIVING AND WORKINC IN THE CAEAVANSEREI. 
 
 Feb. IG, 1851. 
 In my more extended intercourse with the 
 Jews of this place I am happy to find a very 
 gi-eat diminution of that acrimonious feeling 
 and bigotry so usually manifested towards the 
 blessed gospel, and which is so peculiarly 
 characteristic of the Jews in the holy cities ; 
 and perhaps the difierence is owing to the 
 greater measure of freedom here enjoyed 
 from rabbinical influence. For although the 
 Jews are at liberty, if they please, to share 
 in the alms that are sent for the support of 
 the communities in the Holy Land, they are 
 generally indifferent to it, unless compelled 
 by age and infirmity ; and since I last wrote 
 to you I have been joined by three young 
 men and four somewhat more advanced in 
 age, all of them artisans, who usually spend 
 
 their evenings with me in reading the Scrip- 
 tures and in conversation. Concerning two 
 of them, in particular, I am strongly im- 
 pressed that they are sincere seekers after 
 truth, and for their greater convenience I 
 have taken up my quarters in the caravan- 
 serei, which has occasioned some little sur- 
 prise and remarks amongst my more refined 
 European neighbours. This is not, perhaps, 
 to be much wondeied at, considering the 
 kind of place it is, consisting of almost every 
 variety of vagrant character — such as the 
 beggar, the street-dancer, the juggler, the 
 monkey and bear exhibitor, with every de- 
 scription of travelling merchant. But as 
 the Lord has so graciously cared for me in 
 former times, especially as to a residence, it 
 is but a small matter that I should subject 
 myself to such society as this, if by so doing 
 His honour may be advanced and His king- 
 dom spread amongst the fallen sons and 
 daughters of Adam. And it is worthy of re- 
 mark, too, that here a Providential arrange- 
 ment seems to have been made for my comfort, 
 for I have a snug little corner to myself, 
 which I am allowed to keep clean — a very 
 great consideration in a climate where vege- 
 table and other substances so quickly decay 
 and generate disease. Nor am I often in- 
 truded upon by the people generally, except 
 by mistake, or curiosity to see my wares, so 
 dift'erent from all the rest. There are also, 
 besides the variety enumerated, a number of 
 Jewish families, mostly mechanics, residing 
 in the Khann, and which was a further, and 
 perhaps the strongest, inducement for me to 
 live amongst them ; and lam frequently le- 
 warded for the sjicrifice by being called in as 
 a peacemaker, and as often in shielding them 
 from persecution. For, whether from re- 
 spect or fear, an Englishman's influence is 
 felt and acknowledged even in this un- 
 civilized mass. But you will, no doubt, be 
 surprised to be informed that the old blood 
 story, which led to such bitter and shameful 
 persecution of the Jews at Damascus and 
 other places, seems again to be reviving. 
 Two of the Jewish children, whom I men- 
 tioned in my last as attending me for daily 
 instruction, have left with their parents for 
 Jerusalem, to keep the Passover there this 
 year ; but the others are going on steadily, 
 and making satisfactory progress. And now 
 I am thankful for my disappointment as to 
 an assistant teacher, for my object is gained 
 without the expense, and the school, of a 
 general character, which I contemplated, is 
 established. Thu>, if we could only allow
 
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 the Lord to be the Judge of what is best for 
 us, we should not only rest, as we often do, 
 with a trembling faith, but be enabled to 
 rejoice in what appear to be His adverse 
 providences. 
 
 THE SCHOOL BEGUN WITH SIXTEEN PUPILS. 
 
 Zlarch 5tk, 1851. 
 I was exceedingly glad to find, on the re- 
 ceipt of your reply, that the Committee had 
 willingly entertained the proposal of the 
 school at Beyrout. We commenced our 
 school with sixteen pupils, of whom seven 
 were Jews, and all above the age of fourteen, 
 and which suggested to me the idea that, if 
 it were possible, it would be desii'able to limit 
 
 manifested by the latter towards the former, 
 and which will certainly not be allowed to 
 make its appearance under my observation ; 
 for I have already given the Christians to 
 understand that any kind of rudeness or 
 insult oflered to the Jews will be considered 
 as done to myself, and will lead to the imme- 
 diate expulsion of the oflender — never again 
 to be received. I have not yet been able to 
 undertake my journey to Sidon, Tyre, and 
 Acra, as intended, in consequence of the 
 state of the weather, which has been a con- 
 stant succession of rains for these last four 
 months ; and as neither of these places 
 afibrds, at this season of the year, any certain 
 shelter, I dare not expose myself to live in a 
 
 KKF'r:^-. I H' I ■• -.1 i\ I l; AT \ 
 
 Tile little \vj\ 2'iit the t|ue.-<tiunj ' What muau ye 
 
 the admission to that age — that is, not 
 younger, as the American brethren have 
 already opened a school for children, and as 
 it is evident that if I could bring under in- 
 struction those who were, or who might shortly 
 become, influential in the community, I 
 should be doing a very great work, and might 
 i-easonably hope for more speedy results. 
 And, besides, there might be other advan- 
 tages arising from the bringing of young 
 men together of difierent views and interests, 
 as the Jews and the Clu-istians of this cotmtry 
 have ; and perhaps, too, it might be the 
 means, if not entirely of eradicating, yet of 
 very greatly softening, that deep-rooted pre- 
 judice and acrimonious feeling so generally 
 
 III~ H'lrsF, IX JEHUSALKM. 
 
 y this service .' " and his grandfather answered it. 
 
 tent, which might be followed by sickness, 
 and, perhaps, even worse consequences. 
 However, we have at length got a change, 
 and the sii'occo is again blowing — a sure 
 indication that the rainy season is over till 
 the month of October. The steamers, too, 
 are now fast coming in, bringing the 
 pilgrims to be present at the awful mock 
 solemnities practised in the Holy City 
 at Easter ; and it is by these conveyances 
 that the greater number of the Jews arrive ; 
 so that I am almost entirely occupied in dis- 
 tributing books and holding conversations, 
 from early in the morning till late in the 
 evening, and it is only by snatches that I am 
 able to make time to sci-awl this, which I
 
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 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeus. 
 
 hope vnW be admitted in extenuation of its 
 want of connexion ami other deticiencies. The 
 little boys whom I have before mentioned, 
 and with whom I am very much pleased, are 
 still with me ; but I expect to lose them 
 soon, for the}-, too, are going up to Jerusalem 
 with their parents, to keep the Passover, but 
 expect to letuni ; and if so, I have promised 
 that they shall be an exception to the rule of 
 admi!^sion above mentioned. I am exceed- 
 ingly happy to be able to report so favouralily 
 of matters here, and especially at this season, 
 as it may serve to encourage the friends and 
 supporters of our sacred cause to persevere 
 in their pious endeavoui's for the salvation of 
 God's ancient jaeople, feeling assured, as we 
 well may, in the vei-ity of the promises, 
 that " in due season we shall reap, if we 
 faint not ; " and that " he who watereth shall 
 be watered also himself." 
 
 INHUMAN TEEATMENT OF THEEE POOR JEWS. 
 
 Since my last communication we have had 
 two respectable Turkish young men added to 
 our number, and thi-ee changes have taken 
 place amongst the Jews ; for those who have 
 not yet been there, are anxious to keep the 
 Passover in the Holy City, praying most 
 fervently every year that it may be the last, 
 and that the ardently desired and long- 
 expected jNIessiah would appear, to deliver 
 them from the yoke of the Gentiles, which 
 is indeed galling and calculated to excite the 
 pity and compassion of all who are not 
 hardened by the continual exhibition of 
 cruelty. For instance — on returning from 
 the Aiabic service on last Sabbath-day, in 
 company with three of the inquiring sons of 
 Israel, we came suddenly into the midst of a 
 mob, which it was my first impulse to a\oid, 
 but in vain ; and presently I perceived the 
 object that brought them together, which 
 was to beat three poor Jews in a manner 
 most unmerciful, eveiy one making a blow 
 or kick at them in every part of the body, 
 as they could break through the crowd to get 
 where they were, thus manifesting a feeling 
 more like devils or beasts of prey than human 
 beings of kindred flesh and blood, and as 
 susceptible of suffering. And as the poor 
 creatures, shrieking out and writhing with 
 pain, attempted to escape, they pursued 
 them with a yell like .so many bloodhounds, 
 crying, "Jew! Jew!"— which seemed to 
 ferment the indignation, as the rabble rolled 
 on and increased. Thus I allowed myself to 
 be borne along with them, that, if possible, I 
 might, by my entreaties, or otherwise, spare 
 
 the sufferers. But my effort in this opposite 
 direction was also \ain. At length we fell 
 in with the consul (I think the Greek), when 
 the mangled and bleeding creatures appealed 
 to him, and implored his protection ; but his 
 Cavass, an official who goes before him bear- 
 ing a large silver-headed staff to clear the 
 way with, fell upon them with such violence, 
 that though I was then at some distance 
 from them, the sound of the blows from this 
 inhuman weapon upon their bocUes sent a 
 tluill through my whole frame, as if I myself 
 had been struck. Such was the sympathy 
 and tender mercy exhibited towards suffer- 
 ing humanity by this representative of a 
 C'hristian nation ! And not being able to 
 make a distinction, it is not to be wondered 
 at that the Jew should receive the advances 
 of a Christian Missionary with suspicion, and 
 taunt him with the I'eproach that his religion 
 is no better than theirs. However, I have 
 come to be thankful that such censures are 
 not often dealt out to me — that is, by those 
 to whom I am known — for to whatever 
 extent the outcast sons of Israel may have 
 fallen, and however stained with vices, they 
 are seldom found to be ungi-ateful for real 
 kindness. Besides the number of Jews 
 already mentioned as under instruction 
 (which was seven), I have lately been joined 
 by one of distinction, a medical man by 
 profession. His account is that he has been 
 baptized, as was his father before he was 
 born ; but without any conviction, it is to be 
 feared, of the Truth of Christianity, but pro- 
 bably from some political motive, or perhaps 
 to render himself eligible for some situation 
 under the Government — a measure resorted 
 to by many Jews in Germany, and especially 
 in Berlin, where this gentleman was brought 
 up. And although I cannot discover that he 
 is the subject of vital religion, yet he regu- 
 larly, and with much apparent seriousness, 
 attends the Sabbath services. Nor is there 
 anything in his manner or conduct at all 
 evincing a repugnance to sacred things. 
 And as he comes every day to the school, 
 and spends several hours there, for the 
 principal object of learning Arabic, it affords 
 me oppoi'tunities for frequent conversations 
 with him ; and my heart's desire and prayer 
 is, that the Lord would crown with His 
 blessing my exertion in this cause. 
 
 JEWS KEEPING THE FEAST OF PURIM. 
 
 The week before last was the " Feast of 
 Purim," which was kept in the usual 
 manner, every Jew getting so intoxicated as
 
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 not to be able to distinguisli the diflerence 
 between " blessed beMordecai," and " cursed 
 be Haman." And this they consider it their 
 duty to do, upon this occasion, being so 
 instructed by their teachers ; and but for the 
 consideration of the way in which some of 
 the Christian festivals are kept by those who 
 are called b}' that sacred name, it might 
 appear wonderful that the sinfulness of 
 rendering themselves voluntaiily mad for a 
 season should not be discovered by the 
 majority ; for this, perhaps, is the only time 
 in the year that they are overcome by 
 fermented liquors. And besides, to the 
 credit of the Jewish people, in no country 
 that I have ever visited have I found that 
 drunkenness is a vice peculiar to them. After 
 
 of men more than tho.se of God. But to 
 this I received the universal reply, that the 
 Oi-al Law, which they had, and which was 
 handed down by tradition, had rendered 
 null and void all that was written in the 
 Scriptures ; and that there was no necessity 
 whatever for anj-thing eLse ; and moreover, 
 that its mystery wa.s so great, that even the 
 most learned amongst them could not fully 
 comprehend it, and which cleai-ly showed the 
 supeiiority of the Jewish religion over all 
 others besides ; and further, that to study it 
 with all the might, was a duty, and 
 meritoi'ious, and conferred the title to 
 eternal life. Such is the general belief, and 
 such the darkness of the once enlightened 
 seed of Abraham, and still heirs of the pro- 
 
 this scene was a little over — for it would, 
 indeed, have been like throwing pearls before 
 swine to have spoken on religiou.i subjects 
 to a people under such a state of excitement 
 —I sharpl)' reproved them for then- dis- 
 orderly abuse of the ordinance, which, though 
 but of human appointment, was nevertheless 
 intended to record a most signal interposition 
 and display of Divine mercy in the preserva- 
 tion of their forefathers ; and I took this 
 opportunity to remark, that their unbroken 
 observance of this institution, throughout so 
 many of theu- generations, was rather a 
 reproof to them than otherwise, since they 
 had cast off the orchnances delivered to them 
 by their prophets, and thus evidently show- 
 ing that they loved and followed the precepts 
 
 mises ! There has been this year an unusual 
 number of Christian pilgrims, and amongst 
 them a gi-eat many Jewish ; but the steamers 
 that bring them only remain here for the 
 .space of forty-eight hours, .so that the time 
 for labouring amongst them is but short. 
 Yet my situation in the caravanserei is very 
 favourable and affords everj' facility for that 
 object, as they mostly come there to lodge : 
 and notwithstanding the disadvantage, I have 
 had some interesting conversations, showing 
 the increasing spirit of inquiry; and I have also 
 distributed amongst them many books, which, 
 in most cases, have been received kindly. 
 
 At the Annual Meeting, held in Free- 
 masons' Hall on Friday evening, the 25th of
 
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 April, 1851, Mr. George Yonge, the Secre- 
 tary, in giving a rapid review of the work 
 of the past year, very appropriately opened 
 with Palestine, thus : — 
 
 " Commencing with the land of all others 
 presenting the strongest claims on our vene- 
 ration and love, you will find Mr. Manning, 
 after severe trials by personal affliction, pur- 
 suing a course which has already yielded 
 much encouragement. Serious inquirers have 
 followed him from Malta to Jerusalem, where 
 one of them died, as he hopes, in the faith of 
 the Gospel, and where he found himself sur- 
 
 fidelity are appreciated, and several are 
 assiduously profiting by his instructions. He 
 has commenced a school for the scriptural 
 education of Jewish and Gentile youths, 
 under very promising circumstances, and 
 contemplates occasional residences in dif- 
 ferent towns of the Holy Land." 
 In 1854 Mr. Manning wrote : — 
 " During the past year the number of 
 pilgrims, Jewish and Gentile, has greatly 
 decreased, owing to the disturbed state of the 
 nations ; yet to those who have reached this 
 place we have had the freest access, and 
 
 rounded by a little colony of Jew.s, to whose 
 listening ears he was permitted, from day to 
 day, to tell of Him who died on Calvary, and 
 by some of whom feelings were indicated, the 
 open avowal of which was only restrained by 
 the fear of temporal consequences. In the 
 mountains of Lebanon and at Jafl'a he has 
 had opportunities for diffusing the Truth 
 among the resident Jews and hundreds of the 
 pilgrims to the Holy City. He has now, at 
 Beyrout, with a view to freer intercoiu'se 
 with them, taken up his abode in the corner of 
 a caravanserei. By many his kindness and 
 
 have distiibuted many copies of the Scrip- 
 tures and tracts among them : they were in 
 general well received, and in some cases pro- 
 cured for us visits from the recipients, who 
 desired information on passages apparently 
 difficult. 
 
 " Respecting the resident Jews, with whom 
 we have continual intercourse, there is an 
 evident change going on, both in their views 
 and feelings ; and such of them as were for- 
 merly accounted pious as Rabbinical Jews, 
 are now casting away their erroneous faith, 
 and, we trust, embracing that in which their
 
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 forefathers ilied and were gathered unto 
 their people. This effect, I conceive, has been 
 chiefly produced by tract lending. Conse- 
 (juent on this system, many are now reading 
 the Scriptures for themselves who, a short 
 time since, would not have looked upon a 
 Bible on account of its supposed mystical 
 contents : a resort of other false teachers as 
 well as of the Eabbis, to deter the people 
 from its perusal. 
 
 '■ The number of inquirers ha.s been this 
 year seventeen, that is, such as we believe to 
 have been sincere ; of course we have had 
 
 diseased, and his first object in visiting me 
 was to see if I could aflbrd him any relief. 
 On entering the school, which is kept in a 
 divan at the entrance of my house, he looked 
 surprised, not expecting to see one. Pointing 
 to some adults, he asked if I admitted such, 
 and if he might attend, saying that he was 
 willing to sjicritice anj-thing to the acquire- 
 ment of knowledge. He was received, 
 attended regularly, and commenced, as is our 
 rule with all, by reading the Scriptures. 
 Such was his progiess in a few weeks, that 
 he had not only acquired a knowledge of the 
 
 sEA Ol GALILEE. 
 
 many others of whom we make no account, 
 not being able to judge of their state from 
 our short acquaintance with them : here also 
 we ascribe glory to God, who alone giveth 
 the increase. I cannot fail to give you an 
 account of one of the above ca-ses ; it is 
 calculated to show the persevering character 
 of the Jewish mind when duly awakened. 
 The subject is a man of about thirty yeais 
 of age, a native of Smyrna, but who has 
 lived many years in Egypt, where, from an 
 exposure to the continual glai-e of her sun, 
 and tlie in-itating effects of her fine sand 
 (the soil of the country), his ej'es became 
 
 historical and doctrinal parts of the Old and 
 New Testaments, but had a clear and com- 
 prehensive view of the way of salvation. He 
 seemed lost in wonder at its simplicity, and 
 said that nothing more was needful to con- 
 vince him of the truth. Long before I 
 expected it, he begged to explain to me the 
 state of his mind, and expressed his desire of 
 making an open profession of Christianity. 
 He was very anxious for baptism, which on 
 that account I did not encourage. In the 
 meantime he was compelled to go off to 
 Aleppo, where I was enabled to commit him 
 to the care of a missionary brother. He has
 
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 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 been there upwards of three weeks, and I 
 have not yet heard from him. But just 
 before we parted he asked me, with seeming 
 concern, that in case he should be lost at 
 sea, or killed on the road, whether I thought 
 he would be safe for etei'nity ? I told him 
 he need not fear, for we read of some who 
 received the baptism of the Holy Ghost 
 before the}' did that of water ; and that as I 
 trusted his change had been efiected by the 
 agency of the Lord, he might depend upon 
 it, it was a work He would not disown. 
 During the past j'ear we have admitted into 
 
 •' I have not observed any particular 
 manifestation of an awakened state of mind 
 among the Jews, yet there is an evident 
 increase of those who firmly believe that 
 their deliverance from the Gentile yoke is 
 not far distant. In speaking to a large 
 company on the subject, and assuring them 
 that no other deliverer would appear for them 
 than the duly-attested Heir of David's 
 Throne, who was put to death in the ponti- 
 ficate of Caiaphas and the governorship of 
 Pontius Pilate, and that for declaring he was 
 a king and the one promised to the Jewish 
 
 
 MUINT HKUMUN. 
 
 the school, including all, sixtj'-three, a few 
 remaining only for a time ; at present we 
 still retain oiu' number, fifty, for which only 
 we have accommodation ; and indeed it is as 
 many as we can attend to, for there is great 
 diificulty in carrying out a system of mutual 
 education here, owing to the natiiral and 
 habitual indolence of the people. Ten of 
 the above ai'e of the seed of Abraham ; three 
 of whom are men, five are youths, and two 
 are girls, all very regular in their attendance ; 
 and, with the exception of the two girls, who 
 are 'still too young, are reading the New- 
 Testament Scriptures. 
 
 nation, there was some excitement ; and 
 one, who seemed to speak the sentiments of 
 many of the rest, exclaimed, ' Oh ! that I 
 could but be sure of that ! there is no con- 
 sideration in the world that should prevent 
 me from becoming the follower of the 
 despised Nazarene ! ' " 
 
 In the Report published at the Annual 
 Meeting in 1857, there is the following 
 significant summary of the results of the 
 Society's Palestine Mission for the first nine 
 years of its existence : — 
 
 " At Beyrout, on the borders of the Land 
 of Promise, Mr. Manning has for nine years
 
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 301 
 
 C|uietly and faithfully fulfilled his mission, 
 until failing health compels him for a short 
 season to seek repose on his native shore. 
 He has witnessed the excitement of war — 
 the ravages of disease — the furj' of fanaticism, 
 and the apathy of unbelief, but amidst all 
 he has found springing up an unpiecedented 
 demand for the Word of God. Moham- 
 medan and Jew have puichased the Sacied 
 Scriptures very extensively, while our friend 
 by his de%'otion to the instruction of the 
 young — his earnest discourse Avith Jewish 
 travellers, and his Christian life, has been, 
 we believe, contributing in no unimportant 
 sense to the advance of that day which shall 
 witness the waning of the crescent — the 
 
 substitution of the Cross for the crucifix — ■ 
 and Israel gathering around the Crucified as 
 their Lord and their God." 
 
 The Mission in Palestine was thus begun 
 by 3Ir. Manning. Farther on it was con- 
 tinued and extended by the late Rev. Dr. 
 Philip. After another interval of years, it 
 was resumed and maintained by the Rev. A. 
 Ben Oliel, until the Committee were com- 
 pelled, once again for want of funds, to 
 withdraw, for a time at least, from a mission 
 field " consecrated to our best aSections by 
 the footsteps of prophets and apostles — and 
 for ever endeared by the life and deatli of Him 
 who there sought the lost sheep of the house 
 of Israel, and oflered His Ijjood for us all." 
 
 THE SECOND GROUP OF PREACHERS ON BEHALF OF THE 
 
 SOCIETY. 
 
 THE fourth annual sermon was delivered 
 in 184:7, by the Rev. Dr. Bennett ; 
 and the fifth, in 1848, by the Rev. Dr. 
 Rafiles. We are glad that we are able to 
 give here some interesting particulars 
 respecting his life and labours, his last days, 
 his deep interest in the Jews from the begin- 
 ning to the end of his grand Gospel ministry, 
 and a goodly clu.ster of important passages 
 from his first sermon on behalf of the 
 Society. 
 
 RET. THOMAS RAFFLES, D.D., LL.D. 
 
 184S. 
 
 (With Fortran.) 
 
 HIS LIFE AXD MINISTRY. 
 
 Thomas Raffles was born in Princes Street, 
 Spitalfields, London, on the 17th of May, 
 1788. His father was a solicitor, and a 
 member of a firm which carried on an ex- 
 tensive practice in its day, whilst his grand- 
 father for a long course of years held a 
 respon.sible appointment in the Prerogative 
 Court at Doctors' Commons. His early days 
 were passed in the neighbourhood of his 
 birth, in the East of London. On June 17th, 
 1862, he wrote : — " Stepney Meeting is a 
 name that awakens some of the oldest — per- 
 haps the very oldest — associations my mind 
 and memory retain and cherish. In Stepney- 
 fields (now fields no longer) I used to play 
 and gather wild flowers, ' buttercups ' we 
 used to call them, a.s a little child ; and I 
 
 think the fii-st thing I distinctly remember 
 was seeing the people burnt out at what we 
 used to call the • great fii-e of Ratcliffe ' en- 
 camped and liring in tents in a large field 
 then next to Stepney Church. This was the 
 largest fire known in London, except the 
 Great Fire commemorated by the Monument. 
 I must then have been about four years old." 
 Dr. Raffles owed much to the prayers and 
 instructions of his mother, who wa.s a 
 Wesleyan Methodist, and who was in the 
 habit of taking her son with her to the 
 Wesleyan C hapel. His early consecration 
 to Christ may be traced to her influence : 
 and his decision to enter the Chiistian 
 ministry in connexion with the Congrega- 
 tional body to the counsels of his friend and 
 pastor, the Rev. Dr. Collyer, of Peckham. 
 At the age of seventeen he entered Homerton 
 College, the theological chair of which was 
 then occupied by the Rev. Dr. Pye Smith. 
 After passing honourably through'his curri- 
 culum he was invited to the pastorate of the 
 Cougi'egational Church at Hammersmith. He 
 accepted the call of the people there, and on 
 Thursday, June 22nd, 1809, he w;us solemnly 
 ordained to the work of the ministry. The 
 ordination prayer was oflered by Dr. Pye 
 Smith. The Rev. W. Bengo' Collyer, D.D., 
 delivered the charge to the newly ordained 
 pastor. During liLs brief pastorate of three 
 years in Hammersmith he rapidly rose in 
 public estimation as an able and efiicient 
 minister. His services were eagerly sought 
 on many special occiisions, and his eloquence.
 
 302 
 
 Memones of Gospel Tnumphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 earnestness, and evangelical strain of 
 preaching secured him large and delighted 
 auditories. He was thus being prepared, in 
 the providence of God, for that laiger sphere 
 of influence and toil which he found in and 
 around great George Street Chapel, Liver- 
 pool, until the close of his earthly life. 
 
 HIS LAST DAYS. 
 
 The closing days of his mortal career were 
 
 hope in the Gospel he had so long preached, 
 and the delight he felt that the same truth 
 would be faithfully proclaimed by his suc- 
 cessor in the ministry. As he drew near his 
 end he welcomed the signs of his Lord's 
 coming, and waited for the event in patience 
 and hope. For hours he would sit with 
 closed eyes, and then say, " I have not been 
 sleeping, but holding sweet communion with 
 mv Saviour.'' He often reviewed his life 
 
 in harmony with the scenes of his active 
 life. He preached his last sermon on 
 Sunday, May the 3rd, 1863, in the New In- 
 dependent Chapel, West Derby Eoad, 
 Liverpool, from a favourite text of his, 
 " And of His fulness have all we received, 
 and gi-ace for grace." For a time he rallied 
 from the seveie illness which assailed him 
 that week, and he had thus opportunity of 
 occasional pleasant intercourse with his 
 friends. In June he expressed his unshaken 
 
 with gratitude and humility, and ended bj' 
 saj-ing, " Bless the Lord, O mj' soul ; and 
 all that is within me bless His holy name ! " 
 Very early in the morning of August the 
 ISth he looked towards the bed in which lay 
 his devoted coachman. His nurse asked, 
 " Do you want him ?" "No," sfiid Dr. Raffles, 
 " I want Christ," and soon after he was 
 heard repeating soft and low two lines of a 
 favoui-ite hymn. In doing this he altered 
 one word thus, " Christ shall complete what
 
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 Christ begins." These were liis last words 
 on eaitli, and they form a beautiful iinisli to 
 a ministry glowing from centre to circum- 
 ference with the spirit of Christ. 
 
 iVt six o'clock he peacefully passed away, 
 '• more than a conqueror, through Him that 
 loved him and gave Himself for him.'' 
 
 On Monday, the 2-l:th of August, the 
 funeral took place, at which the following 
 hymn, composed by Dr. Raffles, was sung : — 
 
 '■ High in j-onder realm.^ of light, 
 
 Far above the.se lower skies, 
 Fair aud exquisitely bright, 
 
 Heaven's unfading mansions rise : 
 Glad within these ble.st abodes. 
 
 Dwell the raptured saints above, 
 "Where no anxious care corrodes, 
 
 Happy in Emmanuel's love. 
 
 " Once the big, unbidden tear, 
 
 Stealing down the furrowed cheek. 
 Told, in eloquence sincere. 
 
 Tales of woe they could not speak. 
 But, these days of weeping o'er. 
 
 Passed this scene of toil and pain, 
 They shall feel distress no more, 
 
 Xever, never weep again ! 
 
 " 'Mid the chorus of the skies, 
 
 'Mid th'angelic lyres above, 
 Hark ! their songs melodious rise. 
 Songs of praise to Jesu.s' love ! 
 Happy spirits ! ye are fled, 
 
 Where no grief can entrance find. 
 Lulled to rest the aching head. 
 
 Soothed the anguish of the mind. 
 
 " All is tranquil and serene. 
 
 Calm and undisturbed repose : 
 There no cloud can intervene. 
 
 There no angry tempe.st blows : 
 Every tear is wiped away, 
 
 Sigha no more shall heave the breast, 
 Night is lo.st in endless day, 
 
 SoiTOW in eternal rest." 
 
 HIS SERMOX TO TUE JEWS, IS 1810. 
 
 In August, 1810, in Spitalfields, near the 
 spot wheie he was born, he delivered one of 
 a series of special sermons to the Jews. Only 
 a few months before his death that never-to- 
 be-forgotten service rose before him, and as 
 he gazed upon it, he painted it thus : — 
 
 " i\Iy first publication was what was called, 
 in that day a 'Demonstration Sermon,' one of 
 a series preached to the Jews, the object of 
 which wa.s to demonstrate the Messiahship of 
 Jesus of Nazareth. The coui'se was instituted 
 by the Society for the Propagation of 
 Christianity among the Jews. That Society 
 flourished more than half a century ago. 
 It was catholic in its sj^irit and principle, 
 being composed alike of Churchmen and 
 Dissenters. It certainly was useful in 
 awakening the attention of the religious 
 
 woi-ld to the condition of the Jews, and ex- 
 citing a sympathy unknown before in behalf 
 of that intere-sting people. But the Society 
 was reckless in its expenditure, and became 
 involved in debt to a large amount, but was 
 freed by the munificence of a private gentle- 
 man, on condition that the Dissenters were 
 cast oil", and it became therefore a Cliurch 
 of England association exclusively. My 
 sermon was preached in what was then 
 known as the French Church, Spitalfields. 
 It was built by the French refugees who 
 fled from France on the revocation of the 
 Edict of Nantes, aud, bringing the silk-trade 
 with them, settled in Spitalfields, giving em- 
 ployment to the people around them and be- 
 coming, many of them, wealthy. I look 
 back upon that service, on man}- accounts, 
 with considerable pleasure, at this day. 
 Within a stone's-tlirow of that Church I 
 first drew the breath of heaven, and my 
 voice, when preaching, had there been no 
 obstruction, might have been heard in the 
 room in which I was born. In the parson- 
 age-house of that Church I learned French. 
 It is a noble edifice, capable of accommoda- 
 ting from two to three thousand people. On 
 the occasion now referred to it was crowded 
 in every part, and to the then juvenile 
 preacher presented one of the most im- 
 pressive scenes it was ever hi.s lot to witness. 
 That sermon was my maiden publication. It 
 sold rapidly, and was well spoken of by the 
 critics of the day. It passed through two 
 editions, and might have had a still further 
 sale had I been disposed to put a third 
 edition to the press. The Church has long 
 since pa.ssed into the hands' of the Wesleyan 
 Methodists." 
 
 HIS SERMON FOR THE JEWS, IX 1848. 
 
 Dr. Raffles deli\-ered the British Society's 
 fifth annual sermon in John Street Chapel 
 (Rev. Bajitist Noel's), Bedford Row, London, 
 on the 18th April, 1848. HLs text was, "A 
 man that is a Jew " — Acts x. 28, from which 
 we select the following portions because of 
 then' practical importance. 
 
 I am to plead with you this evening in be- 
 half of this extraordinary and interesting 
 people. I am to place before you the claims of 
 a Society that seeks to promote their be.st 
 and highest interests by then- conversion to 
 Christianity; and my object will be to 
 illustrate and enforce the claims they have 
 upon our regard ; in the first place as men, 
 partakers of our common humanity ; aud,
 
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 Alemones of Gospel THumphs among the Jews. 
 
 in the second place, as Jews, beloved and 
 honoured for the Father's sake. 
 
 I. I AM TO ILLUSTRATE AND ENFORCE THE 
 CLAIMS THEY HAVE UPON OUR REGARD, AS 
 MEN — PARTAKERS OF OUR COMMON HUMANITY. 
 
 And on the very threshold of this article, 
 I cannot but recall and recount a striking 
 and impressive anecdote, which I read not 
 long since in the public prints, of the man 
 who now tills the papal chair. He was passing 
 on one occasion through the city of Eome ; 
 a Jew had fallen in a fit, and lay prostrate 
 on the pavement ; the people who saw him, 
 to a man, like the priest and the Levite in 
 the parable, passed by on the other side ; 
 but the sovereign pontifl', alighting from his 
 carriage, ran to his help. " He is a Jew," 
 they cried, as if in horror of a contact so 
 contaminating. " He is a man ! " cried the 
 pontiff ; and, like the good Samaritan, he 
 hastened to his relief, and never ceased in his 
 ministration of mercy to him, until he had 
 seen him safely conducted to his home, and 
 had sent his own i)hysician to attend him. 
 Alas ! we boast a purer faith, but had he 
 fallen thus in the streets of London, how 
 few there are who would have been disposed 
 to go and do likewise ! 
 
 II. CLAIMS PECULIAR TO HIM AS A JEW. 
 
 Look on his countenance — markits peculiar 
 expression. There is that in it which can- 
 not be mistaken. It tells its own story, and 
 the associations and I'eminiscences which it 
 awakens crowd upon the mind with the most 
 thrilling and powerful interest. " A man 
 that is a Jev\" 
 
 L He belongs to a race to which all that is 
 venerable in aniiijuiti/ appertains. 
 
 Who can boast of a heraldry oi' of a history 
 like theirs 1 A heraldry whose emblazonment 
 is from heaven, and a history whose records 
 are written by inspired pens. The origin of 
 all other nations is for the most part veiled 
 in the obscurity that settles on the remote- 
 ness of the past, and so blended with the 
 fables of a vague tiadition, that it is hard to 
 separate fact from fiction, or decide with 
 anything like accuracy between them. But 
 here is a people, all whose eventful and 
 chequered story is drawn out before us in 
 lines of undeviating accuracy, and in 
 characters of infallible truth. No dim 
 twilight obscures its earliest periods, but the 
 events that marked them stand out before us 
 in bold relief, as though they had occurred 
 but yesterday ; and yet so high is their 
 
 antiquity that ages have intervened between 
 them and the earliest authentic records of 
 any other people. The plagues — the passover 
 — the exodus — are scenes that seem to live 
 and move before our eyes. We hear the 
 heavy ti'ead of the divinely-protected host, 
 as, in solemn silence, they pursue their 
 mysterious march through the bed of the 
 ocean, whOe the lofty strains of the enrap- 
 tured jNliriam still float upon the bi'eeze. 
 
 If, then, there be anything venerable in 
 antiquity ; if, in the individual, the hoary 
 head should command respect, who can look 
 without emotion upon the countenance of a 
 Jew, or deny to his race the consideration 
 that is due to age ? And is it not an aftecting 
 spectacle to behold a people, thus hoary with 
 the accumulation of ages, ti'odden down by 
 oppression treated witli contumely, and left in 
 destitution and misery to perish ? It isfor such 
 a people that we plead. We, as Christians, 
 believe their circumstances of destitution 
 and wretchedness, with regard to their 
 spiritual and eternal interests, infinitely more 
 appalling than any forms that temporal 
 suffering could present ; and by all these 
 considerations, we woidd be their advocates 
 with you and earnestly implore your practical 
 concurrence with us in our prayers and efforts 
 for their relief. " A man that is a. Jew." 
 
 2. He belongs to a race tnho once enjoyed the 
 special tokens of the divine approbation ami 
 favour. Now, indeed, they are a nation 
 scattered and peeled, trodden under foot of 
 the Gentiles, a pi'overb and a byword, and a 
 hissing amongst all nations. But it was not 
 always so. They were a great nation once. 
 They — and they alone, of all people upon 
 the face of the earth — could boast a pure 
 theoci-acy ; their laws were given to them 
 immediately from heaven ; their judicial code 
 was written with the finger of God, and in 
 their archives was the veritable autograph of 
 Deity. 
 
 Are a people then, once thus signally 
 owned and honoiu-ed by God, to be regarded 
 with indifference, still more, with contempt 
 and scorn, by us ? 
 
 3. That man that is a Jew belongs to a race 
 to whom ive are laid binder the deepest obli- 
 gation. There is nothing great or good that 
 we possess but we are indebted for it to the 
 Jews. 
 
 4. And, think how long this debt has been 
 contracting. Thi'ough what a long succession 
 of ages it has been accumulating, while 
 scarcely a fraction of the interest has been 
 paid. And even now, at this moment, what
 
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 is being done for the poor Jew ? 0, how 
 little ! How ought we to blush at the men- 
 tion of it ! For all the workl beside there 
 is something doing, but nothing for him. 
 Societies there are expending hundreds of 
 thousands on the distant heathen, but no- 
 thing, comparatively nothing, is expended on 
 the poor Jew. !Many are running to and 
 fro to gather in from the east and from the 
 west, from the north and from the south, the 
 devotees of Brahma and of Buddha, the dis- 
 ciples of Fo and of Confucius, the .savages of 
 New Zealand and the wanderers of Caffraria 
 and Namaqualand, to the fold of the good 
 Shepherd— but O, how few there are inte- 
 rested in the restoration of the lost sheep of 
 the house of Israel ! We owe them a long 
 arrear of debt, and it is high time that we 
 began to estimate the amount, and set our- 
 selves seriously and in earnest to its pay- 
 ment. And by what instrumentality can we 
 more effectually secure this object than by 
 that which this Society supplies ? There is 
 a simplicity about the plan of this Society, 
 it bears so truly scriptural a character, it 
 breathes so truly catholic a sjDU'it, and it is 
 so completely divested of everything secular 
 in its ends and operations, that it may chal- 
 lenge the confidence, and mu.st commend 
 itself to the esteem and co-operation of all 
 who love the Redeemer and the' souls of men. 
 Everything about it is purely spiritual. It 
 simply seeks the conversion of the Jew, as 
 you would seek the conversion of any other 
 man. It offers no premium for the purchase 
 of a Christian profession. It assures no 
 temporal reward to the proselyte from Ju- 
 daism to Christianity. It ofiers no inter- 
 pretation of prophecy flattering to Jewish 
 pride or succumbing to Jewish prejudice. It 
 proposes no expedition to Palestine, nor colo- 
 nization society for the Holy Land. ^Ul these 
 things it eschews, as a Society, leaving them 
 to men's private judgments and personal and 
 individual interpretations and opinions ; but 
 it simply seeks the promotion of Christianity 
 — vital, spiritual Christianity, in its prin- 
 ciples and spirit, in its renewing and sancti- 
 fying influence, amongst the Jews, just as we 
 seek, and by the same means, the promotion 
 of Christianity amongst the distant heathen 
 in foreign lands, or the scarcely less heathen 
 in our own. But why, it may be said, estab- 
 lish a distinct agency for this object, if it 
 harmonizes so completely with that of all 
 missionary institutions, whether home or 
 foreign ? Just because, though the object is 
 the same, the people ai-e peculiar ; just 
 
 because, though they are scattered amongst 
 •all other people, thei'e is a sense in which they 
 may be said to <b':ell alone ; just because they 
 must be approached by men understanding 
 their character, their habits, and modes of 
 thinking, their predilections and their preju- 
 dices, their ordinances and their institutions, 
 theii- prophecies and their interpretations, 
 their traditions and their glosses, their Tal- 
 muds and their Targums, their laws and their 
 literature, in a way and with an accuracy, 
 and to an extent, that the ordinary studies 
 of the preachers of the gospel do not, for the 
 most part, reach. Hence the importance of 
 specially training men for this department of 
 service, of employing, so far as it is practica- 
 ble, agents raised up from amongst them- 
 selves — Jews preaching the gospel to the Jews 
 — and of founding and maintaining Societies, 
 such .as thLs, for the express purpose. 
 
 0. And, then, let us consider, for we are 
 justified in taking this into our calcidations, 
 what prodigioi'S advantaye must arise to the 
 Christian cause from the conversion, on any- 
 thing like an extended ami gerieral scale, of the 
 Jevis to Christianity. 
 
 The Apostle has taught ns thus to calcu- 
 late — " Have the}' stumbled," he says, " that 
 they should fall?" that is, finally. "God 
 forbid : but rather through their fall salva- 
 tion is come unto the Gentiles. Now if the 
 fall of them be the riches of the world, and 
 the diminishing of them the riches of the 
 Gentiles, how much more their fulness?" 
 And again, " If the casting away of them be 
 the reconciling of the world, what shall the 
 receiving of them be but life from the dead ?" 
 Most assuredly the Jews shall be conveited 
 to Christianity, truly and savingly converted, 
 whether we are honoured as instruments and 
 agents in bringing about the great event or 
 not. They shall " be grafted in again to 
 their own olive tree." 
 
 And v,i\\ not the Jews, in the event of 
 their true and saving conversion to God, be- 
 come the most zealous, devoted, laborious, 
 successful missionaries to the heathen ? I 
 cannot but entertain the assurance that they 
 will ; while the church itself, aroused by this 
 event to a life and energy and unanimity 
 unknown to former times, will take the field 
 against the common foe, in numbers com- 
 pared with which all present figures will 
 appear contemptible. And, methinks, the 
 new and superior Spirit of those times will 
 come upon the men of wealth and property 
 as in the days of old, when no man said, or 
 thought, that aught which he possessed was
 
 306 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews, 
 
 Ids own, and large estates will be placed at 
 the disposal of the church, so tliat she shall 
 not, as now, be crippled in her eflbrts by the 
 want of means, but as kings and ijueens and 
 princes shall become her coadjutors, so the 
 ■wealth of empii-es shall be poured into her 
 treasury. 
 
 Nor is it possible for us, my brethren, to 
 picture to ourselves the great honour with 
 which converted Jews shall fulfil their trust 
 and prosecute their labours as missionaries 
 to the heathen. How will their own won- 
 drous story confirm the testimony which they 
 bear ! What a demonstration will their 
 conversion be of the ability and willingness 
 of Christ to save ! Who can go forth and 
 announce the faithful saying, "Worthy of all 
 acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the 
 world to save sinners," and add, with the 
 same emphasis as the Jew, " of whom I am 
 chief ! " Yes, I verily believe that after 
 all they will be the most honoured people 
 upon earth, and the world shall a second 
 time I'eceive the gospel from their hands. 
 Other Pauls and Peteis and Johns will arise, 
 and multiplied a thousand fold, go foith into 
 all the world and preach the gospel to every 
 creature ; and some, perhaps, would add, 
 beginning — yes, again beginning literally at 
 Jerusalem. And be it so. I shall not con- 
 test the i^oint with them. And thus in the 
 latter end, as well as in the beginning ; in 
 the consummation, as well as in the com- 
 mencement, " Salvation shall be of the Jews." 
 6. In thejudcjment of those best qualified to 
 express an opinion on the subject there has never 
 been a i^eriod more favourable to these efforts 
 for the conversion of the Jevjs than the present. 
 Already there seems to be a shaking 
 amongst the bones in the valley of vision. 
 The Jews begin to be weary of the long de- 
 lay that attends the coming of their vainly 
 expected Me.'^siah. They have their mis- 
 givings as to the correctness of their views. 
 They feel as though the system to which 
 they have so tenaciously clung had waxen 
 old and was ready to vanish away. Hope 
 deferred begins to make the heart sick. They 
 long for some better teaching than their 
 Rabbins give, and for some more satisfying 
 and sustaining influences than their Talmuds 
 and their Targums yield. In this state of 
 things their enlightened and intelligent men. 
 are more disposed to converse and ai'guo upon 
 the subject of the Messiahship of Christ than 
 in former times ; while the political move- 
 ments in Europe are procuring for them a 
 freedom of thought such as thev have ne\-er 
 
 possessed since the destruction of Jerusalem. 
 And most assuredly, at the present period, 
 when Infidelity, under the guise of rational 
 Christianity, is overspreading the Continent, 
 and especially taking possession of univer- 
 sities and seats of learning and chairs of 
 theology throughout the states and empires 
 of Germany, we shall do well to seek the 
 conversion of the Jews. Under whatever 
 name or form infidelity may appear, she can 
 meet no antagonist more formidable than a 
 learned, an intelligent, and converted Jew. 
 Evei-y consideration then combines, interest 
 with benevolence, duty with compassion, a 
 sense of obligation with a feeling of pity, to 
 press on our practical and devout considera- 
 tion the claims of the Jew. He is .sunk in 
 deep degradation and misery ; have we no 
 tear to shed over his sufferings ? —no hand 
 to minister to his necessities? He is perish- 
 ing in ignorance and unbelief, and shall we 
 suffer him to perish without an efibit to in- 
 struct and save him ? That blood which his 
 fathers invoked upon themselves and upon 
 their children is on them in judgment to this 
 hour, and you know how terrible the male- 
 diction is ; and shall we dare, by our indif- 
 ference and neglect of them, to bring their 
 blood upon ourselves, and sufl'er them to cry 
 against us as they pass, hopeless, and perhaps 
 blaspheming, into eternity. Refuge failed me 
 — no man cared for my soul ; they sent the 
 gospel, indeed, to pagan lands, but left the 
 poor Jew unpitied and unheeded, to perish 
 without it in their own ! Oh no, God forbid 
 that a guilt so aggravated should be oin-s, 
 that a curse so bitter should rest on us ! 
 Eather let us, from this hour, awake to a 
 more accurate estimate of our responsibOity 
 with reference to the Jews, and to a warmer 
 zeal and a deeper sympathy in their behalf. 
 Let us not be deterred by the failures of the 
 past, nor chilled by the apathy of the present. 
 Let us remember that the times and the 
 seasons are with God. Let us ever act under 
 the impression that duty is ours, success is 
 with Him. And though we should not suc- 
 ceed to the extent of our expectations or 
 wishes, still it will be well for us that it was 
 in our heart. The eflfort and the puipose 
 cannot but be well pleasing to Him, and 
 though Israel be not gathered, " Yet shall 
 we be glorious in the eyes of the Lord." 
 
 But Israel shall be gathered, whether we 
 live to see it upon earth or behold it from 
 our seats in glory. God is pledged to it in 
 terms the most explicit and by engagements 
 the most solemn. "Behold," He hath said,
 
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 307 
 
 " I will gatlier tliem out of all countries 
 whither I have driven them in Mine anger, 
 and I will bring them again into this place, 
 and I will cause them to dwell safely, and 
 they shall be My people and I will be their 
 God." Then He will "bring again their cap- 
 tivity as the streams in the south." Then 
 again Jacob shall take root and Israel shall 
 blossom and bud, and fill the face of the 
 earth with fruit. " For the Lord shall com- 
 fort Zion ; He will comfort all her waste 
 places, and He will make her wilderness like 
 Eden, and her desert like the gai-den of the 
 Lord ; joy and gladness shall be found 
 therein ; thanksgiving and the voice of 
 melody." Then shall the long winter of their 
 enmity and unbelief be over and gone, and 
 the time of the singing of birds shall come ; 
 then shall the harp of Judah be taken from 
 the willows, and strung and tuned to deeper 
 tones and sweeter strains than David or 
 Isaiah ever knew ; and then shall the ful- 
 ness of the Gentiles come, and the middle 
 wall of partition between them and us be 
 effectually and for ever broken down. " The 
 ransomed of the Lord," — both Jews and 
 Gentiles, the men of every colour and of 
 every clime, — " shall return and come to 
 Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon 
 their heads — they shall obtain joy and glad- 
 ness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." 
 
 EEV. DR. ARCHER. 
 
 1849. 
 The proceedings connected w-ith the sixth 
 anniversaiy of the Society were commenced 
 on Thursday evening, April 12th, by the 
 delivery of the annual sermon, by the Rev. 
 Dr. Archer, at the National Scotch Church, 
 Regent Square. The preacher selected his 
 text from Ezekiel xxxvii. 3 — " And he said 
 
 unto me, Son of man, can these bones livi^ 1 
 And I answered, Lord God, Thou 
 knowe.st." 
 
 It was a truly magnificent discourse, 
 exhibiting the peculiar excellencies of the 
 doctor as a popular pulpit-orator. The 
 interest of the sermon was sustained to the 
 close by his admirable treatment of the sub- 
 ject. The preacher spoke of Israel as it 
 now is, and as it shall be. 
 
 I. He showed the position and state of 
 the Jews at the present time. 1, numeri- 
 cally ; 2, socially ; 3, morally ; 4, spiritually 
 and religiously. 
 
 II. Their condition, as apparently hope- 
 less ; and referring to the various enervating 
 notions existing among many Christians. 
 He proved, however, that inquiry was 
 begun ; thought stirred up ; and the sough of 
 the coming wind was breathing over the dry 
 bones ; but that this condition was one of 
 danger ; harsh words being sure to hinder 
 the inquiring Jew, while, if kindly treated, 
 ho misht be brought to the cross. 
 
 III. That, notwithstanding the seeming 
 hopelessness of the thing, Israel shall bo 
 restored to a real, progressive, powerful, 
 glorious life. 
 
 IV. That this mighty change should bo 
 accomplished by human agency, in con- 
 junction with the Truth of God ; not by 
 millennial splendour ; not by an outburst of 
 glory from heaven ; but by the preaching of 
 the Gospel ; in simplicity, and not cere- 
 monially ; fully, and in a catholic spirit. 
 
 V. That the success of this work was 
 dependent on the Holy Spirit, in conjunction 
 wuth human agency. 
 
 VI. That the result of this work should be 
 so glorious as to prove itself divine. 
 
 The peroration of the sermon was most 
 striking and beautiful. 
 
 A PARABLE FOR THE YOUNG. 
 
 LET us imagine a happy scene. Children 
 are gathering round their father's table ; 
 every heart seems full of joy. The father's 
 benignant eyes respond to each affectionate 
 glance, until the consciousness of a share in 
 his love draws all more closely together. And 
 yet sometimes there seems a trace of more 
 than mere thought on their father's face, and 
 some, more quick-sighted than the rest, per- 
 ceive that all is not quite as that tender 
 parent would have it to be ; and there is a 
 
 little whisper among them ; and after many 
 an affectionate struggle, and a shifting of the 
 delicate office from one to the other, the hint 
 finds utterance. The father receives it with 
 a loving smile, and thus he speaks: — "You 
 are right, my dear children, and I lov^e you 
 the more that you have been so observant of 
 my countenance. I have a cause of deep 
 concern, and it is never so tenderly felt as 
 when I look around on »this cheei-f ul group. 
 I love you dearly. I love you, too, for every 
 
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 308 
 
 Memones of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 effort yon have made to enlarge the circle by 
 gathering some of your brothers and sisters 
 from very distant regions, but (and they drew 
 still closer to each other, and every eye was 
 fixed, and every heart beat high with mingled 
 emotions) all are not here, the family is not 
 complete ; you have an elder brother, and 
 while you meet around me, blessed in each 
 other, and in the warmest love of my heart, 
 he roams the world, a wilful outcast. But I 
 have not disinherited him ; I have not ceased 
 to love him. I cannot tell you all his his- 
 tory, nor do I mention it to sadden this 
 scene, but to awaken your sympathies. You 
 shall read it, as my own hand has penned it. 
 You will then judge of his fault and of his 
 present sufferings ; and you will perceive, 
 too, what are the feelings of my heart, and 
 what are the means which I have devised foi- 
 his recovery. Here is the book, read it with 
 each other, read it separately, and then come 
 and speak to me about it, and see if you 
 cannot make an effort, to which I may give 
 efficiency, whereby the banished one may be 
 bi'ought back — the elder brother's place at 
 the board filled up, the joy of the family be 
 so full that all the neighbourhood shall 
 know and share it too." Then the elder of 
 them, he who had proposed the question, 
 took the important lecord, and the children 
 ananged a plan for the individual and col- 
 lective reading of it. Cheerfulness again 
 resumed its sway, and the happiness of the 
 gi'oup was the greatei' for the act of mutual 
 love and confidence which had just passed. 
 
 My dear young friends, have you found 
 the key of this simple parable ? Are all 
 silent ? I think John has caught some idea 
 of it." " Do you mean that we are to ex- 
 plain it scriptural ly ? If you do — " "Oh 
 yes," said James, " if we are to look into the 
 Bible for the key, 1 think I know who the 
 elder brother is." " It reminds me of the 
 parable of the Prodigal Son," said Benjamin, 
 " but that was the younger son, and we have 
 been told he means the Gentiles." " I think, 
 then," said James, " I am right ; the elder 
 brother in this parable must be the Jews." 
 " If you are right," said William, " it is 
 something like reversing the prodigal son, 
 for this happy family must be the Gentiles." 
 " But," said George, " how can they be repre- 
 sented as a happy family, since you know 
 they are described as ' aliens from the com- 
 monwealth of Israel, and strangers from the 
 covenants of promise, having no hope, and 
 without God in the world ? ' " '' Oh," s.aid 
 Henry, " it cannot mean unconverted Gen- 
 
 tiles, but those who have, throng grace, 
 been brought into the family of God." " I 
 think," said Clement, "it was quite right to 
 describe the little circle as very cheerful, for 
 I am sure those who love God and ai-e 
 loved by Him ought to be very happy." 
 " Still, I do not know how God, who changes 
 not," said Edward, can be represented as 
 desii'ing what has not taken place ; although 
 it does indeed recall to my mind several pas- 
 sages of Scripture in which (as we have been 
 taught) in order to meet our comprehension, 
 God is represented as expressing language of 
 joy and soi-row, of desire and of anger." 
 " We can be under no difficulty as to what is 
 meant by the written account," said Hanley, 
 " and, perhaps, if we had all been more at- 
 tentive readers of the Bible, we should feel 
 more concei-n about the elder brother than 
 we do." "I think, too," .said Philij), "wo 
 may learn what is our duty about reading 
 the Bible together and alone." "And, then," 
 said Clement, " we are to go and speak to the 
 father of the family about it." "And," said 
 James, " we are to try what we can do for 
 the poor Jews. How shall we begin, John ? 
 Should we not first, when we are alone, pray 
 very earnestly for those whose condition has 
 been thus brought before us ? " " And then," 
 said John, " let each of us extract from the 
 booksuch passages as strike us, and afterwards 
 meet and I'ead them together. We may also, 
 perhaps, from our teacher, and by reading, 
 gain some information as to the present con- 
 dition of the Jews, and of the means which 
 have been employed for their spiritual good. 
 Let lis at once give what time we can .spare 
 to the subject, and ask our teacher to spend 
 an hour with us .soon to talk again about it." 
 All the boys agreed to this. 
 
 James suggested that it would be well to 
 divide the subject under a few heads, that 
 some might take one head and some another. 
 It was proposed that that evening four weeks 
 they should meet again, to compare the re- 
 sult of their investigations. 
 
 The evening arrived, and the class gathered 
 round the teacher. Each one had his Bible, 
 his paper, and his pencil ; and after the 
 teacher had knelt with them in prayer, and 
 encouraged them in a few kind words to state 
 the result of their inquiries, and to express 
 their views quite freely, Binjamin said, " I 
 am sure, sir, I never thought there was so 
 much about the Jews in the Bible: I find 
 the Jew in every page." "When I sat down 
 to the subject," said James, " I began to 
 think, why, my very earliest thoughts about
 
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 religion were anakeucd by my dear mother's 
 telling me of the piety of young Joseph, and 
 David, and Samuel, and Josiah — and they 
 were all Jews." "I liad another thought," 
 said Ilanle.y, " for I recollected that the Old 
 Testament was all written by Jews, who 
 wrote as they were inspired by the Holy 
 Spirit." " Well, and who wrote the books 
 of the New Testament ? " said the Teacher. 
 ' Why, Christians." " Yes, but were they 
 not all Christian Jews 1 The only one about 
 whom there has been any question is Luke, 
 the beloved physician, who by some is 
 thought to have been a Gentile convert. 
 This opinion, however, is but feebly sup- 
 ported." " If it is not wandering from our 
 subject," remarked John, " I would observe 
 that we are very much indebted to the Jews 
 for ha\ing preserved for us the Old Testa- 
 ment Scriptures with such jealous care." 
 " This," said the Teacher, " we know they 
 did, counting even the letters, and taking 
 care that every jot should be preserved. And, 
 perhaps, too, the enmity which they cherLshed 
 towards the first Christians affords an ad- 
 ditional guarantee that the New Testament 
 was not altered or corrupted. The remarks 
 which have been made are as important as 
 they are interesting, and they might be en- 
 larged. They have already prepai-ed us to 
 enter on our direct subject, with feelings at 
 least of respect and veneiation for the people 
 of the Jews." " If I may offer one word," 
 said George, "it should be this — that it seems 
 strange that the very names which command 
 
 our reverence, and even our affections, as we 
 meet them in the Bible, have become terms 
 of ridicule and reproach when applied to the 
 living Jew. We have called him in mockery 
 Abraham, Moses, Ohadiah, dx." " I suppose," 
 said .Tames, " this is owing to the perverse- 
 ness of our nature; but I do not think we 
 hear much of this language now, and I hope 
 it is gone by for ever. I am sure until I 
 forget what I have lately read in the Bible 
 about the Jew I shall think of him with very 
 different feelings from those of scorn." " Is 
 it not a sign," said llanley, " that Christians 
 undeistand the Bible better, and are more 
 under its influence, when they regard the 
 Jews with so much more favour than they did ? " 
 " Yes," said the. Teacher, " I trust this is one 
 cause of the improved feeling, and it forms a 
 pi'oof, among many others, that the general 
 diff'usion of the Word of God is working, like 
 the leaven, secretly Init surely, and preparing 
 the way for the reign of universal love. I 
 am afraid," continued the Teacher, " that we 
 shall not have time to go further into our 
 subject this evening. I shall b& glad to 
 meet you again, and consider in order the 
 passages of Scripture w-hich you have found. 
 It will rejoice me to know that when we 
 separate some of us, at least, will go to wor- 
 ship at the family altar, and all, I hope, 
 to pray to our Father in secret. Let us not 
 forget to intercede for the children of the 
 covenant. Meanwhile we will read the 80th 
 Psalm, and commend each other to God in 
 prayer." 
 
 ANOTHER GROUP OF MISSIONARIES. 
 
 THE REV. P. E. GOTTHEIL, OF 
 ■WiJRTEMBERG, AND SOME OF HIS 
 UNSALARIED ASSISTANTS. 
 (yt^ilh I'ortraits, tC'c.) 
 
 BIRTH AND EARLY TEAINING. 
 
 P. E. GOTTHEIL was born at Fraustadt, 
 near Glogau, Prussia, on April 5th, 
 1818. He was the eldest son of Bernhard 
 Gottheil, a merchant, an orthodox Jew, who 
 strictly adhered to the J ewish law. Ho there- 
 fore put his son entirely into the hands of 
 his father-in-law, a learned Talmudist, and it 
 ■was in his grandfather's house that he 
 received his education. At the age of 
 thirteen, the time when, according to Tal- 
 mudical law, the Jewish boy attains religious 
 
 responsibility, he was permitted to stand up in 
 the synagogue and deliver an address written 
 by his grandfather. After two more years 
 were spent in study, his father took him to 
 Berlin, in order to find some place in a com- 
 mercial house for him ; and there he was 
 led to attend the evangelical Church. When 
 he was still a boy at Fraustadt, he often used 
 to stand at the entrance of the well-known 
 church, Krijiplein Chri-ste, built by Valerius 
 Ferberger, but he never ventured to enter, for 
 fear of committing some act of idolatry. But 
 in Berlin it was another thing; his mind 
 had already been enlightened so far as to 
 destroy this fear, and a desire had been 
 created in his heart which the synagogue 
 could not satisfy.
 
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 MemoHes of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 LIGHT CAME THKOUCin A CHRISTIAN 
 ISRAELITE. 
 
 At that time there was in Berlin, Pastor 
 Pauli, a j)roselyte, wlio with great eloquence 
 preached on subjects from the Old Testament, 
 and who also worked among the Jews with 
 more or less success. Mr. Gottheil went to 
 hear him and was led to accept Jesus as his 
 Saviour. 
 
 HIS BAPTISM, SEPARATION FROM HIS 
 FAMILY, &C. 
 
 At Whitsuntide, 18-1:2, he publicly con- 
 
 Scotland he proceeded to Germany, and 
 studied at the University of Erlangen, ia 
 Bavaria, under Hotfmann, Englemann, 
 Pabri, and Luthard, all celebrated men. At 
 the close of his curriculum, he was declared 
 thoroughly qualified to take his place as a 
 Minister of the Gospel. 
 
 ENGAGED AS A MISSIONARY OF THE BRITISH 
 SOCIETY. 
 
 Mr. Gottheil ibecame connected with the 
 British Society through the instrumentality 
 of Lad}' Christian Douglas, who kindly men- 
 
 A JKWISIl BUVS THIKTKENTH lURTIlUAV. AT THE FA.MItA' CiATHEHIXlJ HE MAKES A Sl'EECH. 
 
 fessed Christ by baptism, and in honour of 
 his beloved teacher he took the name of Paul. 
 When the intelligence reached his father and 
 mother they looked upon him as dead and 
 underwent all the ceremonies which usually 
 take place on the occurrence of death. 
 
 After this, with letters of recommenda- 
 tion from Pastor Pauli, Mr. Gottheil went 
 to London, and from London to Edin- 
 burgh, where he studied in the Free Church 
 Divinity Hall, and received much kind- 
 ness fi'om Dr. Duncan and others. From 
 
 tioned his name to the Rev. Ridley Her- 
 schell, and asked him to get the Committee 
 to see whether he could be usefully em- 
 ployed in the work among tlie Jews. Mr. 
 Herschell kindly interested the Committee 
 in his behalf, and induced them to make the 
 trial. An intimation to that effect came to 
 him in a letter dated the 3rd of July, 1848, 
 and written by Mr. Yonge. It was the first 
 official communication that renched Mr. 
 Gottheil from the oflice of the British Society, 
 and was couched in teims that won at once
 
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 311 
 
 his confidence and affection. The comlitioiis 
 of this appointment are worth preserving. 
 His stipend was fixed at £50 per annum, 
 — .£30 to be given by the Douglas family and 
 £20 to be added by the Society. He was to 
 regard himself as entirely in the Society's 
 service, and no help from any Tempoial 
 Relief Fund was to be hoped for. Mr. 
 Gottheil cheerfully accepted these conditions, 
 as he was then single, with few wants, and 
 accustomed to plain living and hard think- 
 ing. Very shortly after the receipt of this 
 kind letter he entered for the fir.st time on 
 actual work among the Jews, full of hope 
 and joy in the success of the enterprise. But 
 he was doomed to disappointment. Instead 
 of bringing home precious fruit, as he had 
 hoped, his heart was almost broken by the 
 thought of failure. Nevertheless, he con- 
 tinued to testify in Nuremberg and Furth — 
 here and there, according as occasion offered. 
 Mr. Yonge kindly bore the burden with him, 
 tried to keej) up his courage faithfully, and 
 as a means to that end, he conceived the 
 idea of securing for him an ecclesiastical 
 position by getting him ordained as a minis- 
 ter of the Church of Christ. For this pur- 
 pase he was invited to visit England at the 
 time of the May Meetings in 1850, when 
 arrangements were made for his ordination. 
 The following accovmt of the service appeared 
 in the Jewish Herald, and also in the eighth 
 Annual Eepoit presented at the Meeting 
 held in April, 1851. 
 
 ORDINATION' AND DEPARTURE. 
 
 " Mr. Gottheil having received a suitable 
 education, and approved himself a faithful 
 and well-qualified missionary to the .Jews, 
 and having applied for ordination, as a means 
 of promoting the object of his mission in 
 Bavaria, it was arranged b}- the Committee 
 that the service should take place on the 
 22nd of May. On that evening a numerous 
 congregation assembled in Falcon-square 
 Chapel, when the Rev. H. Marchmont, having 
 read the Scriptures and offeied prayer, an 
 introductory discourse was delivered by the 
 Bev. Geo. Smith ; after which the Rev. J. 
 A. Miller proposed the usual questions, and 
 Mr. Gottheil having mo.st satisfactorily re- 
 sponded, solemn prayer for the young minis- 
 ter was ofifered, with the laying on of hands, 
 by the Rev. Dr. Henderson. The Rev. Dr. 
 Bennett, the revered pastor of the church, 
 presenting a Bible to him in the name of 
 the Committee, addressed Mr. Gottheil with 
 his usual affection and excellence, and closed 
 
 the very solemn and interesting service by 
 prayer. Mr. Gottheil returned to his field 
 of labour on the following Wednesday, and 
 the Committee hope very shortly to send him 
 a coadjutor in the work." 
 
 That solemn ordination service, and the 
 meetings be attended in May, 1850, in 
 London, tilled him with Christian joy, and 
 sent him back to his field of labour inspired 
 with hope and confidence. 
 
 During the summer, with Nuremberg as 
 his centre, he itinerated for the first time, 
 and felt encouraged. It was stony ground, 
 indeed, he had to toil on ; but he had learned 
 the lesson which was afterwards so precious 
 to him, that they are absolutely sure to fail 
 who carry on the work in their own strength 
 and depending on their own good resolutions. 
 
 HIS MARRIAGE. 
 
 During the following year, another im- 
 portant event happened, which had much to 
 do with his subsequent success as a Jewish 
 Missionary. He had known from her childhood, 
 a young English lady, who was living with 
 her mother in Nuremlierg, and on June 24th, 
 1851, she became his devoted partner in 
 life, and fellow labourer in the Gospel. 
 
 The wedding was celebrated at Munich in 
 the presence of Sir John Millbank, his wife, 
 and Secretary. This happy masriage may 
 be regaided as the turning point in Mr, 
 Gottheil's missionary career. 
 
 In 1852, he removed from Bavaria to 
 Wurtembeig, where he found a measure of 
 evangelical life among Christians and some 
 little interest in the cause of Jewish evan- 
 gelization. There, too, God helping him ho 
 built up a true Christian home, and did a 
 grand work among his brethren until his 
 death. 
 
 HIS MEETING WITH HIS FATHER AND 
 MOTHER. 
 
 " In 1853, after an absence of 20 years 
 from home, he decided to pay a visit to his 
 father's house, and try to bring about a 
 reconciliation with his parents and family. 
 His heart .sank within him when he ap- 
 proached his paternal town and home, not 
 knowing what reception he would find, but 
 God had prepared hearts and minds and 
 opened the way, that he only coulil praise 
 and thank the Lord for all His kindness. 
 His mother's yearning after her firstborn 
 had grown from year to year, and when he 
 at last came, she fell upon his neck shedding 
 tears of joy and grief at once. His father,,
 
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 Memones of Gospel Triumphs ammig the Jews. 
 
 REV. P. E. GOTTHEH. 
 
 who had been absent, heard the news and 
 hastened home, and on arriving he sat down, 
 unable to utter a word. Only by degi-ees, 
 and after feehng his son's hand on his 
 shoulder, and a kiss on his forehead, he 
 asked what in the world had brought him 
 here ? He gave his reasons cleaily and 
 decidedly, and after some time his father was 
 reconciled so far. Soon afterwards he even 
 gave permission that mother should go and 
 stay some time at C'annstatt, which she scon 
 after did, and it may be said that it was by 
 her mediation that he received access to the 
 pulpit in Wiirtemberg. She one day timidly 
 uttered the wish to see her son in the pulpit, 
 and hearing this, the Dekan of Gannstatt, 
 with whom he was acquainted, readily 
 ofifered him his own pulpit, which he, of 
 course, accepted. . From that time he was 
 asked to preach in the country whenever 
 one of his colleagues was in need of help. 
 After some time his father also came and 
 spent a few weeks with him, well pleased 
 to lind everything so much better than he 
 had imagined. Ten years later he died 
 without having renewed his visit ; his mother 
 lived till 188.5, at Berlin, where she had 
 found a home in the house of a married 
 daughter." 
 
 Immanuel A., The First Convert. 
 
 As if to encourage His servant, God 
 graciously allowed some fruit to become 
 apparent, in the person of Immanuel A., a 
 j'Oung journeyman weaver, anxious for the 
 forgiveness of his sins, and the peace of his 
 soul, which he had failed to tind in the 
 .sv'nagogue. He had received only the meagi-e 
 education which the village school could give, 
 but gradually it became evident that he was 
 being taught of God. Working for his 
 living all the week, he spent every Sunday 
 afternoon with Mr. Gottheil at Cannstatt, 
 when they sat together as humble learnersat 
 the feet of Jesus. During the next spring, 
 Immanuel was accspted as a candidate for 
 baptism. 
 
 The Dean of the Diocese of Cannstatt, 
 kindly oflered his church and arranged for 
 the administration of the lite in connection 
 with one of the regulai- Church Services so 
 as to convey the impression that the Jewish 
 Mission is not merely the fancy of a few 
 followers of Christ, but the duty of the 
 whole Church, in obedience to the will of 
 the Church's Great Head. The Supreme 
 Church Government at Stuttgart granted 
 the needful permission for the baptism, 
 which took place on March 20th, 1853, .and 
 formed part of the service for the day 
 (Good Fi-iday), in the presence of a very 
 large and delighted congregation. For many 
 years no such act had been witnessed in the 
 
 IMMANUEL A., TUB IIHST CONVERT.
 
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 313 
 
 Evangelical Clmrch of Wurtemberg. Sym- 
 pathy for the Jews, and the Missionary 
 there, had well nigh vanished, though 
 Wurtemberg was preeminently an evangelical 
 country from the time of the Eeformation. 
 The fact of the Supreme Church Govein- 
 ment giving so graciously and cheerfully theii- 
 permission and sanction to the baptism, 
 proved of great importance to the work, for 
 it secui'ed for the Missionary access at once 
 to many churches and congregations in which 
 he was privileged to plead the glorious cause, 
 and rouse the spirit of prayer, and a wide- 
 
 whom he soon formed an intimate and lasting 
 friendship, and in whose chapel all the 
 baptismal services were henceforth held. 
 
 In 18S0, Mr. Gottheil wrote : — " Some of 
 the tirst-fruits given me, are growing with 
 myself, into old age ; in some cases their 
 children are now among my Suiiday School 
 children and communicants, and I trust the 
 Lord's own inheritance ; so we see the 
 
 FliUIT OF THE FRUIT, 
 
 to the praise of the great heavenly husband- 
 man. 
 
 STUTTGAKT. 
 
 spread desire to co-operate for Israel's salva- 
 tion, the rich results of which are apparent at 
 the present time. 
 
 Stuttgart. 
 
 In lSfi9 he removed from Cannstatt to 
 Stuttgart, where he was also instant in 
 season and out of season proclaiming with 
 the power of the Spirit, Christ crucified to 
 his Jewish brothers and sisters. In 1873, 
 he made his first acquaintance with the 
 Deaconesses' Home and Pastor HofTmann, 
 the amiable and cultured Chaplain, with 
 
 In the course of the summer a good many 
 journeys were made to places near and 
 distant, old friends visited and some new 
 ones won, the Word of God recommended 
 and tracts distributed. My little book, 
 " Bread of Life," still remains a favourite. 
 About 5,000 copies have been circulated. Its 
 aim is to create a hunger for the Word of 
 Life. May the Giver of that Word bless it 
 for that purpose ! A new edition will become 
 nece.ssary after a while. I may not live to 
 see it through the press, but I heartily desire 
 that someone else would take it up. I
 
 314 
 
 Memwles of Gospel Triumvplis among the Jews. 
 
 know from experience, and others have 
 admitted, that it is a most useful book. 
 
 A JEWISH child's CONFESSION OF CHRIST. 
 
 Some children of wealthy Jewish parents, 
 the other day, fell in with one of my 
 daughterly, who is a Sunday School Teacher. 
 The little lady of the party asked most 
 earnestly to be allowed to join her class, for, 
 said she, I do believe in the dear Saviour. 
 Is it not a good thing to believe in the dear 
 Saviour ? My parents do not believe, but I 
 do love the dear Saviour ! She had heaid of 
 the dear Saviour from one of our 
 deaconesses, who had tended an invalid in 
 the family ! As a rule, our Sisters are doing 
 good work in this direction in Jewish families. 
 A very intelligent Jew, the other day, told 
 me that after observing quietly, the devotion, 
 self-denial, untiring activity, loving manner, 
 cheerful piety, of one of them, he went home 
 and tolil his wife and friends what he had 
 seen, and that he could not cease to speak 
 and think of it. I pointed out to him the 
 source of their strength, courage, and love, 
 even Jesus, His blood. His love. His Spu-it, 
 and asked, Where arc the daughters of Israel 
 who devote themselves to such God-glorifying 
 work among the sick, the infirm, the aged, 
 the erring, and so on 1 He admitted that 
 the spirit animating the Sisters was vi^anting 
 in Israel. I added, Jesus Ls wanting, and 
 with Him, everything." 
 
 A BRAVE YOUNG JEWESS. 
 
 Mrs. K is a believer in Jesus as her 
 
 Saviour ; in the face of much opposition of 
 her husband and kindied she holds firm to 
 the hope of the Cross. Her two little 
 daughters cling to their mother, and their 
 mother's faith and hope. The youngest of 
 the two asks every morning, as she wakes, 
 for a little story of the dear Saviour. The 
 other day the elder daugliter had been at our 
 ch.apel, and on coming home felt so overjoyed 
 in her heart that she went to her room and 
 sang aloud one of the hymns she had joined 
 in at the church. On this, the father, hearing 
 lier singing, got so enraged that he admin- 
 istered to her a sound beating — so much that 
 the child had to take to her bed. Her 
 mother had been absent that evening, but 
 next moi-ning, on hearing what had tran- 
 spired during her absence the evening before, 
 proposed to speak to the father and to take 
 him seriously to task for his cruelty. 
 
 " No," said the child, " don't do it, dear 
 mother; has not the dear Saviour likewise 
 
 suffered stripes and ill-treatment ? Why 
 should I not also suffer ill for His sake ? I'll 
 gladly bear wrong for His sake, and forgive 
 father his anger." 
 
 Incidents of Jewish Conversion. 
 
 Mr. Gottheil was present at the Annual 
 Meeting held in 1882, and gave the following 
 interesting epitome of rich spu-itual results. 
 He said :— 
 
 I. 
 
 Let me take you, first, to a village in the 
 Black Forest, and to a large room in a 
 commodious peasant's house. The room is 
 filled with people, men and women, and the 
 young are not wanting. You see at once it 
 is a religious meeting. The meeting is 
 presided over by a grey-headed man in the 
 simple garb of a tradesman. As you look at 
 him, you are not mistaken if you conclude 
 he is one of Abraham's Children ; but besides 
 this you cannot help observing that heaven 
 is stamped on that brow, thathiscountenance 
 is lit up, as it were, by the rising morning 
 of eternity ; and as you listen to his exposition, 
 you feel that man has drank deeply and 
 fully from the wateis of salvation, and that 
 he understands how to sink his shafts into 
 the depths of the mine and bring up precious 
 treasure from it, for the enrichment of souls. 
 Now, who is this good man, in his plain work- 
 man's habiliments and appearance, and yet so 
 expert in the dividing of the Word ? He is 
 the son of Jewish parents who learned the trade 
 of cloth-weaver, and while employed as such, 
 in my neighbourhood, God brought us 
 together many years ago, and I was enabled 
 to lead him to Jesus. I had the privi- 
 lege of baptizing him as the first convert at 
 the newly opened station. He has always 
 remained a journe3'man workman who, with 
 a happy heart and peaceful spirit, has given 
 every free hour to the study of God's Word, 
 and gi'adually grown so rich in the experience 
 of spritual things, that he has become the 
 leader, adviser, comforter of many anxious 
 ones seeking peace and consolation for their 
 troubled souls. Not a few owe to him their 
 spiritual well-being, having entrusted them- 
 selves to his guidance, and he in his 
 unobtrusive but efl'ectual tuition led them 
 to Jesus, who brought them out of darkness 
 into liy/U, and from despair to the hope and 
 certainty of a heavenly inheritance ; and not 
 a few are already in the upper sanctuary, 
 who shall have reason to bless hii memory 
 throughout eternity.
 
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 II. 
 
 Let me now take you to another country- 
 house at a greater distance. You will find 
 there, likewise, an aged Israelite, busy with 
 books in a diversity of languages, but all of 
 like contents ; it is in fact the offspring of the 
 noble British and Foreign Bible Society — 
 and from the spot to which I have taken you, 
 the M'ord is spread under the wise and 
 thoughtful management of this Israelite 
 into regions far and wide, almost to the 
 very borders of Asia. Wlio isthisman? A dear 
 friend of Israel once made a journey into 
 Austria, and in one of the villages made the 
 acquaintance of this man and his family, 
 who by the Spirit of God had been already 
 led to search the Word — our dear friend's 
 affectionate heart was deeply touched by the 
 fact, and his sympathies fully called forth, 
 to help these searching souls onward in the 
 path to the full light of the Gospel. Never 
 shall the memory fade from my recollection, 
 when many years ago this good Israelite and 
 his dear wife stood up before an earnest, 
 sympathizing, Christian assembly, and con- 
 fessed their belief in Jesus. Since then, the 
 father has been very busy spreading the 
 Word, adorning the caase of Christ, and 
 recommending Him to unbelievers among 
 Jews and Gentiles, while his son is a faithful 
 mLssionary among the Jews, and the daughters 
 are busy in the dissemination of the Gospel. 
 No less than seventeen members of this family 
 have been led to confess Christianity. The 
 venerable mother after leading a consistent 
 life, has exchanged the walk of faith for the 
 enjoyment of sight. Her bed of suffering 
 and her dying hour were such scenes of the 
 conquering power of the grace of God in 
 Jesus, that I have felt impelled to pray, 
 " Let my death be like hers ! " 
 
 And wliilst at the goJden gates, oh, I wish 
 we could get a peep at the bliss of two Jewish 
 ladies. They were introduced to me by brother 
 Jaffe, the Society's Missionary in Bavaria. 
 By faith in the blood of Jesus, their hearts 
 were ultimately filled with peace and joy; 
 and in living and dying they recommended 
 Jesus to their kindi-ed, and others, as the 
 precious Saviour of souLs ! 
 
 III. 
 
 Let me take you now to a town in my dis- 
 trict, and to a young man in his best years, 
 a man of gi-eat fervency of mind and energy 
 of action. He was led to think of his soul 
 and of Jesus by a dear friend and brother. 
 
 With all the innate energy peculiar to his 
 nature, he had grace to grasp the Truth, and 
 to side with Jesus, whom he publicly confessed. 
 He has since established his own home and 
 household, and besides his daily avocation 
 as a manufacturer, makes it his business, 
 wherever he moves, to speak to all that 
 will hear, of the Truth as it is in Jesus, and 
 is busy at Bible and Tract Distrilnition, and 
 the Sunday School, and is ever ready to help 
 forward the cause of Christ. 
 
 J ust one fact more : I bring before j'ou 
 the case of a Jewish brother, one of the 
 Vhasidim. Sect, who has been anxiously 
 labouring from his youth up, to establish a 
 righteousness of his own by long prayers, 
 fastings, uprightness of walk, rich charity, 
 loving devotion to the sick, the suffering, 
 and the dying, toiling and toiling to concjuer, 
 step by step, a right to the inlieritance of 
 heaven. For above four yeai-s we had almost 
 daily intercourse, and I loved to have him 
 about me, watching with deep and anxious 
 interest the issue of the struggle ; for he had, 
 at the same time, set before him Jesus as the 
 Lord our Righteousness, and pointed out to 
 him the impossibility of attaining such — he 
 felt the need of it — by his own efforts. Unfor- 
 tunately, on seeing a great many godless, and 
 tlioughtless, and faithless, and sin-indulging 
 Christians around him, he was much strength- 
 ened in his own good opinions of himself — 
 consoling himself with this poor comfort — • 
 Oh, we Chasidim are yet better than these, 
 and surely God must be more pleased with us 
 than with these. Yet he worked on, for 
 there was no peace in hLs .soul for all that. Oh, 
 how he toiled up the rugged ridges of Sinai, 
 feeling more and more sore with eveiy effort 
 and movement, finding only the thorns of an 
 accusing conscience setting him at unrest, 
 and scorched by the consuming flames of a 
 holy but offended God, at a broken law. At 
 last, he gave up the hopeless attempt. One 
 memorable morning he came to me, confess- 
 ing with tears, that he had toiled in vain, 
 and only consumed his zeal for nought. 
 Under the restraining power of love he re- 
 marked : "Jesus is conqueror. I cannot 
 help it ; I must throw away everything, and 
 trace my way to Calvary, and cast myself 
 down at the feet of Jesus, taking from Him, 
 by grace, and by grace alone, pardon and 
 peace." He has done .so, and has had the 
 further blessing that his wife and children 
 have joined him now, and are learning the 
 way of Christ from him ; he himself Ls en- 
 gaged in the work of spreading the Word of
 
 316 
 
 Meviories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 God among Lis kindred, and is doing so with 
 Divine approval. 
 
 Testimonial to the Rev. P. E. Gottheil. 
 
 On Friday evening, the 8th December, 
 1882, there met at the house of the Rev. 
 Dr. Eosedale, Vicar of St. Saviour's, Forest 
 Hill, a few of the friends of Mr. Gottheil, 
 one of the British Society's able and faithful 
 Missionaries, in order to bid him Godspeed, 
 in the prospect of his soon returning to his 
 field of labour, and to present him with a 
 Bible and a purse of gold. 
 
 After a substantial tea. Dr. Eosedale took 
 the chair, and delivered a very interesting 
 address, in the course of which he said that 
 he had known Mr. Gottheil for upwards of 
 foity years ; and had watched with joy the 
 growth, consistency, and cheerfulness of his 
 Christian life, and the results of his mission 
 work in Wiirtemberg, so that it might truly 
 be said that be had tcoii there a kingdom in 
 the natnecifaiid/ortheJfessiah. The Doctor 
 then, in the name of the friends, felicitou.sly 
 presented Mr. Gottheil with a Bagster's 
 Bible and a puise of sovereigns. Before 
 Mr. Gottheil was called upon to reply, two 
 or three of his personal friends were requested 
 to address the meeting. 
 
 The Rev. D. A. Her.schell, brother of the 
 Revs. Ridley and Louis Herschell, delivered 
 an admirable address. He spoke of his long 
 acquaintanceship and friendship with Mr. 
 Gottheil, .and of the value of his work viewed 
 both in the light of the little future of time 
 and the great future of Eterniti/. 
 
 The Rev. Joseph Bahri, the Honorary 
 Secretary, who had done his best to make 
 the Te.stimonial a success, thanked all the 
 subscribers, and affirmed that he should never 
 be able to repay Mr. Gottheil for the spiritual 
 good ho had received from him. 
 
 The Rev. J. Dunlop .said that the British 
 Society might be compared to a diadem, and 
 Mr. Gottheil to one of the precious gems in 
 it. Turning to him, he spoke as follows : — 
 " I will not say, ' May your shadow never 
 grow less,' for obesity is a doubtful blessing; 
 but I will pray in the language of the Ori- 
 ental salutation, ' May God prolong your 
 shadow.' This salutation is very .seldom used, 
 and only of kings, who are designated Zill 
 AUah, ' the shadow of God.' I think it very 
 appropriate when applied to faithful Hebrew 
 Christian Missionaries, like yourself, who are 
 the seed royal of Heaven, Hebrew Chrit^tian 
 Kings, and who are engaged doing right 
 royal work. Royal brother in Christ, ' J/ay 
 
 He jyrolong t/onr Shadow.' May Divine peace, 
 purity and power abide on, in, and with you 
 and your dear wife and children — like the 
 dove, the dew, and the light." 
 
 The Rev. P. E. Gottheil in cordially thank- 
 ing the friends, gave an impressive address 
 on how God had led him out of the darkness 
 of Judaism into the light of Christianity; an 
 address animated from its beginning to its 
 close by the spirit enshiined in the words, 
 " By the grace of God I am what I am," and 
 " Jesus only." 
 
 During the evening thanks were expressed 
 to Dr. Rosedale and his dear wife and son, 
 for their kindness, and a bright and joyous 
 meeting was appropriately concluded and 
 crowned, with the hymn '■ Abide with me," 
 an impressive prayer, and the benison of 
 Jehovah. 
 
 Christmas Tree with 850 Children 
 Present. 
 
 1886. 
 
 R. is making fine progress in the appre- 
 hension of saving Truth. It is a pleasure to 
 teach an open and receptive nature like hers, 
 craving for light though, foi-sooth, observant. 
 She has found out by silent observation tliat 
 there are sterling realities in evangelical 
 Christianity, and evangelical life, differing 
 so essentially from that spurious Christianity 
 she had seen in her Russian home; and 
 moreo%'er that there are differences in the 
 character and beaiing of Christians, no less 
 than among the Jews. She is, moreover, 
 anxious to help her own brothers and a 
 sister of hers, still at home, but also 
 inquiring, to come forward for instruction. 
 I am anxious, too, in that matter, and hope 
 and pray that her desii-e may come to be 
 realized. 
 
 The other day she was, for the first time 
 in her life, witnessing a " Christmas Tree." 
 It was that of our Sunday School, when she 
 saw a sight ".she had never .seen and that 
 was enough to make angels rejoice," as she 
 expressed herself. 
 
 There were 8.tU children assembled and 
 two mighty trees lit up with a transparent 
 representation of the C^hild Jesus in the 
 midst of it. It was delightful to see all eyes 
 gazing at that one object, and all ears lis- 
 tening to the simple yet ever touching story 
 of the birth of the world's Saviour. As, 
 from the pulpit, I overlooked the hosts of 
 children that entirely filled the body of the 
 church, I felt myself quickened in faith and 
 love to that one Child, Who has made every
 
 Another Group of Missionaries. 
 
 317 
 
 human child a precious object for heaven's 
 aspirations ; and that impels us to be faithful 
 in gathering the lambs into His fold. May 
 the hundreds become thousands, as the Good 
 Shepherd has come and has gone out to seek 
 and to save each one even with His dear life's 
 precious blood ! R. was breathless as she 
 gazed at the sight, and at last scarcelj 
 found words to expi-ess what she felt. 
 
 More Spiritual Children of the 
 Mission. 
 
 1886. 
 
 I had the pleasure of having another of 
 my spiritual children, Mr. Karfunkel, of 
 Hamburg, staying with me for a few days. 
 He is cheering mo up, truly, with the in- 
 tensity of his love to Jesus, his fervency in 
 the service of his Master, his craving to win 
 souls for Him. Truly, Jesus is his only 
 passion 1 He is not a missionary, but a 
 merchant ; but he does not grudge any spare 
 time, yea, is ready to sacrifice even his work- 
 ing hours, to serve the souls of his brethren 
 with the Bread of Life ! His zeal in the 
 cause of Christ is almost infectious, if I may 
 use the expression, tempered, however, with 
 humility and chastened by fervent prayer. 
 It is now about ten years ago that, after 
 struggling for years against the Saviour, he 
 confessed Him in the presence of a large 
 assembly, in the Church of the Deaconesses, 
 where our baptisms generally take place. 
 
 Another spiritual child of mine, again, has 
 likewise given me great delight in these 
 days. You have seen, and may remember, 
 our little Miriam, the Jewess, who confessed 
 Christ about two years ago. Since her bap- 
 tism she has been working hard in connexion 
 with the Deaconesses' house, especially among 
 the Iambs of the flock. It was a time of 
 probation for her, and time of trial, as to 
 her inward status and as to her fitness and 
 health. Having sustained all this time a 
 consistent character as a Christian, and 
 approved herself otherwise, she was admitted 
 solemnly, last Maundy Thursday, with five 
 other probationers, into the full communion 
 of the Deaconesses' Establishment. It was 
 to me like again yielding up one of my own 
 to that blessed service. You remember that 
 I had given up one of my own children to 
 it, and that the Lord had taken her home, 
 some yeare ago. 
 
 Another of my spiritual children, L., now 
 preparing for the ministry, writes with a 
 grateful heart, that his venerable father has 
 entered upon a lengthened corre.sp ondence 
 
 with him, discussing with him the claims of 
 Christianity. In a letter of no less than 
 thirty pages he fully and searchingly deals 
 with the question. This is more than we 
 had dared to expect. The young convert, I 
 know, has been much in prayer on that sub- 
 ject, and his prayer has been heard and 
 answered. He is full of joy and gratitude. 
 He himself has now entered with much fear 
 and self -humbling on that part of his studios, 
 when he will be expected to speak on God's 
 Word, addressing it to souls needing a 
 Saviour. I am thankful to find that he is 
 fully aware of how little he is worthy of so 
 great and holy a calling, as [handling God's 
 Word ! Jesus has truly become a power in 
 
 him with life. Dr. Heman, with whom he 
 lives, thinks highly of him. 
 
 It is matter for deep gratitude to me to 
 see those for whom I have prayed and 
 laboured resembling ti-ees planted by the 
 river of life blossoming and bearing fruit to 
 the glory of the Heavenly Father. But, 
 oh ! I am anxious lest any .soul entrusted to 
 my care should be lost at last, through want 
 of prayerful wrestling, or careful guiding, or 
 through falling short of the life of Jesus in 
 myself ! 
 
 A Deaf and Dumb Jewish Family. 
 
 STu'iT(iART, Afh J/arc/i, 1891, 
 Mv VERY DEAR Feiexd, — Since my ]a.st 
 letter to you, recounting my difficulties with
 
 8lS 
 
 Memories of Gospd Triumphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 regard to the Jew Mohamed, and how the 
 Lord graciously led him to give his allegiance 
 to the true Prophet and Messiah of Israel, I 
 have had another difficult task laid upon me, 
 and I would ask j'ou kindly to give me your 
 sympathies and prayers, lest in my dealings 
 I throw an obstacle in the way of the 
 gracious purpose of the Lord. Jt is this •. 
 one of my dear sens in the faith, besides 
 faithfully discharging the duties of his 
 regular work, is ever anxious to aid in 
 spreading the Saviours Kingdom. Thus, of 
 late, he has opened to me the way to a Jewish 
 family, father and mother, and little daughter, 
 all of them deaf and mute f They are 
 resjjectable people, earning their own liveli- 
 hood, are able to rfead (of course, not aloud) 
 
 the Saviour, and salvation through Him. 
 They delight to be instructed regarding Him 
 who, once upon a time, unstopped the ears 
 and loosened the tongues of those similarly 
 afflicted as themselves, thus enabling them to 
 listen to His tender words, and to praise with 
 their tongues the Almighty power of the 
 Sinners' Friend ! May they at last inwardlj' 
 obtain the same blessing ; may they learn to 
 seek shelter in the riven side of the same Jesus, 
 by faith in His words, promises and redeeming 
 work. And may grace be given me, in my 
 infirmities, to manifest patience and per- 
 severance in this case, which in its practical 
 bearing is so new to me. But, praised be 
 Jesus, with Him it is possible to do the 
 impossible ! (Is that saying too much ?) Keep 
 
 and write, and cipher, the child being taught 
 in a school established for pupils thus affected ! 
 Hitherto, under the Lord's guidance, I have 
 had to do with people who have been able to 
 hear what is told them, and to reply, giving 
 their own views, dissent or assent, according 
 to the matter under consideration. My 
 • prasent task reduces me to the necessity of 
 spelling out on paper whatever I have to 
 bring forward, and to obtain from these 
 afflicted people their replies and views also in 
 writing. This way of communication is very 
 tedious and trying ; it almost makes it 
 impossible to be as clear in the needful utter- 
 ances as would be the case in a viva voce 
 convei-sation. But these people (the parents), 
 are willing, not to hear and to reply, which 
 they cannot, but to be informed as regards 
 
 me, please, in your prayers, and plead for 
 these dear people in their infirmity, and for 
 me in my want of experience, lest I spoil the 
 work of the Spirit so needful in all things, 
 as well as in this case. Yoms ever 
 gratefully, P. E. GoTrnEiL. 
 
 Rev. J. DuNLOP. 
 
 Three Extracts from his last Journal. 
 1892—3. 
 
 " Mr. Lowen, one of those Jewish brethren 
 given to me some years ago, has now com- 
 menced editing a monthly, under the title of 
 ' Witness to Israel,' in Pabbinical Hebrew, 
 designed for those thousands of Jews who 
 read no "ther print. He bears faithful
 
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 319 
 
 witness to the love of God, the value of the 
 soul, and the need of forgiveness through 
 the blood of Jesus. He hopes to bo able to 
 continue this effort for a while. The testi- 
 mony to the Truth will thereby penetrate 
 into many portions of the vast Eastern 
 territories inhabited by hundreds of thou- 
 sands of Jews, and where, perhaps, no 
 missionary's voice has ever been heard. 
 May the Lord give His blessing and make 
 the scattered seed bear fruit." 
 
 II. 
 
 " Some weeks ago a 
 Jewish merchant called 
 with the request for 
 Christian instruction 
 as a preparatory for 
 baptism. As to his 
 religious knowledge, I 
 found it to be a per- 
 fect blank; and yet a 
 desire to know has been 
 wakened up by the 
 Spirit. It was an 
 an.xious question for 
 me whether to engage 
 in this matter, which 
 requires peculiar handl- 
 ing ; considering, also, 
 my broken state of 
 health, and the diffi- 
 culty I have in con- 
 tinued speaking. 
 However, the Lord 
 gave the direction I 
 looked for. The Eev. 
 Dr. Fiirst, who has 
 taken up his abode in 
 this place, kindly 
 oflered to assist me in 
 thLs wo:k, so that we 
 may hope, by Gkid's 
 blessing, to help this 
 
 wandering brother to the haven of rest. 
 Pray with lis for the countenance of Jesus." 
 
 IlL 
 
 '• You will be interested to know that one 
 of the brethren I had the privilege of leading 
 to Christ has been appointed a Mi.ssionary 
 to the Jews in France, by the Paris Society 
 of Jewish Mission work, and has already 
 entered upon his duties ; and that one of my 
 recent converts is delighting in the fact that 
 through his instrumentality his aged mother, 
 living in Poland, near Warsaw, has become 
 an earnest believer in Jesus, and is rejoicing 
 
 in the certainty that through Him she has 
 had her sins forgiven her, and been made an 
 inheritor of eternal life." 
 
 HIS PEACEFUL DISMISSION .A.ND ABUNDANT 
 ENTRANCE. 
 
 " After a very bad cough through the 
 whole of the winter and spring of 1892, he 
 was laid up on Jlay 25th, 1893, with another 
 attack of influenza and we could see that 
 the Lord was prepar- 
 ing him for going 
 home. Many of his 
 dear friends came to 
 see and pray with him, 
 and for every one of 
 them he bad a kind 
 word or two. On the 
 day of his death he 
 was very weak, but 
 nevertheless he under- 
 stood every word of 
 Scripture with which 
 we tried to brighten 
 the way through the 
 dark valley of the 
 shadow of death. 
 When the hour of his 
 departure arrived, we 
 knelt around his bed, 
 praying aloud and quo- 
 ting Scripture texts 
 and verses out of his 
 favourite hymns and 
 the Lord's Prayer, and 
 when we had finished 
 he breathed his last, 
 and his soul, which had 
 been cleansed through 
 the precious blood of 
 Jesus Christ, had left 
 its earthly tabernacle 
 and entered the land 
 of bliss, leaving behind it a ray of the 
 glory of heaven on his countenance. Lord, 
 now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in peace, 
 according to Thy Word, for mine eyes have 
 seen Thy salvation. With that impression 
 we got up from our knees, and we could only 
 thank the Lord for all He had done through 
 His servant." 
 
 HIS FUNERAL. 
 
 The following letter is from the pen of 
 Mr. Flad, "a brother beloved," with whom 
 Mr. Gottheil had been associated in Mission- 
 ary journeys for many years : — 
 
 KEV. J. M. FLAD.
 
 320 
 
 Memories of Gospel Trivinphs among the Jews. 
 
 KoRN'THAL, '21nd of June, 1893. 
 Dear Mr. Dunlop, — Mr. Gottheil's burial 
 ■was a grand one. On Siinila}-, the lltli of 
 June, at 10.30, his intimate frienils joined his 
 bereaved and mourning ■wife and daughters. 
 As we stood round the richly decorated coffin, 
 the Kev. Hoffmann delivered a very touch- 
 ing address, based on Luke ix. 29. At the 
 close of the address, I offered prayer. The 
 service, impressively begun, was appropriately 
 ended by the singing of the Deaconesses. 
 Hundreds of friends, some of Mr. Gottheil's 
 proselytes, and even some Jews, followed his 
 coffin to the Piag burial place. There the Rev. 
 Weidle read the burial service. Many friends 
 stood mourning round his grave. He was loved 
 and highly esteemed by all who knew him. 
 
 Eighty wreaths of flowers, one palm, and 
 one wreath of lorbur (crown of laurel), had 
 been sent by friends. A palm was laid on 
 his grave from the Sunday School in the 
 Deaconess' Hospital at Stuttgart; and the 
 gentleman who spoke a few words of thanks 
 for all the spiritual ble.ssings he and others 
 had received through your lamented mis- 
 sionary, called him " Grandfather of the 
 Sunday School in the Deaconess' Church." 
 
 Dear father Gottheil will be missed by 
 manj' ; above all bj- myself. Although be- 
 longing to two different Societies, we worked 
 together in love and harmony for 20 years. 
 — With kindest regaids, I remain, yours 
 faithfully, J. M. Fi.ad. 
 
 FOUR OF THE FIRST BAND OF STUDENTS TRAINED IN THE 
 
 SOCIETY'S COLLEGE. 
 
 MR. WILLIAM BRUNNER. 
 
 {With Portrait, Ix.) 
 
 MR. WILLIAM BRUNNER was born 
 in Brody, Galicia, A.D. 1 822. He was 
 one of three brothers who had all, by the 
 grace of God, been brought to the knowledge 
 of the Truth as it is in Christ. His parents 
 were pious, honourable, and well-to-do ; 
 and by them he was brought up in the 
 strict observance of everything which con- 
 stitutes Judaism. He often spoke with 
 deep feeling of his early home-life, and of 
 his sweet and godly mother. They lived in 
 a somewhat patriarchal style, in their own 
 house, and each member of the family 
 occupied an apartment. Their great-grand- 
 father, who lived with them, and who died 
 when he was upwards of ninety yeai-s uf age, 
 was truly the patriarch. Every Sabbath 
 day, after religious .ser^vice, they were in the 
 habit of gathering together and standing 
 before their great-grandfather in order to 
 receive his blessing. The old man laid his 
 hand upon each one's head, according to 
 pi-ecedence of age, and pronounced the 
 Aaronic benediction recorded in Numbers 
 vi. 24-26. Mr. Brunner used often to dwell 
 upon these tender associations. 
 
 At the death of his parents he left home 
 that he might widen his horizon of know- 
 ledge. As he journeyed, hardly knowing 
 whither he went, he found himself in Pe.sth, 
 where, for the first time in his life, he heai-d 
 the Gospel from the lips of the Scottish 
 Missionaries, Drs. Duncan, Smith, and 
 
 Wingate. There the struggle began between 
 darkness and light, the same conflict which 
 most Israelites have when evangelical Truth 
 is presented to them. Soon after this he 
 arrived in England, and there by the grace 
 of God, he was at last brought to know 
 Christ to be his Saviour, and was baptized at 
 Birkenhead by the Rev. Dr. Bailey, the 
 Principal of St. Aidan's College. Dr. Bailey 
 wished to send him to one of the Universities 
 to study for the ministry; but as he heard then 
 that the British Society wiis opening a college in 
 order to train students for IMission work among 
 the Jews, he desired to devote himself to the 
 work among his brethien. He was the first 
 student of the first band of eight educated at 
 the Society's College. The following are their 
 names according to the order of admission : 
 
 Mr. Wm. Brunner. Mr. Jaffe. 
 
 Mr. Schonberg. Mr. Block. 
 
 Mr. Lowitz. Mr. Laseron. 
 
 Mr. Frankel. Mr. Jas. Brunner. 
 
 Six of the above, when they had finished 
 their cui'riculum with entire satisfaction to 
 the tutors, were solemnly designated to God. 
 During the service each gave an account of 
 his spiritual experience, doctrinal views, and 
 Missionary aims. 
 
 The following is an extract from Mr. 
 W^illiam Brunner 's statement : — 
 
 I am a native of Brody, a place of great 
 commercial importance in South Galicia, 
 that country which, like most other parts of 
 tlie Continent, is enveloped in fatal daikness 
 by the prevalence pf Pojiery in its gro.ssest
 
 Four of Ike First Band of Students. 
 
 321 
 
 form!, and whose Christianity is nothini; but 
 a lil)el and burlesque u|)on the exalted 
 ri'lijjion of our Redeemer. Tiiero I passed 
 the early period of my life, under the direc- 
 tion .and guidance of parents devoutly 
 attache<l to the Jewish I'ites and or<linances 
 and who adhered iu all things mo.st rigidly 
 to the tenets and traditions of Judaism. 
 
 JUDAISM rOUSD WANTING. 
 
 My dear father took care to give me 
 instruction in several branches of useful 
 knowledge, and especially iu those theories 
 and rudiments immediately connected with 
 the Jewish faitli. which consist in the incul- 
 cation of a practical adherence to an order 
 of discipline and religious observances e.stab- 
 lished liv tlie authority 
 of the Rabbis. There 
 was in those instruc- 
 tions nothing of the 
 solid and salutary ele- 
 ments whiclt exert an 
 immediate influence 
 upon the heart, and 
 give a tone and posi- 
 tiveness to the forma- 
 tion of the inner man; 
 nothing of those sub- 
 lime and exalted teach- 
 ings which are so mar- 
 vellously a<lapted to 
 the condition of every 
 fallen child of Adam, 
 in furnishing him with 
 correct views of him- 
 self, his state as a 
 .sinner, his relationship 
 to God, and the end for 
 which he was created. 
 Hence it was that in 
 a more advanced period of life, when these 
 theories were reduced to practice, and when 
 with the progress of years, I was made more 
 acquainted with the nature and jnanciples of 
 I)ractical Judaism, I could not help experi- 
 encing at times something like a mist and 
 vagueness mixed up in my mind with my 
 religious perceptions, and I was led to feel 
 something like an apprehension of deficiency 
 in some part or other in the system of the 
 Synagogue. 
 
 DIVI.VELY ClIDED. 
 
 God. who guides the destinies of 
 men, by means of subordinate dispensations, 
 and renders all secondary circumstances 
 subservient to His gracious designs, made me 
 
 the subject of a similar providential disci- 
 pline, and not long after the departure of 
 my dear parents, inspired me with an 
 ardent desire of going abroad, for the jiur- 
 pose of gathering additional knowledge and 
 e.xperience upon the wide and tui-bvdent 
 ocean of an ever-agitated world, entiiely 
 ignorant that it was cpiite for another end, 
 and to find that w-hich I did not .seek after. 
 In my journey I was incidentally brought 
 to Pesth, the capital of Himgary, and there 
 it was that, for the tirst time in my life, I 
 was brought in contact witli those heralds of 
 peace, the jNlissionaries of the Gospel, sent 
 out from this country to disseminate far and 
 wide the incorruptible seed of the Word of 
 Life. From their lips it was that the glad 
 tidings were first pro- 
 claimed in my ears ; 
 but though some im- 
 pressions were, in eon- 
 sequence of their 
 preaching, produced on 
 my mind, I resisted 
 them with the force 
 and opposition, spring- 
 ing from tliose deep- 
 rooted prejudices I had 
 early imbilied against 
 the Christian religion, 
 of whicli I knew no 
 other pattern but that 
 exhibited in my own 
 country. 
 
 A short time after 
 this the providence of 
 God li ought me to 
 England, that blessed 
 country where the ser- 
 vants of the Lord, like 
 the w^atchmen in 8ion, 
 do not hold their peace (hiy nor night 
 in proclaiming rest to the weary wanderer; 
 and liere it was that the impressions I 
 formerly re.>-isted again revived with in- 
 creased' strength and urgency, not unlike 
 the leaven which, though ]-esisted for some 
 time by a counteracting agency, rises at 
 intervals with all the active fermenta- 
 tion peculiar to that element. Opportunity 
 after opportunity presented itself to_ me 
 to consider the great question at i.ssue 
 between Jews and" Christians, which led my 
 mind to serious reflection as to whether 
 this .Jesus of Nazareth, whom our forefathers 
 have rejected, was the .same who was to 
 redeem Israel. At thLs juncture of indecision 
 and perplexity, I was directed to read the 
 
 MR. WILLIAM EKUNNER.
 
 ;22 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triwnvphs among the Jews. 
 
 I-KANKKORT.
 
 Four of the First Bond of Students, 
 
 Word of God in order to see whether those 
 predictions which refer to the Messiah have 
 I'oally been verified in the person of Jesus 
 Christ ; and truly my searching was not in 
 vain ; for in comparing the New Testament 
 with the Old it terminated in my conviction 
 that Jesus is the Messiah who died as a sac- 
 rifice for sin, and was cut oft", but not i'or 
 Himself. And in spite of all the eil'orts of 
 Satan to hinder me fiom choosing the good 
 part, I was enabled, by the grace of God, 
 and the enlightening influences of the Holy 
 Spirit, to <lecido for Christ, and avow myself 
 at last, by public baptism, a disciple of the 
 meek and lowly Saviour. 
 
 And now in regard to the work in my 
 immediate prospect : I feel myself prompted 
 
 Frankfort, Mr. Bruiiner's Chief 
 Mission Station. 
 
 After labouring for a time in London, Mr. 
 Brunner went to the Continent, where he 
 occupied various stations, such as Cologne, 
 Zurich, Frankfort, etc., and was the means in 
 the hand of the Divine Spirit of sowing the 
 seed of Gospel Truth in many Jewish heai-ts. 
 Let us here take a glance at Frankfort, as it 
 was 51r. Brunner's chief field of labour 
 abroad. 
 
 Frankfort is an ancient and historically 
 renowned city, on the banks of the Maine. 
 
 Its inhabitants espouseil the Reformation. 
 Luther was received with open arms by the 
 people. Opposite the Catholic Cathedral 
 there is a small house where the Reformer 
 
 to it by a sense of duty, and sympathy for 
 those who are sinners like myself, and conse- 
 quently in need of the same Gospel, and the 
 same Saviour. Such was the experience of 
 the Apcstle Paul, when he exclaimed, " I am 
 a debtor both to the Greek and to the bar- 
 barian, the wise and the unwise," etc. Thus, 
 likewise, was the conduct of Andrew, in 
 hastening to communicate the glad tidings to 
 Peter ; and of Philip, in finding out 
 Nathaniel. It is therefore in consideration 
 of this duty and obligation to my fellow-men, 
 that I desire now to enter upon this work 
 which I propose to pursue, not in dependence 
 on my own strength, but in humble reliance 
 upon Him who has said, " Lo, I am with 
 you alway." 
 
 lodged, and from one of its windows he 
 preached to the numerous a.ssembly outside 
 on Isaiah's beautiful word.s, " In quiet- 
 ness and confidence shall be your strength." 
 The Reformers, while fighting against 
 Papal Rome, forgot the claim that the Jews 
 have to the love and grateful consideration of 
 Christians. They weie looked on as aliens, 
 and the Government employed the most 
 rigorous measures against them. They 
 assigned to them sepaiute quarters, like the 
 lepers among the Jews. The Judeugasseof 
 Frankfort was the ancient Ghetto of the 
 Jews. Five thousand people were enclosed 
 witliin its narrow and unhealthy purlieus and 
 were shut up in it every evening and every 
 Sabbath day. As we tiiink of its strong 
 
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 324 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 okl houses, and iron gates, we recall the 
 wrongs anJ woes that the Jew endured 
 there. This Ghetto was the birthplace of 
 the celebrated authoi' Boerne, who embraced 
 the Christian religion, and Rothschild, the 
 founder of the famous banking house. 
 
 THE STORY OF THE lilSE OF TOE KOTIISCIIILDS. 
 
 At the time of the French invasion of 
 Hesse Cassel the Elector tied from his 
 residence, and caiiied away his treasures. At 
 Frankfort he went to Meyer Eothschild, 
 then a respectable banker, and entrusted his 
 
 appropriated. He was amazed to learn that 
 his treasures had been saved by being buried. 
 Overcome by gratitude, the Elector said to 
 him, " You can keep my money and employ 
 it in your business, i-eturning it as I require 
 it, ivUliont interest." Rothschild worked 
 with the enormous capital thus generously 
 supplied for many years, and laid the founda- 
 tion of his famous banking.house. 
 
 UESULTS. 
 
 With regard to his field of work in Frank- 
 fort, Mr. Brunner once said : — 
 
 l.nDESUEKc;. 
 
 vast fortune to his keeping. Shortly after the 
 French arrived in Frankfort, and learning 
 where the Elector had deposited his fortune, 
 demanded it from llothschild ; but the 
 Jewish banker, having buried the treasure 
 in his courtyard, said he had nothing to give 
 up. The Fiench .searched every part of the 
 premises, but as they could find nothing 
 they went away. After some years, when 
 peace was restored, and the Elector had 
 returned to his dominions, he called on Eoths- 
 child, not expecting to find his property, 
 which he was sure the French had Ion" ago 
 
 " In Frankfort there are 10,000 or 12,000 
 Jewish residents, who are divided into two 
 communities— the orthodox and njortacd. 
 The Jews, who ai-e highly cultvued, form 
 the most influential portion of the commu- 
 nity, so that in finance, commerce, the legal 
 and medical professions, and all other de- 
 paitments of social life, they are repre- 
 sented by eminent and distinguished men. 
 In regard to theii- religious views, they are 
 highly tolerant and accessible, and never 
 offer that opposition which one is accus- 
 tomed to meet among the less educated Jews
 
 Four of the Firnl Band of Students. 
 
 of tlie smaller provincial congregations. 
 Further, in Frankfort you can introduce the 
 suhject of C'hristianity to the most influential 
 men among them as a topic of social conver- 
 sation, wliich they will debate with all ur- 
 banity and kindliness, and will treat you as 
 a friend, even if they still differ from you. 1 
 do not mean to say that their natural an- 
 tagonism to Christianity is entirely inope- 
 rative, but I affirm that the relation of the 
 Jews there to the messenger of the Gospel is of 
 a friendly and favourable character. Thus I 
 have had frequent intercourse with the 
 Rabbi of the reformed synagogue, and I am 
 thankful to state that this Rabbi introduced 
 me also to his father, who was likewise an 
 officiating Rabbi in Moravia, to whom I de- 
 livered the message of Christ, which I hope 
 he carried with him to his native land for 
 his own good and the good of others. Let 
 
 many, all of which confirm the fact that the 
 Gospel is making great progress among the 
 Jews, and particularly in those places where 
 the circumstances are favourable to the 
 dissemination of the good seed among 
 them." 
 
 HIS LAST DATS. 
 
 Mr. Brunner's last days were spent, along 
 with his dear wife, among his brethren in 
 Bristol, before whom he faithfully and fear- 
 lessly held up unsullied and unsbred the 
 banner of the cross. 
 
 In Bishopston, Bristol, he passed away 
 on Saturday afternoon, the 2ist of June, 
 1890. 
 
 The funeral took place on the following 
 Wednesday at Arno's Vale Cemetery, Bristol. 
 The Secretary of the British Society con- 
 ducted the service at the Home. The words 
 
 me also moutif.n tiie case of a distinguished 
 Jewish physician, on wliom the late Emperor 
 conferred the title of Sanitarj- Councillor, 
 with whom I often had serious conversation 
 about the Mes.viahship of Jesu.s. On one 
 occasion he said to me, ' Mr. Brunner, the 
 grandest personage we Jews ever produced 
 is the Christ.' And on another occa-sion he 
 said, ' The beau ideal of my religion is the 
 sermon on the Mount.' I might also men- 
 tion the case of a highly educated Jewish 
 teacher, who having been di.squieted in his 
 con.science when instructing the children and 
 explaining to them those portions of Scrip- 
 tures which we call Messianic, was led to 
 earnest incjuiry, which resulted in his own 
 conversion and that of his wife and family, 
 who are adorning their profession by a con- 
 sistent Christian walk and conversation. 
 These are only a few cases selected from 
 
 read, and the prayers offered, wei-e drawn 
 from the primal fount of light and love. The 
 service at the grave was performed by the 
 Chaplain, the Rev. E. Thomas, and was very 
 appropriate and impressive. 
 
 Our brother sleeps in Jesus — blessed thoufcht ! 
 Hush, mourners ! though ye could, awake liiin not ! 
 Would ye recall him from the home of bliss — 
 The " better country " — to a laud like this .' 
 
 To weep as we are weeping — all our pain. 
 
 Temptations, conflicts, to endure again ? 
 
 No. brother ! slumber now, and take thy rest 
 
 In the soft sleeping place which Christ has bless'd. 
 
 Till the great Easter morning light the skies. 
 And .all His people like Himself >?hall rise, _ 
 Bright in His radiance, with His beauty fair. 
 Ever His glory and His bliss to ehare. 
 
 Oh, precious hope ! already from afar 
 Through sorrow's night we see the morning star, 
 And guided by its be.ams, we calmly lay 
 Our sleeping ones to rest, to wait " that day.
 
 126 
 
 Memories of Gospel TriumpJis among the Jeivs. 
 
 MR. JAMES BRUNNER. 
 (With Portrait.) 
 
 niS EARLY LIFE, CONVERSION, AND BAPTISM. 
 
 The Rev. Dr. Leifcliild pre.achecl to a 
 very large congregation assembled in Craven 
 Chapel on the 2-ith of March, 1847, the day 
 appointed for national humiliation. His 
 subject was " The Duty of Christian People 
 in reference to the present Crisis." At the 
 close of this eloijuent discourse Mr. James 
 Brunner, a spiritual son of the British Society, 
 was publicly consecrated to God by the 
 ordinance of Christian baptism. 
 
 In introducing the 
 young Israelite to 
 the congregation. Dr. 
 Leifchild said that 
 having employed "all 
 the means in his power 
 for ascertaining the 
 correctness of his vie ws, 
 the reality and depth 
 of his conviction, and 
 the uprightness of his 
 conduct," — it was with 
 a "full satisfaction on 
 these points " that he 
 administered the ordi- 
 nance of baptism to 
 him. 
 
 "Due caution should 
 be observed in the 
 public recognition ot 
 such in.stances of con 
 version ; but when our 
 judgment is satisfied, 
 there should be no re- 
 luctance in receiving 
 them, and no hesita- 
 tion in giving thcui a 
 cordial welcome. Of 
 the conversion of the 
 remnant of that race 
 upon the earth to the Christian faith, in the 
 last days, the predictions of an inspired 
 apostle to that effect, in the eleventh chapter 
 of his E|)istle to the Romans, do not permit 
 us to doubt ; and the coincidence of that con- 
 version with the gathering in the fulness of 
 the Gentiles, which is there intimated, must 
 render it an ol>ject of ardent desire to all who 
 are solicitous for the best welfare of mankind 
 at large. Let us hail, then, this in.stance, and 
 others of a like nature, as the harbingers of 
 that auspicious event — as the visible pledges 
 of the fulfilment of those predictions respect- 
 ing the progeny of Aljraham." 
 
 The account of Jame.s Brunner's conversion 
 was^ detailed in a letter to a niLssionary of the 
 British Society for the Propagation of the 
 Gospel among the Jews, and was read by 
 Mr. Yonge. 
 
 A few extracts will, we are sure, be 
 acceptable. 
 
 " Dearest Friend and Brother in the Lord 
 — When, by the grace of God, and His bless- 
 ing on my instruction in Christianity, I at- 
 tained to a knowledge of the Truth as it is 
 in Christ Je^us, I expressed to you my heartfelt 
 desire of being admitted into fellowship with 
 Christ, by me:\ns of baptism. I was, how- 
 evei-, asked to give a 
 ^vl■itten account of my 
 past life— namely, of 
 my education as a Jew, 
 myrelationship to God, 
 and idea of religion 
 at that time, and like- 
 wise how I at last be- 
 L^ ^^^^^^K came convinced of the 
 l&rxv ^^^^^^1 of my ways, and 
 
 ^ I^^^^^H attained to the k now- 
 \ -^^^^^^^ ledge of salvation in 
 »% .^^^^^^^1 Jesus.' 
 
 MR. JAMES UULNXICR 
 
 " I am of a good 
 family, and my parents 
 were not only reli- 
 gious themselves, but 
 brought up my two 
 brothers and myself in 
 the strictest observance 
 of the Jewish rites and 
 ceremonies, which, in- 
 deed, constitute the 
 principal part of Ju- 
 daism, and are the 
 only ciiterion by which 
 a Jew's religion is 
 judged, althougli his 
 heait may not, in the 
 slightest degree, accompany the form, which 
 can neither give peace to the heart nor satis- 
 faction to the conscience, but rather causes a 
 proud self-righteousness, for which a tra- 
 ditional justification is piomised. I must, 
 however, confess that I was obliged to do 
 mechanically as others, though my heart was 
 not satisfied by such means, and often, when 
 reflecting upon them, my understanding 
 showed me their vanity." 
 
 Bythetimehe had ai rived at his eighteenth 
 year he had the .-orrow of losing both his 
 parents. Tlie whole family was consequently 
 released from lestraint, and regard to the
 
 Fovr of the First Band of Stiutenk. 
 
 327 
 
 external niid cerotnonial form of religion was 
 materially (limini.slie<l. As usual, when a 
 deference has been paid in early years to 
 religions instruction, tiiore were internal con- 
 flicts and misgivings; but, alas! he had no 
 one to take him by the hand and lead him to 
 the Saviour of sinners. Ho desciibes him- 
 self as being in this state " till the time of 
 our (his biothers' and his own) majoi-ity." 
 
 " As we were now of age, our property was 
 delivered to us by our relati\'es and guardians. 
 
 " Commended to a ])ropitious fate, and the 
 management of aft'airs entrusted to our in- 
 e.xperienced hands, we at first entered, with 
 uncertain steps, the giddy vortex of the 
 world ; and then, as was to be expected, we 
 soon lost the power of guiding ourselves, and 
 were carried away with its impetuous billows. 
 
 " Left to our own ab.solute administration, 
 an outward separation speedily took place. 
 Brou£;ht up together, and, till mature age, 
 residing in harmony under the same roof, 
 our hearts and feelings were sincerely united, 
 and one will and sentiment alike pervaded 
 our minds ; but my brothers being seized 
 with the ardent desire of seeing the world, 
 resolved to follow the bent of their inclina- 
 tions, and soon after, collecting their little 
 property, set out on their journey. 
 
 " Each took a different route, and had to 
 contend with various misfortunes and trials; 
 but trust in God was always their confidence, 
 protection, and the day-star of their hope, 
 which always kept up their sinking courage. 
 For this reason also He conducted tfie7ti first 
 to the knowledge of truth and light, though, 
 indeed, by thorny paths ; for they were per- 
 mitted to taste of the Tree of Life before T 
 bad any idea of its existence. 
 
 " My elder brother was the first who trod 
 England's blessed soil. In this country is 
 literally fullilled what Solomon says in Prov. 
 
 i. 20 -"^nn ninmn n:5in rinn ni.J:3n 
 
 J ny\p ' Wisdom crieth without, she uttereth 
 her voice in the streets : she crieth in the 
 chief place of concourse,' <tc. ; and the 
 frecjuent preaching of the Gospel soon brought 
 my brother to reflection. Nor did this pro- 
 duce only a momentary impression, but 
 Truth, having gained access to his heart, 
 finally prevailed ; and he, in the end, having 
 appropriated Christ by faith, found Him to 
 be all his salvation and all his desire. 
 
 "Not long afterwards, Providence led my 
 second brother also to England, and the 
 Gospel was preached in his cars. Nor did it 
 fail iu producing its usual beneficial effects ; 
 
 for his heart .soon became aflected by it, 
 though at first the impression was scarcely 
 perceptible. ][owever, by the grace of God, 
 the doctrines of Christianity gained by de- 
 grees more access to his heart ; and at length 
 God said, ' ijct there be light,' and the dark- 
 ness disapp(!arod. The great mystery of the 
 world was unravelled, and with a renewed 
 heart he made the confession of his faith by 
 baptism in the most solemn manner, in the 
 piescnce of God and the members of His 
 Church. 
 
 " I, on the contrary, was very well con- 
 tented with my home, and determined to re- 
 main there and to begin my c^areer steadilj". 
 I chose the commercial department as a 
 means of livelihood ; and uniting myself with 
 a partner, commenced my professional pur- 
 suits. Inexperienced in business and its 
 labyi'inths, I was soon infamously deceived 
 by the intrigues of my companion (who knew 
 my weak .side), and in a period of two years 
 I was deprived of all my wealth and left en- 
 tirely destitute, undetermined what to do. 
 But suddenl}' the remembrance of my biothers 
 came across my mind like lightning, and a 
 secret voice called unto me, ' Get thee out of 
 thy country, and from thy kindred, and from 
 thy father's house, unto a land that T will show 
 thee.' (Gen. xii. 1.) I perceived that it was 
 the will of God ; and collecting my remaining 
 propei'ty, and bidding a long farewell to my 
 native countr}', I set out on my journey. 
 
 " After the usual difficulties and dangers 
 attending travelling, I at length arrived 
 safely in England, and was extremely sur- 
 prised to find my brothers ' departed from 
 the God of our fathers,' for such was then my 
 interpretation of their conversion. I had 
 several fierce disputes with them ; — they ap- 
 pealed to the Bible ; — we searched it, and my 
 understanding was often at a loss, though my 
 heart took no share in the matter. In con- 
 seijuence of repeated conversations a glimpse 
 of light often pierced the darkness of my 
 brain ; but these momentary gleams were too 
 weak to ha\ e any effect on the night in which 
 my soul was enveloped, and their speedy 
 disappearance only served to render the 
 obscurity more visible. 
 
 " After I had diligently searched the Scrip- 
 tures for some months, and after enjoying 
 instruction in Christianity under Mr. David- 
 son and ]\Ir. Rosedale, and liy the ministry 
 of the Rev. Mr. Herschell' and fervent 
 prayers to God that He would .show me the 
 right way, the Almighty sent the torch of 
 Truth, and the darkness vanished ! The
 
 328 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triu'iiiphs anionrf the Jews. 
 
 mist fell from my eyes, and my icy lierirt was 
 dissolved in the fountain of everlasting life, 
 which, with its quickening powers, pene- 
 trated my cold, insensible nature." 
 
 The young convert thus goes on to detail 
 the work of grace in his heart, and how re- 
 pugnant to the Word of God he felt the 
 Jewish notions and dogmas to be. And 
 after adverting to a few prophecies relative 
 to the Messiah, he continues : — 
 
 " Attentively examining all this brought 
 me to the Truth, and I thank my God, who 
 has in this way given me a knowledge of my 
 sinful nature ; and at the same time, by the 
 denial of my own righteousness, allbrdcHl me 
 a means of reconciliation in Christ Jesus, 
 Ilis only-begotten Son, Our Lord, who came 
 down from heaven and took xipon Him our 
 mortal nature, and who ofl'ered up His life 
 upon the t'ross, as a sacrifice for the sins of 
 mankind, that we may be saved by His 
 death (as it says in the Ejiistle of Paul to 
 the Romans), and be justified by His resur- 
 rection. 
 
 " This is now the true and sincere confes- 
 sion of my faith, and in order to partake of 
 all the promises in Christ Jesus my Saviour, 
 I wish to be baptized, that I may then en- 
 tirely belong to Him ; for it says in ilark 
 xvi. 16, 'He that believeth, and is baptized, 
 shall be saved.' 
 
 " Your friend and brother in the Lord, 
 "Jame.s Buhnner." 
 
 That baptismal service was one of the most 
 solemn, joyous, and ins{)iring, that was ever 
 held in London. The whole assembly .seemed 
 animated with adoiing gi-atitude and praise 
 to God for His mercy to this Christian Is- 
 raelite, for the fresh proof given of the 
 power of the everlasting Gospel, for this 
 new pledge of the certainty of tlie coming 
 of the glorious day "when .all Israel shall be 
 saved." 
 
 Like his brother William, James was one 
 of the first band of students received into 
 the British Society's College, in Stamford 
 Street. There his Christian deportment and 
 devotion to duty were such that he won the 
 love and admiration of his tutors and com- 
 rades. When he had finished his curriculum 
 he was solemnly set apart to the work of a 
 Missionary to the Jews. For about a year 
 lie laboured at home, after that he was 
 sent by the Connnittee to Paris. Previous 
 to his departure he was able to write as 
 follows : — 
 
 " It is now twelve months since I was 
 engaged as a Missionary to my brethren 
 
 the Jews, and I am happy to say that 
 the Lord, who called me to this important 
 work, has, during this short peiiod, given me 
 many tokens that the time to favour Zion is 
 fast approaching. 
 
 "How rapidly the inveterate hatred and 
 prejudices against the doctrines of the cross 
 are melting away, and are superseded by a 
 willingness to hear and ascertain whether 
 Christ Ije indeed ' the end of the law for 
 rigliteousnes,s to every one that believeth ! ' 
 I found also that the Bible is now valued 
 and studied by them with more zeal than 
 over. The unbiassed Jew does not any more 
 look upon the Missionary with contempt, but 
 re.spect ; and by the families or individuals 
 he hiis access to, he is not only received as a 
 fiiend, but made at once a counsellor, judge, 
 and confidant. 
 
 " Now, then, things do evidently show 
 that a mighty woi'k is being performed in the 
 house of Israel. The dry l)ones spoken of by 
 the Prophet Ezekiel seem actually beginning 
 to shake ; and their promising appearance 
 forcibly lirings to my recollection the saying 
 of my Saviour, ' The harvest truly is 
 plenteous, but the labourers are few.' 
 
 " To meet with Jewish individuals, who 
 are Jews outwardly, but Christians inwardly, 
 is not a very unfrequent occurrence. Many 
 such cases come under my own ob.servation. 
 Such a favourable disposition in the Jewish 
 mind, and such in.stances of grace, which 
 prove that God has not cast off His people, 
 ought to .stimulate us to more zeal and 
 energy ; for He who was able to dispel the 
 natural daikness, is also able to dispel the 
 spiritual ; and Christ, who promised to 
 change our vile body, that it may be 
 fashioni'd like unto His glorious body, accord- 
 ing to the working whereby He is able even 
 to subdue all things unto Him.self, is actually 
 beginning to fulfil the promises, which are 
 all yea and amen in Christ Jesus. 
 
 " Helying, therefore, upon God's Word of 
 Truth, which declares that Israel shall j'et 
 ' blossom and bud, and fill the earth with his 
 fruit,' I am ready to go forth in the strength 
 of the Lord, in order to make known to the 
 benighted house of Israel the ' saying which 
 is worthy of all acceptation,' even ' that 
 Christ Jesus came into the woild to save 
 sinners ; ' and I hope that every one who 
 takes a lively interest in the spiiitual welfare 
 of those who are yet beloved for their 
 fatbei's' sakes, will pray for me that the 
 Lord may bless me in my labour, and give 
 me many souls for my hire."
 
 Four of the. First Band of StudeMts. 
 
 329 
 
 The Mission in Paris. 
 
 1'ho British yociety was the first to estab- 
 iisli ill Paris a permanent Mission to the 
 Jews, and uniler its auspices Mr. Brunner 
 laboured there for twenty-nine yeais with 
 many tokens of the Divine approval and 
 blessing. 
 
 In 18(j9 he wrote : — 
 
 "Although I believe that it is (he wide 
 difl'usion of the leaven of the Gospel, and not 
 the number of baptisms, which constitutes 
 the pro])er criterion of the success of our 
 work, yet I^ am thankful that God has 
 
 various denominations. Thus, the Rev. Mr. 
 Lovett baptized Mr. and Mrs. Meinzer, 
 Germans, and, a few years later. Miss Milan, 
 an English Jewess ; the former are now in 
 America, and the latter is in England. The 
 late Rev. Mr. Bridell, Pastor at that time of 
 Chapelle Taitbout, baptizeil Madame Guyot, 
 a French lady of independent position, who 
 became an active and zealous member of 
 Taitbout Chapel, and lived, for several yeai'S 
 afterwards, a holy and useful Christian 
 life. She died iu the Lord, bequeathing 
 her property to an adopted daughter of 
 
 TAUIS BEFORE THE DESTRUCTION OK THE TUILERIES. 
 
 granted me many visible tokens of His accep- 
 tance. The number who have been baptized 
 in connection with my work here is twenty- 
 five, besides a far greater number of those 
 who have lieen brought to a saving know- 
 ledge of the Tiutli, but who were impeded 
 by various obstacles in their desire of con- 
 fessing the Lord openly ; and others who, 
 from being hostile to Christianity, and 
 indirt'erent to religion, have become jiartially 
 reconciled to the Gospel, and awakened to 
 some concern about their eternal state. The 
 converts have been baptized by pastors of 
 
 Catholic parents, whom she brought up a 
 Protestant. 
 
 "The late excellent pastor, Adolphe 
 Monod, baptized my two converts, Cohen, 
 brothers, one valet de chambre of the late 
 Mr. Deles.sart (an eminent and worthy 
 French Protestant), and the other, concierge 
 at Mr. ITottinger's, likewise a distinguished 
 Protestant family. Both these brothers 
 have continued to maintain their ( 'hristian 
 character, and have trained their children as 
 Christians. The excellent pastor, Mr. 
 ^^allette, of the Lutheran Church, baptized
 
 330 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeius. 
 
 the following seven of my converts : — Mr. 
 Rosenfeld, who bad served in the Italian 
 ranks dining the struggle against Austria : 
 Mrs. Jabi'berg and her two children ; a 
 young Jewess of the name of Sephai, a 
 servant maid ; and two young girls, 
 Lublinski. In the case of the last two, 
 I Inboured conjointly with the late Mr. 
 Hausmeister, of Strasburg, who used to visit 
 Paris occasionally. The sisters Lublinski 
 were afterwards placed in a Protestant 
 boarding-school-, and an excellent Christian 
 lady, Mrs. Olivier, took them under her 
 maternal protection, and still continues to be 
 their devoted friend. 
 
 " In the conversion of the family Frankel 
 (consisting of Mr. F., sen., his brother Henri, 
 Mrs. F., and her two children), I likewise 
 laboured conjointly with JNIr. Hausmeister. 
 They were successively liaptized by different 
 jiastois, as they became matured in the 
 knowledge of the Lord. 
 
 " Pastor Abric, of the Reformed Church, 
 baptized my converts, the family Eapaport, 
 consisting of Mr. 11., Mrs. R., and their 
 four children. With regard to the success of 
 my labour in this family, I have felt, and 
 still feel peculiar joy and gratitude, because 
 my acquaintance dates from the veiy Jimt 
 dai/ of my arrival in Paris. Mrs. IJrunner 
 and myself were present at the mai-riage of 
 Mr. and Mrs. R., and I continued to labour 
 on their behalf patiently and cautiously — 
 often, indeed, abruptly checked in my advance 
 by that haughty pride which springs from 
 self-righteousness and its natiu'al accompani- 
 ments, until, by the grace of God, they were 
 brought into obedience to the law of Chri.st. 
 They are now honoured members of the 
 church above named. 
 
 " Another convert oi mine, Mr. Bachrade, 
 a Bavarian, was baptized by the German 
 pasto!', Mr. Lohmann. 
 
 " Among the instances in which I have 
 sowed and others reaped, I may mention a 
 former inquirer of mine, Mr. Janson, a 
 medical student, whom I sent to London, 
 where he w.as baptized by Mr. Herschell. 
 Another of my inquirers, a Mr. Goldberg, a 
 lirother of a missionary of the London 
 Society, I sent to London, where he was 
 baptized by Dr. Ewald. Lately, an interest- 
 ing young Israelite, whom I sent to London 
 to Mr. Lazarus, was baptized by Dr. 
 Schwartz. I say nothing of the usual 
 obstacles and difficulties in our way. 
 
 "God is still working with us, and we daily 
 experience the succour of His presence which 
 
 makes us strong in weakness, as well as the 
 seal of His grace in the response we meet 
 with to our efforts." 
 
 When INlr. lirunner's work in Paris was 
 finished he might have retired from the 
 missionary field, but he wished to die in 
 harness. He' has, therefore, found a quiet 
 sphere at Nottingham, where he still labours, 
 and where the blessing of the Lord has 
 crowned with success the efforts of his last 
 days. 
 
 Mr. Brunner looks back upon his work, 
 esf)e:'ially in Paris, with emotions of devout 
 gratitude and praise to God as he thinks of 
 many of the converts who have fallen asleep 
 in Jesus, and of those who are still walking 
 along the way of life hand-in-hand with 
 Christ their Saviour and Friend. From 
 among the many incidents of conversion 
 which took place in Paris, there is one which 
 con.stantly rises before him and gives him 
 peculiar pleasure, .as it is to him a brilliant 
 proof " That the chariot of God's providence 
 runneth not on bi-oken wheels," and that 
 '•The Gospel is still the power of God unto 
 salvation to every one that believeth — to the 
 Jew first, and also to the Gentile." INIr. 
 Brunner has refei'red to it in a previous 
 communication, but here it is with a few 
 more details. 
 
 A STIUKINO INSTANCE OF DIVINE GUIDANCE. 
 
 "Pa.stor Abric, our beloved minister at 
 Passy, baptized the interesting family 
 Rapaport, consisting of the parents, four 
 daughters. Mr. Rapaport is a banker, 
 who has risen to his present position by 
 industry and honesty. He was the first 
 of my Jewish acquaintances here. When I 
 was yet .a student in our society's college, in 
 London, I was asked by a Jewish friend of 
 mine for a Hebrew Bible, which he wished to 
 send to his relative in Paris. I gave him 
 the Bible, but little knew then that the 
 Committee would send me as Missionary to 
 Paris. When I was appointed, I remembered 
 the above circumstance, and took with me 
 the .address of that Israelite. During many 
 years my preaching to him seemed without 
 result, until finally he and his f.amily were 
 brought to the Truth through my instru- 
 mentality." 
 
 The Lord bless our beloved brother, his 
 amiable .and godly partner in life, his natural 
 and spiritual children, and also the eflbrts of 
 his last d.ays to gather jewels for his Saviour's 
 crown.
 
 Fow of the First Bdml of Students. 
 
 SSI 
 
 EEV. J. LOWITZ, ALGIERS. 
 
 (W/'.l/i Portrait.) 
 
 James Lovvitz was born of Heljrew parents 
 in the ancient capital of Poland, and was 
 brought up in the principles of Judaism. 
 Pi-ovidence prompted liim to leave home, and 
 directed him to Kni,'land. After a brief stay 
 in London he went to Liverpool. There ho 
 came in contact with a Missionary to the 
 Jews, who spoke to him for the first time 
 about Jesus as the promised Metsiab, and 
 mo.st earnestly and lovingly urged him to 
 read the history of His 
 holy life in tlie New 
 Testament in connection 
 with what the Prophets 
 foretold respecting Him. 
 Mr. Lowitz followed the 
 good advice of the uiis- 
 sionaiy, and began the 
 study of the Scriptuies 
 in the spirit of David's 
 prayer: ^Vy'?-! 
 
 "^min^3 Ps.cxix., 18. 
 
 At the close of a long 
 and diligent -investiga- 
 tion of the Old Testa- 
 ment prophecies rela- 
 ting to the Messiah, the 
 time of His advent, His 
 life and character. His 
 humiliation and exalta- 
 tion, itc, and tiieir com- 
 plete realization in the 
 person of Christ accord- 
 ing to the New Testa- 
 ment, he recognized in 
 Jesus the promised Re- 
 deemer and Hope of 
 Israel, and with joy ac- 
 cepted Him as his own ]iersonal Saviour. 
 Then, upon a ci edible profession of his 
 faith in Christ, he was ba])tized by Dr. 
 Joseph Rally in Birkenhead. Although 
 he was educated to be a schoolmaster, he 
 desired earnestly to dedicate himself to 
 the service of God as a Missionary among 
 the Jews. The way was then opened 
 up for him to enter the British Society's 
 Jewish Mission College. There he spent 
 thi'ee years carefully and prayerfully pre- 
 p.aring for his life-work. At tiic close of his 
 curriculum in April, 18.50, he was ordained 
 in Surrey Chapel, London. In '851 he was 
 
 BEV. J. LOWITZ 
 
 sent out as the Society's Missionary to North 
 Africa, wiiere he laboured principally among 
 the Jews in Morocco, Algeria, and Tunis. 
 
 Algiers. 
 
 A short time after ho had settled in 
 Algiers he wrote : — 
 
 " I have access here to a good many Jews, 
 perhaps fifty families, to whose houses or 
 shops I am at all times welcomed. The 
 most of these, I am happy to say, if they do 
 not always consent to my assertions, listen 
 vith far less incredulity to the Truth than 
 tiny were wont to do. They also begin 
 to perceive the reiation 
 there is between the law 
 of Moses and the teach- 
 ings of Jesus, and like- 
 wise to understand the 
 difference between the 
 mummeries of Popery 
 and the Cihristia.nity of 
 the Gospel. My daily 
 visits to the Jews neces- 
 sarily occupy the great- 
 est portion of my time, 
 which is chiefly em- 
 |iloyed in reasoning with 
 them, out of the Scrip- 
 tures, that the Messiah 
 must have come to 
 suffer, to die, and to 
 rise again, and that 
 Jesus is the Christ. I 
 often receive visits from 
 Jews that I know, who 
 are .sometimes accom- 
 ]ianied by strangers. 
 For instance, last Sat- 
 urday week, my es- 
 teemed friend Mr. A. 
 
 Ben J , from B , 
 
 c uiie to see me ; he 
 
 brought his brother and 
 two most respectable Jews, from Miliana, 
 with him. After a lengthy conversation on 
 the Christian religion, they gladly received 
 Christian books, which my friend himself 
 selected for them. They each gave me their 
 respective addresses, in the hope that I 
 would come to see them soon. I after- 
 wards met them again, when I took them 
 to see the Protestant temple, which they 
 were pleased to find diflerent from Roman 
 Catholic churches ; they had therefore no 
 objection to uncover their heads. One of 
 them put some money into the poor-box, and 
 expressed himself much satisfied with the
 
 332 
 
 Memories of Gospel THumphs among the Je^vs. 
 
 building, ami the mode of worship, which I 
 described to him. It seems that they had 
 read one of tlie books I had given them in 
 the hearing of some other Jews, who called 
 on lue, and wished to get similar books. I 
 trust that the Lord will give them an under- 
 tanding heart whilst they read His Holy 
 Word, that thej' may be led to believe in 
 Him, who is the Word of eternal life. Such 
 visits are likely to produce much good ; still, 
 I must confess, that I find the greatest 
 ditKculty to deal with aged Jews, on account 
 of their strong bias and Judaic habits. I 
 
 of Jews, both in this place and among those 
 in the neighbourhood. Nor have I neglected 
 the opportunity of preaching the Gospel to 
 non-Israelites — be it to Spaniaids, Arabs, 
 English, and others — who also need its 
 benign influence. 
 
 In 1867, Mr. Lowitz was privileged to do 
 a grand work at the Kiofque in the Paris 
 Exhibition. After his return to Algiers, 
 he sent to the secretary the following resume 
 of his labours in connection with the Bible 
 Stand ; — 
 
 " I was stationed in the Kiosque of the 
 
 have met with more encouragement among 
 tlie youthful generation, as their hearts are 
 more susceptible of receiving the good seed 
 and of producing happy fruits in future. I 
 have had upwards of twenty young Jewish 
 ini|uirers at difierent times, who came regu- 
 larly for I'eligious instruction, and showed a 
 desire to be led in the way of salvation. 
 Some of them persevered, others discontinued 
 for Viirious reasons, and four of them were 
 baptized. Thus you may see that, within 
 the short space of time that I have been 
 residing here, I have endeavoured to diffuse 
 Gospel Truth among a considerable number 
 
 r.iljle Stand, which was situated at the princi- 
 pal entrance in the park. I was especially 
 entrusted with the gratuitous distribution of 
 Gospels amongst the Jews, Arabs, Turks, 
 and other Orientals, in their respective 
 languages. I was also charged to speak to 
 them of the truth and holiness of the 
 Christian religion which was contained in 
 these precious little volumes. The place I 
 occupied was a large open window, at which 
 Jews and other Oriental people often stopped, 
 .so that that spot often presented a curious 
 sight, and attracted the attention of numerous 
 visitore. Many pei-sons, when tired of sight
 
 Four of the First Band of SlKxlcnts. 
 
 333 
 
 Algerian Jews keep to the old trade of rearing sheep, using the wool and spinning, 
 workers in lace-making and embroidery with the unique instrument shown in the picture. 
 
 They are also artislic
 
 534 
 
 Memones of Gospel Triumphs amovcf the Jews. 
 
 seeing, came there to rest and watch the 
 proceedings. A Koman Catholic gentleman, 
 who witnessed my movements day after day 
 for more than a fortnight, asked me if ho 
 might conti-ibute something towai-ds the 
 work. I presented to him the bos wo had 
 for that purpose, and after putting in twenty 
 francs he then told me that this was to him 
 the most interesting thing in the whole of 
 the Exhibition, and that if anything could 
 induce him to become a Protestant, this 
 would. It was joyous to see the vast 
 numbers of Jews and ISIahomedans that 
 came and asked for Gospels, many of them 
 willingly paying for New Testaments, and to 
 hear them freely conversing upon the 
 Christian religion. Thei-e were Jews from 
 almost all parts of the globe. Many of them 
 who reside either in Catholic or Mahomedan 
 countries, had never before seen a Hebrew 
 New Testament, nor had they formed any 
 correct idea of Christianity, and now they 
 were highly pleased to get a Gospel and to 
 buy Testaments, to take with them as pre- 
 sents to their learned friends and Raljbis. An 
 Austrian Jew, for instance, bought three 
 Helirew Testaments ; one for himself, one 
 for his father, and the third for the Rabbi of 
 his native place. He said he was convinced 
 that it was a good book, and deserved to be 
 studied by eveiy man who cares for the 
 future. A Hungarian Jew bought six New 
 Testaments, and took from me two dozen 
 Hebrew Gospels, in the hope, as he said, to 
 effect some good through them in his' native 
 town. ' I shall have much to say,' he added, 
 ' about Christianity, when I go [)ack to my 
 country.' I have always made it a rule to 
 tell the Jews the nature and design of the 
 Gospel I offered them, in reply to -which 
 some would say, ' We wish to read the book, 
 but we don't desire to be converted.' I 
 remember someone coming again after 
 having read the Gospels, to get the whole of 
 the New Testament, saying that there were 
 many good things in it. Cne remarked to 
 me that he had no doubt that the Ten Com- 
 mandments of Moses, and the 8ermon on the 
 Mount, were alike insjnred by God. I have 
 had Jewesses asking for Heljrew books to 
 take home for their husbands to read. Some 
 sick and crippled Jows, who could not them- 
 selves come, sent their friends to get books 
 for them. Even Gentile Christians, who hap- 
 pened to listen to my conversations with Jews 
 would often request me to give them Gospels 
 in order to remit them to their Jewish friends 
 or neighbours. One day a Jewess came with 
 
 her son to ask for a book, and she made the 
 boy I'ead it, saying that as he could translate 
 it to her one was enough for them both. 
 Another Jewess once asked me whether this 
 Kiosque was the place of conversion. I gave 
 her a Gospel, telling her to i-ead it, and to 
 pray for the Holy Spirit, who alone can 
 renew and sanctify fallen humanity, and 
 effect her conversion to Christ. A JewLsh 
 family came for books. After I had given 
 them a few words of explanation, they 
 all said, ' We are like you, and believe Jesus 
 to be the Saviour. We are not baptized, 
 still we hope to be .saved.' A Jewish gentle- 
 man and his sister, on my giving them books, 
 told me that they and the rest of the family 
 weie Christians, but the young lady said, ' I 
 am soi-ry that my mother is still a Jewess.' 
 She bought a handsomely bound German 
 New Testament for her, in the hope that, as 
 it came from the Exposition, .she would read 
 and profit by it. An old Jewish lady, to 
 whom I had previously given a Gospel, came 
 again, saying, ' I have read it, but don't 
 exactly understand its meaning.' I asked 
 her whether she expected a Deliverer called 
 a Messiah. She answered in the affirmative, 
 adding, ' I have often spoken about Him to 
 my son-in-law, Mr. Monk, but he always 
 avoided the suliject. Can you tell me what 
 you have done to be a Christian ? ' I replied 
 that I believed that ' God so loved the world,' 
 &c., and this was the only means of eternal 
 salvation. This aged daughter of Abraham, 
 when she left me, apjieared to be much im- 
 pressed, and very glad of what she had 
 heard. One day two men dressed in lilouses 
 came up, one saying to the other, ' This is 
 the place where my wife got good books, and 
 was kindly spoken to on the Protestant 
 religion.' He then told me that his wife was 
 of the Jewish persuasion, he himself a 
 Catholic, and his fi-iend a Jew ; that the 
 books I had given her some days ago had 
 done her much good, and he brought his 
 friend to get some for him. I gladly acceded 
 to his wish, and sent to his wife a New 
 Testament in French. I was often encouraged 
 to think that the books given, and the words 
 spoken, were duly appreciated, inasmuch as 
 many of the recipients returned to ask for 
 explanations, and brought with them friends, 
 relatious, and fellow-countrymen, to 
 receive similar gifts, and to have the Truth 
 spoken to them, some of them purchasing 
 the whole New Testament, and persuading 
 others to do so. A Jew ^\ ho was charged 
 with the cloak-room in the Exhibition, came
 
 Foivr of the First Band of Stndeiits. 
 
 335 
 
 once with a letter, addressed to liiui bj' a 
 Jew from Bavaria, witli a commis.sion to 
 send him a few Gospels iu Hebrew by post. 
 I readily gave them to him to be forwarded. 
 Ill my note-book 'I find that about 250 
 Hebrew New Testaments were issued by mo 
 from the Ki(;s(pic, most of which were paid 
 for by Jews in the way of contribution 
 towai'ds the work I was engaged in. I only 
 gave a Testament gratis to poor Jews who 
 were very anxious to jiossess it. Once a jioor 
 man came to me, .saying, ' I can hardly aObrd 
 
 worthy manager of that depot, was ever 
 ready to give New Testaments to Arabs who 
 could not afford to pay for them ; and the 
 llev. Mr. Schlochow, of the London Jews 
 Society's dejiot, willingly supplied any poor 
 Jew with a Hebrew Bible at my recommenda- 
 tion. I have issued from the Bible Stand 
 Hebrew Gospels and Epistles, 8,020 ; Arabic 
 Gospels, 3,843; Turkish Gospels, 1,187, 
 without reckoning the great number of 
 Gospels I gave to Jews in their native 
 languages who were ignorant of the Hebrew, 
 
 DKI'OT FOR THE SALE OF SCEUTfRES AT THE PAIilS EXHIBITION. 
 
 to pay one franc to visit the Exhibition, but 
 in the expectation of getting a Hebrew book 
 I came to see it.' I made him a present of 
 a Hebrew Testament, for w-hich he thanked 
 me. But I am happy to say that some 
 hundreds of Now Testaments, and copies of 
 the whole Scriptures in different languages, 
 were disposed of to the Ji^ws by the various 
 Bible stalls in the Exhibition. I once accom- 
 panied a learned Jew to the BritLsh and 
 Foreign Bible Society's depot, who laid out 
 forty francs in Old and New Testaments. I 
 must not omit to say that Mr. Edwards, the 
 
 together with the French and German trans- 
 lation which frequently accompanied the 
 Hebrew Gospels. I think that the whole 
 would amount to no less than 20,000 New 
 Testanienls distributed by me amongst the 
 J(!ws during the time of my engagement in 
 the Exhibition. It is to be hoped that this 
 holy and incorruptible seed, w-hich was thus 
 carried almost into every part of the world, 
 will not remain <mfraitful.'' 
 
 Mr. Lowitx could point to a goodly band 
 of Jews who, through his instrumentality, 
 had the courage to leave the Synagogue and
 
 336 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumjjhs umovQ the Jews. 
 
 confess their faith in Christ. Some were 
 exposed to persecution, and were obliged 
 to take refuge in other countries. C)iie, 
 deprived of his wife and children, went to 
 America. He afterwards sent for them, and 
 they joined him there. 
 
 In 1882 ]Mr. Lowitz became the devoted 
 agent of the British and Foreign Bil)lo 
 Society, and continued in its service until 
 the close of his earthly life. 
 
 In Septemlier, 188li, Mr. Lowitz wrote : — 
 " You will be plea.sed to hear that I have 
 not been unmindful of the Jews amid 
 the occupations of my new sphere of 
 labour. An far as I could I have done 
 some mission work among them, trying 
 to imitate St. Paul, who preached Christ 
 in Synagogues though he was sent to 
 the Gentiles. As the Jews here make 
 no distinction between my present and 
 previous calling they still expect my visits, 
 and ask for tracts. Since the new depot 
 of the Bible Society was opened many 
 Jews, as tliey pass along, stop at the 
 window and lead tlie part of the Hebrew 
 Bible or New Testament which is espo.sed ; 
 and usually before they leave a word aboiit 
 Christ is spoken to them, and each has the 
 offer of a tract or a prospectus of the 
 depot." 
 
 On August 27th, 1893, trusting .solely 
 in Jesus, Mr. Lowitz passed up to his rest 
 and reward. 
 
 TRIBUTE BY MRS. LOWITZ. 
 
 Algiers, \^th Octoler, 1893. 
 Dear Mr. Dlnlop, — I am sorry that I 
 have been unable through illness to answer 
 your kind letter of September 27th, in 
 which you express both for your.self and the 
 Committee your heartfelt sympathy in my 
 severe bereavement. My dear husband's 
 departure was most sudden and unexpected. 
 He had gained here the esteem, respect, and 
 love of many, and my heart is touched by 
 the loving way he is spoken of by many 
 Jews that he used to visit regularly. 
 Although he was not officially connected 
 with the British Society, he continued, when- 
 ever he had the opportunity, to do some 
 mission work among the ancient people of 
 God. He had retained a strong affection for 
 his old society, and followed with keen 
 interest all that was done by it. He has 
 entered into his rest, and is now enjoying 
 the presence of the Saviour he loved and 
 served so well here. He has done with 
 suffering, care, and anxiety, of which he had 
 
 a large part during his last years. I would 
 not recall him from his Saviour's presence, 
 but ! what a void his loss has made in his 
 home circle, and how much his guiding 
 hand is wanted. Still, the ways ( f our God 
 are not our w.ays. May this great liereave- 
 ment draw us all nearer to Him. With best 
 tliaiiks for your kind .■sympathy, believe me, 
 dear Mr. Duiilop, Yours truly, M. LowiTZ. 
 
 DR. LASEROK 
 
 {With Portrait, e(c.) 
 
 Michael Maximilian Augu.stus Henry 
 Laseron was born on the 11th of May, 
 1819, in Konig.sberg, where his father was a 
 Rabbi, and where our veneiable and devoted 
 Mi-ssionary, the Rev B. F. Jacobi, has laboured 
 so long and so successfully. 
 
 AN ORPHAN AND A FUGITIVE. 
 
 At the age of seven Michael lost both his 
 parents in one day by cholera, and was taken 
 to the home of an uncle, who proved very 
 unkind to him. In the good providence of Goil, 
 he waseaily led out of the darknfss of Judaism 
 into the light of the Gospel. Having spoken 
 of Jesus and his desiie for Christian baptism, 
 his relatives so persecuted him that he lied 
 for his life. Being penniless, he was obliged 
 to sleep in the open air and beg food to stay 
 the cravings of hunger as ho trudged wearily 
 a!ong on foot to Frankfort-on-the-Maine. 
 
 His relatives sent the police to search for 
 him and bring him back. One night he was 
 discovered by a police officer sleeping in a 
 coin field, to whom he told the story of his 
 cruel treatment, which so touched the heart 
 of the officer that he permitted him to pursue 
 his journey unmolested. At hist the Jewish 
 lunaway orphan lad reached Frankfort, 
 where he found Christian friends who showed 
 him much kindness, and where Pastor 
 Keimers administered to him the ordinance 
 of Christian baptism. From Frankfort he 
 proceeded to Schaffhausen, and while walk- 
 ing along the road he tried to earn a living 
 by selling writing materials. When he 
 arrived at Basle he was seized with a serious 
 illness ; but God provided for him a nurse in 
 Miss Haslen, a good MLssionary lady, under 
 whose kind and skilful treatment he soon 
 got well again. Then he crossed to England, 
 and landed in Palestine Place, where his 
 tempoial needs were met, and where he re- 
 ceived some instruction in the Hebrew lan- 
 guage in connection with the London Society.
 
 Four of the First Band of Students. 
 
 A MISSIONARY STUDENT IN THE SOCIETY S 
 COLLEGE. 
 
 Mr. Laseron, on the recommendation of 
 the Rev. Dr. McCaul, Rev. R. H. Hoischell, 
 tlie Rev. B. Davidson, and others, applied foi- 
 admission into the British Society's Jewish 
 Mission College, and having given satisfac- 
 
 There were present several of the foimdei-s 
 and friends of the Society, among whom 
 were the Treasurer and Secretary, the Rev. 
 R. H. Herschell, the Rev. B. Davidson, the 
 Principal and Resident Tutor, and Messrs. 
 Brunner, Laseion, Schoneberg and Lowitz, 
 the tirst four students. They were all with 
 one accord in that one place to implore the 
 
 DIl LASEBON. 
 
 tory answers to the questions placed in his 
 hands, he was accepted as a student on the 
 2ud of March, lSt7. "I" 
 
 The.; College, No. 116, Uppar Stamford 
 Street, Blackfriars Road, was opened by a 
 devotional service held in the Lscture Room 
 on Friday morning, tlie KJth of 'April, 1817. 
 
 ffiDivino blessing on this branch of the Society's 
 [ffuudortakiug, and to seek for the tutor.^ and 
 '' students the inlliiflnces of the Holy Spirit. 
 The Scriptures were read, the students were 
 addressed, a sermon was preached, and the 
 Rev. R. H. Herschell clo.sed the solemn and 
 interesting service by 'earnest prayer. 
 
 Z
 
 338 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs aviong the Jexvs. 
 
 A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH. 
 
 Soon after Messrs. Laseron, Brunner and 
 Lowitz were admitted as members of the 
 church assembling in Surrey Chapel, the 
 scene of the ministry of the Rev. James 
 Sherman, one of the earliest friends of the 
 Society. 
 
 At a meeting of the Committee, held on 
 Tuesday, May 4th, 1847, Principal Da\ad- 
 son's report was presented by ]SIr. Yonge, 
 from which we give the following interesting 
 item : — 
 
 " T think it my privilege to record the 
 admission of three of our students, Messrs. 
 Laseron, Brunner, and Lowitz to church 
 membei-ship in Surrey Chapel last Mond.ay 
 week, after a very affectionate and touching 
 address of the minister of that place to an 
 audience of over 2,000 people, exhorting 
 them to seek the spiritual welfare of Israel, 
 and entreating them, as a church, to uphold 
 the hands of your Society in every way pos- 
 sible. The students in their turn addressed 
 the assembly, which manifestly excited very 
 great interest." 
 
 LEAVING THE COLLEGE. 
 
 When Mr. Laseron intimated his intention 
 of leaving the College to study medicine, in 
 the hope of thereby promoting the spiritual 
 welfare of his brethren, several of the mem- 
 bers of the Committee were dissatisfied, as 
 there had been a clear understanding that 
 the advantages of the College were extended 
 to the students on the prospect of their idti- 
 mately becoming the Society's missionaries to 
 the Jews. 
 
 This led Mr. Laseron to forward to the 
 Committee the following letter, which de- 
 serves a place here, as there is enshrined in 
 it the secret of a holy, happy, and helpful 
 Chi'istian life : — 
 
 " 39, King's Square, Goswell Road, 
 " September n th, 1849. 
 "Gentlemen, — I am very sorry that my 
 leaving the College appears to have made an 
 xuifavourable impression on the Committee, 
 by whom, I fear, I am considered ungrateful. 
 Such a reflection would, indeed, be painful 
 to me after the great kindness I have re- 
 ceived ever since my connection with the 
 Society. I wish, therefore, to say, that if I 
 have erred in coming to this decision too 
 hastily, and without first consulting the 
 Committee, I regret it. My path seemed so 
 clearly marked out that I thought I could 
 not mistake what was the will of God. I 
 
 write now to assure you that I will endeavour 
 to show my gi-atitude by at once offering my 
 services to the Society, without remuneration, 
 as their Missionary for the next two years, 
 by working daily three houis amongst my 
 Jewish brethren. And, as no missionary can 
 enter Austria, I will give up the idea of pur- 
 suing my studies in Vienna, and go to Leipsic, 
 where I can have free access to the Jews. 
 
 " I hope to have your reply,, sanctioning 
 this plan, and I tru.st I shall have the hap- 
 piness of knowing that the Committee ap- 
 prove of the course I have taken, and will 
 always regard me as their grateful and 
 faithful servant, "Aug. H. Laseron." 
 
 In reply to that letter, Mr. Yonge, at 
 the request of the Committee, whilst ex- 
 pressing regret at Mr. Laseron's retirement 
 from the College, bore testimony to the ex- 
 cellency of his Christian character and con- 
 duet, and commended him to God and the 
 Word of His grace, thus : — 
 
 " That the Committee are thankful that 
 the previous conduct of Mr. Laseron, as a 
 student, had been such as to entitle him to 
 the unqualified commendation of the tutors ; 
 and that, believing him to have at heart the 
 highest interests of his bi'ethren, they entreat 
 for him the guidance and blessing of God, 
 and will be glad to maintain a correspon- 
 dence with him." 
 
 Thus, at the Society's College, Mr. Laseron 
 made his mark as a student, and received 
 spiritual impulses that will last for ever. He 
 went forth from the College equipped for 
 preaching the Gospel to Jew and Gentile. 
 He went forth to pursue medicine in order 
 that he might be all the bettei' qualified for 
 the work of winning souls to Christ. He 
 went to Erlangen, where he remained two 
 years, and in his leisure houis studied Ho- 
 micopathy. When he returned ! to London 
 he began to practise as a medical man in 
 King's Square, Goswell Road, with a large 
 me:isure of success. From London he went 
 to Leipsic, whei-e he took the degree of M.D., 
 and then returned to his practice in King's 
 Square. From King's Squaie he removed to 
 Northampton Scjuare, whei'e "all went merry 
 as a marriage bell," for there he was hajipily 
 united in the bonds of matrimony to Clara, 
 the widow of Pastor RoUe, 7>i'e Von Pos- 
 chwitz. In 1S54, when they removed to 
 Edmonton, the pill;ir of cloud and fire went 
 before them, and then rested over tlieir 
 tabernacle, as a guiding, guarding, and glad- 
 dening light. 
 
 From a narrative of the origin and pro-
 
 Four of the First Band of Students. 
 
 ]39 
 
 gi-ess of the Girls' ludustiial Orphan Home, 
 and the Evangelical Protestant Deaconesses' 
 Institution and Training Hospital, Totten- 
 ham, prepared by Dr. Laseron, and bearing 
 the date of 1873, we feel constrained to give 
 two or three illustrations of how wonderfully 
 the Lord led them, in answer to believing, 
 fervent, persevering prayer. 
 
 THE LOSS OF A CHILD LEADING TO THE OPENING 
 OF A SCHOOL, ETC., ETC. 
 
 If the reader had been passing through 
 the village of Edmonton on a summer's day 
 in 1855, he might have seen the blinds drawn 
 down throughout the house of Dr. Laseron, 
 indicating that sorrow and death had found 
 their way into its precincts. There, in one 
 of the rooms, lay the lovely frame of the life- 
 less darling which God had lent those sorrow- 
 ing parents for the brief period of 14 months. 
 After the funeral had taken place, the dwell- 
 ing which had been lighted up by the bright 
 eyes and the smiling face of their little one, 
 seemed empty and desolate. 
 
 As the tender mother, fresh from the 
 chamber of affliction, walked with a weeping 
 heart thi-ough the streets of Edmonton she 
 was saddened by seeing so many poor children 
 almost in a state of nudity; they engaged 
 her sympathy and pity. She went home and 
 told her husband she would like to open a 
 small school, in order to gather in these little 
 urchins of the gutter ; whereupon they both 
 agreed that if God would give them a direct 
 sign with regard to help, then this under- 
 taking should be set on foot. They, there- 
 fore, made this matter the subject of earnest, 
 importunate prayer. Out of that loss came 
 not only a liagged School, but an Orphan 
 Home, and the Deacone.sses' Institution and 
 Hospital, Tottenham. 
 
 SIODEKN MIRACLES. INSTANX'ES OF DIRECT 
 ANSWERS TO TRAYER. 
 
 It might not be out of place to mention 
 a few of the numerous instances of direct 
 answers to prayer for the encouragement of 
 some of God's tried and troubled children. 
 At a certain period, when meat was very 
 expensive and the outgoings were very large, 
 the qurstion was r,ai.sed whether it would not 
 Ije advis:il:)le to alter the meat diet from dail}' 
 to four times a week; and it w.as decided 
 that a week of private praj-er should be set 
 apart in order to a.scertain the mind of God. 
 Towards the latter end of that week, on 
 a Friday, at 11 o'clock at night, a single 
 knock came to the door of Dr. L.'s house. 
 He being at the time still actively engaged 
 
 in the labours of the medical profession, 
 thought that a poor patient was seeking his 
 assistance. Having already retired for the 
 night, he got up and went to the door, making 
 inquiry before opening it, " Who is there ? " 
 The reply was given by a man saying, "A 
 porter from the railway." On opening the 
 door, a large sack fell inside the house, to 
 the alarm of Dr. L., who asked the porter, 
 " What is this ? " He replied, " I think it is 
 meat." To which Dr. L. responded, " What ? 
 I am not a butcher ! " " Whether you be a 
 butcher or not, sir, I don't know," replied 
 the man, " but if j'our name is Dr. Laseron 
 this is for you." In vain Dr. L. tried to find 
 out where the gift came from. The porter 
 thought it came from Norfolk ; but no further 
 clue could be obtained. Thus the difficulty 
 as regards the orphans' supply of meat for 
 that week was at once overcome. 
 
 When the next week had nearly drawn to 
 a close, on the Friday night at the same 
 hour the same circumstance occurred again ; 
 but still there was no clue to the sender. 
 The second week was thus bridged over, and 
 we felt encouraged to go on with earnest 
 prayer. 
 
 The third week had again almost come to 
 a termination, and for the third time the 
 same thing occurred at the same day and 
 hour. Dr. L. was still without any clue as 
 to the donor, when on the following Saturday 
 a letter was received to the following pur- 
 port : — 
 
 " I am desired by my mother to inform 
 you that she read your report, and, being 
 sheep farmers, she thought that as meat is 
 very dear, she would kill a sheep each week 
 for the benefit of the Institution until the 
 price of meat should be somewhat reduced. 
 And therefore she says that as the price of 
 meat will be cheaper in the ensuing week, 
 .she will discontinue to .send it." 
 
 The letter concluded with the writer's 
 name and address. 
 
 In the same year, during the month of 
 August, the funds of the Institution became 
 verj' low. The amount of money in the 
 treasury was reduced to only one half-penny, 
 when a letter arrived one Monday mor-ning 
 fmm a noble fi'iend who was travelling with 
 his family in Wales, and enjoj-ing there 
 the beauties of nature. Learning from his 
 daughter the smallnc.ss of our funds he 
 wr-ote and said that, as a proof of his gratr- 
 tude to God for His kindness to him and his 
 famil}', he felt it the greatest pridlege to 
 help one of God's servants who was sur- 
 
 z 2
 
 340 
 
 Memories of Gospel Truimphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 rounded by so many orphans, and enclosed a 
 cheque for £100. 
 
 Yea, dear reader, be of good cheer. The 
 hand which you cannot see is full of blessings, 
 and it needs only our willingness to receive 
 them whenever they are bestowed. 
 
 The writer might go on and narrate a 
 whole volume of such instances— nay, he 
 would call them miracles, for such they are, 
 as much as the miracles of old at the time 
 when our blessed Lord fed the four thousand 
 with seven loaves and a few little fishes. 
 
 HIS L.\ST DAYS. 
 
 On April 10th, 1894, Dr. Laseron returned 
 from Nordhausen, where, during his brief 
 stay of six months, he had been very holiiful to 
 many Christians, and been the means of lead- 
 ing sinners to the Saviour. He had come 
 liome that he might, just for a little while 
 longer hei'e, bear witness to the Lord's un- 
 speakable love before ascending to be with 
 Him for ever. 
 
 In his childliood he had been trained to 
 regard the Lord Jesus as an impostor, but 
 his eyes were early opened to see Him as his 
 Saviour and Friend. From the time he 
 entered the Society's College, he grew in the 
 knowledge of Christ Christ became to him 
 "the altogether lovely, all his salvation, and 
 all his desire ; " and only a few hours before 
 he departed to be wilh llim, he said to a 
 dear Christian friend by his bedside, in 
 accents soft and sweet : " I am going to 
 gaze upon the beauty of the King through- 
 out eternity." In this way, on April 2iSth, 
 1894, in the 75th year of his age, his blessed 
 Christlike career came peacefully and 
 gradually to a triumphant ending in " A 
 gentle wafting to immortal life." 
 
 THE FUNERAL SERVICE. 
 
 It was our great privilege to bo present at 
 his funeral on Friday, the 4th of Mmv, in 
 Clapton Hall and Abuey Talk Cemetery. 
 We were delighted with the way in whifli 
 Mr. McVieker, in the Hall, and Mr. Russell 
 Hurditch, at the grave, improved the occasion 
 for the salvation and sanctification of souls. 
 The same glorious Gospel which our departed 
 brother had been taught in the Society's 
 College, and which he had preached for 
 many years, both at home and abroad, with 
 such signal success, was preached with the 
 power of the Holy Spirit at his funeral by 
 those two honoured servants of the Ijord. It 
 is oui- conviction that, as the result of the fune- 
 ral service, many belirvers were strengthened 
 and jewels won for tiie Redeemer's crown. 
 
 DR. LASERONS MONUMENT. 
 
 Dr. Laseron, who delighted to call himself 
 a spiritual son of the British Society, has 
 left a monument more enduring than brass 
 or marble in the Deaconesses' Institution 
 and Hospital, Tottenham, with its branches 
 in England, Ireland, and the Holy Land — 
 an Institution which deserves a hundred-fold 
 more sympathy and support than it has 
 yet leceived, the priceless permanent results 
 of which up to date, and in their totality, 
 are known to God alone. 
 
 During the 25 years of the Institution's 
 existence, the Sisters, with the supreme aim 
 of glorifying Christ in the salvation of souls, 
 had nursed : — 
 
 Parent House 11,752 
 
 Out-Patients 82,301 
 
 Dental Patients 4,097 
 
 Out-Stations 42,060 
 
 140,810 
 
 We most heartily commend this grand 
 Institution to the prayerful and practical 
 sympathy of all our readers. It is supported 
 entirely by voluntary contributions, and 
 funds are urgently needed to enable the 
 Council to keep clear of debt and extend the 
 work. 
 
 Truly the Gospel seed sown in the Society's 
 College many years ago had fallen into 
 good ground and had yielded gloiious fruit, 
 some a hundred fold, and some a thousand. 
 
 Dr. Laseion went forth from the College 
 with his soul and face radiant with the glory 
 of Christ, the " Sun of Righteousness, who 
 hath risen with healing under His wings ; " 
 and ever since that light had been shining, 
 brighter and brighter, as a saving and 
 .sanctifying power. Dr. Laseron had been 
 the means of communicating not only phy- 
 sical but spiritual health to multitudes of 
 men and women and children. 
 
 The supreme lesson of the lives uf the 
 sainted founder, the devoted lady superinten- 
 dent, and their loving helpers, has been well 
 given by our great poet, thus : — 
 
 There is a kind of character in thy hfe 
 
 That to the observer doth thy history 
 
 Fully unfold ; thyself and thy belongings 
 
 Are not thine own i!(p jiroper a.< to waste 
 
 'I'liyself upon thy virtues, them on thee. 
 
 Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, 
 
 Not liglit them for themselves ; for if our virtues 
 
 Hid n.it •<o finl.h <.f us 'twere all :dike 
 
 .\s thc.uj^h we had them not. Spirits are ii.it finely 
 
 touched, 
 But to hue issues.
 
 The Rev. John, Ilnrtley, 
 
 341 
 
 REV. JOHN HARTLEY. 
 
 {With 
 
 BRIEF SKETCH OF HIS CAREER AS A 
 WESLEYAN MINISTER. 
 
 A S an able and faithful minister of the 
 .r\. Gospel, Mr. Hartley has laboured 
 successfully in the followint; large centres 
 of population: — Norwich, Hammersmith, 
 London, Biruiinghaiii, Manchester, Leicester, 
 Nottingham, York, Hull, Bradford, and 
 Halifax. 
 
 Mr. Hartley was chairman of the Halifax 
 and Bradford district from 1871 to 1879 ; 
 and governor of the Theological College from 
 
 Portrait.) 
 
 which was taken not long since from an oil 
 painting now in the Wesleyan College at 
 Handsworth, Birmingham. 
 
 The following admirable address to the 
 young on the Jews, which was supposed to 
 be from the pen of our late Hon. Secretary, 
 Dr. James Hamilton, was written by Mr. 
 Hartley. In a letter to us dated March ilth, 
 1893, he says : — " The address was given to 
 our Sunday School in Stoke Newington, about 
 1847, and was listened to with so much 
 interest that I prepared it for publication. 
 
 18S1 to 1892, when from failure of health 
 lie retired from active service and became 
 a supernumerary in Leeds, his native town. 
 
 His eldest son has been for 20 years 
 Inspector General of Schools in South 
 Australia; his second son one of the General 
 Secretaries of the Wesleyan Missionary 
 Society,and his third Superintendent Minister 
 of the Stockport Wesleyan Circuit, &c. His 
 daughter, Mrs. Hogg, is a member of the 
 committee of our Leeds Auxiliary. 
 
 Mr. Hartley's portrait is from a photo 
 
 Our ' Book Room ' issued it as a Reward 
 Book. Soon after your society asked 
 permission to reprint it, which was of course 
 readily given."' 
 
 The address has been widely read, greatly 
 appreciated, and has done much to awaken 
 in the minds of the young a deep interest in 
 the British Society. We think that it is 
 .still fitted to secure this object, aspecially as 
 it appears now in an attractive jubilee di'ess, 
 adorned with appropriate and excellent 
 illustrations.
 
 342 
 
 Memories of Gospel Tiumphs among the Jews. 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 An Addkess on the Jews. 
 
 YOUNG persons ai'e generally and very 
 properly curious about the different 
 nations of people that exist in this our 
 world. What sort of people they are, how 
 they live, what has happened to them, are 
 questions often very eagerly asked ; and when 
 information about these things is found in 
 books of voyages and travels, and of history, 
 it is a prize to many a young mind that is 
 thirsting for knowledge. Now we are going 
 to speak in these pages about a very remark- 
 able and peculiar people. Many hundred 
 years ago, one of his courtiers said to an 
 eastern king, " There is a certain people 
 scattered abroad, and dispersed among the 
 
 YOUNG. 
 
 By Rev. J. Hartley. 
 
 I. — THEIR ancestry. 
 Let us first trace the human oriijin of this 
 people. Some words which are in common 
 use among us inform us of this ; we call the 
 Jews the " children of Abraham." The 
 worship of the true God was preserved in 
 the family of this eminent and good man, 
 when nearly all around were wicked and 
 idolati'ous. Because he was a very devoted 
 and faithful servant of God it was promised 
 to him that his posterity should be as the 
 stars of heaven for multitude ; that the land 
 of Canaan should be theiis ; and that in his 
 seed should all the nations of the earth be 
 blessed, as the Messiah should descend from 
 
 UR OF THE CHALDEES, WHICH ABRAHAM LEFT IN OBEDIENCE TO THE CALL OF QOD. — Gen. xi., 31. 
 
 people in all the provinces of thy kingdom ; 
 and their laws are diverse from all people." 
 (Esther iii. 8.) And these words are still 
 true. We might say the same to any 
 Sovereign who now reigns in any part of the 
 world. But this is not all. There is another 
 reason why we hope our young readers will 
 try to feel interested in what shall follow. 
 A great deal is said about this people in the 
 Bible. And the holy men who, being 
 inspired by the Holy Ghost, wrote that 
 precious book, were Jews. Yes ; and Jesus, 
 whose name is " music in our ears, and life, 
 and health, and peace," — Jesus teas a Jew. 
 
 him. Now, if you look into the Bible that 
 has notes in the margin, you will tiiul that 
 this patriarch lived about one thousand nine 
 hundred years before Christ; and then, if you 
 add to this the time which has elapsed since 
 the Saviour came into the world, you will see 
 that it is ;3;early three thousand eight 
 hundred years since the Jewish nation was 
 founded. And yet, the descendants of 
 Abraham are still found. During that long, 
 long time, many great and powerful nations 
 have sprung up, and flourished, and been the 
 wonder of the world. But they are gone: 
 Like a vessel that was wicckcd and went to
 
 An Address to the Young. 
 
 343 
 
 the bottom in some storm, and not a plank 
 floated to tell of its sad fate, these nations 
 have perislied, and no vestige of them remains. 
 Yet the Jews, which saw their birth, have 
 outhved them all. 
 
 Doubtless you have seen some of those 
 hoary ruins which are found in many parts 
 of our native land ; and while you have 
 gazed on them, your mind has been fatigued 
 in trying to pass over the interval which 
 must have elapsed since those buildings were 
 first of all erected. But I believe there is 
 
 Canaan, which God gave them for a 
 country, as he promised to Abraham, their 
 father, was a pleasant and fruitful land. 
 Scarcely anywhere could you have found 
 lovelier landscapes, nobler hills, or more 
 fertile plains. It might be said to " flow 
 with milk and honey." Towards its southern 
 extremity was its capital- Jerusalem, "builded 
 as a city that is compact together." It 
 covered most of three hills, Zion, Moriah, and 
 Acra ; and other mountains ro.se round 
 it, like so many towers of defence. It was 
 
 NABLUS, GEHiZIM, A_ND THE UAKS OP MOREH. — Otn. xii., 1-9. 
 (ABiaAHAJl'S APPEARANCE HERE WAS THE BEGINMNG OF THE HISTORY OF PALESTINE AND THE JEWISH RACE.) 
 
 not one of them that is half so old as the 
 Israelitish nation. The Arch of Titus, at 
 Rome, was built before any of the ruins we 
 have mentioned; and it was intended to 
 commemorate the destruction of Jeru.salem 
 by that general and his army. But the 
 Jews have lived there hundreds of years 
 before that catastrophe. No other people, 
 then, can boast of such remote and venerable 
 antiquity. 
 
 II. — THEIR DISPERSION. 
 
 But we have now to see them scattered 
 over the whole earth. 
 
 " beautiful for situation " : and becau.se it 
 was the " city of the great King," they called 
 it " the joy of the whole earth." 
 
 But this city was destroyed. " Zion is a 
 wilderness ; Jerusalem a desolation." The 
 "holy and beautiful house," where their 
 " fathers praLsed " God, was " burned with 
 fire." This recurred about one thousand 
 eight hundred years ago. The unhappy 
 people had filled up the measure of their 
 iniquities, by rejecting and crucifying the 
 Lord Jesus. God gave them up into the 
 hand of their enemies. The Romans, a 
 warlike people, who had long had them in
 
 344 
 
 Memmes of Gospel Triumphs amo^ig the Jews. 
 
 subjection, were now more than ever em-aged 
 at them. They sent a large army against 
 Jerusalem, under the command, first of 
 Vespasian, and then of his sou Titus. And 
 there was fearful carnage and slaughter ; 
 enou"h to make one shudder as we read of 
 it. The wretched inhabitants could get no 
 food because their enemies surrounded them, 
 so that many of them perished by famine, 
 and the dead filled the lanes and the streets. 
 Many hundreds of them were crucified, until 
 they could find no room for the crosses, and 
 no crosses for the bodies. The Roman 
 soldiers killed all they met ; and the streets 
 literally ran with 
 blood. Ninety- 
 seven thousand 
 were taken cap- 
 tives, and nearly a 
 million peri.-.hed. 
 The temple was 
 burned to the 
 ground ; and so 
 completely was 
 the city devas- 
 tated, that nothing 
 of it remained ex- 
 cept three towers, 
 and part of the 
 western wall. The 
 Eomans so exulted 
 in their triumph, 
 that a medal was 
 struck in com- 
 memoration, re- 
 presenting captive 
 Judea as mourning 
 under a palm-tree, 
 while a soldier 
 standing by mocks 
 at her misery. 
 Thus was shown 
 God's di.«pleasure 
 
 against sin. Ever since that memoiable day, 
 the Jew has been an exile from the land of his 
 fathers, and a wanderer on the earth. Many 
 attempts have been made to restore them to 
 Jerusalem ; some by themselves, for in no 
 bosoms is the love of country stronger ; and 
 one by a wicked Emperor — Julian the 
 Apostate — that he might thus falsify God's 
 Word. But all have failed. The words of 
 their great law-giver have been vei-ified : they 
 are " scattered among the heathen, among 
 the people, even from one end of the earth 
 unto the other. They have been removed 
 into all the kingdoms of the earth ; the 
 whole remnant of them have been scattered 
 
 into all the winds." They are found, in 
 larger or smaller gi-oups, in almost all 
 regions; in Europe, Asia, Africa, and 
 America. " They circulate," says Bishop 
 Newton, " through all parts where trade and 
 money circulate ; and are, as I may say, the 
 brokeis of the whole world." Eveiy land 
 has been their asylum ; none their possession, 
 or home. Go where you will, they are there ; 
 but their country is nowhere. 
 
 " Tribes ot the wandering focjtand weary breast, 
 Hi-)\v shall ye flee away, and be at rest ? 
 The wild duve ha.s her nest, the fox liis cave, 
 Mankind their country — Israel but the grave !"' 
 
 III. — THEin IDEN- 
 TITY. 
 
 But we are thus 
 led to mention 
 another singular 
 thing in reference 
 to them: viz., their 
 sameness in all 
 .•xges,all lands, .and 
 all circumstances. 
 Wanderers tho u gh 
 they are, they 
 carry with them 
 tho marks of their 
 common origin. 
 They are most 
 distinct from all 
 around ; but they 
 are always like 
 each other. They 
 difii'r from all the 
 world besides ; but 
 they all have on 
 them the stamp 
 of identity. Their 
 very features are 
 alike, and that in 
 all climates. None 
 can mistake the aquiline nose, duik eyes, pale 
 foiehead, and raven locks ; they all bespeak 
 the Jew. TheLr very habits seem stereo- 
 typed ; their nationality cleaves to them 
 always and everywhere. They are amoiiff 
 other kindreds, and tribes, and people, and 
 tongues, but they are not of them. Like their 
 own Jordan, which is said by some to flow 
 through the lake of Gennesaret without ming- 
 ling with its waters, the tide of their popula- 
 tion flows on distinct from all. "I am a Jew," 
 said one of them, " and never can be any- 
 thing but a Jew. We never have lost, and 
 never can kse, our nation.al character by 
 mingling with all the nations among whom 
 
 THE WANDERING JEW, THE TYPE OK THE JEWISH RACE.
 
 An Address to the Young. 
 
 345 
 
 we have been scattered ; and wo ought never 
 to lose it. We shall always be a distinct 
 people. We may become Christians, but 
 we never can become Gentiles." 
 
 How wonderful it is, that now, as in 
 Balaam's time, " the people dwell alone ! " 
 And how strikingly it shows the over-ruling 
 providence of God ! All ordinary influences 
 tend to the confusion of races, if inhabiting 
 the same territory. Which of us can say 
 whether he is most of British, or Saxon, or 
 Roman, or Norman extraction ? But though 
 the Jews have been 
 dwelling among 
 other nations, you 
 still see and know 
 that they are of 
 the stock of Abra- 
 ham. One would 
 have thought that 
 their privations 
 and sufferings 
 would have made 
 them anxious to 
 belie their Israeli- 
 tish origin, and 
 to merge in the 
 surrounding mas- 
 ses ; but no pros- 
 pect of good, no 
 exposure to unex- 
 ampled sufferings, 
 has been sufficient 
 to induce them to 
 do this. Though 
 per.secuted, they 
 are not destroyed 
 "They have been 
 sifted among all 
 nations, like as 
 corn is sifted in a 
 sieve, yet has not 
 the least gi-ain 
 fallen upon the 
 earth." (Amos 
 
 ix. 9.) Surely this must be " the finger of 
 God ! " Thus has He fidfilled His prophecy 
 by Jeremiah, " Fear not thou, Jacob my 
 servant, saitli the Lord : for I am with thee ; 
 for I will make a full end of all the nations 
 whither I have driven thee, but I will not 
 make a full end of thee." 
 
 IV. — THEIR CALAMITIES. 
 
 And now we come to a very sad and 
 melancholy part of their history : I mean 
 the sufferings wliich they have endured in 
 their dispersion. God has said, "Though 
 
 JEW WEARING PHYLACTERIES — paije 347. 
 
 hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be 
 unpunished " ; and to this people in particular 
 He gave many solemn warnings of the 
 fearful results of departing from Him, and 
 disobeying His laws. Gome, then, and see 
 what an evil and bitter thing it is to sin 
 against the Lord ! 
 
 Not the least among their sorrows has been 
 the reproach which has been poured upon 
 them. How the finger of scorn has. been 
 pointed at the unhappy Jew ! His very 
 name has become a by-word, a hissing, a 
 
 proverb ; the sjTn- 
 n l.nl of all that is 
 ' ' nil an, contemptu- 
 ous, or despicable. 
 1 f .1 man wishes to 
 I'ldicule or censure 
 another, he lights 
 on this as the bit- 
 terest word, — 
 "He is a Jew!' 
 When Pliny Fisk 
 was in the east, 
 he met a dervish 
 beating an ass, and 
 after having, in a 
 great rage, used 
 the worst invec- 
 tives, he summed 
 up his curses with, 
 " You Jew ! " A 
 gentleman was 
 travelling in Rus- 
 sia, and being 
 about to enter 
 some public gar- 
 dens, his eye was 
 caught by this in- 
 sci'iption over the 
 gate, — " Beggars, 
 dogs, and Jews 
 not admitted 
 here ! " The bro- 
 ther of the Rev. 
 R. Hei'schell says, in a letter to him from 
 Prussia, "A short time since, as I stood 
 
 before the house of a gentleman in , 
 
 waiting for a friend, the child of the 
 gentleman, which could hardly utter a few 
 sentences, spat several times in my face, and 
 said with its stammering lips, 'Jew, accursed 
 Jew ! ' " 
 
 We mention .some other heart-sickening 
 details of their sufferings and persecutions. 
 The Emperor Constantine, after having put 
 down a revolt which they had raised, ordered 
 their ears to be cut oil, and then cispersed
 
 346 
 
 Memories of Gospel T^'iumphs among the Jews. 
 
 them, with this mark of infamy, into 
 different countries. At a town in France, it 
 was the custom to attack them with stones 
 from Palm-Snntlay to Easter ; a time of 
 insult and cruelty that was generally pro- 
 ductive of bloodshed ; and to all this the 
 populace was urgfd by a sermon from the so- 
 called Christian Bishop. Indeed, Romanists 
 have mostly oppressed the outcast Jew, if 
 they liave had the power. The very spirit 
 of Popery is intolerant and persecuting. 
 During one of the crusades (wars waged by 
 benighted Papists to gain possession of the 
 Holy Land) the preaching of some fanatic 
 so wrought on the passions of the multitude 
 that seventeen thousand Je\i's were mur- 
 dered. And, horrible to relate ! a vessel was 
 filled with Jews, and then set on fire by the 
 crusaders. The late Di-. Southey .says, 
 " Till within the last fifty years the bui'ning 
 of a Jew formed the highest delight of the 
 Poitiiguese." In our own country, also, 
 they have severely suffered. Once fifteen 
 hundred of them, including women and 
 children, wore confined in the castle at York. 
 They wei-e refused all (juarter, and could 
 not purchase their lives at any price ; until, 
 at last, they became frantic with despair, 
 and killed one another. One of our kings, 
 Henry III., in order to gain favour with his 
 Barons, ordered seven hundred Jews to bo 
 slaiightered, their houses to be plundered, 
 and their .synagogues burnt. 
 
 But enough of what is so distressing! Yet 
 let us not fail to observe how remarkably 
 God's words have been thus fulfilled. 
 Hundreds of years ago was it said of them 
 that if tliey forsook the God of their fathers 
 they should be removed into all kingdoms 
 for their hurt ; that a sword should be drawn 
 after them ; that they should find no rest for 
 the sole of their foot ; that they should not 
 be able to .stand before their enemies ; that 
 they should be spoiled evermore ; that they 
 should be left in hunger, thirst, and naked- 
 ness, and in want of all things ; that a 
 trembling heart and sorrow of mind should 
 be their portion ; that their plagues should be 
 wonderful and great, and of long continu- 
 ance ; and that they should bo for a sign 
 and a wonder during many generations. 
 (See Dent, xsviii. 15— 68, etc., (tc.) And all 
 this has come to pass. Then is not the 
 Bible divine ? Could those who wrote it have 
 foretold such things, unless God had put 
 them into their minds ? 
 
 But because their great sufferings were 
 thus predicted, the guilt of persecuting 
 
 them is not thereby lessened. Christ Jesus 
 was " delivered by the determinate counsel 
 and foreknowledge of God ; " but still they 
 were " tricked hands " by which He was 
 crucified and slain. And we see how God 
 has punished that wickedness. It is, then, 
 vyrong in any of us to insult or oppiess the 
 Jew. Even yet, the words which God spako 
 to their ancestor, arc, to a great extent, 
 true: '"I will curse him that curseth thee." 
 Frederick, King of Prussia, though he did 
 not believe the Bible, observed this : " No 
 man," .said he, " ever touched the Jewish 
 nation," (that is, unkindly), " without smart- 
 ing for it." Never, therefore let any 
 of my readers join in persecuting this race, 
 for God will be displeased with them, and 
 an additional ob.stacle thus placed in the 
 way of Israel's conversion. And if they 
 have ever done it, by treating a Jew 
 scornfully, or in any other way, let them at 
 once ask foigiveness of the God of Abraham 
 and his seed. 
 
 V. — THEIR RELIGIOUS CONDITION. 
 
 We shall now endeavour to give .=ome 
 idea of their jjreserit spiritual state : and 
 the view of this is enough to make 
 one sad at heart. In the Apostle's words, 
 " Blindness is happened unto Israel : the veil 
 is upon their hearts." If we are familiar 
 with the New Testament, we shall remember 
 that the Jews of Christ's day were very far 
 from being a holy and righteous people. 
 Some there were who waited for the consola- 
 tion of Israel, and walked in the command- 
 ments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. 
 But the greater part were far otherwise. 
 They had the form of godliness, but denied 
 tlie power thereof. They were very scrupu- 
 lous about attending to the mere ceremonials 
 of religion, but did not imbibe its leal spirit, 
 or practice its duties ; they paid " tithe of mint 
 and anise and cumin, but omitted the weightier 
 matters of the law, judgment, mercy and 
 faith." They put the opinions of their 
 learned men, and what they called the oral 
 law, before the plain Word of God, and thus 
 " made the commandment of God of none 
 effect." And the Lord Jesus, who " knew 
 what was in man," called the Scribes and 
 Phaiisees, — the persons who were tho\ight 
 most highly of for their apparent sanctity, — 
 " hypocrites." He declared that their boasted 
 religious works were done to gain the applause 
 of men, and denounced upon them some of 
 His heaviest woes. 
 
 Now, all this might be taken as a picture
 
 An Address to the Yoi- 
 
 ng. 
 
 347 
 
 of the Jews at the present day. Their 
 religious observances are httle better than 
 outside show ; and in the midst of all they 
 are deeply and mournfully worldly in spirit. 
 If they only wear their talith and phylacteries. 
 and regularly attend the synagogue, they 
 conclude that they worship the God of their 
 fathers, even though they may all the while 
 be living in the known breach of His holy 
 law. You shall see a Jew when engaged in 
 
 THE LAW. 
 
 the most worldly and sinful pursuits, if the 
 time of prayer arrives, pause, and with folded 
 bands hurriedly repeat the appointed form ; 
 and then resume hLs former occupations, 
 apparently quite unconscious that there Ls 
 any inconsLstency in the whole, or that God 
 requires a more spiritual service. The first 
 time that I ever went to one of their syna- 
 gogues, I was astounded and shocked by the 
 utter want of reverence and devotion in 
 neiirly all present. When they liad to take 
 part in the prayers and chants, it was done 
 
 A JEWISH KAEBI. 
 
 in the most careless manner ; and then this 
 being ended, while the law was read, nearly 
 all would be formed into little groups, con- 
 versing on the news of the da}', laughing to- 
 gether, or transacting their ordinary business. 
 And then, besides being very superstitious, 
 there is another respect in which they resemble 
 the Jews of our Lord's time, and we may add, 
 the Papists also ; namely, in putting tradition 
 before Scripture. They say, that be.sides the 
 law which God wrote on tables cf stone, and 
 that which is found in the Oid Testament, he 
 also gave to Closes another law, which was 
 to be delivered by word of mouth to Aaron 
 and his sons, then to the seventy elders, and 
 last of all to the whole congi'egation. This 
 was called the oral lau; because told to each 
 
 C0NV£RS1>'G ABOL'T THE TALMUD.
 
 348 
 
 Memories of Gospel Tnumphs among the Jews. 
 
 other, and so handed down from generation 
 to generation. At length, as it was feared 
 that these traditions would be lost, they were 
 committed to writing by a learned rabbi. 
 Then commentaries were written on them ; 
 and the whole afterwards collected together, 
 and Cidled the Talmud, which consists of 
 twelve as large volumes as ever you have 
 seen. Now they attach a great deal more 
 importance to this Talmud than to the 
 Scriptures. The written law, they say, is 
 water ; the Talmud, wine. Hence the latter 
 is very much studied and prized by them, 
 
 most trifling and childish, or what is calcu- 
 lated to weaken the obligations of morality, 
 or to lessen the authority of Scripture. For 
 example ; the most minute directions are given 
 about the necessary actions of daily life, 
 such as dressing and undressing, washing 
 and wiping the face and hands, etc. ; and the 
 silliest question.s are gi-avely tliscussed, as 
 whether a man shall lift up his finger, and 
 not his thumb in the temple. And the 
 manner in which it often explains away the 
 law of God is fearful. Thus the fourth com- 
 mandment prohibits all servile work on the 
 
 JEllUSALKM. 
 
 while God's own and blessed Word is neg- 
 lected. Thus one of them writes, " If any 
 one read much of the Scripture, he is an 
 Epicurus, that is, a heretic, or infidel ; but if 
 he study much of the Talmud, this is meii- 
 torious." Again, " If a Jew transgresses the 
 law of the Bible, he may hope for forgive- 
 ness ; but if he transgresses the law of the 
 Talmud he must never expect to be forgiven. 
 Now, what do you think Ls the character 
 of the teaching of tkis Talmud ? It is just 
 such a book, as in our Saviour's language, 
 makes, " the commandment of God of none 
 effect." Nearly all of it is either what is 
 
 Sabbath-day ; but, according to the Talmud-, 
 " when anytliing is done which one man 
 could do alone, as lemoving a light piece of 
 wood, if two remove it together, neither of 
 them will break the Sabbath, because neither 
 of them does the work singly ! " How truly, 
 deeply sad must be the condition of a people 
 who follow such a blind guide ! 
 
 It is, however, some relief to be able to 
 add that there are some Jews who reject this, 
 " the traditions of the elders," at least as the 
 rule of faith and practice, and who profess to 
 adhere to God's written Word. The chief of 
 these are the Karaites, or Scripturists, who
 
 An Address to the Yonnrj. 
 
 349 
 
 are of ancient origin ; and the Mendels- 
 sohnians, who take their name from a 
 celebrated German philosopher, and are to 
 be found on the continent of Europe. Some 
 Jews in London, also, have adopted these 
 views as to the Talmud, and established a 
 synagogue in Burton Orescent, where worship 
 is offered of a character more spiritual than 
 is usual among the now degenerate children 
 of Abraham. Is not this a hopeful sign ? 
 May we not expect that when the Jews thus 
 turn from their vain traditions and are led 
 more seriously and humbly to read that 
 word, the entrance of which giveth light, 
 and which maketh wise the simple, they 
 
 declares his conviction, that tlu'ir present 
 sufferings are the marks of God's (Uspleasure 
 against their sins ; and exclaims, " O my God ! 
 I am afraid lest the Jesus whom the Chris- 
 tians worship be the Just One we sold for 
 silver ! " (See Amos ii. 6.) Many, too, are 
 feeling their spiritual degradation. " Ah ! " 
 said one of them, lamenting this, " we want 
 a Jewish Luther to come among us, and to 
 stir us up ! " Surely, " the time to favour 
 Zion, yea, the set time," shall come ere long. 
 
 VI. THEIR DISPERSION. 
 
 Their rejection of Christianity has been 
 most obstinate and protracted ; but when 
 
 
 PREACHING THE GOSPEL TU THE JEWS XT EACUEL's TO.MI!, NEAR BETHLEHEM. 
 
 then .shall find the way of righteousness? 
 May God hasten the time ! 
 
 In other respects, aNo, we may discern 
 tokens for good. A more spiritual tone 
 seems to be given to Jewish opinions 
 in many quarter.s. Thus, in an assem- 
 bly of rabbis hold at Frankfort, one of 
 them did not hesitate to say, " The hope 
 of a political Messiah has died out among 
 our fellow-believers ; we must, therefore, put 
 this lie out of our places of worship : " and it 
 was resolved, by a large majorit}', that the 
 petitions for the restoration of a Jewisli state, 
 and a return of the Israelites to Palestine, 
 should be removed from the prayers offered 
 in their .synagogues. Sometimes the thouglit 
 will intrude itself, that the Messiah has come 
 already. Thus the Eabbi S. Marochan 
 
 at length they yield to its claims, how illus- 
 triously \vi\\ the grace of CTod be magnified ! 
 And the newly-converted Jews will jirobal)ly 
 exhibit a high and lofty style of Christianity — 
 a self-denying and ardent zeal — a yearning 
 compassion for those who still reject the 
 Saviour, such as will awaken the holy emu- 
 lation of the professing church, and make all 
 to shine as lights in the world. Their recovery 
 to God and His Son will be full of mercy to 
 mankind ; ' the receiving of them will be life 
 from the dead ! " It will be said among the 
 Gentiles, The Lord hath done great things for 
 them." " So the heathen shall fear the name 
 of the Lord, and all the Kings of the earth 
 His ({lory." 
 
 There have been in ages past, and are now 
 in our day.s, many blessed earnests of this
 
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 final and happy issue. The wave sheaf has 
 been presented to Israel's God : there shall 
 in due time be the ripe and abundant harvest. 
 We cannot wonder that Jewish conversions 
 have been comp.aratively few, if all ciicum- 
 stances be taken into the account. What a 
 garliled and even repulsive representation of 
 their I'eligion has the Jew witnessed in 
 many — alas! how often in the majority of 
 professing Christians. In Popish countries 
 he has seen Christianity mixed up with idol- 
 atry, which he deeply detests. Then liow 
 miserably few have been the efforts of the 
 Christian church to bring them to a know- 
 ledge of the truth as it is in Jesus. And 
 highest of all, as a barrier, keeping them out 
 of that Church, — what scorn, neglect, and 
 cruelty have they received from many who 
 bore the name of Christ ! Justly did Luther 
 say, " I think if the Jews were kindly used 
 and properly instructed in holy writ, many 
 of them would become gcod Christians and 
 return to their fathers, the prophets and 
 patriarchs from whom they grow more and 
 more estranged, by being insulted, treated 
 with superciliousness and contempt, and 
 ab.'olutely not snil'ered to be anytliing. If 
 the Apostles, who were Jews themselves, 
 every one of them, had behaved towards us 
 Gentiles as we Gentiles behave towards the 
 Jews, not one Gentile would have become a 
 Christian. Then, as the Jewish Apostles 
 acted brotherly by us, it behoves us to act 
 brotherly by the Jews. Whereas, worrying 
 them as we do, how can we expect ever to do 
 any good with them ? " 
 
 VI I. -CONCLUSION. 
 
 Now let the writer and his readers humbly 
 and pi-ayerfully inquiie, " What is our duly 
 towards this timo-lionoui'cd and remarkable 
 race ? " 
 
 Is it not, first of all, to be kind to them. 
 Did you ever meet a man with a heart so 
 hard, that it could not be melted and won l]y 
 kindness? Ithinknot. And no such heait 
 
 beats within a Jewish breast. Treat tliem 
 tenderly and affectionately, and you have 
 done much towards gaining a hearing for the 
 truth. When the Rev. R. M'Cheyne and 
 some other ministers were at Boidogne, they 
 had an interesting inter\dew with a Jew, 
 din-ing which he became much affected, 
 " chiefly," he said, "because they manifested 
 to him such interest and such kindness." 
 Once or twice, on rising to go away, he could 
 not depart, but resumed his discourse. On 
 finally taking his leave, which he did with 
 tears running down liis face, he said, with 
 great emplia.sis, " If you wish to gain a Jew, 
 treat him as a brother." 
 
 And let us do all we can to aid the efforts 
 which are made to induce them to embrace 
 the faith of Jesus. If we cannot engage in 
 these ourselves, still we can pray for their 
 success. And I can assiu-e my dear young 
 readers, from personal experience, that great 
 will be the blessing which shall return into 
 their own hearts if they thus intercede with 
 Abraham's God for His ancient and honoured 
 but now apostate and unbelieving jieople. 
 " Pray for the peace of Jeru.salem : they shall 
 prosper that love thee." 
 
 To urge us to this kindness, eff'ort, and 
 prayer, let us think of our obligation to this 
 people. What a bright roll of names does 
 their history present ! What illustrious 
 examples of heaven-born holiness and valiant 
 viitue we find among them ? Those precious 
 words, which are " a lamp to the feet, and a 
 light to our path," which drop healing and 
 balm into many of our hearts and which 
 inspire the glorious hope of immortal life, 
 were written, under the direction of the Holy 
 Ghost, by men of this race. And of this 
 nation was He — the Man of Sorrows, who 
 bore away our sins ! Shall we not honoui- 
 them ? Shall we not yearn over them in 
 their departure fioni God, and their conse- 
 quent suffering 1 Shall we not ceasele.ssly 
 pray until they are gathered into the 
 Redeemer's fold 'i
 
 More Incidents of Conversion. 
 
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 MORE INCIDENTS OF CONVERSION 
 
 184'J. 
 
 of 
 
 The Conversion and Death 
 Christian Jewess. 
 
 HONOURED aud Very Dear Sir,— It Ls 
 with the greatest pleasure and satis- 
 faction that I am able to give you a short 
 sketch of the latter part of the life of a 
 daughter of Abraham, who died in the faith 
 on the 23rd of December, 1849, from which 
 you will perceive the mysterious dealings of 
 a compassionate God towards sinful man, and 
 I trust that it will not only gladden your 
 heart, but also cheer and encourage all those 
 who take an interest in the conversion of 
 Israel : — 
 
 About fourteen months ago I was intro- 
 duced by a friend to the family G., which 
 consisted of an old mother, two sons, and one 
 daughter, living in prosperity. ]\Iy first 
 visit was on a Saturday morning, when I 
 met with the kindest reception, but, having 
 found the sons smoking cigars, and the 
 daughter playing music, I reproved them, 
 saying that by so doing, according to the 
 traditions of their fathers, they were viola- 
 ting the Sabbath ; they appeared displeased, 
 and the old lady, wlio was at that time 
 above seventy, assumed a look of contempt. 
 However, by degrees we were led into a long 
 conversation, which quite reconciled them, so 
 that at my departui-e they expressed an 
 earnest desiie for me to visit them whenever 
 in their neighboiwhood, which I did at least 
 twice a month, sometimes more frequently, 
 occasionally meeting with great opposition 
 from all, especially from the mothei', which 
 caused me much grief, as on many occasions 
 she even blasphemed, uj)on one of which I 
 attempted brielly to delineate to her the 
 source of her hatred towards religion, the 
 severe injury she had inflicted upon her 
 oflspring, and the consequent danger which 
 awaits them in the world to come — at which 
 she laughed heartily. 
 
 Upon another occasion she said to me, 
 when speaking of eternity, "yoii are so over- 
 whelmed with superstitions of a. future 
 prospect that you believe it to be a reality ; " 
 in fact, she was always the chief obstacle to 
 our conversations, so much so, that I often 
 wished I might not find her at home, not 
 knowing that our Heavenly Father was 
 
 gi-aciously leading her, step by step, through 
 this thorny wilderness, to behold the gleams of 
 His holy light, and guiding her to the bosom 
 of that Saviour whom she then despised. 
 
 At one of my visits .she was suffering from 
 a severe cold, and although in the room with 
 us, did not interrupt us with her usual horrid 
 expressions. At that time the character of 
 Jesus was traced from the mangei- to the 
 cross. She seemed to listen with profound 
 attention, and from that time, whenever I 
 visited them, I observed unusual seriousness 
 in her attention, and with a Bible, which 
 she formerly disbelieved to be written by 
 inspiration, within her reach, searching out 
 the passages to which I referred during the 
 conversation, without making the least 
 remark. 
 
 On Saturday, the 18th of August, before 
 the commencement of the month Elul, I 
 vi-sited them, and spent about five hours, 
 speaking of the depra\ity of our nature, the 
 impossibility of satisfying Divine justice even 
 by the best of our works, consequently the 
 necessity of a Saviour, which led us to con- 
 template the plan of redemption, the accom- 
 plishment of which was attested by the 
 resurrection of Jesus from the dead ; during 
 the time old Mrs. G. appeared restless, 
 frequently leaving the room for a few 
 minutes, and i-emaining absent at tea-time, 
 after which she came in, heartily requesting 
 me, if I could spare time, to remain with her 
 during the absence of her children, wlieii she 
 requested me to give her an account of my 
 conversion. This I did as briefly a.s po.ssible, 
 proving that it was not by power, nor by 
 might, but by the Spirit of the Lord. She 
 then told me that her children were by her 
 first husband, and that her last husband was 
 a Gentile, but regardless of the religion in 
 which he had been brought up ; espre.ssing 
 her grief that her children, thougli well- 
 educated, liad not received instruction either 
 in the Jewish or (Christian religion. " And 
 now," continued she, " it is too late for me to 
 direct them ; the only thing I can do is to 
 look for my own spiritual welf.-iro ; " she 
 concluded by saj'ing, '• Having been led by 
 Divine appointment, through your instru- 
 mentality, to examine both the Old and New
 
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 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 Testament, I have discovered two paths, 
 equally inviting, and am at a loss which to 
 pursue ; may I ask you to advise me which 
 direction I shall take ? " I, observing the 
 great change with surprise, asked her if she 
 were prepared to direct her attention to a 
 passage of Scripture, which by Divine 
 influence would give her more satisfactory 
 advice than I could. She immediately took 
 the Bible, and observing that I was about to 
 read from the latter pait of it, said, " Do 
 you mean from the New Testament ? " 
 " Yes," I replied, " we will, by Divine teach- 
 ing, consider at full length the character of 
 the Apostle Paul, who was a Jew ; " and 
 having traced his Pharisaic character, his 
 burning zeal for the religion of his fathers, 
 even to the persecuting of those whom he 
 ignoiantly considered to be the enemies of 
 God, and his miraculous eonvei-sion, I read 
 with her the seventh chapter of Romans (in 
 answer to her inquiry for advice), jii-oved the 
 impossibility of satisfying Divine justice by 
 observing the law, though the law itself is 
 holy, just, and good, and that we are justi- 
 fied only by faith in Jesus, who has procured 
 for us an everlasting righteousness; and 
 encouraged her to believe in Him whose 
 ransom is absolutely suflicient to reconcile us 
 to an olTended God ; she then said, with teai-s 
 in her eyes, that she could hardly believe 
 there was any remedy for her, after having 
 lived so long, not only in neglect, but even 
 in trespasses and sin. I, observing the 
 spirit of true repentance, and that she 
 greatly needed consolation, read seveial 
 short passages of Divine Truth, suited to 
 her condition, proving that the love of God, 
 exhibited in the propitiation of Christ, is all- 
 sufficient even for the vilest sinner, " for God 
 so loved the world, that Ho gave His only 
 lipgotten Son, that whosoever believeth in 
 llim should not jiorish, but have everlasting 
 life," and then offered a solenm prayer. As 
 her children were nob yet returned, I spoke 
 to her of the power of prayer, exhorting her 
 to imitate Cornelius, who obtained Divine 
 guidance by the medium of humiliation and 
 fervent prayer ; she then requested nie to 
 visit them more frequently, which I could not 
 well do, as it pleased the Almighty to afflict 
 me with illness for several weeks. 
 
 After I was miTcifulLy restored to health, 
 1 jiaid them a visit, when I immediately 
 touched upon the subject of Christianity, 
 and was greatly surj)rised, when' leferring to 
 passages of both the Old and New Testament, 
 to find that old Mrs. (!. was always ready to 
 
 name the particular book in which the 
 quotation was to be found. She afterwards 
 told me of the suSerings she endured on 
 account of employing her whole time in the 
 study of the Scriptures, and concluded by 
 saying, " But what are all these sufferings 
 cottffsai'ed to those which Jesus, the Redeemer 
 of Israel, suffered for me ? Oh ! that I may 
 have more faith to experience His redeeming 
 love ! " 
 
 On another occasion, after having read a 
 portion of Sciipture succeeded by a very 
 serious conversation, she said, " Thanks be to 
 the God of our fathers, though I feel the 
 burden of my sins heavy, stUl He, by His 
 infinite mercy, draws me to Himself with 
 cords of love, and every day strengthens 
 my conviction of the value of the soul, and 
 of the inestimalile price paid for its redemp- 
 tion. I heartily wish that I could confess 
 Christ before men .as my Redeemer, and 
 follow Him in deed and in truth, though it 
 should cause separation from my family, but 
 I perceive that I am no more at liberty to 
 choose for myself. 
 
 After a few days I visited her again, when 
 she said, " I have no longer to make known 
 to you any doubts ; all that I have to do is, 
 to spend my last days in prayer and self- 
 examination, to obtain that pardon and for- 
 giveness which the Son of God procured 
 for those who love Him ; and I trust," .she 
 concluded, " you will do the same in my be- 
 half, that I may be stedfast in the faith and 
 joyful through hope even to the end." 
 
 As I perceive that my statement grows 
 too long, and to relate all the convei'sations 
 which passed between us being impossible, it 
 will suffice to gladden the hearts of the lovers 
 of Israel to know that she made daily 
 spiritual progress — so much so, that during 
 her last attack of illness, on the 21.st of 
 December, I found her, though weak, yet 
 very cheerful, and after she had calmly in- 
 formed me that the medical man said she 
 could not last many days, she said, " I could 
 wish that my remains might be placed in 
 some churchyard, but let them do what they 
 like, 1 am satisfied that my poor and long- 
 neglected sold is at last secure ; I perceive 
 that my release is drawing near," (at that 
 time she was not able to speak much, except 
 at intervals,) and after a little pause, she 
 said, " I shall soon be at rest.' When I 
 asked her upon what iier hope was fovinded, 
 her reply was, " ftly hope is founded upon 
 the infinite mercy of God, and upon the all- 
 sufficient atonement of His Hon."
 
 More Incidents of Conversion, 
 
 353 
 
 On Saturday evening, while sitting by lier, 
 wlien she was suffering from severe pain, she 
 said, in the presence of her daughter, " I am 
 so happy that you have come once more 
 before 1 depart ; " and after a few minutes 
 she continued, " I cannot express my thank- 
 fulness to our Heavenly Father for not 
 having removed me from this world sooner, 
 and especially for having taken from me all 
 doubts." 
 
 She constantly asked me to pray for her 
 that '• her heart might be filled with the 
 love of Christ ; then all within her would be 
 peace." When her daughter told her to 
 keep herself quiet, she replied, " My resting- 
 place is not here." After midnight, perceiving 
 that her recollection failed, and that her 
 mind wandered at intervals, I asked her if 
 she were then able to think and pray. " Yes," 
 replied she, smiling, " and also to magnify His 
 holy name." Soon after, her sons came in 
 and took their station by her bed; she 
 opened her eyes, and asked where her Bible 
 was. When it was handed to her, she said 
 to her children, " I have left you property, 
 but the contents of this precious book are far 
 more valuable. Oh, that God would dispose 
 your hearts to read these sacred pages vrith 
 devotedness, and to act accordingly I " The 
 next day, being the Lord's-day, I called in 
 the afternoon. Upon entering the room I 
 found that she no more recognized any one,- 
 and was informed that the above-mentioned 
 words were the last she uttered ; the same 
 evening her soul took its flight in such a 
 peaceful manner that those around her bed 
 scarcely noticed that she was gone. " Let 
 me die the death of the righteous, and let 
 my last end be like His ! " 
 
 A Jewish Lady Converted by a Little 
 Boy, a Collector for the Society. 
 
 In a recent interview with a Christian 
 lady, by birth a Jewess, on inquiring of her 
 the means whereby she had been led to a 
 saving knowledge of the Truth, .she said, 
 '■Not by a Missionary, nor by a Mini.ster, 
 but by a little child ten years old." She 
 continued, " Seven years ago I was with my 
 departed husband, on one occasion, in the 
 garden, when the servant came and .said, ' A 
 boy is at the door, and wants to speak to 
 master himself.' He was admitted; and on 
 Mr. E. asking the object of his coming, the 
 poor child, not knowing that we were Jews, 
 replied, ' I came for assistance for the poor 
 Jews.' ' For the poor Jews ! ' said Mr. E., 
 ' they are cared for bythe JewLsh community.' 
 
 ' No,' said the child, ' it is for the purpose of 
 sending Missionaries among them.' ' Are 
 you a Jew ? ' said Mr. E. ' I wish I were ! ' 
 was the little boy's reply. ' Do you love 
 them ? ' ' Most dearly ! ' said he. ' Why,' 
 said Mr. E., ' the Jews hate the Gentiles.' 
 ' But if they v/ould believe in Christ they 
 would not hate us.' ' Would you like to 
 become a Jew ? ' said Mr. E. ' I cannot 
 become a Jew if my parents are not Jews.' 
 ' The Jews,' said Mr. E., ' are despised and 
 rejected by all Gentiles, and you say that you 
 love them.' ' Christians love them,' said he, 
 ' because they are beloved of God.' ' Beloved 
 of God ! where do you find that ? ' ' Have 
 you not read that St. Paul says, " They are 
 still beloved for the fathers' sakes ?"' ' Who 
 were their fathers ? ' ' Abraham and Isaac 
 and Jacob, and all the Prophets. Christ was 
 a Jew, and His Apostles were Jews.' ' But 
 what has a child like you to do with them ? ' 
 He replied, ' It is said that the second temple 
 was more glorious than the first. Jesus 
 Christ appeared there, and the first cry of 
 " Hosanna to the Son of David " in that 
 temple was uttered by Jewish children.' 
 " Where is this said ? ' ' Oh, sir ! have you 
 not read it in the twenty-first chapter of 
 Matthew ? ' 
 
 " We gave the little fellow something 
 towards his object, and when he was gone 
 Mr. E. said, ' Is it not a shame that Gentile 
 children know more about us and our Scrip- 
 tures than we do ourselves ? ' 
 
 " The next day we purchased a New 
 Testament, that we might refer to the 
 passages the little boy had quoted, and from 
 that time we were searching the Word of 
 God, and reading pious books furnished by 
 Christian friends, until the death of Mr. E., 
 abovit two years afterwards : " — .since which 
 his widow has united herself with the 
 Society of Friends, by whom she is held in 
 high esteem as a consistent follower of the 
 Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 A Hebrew Child Loving Jesuc. 
 
 Visited Mr. D. As soon as I entered the 
 room he began to speak to me in great anger. 
 I asked what evil he saw in me ? "I am 
 sure," he said, " that it is through you my 
 dear child died." When I heard that I was 
 surjirLsed and very much grieved, for the 
 child's case was a very singular one. When 
 I first visited his parents I noticed the 
 earnestness and sincerity of the little fellow, 
 who was ten yeai-s old. I took him out with 
 me into the park, and told him the history 
 
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 354 
 
 Metnories of Gospel Triumiplis among the Jews. 
 
 of Jesus. His attention to what I told him, 
 and the effect which it made upon his mind, 
 had given me hope that I should see him 
 soon become a cliild of God. I asked him if 
 he would like to read the history out of a 
 book. He expressed the pleasure lie should 
 feel, and was very thankful for the present 
 of a New Testament which I gave him. I 
 gave him also a little hymn-book, many of 
 the hymns in which he learnt by heart. On 
 one occasion the father asked him whom he 
 loved most, him or his mother. The child 
 answered, " I love you both alike, but I love 
 Jesus more than you." " Jesus ! " said the 
 father, " Him do you love more than me ? 
 Who has told you that?" He took his New 
 Testament, and showed him that we ought 
 to love Jesus more than father and mother. 
 Mr. D. and his wife took the holy volume 
 from the child, together with the hymn-book, 
 and burned them both before his eyes, while 
 the child stood by and wept. The next day 
 1 came there, and Mr. D. said that he never 
 thought I should act so inconsistently as to 
 speak to a child about religion. I conversed 
 with him in order to justify my course, and 
 gave to the child another New Testament, 
 which he read in secret. The child was soon 
 after t;iken ill, and after six days' sickness, 
 died. I asked Mr. D. for whose sin he 
 thought his child died ? He said for his 
 own ; because the Loi'd saw that he was 
 already on the boundary-line of Christianity ; 
 he first withdrew him, and then took him 
 finally away. I read the history of the 
 (son of David, and of the son of Jeroboam, 
 and showed him that they died for their 
 fathers' sins. I read also the history of the 
 son of Moses, and how the Lord sought 
 to kill him, because his parents had not 
 brought him into the covenant of God, and 
 on account of which, had not Zipporah pie- 
 vented it by circumcising him, the Lord 
 would have killed him. I added that, though 
 none can know the ways of the Lord, yet we 
 may rest assured that He is a God of Love ; 
 and that I believed, because the Lord knew 
 that the days of the child would be few, He 
 cauhetl the light of the gospel to shine upon 
 him in the early morn of his life. 
 
 Conversion, Christian Career and 
 
 Departure of Mr. Hermann Liebstein. 
 
 {With J'ortrait.) 
 
 Our gifted friend. Dr. Culio.s, who was 
 Mr. Liebstein's be'.oveJ pvstor, b3gins his 
 In Metnoriam sketch wit'i the folkwing 
 
 interesting account of Mr. Liebstein's earliest 
 days, and the first Christian influences which 
 were brought to bear upon him : — 
 
 " Mr. Hermann Liebstein was born at 
 Lemberg, in Galiicia, in the year 1829. His 
 parents, who were in good circumstances, 
 were enlightened orthodox Jews — his mother 
 a woman of remarkable sweetness of spirit. 
 As a child he received a sound Jewish edu- 
 cation ; and in his fifteenth year entered the 
 Pol3'technic, in his native town, for the study 
 of mathematics and languages. He held a 
 fm-emost place among his fellow-students 
 throughout his course. At its close he left 
 home to seek his fortune abroad. After some 
 stay in Bucharest he passed, as a refugee, to 
 Constantinople at the close of the Hungai'ian 
 struggle. By this time he had thrown up the 
 Rabbinical law, and had become a rationalistic 
 sceptic. In Constantinople he made the 
 acquaintance of Mr. Hcliafler, a missionary; 
 who directed his attention to the Gospel. 
 As Christianity had been represented to him 
 hitherto, through the medium of Popery, it 
 seemed a mere system of idolatry, from which 
 both as a Jew and a rationalist he revolted ; 
 but he now began to see it in a new aspect. 
 Re.solved to know it at first hand, and 
 through no man's report, he began a careful 
 stmly of the New Testament, becoming more 
 and more interested and sui'prised as he went 
 on. While in this state of mind he deter- 
 mined to proceed to England. The captain 
 with whom he sailed was an earnest Chris- 
 tian man, who put his religion into all he 
 did. In crossing the Bay of Biscay the ship 
 encountered one of those fearful storms which 
 strike terror into the boldest, and all hope of 
 seeing land was abandoned. The captain 
 wrote a brief farewell to his wife, and other 
 letters, sealed them up in a bottle, and made 
 .all other jsreparations with a calmness that 
 deeply impressed the young Jew and showed 
 him a new side of the Christian faith. The 
 stoim abated and all lives were saved ; but 
 the inlluence of those days was not in vain. 
 The incpiiry begun in Constantinople and pur- 
 sued during the voyage was continued in 
 England." 
 
 niS BAPTISM. 
 
 Near the close of 1851 Mr. Lietstein, who 
 had been under the instruction of Dr. Neu- 
 man, and had been led to appropriate C'hrist 
 as his ]\Iessiah and Saviour by means of the 
 fifty-third chapter of Isaiah, was baptized in 
 Trinity Chapel. The ordinance was ad- 
 ministered by the Rev. Dr. Edeisheim. Dr.
 
 Mr. Heiimmn Liebstein. 
 
 355 
 
 MB. HERMANN LIEBSTEIN. 
 
 Capadose and Dr. Da Costa addressed Mr. 
 Lielistein, who followed with a thrilling 
 account of his conversion, which began 
 thus : — 
 
 " Christian Friends, — I feel this to be the 
 mcjst important and solemn moment in the 
 history of my life, to stand up in the pre- 
 sence of Almighty God, and before a large 
 congregation, to make a public confession of 
 my faith in the Lord Jesus. I am not igno- 
 rant that this step is exciting the disgust of 
 unbelieving friends, wounding the heart of an 
 aged father, and piercing the soul of a loving 
 mother ; but I am aware also that the way 
 to glory lies between tril)ulation and conllict, 
 and I joyfully take up the cross, which our 
 Lord bore for every one that believeth, and 
 glory that I am reckoned worthy to sutler for 
 the name of Jesus." 
 
 Reminiscences. By Rev. Issachar 
 
 Flecker. 
 
 {With Portrait.) 
 
 !Mi-. Liebstein and a ISIr. Rice were led to 
 in([uire into Christianity in 1851, through 
 the instrumentality of Dr. Schaller, the miis- 
 sionary in Constantinople, who procured for 
 
 them free passages to England, and gave them 
 letters of introduction to friends of Israel in 
 London. Mr. Stalberg, a missionary to the 
 Jews, employed by the late Mr. Hitchcock, 
 discovered them in Palestine Place, learning 
 to be compositors, and thought it a pity tliat 
 two young men of such fine talents should 
 waste their time thei'e, so he recommended 
 them to the late Eev. Ridley Herschell, who 
 had a little Home for inquirers. Mr. Her- 
 schell i-eceived them into his Home and bap- 
 tized them. Ml'. Rice then went to America, 
 and Mr. Liebstein married, and became a 
 missionary to foreigners at Liverpool in con- 
 nection with a Ladies' Committee. That he 
 might be able to meet the Jew who said, 
 " You are paid for doing this," he resigned, 
 and entered a business otfice as a means of 
 independent support. In the providence of 
 God he became a barrister, and whilst he 
 worked very hard in his profession, he worked 
 equally hard in the study of the Word, of 
 which he acciuired a marvellous grasp, and 
 in preaching the Gospel without fee or re- 
 ward. 
 
 Mr. Liebstein and myself formed a strong 
 friendship in early childhood, and I was 
 much distressed when we parted at Constan- 
 
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 REV. ISSACHAR KLBCKER.
 
 356 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs amkmg the Jews. 
 
 tinople. But he did not forget me. As soon 
 as he was led to Christ lie began to storm at 
 me in letters begging me to come to London. 
 But the way was not opened till about three 
 years afterwards. He tried to get !Mr. Her- 
 schell to receive me into his Home as an 
 inquirer, but did not succeed. It caused 
 him much distress, and one day he came to 
 the house where I lodged, and with much 
 pain offered to try and collect a little money, 
 to enable me to return to Constantinople. 
 On this I told him that as I had determined 
 to be a C'hristian I would rather try and 
 earn a living by selling matches than return. 
 Whilst we were thus conversing in Geiman 
 (as I did not know English then) the lady 
 with whom I lodged (herself in humble cir- 
 cumstances), who was piesent, saw that there 
 was something sei-ious the matter, but not 
 knowing German, she knew not what it was. 
 She, therefore, asked Mr. Liebstein, and he 
 told her. Her leply was, " As long as we 
 have a crust of biead I\Ir. Flecker shall share 
 it with us, and he shall not go back to Con- 
 stantinople." Somewhat relieved, Mr. Lieb- 
 stein, after leaving me, providentially met 
 ]\Ir. Stalberg and poured out his heart to 
 him. In I'eply Mr. Stalbei'g said, " Flecker, 
 that name is known to me ; send him to me." 
 When I came to him he asked me my father's 
 name, and when I told him he began to cry. 
 "Why, I knew your father; he was my 
 friend." He went at once to Mr. Hitch- 
 cock, and began to cry there. " What do 
 you want me to do ? " said Mr. Hitchcock. 
 " I want you to help this yoijng man whilst 
 he is inquiring," pleaded Mr. Stalberg. Mr. 
 Hitchcock consented generously, and by his 
 kindness and the grace of God I was bap- 
 tized and enabled to study at the Baptist 
 College, Regent's Park. My struggles and 
 sufl'erings, which were many and severe, 
 have all worked together for my good, and I 
 thank God for them most heartily. The 
 only thing I am still more thankful for is, 
 that I can look back to many tokens of ap- 
 proval and blessing which my loving Father 
 was pleased to bestow upon my humble 
 labours, both among Jews and Gentiles, as a 
 Pastor, a Deputation, and a Missionary of 
 the British Society. 
 
 The Editor's Tribute to Mr. Liebstein's 
 Memory. 
 
 Our dear departed Jewish brother, Mr. 
 Hermann Liebstein, was one of the British 
 Society's noble spiritual sons. There are 
 
 many such in Eiiglaml and other countries. 
 
 but there are many more in the Better Land. 
 To our dear brother the swellings of Jordan 
 have been for ever hushed ; he has gone over 
 to the " majority," and with them he is 
 now safely housed in the City of chrysolite 
 splendour. 
 
 The godly life has led on to the gainful 
 death. He is unspeakably richer and brighter 
 since he was " lifted higher " ; but, alas, the 
 church and home at Highbury Hill are 
 poorer and darker. 
 
 While down here our brother was a most 
 zealous Christian worker, and one of the 
 Christian causes which received his help was 
 the British Society. He was always ready 
 to assist it whenever it was in his power. 
 When legal advice was needed, he gave it 
 cheerfully and without fee. For years he 
 was an active member of Committee ; and 
 many a time, as a Deputation, he gave his 
 valuable services as freely as the sun gives his 
 beams. These services, too, were much appre- 
 ciated by the lovers of Israel in various parts 
 of the country. Wherever he went, he made 
 a favourable impression, and left behind him 
 an aroma of goodness peculiaily his own. It 
 is, therefore, not all loss when such a Chris- 
 tian lightgiver is taken from. us. As one has 
 said : — 
 
 " So when a good man dies, 
 For year.s beyond our ken. 
 The liRbt he leave.') behind him lies, 
 Upon the paths of men." 
 
 Our departed brotlier was an honest and 
 painstaking Christian labourer. His work 
 was never done in a slipshod manner. His 
 published " ExposrrouY Notes on the Book 
 OF Revelation " show that he was a Spirit- 
 taught, scholarly, and practical Biblical ex- 
 positor. He was also an able and faithful 
 preacher ; an interesting and instructive 
 lecturer ; an intelligent and pleasant conver- 
 sationalist ; and a model Christian letter- 
 writer. The following is an extract from a 
 letter dated 4th February, 1880, in reply to 
 one of ours, alluding to the departure of dear 
 friends at Newark : — 
 
 " What a loss to our cause is the removal 
 of oui' good and generous friend David Bil- 
 son ! William Weightman, Mr. Harvey, 
 Miss Readhouse and David Bilson in four 
 years ! The thought of these losses saddens 
 lue and produces a feeling of loncline.ss. Oh, 
 that wo could realize more fully the alt- 
 suthciency of Divine Grace ! " 
 
 The two great qualities of the column of 
 our brother's character were Irulk and iiiaxij. 
 In the language of Longfellow, he could
 
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 357 
 
 " Look the wbule world in the face, 
 For he oweil uot any man." 
 But more. That Christian cohimn was 
 adorned with the " lily work " of gentleness 
 and peace. His life was an embodiment of 
 that golden I'ule of action, suaviter in modo, 
 fortiter in re. He was gentle in the manner, 
 but vigorous in the deed. Tenny.son's words, 
 therefore, may appropriately bo applied to 
 him : — 
 
 " Manners are uot idle, but the fruit 
 Of loyal nature and a noble mind." 
 
 His life was' a consecrated, consistent, 
 cheerful. Christian life. It was, and is noiv, 
 not le.ss but more, and evermore will be, a 
 thing of Divine brightness, beauty, and 
 
 blessedness. " Death cannot breathe upon 
 its fadeless bloom." 
 
 Beloved Hebrew Christian brother ! thou 
 art 
 
 '.' Gone before 
 To that unknown and silent shore. , 
 Shill we not meet, as heretofore, 
 
 Some summer morning ? " 
 
 Soft and sweet the answer conies : 
 
 '■ Yes, t/iroui/h Christ, we shall meet again. " 
 All holy, all true voices in the physical 
 and spiritual universes, on earth and in 
 heaven, unite in saying — 
 
 " Yes, throuyli Christ, at the break of day, 
 When the shadows Hee away, 
 We shall meet again." 
 
 A REPRESENTATIVE GROUP OF DEPARTED FRIENDS. 
 
 WILLIAM WEIGHTMAN, JOHN HARVEY, Miss RE ADHOUSE, DAVID BILSON, k. 
 JOHN BILSON, ALL Members of the Newakk Au.xiliaky, which was Established in 1850. 
 
 HOW they found peace. 
 
 THE following account of how David 
 Bilson came into the possession of 
 Christian peace and power may be taken as 
 a typical Illustration : — 
 
 David Bilson, the banker, found peace in 
 believing, through the instrumentality of 
 William Weightman, who was a humble 
 working man, an intense lover of Christ 
 and His brethren according to the flesh, 
 a model collector and a liberal giver from 
 1852 until his translation to glory. Mr. 
 Bil.son had asked several Christians to guide 
 him into the way of peace, but they had all 
 failed. At length he came in contact with 
 Willi.im Weightman, who had remarkable 
 skill in dealing with the human conscience 
 and heart. By a wonderful spiritual dis- 
 cernment, he at once saw Mr. Bilson's dilH- 
 culty and removed it. Tslv. Weightman said : 
 " Can you believe thdt God, for Christ's sokp, 
 fonjives you all your sins ? " 
 
 Mr. BiLson answered, " jVo; I can hope." 
 Mr. Weightman said: — ^^ You should be- 
 lieve and believe now. You cannot have the 
 good of your dinner until you eat it. You 
 cannot feel until you. believe." From that 
 moment Mr. Bilson took God at His word, 
 accepted Christ as his own Saviour who 
 died for him, found peace and joy, and soon 
 became distinguished for his Christian know- 
 ledge. He had a fair acquaintance with the 
 Hebrew Bible ; and when Jews or Jewish 
 deputations visited Newark, it was a great 
 joy to him to read with them the Scriptures 
 in Hebrew, and speak to them of the 
 
 Messiah, as " a light to lighten the Gentiles, 
 and the glory of His people Israel." 
 
 HUMILITY ANU LIBEIIALITY. 
 
 All these departed friends were eminent 
 for humility and generosity. " As the lark 
 that soars the highest builds her nest the 
 lowest, as the nightingale that sings the 
 sweetest sings in the shade when all things 
 rest, as the branches that are most laden 
 with ripe fruit bend lowest, as the valleys 
 are fruitful in their lowliness, and as the 
 ship most laden sinks deepest in the water, fo 
 the holiest Christians are the humblest." 
 A lady applied to a liberal Christian giver, 
 on behalf of an orphan child. He rerjuested 
 her tQ draw on him for the amount needed.. 
 Full of gratitude she said, "As soon as the 
 child is old enough, I will teach him to 
 thank you." " Stop," he responded, " You. 
 are mistaken. We don't thank the cloudsi 
 for rain. Teach the child to look higher,. 
 and to thank Him who gives both the 
 clouds and the rain." This was the spirit 
 which animated the.se noble friends in giving 
 money and other services for Christ ; this 
 was the spii'it which constrained Mr. Harvey 
 to give most generou.sly during his life, and 
 to leave to us at his departure £1,000 for the 
 extension of the work of Jewish evangeliza- 
 tion. The names of these five departed 
 friends and thousands like them which we 
 cannot record here, belonging to our beloved 
 Society, are all written in " The Lamb's 
 Book of Life," and " will be held in everlast- 
 ing remembrance."
 
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 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jervs. 
 
 MK. \VM. WEIUHTMAX. 
 
 How bright these glorious spirits 
 shine ! 
 
 Whence all their white array ? 
 How came they to the blissful seats 
 
 Of everlasting day ? 
 
 Lo ! these are they from sulierings 
 great, 
 Who came to realms of light. 
 And in the blood of Christ have 
 washed 
 Those robes which shine so bright. 
 
 MU. JOUN UAliVET. 
 
 Now, with triumphal palms, they 
 st;vnd 
 
 Before the throne on high, 
 And serve the God they love amidst 
 
 The glories of the sky. 
 
 His presence fills each heart with 
 
 joy, 
 
 Tunes every voice to smg ; 
 By day, by night, the sacred courts 
 With glad hosaunas ring. 
 
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 THE THIRD GROUP OF PREACHERS ON BEHALFj OF THE 
 
 SOCIETY. 
 
 REY. WILLIAM ARTHUR, M.A. 
 1850. 
 {Witlt Portrait.) 
 "ILLIAM ARTHUR was bora in 1819, 
 
 Societ}-, and in 18G6 — 1867 he was Presi- 
 dent of the Conference. 
 
 Mr. Artliur has distinguished himself not 
 only as a preacher and a platform speaker 
 but also a.s a writer. He is the author of " The 
 
 VV at Kells, in the county of Antrim, Tongue of Fire," " The Succe.ssful Merchant," 
 and was brought up in Connaught. He was "A History of the Vatican Council," " Reli- 
 
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 led early to decide for Christ, and, even when 
 a very young man, he was a faithful and 
 effective preacher of the Go.spel. 
 
 lu 1839 he went to India as a missionary, 
 and in 1841 he returned home through ill- 
 health. He was for many year-s one of the 
 Secretaries of the Wesleyan Missionary 
 
 gion without Gcd, and God without Eeligion.' 
 " The Succe.'fful Merchant " and " The 
 Tongue of Fire" have been very widely 
 circulated, and have been a blessing to 
 myriads, both old and young. 
 
 Take the following illustration as a speci- 
 men of the latter : —
 
 J60 
 
 Memories of Gospel TnumpJus among the Jews. 
 
 " When a lecturer on electricity wants to 
 show an example of a human body surcharged 
 with his fire, he places a person on a stool 
 with glass legs. The glass serves to isolate 
 him fi'om the eai'tli, because it will not con- 
 duct the fire — the electric fluid : were it not 
 for this, however much might be poured into 
 his flame, it would be carried away by the 
 earth ; but, when thus isolated from it, he 
 retains all that enters him. You see no fire, 
 you hear no fii-e ; but you are told that it is 
 pouring into him. Presently you are chal- 
 lenged to the proof — asked to come near, and 
 hold your hand close to his person : when 
 you do so, a spark of fire shoots out towards 
 you. If thou, then, would'st have thy .soul 
 surcharged with the fire of God, so that those 
 who come nigh to thee shall feel some mys- 
 terious influence proceeding out from thee, 
 thou must draw nigh to the source of that 
 fire, to the throne of God and of the Lamb, 
 and shut thyself out from the world — that 
 cold world, which so swiftly steals our fiie 
 away. Entei' into thy closet, and shut to 
 thy door, and there, isolated, ' before the 
 throne,' await the baptism ; then the fire 
 shall fill thee, and when thou comest forth, 
 holy powiM- will attend thee, and thou shalt 
 labour, not in thine own strength, but ' with 
 demonstration'of the Spirit, and with power.' " 
 
 The last sentence of " The Tongue of 
 Fire " runs thus : — 
 
 "And now, adorable Spirit, proceeding 
 from the Father and the Son, descend upon 
 all the Churches, renew the Pentecost in this 
 our age, and baptize Thy people generally — 
 0, baptize them again with tongues of fire ! 
 Crown this nineteenth century with a I'evival 
 of ' pure and undefiled religion ' greater than 
 that of the last century, greater than that of 
 tlie flr.st, greater than any ' demonstration of 
 the Spirit ' ever yet vouchsafed to men ! " 
 
 When Mr. Arthui's amanuensis, Mr. 
 Young, had finished writing that sentence, 
 he, filled and fired by the prayer enshrined 
 in it, rose from his seat, seized the author by 
 the hand, and exclaimed : " Future genera- 
 tions will bless you for these words." This 
 prediction bids fair to be abundantly fulfilled. 
 
 MR. Arthur's early interest in the 
 
 SOCIETY. 
 
 Mr. Arthur was present at the Third 
 Annual Meeting of the Society, held in 184G, 
 and moved the fourth resolution. 
 
 On Thursday evening, the 18th of April, 
 1850, Mr. Arthur preached the Annual 
 Sermon in the Weigh House Chapel. The Rev. 
 
 J. P. Dobson, a valued member of Committee, 
 began the service by reading the Scriptures, 
 and prayer ; after which Mi-. Arthur 
 delivered a lucid, impressive, and eloquent 
 discourse on " The Call of Abraham," direct- 
 ing the attention of his hearers principally 
 to:— I. The results of this call. 1. The 
 preservation among mankind of a knowledge 
 of the Truth. 2. The hope of the Great 
 Messiah and Redeemer. And, 3. The main- 
 tenance among men of the means of grace. 
 II. The interest we ought to feel in those 
 who are the lineal descendants of Abraham — 
 a deep spiritual interest in every child of 
 Abraham. We aie their debtors, their 
 kindred, &c., &c. He clo.sed by a forcible 
 and appropriate appeal in aid of the Society's 
 work. 
 
 At a meeting of the Board held on 
 January 17tli, 1877, Mr. Arthur was 
 elected an honoiai v member of Committee ; 
 and we are glad to be able to add, that he 
 still lives, and lends the .sanction of his 
 honouied name to our beloved Society. Long 
 may he live, and long may his works — like 
 a river of life — bring beauty and blessing to 
 myriads of men. 
 
 REV. RIDLEY HERSCHELL. 
 
 1851. 
 
 On Wednesday evening, April 9th, 1851, 
 the Rev. Ridley Herschell preached the 
 annual sermon, on behalf of the Society, at 
 Great Queen Street Chajael. He took for 
 his text Jeremiah xxxi. 35 — 37; and 
 Romans xi. 1, 2. 
 
 Mr. Herschell adverted fo several pas- 
 sages of the Prophets bearing upon the 
 subject under consideration, and concluded 
 by an earnest and powerful appeal for the 
 exhibition of Christian sympathy on behalf 
 of a people once .so high in the Divine 
 favour, l)ut now so fallen ; yet a people evi- 
 dently destined, in the mysterious arrange- 
 ments of an nil- wise Providence, to occupy 
 no mean or unimportant position in the 
 great work of the world's restoration to 
 God. 
 
 REV. DR. WARDLAW, OF GLASGOW. 
 1852. 
 {With Portrait.) 
 The annual Sermon of the Society was 
 preached at Bloomsbuiy Chapel, on Thurs- 
 day evening, March 25th, 1852, by the Rev. 
 Dr. Wai'dlaw, of Glasgow. The Committee
 
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 362 
 
 Meviories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 very gladly availed themselves of the fact of 
 the venerable doctor's visit to Halifax, to 
 invite him to come yet further south, and 
 serve the Society by preaching the anni- 
 versary sermon. This duty he cheerfully 
 and efficiently performed. The sermon, like 
 everything which emanates from this ac- 
 complished divine, was both eloquent and 
 forcible. His theme was " Salvation is of 
 the Jews ; " and the high claims of that 
 people were lucidly presented, and urged 
 upon his audience. 
 
 At a meeting of Committee held on 
 April 15th, 1852, it was moved by the Eev. 
 Dr. Henderson, and unanimously passed : 
 " That the mo.st grateful acknowledgements 
 of the Committee be presented to the Ilev. 
 Ralph Wardlaw, D.D., for his very appro- 
 priate and valuable sermon on behalf of this 
 Society." It was earnestly hoped that the 
 discourse ^\ould be published. We have not 
 been able to discover whether it was so or 
 not, but we are delighted that we are in a 
 position to place before our readei-s the 
 following charming passage in reference to 
 it, etc., which wc found at page 459 of the 
 "Memou-s of Dr. Wardlaw," by Dr. 
 Alexander. 
 
 " From an efirly period of his ministry. 
 Dr. Wardlaw had taken a lively interest in 
 the conversion of the Jews ; and this he main- 
 tained to the last. In March, 1852, he went 
 up to London, to preach the annual sermon 
 for the British Society for the Jews, taking 
 Halifax and Burnley in his way, at both of 
 which places he had Sabbath engagements. 
 Before leaving home he took part in the 
 ordination of Mr. Benjamin Weiss as a mis- 
 sionary to the Jews ; and on this occasion a 
 somewhat amusing incident occurred, which 
 gave birth to the following letter. In his 
 address. Dr. Wardlaw had avowed his belief 
 in the restoration of the Jews to their own 
 land, and had dwelt a little on this subject 
 with evident interest. He was followed by 
 the Eev. Dr. Macfarlane, of Erskine 
 Church, who, absorbed in the meditation of 
 his own appi'oaching address, had not been 
 conscious fif what Dr. Wardlaw had said on 
 1 his topic, and being of a different opinion, 
 he gave utterance to a rather emphatic pro- 
 test against such notions as had just been 
 advocated. Dr. Wardlaw sat very meekly 
 under the castigatiou his friend was un- 
 consciously administering to him, and went 
 home doubtless a little wondering in his 
 mind at what had happened, but resolved to 
 take it all in good part. On being informed. 
 
 however, of what had taken place, Dr. 
 Macfarlane immediately wrote to him, 
 explaining the circumstances, and expressing 
 his regret at the seeming disrespect with 
 which — most unintentionally — he had treated 
 him. The following is Dr. Wardlaw's 
 reply :— 
 
 "To THE Rev. Dii. Macf.\i{Lane. 
 "Garthamlack, Jlarch llth, 1852. 
 
 " My dear Friend — Isot the less dear, let 
 me first of all assure you, for what has 
 hapi)ened. I am sorry you should have 
 thought it necessary to come to the con- 
 fessional. But, since you have, I grant you 
 full absolution — most heartily. Ha, ha, ha ! 
 () it was so droll ! I .should not have wanted 
 the joke for scraetliing. It came out so 
 thunderingly : — ' Don't mind the nonsense 
 that old man has been talking about your 
 people's returning to their own land. No, 
 no ; nothing of the kind. Something far 
 better than that is in promise for them,' &c. 
 
 " My dear fiiend, I leceive your explana- 
 tion with the most undoubting confidence. 
 It was the fact of contradiction, but not the 
 spirit of contradiction. I can quite easily 
 understand, when you were about to speak 
 yourself, your mind wandering for a little 
 after what you had to say, or thinking what 
 part of it, if any abridgement should be 
 requisite, it would be best not to say. Your 
 wandering cnly chanced at a somewhat 
 unfortunate moment. And while I enjoy 
 the fun myself, I can quite sympathise with 
 your unpleasant feeling, from the impression 
 on other people's minds who have no 
 opportunity of hearing your explanation. 
 But you may comfort yourself with the 
 reflection that the point is very well known 
 to be a disputed one — that doctors are often 
 known to differ — and that one doctor has 
 just as good a right to speak out his views as 
 another. 
 
 "I congratulate myself on not Laving mis- 
 behaved, by laughing out in the face of the 
 congregation. Smile I did, and with a some- 
 what comical expression, I daresay — ha, ha, 
 ha ! once more. 
 
 " It is now getting late. But if I let this 
 and other notes stand till the morning — 
 having to go into town immediately after 
 breakfast — 1 may not get them written. 
 Goo<l night, then. Sleep in peace. 
 
 " All have joined in the laugh ; and all 
 join heartily in affectionate good wishes for 
 Mrs. M. and yourself, and family circle. 
 My very kind regards to an older friend, 
 who, I was glad to hear from his son on
 
 Four of the Second Band of Students. 
 
 363 
 
 Tuesday night, had again rallied, and was 
 considerably better. 
 
 " Mr.s. W. and I leave for the south on 
 either Friday or .Satiuxlay. I shall be 
 absent for two Sabbaths. — Your attached 
 friend, " IIalph Wardlaw." 
 
 How did this distinguished lover of the 
 Jews die ? His sufl'erings were inexpressibly 
 severe. " But amid all he was calm and 
 self-possessed, and his faith failed not. His 
 soul was centred on the cross as the basis of 
 his hopes, and his lively expectations 
 a.scended to the throne as the consummation 
 of his joys. When death overtook him, and 
 the powers of nature were fast giving way, 
 the words that were murmured over those 
 eloipient lips ou which hundreds had 
 delighted to hang were such as these : — ' The 
 
 Lamb — the Lamb .slain for me — the Lamb 
 in the midst of the throne — what a gloi'ious 
 prospect ! I shall see and be with the 
 Lamb.' And so he died, strong in faith and 
 love, and with no shadow on his bright and 
 happy spirit." 
 
 when Dr. Wardlaw died, he was within a 
 few days of completing his seventy-fourth 
 year. On the following Sabbath, Dr. 
 Macfarlane, the friend of Dr. Wardlaw 
 refeired to above, and one of the oldest 
 friends of the Society, occupied the vacant 
 pulpit at one of the diets of woi-ship, and 
 paid a touching tribute to the memory of 
 this eminent minister of the Gospel, in 
 whose godly life and gainful death he 
 found a grand opportunity of magnifying 
 Christ. 
 
 FOUR OF THE SECOND BAND OF STUDENTS AND THEIR 
 LABOURS IN THE MISSION FIELD. 
 
 Messrs. WILKINSON, GINSBURG, SALKINSON, and MOLLIS. 
 
 TTIESiE four young men after they had 
 linishcd their course of training, went 
 forth from the Society's College into the 
 Mission Field, " In the .strength of the 
 Lord, making mention of His righteousness 
 and of His only." 
 
 THE REV. JOHN WILKINSON, 
 LONDON. 
 
 ( With Portrait.) 
 
 The names of John Wilkinson .and C. D. 
 Ginsburg are coupled together and described 
 in the early Reports as each performing very 
 ably the double duties of Missionary and 
 Dejnitation. 
 
 In the fourteenth Report, presented at 
 the Annual Meeting in 1857, the two are 
 linked together thus : — 
 
 " The Rev. John Wilkinson and Mr. C. D. 
 Ginsburg have pursued their mission, like- 
 wise in London and other parts, with striking 
 instances of success, when not engaged (the 
 foi-mer for about eight months) in forming 
 or visiting local associations. The latter is 
 about to occupy Liverpool, and parts adjacent, 
 as his more permanent stations. We give 
 an extract from the Journal of the former, 
 as a specimen of the course adopted by these 
 two brethren : 
 
 '• ' Having now, as you are aware, two 
 spheres of labour — one, that of attempting 
 
 to awaken interest in Jewish evangelization, 
 by urging the claims of the Jews, anil 
 diffusing information respecting the work of 
 God amongst them, in sermons, lectures, and 
 addresses, before Christians of various 
 evangelical denominations, both in London 
 and in the provinces ; the other, that of 
 direct mission work among the Jews in 
 London ; I shall proceed to give some 
 account of my labours, and the apjiarent 
 success in each sphere, beginning with March 
 1S56, and ending with February 1857. 
 
 " ' Eight montJhs out of the twelve have 
 been employed in deputation work in the 
 provinces, and I think it right to give you a 
 faithful account, as far as I am able, of the 
 state of feeling among Christians generally 
 as to this peculiar department of Christian 
 enterprize. 
 
 " ' During the past year I have delivered 
 15S sermons, lectures, and addresses; several 
 of the addresses have been given to young 
 ladies at boarding-schools, for the purpose of 
 enlisting their warm sympathies in our cause 
 and not without encouraging results, both 
 immediate and more remote. After an address 
 to one school, the young ladies, on their own 
 account, sent me 5s. After an address to 
 another (belonging to the Society of Friends), 
 the young ladies collected among themselves 
 L5s, : and in another cage, a young lady who 
 had heard an address at school, when she left
 
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 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jetvs. 
 
 school became an energetic Collector for our 
 Society. Several thousands of children I 
 have also addressed during the year, on 
 Lord's-day afternoons, and many have been 
 the instances in which poor children have 
 voluntarily given their halfpennies and 
 pennies to send the Gospel to the Jews ; one 
 instance will suffice. Our excellent Secretary 
 at Scarborough, wi'iting to me on the day 
 after I left that place, says:— "You went 
 too soon yesterday, for had you remained an 
 
 of Scripture which refer to the certain 
 conversion of the Jews to the faith of Jesus ; 
 those which refer to the duty of Christians 
 to labour and piay for that conversion ; and 
 those which refer to the influence of that 
 conversion instrumental ly upon the world, 
 ai-e being closely studied ; the natural result 
 of which is adeeper concein foi' the conversion 
 of Israel. This has been manifested in many 
 spirited and piofitable conversations in the 
 social circles of ministers and friends, 
 
 KEV. JOHN WILKINSON. 
 
 [iSlioll 4- 1-riJ. 
 
 hour or two longer, you would have been 
 gratified by the call of two little girls, who 
 brought one shilling for New Testaments, 
 which they had collected from their school- 
 fellows in pence." May we not reasonably 
 hope for very cheeiing results, by the blessing 
 of God, in the course of a few years, from 
 the efforts made to enlist the sympathies of 
 the young ? 
 
 " ' Amongst adult Christians, of various 
 denominations, a healthy, scriptural interest 
 is evidently on the increase. Those portions 
 
 brought together to meet the deputation 
 fi-om the Parent Society. How cheering the 
 fact, that, spite of the amount of prejudice 
 still remaining in the minds of many Christ- 
 ians — prejudice more or less the result of 
 defective information, there is ,an interest 
 felt and manifested in Israel's spiritual 
 welfare, deeper and more extensive than has 
 ever before been witnessed in the Christian 
 church since apostolic times. This has been 
 evinced in a variety of forms, as, for instance 
 less difficulty in obtaining the use of chapela
 
 Faur of the Second Band of Students. 
 
 3G5 
 
 to holil our meetings, the crowded gatherings 
 ;it many of those meetings, especially where 
 two or three congregations have been 
 addressed in the same town on the Sunday 
 previous — under such circumstances, in two 
 or thi-ee instances, we have had present at 
 our public meeting 800 to 1,000 persons in 
 towns numbering not more than 10 or 12 
 thousand inhabitants ; and also evinced by 
 private individuals, in a very practical form 
 after lectures — two or three instances are 
 worthy of record. At the close of one of 
 my lectures in Lincolnshire, a lady presented 
 some of her jewels for the purpose of send- 
 ing the Gospel to the seed of Abraham. 
 After a lecture in one of the towns of 
 Yorkshire, and j ast before leaving the place 
 on the following morning, a Scotch sei'vant 
 girl came to me before breakfast, stating 
 th.at she had been to three or four places to 
 give her shilling to send the Gospel to the 
 Jew. She gave her shilling and said, "You 
 are welcome to that, I would gladly give more 
 but cannot." Very recently, after a lecture 
 in a Wesleyan Chapel in Sussex, three ladies 
 belonging to the Society of Friends came 
 into the vestry to express their interest in the 
 welfare of Israel ; and after a short conver- 
 sation, two of them presented a sovereign 
 each, and the third half a sovereign. 
 According to their request, I called upon 
 them at their hotel on the following morning 
 and had a lengthened conversation with 
 another friend, who also gave me a sovereign 
 before I left. Another fact, and one which 
 possesses some degree of interest, I will 
 mention, though the course of conduct out 
 of which it arose was somewhat novel ; it is 
 this : Having had my attention directed to 
 two or three pieces of- poetry, calculated to 
 awaken and increase interest in the Jews, I 
 committed them to memory, simply for the 
 sake of having them in safe keeping, and 
 occasionally quoted one or other of them in 
 my speech or lecture, I very (juickly had 
 more requests for copies than I could find 
 time to write out and supply, so had some 
 printed for gratuitous distribution ; but 
 finding the expense of printing considerable 
 and feehng at the same time that any 
 responsibility for loss sustained ought to rest 
 with myself, I resolved to sell them at one 
 shilling per dozen, and to give the proceeds, 
 if any, to the British Society. Three sums 
 h:ive been handed in during the year, clear 
 of all expense, namely, £S 9s. ; £2 2s. Gd. ; 
 and £7; in all £17 1 Is. Od. Besides this, 
 .several dozens of " Iltrahh " have been sold 
 
 not so much to increase the profits of the 
 periodical, as to diffuse information tending 
 to keep alive a concern for the salvation of 
 Israel. 
 
 " ' Though pleading the cause of Israel 
 through the Provinces has been attended 
 with a considerable amount of mental and 
 physical strain, I have always felt happy in 
 the work, because of its being a work deeply 
 interesting to my Lord and Saviour, and I 
 have frequently realized a cheering sen.se of 
 my Savour's presence and smile while labour- 
 ing for Him. My whole desire is, 
 
 '' To spend and tu be .spent for them 
 Who have not yet my Saviour known." 
 
 And now as to my labours among God's 
 ancient people themselves, I may say, I have 
 embraced every favourable opportunity of 
 preaching the Gospel to them while passing 
 through provincial towns in which they 
 reside. I have distributed a goodly numbei- 
 of Tracts and New Testaments, both in 
 Hebrew and in English, and have been much 
 plea.sed to witness the kindness with which 
 they have been received, and the eagei-ness 
 to become acquainted with their contents ; 
 and am fully persuaded that an extensive 
 distribution of good Tracts, especially 
 amongst the young, would, by God's blessing, 
 be followed by cheering results. I have 
 lecently adopted the following course : — On 
 Saturday, between the hours of morning 
 and afternoon service, I go directly to the 
 Jewish quarter, having previously filled my 
 pockets with Tracts enclosed in envelopes, 
 addres.sed, in Hebrew, " Son of Israel," and 
 distribute them amongst young men, at the 
 same time addressing a few plain, pointed 
 sentences relating to the salvation of the 
 soul. On Saturday last I pursued such a 
 course amongst about thirty — all young men 
 up to 20 or 25 years of age, and about an 
 equal number of English and Germans. 
 
 Two Interesting Cases. 
 
 I. 
 
 '■ ' Among the cases which have come 
 under my notice during the past year, as 
 commanding my confidence as to their 
 sincerity, I may be permitted to mention 
 two : — One is of a young Polish Jew, about 
 25 years of ago. I met with him in ] )alston, 
 while walking along the roa.d, and having 
 had a conversation with him, during which 
 I was veiy favourably impressed, iu\ited 
 him to my hou.se. He came, and told me he 
 had been in England about four years. He
 
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 told me he had deserted from the Russian 
 service, and after having been exposed to 
 many hardships and privations he reached 
 this country in safety, but with very little 
 money, and totally ignorant of the language ; 
 and that which aggravated his distress was 
 the fact that his father is comparatively in 
 easy, if not in affluent circumstances, as an 
 innkeeper in Poland, and willing to assist 
 him, but cannot do so. He has a brother in 
 New York ; that brother having learned 
 that he had come to England sent him three 
 pounds, and a ticket for a free passage to 
 America. The money and the ticket were 
 sent to the care of a Jew in Manchester, but 
 of the kindness of his brother in America he 
 knew nothing until informed in a letter 
 from his father, which he received while at 
 Bradford : he immediately went oft" to 
 Manchester, obtained the money and the 
 ticket, returned to Bradford to pay some 
 small arrears to a German family with whom 
 he had been staying a few days, slept there 
 that night, expecting to leave with a light 
 heart on the following morning, but to his 
 great disappointment and deep sorrow, both 
 his money and ticket were stolen from his 
 box during the night, and, to use his own 
 simple and touching words, he said, " I 
 cried hard." He has WTitten twice oi' three 
 times to his brother since to tell him about 
 it, but having received no reply, he feels 
 sure his brother has eithei- left New York or 
 is dead. He then turned his attention to 
 the business of a glazier ! to obtain an honest 
 livelihood, and has had to labour hard under 
 a delicate fiame in order to accomplish it. 
 I soon found myself in the company of one 
 who loved the Word of God, and who 
 possessed a considerable knowledge of the 
 historical portions of it, but had not paid 
 close attention to the prophecies. He sat 
 with me two hours while I read portions of 
 the Hebi'ew Scriptures, and expounded them 
 to him, and manifested special interest in the 
 53rd of Isaiah. He now comes regularly 
 for Chiistian instruction ! and on Saturday 
 last appeared amazingly interested in reading 
 with me the defence of Stephen, and the 
 conversion of Saul of Tarsus. May the God 
 of Israel overrule the wanderings of this 
 Son of Abraham to England, and the 
 privations through which he has passed, for 
 his spiritual welfare here and hereafter ! 
 
 II. 
 
 " ' The other case to which I refer, is, so 
 far as I can judge, a case of decided conversion. 
 
 He is a CJerman Jew, about 28 years of age. 
 I first met with him in the street, employed 
 in the same calling as the one just referred 
 to, had a friendly conversation with him, 
 gave him tracts, and invited him to my house. 
 He came, brought a friend with him, a youth 
 about 18, and to both on several occasions I 
 I'ead and expounded the Hebrew Scrifjlures, 
 in which they manifested a deep interest. 
 The younger one left the country, but the 
 elder stili remained. However, I lost sight 
 of him during a three months' tour in the 
 provinces, but, to my surprise and pleasure, 
 he entered my dwelling immediately on mj' 
 return. I perceived at once that something 
 agitated his mind, and he began to thank 
 me foi' having spoken to him of the Lord 
 Jesus Christ. He had had conversations 
 with other Christians during my absence, 
 and, having read the new Testament care- 
 fully, he said, " I am fully convinced of the 
 !Messiahship of Jesus ; laefore I read the 
 New Testament you gave me, I had not the 
 idea that Jesus was the character described 
 there ; indeed, I thought Him an impostor, 
 and English Chi'istianity a sort of refined 
 idolatry. I have been a blasphemer, but 
 I did not know that Jesus was the Messiah, 
 or I would not hav-e blasphemed His name ; " 
 and, as the tears rolled quicklj'downhis cheek, 
 he asked, " Do you think there is any mercy 
 for me ? " I at once declared to him the 
 glorious Truth that ''God .so loved the world, 
 that He gave His only-begotten Son, that 
 whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish." 
 And further, " There is no difl^erence between 
 the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord 
 over all is rich unto all that call upon Him." 
 We had pi-aj-er together on that and on 
 subsequent occasions, while he penitently 
 sought the mercy of God in Jesus Christ. 
 After an absence of several mouths again, 
 and fearing I had entirely lost all trace of 
 him, I, as by accident, met with him a few 
 weeks ago at a temperance meeting ; the 
 moment he recognized me, he sprang to me, 
 to tell me what the Lord had done for his 
 soul. After some conversation, it was agreed 
 that he should take tea with me on the 
 following evening. On the following evening 
 he told me of all he had been called upon to 
 sutler for Christ's sake. He said, " I have 
 had letters from my father to persuade me 
 back again. I have had th(> persua.sions and 
 the curses of the lliibbis. I have had to 
 give a writing of divorcement to my wife, 
 for she would no longer live with me. The 
 Jews tempted me with money when I almost
 
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 wanted bread. However," said he, " I 
 have left all for Christ's sake, and the God 
 of Israel will provide." He is now in a 
 comfortable situation, and gaining an honest 
 livelihood. I was much pleased to hear him 
 say, " I for a long time believed, with my 
 head, that Jesus was the Messiah, before I 
 felt in my heart that His precious blood had 
 washed my sins away." We prayed together 
 before we separated, and my soul was much 
 refreshed, while this ' Israelite indeed ' 
 expressed, in beautiful simplicity and holy 
 fervour, his entire reliance on the atonement 
 made by Jesus Christ for the sins of the Jew 
 and Gentile. Amid all discouragements, I 
 feel resolved, prayerfully, to make more 
 vigorous and extended ettbrts in this glorious 
 work, feeling at the same time, in reference 
 to the past, we have cause to " thank God 
 and take courage.' " 
 
 In 1859, Mr. Wilkinson wrote : — 
 " During the past year, I have preached 
 the Gospel to hundreds of Israelites in their 
 shops and houses, and in the open streets, 
 and have sat down with them on the stones 
 in the Cattle-market, Copenhagen-fields, 
 speaking to the Holland Israelites of things 
 concerning the Kingdom of God, — have dis- 
 tributed many hundreds of tracts in Hebrew, 
 German, Butch, and English ; — and several 
 New Testaments have been welcomed at 
 Jewish houses this year, where they were 
 refused admission last year, — chiefly were 
 informed that the Testament had been pur- 
 chased Ijy the pennies of Sunday School 
 Children, and given as an expression of love 
 to that people through whom Gentiles have 
 received so many and rich blessings. The 
 general aspects of the Mission work are very 
 hopeful. Blasphemies, or even disrespectful 
 expressions respecting Jesus of Nazareth, are 
 now, I believe, less frequently heard in con- 
 ver.sation with Jews than with unbelieving 
 Gentiles. The New Testament is being read 
 by the house of Israel to an extent never 
 known before duiing the whole peiiod of the 
 Christian era. Talmudism, and even modern 
 Judaism, is losing its hold upon large masses 
 of Jews, specially of the young. The 
 principles of the Go-spel of our Lord Jesus 
 Christ are permeating more or le.ss all of 
 Jewish societj^, and never before, during the 
 period of the Society's existence, was there 
 so much to cheer the heart, to brighten hope, 
 to strengthen faith, and to beckon onward. 
 A Jew — a young man — wliose acquaintance 
 I formed about three years ago, 1 have 
 recently baptized in the name of the Holy 
 
 Trinity, and he is walking in the fear of God, 
 and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost. 
 Another young man whom I met in Lincoln- 
 shire last November, has been brought to a 
 knowledge of the Truth as it is in Jesus, has 
 asked for Ch»-istian baptism, and I am now 
 making arrangements for baptizing him in 
 London (on Good Friday) prior to his 
 emigrating with some Christian friends to 
 New Zealand. And, oh ! if the existence of 
 the Jew has puzzled the intidel for centuries, 
 shall not his conversion confound the sceptic 
 of every shade, demonstrate the Truth of 
 Di%ine revelation, magnify the grace of God 
 in saving such sinners, and hold out the hope 
 of mercy to man universal ? Already a goodly 
 number of Christian Israelites are praying 
 the inspired prayer of David the Jew, ' God 
 be meiciful unto us and bless us, and cause 
 His face to shine upon us, that Thy way may 
 be known upon earth, Thy saving health 
 among all nations ; ' and are exercising David's 
 faith, ' God shall bless us, and all the ends of 
 the earth shall fear Him.' " 
 
 In reference to his IMLssionary engagements 
 and deputation work, he wrote as follows 
 in I860:— 
 
 " I have access to 50 families and about 
 100 individuals. They receive me kindly, 
 and listen for hours together while I read 
 and explain to them portions of the Holy 
 Scriptures. The longer I labour, the more 
 do I perceive that the work is ever going on, 
 and that, too, in hearts where the Missionary 
 least expected it. 
 
 " During my deputation work, I have had 
 many opportunities of preaching Christ to 
 the Jew, and of .sowing in his heart the good 
 seed of the kingdom. Our Mission becomes, 
 year by year, more encouraging. 
 
 A JEW DYING IN JESUS. 
 
 " A very interesting case of a Jew dying 
 in Jesus, has been under my care duiing the 
 last four or five months. His personal history 
 is a marvel. Truly, in prevention and pro- 
 vision, the Lord's guiding hand may be seen 
 in every step of his journey through life. 
 The chief points in his history I have taken 
 down in writing from his own lips, with the 
 design to publish shortly a connected sketch. 
 His wife is dying in one room, and he in 
 anothei- ; his body a complete wreck, but his 
 •soul ripening for glory : indeed, scarcely any 
 one can visit him, however deeply experienced 
 in the things of God, but they will find 
 themselves scholars at his bedside. There 
 is much more of privilege than duty associated
 
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 Memories of Gospel Triumphs amxmg the Jews. 
 
 with visits there. I administered to him the 
 emblems of the broken body and shed blood 
 of Jesus. His wife was an obsei-ver, though 
 not a partaker. She saw what she had 
 never seen before, and was greatly affected 
 when told she could not go to heaven in her 
 present state, for she evidently trusted in her 
 own righteousness. Her husband wrestled 
 all night in prayer as he lay on his bed, and 
 God heard and answered — his wife now pro- 
 fesses joy and peace as the result of trust in 
 Christ alone. 
 
 " The Jew I baptized at Derby, some 
 twelve or fifteen months ago, has recently 
 been heavily afflicted. I visited him when 
 supposed to be very near death, and his 
 testimony was : — ' Jesus is more precious to 
 me now I am ill than He was when I was 
 well.' The young Jew I baptized in London 
 on Good Friday, and who shortly afterwards 
 left with other Christian friends for New 
 Zealand, is still living in the fear of God, 
 and adorning his Christian profession. I had 
 a letter from him recently in -which he 
 says : — ' I cannot express my feelings to you. 
 God has been very kind to me — yea, I trust 
 He is in my heart. Thank God, I did not 
 leave England before I found Jesus.' I could 
 write much moi'e that is deeply interesting, 
 but other demands upon my time forbid. 
 There is enough to cause devout gratitude to 
 God for the pa.st, and well-founded hope for 
 the future. To God be all the praise ! " 
 
 Mr. Wilkin.son continued this important 
 work in connection with the Society, until he 
 felt it to be his duty to resign and e.stablish the 
 Mild ma// Mission to the Jens, of which he 
 still remains the honoured and able Director. 
 The Lord spare him, his amiable and godly 
 wife and family, the Chief of the Mildmay 
 Mission Staff, the Eev. James Adler, who 
 Ls also a spu-itual son of the British Society, 
 and all others associated with them in gather- 
 ing Jewish gems for the Crown of our King. 
 
 EEV. C. D. GINSBTJEG, LIVEEPOOL. 
 
 {With Portrait) 
 
 Extracts From Mr. Ginsburg's 
 Journal. 
 lS.-,9. 
 "In reviewing uiy labours of the past 
 year, I find great cause for gratitude and 
 encouragement. Notwithstanding the serious 
 illness with which I have been visited, and 
 which laid me aside from my work for a 
 eonsideralile time, I have already been privi- 
 
 leged to see some cheering results from the 
 twofold work in which I have been engaged. 
 
 " My Missionary labours amongst my 
 brethren, in this my new sphere of operation, 
 are gradually extending and increase pro- 
 portionately both the sorrows and joy of the 
 labourer, inasmuch, as he must, like his 
 ^Master, sympathize with the temporal iis 
 well as with the spiritual wants of the 
 people ; and yet, alas ! too often he is unable 
 te give with the one hand the absolute 
 necessities of the starving body, whilst 
 endeavouring to administer with the other 
 the bread of life to the perishing soul. 
 
 " I shall not attempt to give you an 
 account of the many interesting visits which 
 itinerant Jews, passing through this large 
 town, have paid me, and which I have paid 
 them, as this is impossible ; but I will mention 
 (for the encouragement of those Christian 
 friends who labour and pray for the salva- 
 tion of Israel) a few individuals who reside 
 here permanently, to whom the preaching of 
 Christ crucilied is becoming the power of God 
 unto salvation. 
 
 '• Mr. S , the brother of our Missionary, 
 
 continues to come to me for religious 
 instruction and conversation, and I am very 
 happy to see that he does not conceal from 
 his Jewish brethren, with whom he lives, the 
 progress which he makes in the Truth as it is 
 in Jesus ; but endeavoin-s to convei'se with 
 them about every discovery he makes of the 
 connexion between the Old and New Testa- 
 ments, and now and then brings me a fresh 
 
 Jew. Mr. S attends the excellent and 
 
 faithful ministry of the Eev. Dr. Eaffles, and 
 often speaks to me about the sermons, which 
 he much enjoys. 
 
 " Mr. B is another regular inquirer. The 
 
 gradual progress of the Truth upon the heart 
 and mind of this son of Abraham is truly 
 delightful and beyond description. His joy 
 in discovering a fresh evidence that Jesus of 
 Nazareth is the Messiah promised to our 
 forefathers is at times so great, that he in- 
 voluntarily exclaims in astonishment, ' How 
 blind our Eabbins and our learned men are, 
 
 not to see it!' Mr. B has been and 
 
 still is much persecuted by the Jews for his 
 faith in Christ. His greatest sufferings, 
 however, are from his wife, whom the Jews 
 have set against him, and who has been 
 excited to great bitterness by the disgrace 
 heaped upon her child in the Jewish school, 
 because the father goes to the missionary. Mr. 
 
 B has three children, wlicm he is very 
 
 anxious to bring up in the nurture and
 
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 369 
 
 .admoiiition of the IjOI-J ; he, too, occasionally 
 attends Dr. Raflles' ministry. If I could 
 give you .some idea of the enmity of this 
 Jew to Christianity, when he first came to 
 me, you would then be able to understand my 
 inispeakable joy in seeing the saving change 
 which the preaching of the Gospel is eftecting 
 in him. Let the friends of Israel unite 
 ■with me in prayer, that he and his wife and 
 his children may form an unbi'okeu family 
 at the right hand of the !Sa%'iour ! 
 
 the society in Bradford, a woi-kingman came 
 up to speak to me, and gave me a sovereign 
 towards the loss which our excellent 
 Missionary, Mr. f rellert, sustained ; an 
 example worthy of imitation." 
 
 EESIGNATION OF Mil. OINSBURG : EXTRACT 
 FIIOM THE REPORT FOR 1863. 
 
 " With the close of the year our engage- 
 ment with two of the missionaries terminates. 
 Mr. Ginsburg, whose literary attainments have 
 
 DR. QINSBDRG. 
 
 [Elliott i- Fnj. 
 
 " I have also been greatly encouraged in 
 my Deputation roork. The small interest in 
 and the great prejudice against my Jewish 
 brethren, I generally find are owing to the 
 scanty knowledge which Christians have of 
 the Jews, and of the operations of the ftospcl 
 .among them. lUit wherever information is 
 imparted, prejudices are removed, Christian 
 syiiL[i:itliit's .are awakened, and Gentile 
 Cin-istians see, that not only is salvntiim of 
 the .Tews, \mi for the .)ews. 
 .•• 'I'lie other d:iy, after a meeting held for 
 
 won for him the degree of LL.D. from tlie 
 University of Glasgow, has, on account of 
 health, withdrawn from the agency of the 
 Society, Ijut hopes to render gratuitflii^ ser- 
 vice as occ:\,sion requires, and which will al- 
 ways be highly appreciated. And Mr. Kessler, 
 who has accepted an appointment by the 
 Ijondon Missionary Society, as a Missionary 
 tf> ]\[ad.igascar. Ih^ will cirry with him the 
 same (Sospol which ho h.ad di.sjicn.sed here. 
 He will lie borne upon our hearts in prayer; 
 ;iii<l it may I c ^liat the tidings of salvation 
 
 BB
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs ariiong the Jeivs. 
 
 370 
 
 unfolded by a Jewish messenger to the isles 
 affir off may realize the ancient promise, and 
 lead many to Jesus." 
 
 Dr. Ginsburg's Great Work. 
 1877. 
 
 THE MASSORAH. 
 
 • Jewish literature is, like the Jewish people 
 a mystery. It is an unknown land or known 
 only to a few hardy and resolute explorers. 
 When a few years ago an enthusiastic and 
 accomplished Jew wrote his tale of the 
 Talmud, it came upon the world with the 
 surprise of a discovery. Men marvelled 
 that such treasures should so long have lain 
 hid. To the vast majority of Christian 
 students, to the vast majority even of the 
 Jews themselves, the Talmud was like a 
 buried city — a few fragments had been dug 
 out, but those seemed of no great value and 
 did not invite to further research. " Let it 
 alone," men said, '-you will find nothing better 
 there, however far you may push your search 
 than a long series of irregular lumber-rooms 
 tapestried with Rabbinical cobwebs." No 
 doubt the explorer of these strange recesses 
 did excellent service in bringing to light some 
 curious and interesting objects, and gave 
 fresh impulse to a neglected study. No doubt 
 the tale was told with singular \avacity and 
 with a picturesqueness of grouping and 
 colour which charmed and dazzled the 
 imagination. But sober readers withheld 
 their assent from the writer's brilliant 
 paradoxes, and it was manifest that the 
 enthusiasm of a man who felt he was to the 
 mass of men in the position of a discoverer 
 had betrayed him into seiious, if pardonable, 
 exaggeration. 
 
 The department of Jewish literature to 
 which we are now about to introduce our 
 readers is of a very diflerent kind ; one that 
 has been equally neglected, one that appeals 
 far less powerfully to the imagination, but 
 one in many respects of a greater importance, 
 and the investigation of which is likely to 
 lead to more useful and pi-actical results. 
 For the last IS years another distinguished 
 scholiii'. Dr. Ginsburg, ha.s been engaged in 
 the laborious work of collecting the materials 
 for a critical edition of the Old Testament 
 Scriptures. It has long been a reproach to 
 our Biblical .scholarship that .so little has been 
 done for the text of the Old Testament. 
 The labours of Kennicott, from which so 
 much was expected, pioducod nothing but 
 disappointment; his collation of MSS., not 
 
 being based on any sound principles, was 
 practically worthless. De Rossi's was very 
 much better, but neithei' he nor Kennicott 
 troubled himself about the JIassorah, with- 
 out a thorough acquaintance with which no 
 critical text can be constructed. It is to 
 this point that Dr. Ginsburg has more 
 particularly directed his attention, and here 
 we may expect some valuable results ; for 
 hitherto a curious misapprehension has 
 attached to what is familiarly known as the 
 Massoretic text. What is the Massorah ? 
 The Word Massorah, or, as it ought to be 
 written, Massoreth, me.ans tradition. The 
 text in our printed Bibles Ls commonly 
 suppo.sed to be the text as settled by a 
 certain body of men called Massoretes, who 
 were the custodians of this tradition. No 
 mi.stake could be greater. The Massoretes 
 were not a single body of men or a single 
 school ; the Massoreth is not a single 
 collection of marginal glosses establishing 
 for ever one uniform text. On the contrary, 
 the Massoretes were learned annotators, 
 belonging to many schools, and their marginal 
 annotations vary considerably in diflerent 
 copies. The Eastern Recension diffei-s from 
 the Western, and the diflerent families of 
 MSS. belong to the latter — French, German, 
 Italian, and Spanish, pre.sent more or less 
 considerable variations. The critical value 
 of these glosses consist in the fact that the 
 labours of the Massoretes were directed to 
 the careful enumeration of all the words and 
 phrases of the Bible. The marginal note 
 tells us exactly how often each particular 
 grammatical form nnd each phrase occuis in 
 the whole Bible and in the several books, 
 and also in what sense it is employed. It is 
 obvious then, at a glance, that no new rea<ling 
 could creep into a pa.s.'^age without being 
 immediately detected. The scribe may make 
 a blunder, but the Massoreth checks it ; for 
 the ISIassoreth is not the compilation of the 
 scribe who copies it, but istnken from model 
 codices of a much earlier date. 
 
 The extreme minuteness of this verbal 
 criticism has so multiplied and has been 
 carried to such an extent, that I'^lias Levita 
 .says in his work on the Mas,sorcth, that lie 
 lielieves that if all the words of the Great 
 Massoreth which he had seen in the days of 
 his life were written down and bound up in 
 a volume, it would exceed in bulk all the 24 
 books of the Bible. Only two attc'mpts li.ive 
 been made to collect these scattered notes 
 and glos,ses, the one in the well-known woik 
 entitled Ochlah-ve-Ochhih, the other ill
 
 Foiir of the Second Band of Students. 
 
 571 
 
 Yakol) ben Chayyim's Rabbinic Bible, 
 published at Venice in 152(3. But Dr. 
 Ginsburg has done far more than his 
 prcdeces.sors in the same field. With infinite 
 pains and labour he has collected and 
 digested this vast mass of textual criticism. 
 For the first time the Hebrew scholar will 
 really know what the Massoreth is. Hitherto, 
 as we have said, it has been scattered in a 
 number of different MSS., often wi'itten in 
 the form of an ornamental border to the 
 text in minute characters and with many 
 abbreviations, and in many cases requiring 
 not only great patience, but a wide 
 acquaintance with the Massoretic scribes for 
 its decipherment. Now, all these various 
 editions of the text, all these traditional 
 notes, will be classified and arranged under 
 the head of the several MSS. to which they 
 belong, in parallel column.s, so that the eye 
 will .see at a glance how far the ISISS. agi-ee, 
 the additions in one case, the deficiencies or 
 variations in another. 
 
 There is, however, one feature of Dr. 
 Ginsburg's to which we wish to call especial 
 attention. It is the use he has been able to 
 make of the Eastern or Babylonian recension 
 of text and Mas.soreth for comparison with 
 the Western. It was well known that a 
 divergence did exist between these two re- 
 censions, and that as there was very early a 
 different system of vocalization, as well as a 
 difference in traditions between the Eastern 
 and Western Jews, so there was also a 
 difference in their MSS. of the Bible. But 
 before the year 1840 the only record of that 
 difference that had been preserved was the 
 list of variations given in Yacob ben Chay- 
 yim's Bible, which was extremely defective. 
 Now, however, a very important discovery 
 has been made. Among the MSS. recently 
 acquired by the Imperial Library at St. 
 Petersburg, there is, besides a fragment of 
 the Pentateuch, a MS. containing the whole 
 of the later Prophets, exhibiting the Eastern 
 recension ; and as this MS. hns also the 
 Massoreth, we are enabled thei-ebj' to ascer- 
 tain the Oriental reading of a large number 
 of pa.ssages in other books of the Bible, be- 
 sides those which are compri.sed in the jSIS. 
 We thus get a recension of the text, which 
 is very much earlier than any existing MS. 
 of which the age is di.sputed. 
 
 It must always be a matter of the deepest 
 regi-et that no Hebrew MS. of the Bible of 
 any antiquity has come down to us ; for on 
 how m.-iny dark pa.ss;iges might light be 
 cast if a codex were discovered even as 
 
 ancient as the most ancient MSS. of tho 
 New Testament ? It mu.st always enhance 
 our regret to reflect that Christian barbarism 
 is, to a large extent, responsible for this 
 ciilamity. The savage and unrelenting per- 
 secution of the Jews has left an indelible blot 
 on the pages of Christian history from the be- 
 ginning of the 1 1th century to the middle of 
 the 16th. There is not a European nation, 
 scarcely a Europeantownof any magnitude the 
 annals of which .are not disgraced by the intoler- 
 able cruelties practised on this people. Popes, 
 Fathers and Councils vied with each other in 
 denouncing them. Edict after edict was issued 
 against them ; no insult was too coarse for them . 
 Jew and devil were synonymous terms in the 
 Christian vocabulary; they were outside the 
 pale of humanity. Again and again the fury 
 of the populace, stirred up often by renegades 
 of their own nation, was let loose upon them ; 
 their houses were plundered, their property 
 confiscated, their wives and children violated 
 before their eyes. The tale of " Christian 
 Atrocities " in those ages reads in many exact 
 particulars like the tale of " Turkish Atroci- 
 ties," with which we have all of late been 
 familiar. Thousands of Jews were compelled 
 to abjure their faith and to submit to bap- 
 tism ; thousands more wei'e banished from 
 the cities or countries in which they had 
 settled ; great multitudes were tortured and 
 cruelly put to death. Their Selicthoth or 
 Synagogue hymns for centuries were one 
 gi'eat waO going up to heaven, a cry like the 
 cry of the souls pleading beneath the altar, 
 " Lord, how long ? " a bitter lamentation, 
 the burden of weeping and great mourning, 
 as of Rachel weeping for her children and 
 refusing to be comforted. 
 
 In these outbursts of religious fanaticism 
 we know that many precious books and 
 MSS. perished. Synagogues were plundered, 
 burnt, razed to the ground, and the rolls of 
 the Law torn to pieces and strewed in 
 the streets. On the 17th of June, 124-1, 
 twenty-four cartloads of ]\ISS. were burnt in 
 Paris alone. "1 have not a single book left," 
 writes a French Rabbi to R. Meir of Rothen- 
 berg : " the oppressor has taken from us our 
 treasures." 5lany books were thrown into 
 wells ; many were buried in the earth to 
 conceal them from Christians. The posses- 
 sor of one Codex thanks God that he and not 
 the earth has been the means of preserving 
 it " We are forbidden," writes Abr. ibn 
 Ramoch, at the clo.se of the 14th century, 
 " to have the Torah (the Law) in our pos- 
 session, and other books which they have 
 
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 372 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumplm among the Jews. 
 
 carried off into the churches." Another 
 complaint that the holy books were disfigured 
 by the ruthless hand of the Christian scribe, 
 and many a fair parchment cut to pieces and 
 made to serve for repairing the boots of the 
 Nazarene. It is the persecution of Antio- 
 chus Epiphanes repeated, intensified, pro- 
 longed through centuries. 
 
 Add to all this the fact that it has been 
 the practice of the Jews themselves to con- 
 sign to oblivion all imperfect copies of their 
 Scriptures. The Talmud enacts that if a 
 copy of the Law have two errors in a page it 
 shall be corrected ; if three, it shall be stowed 
 away. The act by which this is done is called 
 the Genizah. By the Kararite Jews the 
 receptacle itself in which incorrect or muti- 
 lated copies of the Bible were placed were 
 called Genizah, but it is not so called in the 
 Talmud. The receptacles in which all imper- 
 fect or injured MS>S. of the kind are placed 
 are called by the German Jews " Shemoth- 
 boxes," in allusion to the name (Shemoth) of 
 God, because every scrap on which that name 
 might chance to be wi-itten, as might be the 
 case \\'ith any leaf of the Bible, was held too 
 sacred to be destroyed, and must, there- 
 fore, be solemnly deposited in the receptacle 
 pi-epared for it. No Hebrew MS. was, 
 therefore, preserved by the Jews merely on 
 the ground of antiquity, and taking the cir- 
 cumstance into connexion with the wholesale 
 destruction of MSS. by Christians during the 
 IMiddle Ages, to which we have already re- 
 ferred, it can no longer appear surprising 
 that our oldest MSS. are to comparatively 
 late. 
 
 Thus Jews and Christians have conspired 
 together for the destruction of these precious 
 documents. The earliest known MS. of the 
 Old Testament (which is in the University 
 Library at Cambridge) only dates from the 
 middle of the ninth century. A fragment 
 belonging to the beginning of the same cen- 
 tui-y is in the Library at St. Petersburg. 
 The beautiful MS. of the Later Prophets in 
 the same Library, already referred to, bears 
 the date a.d. 916. We must not, therefore, 
 indulge unreasonable expectations. It is 
 scarcely probable that even Dr. Ginsburg's 
 collations will furnish us with a hm/e harvest 
 of important textual variations. ]t will give 
 \is, what we never had before, ». really accu- 
 rate collation of all the be.st MSS. of the 
 Old Testament, together with a complete 
 view of the IMas.'^oreth of each. The work 
 will (ill foiu' folio volumes when finislied. 
 The publication of such a work is an enter- 
 
 prise too great to be accomplisheil by any 
 single indi\'idual unassisted. But it may be 
 hoped that our Univereities, and that Biblical 
 scholars in this and other countries will take 
 care that the funds requisite for its publica- 
 tion are forthcoming. We cordially con- 
 gratulate Dr. Ginsburg on having brought 
 his labours so nearly to their conclu.sion, and 
 thank him in the name of all students of the 
 Hebrew Bible for this most important con- 
 tribution to the formation of a critical text 
 of the Old Testament. — Times. 
 
 TOE M.\SSOEAn SENT TO VIENNA BY A QUEEN's 
 MESSENGER. 
 
 Lord Salisbury forwarded the MS. of Dr. 
 Ginsburg's edition of the " Massorah" by a 
 Queen's Messenger to Vienna. As the MS. 
 filled nine folio volumes, the author could 
 not carry it with him in a railway carriage, 
 nor did he dare to risk sending it as ordinary 
 luggage, and, had not the Foreign Secretary 
 assisted him, it is difficult to see how the 
 magnvm opus would have got to its destina- 
 tion. The Oi'ientalists of Vienna were much 
 pleased at the printing being confided to an 
 Austrian house, and it was certainly not 
 creditable to Bible-loving England that a 
 foreign firm should be able to print the work 
 much more i-apidly and cheaply than any 
 English printing-office. Dr. Ginsburg has 
 compiled in the course of his labours 
 four concordances to the Massorah, one of 
 proper names, one of particles, one of aTrat 
 Xtyd/ifi'fi which is, in part, double, there being 
 a list arranged according to initial letters, 
 and another arranged according to final 
 letters, and one of proi)er names. 
 
 MK. salkinson's connection wrni the 
 
 MASSOEAH. 
 
 Mr. Salkinson has told us, in the sub- 
 joined statement, how he was led to help 
 Dr. Ginsburg in the publication of his great 
 work : — 
 
 " In September, 1878, Dr. Gin.sburg came 
 to Vienna to I'eceive estimates for the print- 
 ing of his work, and it was .at the end of 
 that month that he accepted Mr. Biiig's esti- 
 mate, and ari'anged to let this gentleman 
 print the Massorah. Dr. Ginsburg. wlio 
 had for ye.ars been cng.aged on this gig.-uitic 
 work, sulleredthen fi-om ill-health and sleep- 
 less nights, arising from an overwrought 
 brain, lender the.se circumst.ances it was 
 but natural for me to oH'or my old friend 
 whatever helji lay in my [lowcr in connection
 
 Four of the Second Band of Students. 
 
 373 
 
 w.th the printing of this Biblical work, and 
 I accordingly proflered him my assistance. 
 Herore, however, any arrangement could be 
 made for it, and before I even knew how I 
 could help him, I thought it my duty to ask 
 the Committee about it. Accordingly, in 
 the first week of October, 1878, i.e., six 
 weeks before I commenced checking the 
 re\T[ses, I wrote to the Secretary of the 
 Society, and October the 10th, nearly five 
 weeks before I did anything to the proofs, I 
 received the following reply: — 
 
 LETTEE OF THE SECRETARY. 
 
 British Society for the Propagation of the 
 Gospel among the Jews. 
 9G, Great Russell St., Bloomsbury Sq., 
 
 London, W.C., Oct. 10th, 1878. 
 My dear Mr. Salkinson, — 
 
 Your very kind letter has just arrived. 
 It is very noble of j'ou to render Dr. Ginsburg 
 all the assistance you can. I therefore say 
 to you, as the friend of both, and as the 
 Secretary of the British Society, by all 
 means do so. 
 
 I only wish I had some one like yourself 
 to do me a like favour. I have been en- 
 gaged upon a work on ci-^uioavi'i] ctoS, which 
 I regard as the very core of the Bible, as the 
 brilliant point of the Gem of Divine lieve- 
 lation. I hope I shall be able to pviblish it 
 by and by, and that I may have such help as 
 you are about to give to our learned brother 
 Dr. Ginsburg. 
 
 I cannot tell you what pleasure it would have 
 given me to have enjoyed your hospitality, 
 and heard the New Testament illustrated 
 from the Midrash by Mr. Friedmann. May 
 he soon be won for Christ ! 
 
 Very cordially yours, 
 
 (Signed) J. Dun'lop. 
 
 REV. ISAAC SALKINSON. 
 
 ( IFitk Pm-trait.) 
 
 Isaac E. Salkinson was born in Wilna. 
 His parents were sti-ictly orthodox, and 
 WLshed him to become a rabbi. He was very 
 eai-ly and carefully instructed, so that at the 
 age of four he was able to read the Hebrew 
 Bible. When still a child he lost his father, 
 and seven years after his mother. Then he 
 decided to go to America to pui-sue his 
 studies there under a celebrated rabbi. Pro- 
 vided with letters of recommendation, and 
 in the hope of ultimately reaching the United 
 
 State.s, he proceeded to London, which be- 
 came to him for ever sacred and memorable 
 as the place of his spiritual birtli. There he 
 met some of the agents of the London Mis- 
 sionary Society, from whom he I'eceived a 
 New Testament and Christian instruction. 
 By these means he was led to Christ, and 
 then to confess his faith in Him by baptism. 
 
 Brief Autobiographical Sketch of his 
 Life and Labours from 1849 to 1879. 
 
 In 1849 I entered the British Society's 
 College as student, where I remained the 
 prescribed term of four years. When I 
 finished my College curriculum the Com- 
 mittee did not employ me because of some 
 doctrinal views which 1 then entertained. 
 After .spending about eight months with the 
 late Rev. W. Yonge, biother of ]Mr. George 
 Yonge. the first Secretary, and having had 
 interviews with the Kev. Dr. Angus, by 
 which the difl'erence of the doctrinal views 
 had been properly settled, I became Jewish 
 Missionary, first of the Jewish Society in 
 Scotland, called " The Friend of Israel," 
 which was soon incorporated into the United 
 Presbyterian Church. I was then then- 
 MLssiouary, and at the same time attended 
 as student the Divinity Hall in Edinburgh, 
 till 1859, when I was ordained in the Piev. 
 Dr. Robson's Church, Glasgow, as a Presby- 
 terian minister. 
 
 In 18G2 I retired in consequence of family 
 affliction till 1864, when I resumed again 
 my connection with the British Society by 
 the advice of the United Presbyterians. 
 From that time until now I have tried to 
 discharge my duty according to the best of 
 my ability. 
 
 My Missionary work consists in personal 
 intercourse with my biethren, in corre.spond- 
 ing with them, and especially in writing 
 treatises in Hebrew on their behalf. 
 
 When for the first time in my life I read 
 the New Testament — it was a Hebrew ver- 
 sion — I felt then how great a necessity thei-e 
 is for a version in idiomatic Hebrew. 
 
 As soon, therefore, as I acquired a know- 
 ledge of reading the New Testament in its 
 original Greek, I translated the Epistle to 
 the Romans, which was published in 1853. 
 It was my first attempt in the art of trans- 
 lation. I, however, found that to acquire 
 the art of translating properly requires long 
 and tedious practice. The Jews, in every 
 generation, have produced great Hebrew 
 writers, but very seldom any good translatoi's.
 
 374 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triurrvphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 I, tlieiefore, set my heart to practice 
 and translate classical pieces into Hebrew. 
 My fellow students in the Divinity Hall of 
 the United Presbyterian Church commis- 
 sioned me to make a Hebrew version of the 
 "Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation." This 
 I accomplished successfully, and it was pub- 
 lished in 1858. It has ever since been con- 
 siderably circulated among my brethi'en by 
 almost all the Jewish Missionary Societies. 
 Dr. Ginsburg, who presented me with Mil- 
 
 of his Christian poetry." jSIy very dear 
 friend, the lamented liev. Dr. Eadie, of 
 Glasgow, said to me, " Go, finish the whole of 
 ' Paradise Lost,' and sound the praise of the 
 Son of God among the people of Israel, and 
 you will be praised here and hereafter." I 
 accomplished the work, which I dedicated to 
 Dr. (Jinsburg, who started the translation, 
 greatly encouraged me to execute it, and 
 materially assisted its publication in 1870. 
 Under peculiar circumstances, I was induced 
 
 REV. ISAAC SALKrNSON. 
 
 ton's "Paradise Lost," strongly urged me to 
 translate it, because he thought that the 
 Jews, who love the Hebrew language, would 
 read this classical Christian work, though they 
 ■would refuse to read an ordinary Christian 
 religious book. I made the attempt with the 
 first book in 1861, and was greatly encouraged 
 in this task by Hebrew critics. One Jewish 
 reviewer said, " In the poetical world Milton 
 ■will not be ashamed of the Hebrew Version, 
 but my pious Jewish parents in the other 
 world will be ashamed of their sou on account 
 
 to translate, in my hours of recreation, 
 "Othello," and "Romeo and Juliet." The 
 former was published in 1872, and the latter 
 waskeptinMS. till 1877. Tiedge's "Urania," 
 a C'hristian poetical book, which is highly 
 valued by the Jewish people, I translated 
 and published in 1877, with a letter instead 
 of a preface, addressed to the Eev. Dr. Jel- 
 linek, of Vienna, at whose special request I 
 undertook the work, taking occasion to set 
 forth Christ as the Saviour of the Jews, in 
 this epistle.
 
 Four of the Second Bund of Studenia. 
 
 375 
 
 ENtiAlIED BY THE COMMITTEE IN 1877 TO 
 
 TRANSLATE THE NEW TESTAMENT INTO 
 
 HEUIIEW. 
 
 In the same year (1877) the British So- 
 ciety's Committee engaged me to make a 
 now Hebrew version of the New Testament. 
 1 undertook the work with dehght, the more 
 so since many learned Jews i-epeatedly ex- 
 pressed to me their astonishment that 1 had 
 not undertaken it long ago. The Epistles, 
 which form the most difficult part of trans- 
 lation, I have nearly finished. When the 
 work is accomplished and published, it will 
 be seen that my labours as a Jewish mission- 
 ary have not been in vain in the Lord. 
 
 Mr. Salkinson's Hebrew Version of 
 "Tiie Philosophy of the Plan of 
 Salvation." 
 
 I. 
 
 A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF TIIE BOOK. 
 
 The genesis and genius of this remarkable 
 book may be gathered from the following 
 passages and points of thought. 
 
 Tbe circumstances which gave rise to the 
 work may best be given in the author's own 
 words : " Daring some years of the writer's 
 active life he was a sceptic. He had a 
 friend, who has since been known as a 
 lawyer and a legislator, who was also 
 sceptical in his opinions. We were both con- 
 versant with the ordinary evidences of 
 Christianity ; but none of them convinced 
 our mind of the Divine origin of the 
 Christian religion." This led the author "to 
 searcii for other evidence," and in this search 
 he claims to have struck out a track of his 
 own. The argument he has here elaborated 
 satisfied his own mind, and the minds of 
 several of his sceptical friends. It is pai'ticu- 
 larly interesting to us, as being founded on 
 the connexion of Christianity with the 
 Jewish religion, especially the Levitical and 
 Prophetical economies. 
 
 The writer undei'takes to show that, in 
 harmony with the conditions in which the 
 human race was universally found to exist, 
 it was impossible that a Divine revelation 
 should be successfully communicated in any 
 other way than that in which Jehovah com- 
 municated the true religion to the Jews. He 
 points out foiT'ibly some of the difficulties 
 which were in the way of true religious 
 knowledge. The knowledge of the true God 
 had been corrupted, and men had universally 
 fallen into the most abominable and debasing 
 idolatry. It would therefore be extiemely 
 difficult to restore the knowledge and 
 
 worship of the one true God. In order to do 
 this it was necessary to separate one people 
 from the world of idolaters, and to keep them 
 perfectly distinct. For tliis purpose the 
 Israelites were chosen, and were gradually 
 educated in the knowledge and wor.ship of 
 the true God. The author well describes the 
 means employed to unite them in indissoluble 
 union ; and he adds : 
 
 " How firmly did these providences weave 
 into one web the sympathies and views of the 
 Jewish people ! It is a fact, which is the 
 miracle of history, and the wonder of the 
 world, that the ties which unite this people 
 seem to be indissoluble ; while other nations 
 have risen, and reigned, and fallen ; while 
 the ties which have united them have been 
 sundered, and their fragments lost amidst 
 earth's teeming population ; the stock of 
 Abraham endures like an incorruptible 
 monument of gold, uudestroyed by the attri- 
 tion of the waves of time, which dashed 
 in pieces and washed away other nations, 
 whose origin was but yesterday compared 
 with this ancient and wonderful people." 
 
 During the whole existence of the J ewish 
 nation in their own land, we see the develop- 
 imnt of the true religion. Ey the .system of 
 Moses they were weaned from idolatry, and 
 then succeeded a higher and more spiritual 
 development by their inspii'ed poets and 
 prophets. It is remarkable that in the 
 Jewish system there was always provision 
 made for further develo|iment : and those 
 who, under God, administered that system 
 always foretold it. Mo-ses hinted at this, in 
 no obscure way, when ho said, " The Lord 
 thy God shall raise up unto thee a proi.het 
 like unto me ; unto Him ye shall hearken." 
 Tbe claims and aims of Christ, combined 
 with His character and conduct of Hie, 
 render it absolutely certain that He was 
 that Prophet and no impostor. 
 
 " If an impostor wished to pass himself 
 upoa the Jews as their Messiah, he must 
 have assumed that charactei', and conformed 
 to that conduct which he knew the if expected 
 in their Messiah. For an impostor to assume 
 a different character from that which he 
 knew the nation expected their Messiah to 
 bear, would hav^e been to use means to 
 frustrate his own plans — (which would be 
 impossible — for man cannot have a govern- 
 ing desire for the attainment of an end, and 
 at the same time use means which he knows 
 will frustrate the accomplishment of his own 
 object.) An impostor, therefore, in the 
 state of expectancy which existed at that
 
 376 
 
 Memones of Gospel Triumphs artiong the Jeivs. 
 
 time in Jiidiea, could not do otherwise than 
 conform himself to the character which the 
 nation were expecting their Messiah would 
 possess." 
 
 It is most remarkable that, while the 
 s^T-tem of religion instituted amongst the 
 Jews was, in its existing form, exclusive and 
 local, tliei-e yet prevailed amongst thorn the 
 expectation that it would become universal. 
 God was, indeed, reaiing up amongst them 
 a system of universal religion. He promised 
 them the Messiah, who should extend the 
 influence of the Jewish system over all 
 nations. This is now actually being accom- 
 plished ; and well may the Jew exult in 
 seeing that his faith is evidently advancing 
 towards universal dominion. But we would 
 ask, does not this establish the Divine origin 
 of that form cf the Jewish faith which now 
 promises to become universal ? Does it not 
 prove that Christianity is really the develop- 
 ment and fulfilment of Judaism ? It is a 
 contradiction in terms to suppose that 
 Judaism in its exclusive form can be 
 universal. It murt develop free and compre- 
 hensive tendencies. These we discover in 
 Christianity. The Messiah oft'ers to all a 
 spiritual deliverance, of which the deliver- 
 ance out of Egypt was but the type. He 
 has accomplished a real and effectual atone- 
 ment, of which the ancient .sacrifices were 
 but the prophetic symbols. He has .set up 
 the true temple of God, since through his 
 intercession the Spirit descends, and dwells 
 in the souls of all believers. We trace the 
 rise of all these great principles to the 
 Jewish system ; and we maintain that they 
 are no other than the same as existed then 
 in a germinal state. There has been but one 
 God revealed to men ; one atonement made ; 
 one way of communicn with the Eternal 
 Spirit di.sclosed. "God, who in time past 
 spoke to the fathers by the prophets, hath in 
 these last days spoken to us by His Son." 
 
 It is the imperishable glory of the Jewish 
 people that they have been chosen to be 
 instrumental in revealing and spreading the 
 one universal relioion. 
 
 In this cause, their hi.story, their language 
 and literature, and their institutions have 
 been employed. And now, in its extension 
 and triumph, ought they not to bec:me a 
 nation of apostles ? 
 
 II. 
 
 Mil. salkinson's tbanslation. 
 Mr. Salkinson's admirable translation of 
 tlie book into the Hebrew language is 
 
 dedicated " to the People of Jeshuron, in the 
 Empire of Russia ; and, as an inheritance, to 
 the Congregation of Jacob, in the land of 
 Poland, by Two Hundred Theological 
 Students of the United Presbyterian 
 Seminary in Edinburgh, as a memorial 
 and token of love between Gentile brethren 
 and the Children of Lsrael." 
 
 The following notice of the Translation is 
 from the pen of the Rev. Principal 
 Davidson, who was the tutor, friend, and 
 inspirer of Mr. Salkinson when he was a 
 student in the Society's JewLsh Mission 
 College. 
 
 ni?lE"n "ID Sod ha-yeshua. 
 
 This is a translation into the Hebrew of a 
 little 8vo. volume entitled " Philosophy of 
 the Plan of Salvation," by an American 
 citizen. Any Christian who has read the 
 original must be persuaded of its utility and 
 peculiar adaptation for circulation among the 
 unbelieving, especially in our own day, when 
 .scepticism is so awfully on the increase. 
 Philosophy has a peculiar attraction for the 
 sceptic, as his system is professedly based 
 upon it ; and this work, while it suits his 
 predilection, is calculated to lead him, by 
 incontiovertible reasoning and undeniable 
 facts to the conclusion that, not only is there 
 a revelation given to man, but also that the 
 procedure of its manifestation to the world, 
 as stated in the Bible, is the only suitable 
 one to the constitution of mankind. 
 
 For circulation among the Jews, this work 
 is invaluable on many accounts. First, 
 because the venom of infidelity and 
 scepticism is also becoming diffused among 
 them to a very fearful extent ; secondly, 
 because the striking elucidations of the 
 suitability of the law, as a spiritual law, 
 as given here, while they must alight like 
 a sweet ointment upon the soul of the orthodox 
 Jew, imperceptibly furnish weight, and this 
 to a much higher degree, for the suitability 
 of the purdji spiritual Gospel of Christ ; 
 and lastly, beoau.se the author does not 
 .address himself to any particular party, as 
 is the case in tracts written specially for the 
 Jews, and his work is likely to be read by 
 them with much less prejudice than when 
 they feel themselves exposed as the special 
 mark for the odium of unbelief. 
 
 As to the Hebrew translation, one would 
 be inclined to judge of it from Mr. Salkinson's 
 much-approved Hebrew translation of tlie 
 Epistle to the Romans ; but this would 
 hardly be correct. " The Pliilo.sophy of the
 
 Four of the Second Btind of Students. 
 
 377 
 
 Plan of Salvation " is really what it professes 
 to be, the subject of salvation being treated 
 in a philosophical manner. The mere know- 
 ledge of the pure Hebrew, a« handed down 
 to us in tlie Old Testament and the Mislma, 
 would not constitute competency for tlie 
 translation of such a work, as it would requiie 
 besides a thorough acijuaintance with the 
 phraseology of philosophy, viz., with such 
 conventional words and terms as the Jewish 
 scholars have coined and introduced into 
 their translations of the Greek philosophers, 
 especially Plato, Aristotle, and others. In 
 this difficult task Mr. S. has fully proved his 
 competency, and has so admirably succeeded, 
 that, from the lucidness of phraseology and 
 smoothness of style, one would be inclined to 
 regard this volume rather as an original 
 than a mere translation. Mr. S. is justly 
 deserving of the grateful encouragement of 
 the spiritual friends of Israel ; and while 
 praying for a blessing to accompany the 
 distribution of his work and his own personal 
 labour among his brethren according to the 
 flesh, we can but wish that he may feel 
 induced to serve his generation by an 
 additional production of many more of the 
 like useful works. 
 
 Mr. Salkinson's Translation of Milton's 
 " Paradise Lost " Into the Hebrew 
 Language. 
 
 aiNn nx t."-iri 
 
 Our readers may obtain a true idea of the 
 trend and tone of this admirable translation 
 from the following notices written by two 
 clergymen eminent alike for Christian 
 culture and grace. 
 
 I. 
 
 The Eev. J. R. Lumcy, D.D., 
 
 ■Nomsian Professor of Divinity, C'avibridjje. 
 
 "4 July, 1879. 
 
 " National Club, Whitehall Gardens, S.W. 
 
 " I have looked over with some care 
 several long passages of Mr. Salkinson's 
 translation of Milton's ' Paradise Lost ' into 
 Hebrew, and have been astonished with the 
 closeness of the version which he has made 
 and the wonderful power which is everywhere 
 shown in it, of clothing the sense of the 
 English in the diction borrowed almost 
 entirely from the Hebrew Scriptures. 
 
 " With the purpose of testing the fidelity 
 of Mr. Salkinson's version in those parts of 
 the poem which speak expressly of the 
 Divinity and Oflice of our Saviour, I selected 
 
 the Third Book for special examination, and 
 I would particularly call attention to the 
 solemn address made in that Book (lines 274- 
 353) by the Father to the Son. In that 
 speech Christ is spoken of as ' the only peace 
 found out for mankind under wrath ; ' as 
 ' made flesh of Virgin seed ; ' as ' rising from 
 the dead and raising His brethren with Him; ' 
 ' rarusoned with His own dear life ; ' as ' both 
 God and Man, Son of both God and Man, 
 anointed universal King.' It is said of Him, 
 ' All knees to Thee shall bow in heaven or 
 earth.' And again, ' Thou shalt judge bad 
 men and angels, they arraigned shall sink 
 beneath Thy sentence.' And closing the 
 speech God saith, ' All ye gods adore Him 
 who to compass all this dies, adore the Son 
 and honour Him as Me.' 
 
 " Of this magnificent speech, Mr. Salkin- 
 son's Hebrew version commences on p. 75, 
 and ends at the top of p. 78. To re-trans- 
 late it would be to produce the entire 
 substance, and in many cases the precise 
 words (for Milton's language is very biblical) 
 of the English poet. In view of the objec- 
 tion which has been raised against this work, 
 and which is utterly without foundation, it 
 may be pointed out that the translator has 
 used for ' Anointed ' in the description of 
 Christ, the very word ' Messiah,' which the 
 Jews refuse to apply to our Saviour. And 
 in the whole passage he has produced a 
 version which sets forth Christian teaching 
 almost as definitely as does the Apostles' 
 Creed. " J. Eawson Lumbv." 
 
 II. 
 
 Tub very Rev. the Dean of Peterborough. 
 "I have examined many portions of the 
 translation, and especially those in which 
 there is a reference to the Divinity of the 
 Messiah, and I have no hesitation in saying 
 that the translator has rendered the work 
 faithfully. I think he has shown considerable 
 skill in triumphing over the difficulty of an 
 adequate rendering of Milton's theological 
 expressions. 
 
 (Signed) " J. J. Stewart Perowne.'' 
 
 The value of Mr. Salkinson's versions of 
 " The Philcsophy of the Plan of Salvation " 
 and Milton's '■ Paradise Last," in preparing 
 the Jewish mind for the reception of the 
 Hebrew New. Testament and the appropria- 
 tion of Christ, its Alpha and Omega, as the 
 Divinely appointed and well qualified 
 Saviour alike of Jew and Gentile, is beyond 
 calculation.
 
 378 
 
 Menwries of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 A selection from Mr. Salkinson's 
 Letters regarding Vienna as his chief 
 Mission sphere, and his Hebrew New 
 Testament. 
 
 MU. SALKINSON, MISSIONABY IN VIENNA. 
 
 At the beginning of 1876, Mr. Salkinson 
 removed from Pressburg to Vienna, where 
 he preached the Gospel to the Jews, and pre- 
 pared his immortal work, the Hebrew New 
 Testament. 
 
 HIS DESCRIPTION OF VIENNA AS A 
 MISSION FIELD. 
 
 The first authentic record of the Jews in 
 Vienna is in 1156. From that date pages 
 
 and making a mockery on Easter Day. To 
 punish tliis .sacrilege Duke Albreclit, on 12th 
 Mai'ch, 1421, exiled the poorer Jews and im- 
 prisoned the rich, but ofi'ering to spare their 
 life if they profe.ssed the Christian religion. 
 The Jews spuined with disdain such an ofier 
 of mercy, and gave their necks to tlie 
 messengers of death. Accordingly 110 Jews, 
 of both sexes, including the rich Israel, were 
 burned in one lire in the public market 
 place, and smaller numbers in other places. 
 The wife of Israel strangled herself in 
 prison with her veil. Their goods were 
 confiscated ; their houses given to their most 
 active persecutors, and their Synagogue 
 
 written with blood may be read of the in- 
 justice and cruelty suffered from the 
 Crusaders, the populace, the State ; but 
 especially from the Church. Often the debts 
 owed by Gentiles were cancelled, the goods of 
 the Jews confiscated wholesale, and frequently 
 the poor banished from the country, and the 
 rich imprisoned or murdered and their riches 
 taken away. An example, in 1421, under 
 Albrecht V., Duke of Austria, may be 
 given : A rich Jew, named Israel, living in 
 Enns, was accused of having bought some 
 consecrated host from the wife of the beadle 
 of St. Ixsrenz, for the purpose of defiling it, 
 
 pulled down to supply materials for a new 
 University. 
 
 Again, in 1669, Leopold, the Apostolic 
 King and Emperor, killed many Jews, ex- 
 polled the others, and changed the name of 
 the Jewish district of Vienna into Leopold- 
 .stadt, thus commemorating this shameful 
 act. 
 
 The times, howevei', are now changed. 
 Vienna, one of the most splendid cities of 
 the world, contains 70,000 Jewish inhabitants, 
 in a population of somewhat over a million. 
 Since Austria was defeated by Prussia, in 
 1866, and became constitutional, the Jewish
 
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 influence has risen. The bank, the exchange, 
 and the press are largely in their hands ; 
 statesmen, poets, and authors may be found 
 amongst them, and as all creeds are governed 
 by one law, it may be said, they all live 
 peaceably with one another. 
 
 ■1 am led to compare Vienna, not as a 
 field where one can scatter the seed of the 
 Gospel broadcast, but rather to a place 
 covered with bricks and stones, in which no 
 seed can spring up, with the exception of 
 here and there a patch of ground in whii'h 
 a flower or tree is reared. I thank God that 
 such patches of ground I have found here, 
 where I have planted and watered, and 
 hopefully look up foi' an incre.ase. I have a 
 long list of names of all sorts of persons 
 who formerly hated the very name of the 
 Christian religion, and are now thus far 
 reconciled as to form their estimate of the 
 Lord Jesus, not by Talmudical sentiment or 
 national prejudice, but by His own wonls. 
 
 The New Testament has become their own 
 book no longer defiling the man that toucheth 
 it. 
 
 SPECIMEN OF THE HElillEW NEW TESTAMENT. 
 
 The above is a facsimile of the first 
 specimen of the Hebrew New Testament 
 sent by Mi-. Salkinson to the Secretary. 
 
 A FEW EXTRACTS FR05I HIS LETTERS. 
 
 Vienna, Deer. 10th, 1881. 
 My Dear Mr. Dunlop, — One central 
 place of my intercourse with the Jews is the 
 Temple Library in Leopoldstadt. There is 
 the learned and friendly librarian, besides a 
 Rabbinical teacher with his students who 
 study there for the Rabbinical profession. It 
 is, moreover, the resort of literary strangers, 
 and in winter time six lectures nre delivered 
 weekly in the evenings. The lectures 
 this winter are (1) on the Talmud, (2) on
 
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 381 
 
 the Midrash, and (3) on the Bible (Old 
 Testament). I generally attend the latter 
 two, because they answer better for my pur- 
 pose on account of the Messianic question 
 which comes up now and then. One evening 
 a rationalistic lecturer spoke to this eO'ect : 
 '• When Israel of old were at the brink of 
 ruin, when tliej' were at the point of losing 
 their land and liberty, and go into captivity 
 and slaverj', the old Prophets, to keep up and 
 sustain the national spirit saw, and communi- 
 cated to the people, marvellous visions of a 
 future deliveier. This was repeatedly mani- 
 fested during the first Temple as well as the 
 second, and since then, whenever oppression 
 and persecution threaten to overwhelm them, 
 the consolation of a Me.ssiah is at hand. So 
 now the Russian Jews at the present day 
 begin to pant after a Messiah and sigh for 
 Jerusalem." Two Rn.ssian Jews were present 
 who had read my tract, one of them said 
 pretty loud, "There is the difference betwixt 
 the Russian and the Austrian Jews." And 
 the other answered " Not so, the Austrian 
 Missionary." (Sensation and laughter.) 
 Since that day, these two Jews have called 
 on me sevei'al times, they seem well disposed 
 to listen to the Word of God. 
 
 READING TnE MS. WITH A YOUNG DOCTOE, 
 
 There is a young doctor from Russia who 
 is to practise here for a term of two years. 
 He is a good Hebraist and comes to me 
 every day when we read the manuscript of 
 my version of the New Testament. In this 
 way we get mutual profit, the version is im- 
 proved by criticism and the young doctor, by 
 handling the Word of Life, is more and 
 more drawn to our Saviour. Let me here 
 say with respect to the version, it is finished 
 from the Epistle to the Romans to the 
 book of Revelation. This is my principal 
 work on the New Testament. As to the 
 Gospels and Acts of the Apostles, there will 
 be no ditficulty, they can be accomplished in 
 a short time. If you have good advice to 
 give me how the version should be published 
 I shall feel greatly thankful to you. It is a 
 work which will survive me and you and 
 will .speak to Israel of a Crucified Saviour 
 when you and I are no more in this world. 
 Yours cordially, I. E. Sai.kinson. 
 
 Vienna, April, 1882. 
 
 Mv DEAR ^lii. Dt'Ni.or, — In answer to 
 
 your inquiry whether I have any special facts 
 
 to communicate, let me give you au account 
 
 of what the Lord {)ermitted me to witness on 
 
 Sunday, March 12th. It is only the case of 
 a single individual, yet it is a singular one, 
 and my long cherished and prayerful desire 
 has been fully gratified. 
 
 The individual I refer to is a young friend 
 from Breslau. 
 
 HIS DECISION. 
 
 He continued to read the New Testament 
 I had given him, attend Church, and be my 
 guest at dinner every Sunday, and then 
 privately he read with me the Gospel of St. 
 John. On Sunday, the 12th, we read the 
 most solemn chapter of the book, that is the 
 17th. I always felt whenever I was with 
 him, that he was already one with us in 
 Christ, and the more so on the 12th, while 
 expounding to him the verse, " Neither piay 
 I for these alone, but for them al.sowho shall 
 believe on Me through their word." L"p to 
 that time, I did not utter a word about 
 baptism. In the evening I tcok him to the 
 Annual Meeting of the " Young Men's 
 Christian Association," to which I had been 
 invited. Dr. H. von Tardy was one of the 
 speakers ; his subject was, how Elisha at the 
 suppUcation of the men of Jericho healed the 
 water and the City with the new cruse of 
 salt. He then described how pleasant the 
 imperial city of Vienna is for situation, and 
 how its spu-itual water is naught and its 
 ground barren. And as the men of Jeiicho 
 applied to Elisha so must we do to our 
 Prophet who will cure this city with a new 
 cruse of salt, i.e., the " Young Men's Christian 
 Association." The whole speech of my 
 Bohemian friend. Von Tardy, was character- 
 ized b}' great beauty and force. My young 
 protege, who had never heard before of a 
 " Young Men's Christian Association," was 
 much moved, and as soon as we left, told me 
 of his great desire to become a membei-. I 
 said the members are required to be Chris- 
 tians. He then asked if I would baptize him 
 and help him to become Christian salt at 
 Vienna. 
 
 He left it to me to arrange the day and 
 the place, when and where he would openly 
 confess Christ. 
 
 Let me here adil, with all my long experi- 
 ence I cannot rv\y upon ni}- own judgment 
 respecting Jewish character, becnnse there is 
 an innate partiality in me, but T look upon 
 my wife as a great authority in this matter, 
 and she said to me more than once, she had 
 never seen a young man moi'e honest, modes>t, 
 and gentle than he.
 
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 niS BAPTISM. 
 
 On the evening of Palm Sunday our young 
 friend, Max Frankel, of Breslau, confessed 
 Christ openly by the rite of baptism, and was 
 entered as a member of the Reformed church, 
 under the pastoral care of Dr. Witz. 
 
 We attended morning service together, 
 then after our repast we re-engaged in devo- 
 tional exercises preparatory to the solemn 
 rite. At 5 p.m., there was a second service, 
 at the close of which Dr. Witz, according to 
 the custom of his church, offered prayer, and 
 then delivered a most solemn address to the 
 candidate. After this he read the usual 
 Apostolic Articles of Faith, and asked the 
 candidate, " Do you conscientiously submit to 
 and believe in these Articles 1 " to which he 
 responded, "Ja," (Yes). Then followed the 
 baptism in the name of God the Father, Son, 
 and Holy Ghost. The whole ceremony was 
 simple and yet stirring ; we felt that a living 
 and loving member of the stock of Abraham, 
 had been "added to the host of the great King 
 of the Jews; and we all prayed in the words 
 of the pious Von Tardy, that our recru^it may 
 be to the young men of Vienna, what Elisha's 
 new cruse of salt was to the barren land 
 of Jericho. 
 
 I have every reason to hope that our 
 prayers on his behalf have been accepted. 
 He is industrious and gets his bread by the 
 work of his hand ; his parents long ago went 
 to their rest ; his eldest brother is a pious 
 convert living in Australia ; in Breslau he has 
 only one cousin, to whom he wrote that he 
 was going to be baptized. He has relatives 
 at Berlin and other places but he does not 
 oorrespond with them. I trust, therefore, 
 that he will not suffer persecution from them ; 
 that he will be permitted to serve Christ in 
 peace. 
 
 HEBREW NEW TESTAMENT. 
 
 My Hebrew Version of the New Testament 
 is now ready for publication. Jlebrew trans- 
 lation seemes to be the only talent given me, 
 and it I have consecrated to the Lord. It is 
 my alabaster box of precious ointment which 
 I pour out in honour of my Saviour, that the 
 fragrance of His name may fill the whole 
 house of Israel. 
 
 Vienna, Jtint^, 188L'. 
 
 Mv DEAR Mr. Dunlop, — Last S.nturday I 
 spent the evening with the family to whicii 
 I specially alluded in one of my letters. 
 Mrs. Saikinson* and myself were invited 
 
 * Mr. Salkinaim always s\n,ke of lii« wife as his 
 invaluable liolpmatu iu tlic Mi.ssicm Field. 
 
 there on Saturday to see the lady and 
 her children before going away to the 
 country for a change of air. I was intro- 
 duced there to her mother who is on a 
 visit here, and to a cousin of hers, a Miss 
 
 g of L ■ — , who addressed me in 
 
 English. Miss S is distinguished as a 
 
 literary and musical genius and very rich 
 withal. She told me that she had studied in 
 a famous English University. 
 
 The conversation turned much about the 
 Russian fugitives and their colonization 
 either in America or Palestine. 1 informed 
 them of the news I receive from time to time 
 from Mr. Oliphant of Constantinople ; the 
 last item of which is that Mr. Oliphant 
 having found the prejudice and hatred of 
 the Turkish Government great _ against 
 England, he had won to his project the 
 Anierican Ambassador, who, by an order 
 of the President of the United States, is now 
 negotiating with the Government in Constan- 
 tin'ople .about the colonization of Palestine. 
 
 In the toast of the evening I brought out 
 a few words to the effect that though we 
 may differ in poUtics, I yet hope we shall 
 remain united in our friendship, and our 
 faith in the Messiahship of the Son of David. 
 ]Vliss S more than cheered me, her con- 
 duct was such as to puzzle me, until my host 
 whispered in my ears, that Miss S — -'s 
 father was a proselyte and his daughter is a 
 Christian. After supper I had a long con- 
 versation with Miss S , in which she 
 
 expressed her deep sympathy with my efforts 
 for the conversion of the whole famdy. 
 
 I would like very much to learn the result 
 of Dr. Edmond's visit as deputation to 
 Scotland. If the funtls only kept pace and 
 made progress as you do in making every 
 year able Annual Reports, the Society and 
 her Missionaries would soon get out of all 
 their troubles. Yours very truly, 
 
 I. E. Salkinson. 
 
 Vienna, Nov. 3w/, 1882. 
 Mt Dear Mr. Dunlop,— As to the 
 Hebrew New Testament, the translation was 
 a hard task, but a labour of love. Properly 
 speaking, it is the work of the Society, since 
 it was a part of my Mission for which I was 
 sustained by them. It would be well to have 
 it published and make use of it. I shall be 
 i;lad if the Committee call me to come over 
 and send me a.s their deputation in company 
 with some others to Scotland. There I shall 
 try what I can do, to come to a better under- 
 standing respecting the funds, and then and
 
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 383 
 
 there I may find out means to help on the 
 publication of the New Testament. Praying 
 for your welfare and the success of your 
 work in the Lord. I am yours truly, 
 
 I. E. Salkinson. 
 
 ViEN-XA, Jan. 27M 1883. 
 
 My Dear Mr. Dunlop, — The physician has 
 allowed me to write a few lines. He added, 
 if I take care my eye will soon be well again. 
 
 A Jew who professes to love me on one 
 side and hate me on the other, said to me 
 the other day, your suffering in the eyes is 
 a due punishment for your work (nightly 
 reading and writing) on the New Testament, 
 with which you are going to dim the light of 
 Israel. I replied, if my present dimness has 
 been caused by that work, I am comforted 
 with the hope that that work will enlighten 
 many an eye in Israel. 
 
 I have had a letter from Mr. Bullinger, the 
 Secretary of the Trinitarian Bible Society, 
 in which he says that he has heard of my 
 Hebrew version of the New Testament and 
 desires to propose to his Committee to take 
 up its publication. For that purpose he 
 would like full particulars of the version and 
 the printing. I told him that at present I 
 could not enter into any corre.spondence. 
 As I want to know the mind of our Com- 
 mittee before taking any action, please 
 bring the subject before them at the next 
 meeting and kindly convey to me the result. 
 Yours truly, I. E. Salkinson. 
 
 ViESNA, Feb., 1883. 
 My Dear Mr. Duxlop, — I do not intend 
 to sell my MS. and copyright, but to give it 
 away freely. The British Society maintains 
 me ; and it was for them I accomplished the 
 work, and this the more so in loving obedi- 
 ence to my covenant Lord and ^Master who 
 helped me to execute it ; for a testimony to, 
 and for the good of, the Jewish people. My 
 work Ls the Lord's and I would not like to 
 sell it for money. If the Trinitarian Bible 
 Society take it up of their own free will, 
 and make me some present, I shall grate- 
 fully accept it, but not as a price. 
 
 Vienna, March 15th, 1883. 
 
 My Dear Mr. Dcxlop, — Last week I 
 called on the physician when he told me that 
 my eye is all light again and sent me away 
 with the encouraging words that he never .saw 
 better or sounder eyes than mine. 
 
 La.st Sunday 1 preached in the English 
 Congregation and met there a Dr. Itachat of 
 Odessa ; he came to ciiurch merely for the 
 Siike of he.iring English. l!ut he heard more 
 
 than that, and I hope with profit. I was 
 delighted on the following day to meet him, 
 when I heard an excellent account of Dr. 
 Ben Zion's work at Odessa. He told me Dr. 
 Ben Zion is df)ing much for, and is greatly 
 esteemed by, the Jewish people. 
 
 Mr. Schonberg, of Prague, was here three 
 weeks ago, when he preached on the Sunday 
 evening in the Reformed Church, on Jewish 
 Missions. I was surprised to hear him speak 
 German so well and preach so well. He told 
 me that Professor Delitzsch had spoken to 
 him more than once and written too, 
 reque.sting him to urge on our Committee to 
 publish my Hebrew New Testament and that 
 he (Delitzsch) will be the first to welcome it. 
 This is a Christian, a noble spirit ! ! 
 
 As to Dr. Bullinger, the la.st letter he 
 wrote was dated 2nd March, when he re- 
 assured me that his Committee will publish 
 the version on my own terms. They require 
 only a short time longer to make it clear to 
 all the members that a new version is needed. 
 He tells me further that he has studied the 
 Greek much and published a book on the 
 Greek Testament, giving for each word of it 
 the English equivalent, and that for this 
 work the degree of D.D., had recently been 
 conferred upon him. He will send me a 
 copy of his book. Now, in his last letter he 
 proposes in four places new renderings of the 
 text. On my own authority, I dare not 
 make any change in the rendering, so far as 
 the Greek is concerned, in all this I must be 
 guided by my superiors — i.e., the superior 
 Commentaries, or Versions. Now fi-om the 
 four or five passages of Dr. B.'s proposals I 
 cannot judge of his Greek Scholarship. If 
 his Society should consent to publLsh the 
 version, he will very likely come out with 
 many more passages of that kind. I beg 
 therefore of you to do me the favour to 
 make inquiries from reliable quarters 
 respecting our friend's knowledge of the 
 Greek New Test.ament. 
 
 It is right here to express my.self , that the 
 principal oliject of my ver-sion is not to make 
 improvements in the i-endering of the sense, 
 but to render the sense as understof)d by the 
 best authorities, in a more intelligible, more 
 idiomatic way than the other Hebrew 
 versions. Now if Dr. B. be a scholar and an 
 authority, I sh.'dl be delighted in somedoubt- 
 Jul passages to fcjllow him. 
 
 You are no cloubt very busy at present. 
 The Liird be with you and help you to come 
 forth on the Annual Meeting day a.s bright 
 as ever. Y'ouis very truly, I. E. Sm.kinsox.
 
 384 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 The Secretary's Summary of Mr. 
 Salkinson's Report for 1883. 
 
 VIENNA: 
 
 Mr. Salkinson can speak of convert.'! that 
 are going on well ; of the baptism of Mr. 
 Kohnof Pressburg; of nine hopeful Inquirer-s; 
 of the circulation of Bibles, Ijooks and tracts, 
 such as his own translation of " The Philosophy 
 of the Plan of Salvation," and fifty German 
 New Testaments which had been sent to him 
 liy an unknown donor. 
 
 The Committee of " The Trinitarian Bible 
 Society," had kindly agreed to defray the 
 cost of printing and jniblishing what he 
 regards as the great work of his life — his 
 Hebrew translation of the New Testament ; 
 and he entertains the hope of being able to 
 distribute it this year in Vienna, as it is al- 
 ready in the hands of the printer. May it 
 soon lead many Je\\& to become Christian 
 pilgrims. May it be to them like the vine 
 of Eshcol, fair, and fragrant, and fruitful, 
 with clusters of the largest size and finest 
 quality shining through the leaves ; and 
 like the pillar of cloud and fire, guiding and 
 guarding them in the right way, as they 
 press on to Eternal day. 
 
 THE SECEETAHy's SUCCESSFUL EFFORT TO 
 SECURE ITS PUBLICATION. 
 
 The Secretary did all he could to persuade 
 the Secretary and Committee of the British 
 and Foreign Bible Society to publish Mr. 
 Salkinson's New Testament, but the excel- 
 lent version of Dr. Delitzsch was in the way. 
 He then turned to Dr. BuUinger, the Secre- 
 tary of the Trinitarian Bible Society, and 
 was successful. When it was found, on the 
 occurrence of Mr. Salkinson's sudden death, 
 that he had left a small part of the work to 
 be translated during its passage through the 
 press, Dr. Bullinger asked the Secretary to 
 recommend some one to undertake this ditfi- 
 cult and delicate task. He at once named 
 Dr. Ginsburg, Mr. Salkinson's old fellow- 
 student at the Society's Jewish Mission Col- 
 lege, who had assisted him with the Massorah, 
 and he accepted the responsibility and the 
 privilege of seeing the great work completed 
 and caiTied triumphant!}' through the press. 
 Hence it has been appropriately called "The 
 Salkin.son-Ginsburg Hebrew New Testament.' 
 
 TESTIMONIES TO ITS WORTH.— THE TESTIMONY 
 
 OF DR. NEUMAN. 
 
 1 885. 
 
 It must be a source of gratification to llie 
 British Society that one of their missionaries. 
 
 the late Mr. Salkinson, should have given us 
 a truly good translation of the Greek New 
 Testament into Hebrew. Mr. S. has trans- 
 lated several English writings, both poetry 
 and theology, but this is his last and best. 
 We judge it to be scarcely possible that it 
 could ever be surpassed in correctness, either 
 as regards the sense or the choice of words. 
 We must know the many difliculties that 
 necessarily attend such a translation, before 
 we can estimate its value. Imagine the 
 English language lost, only a remnant left, 
 and that the English of the Old Testa- 
 ment Scriptures, and these .'^canty materials 
 are to sei've as a vehicle to convey the 
 thoughts and arguments of the New Testa- 
 ment. Such a task would certainly not be 
 an ea.sy one. But besides the comparative 
 paucity of the Hebrew language, the miin 
 who believes the New Testament to be .-i 
 divinely-inspired book, does not feel at libeity 
 to make a free translation. Moreovei-, as it 
 was with Solomon's Temple, though erected 
 by Jewish hands, upon Jewish soil, by reason 
 of its vastness, a great portion of the wood 
 and stones had to be brought from a foreign 
 country in foreign ships, so the Scriptures of 
 the Christian dispensation, though founded 
 upon the Hebrew Scriptures, and written by 
 Hebrew hands, are composed, not altogether 
 of Jewish thoughts. Hence the ihtficulty of 
 making the Hebrew tongue articulate the 
 comprehensiveness of New Testament ideas. 
 Still, we only say that it is difficult, very 
 difficult, but not impossible; and we venture 
 to think that Mr. S. has succeeded in reach- 
 ing the utmost possibility. 
 
 We know of three whole Hebrew transla- 
 tions of the New Testament and also some 
 portions, and we have no hesitation in saying 
 that hundreds of Jews have learned to know 
 Christ through them, but we may confidently 
 hope that this more perfect translation will 
 induce many Jews to read, who being pos- 
 sessed of literary taste, and a special affection 
 for Biblical Hebrew, were inclined rather to 
 sneer at, than to be attracted by, the former 
 translations. We express our opinion in tlie 
 words, " Many daughters have done virtuously , 
 but thou e.xcellest them all." 
 
 A few instances ni.ay suffice to show how 
 Mr. S. has endeavoured to iibide, as far- as 
 pos.sible. by ]>ihlical Hebrew, and also how 
 strictly he has adhered to the original. Take 
 for example Matthew xxviii. 17: "Some 
 doubted." There is no word in the Hebrew 
 for the conception of doiiht, and, i herefore, the 
 fciriiier translators made use of the ('lialdaic
 
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 385 
 
 pDD. But tlie idea of douht is jiaiaphnised 
 in — /lalt Itelnxi II ln'o npinioiis (I Kiii<;s xviii. 
 21). 5Ir. 8. einiilojs the plirasf, most fitly, 
 to <X)ress the state of mind which some 
 of the discijiles weie in. Jolin vii. CS, "Oat 
 of bis helly." Tlie former Hebrew text 
 has Jieten for the Greek A'oi/ia, but Mr. >S. 
 gives the Hebrew word Keren, which not 
 only sounds liettcr but includes in it the 
 heart and uiiud as well as the bowels, 
 ilark iii. 29. The wonls ii? nr and d'pIJ; 
 are accurately placed, and read thus: — 
 " Shall never have forgiveness, for his guilt 
 is an eternal guilt." 2 Tim. iv. (i, 7, <S. The 
 Hebrew rendering is beautiful, especially that 
 of the Greek spendo into lihaliva. 
 
 TESTI.MOSIES FURNISHED BV REV. 1-. 
 DWORKUWICZ. 
 
 1886. 
 
 In August last an old, veneiable rabbi 
 from Wilna, with his man-servant, visited me, 
 and made me a present of seven Hebrew 
 books, of which he him.self was the author, 
 dealing with Judaism and ChiLstianity. At 
 the same time he gave me a most pressing 
 invitation to pay him a \isit at Wilna, saying 
 that he had important mattei's to discuss 
 with me. This has since been done ; for 
 in Wilna, where about 65,000 Jews are living, 
 I visited the very sick and learned rabbi who 
 had been to see me during the summer in 
 W — ■ — . I spent many blessed hours with 
 him, for this man is a veritable Nicodemus. 
 
 The following is a translati(m of this 
 labbi's letter, written in Cursive Hebrew, 
 and dated March 12th, 1886, acknowledginsi 
 a copy of Salkinstm's Hebrew Testament : — 
 
 " To my dear and honi>ured brother, the 
 faithful shepherd and priest unto the Most 
 High, and the acceptalile servant to His 
 
 people and His religion, Mr. P D . 
 
 The Lord bless him ! 
 
 " A thousand thanks and gratitude to thy 
 exalted honour for having favoured me with 
 your precious gift, viz., the translation of the 
 books of the New Testament, the handiwork 
 of the great and learned man, Isaac Salkiuson, 
 of blessed memory. This edition I have read 
 from beginning to end, and beliold it is 
 exceedingly good, in the language as well a.s 
 the form." 
 
 W11.\T .\ JEWISH FATHER GAVE HIS SOX FdU 
 A lilRTHIlAY I'RESEXT. 
 
 An olJ Jewi.sh patriot, the editor of a 
 Hebrew paper, read in a paper that a 
 Hebrew translation of the New Testament 
 
 by S.dkiason had appeared. He went from 
 bookseller to bookseller seeking this new 
 work. But noliod}' would tell him anvthing 
 about it. At last he went to the depot of 
 the British and Foreign Bible Society. But 
 even there he could not hear where the 
 woik had appealed. At last he came to me, 
 and found what he had sought so long in 
 ■vain. I asked him if he wanted it for 
 himself or for someone else, to which he 
 answered : " First I want to read it and 
 compare it carefully, and then I will give it 
 to my son for a birthday present. I could 
 not give him a greater pleasure, for all that 
 fiows from the pure pen (or rather touches 
 the refined writings) of the translator of 
 " Milton's Paradi.se Lost," we read with joy 
 and pleasure. 
 
 THE TESTIMONY OF A DISTINGUISHED 
 TALMLDIST. 
 
 " The New Testament by the very learned 
 Hebrew scholar, ]\Ir. Salkinson, I greatly 
 admire. . . . This translation by the 
 side of the former Hebrew Testaments 
 shows great knowledge of the Hebrew 
 tougue. 
 
 "Happy art thou, O Israel, that thou 
 broughtest him up, and happy aie the 
 people of the Messiah that Salkinson hath 
 glorified the pillars of the law with the 
 ornament of poetrj'." 
 
 .TEW AND GENTILE LABOURING TOGETIIER. 
 
 Witli regard to the Jew and Gentile 
 working together in the Jewish Mission 
 field, Mr. S;ilkinson once wrote : — 
 
 " As to the assertion that a Gentile 
 missionary is the mo^t acceptable to the 
 Jews, I would say, ceitainly he has, among 
 others, two important advantages — there is 
 no personal enmity against him and he will 
 not be reasonaljly suspected of being insincere 
 in his own faith, consequently the motive in 
 his effort to convert the Jew will not be 
 wrongly construed. Not so the Jewish 
 mi.ssionary. At his first appearance the 
 thoughts of the Jew are like the following: — 
 Here is one who brought shame upon his 
 parents, betrayed the national faith, rebelled 
 against God ; and this great sin is light to 
 him, so that he now seeks to cause Israel to 
 sin. Then, again, measuring others with 
 themselves, tliey suppose it is impossible for 
 a Jew ever to become a true believer in the 
 Saviour of the Gentiles ; hence the 'mis- 
 .sionary is regarded as a hypocrite, given to 
 filthy lucre. Nevertheless, this disadvantage 
 
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 is evanescent, or father is overruled for the 
 best, when in course of time, by his walk 
 jind conversation, he is recognized as a true 
 believer in and faithful follower of the Lord 
 Jesus ; then his example has great weight, 
 which the Gentile's has not. Again, the 
 Gentile may start with sincere love to the 
 Jew, but when he happens to be cheated by 
 one vagabond Jew, disappointed in another, 
 and ill-treated by a third, his love to the 
 nation will soon cool, though he may remain 
 iirm on the side of the Master. Not so the 
 converted Jew. If he possess native 
 patriotism at all he is 
 .strong as death ; all the 
 waters of .affliction can- 
 not quench the tii'e of 
 his love. 
 
 "Now, leaving out 
 other considei'ations, let 
 me express my long- 
 cherished opinion, 
 strengthened by experi- 
 ence, that the best way 
 would be to couple the 
 Gentile with the Jew, 
 so that the two may 
 make one complete mis- 
 sionary — provided only 
 that they previously 
 knew each other well 
 and found their minds 
 homogenical, so that 
 they may not be un- 
 equally yoked together. 
 How often I have 
 thought what a good 
 partner would, for ex- 
 ample, my friend Wil- 
 kinson be to me, who 
 harmonized so well with 
 me when he was my 
 fellow-student in the 
 British College. In this 
 way alone, 1 believe, can the Gentile mis- 
 sionary be of great service, but I would 
 never advise him to go alone." 
 
 When Mr. Salkinson, as the British 
 Society's Missionary in Pressburg, wrote 
 these words in May, 1873, little did bethink 
 that Mr. Wilkinson, his companion at the 
 Society's College, assisted financially by a 
 wealthy Scottish lover of Israel, would be 
 the instrument of circulating the Salkinson 
 Hebrew New Testament, a work that was 
 suggested by the Committee, and cost the 
 Society upwaiils of a thousand pounds. 
 Jjittle, too, did Mr, Salkinson think then 
 
 REV. JAMES ADLER. 
 
 that one of his own children,* the Rev. 
 James Adler. a Russian Jew, who became a 
 devoted and useful Missionary of the British 
 Society, woidd be specially engaged in the 
 distribution of his Hebrew New Testament. 
 Two hundred and fifty-nine thousand copies 
 of this grand gift of the British Society have 
 been published, and one hundred thousand of 
 these have been distributed among the Jews 
 in Russia, mainly through the instrumen- 
 tality of Mr. Adler, the Society's Spiritual 
 son, and his assistants. 
 
 At the designation of Mr. Salkinson as a 
 Missionary of the British 
 Saciety, the Rev. Dr. 
 Schwartz said : " Mr. 
 Salkinson's name is 
 Isaac, and I cannot 
 find better encourage- 
 ment for him than in 
 the words of the patri- 
 arch Abraham to Isaac 
 his only son, ' My son, 
 God tvil I provide.'" That 
 solemn and memorable 
 service was most fit- 
 tingly closed by the 
 singing of John New- 
 ton's well-known hymn, 
 beginning, " Though 
 troubles assail," etc., 
 and each stanza end- 
 ing, "The Lord will 
 provide." 
 
 Troubles did assail, 
 and some of them were 
 inexpres.sibly severe, but 
 the promise had been 
 grandly fulfilled. The 
 Lord had indeed pro- 
 vided grace for all the 
 way, and at the end of 
 it "glory, honour, and 
 immortality." 
 On the 5th of June, 1883, resting not 
 upon anything that he had done, but 
 entirely upon the Finished Work of Christ, 
 he rose to receive from the nail-pierced 
 hand of his Saviour and Sovereign the 
 
 * "The Missionary then lent me to read the 
 ' Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation,' in the Hebrew 
 language, which was a translation made by the late 
 llr. Salkinson. That bock I read through twice, and 
 the Lord used it .as a means of opening my eyes to 
 behold tlie glorious light as revealed in our Lord." - 
 Frim " A Narrative of the Earlij Life and Conver- 
 sion of Jtev. James Adler." Juliliil In/ Mrs. Wilkinson.
 
 Four of the Second BawJ of Students. 
 
 387 
 
 gracious reward of the good soldier who had 
 died at his post doing his duty. 
 
 REV. M. L. MOLLIS. 
 
 {With Portrait.) 
 
 Selections from his Journals and 
 Letters. 
 
 m.S EARLY LIFE, COXVERSIOIi', AND LABOURS 
 AS A MISSION'ART. 
 
 I was born of Jewisli parents wlio came 
 from Austria to the South of Eussia, where 
 they settled, and where also my father died 
 of the cholera when I was still a child. 
 
 As I grew up I received a good education, 
 and was well instructed both in the Jewish 
 religion and literature, as well as in secular 
 subjects. 
 
 All this my mother eould aftbrd to do for 
 me, because my father had left us well pro- 
 vided for, and 1, being an only son, had some 
 special claim and privilege to be well brought 
 up and instructed in those things which 
 should both make me a good .Jew and also a 
 useful member of society. 
 
 But in the providence of God I left home 
 early in life, and then the good Shepherd, 
 the Lord .Jesus Christ, found me, and 
 brought me into His fold. 
 
 It was in the Holy Land where I was 
 converted and baptized. 
 
 I thank God, therefore, for the grace He 
 ha.s .'■o richly bestowed upon me, and for the 
 manifestation of His love in revealing His 
 Son in me. 
 
 The Lord Jesus Christ then became the 
 object of my life, and the possessor of my 
 soul. 
 
 I loved Him because He first loved me. 
 Frail and sinful as I was, He received 
 me, and became the guide of my youth, my 
 dear and beloved Friend, and the disposer of 
 my Ufe and actions. 
 
 I was happy because I could trust Him, 
 for I found Him true and faithful, good and 
 gentle, and abounding in forgiving love 
 towards me, unworthy as I was. 
 
 After I had been travelling in the East, 
 and then through Germany, I came to 
 England. 
 
 But as it pleased the Lord to call me to 
 preach the Gospel, He also opened a door for 
 me, and hence I was admitted a.s a student 
 into the College of the British Society for the 
 Propagation of the Gospel among the Jews. 
 After I had finished my course of study, I 
 
 began my labours among the .Jews in 
 London, and then in the provinces. 
 
 As I was very sanguine and full of zeal 
 for the cause, I feared no opposition, or 
 abuse, or even rough handling, as it once 
 happened to me when I was visiting the 
 Jews in old Petticoat Lane, but courageously 
 preached the Gospel to the Jews, and 
 earnestly pleaded with them to accept the 
 oflered mercy through the crucified but risen 
 Saviour. 
 
 One of my first Jewish converts, I 
 remember, was the late Mr. Israel Summers- 
 field, of Manchester. He was indeed well- 
 known in that city as a consistent Christian 
 and an able lecturer and debater with the 
 Jews. He also took a deep interest in our 
 Jewish Mission House and work among the 
 Jews, and was an active member of the local 
 Committee in Manchester. He had likewi.se 
 a flourishing business in that city. 
 
 But for some years past I laboured al.-o in 
 other parts of the world, as in Australia, 
 Surinam, and the West Indies, itc, and 
 everywhere I was able, by tlie g:ace of God, 
 to witness for Christ, and to preach the 
 Gospel to both Jews and Gentile.s. 
 
 I was often in peril also by land and sea, 
 besides the great climatic changes of extreme 
 heat in tropical lands where I lived, and 
 other dangers which surrounded me, such as 
 devouring fevers and other malignant 
 diseases. But the Lord watched over me 
 for good, and delivered me from plague and 
 death, and every other evil in my path. 
 
 la the year 1871, I returned to England 
 again, and commenced once moie my labours 
 in London. 
 
 But I soon felt the need of a Miss-ion 
 Boom, where I could meet with the Jews, 
 and address them on the .subject of Chris- 
 tianity. 
 
 As this was to some extent a new step at 
 that time in the direction of Mission.-iiy 
 work among the -Jews, I had some difliculty 
 at first to persuade our Secretarj- to allow me 
 to get a room, &c., but ultimately he con- 
 sented to it. 
 
 As soon, therefore, as I got a suitable 
 room in the East of London, I began my 
 work, and ere long I had the great satis- 
 faction of seeing the room well tilled with 
 Jews and even Jewesses, especially on 
 Saturday afternoons. 
 
 Mr. C. D. Joseph, who was then labouring 
 in London, kindly assisted me, and although 
 we had some hard battles to fight with the 
 .Jews, for we had generally one or two 
 
 cc 2
 
 388 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 champions chosen by the Jews to oppose us, 
 &c., still by the grace of Ciod we ovcrcanie 
 great diificulties and freely and courageoasly 
 preached the Gospel to many Jews there. 
 
 I also had the satisfaction of learning that 
 one of my chief t)pponents, a young Jew of 
 ability and cultme, was afteivvaids converted 
 and baptized in London and then emigrated 
 to New Zeiiland. 
 
 But I trust that many other Jews had 
 also found their Saviour in that room. 
 
 feeble, although his heart was still in the 
 work. 
 
 It was not long, however, after my arrival 
 in that city, that I got a School Itoom in 
 Hanover Street, and began to meet with the 
 Jews there. It was well attended, and they 
 used to come daily to converse with me, but 
 especially on Saturday afternoon, to hear an 
 address fiom me. 
 
 From there 1 went to another part of the 
 Jewish quarter, and then to Cheetham Ilill. 
 
 HEV. M. L. MOLLIS. 
 
 When it was decided by the Committee 
 that I should go to Manchester, I left the 
 Mission Room in charge of Mr. J. B. 
 Lazarus, our esteemed Missionary, who did 
 also a good work there. 
 
 But more convenient premises were after- 
 wards obtained by the Society for Mission 
 work and Meetings, &c., in Church Stieet, 
 Spital fields. 
 
 When I came to Manchester in LS72, 
 I still found our late Missionary there, 
 Mr. Naphtali, but he was getting old and 
 
 And the Lord was pleased to bless my labours 
 in Manchestei', and to giant me to see that 
 my arduous woik among the Jews was not 
 in vain ; for we had .several encouraging 
 conversions and baptisms, among others a 
 highly learned Jew, who was baptized at 
 Knott Ilill Congregational C'hapel, by the 
 Rev. Rawlinson. 
 
 It was a remarkable case, for the man was 
 on his way to South America, and whilst in 
 Manchester he was led to make my acquain- 
 tance, and thus he learnt to know and
 
 Four of the Secoml Bund of StadeidH. 
 
 389 
 
 believe on Jesus, and then he was baptized in 
 His name. 
 
 I might give details of other couversious 
 and baptisms in Manchester duiing my stay 
 there, but time would fail me. 
 
 In Leeds I laboured for several years. 
 From the very commencement the Jews 
 were partial to me, and came to see me and 
 to hear me in great numljers. T could also 
 visit them in their houses, shops and work- 
 rooms, and freely speak to them of Christ. 
 
 It must not be presumed, however, that I 
 had no opposition on the [lart of the Jews to 
 overcome, or any difficulties in the way ; my 
 boat did not always sail smoothly, for I had 
 to encountiT many a .storm, but, bythegi-ace 
 of God, 1 wa.s brought safely through all the 
 raging of the sea, and the noise of angry 
 men, and wa.s permitted topre.ach the Gospel 
 to many Jews. 
 
 During my first visit to Leeds a whole 
 Jewish family was converted and baptized, 
 then several other individual Jews were 
 brought to Christ and baptized, and a young 
 Jewess was also converted and baptized by 
 me. 
 
 And thus my work has been going on for 
 years past in this city, among the thousands 
 of Jews, who reside here, and flock to this 
 great commercial place. 
 
 But I have also travelled about and 
 preached the Gospel in other towns, ami in 
 Ireland to many Jews and stirred them up 
 by the Word of God, to seek the Truth and 
 look upon Jesus Christ, whom they have so 
 long rejected as being verily the Anointed of 
 God, and the King of L'rael. 
 
 Specimens of Conversions. 
 I. 
 
 Some years ago, when I laboured abroad 
 among the Jews, I made the acquaintance of 
 a young Jew of a respectable family. At 
 fii-st he appeared to be careless and indiffierent 
 to the claims of Christ, and although I used 
 to visit his parents and spend some time 
 with them in religious convei'sation in hLs 
 presence, still he never showed any sign of 
 taking an interest in Christianity. 
 
 This continued for some time, but one 
 Sunday morning he came to our Church and 
 heard me preach. He came again on the 
 following Sunday, and then to our week-day 
 prayer meetings, which he regularly attended 
 for some time. 
 
 Then he discontinued to come, and I learnt 
 
 th.at he wa,s away from home and had left 
 the town. 
 
 After some weeks he came back again and 
 called upon me. 
 
 The fir.st thing he .said to me was, that he 
 had become a believer in the Lord Jesus 
 Christ, and that he had felt it his duty and 
 privilege to receive baptism, during the time 
 he was away, as he could not be baptized at 
 home because of his pai-ents, kc. 
 
 This took me by surprise, but I felt that 
 it was also his duty to tell his pareLti at 
 once what he had done, and I told him so. 
 He agieed to this, but wished me to be 
 present .also. 
 
 This I did, and when I came to the house 
 I found the young man already .sitting with 
 his mother, and telling her all things he had 
 done and what comfort he felt as a believer 
 in Christ, kc. 
 
 But to my sui-prise, although the good 
 lad}' was very much agitated at first, and 
 appealed to her son when she saw his 
 firmness and noble defence of the Gospel, 
 she said at la,st : " Well, my son, I hope you 
 will live as a good Christian," 
 
 But it was not so with the father and with 
 the rest of the family, for they stormed at 
 him, and were very angry, and there was 
 a scene. I tried to pacify them, and to say 
 a few words, but it was of no avail. But 
 the son was calm, and boi-e it patiently and 
 in a Christian spirit for Christ's sake, whom 
 he had learnt to love and to follow, meekly 
 Ijeaiing the cross. 
 
 Time pa-ssed on, and the young convert con- 
 tinued to attend my place of worship and to be 
 a regular communicant, when he was taken 
 dangerously ill, and I was sent for to see him. 
 
 I found liim very ill, but his mind was 
 clear, and he held fast to Christ. 
 
 I then prayed with him in the presence of 
 his parents, and commended him to the 
 keeping of his dear Saviour. 
 
 But there was no hope of his recovery, 
 and it pleased the Lord to take him up 
 higher. The parents were much distressed 
 at their great loss, and the father made 
 an attempt to bury his son according to the 
 Jewish rites and among the Jews, but I 
 resisted it, and he had to yield. At the 
 funeral, which I conducted, I spoke at the 
 grave in the presence of many Jews and of 
 his own family, and .set forth the Christian 
 hope and the blessed state of our bi-other 
 who had ascended to be for ever with the 
 Lord. 
 
 I also dwelt upon his conversion, and how
 
 :)9() 
 
 Memories of Gospd Tnumphs nmong the Jeivs. 
 
 in the providence of God lie was led to find 
 Christ, and thus to insure his salvation 
 through faith in the crucified and risen 
 Saviour ; and hence he was able to depart in 
 peace, trusting alone in the merits of Jesus 
 Christ. Then addi'essing myself to the 
 father, I said, your son is not dead, but 
 sleepeth, whose body the Lord will call out of 
 the grave when He comes again, and will 
 raise it up to a life immortal. 
 
 He does not need now your prayers for 
 the good of his soul, nor the iJ'np, Kadish 
 of the Synagogue, for he has one great 
 Advocate — Jesus Christ, the righteous, ite. 
 
 Both the father and the rest of the family, 
 and, in fact, most of the Jews present, were 
 bathed in tears, and felt the power of the 
 .solemn words addressed to them on the 
 occasion. 
 
 The mother of that young Jewish convert 
 died believing in Jesus ; his two sistei's were 
 also converted, and died in the Lord ; and 
 the two brothers who were left are now 
 jireaching Christ and doing a blessed work. 
 Glory be to Jesus. 
 
 IL 
 
 I remember once calling upon a Jewish 
 family in a provincial town in England, 
 which I n.sed to visit periodically, and found 
 a number of young children there who were 
 motherless, but had a healthy and intelligent 
 appearance. 
 
 The father of these children was always 
 pleased to receive me, and to have a little 
 talk with mo about Christianity. He was 
 not a learned man, but he could carry on the 
 conversation intelligently, which made it 
 pleasant to talk to him of the Hope of Israel 
 — the Lord Jesus Christ. I remember, also, 
 that some of his children used to be present 
 at our conversations, and to listen to us as 
 we were earnestly trying to bring home the 
 Truth and to make it clear to those who 
 were present. I also supplied my Jewish 
 friend with a copy of the Bible, both in 
 Hebrew and English, and with the New 
 
 Testament, which he valued very highly, and 
 which his children also used to read, espe- 
 cially the English Bible, which they seemed 
 to understand best. 
 
 Some vears after that I met with one of 
 these children, but who was then a grown up 
 young man, and renewed my acquaintance 
 with him. From that time I never lost 
 sight of him, but tried in every possible way 
 to instruct him and to lead him to Christ. 
 The result of this continual labour, pleading 
 and prayer, was the conversion and baptism 
 of this son of Abraham. But now this 
 young man's trials commenced. His father 
 rejected him, the rest of his family despised 
 him, and all his Jewish friends and acquain- 
 tances looked upon him disdainfully and as 
 one unworthy of their friendship. 
 
 But his father, feeling, I suppose that his 
 son had brought some disgrace uj)on him ami 
 upon his family, according to the Jewish 
 idea, through his conversion and baptism, 
 sought to lay hands upon him and to chastise 
 him. 
 
 This he did one day in the street, .as his 
 son u-as not living with him any more; he 
 caught him and began to beat him immerci- 
 fully with his fists, and with all his strength 
 in the face, until he gave him two black eyes 
 and caused his face to be bruised and swollen 
 for some time after. And when some people 
 present called out to the young man to hit 
 back the old man, the answer came : " He is 
 my fathei'," and thus he never once lifted up 
 his hand to his father, but bore it patiently 
 in the spirit of his Master, and instead of 
 hating, he has learned to love and respect 
 his father still, and to pray for him. 
 
 This was indeed .a glorious triumph of the 
 grace of God in the heart of that young 
 convert. 
 
 The result is that his father and all his 
 family are now reconciled to him and seek his 
 friendship. And he entertains the hope that 
 his prayers for the conversion of his father and 
 his other relatives, will yet be answered. 
 
 God grant it, for Jesus' sake. Amen. 
 
 THE COST OF THE COLLEGE FROM 1847 TO 1853. 
 
 From April 22nd, 1847, to April 22iid, 1848. 
 
 £ s. d. 
 
 Jewish Mission College 843 9 
 
 Board and Lodging of Students at 
 
 llrentfonl 76 ■) 5 
 
 From April 22nd, 1848, toApril 22nd, 1S40. 
 
 Jewish Mis.sion College, including ex- f s. d. 
 ]>enscs of Removal, Juurney.s of 
 Students, e^e., Books f<jr I.ilirarv, 
 A;c .'.. 100'. 13 \\
 
 I'rciiclurs. 
 
 591 
 
 From April, 1849, to April, 1850. 
 
 Jowi.-^h Misiiion College, incluiliiif; 
 Salaries of Tutors, Hoard, Lodging. 
 (,'lothiiig, Medical Treatment, ami 
 Travelling Expeuses of Students : 
 Books, &e 
 
 From April, 1850, to April, 1851. 
 
 Jewish Mission College, includiag 
 Salaries of Tutors, Board a u il 
 Lodging, i:c., of the Students. 
 
 From April, 1851, to April, 1852. 
 Jewish Mission College — 
 
 
 € 
 
 s. 
 
 d. 
 
 Salaries — Resident Tutor 
 
 200 
 
 
 
 
 
 ,, Divinity Tutor 
 
 100 
 
 
 
 
 
 ., Classical Tutor 
 
 SO 
 
 
 
 
 
 Board, Lodging, Clothinir, 
 
 
 
 
 &c., Eight Students 
 
 475 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 d. 
 
 910 1 :3 
 
 GS4 19 2 
 
 S25 10 
 
 From April, 1852, to April 1853. 
 
 Jewish Mission College — 
 Salaries— Resident Tutor iiOO 
 Divinity Tutor 100 
 
 Salaries— Cl.assieal Tutor 75 
 
 Boarding, Lodging. 
 Clothing, fee, Seven 
 
 Students 5.37 10 
 
 912 10 
 
 The aljove items from the annual cash 
 statements show that these young men were 
 fed, clothed, medically treated, housed and 
 educated gratis ; and our specimens of the 
 results of their laboiirs in the great mission 
 field, demonstrate that the ('ommittee were 
 abundantly ju.stified in the expenditure. The 
 money spent upon those devoted youni; men 
 has turned out to be a splendid spiritual in- 
 vestment. Some of them have ascended to 
 their rest and reward, and some are still in 
 the mission field. However far removed 
 they may be from each other, may they all 
 return home in the evening's shade, not one 
 lost, and each with his hands full of golden 
 sheaves. 
 
 PREACHERS. 
 
 FuoM 1853, To TUii Close of the Jldilee. 
 ( With ten Portraits.) 
 
 ALL of them calling upon u.s to give the 
 Gospel to the Jews, and to pray more 
 fervently for their conversion. 
 Rev. John Stoughton, L).D. 
 Rev. Charles Prest. 
 Rev. C. M. Birrell. 
 Rev. T. W. Avehng, D.D. 
 Rev. Thomas McCrie, D.D., LL.D. 
 Rev. C. H. Spurgeon. 
 Rev. Richaril Roberts. 
 Rev. Samuel Martin. 
 Ptev. W. Morley Punshon, LL.D. 
 Rev. John Edmond, D.D. 
 Rev. Enoch Mellor, M.A , D.D. 
 Rev. Horatius Eonar, D.D. 
 Rev. Adolph Saphir, D.D. 
 Rev. Donald Fraser, D.D. 
 Rev. J. A. Macfayden, M.A., D.D. 
 Rev. D. McColl. 
 
 Rev. J. Jackson Wrav. 
 
 Rev. W. H. Rule, D.D. 
 
 Rev. Marmaduke C. Osborn. 
 
 Rev. Samp.son Weaver. 
 
 Rev. John Kennedy, M.A., D.D. 
 
 Rev. John ilonro Gibson, D.D. 
 
 Rev H. Gratton Guinness, D.D. 
 
 Rev. A. McAuslane, D.D. 
 
 Rev. William Cuff. 
 
 Rev. Thain Davidson, DD.. 
 
 Rev. J. Clifford, M.A., D.I). 
 
 Rev. Thomas Evans. 
 
 Rev. J. Hiles Kitchens, D.D. 
 
 Rev. W. J. Adams, M.A., D.C.L. 
 
 Rev. Arthur T. Pierson, D.D. 
 The Jubilee Services were crowned with a 
 sermon by the Ven. William Macdonald 
 Sinclair, D.D., Archdeacon of London and 
 Hon. Chaplain to Her Majesty the Queen. 
 
 PROPHESYING TO THE BONES AND THE WINDS. 
 
 An Extract from one of the Sekmons delr^ered by Mr. Spurgeon, ox deualf of 
 
 THE Society. 
 
 {With lUustralion.) 
 
 AFTER the prophet had prophesied to the from the four winds, O breath, and breathe 
 
 bones, he vxis to prophesi/ tn the winds. upon these slain, that the}' may live." 
 
 He was to say to the blessed Spirit, the Preaching alone doth little ; it may make 
 
 Life-giver, the God of all grace, " Come the stir, it may bring the people together.
 
 392 
 
 Memories of Gospel Tnuviphs among the Jeivs, 
 
 There is nn attractiveness about tlie Gospel 
 which will (Irawtlie people to hear it; and 
 there is, moreover, a t'oi'ce about it whirli will 
 excite them, for it is "quick and powerful, 
 anil sharper than any two-edged sword ; ' but 
 there is no life giving power in the Gospel of 
 
 forth, in earnest im[)ortunato prayei'. >Strive 
 to feel more than i^ver conscious of the 
 utter indispcnsabilit}' of this matter. Feel 
 that witiiout < 'hrist joucan do nothing. In 
 vain your society, your machinery, your 
 committee, your seci'etary, your collectors. 
 
 rOKTBAIT (IF THK I.ATH Ml!. BPlTtlEdX, 
 
 As he was when he first ]ire:icliecl. in tlie Metrnpolitnn TaViei-naele, tlie Amiual Sernicn in aid uf tlie Fimds of 
 
 the British tjoeiety for the Pro|pagation of the fjosf^el atnong the Jews. 
 
 (/>'// the tyiiul ihriuisstfiii of Pasftiiiorr ^ Af'thaslrr, 4, Ptitrntnsfci- Jltiilt/iiii/s.) 
 
 itself apart from the Holy Spirit. The 
 " breath " must first blow, and then these 
 bones .shall live. Let us betake ourselves 
 much to this form of prophesying. Brethren 
 and sisters in Chi-ist, you who care for 
 Israel, go before the Lord now and henee- 
 
 yo\ir eontrilnitors, your niis,sionaries, without 
 the IIolj' Spirit. Blow ye your trumpet, 
 and tell out loudly what yon have done ; j'e 
 have sown much, but ye shall reap little lui- 
 less ye are trusting in the Spiiit of God. 
 There is always this danger to which we are
 
 394 
 
 Memories of Gospel Tnurrvphs among the Jews. 
 
 IIEV. RICHARD ROBERTS. 
 
 exposed, though some, I know, think that it is a 
 danger which does not exist — I mean the peril of 
 looking to the strength or the weakness of the 
 instrumentality, and being either pufl'ed up by the 
 one or dejected by the other. You are enough for 
 your work if God be with you ; and if you be but 
 a handful you are too many for your work if God 
 be not with you. God never objecteth to human 
 weakness, when He comes to work He prefers it, 
 for it makes a platform for Divine power. What 
 did He say to Gideon ? " The people are too many 
 for Me." He did not say that they were too few. 
 You never find a case in Scripture of God's saying 
 that the people were too few, but it was, "the 
 people are too man}/ for Me." Man's strength is 
 more in God's way than man's weakness. Nay 
 human weakness, inasmuch as it makes elbow-room 
 for God's strength, is God's chosen instrument. 
 "Therefore will I glory in infirmities," said the 
 apostle, " that the power of God may rest upon 
 me." Rest then, upon the Holy Spirit as indis- 
 pensable, and go to God with this for your cry, 
 " Come from the four winds, breath, and breathe 
 upon the.se slain, that they may live." 
 
 Observe, beloved, that this second 
 prophe-si/ijii/ of E::ekiel is just (is hold 
 and as full of faith us tin' first. He 
 seems to have no doubt, but speaks 
 as though he could command the 
 wind. " Come," saith he, and the 
 wind Cometh. We want more faith 
 in God. When we are engaged in 
 any spiritual work we shall always 
 find our success proportioned to our 
 faith. Little faith, slender har- 
 vests ; much faith, plenteous sheaves. 
 Little fishes come in slender numbers 
 to Littlefaith's net ; but stiong con- 
 fidence can hardly hold all the great 
 fishes which load her boat. I will 
 not ask foi' your society, or for you 
 any further boon than greater faith, 
 for getting greater faith ^you have 
 Divine strength and sure succes,s. 
 The spirit always woiks with faith- 
 ful men. My dear friends, the Spirit 
 of God is pouied out. He abideth 
 in His Church as the ever-present 
 ('omfortei-. We are not to look upon 
 His influences as a boon which we 
 cannot reach, for He is here, wait- 
 ing to give us all we need. Ho 
 dwells in the midst of His people ; 
 and we have but to cry unto Him, 
 
 Ri;V. SA.MUEI. JURTDJ.
 
 Preachei-8. 
 
 39.J 
 
 He will manifest His mighty power, and 
 we shall have souls saved, both Jews and 
 Gentiles. Let your prayer, then, be with 
 a sense of how much you need it, but yet 
 with a lirm conviction that the Holy Spirit 
 will most surely come in answei' to your 
 prayers. 
 
 of the miracle — " Come from the four winds 
 O breath, and breathe upon these slain that 
 they may live." We have here continual 
 vehemence and force ; just that which 
 makes a prayer prevalent. 0, let us cry 
 mightily unto God ! We cannot expect to see 
 great things unless we do cry to Him, but 
 
 •/rff/ST/rJg/ri^ 
 
 And, then, let it. he earnest praijer. That 
 " Come from the four winds, O breath," reads 
 to me like the cry, not of one in despair 
 but of one who is full of a vehement desire, 
 gratified with what he sees, since the bones 
 have come together, and have been mysteri- 
 ously clothed with flesh, but now crying 
 pa.ssionately for the immetliate completion 
 
 we are only limited by our prayer. We are 
 not straitened in Him ; we are only strait- 
 ened in ourselves. We might see greater 
 things if we could but believe. All things 
 are possible to him that believeth : but as of 
 old, the Lord Jesus cannot do many mighty 
 things now-a-days because of our unbelief. 
 We hamper the arm of grace ; we do, as it
 
 396 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs amovg the Jews. 
 
 Ri;V. JOHN EDMOND, D, 
 
 were, restr;nn the 
 Almighty energy. 
 Oh lor greater 
 faith, to beheve 
 that nations may 
 be born in a day, 
 that multitudes 
 may be turned 
 unto God at once, 
 and we shall yet 
 see it — see what 
 our fathers never 
 saw, and what our 
 imaginations have 
 never dreamed. 
 We shall leap 
 fi'om victory to 
 victory, marching 
 on from one tri- 
 umph to another, 
 until we meet 
 the All-glorious 
 
 • \ i:n, m a., d.D. 
 
 Saviom-. Charg- 
 ing foeman after 
 foenian, and rout- 
 ing army after 
 arm}', we shall 
 go on, concpiering 
 and to conquer, 
 until we salute 
 Him who cometh 
 upon the white 
 horse of triumph, 
 followed by all 
 the armies of 
 heaven. Breth- 
 ren, be of good 
 courage in your 
 work of faith and 
 labour of love, 
 for it is not, and 
 shall not be in 
 vain in the Lord. 
 
 REV. DONALD FRASER, D.D. 
 {Ill/ the kimi }>ermi3s!un of the Stereoscopic Co.)
 
 Frencfters, 
 
 397 
 
 A 
 
 DEAD AND ALIVE AGAIN. 
 
 I'lV Till', l.iri; Ki;v. fJAMlKh MAK'l'lX, Slixi.srKi; m Wkviwiinstkii (.'hai'el. 
 (Concludlii;/ Fart.) 
 
 S private Christians oinnot do the wliole we now advocate. By contributions of money 
 work whii'li Israel requirei for their and by the collection of funds, and by cease- 
 
 [hEV. JOHN MONRO GIBSON, D.D, 
 
 salvation, let us sustain to the uttermost 
 those labourers who give themselves entirely 
 to it, and those Societies whose oliject is the 
 raising up and the sending forth of such 
 labourers, especially the Society whose claims 
 
 less prayer, let us .uphold " the Uritish So- 
 ciety for the Propagation of the Gospel 
 among the Jews." It is certain that these 
 wandering sheep will be restored to the fold 
 of the good Shepherd, and that those now
 
 398 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 absent from the Church of God shall be added 
 to the liouseliold of faith ; and inliat shall ike 
 receiving of them be hut life from the dead ? 
 They shall be as souls quickened, who were 
 dead in trespasses and sins. Their life shall 
 be the removal of a heavy body of death, and 
 of a deep dark shadow of death, and the 
 power and freshness of their life, brought 
 into the Church, shall renew and enrich the 
 life of the whole body of Christ. Even the 
 casting away of the Jew was the occasion of 
 the reconciling of the world. The conquest 
 of the Jews' land by the Romans assisted the 
 estabUshment of the throne of Jesus in the 
 lands of the Gentiles ; the destruction of the 
 holy city helped forward the building of tlie 
 New Jerusalem; the rasing of the temple 
 contributed to the making of the earth " all 
 hallowed ground"; and the rejection of the 
 gospel by the Jew, like a strong wind which 
 in sowing-time carries on its wings the pre- 
 cious seed, led to the immediate proclamation 
 of the gospel to the whole world ; and 
 this gospel was the power of God unto the 
 salvation of the Greek. Now, if the casting 
 away of the Jew be the reconciling of the 
 world, what shall the receiving of them be 
 but life fiom the dead ? 
 
 The songs and ballads of a nation reveal 
 the people's joys and sorrows, their hopes 
 and fears, their aspirations and their aims ; 
 and those who compose songs for a nation 
 express what they feel ought to be the aims 
 and aspirations of a country. Now the 
 children of Abraham were, from an early 
 period in their history, taught to sing — 
 " Gody be mercifid unto us and bless us, and 
 cause His face to shine upon us: that Thy way 
 may be knoivn upon earth, Thy saving health 
 am,on(l all nations. Let the people in-aise Thee, 
 God, let all the people jiraise Thee. let the 
 nations be glad and, sing for joy ; for Thou 
 shall judge the peopile righteously, and govern 
 the nations upon earth. Let the people praise 
 Thee, God, let all the people praise Thee. Then 
 shall the earth yield her increase, and God, 
 even our own God, shall bless us. God shall 
 bless us, and all the ends of the earth shall 
 fear Him." 
 
 God caused this psalm to be written for 
 Israel's singing ; and in unison the young 
 men and maidens, the old men and children, 
 sang of the time when we Gentiles should be 
 saved ; and they mingled prayers with their 
 songs, and asked that they might themselves 
 be blest, so that the future of the Gentiles 
 might more speedily be realized. Let us 
 adapt this psalm to Israel's case, and let us 
 
 pray that God may be merciful unto us, and 
 bless us, and cause His face to shine upon us; 
 that His way may be known among Israel, 
 and His saving health among all the seed of 
 Abraham. Let us convert into song the 
 statement of the apostle concerning Israel's 
 salvation, and let us sing of the good time 
 coming, when the receiving of them shall be 
 as life from the dead. This will cherish our 
 hopes, vivify our aspirations, and give fixed- 
 ness to our aims. 
 
 To hear that Israel is as bad as dead, to 
 see signs of this death, to know that Israel 
 is dead, should cause us to weep as did Nain's 
 widow, and to mourn as did the sisters at 
 Bethany, and to sorrow as did the disciples 
 over the entombed Christ. But we are all, 
 perhaps, far from this holy sorrow now. The 
 exclusiveness of the Jew has made us Gentiles 
 indifferent to him; the pride of the Jew has 
 caused us to despise and neglect him ; the 
 obstinacy of the Jew, and his strange rejection 
 of the Messiah who came from his own flesh, 
 has led us to despair of him, and we do not 
 feel sad that Israel is dead. Our first duty 
 is to inquire, and look, and observe, and think, 
 and consider, until we feel. Israel is as dead. 
 The vine of God's planting is dead. Heaven's 
 favoured olive is dead. The palm tree of the 
 courts of our God is dead. The cedar of 
 Lebanon is dead. Jehovah's Israel is dead. 
 Jesus of Nazareth's own Israel is dead. The 
 first-born of Heaven is dead. Then let the 
 Churcli go weeping after Israel, and go mourn- 
 ing until Israel's resurrection. But let there 
 be no wail of despair, as though Israel were 
 dead for ever. Let there be no unbelieving 
 check put to efforts whose object is resusci- 
 tation, as when Martha said, " Lord, by this 
 time he stinketh." Let there be no attempt to 
 embalm the dead, as though the sepulchre 
 were Israel's home. But let us, in the name 
 of our Lord Jesus Christ, seek to raise the 
 dead ; let us say to Israel's sons, "Young man, 
 I say unto thee arise ; Lazarus, come forth ! " 
 and let us watch and wait for resurrection. 
 
 In plain language, let the chuich of Christ 
 call to Israel, and let her .say — Come. Let her 
 say — Come ! we have found Him of whom 
 Moses, and the law and the prophets, did 
 write ! Come ! we have found the Messiah ! 
 Come ! the Holy One of Israel is in the midst 
 of us. Come ! and we will do you good. 
 Coine ! ye weary and heavy-laden ! Come, ye 
 who are cast off — come nigh ! Come, put oft' 
 thy sackcloth, and put on thy beautifiil gar- 
 ments ! Come, draw wsiter out of our wells 
 of salvation !
 
 Preachers. 
 
 399 
 
 With a smiling face, and with an inviting 
 voice, and with a loving heart, and with open 
 arms, and with anopen door, let the church say 
 to Israel — Come 1 — and Israel shall come, 
 and the Gentile church shall receive Israel, 
 and the receiving of Israel shall be — life from 
 the dead. When this shall come to pass 
 there shall be joij in heaven as when a mother 
 receives back, even as from the grave, her 
 convalescent fii-st-bcrn, and as when a father 
 sees seated at his table, reformed and re- 
 stored, his once prodigal son, and as when 
 
 an expectant and witnessing multitude sees 
 accomplished some work in which they have 
 felt a loving and living interest : and there 
 shall be new joy on, earth, because new life 
 there — new life in living Israel — walking, 
 working, worshipping, as though Israel had 
 never been dead ; new life in the Gentiles, fra- 
 ternizing with Israel as though the two were 
 twin-brothers, as though they had grown up 
 together as one, and had never been separated; 
 and neui life in the irliole church, in Jew and 
 in Gentile — new life in the one body of Christ 
 
 Inscription upon the Monument in Ai;ney Park Cemetery. 
 
 ALEXANDER McAUSLANE, D.D. 
 
 Born. \f)th January, 1827, 
 
 Died, 2?'th June, 1886. 
 
 Minister 8ucces.sively in Dunfermline (Scotland), Newport (Mon.) and London. 
 
 A man of genial mannens, warm affections, and vigorous mind. 
 
 A powerful and eminently succe.ssful jireaclier of the Gospel, and an eloquent advocate of every jiliilanthropic 
 
 and benevd'ent cause, whiise lUep iutcreot in the young and whose helpfid sympathy with many brethren will 
 
 be long and gratefully remembered. 
 
 EitncTED uv Membeus or hi.s Coxgreg.vtion and Fkiexus as a Tiublte of 
 Aduiuation and Afkection.
 
 400 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs nviong the Jews. 
 
 revived and renewed — renewed as is the face 
 of the earth in spring, renewed as the strength 
 of a man recovered from dangerous sickness, 
 and revived as when one is raised to life fr<im 
 death ! 
 
 those whom aheady Tliou lust raised from 
 the dead ! Save Israel, O ],oiil Jesus ! — save 
 Israel for th3 Father's saks ! — save Israel for 
 Thine own sake ! — save Tsrael for' Israel's 
 sake ! — and save Israel for oui' sake : " /'(//• 
 
 ^y. M. sin:-[.aiii, d.d., aiuiidi:.\((ix of i.undjx. 
 
 Life from the dead ! This, Lord Jesus 
 Christ, we ask of Thee — the now life which 
 Thou alone givest, for Israel, and more life for 
 
 v)h<it shall llic re:eiriii J o/ /.'ton he, 1ml lijafnna 
 the deml !"
 
 Dr. Filrst and Professor Palotta. 
 
 401 
 
 MORE PRAYER WANTED FOR ISRAEL. 
 
 ALL these eminent Preachers of the 
 Gospel, and eloquent pleaders for the 
 generous support of the work of our beloved 
 Society, we have found to be one in the 
 conviction that oui- great want is more 
 earnest prayer. 
 
 In mechanical science, high value is set on 
 an instrument which has a great amount of 
 active power, is easily worked, economizes 
 time and materials, is adaptable to various 
 pui'poses and is durable. Now, in spiritual 
 mechanics, so to speak, where it is not 
 matter but mind that is wrought upon, there 
 isan instrument which standsout prominently 
 for these very pi-operties, and that instrument 
 is prayer. It has immense motive power : — 
 " Frail art thou, O man ! as a bubble on the 
 breaker ; weak and governed by externals 
 like a poor bird caught in the storm : yet thy 
 momentary breath can still the raging 
 waters ; thy hand can touch a lever that may 
 move a world." It is easily worked : for a 
 little child can pray. It economizes time : 
 for in a moment, on one winged desire, 
 prayer can leach the throne, and an answer 
 the footstool where we are ; it economizes 
 materials : for no temple is needed nor any 
 prepared place; only let tliere be the .speaking 
 lips, and when they cannot shape the words, 
 then a look, a sigh, a breathing thought is 
 prayer. It is adapted to various pui'poses : 
 for in everything by prayer and supplication 
 we are to make our requests known unto 
 God. It is durable : for all his life through, 
 the Christian can pray — ■ 
 
 "Prayer is the Chriatiau'a vital breath, 
 
 The Christian's native air ; 
 His watchword at the ^ates of death, 
 
 He enters Heaven by iirayer." 
 
 What, then, may Christians not achieve who 
 can rightly use this mighty influence ? But 
 especially, what may they not perform, when 
 
 they bring this power to bear upon the 
 accomplishment of a great purpose such 
 as the conversion of the Jews ? O then, as 
 the old watchword was, " To your tents, O 
 Israel," let the new watchword be, " To 
 your knees, for Isr.ael," and soon "All 
 Israel shall be saved," and through Israel 
 the entire Gentile World. May we all 
 remember those weighty words of Archbishop 
 Leighton, " They forget a main part of the 
 Church's glory that pray not daily for the 
 Jews' conversion " ; and may we cease not to 
 pray to the Lord, "till He establish and 
 till He make Jerusalem a praise in the 
 earth." 
 
 " And He shall live, and to Him fhall L<^ given of the 
 
 gold of Sheba : 
 .■\nd men shall jjray for Him continually : 
 They shall bless Him all the day long. 
 'J'here shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon 
 
 the top of tlie mountains : 
 The fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon : 
 And they of the city shall flourish like grass of the 
 
 earth. 
 
 His name shall endure for ever ; 
 
 HLs name shall be continued as long as the sun : 
 
 And men shall be blessed in Him : 
 
 All nations shall call Him blessed. 
 
 Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, 
 
 Who only doeth wondrous things : 
 
 And blessed be,His glorious nami; for ever ; 
 
 And let the whole earth be filled with his glory. 
 
 Amen and Amen. 
 
 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended." 
 
 Why ended ? May it not be because more 
 than this he could not a.sk? The splendour 
 of Christ filling and thrilling all is the 
 glorious goal beyond which we have no wish 
 to go. This includes the uttermost of desire 
 and the uttermost of duration. When this 
 is realized, prayer may be exchanged for per- 
 petual praise and the .sighs of supplication 
 for the unending Hallelujahs of the Heaven 
 of Heavens. 
 
 DR. PURST AND PROFESSOR PALOTTA. 
 
 {IVith Portraits.) 
 
 MR. ALEXANDER FURST'S connec- 
 tion with the Society began in No- 
 vember, 1855, the time he reached London. 
 He was then received into the Rev. R. H. 
 Herschell's Home for Jewish Inquirers, and 
 afterward led to Christ. 
 
 HIS BAPTISM. 
 
 His baptism took place in Trinity Chapel, 
 Edgware Road, on the evening of the Lord's 
 Day, October 20th, 1856. 
 
 The spacious chapel was filled by an atten- 
 tive audience. The Rev. D. A. Herschell 
 began by reading the Scriptures and prayer, 
 after which the Pastor, the Rev. Ridley H. 
 Herschell, delivered a discour.se of great 
 power on Isa. vi. 1-3 : " So the holy seed shall 
 be the substance thereof." Mr. Fiirst, who 
 had been for some time under the care of 
 Mr. Herschell, and instructed by Mr. Gel- 
 lert, one of the Society's missionaries, gave a 
 touching account of the way by which he bad 
 
 D D
 
 402 
 
 Memones of Gospel Tnumphs among the Jews 
 
 been led to the knowlidge and love of the 
 Saviour. The Pastor then baptized him in 
 the name of the Father, the Son, and the 
 Holy Spirit. 
 
 The Eev. D. A. Herschell addressed the 
 young soldier of the Cross in a manner never 
 to be forgotten by him, closing by a very 
 eai'nest and searching appeal to those who 
 had witnes.sed the solemnity. 
 
 A hymn and prayer terminated the hal- 
 lowed and simple proceedings of the evening. 
 
 It is worthy of record, and matter for de- 
 vout gratitude to God, that at this time 
 nineteen of the seed of Abraham had been 
 
 HEV. A. t'URST, D.D. 
 
 baptized in Trinity Chapel, some of whom 
 had become ministers of the Gospel and 
 others missionaries to Jews and Gentiles. 
 
 Mr. Fiirst began his work in London as 
 the as.sistant of Mr. Gellert, who was of 
 great use in introducing him to Jewish 
 homes. 
 
 In London he laboured for nine years, and 
 won many souls for Christ. Then he was 
 appointed to go to Stettin, in Prussia, his 
 native land. Before leaving, he was or- 
 dained at Coverdale Chapel, Limehouse, on 
 Wednesday, tlie 25th of September, 1SG7. 
 In Stettin, as in London, and afterwards in 
 
 connection with the Free Church of Scotland 
 Jewish INIission, Dr. Fiirst enjoyed many 
 tokens of the Divine ble.ssing. 
 
 A few years ago he returnei to his parent 
 Society, anil became a valuable unpaid helper 
 of the late Rev. P. E. Gottheil, at Stuttgart. 
 
 The Story of the Gift of a Shilling to 
 a Poor young Jew. 
 
 " THAT SHILLING ! " 
 By Dr. Fii!.st. 
 I had one day to call at the British 
 Society's office in Great Kussell Street, to 
 see Dr. Gill, the Secretary. The otfice then 
 was on the ground floor, and in the passage 
 there was a bench on which a young, tall 
 handsome man was sitting, evidently waiting 
 for somebody oi' something. I saluted him 
 and entered the office room and found, fortu- 
 nately. Dr. Gill there. He told me that in 
 the passiige was a poor Jew, and he gave me 
 a shilling for him. I went to him gave him 
 the shilling, and entered into conversation 
 with him. I asked him what countryman 
 he was, what occupation he had, and the 
 cause of his wretched condition. He replied 
 that he had come from Croatcen to London to 
 find some place in an office, but was unsuc- 
 cessful in all liLs endeavours, and as his 
 money was exhausted he was already obliged 
 to sleep in the paiks. I expressed to him my 
 deep-felt sympathy with him in .seeing him 
 in such a wretclied plight, and soon turned 
 our subject to religion and Christianity in 
 particular. He listened attentively and 
 remarked that in his country Romanism is 
 the prevailing religion, which he, as a Jew, 
 did not like. But, he continued to say, if 
 evangelical Christianity is .such as I 
 represented it to him, he only i-egretted that 
 his present condition would not afford him 
 time nor leisure to search after it. Heai-ing 
 this I replied that if this be his only 
 difficulty it could be easily and quickly 
 lemoved. Here is my card, take it to 
 Palestine Place, hand it over to Dr. Evvald 
 and all will be right foryou. He took the card 
 cheerfully and thankl'ully and left me. 
 Weeks had passed away since we met, and 
 in the multiplicity of my engagements I had 
 no time to call upon dear Dr. Ewald. But 
 one day I had to talk to him about another 
 Jew, and accordingly I called on him. I 
 had fii-st to pass the inqnirei's room before I 
 could reach that of Dr. Ewald's. When 1 
 was in the Lnquirei's room up stood my 
 young Jew, the future Professor Palotta,
 
 Dr. F'drst (tad Professor Palotto. 
 
 403 
 
 and saluteil me. " You here, Mr. Palotta ? " 
 I asked in the joy of my heart. " Yes," he 
 replied ; " I went on the same day straight 
 from your otlice to Dr. Ewald, and have ever 
 since been here." When talking with Dr. 
 Ewald, he s;iid, " I must thank you for 
 sending me Palotta, for he seems to be a very 
 nice young man, and he lias gi-eat intellectual 
 powers, we shall try to make something of 
 him." He was baptized, sent to college, 
 became a Jewish missionary, was as such, 
 active first in Belgiade then in Jassy, where 
 he re.signed his post in 1871, and settled 
 down in Vienna, where he became professor 
 at a commercial college, and he died in 1891, 
 much regietted by all who knew him, Jews 
 and Christians. Since I saw him at Palestine 
 Place I had only seen him once, and that in 
 Strasburg a few years before his death, lie 
 was on his way to the Paris exhibition, sent 
 there by his Government to study the 
 educational department, and stayed over 
 Sunday at Strasburg, where he pieaclied 
 for me to my English congi-egation. It 
 was a great treat to me to meet him 
 once more, and when I asked whether he 
 remembered the shilling, yes, he smilingly 
 replied, " that shilling " and pressed my 
 Lands. 
 
 Two incidents from Mr. Palotta's 
 Journal. 
 
 DESIIIINC TO HEAU MORE OF JESUS. 
 
 " In .Tas.sy, I delivered a message from a 
 proselyte to his Jewish relatives. Their 
 conversation .showed that thej' thought it a 
 disgrace that one of theu' family should be a 
 missionary. (The Jews here call all our 
 pioselytes missionaries.) ' Y'^ou ought,' I 
 told them, ' to be happy tliat one member at 
 least of your family has found the siiving 
 truth. Think how you will meet the terrors 
 of the judgment of God, on the great day of 
 account. Xow your relative, if he be sincere, 
 can look forward even tothat awful day with 
 steady hope, for his sins are forgiven him. 
 They are blotted out by the blood of Him 
 whom you ignorantly reject ' Such language 
 was new to this family, and it afi'ecte 1 them 
 strangely. They showed much desire to 
 hear more of Jesus, and pressed me to make 
 frequent cjdls. I accepted that invitation, 
 and have had delightful opportunities of 
 putting before them the reason of the hope 
 which is in us." 
 
 WILLING TO PAY FOR A NEW TESTAMENT. 
 
 " Several Jews were looking at the New 
 Testament, among them an old man, who 
 eagerly exclaimed, ' Oh the good Book ! 
 Let me have it, I will pay you for it." That 
 moment anothei- Jew rushed fiercely at us, 
 threatened us with his stick, and shouted, ' I 
 have authority over this people, and they dare 
 not touch your books. And as to you, make 
 of!" from this town. We are all rich and 
 religious Jews, with long beards and you will 
 get no honour here.' I reproved and endea- 
 voured to (juiet him, fearing this scene might 
 cause some dangerous commotion. But 
 whilst I was thus engaged, Mr. Adler sold, 
 close by, two New Testaments under our very 
 eyes. The old man went oft', throwing 
 regretful looks at the precious books, and 
 firmly clutching the tracts he had received. 
 
 Another Jew, whilst expostulating with our 
 assailant, was also induced by me to buy a 
 New Testament." 
 
 Professor PalotI a was for years and up till 
 his departure a most invaluable voluntary 
 agent of the British Society. In 1891. 
 peacefully and triumphantly he passed away 
 during the singing of his favourite hymn : — 
 
 '• Safe in the arms of Jesus," &c. 
 
 A dear Christian lady who knew his work 
 and his worth said " The death of Profes.sor 
 Palotta is a great loss to the whole 
 Evangelical Church in Vienna." 
 
 '■That Shilling," given by the British 
 Society to young Palotta, in liis great need, 
 has turned out to be a splendid investment. 
 Heaven will be all the richer for it through- 
 out eternity. 
 
 DD 2
 
 404 
 
 Memories of Gospel Tnumphs among the Jeics. 
 
 PORTRAIT OP THE RIGHT REV. EDWARD BICKERSTETH, D.D., 
 LORD BISHOP OF EXETER. 
 
 Dr. Bickersteth Connected with the 
 British Society since 1856. 
 
 IN an old Minute Book, marked 3, we liave 
 found the following Resolution, which 
 was passed at a Meeting of Committee, held 
 on the 19th of March, 1856, when there 
 were present, Marcus Martin, ICsq. (in the 
 thaii). Sir Culling Eardley Eardley, Bait., 
 
 Rev. James Smith, George Yonge, and 
 others : — 
 
 " On the motion of Sir Culling Eardley 
 Eardley, it was agreed to invite the Rev. 
 Edward Bickersteth to liecome a member 
 of the Committee ; .and the Treasurer was 
 solicited to present the request of the 
 Committee."
 
 More Miftsionarien and Covverts. 
 MORE MISSIONARIES AND CONVERTS. 
 
 40.-3 
 
 REV. B. F. JACOBI, 
 KONIGSBERG. 
 
 ( With rortrait.1, dx.) 
 
 THROUGH the in- 
 strumeatality of our 
 venerable missionary, 
 Rev. B. F. Jacobi, many 
 Jews and Jewesses had 
 been brought into the 
 Christian fold. Nearly 
 all of these were in good 
 positions in life. Simon, 
 the Lord Chief Justice of 
 Germany, is one of Mi . 
 Jacobi's spiritual sons. 
 
 SAVED FROM SUICIDE AND 
 LED TO CHHIST. 
 
 The following is an 
 example of his method 
 in dealing with his 
 brethren for their 
 spiritual and eternal 
 well-being. 
 
 " The other day, when 
 I was taking a walk, I 
 met a German Jew, who 
 
 REV. B. F. JACOBI. 
 
 was wending his way 
 home to a neighbouring 
 village. In the course 
 of conversation, the Jew 
 bitterly complained of 
 some heavy family 
 trouble. I tried to 
 console him, and in 
 handing him a New 
 Testament I asked him 
 to read it diligently, 
 and pray to God for the 
 Holy Spirit tliat he may 
 understand and benefit 
 by it. Then I told him 
 of a Jew who was so 
 deeply in debt that he 
 was unable to sleep, and 
 he resolved to put an 
 end to his life by shoot- ' 
 ing himself. He went 
 out into the forest with 
 this intention. He took 
 his revolver out of his 
 pocket, in which he also 
 •carried a New Testament 
 which had been given 
 to him. Just as he 
 
 .MRS. JACOBU 
 
 MISS JACuBI.
 
 406 
 
 Mrmcn-ies of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 was about to present tlie revolver for the 
 fatal sliot, he noticed his New Testament on 
 the ground, lie stooped to take it up, and 
 in doing so it opened to him at Matt. xi. 28, 
 and his eyes were fixed upon the words : 
 ' Come unto Me all ye that labour and 
 are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.' 
 These words fell like balm upon his wounded 
 spiiit. He returned home thanking God for 
 his deliverance. He began to do his duty 
 bravely, and was soon able to surmount his 
 difficulties. The Word of God became his 
 constant companion. Having realized that 
 
 yoked. I have before me now a striking 
 instance of this fact. 
 
 The husband was a Jew and his wife a 
 Christian, who used to attend I>ivine service 
 in my church. These two had one daughter, 
 about ten years of age. Many of the 
 children of the place was attacked liy 
 measles and among them was this child, who 
 became dangerou.sly ill. She was a Christian 
 child, with no fear of death, and happy at 
 the prospect of going soon to be with her 
 dear Saviour. By her side .sat her disconsolate 
 athei', to whom she said — 
 
 kONIGSBERG, 
 
 Christ came into the world to save sinners, 
 and therefore to save him, he was baptized, 
 and went on his way rejoicing in Him who 
 nad become all his salvation and all his 
 desii'e. The Jew left me greatly intareUel 
 and comforted." 
 
 For the Young. 
 
 TOUCUINQ DE\Tn-BED OF A nEIJREW- 
 CIIRISTIAN CHILD. 
 
 Since the passing of the law relating to 
 mixed marriages, it has often happened that 
 husbands and wives have been unequally 
 
 " Father, when I go to heaven and my 
 dear Saviour will say, ' Annie, why does 
 your father hate Me ? ' what answer shall I 
 give Him ? " 
 
 The father was greatly troubled at his 
 little daughter's question, and turned his face 
 away from her. For a little while a great 
 struggle was evidently going on within his 
 soul ; then he turned his face again, and in 
 a voice soft and low he said — 
 
 " Annie, my dear child, toll the Saviour 
 that I love Him. I did not love Him before, 
 but I do love Him noio."
 
 More Missionaries and Converts. 
 
 407 
 
 THE LATE KEY. SAIMUEL IHAAV 
 GftEEN. 
 
 One of the Society's Spiritual Sons in 
 
 ViCTORtA. 
 
 A Specimen of his Letters. 
 
 KicHMoND, Victoria, 
 
 Becember IGth, 1879. 
 
 My Dear Sir, — I have long wished to 
 send 30U a few lina*, but my time i.s so 
 fully taken up with the work of a large 
 Church that it has not been easy for me to 
 do so. I must not, however, delay any 
 longer. I dare say 
 you know my name. 
 I am one of the chil- 
 dren of j^our noble 
 Society. I was 
 brought to the Truth 
 in the year 1859. 
 Since that time I 
 have pasi-ed through 
 many changes, and 
 have found the Lord 
 present with me 
 through them all. 
 
 I have now been 
 in the ministrj- about 
 13 years. I studied 
 at Camden College, 
 Sydney, New South 
 Wales, and for nearly 
 four years I have 
 been pastor of the 
 Congregational 
 Church here. I suc- 
 ceeded the Rev. W. 
 R. Fletcher, M.A., 
 now of StoweChurch, 
 Adelaide. No or.e 
 could wish for a 
 kinder people or a 
 nobler band of Chi is- 
 tian workers than I 
 have ; and it is my 
 daily prayer that God will use me for their 
 good and His glory. 
 
 I have every rea-on for thankfulness. We 
 seldom hold a Church meeting without .«ome 
 addition to our numbers. 
 
 I need not tell you that I take the deepest 
 interest in the work of your, I ought to say 
 our, Society. The six copies of the Jferald 
 you kindly send me are, I assure you, well 
 distributed ; I send some to Queen.sland, 
 two to New South Wales. I could use 
 more if I had them. I have a Mission- 
 ary Prayer Meeting-^in the Church once a 
 
 REV. SAMUEL I. GREEN, 
 
 The Hebrew Pastor, The British Society's Sinritual .Son 
 .ind Repiesentative, Australia. 
 
 month, and 1 generally read a portion of 
 the Ilendd. 
 
 If I had the time a good work might be 
 done among my people. They number very 
 largely in Melbourne and in all the cities and 
 towns of the colony, and the other colonies 
 too. But I regret we have no direct agency 
 in existence for the conversion of the Jews. 
 Now and again I hear of a C'hristian man or 
 woman who takes a special interest in their 
 salvation, but that is not often. You may ask 
 the question, Do you do anything ? I may 
 answer yes and no. I put myself in the way 
 
 of my brethren as 
 
 far as I can. I have 
 little time for any- 
 thing outside my 
 Church ; but when- 
 ever I can get a 
 conversation with a 
 brother after the 
 flesh you may be sure 
 I try, with God's 
 help, to bring him 
 to see his sad and 
 lost condition with- 
 out Christ. As for 
 system a tic work 
 amongmj' people, that 
 I cannot do as long 
 as I am the Pastor 
 of a Church. 
 
 I have just now a 
 very interesting case 
 of a young man 
 under consideration. 
 He is the son of a 
 wealthy Jew in the 
 colony. He assures 
 me that he could go 
 back to his father's 
 house, nay, that his 
 father had offered to 
 pay his passage from 
 Melbourne; that his 
 sole reason for declining to do so is, that at 
 his father's house he could not pursue his 
 inquiry into the Truth as in Jesus. Since he 
 mentioned the matter to him once, and his 
 aged father threatened to turn him out of the 
 house if the subject was named to him ag.ain, 
 he has been with me three times. I have done 
 my best to certify myself as to his sincerity. 
 The mere I see of him the better I like him. 
 I hope before long I shall be able still further 
 to confirm my impression. He was in my 
 Church on Sabbath last and was mo.st atten- 
 tive and earnest. throughout the service.
 
 408 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triuviphs among the Jeics. 
 
 I send you herewith a Bank draft for .£7, 
 being in part amount of subscriptions from 
 friends who take the Herald; and XI 5s. from 
 a children's class that I conduct. 
 
 I wish it were more. I hope I shall be able 
 to let you have another remittance during 
 the coming year. I shall do ray best. 
 Should you, my dear sir, be able to find time 
 to send me a line I shall feel very thankful 
 to you. 
 
 I pray that the Head of the Church may 
 long spare )'ou, and enable you so to guide 
 the affairs of our noble Society that it may 
 in the future extend 
 the Redeemer's caufe 
 with yet greater success 
 than it has done in the 
 past. 
 With kindest regards, 
 
 I am, my Dear Sir, 
 Yours in Christ, 
 Samuel I. Grken. 
 Rev. J. DuNLOP. 
 
 Mr. Green was an 
 able and faithful Chris- 
 tian minister and ii dis- 
 tinguished soul-winner. 
 He was our excellent 
 representative in Aus- 
 tralia for years, and 
 until his death. During 
 his last days his bodily 
 sufferings were severe, 
 and in his weakness and 
 pain a Jewish Rabbi 
 came to him, and did 
 all in his power, without 
 success, to induce him 
 to return to the syna- 
 gogue. Mr. Green, whose 
 Christian peace had re- 
 mained unruffled all 
 through the trial, at 
 last sang the song of 
 triumph : — " Who shall separate us from the 
 love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or anguish, 
 or persecution," itc, etc. 
 
 As Mr. Green's end was drawing near he 
 summoned his family to his bedside, and 
 asked them to sing a part of his favourite 
 hymn, " Rock of Ages." When it was 
 finished he exclaimed in rapture, "Glorious!" 
 and scon after, moie than a conqueror, he 
 ascended to his eternal rest and reward. 
 
 BEV. H. PHILIP, M.D., D.D. 
 
 REV. H. PHILIP, M.D., D.D. 
 
 Formerly Medical Missionary in Pales- 
 tine, AND THEN IN ItALY. 
 
 {With Portrait and Illiistrations.) 
 
 Extracts from his Journals, with Re- 
 marks by the Editor and a Letter 
 by Dr. Gray, of Rome. 
 
 PALESTINE. 
 
 1862-3. 
 "Two sons of Jacob were brought to 
 the Truth, and baptized by me in the 
 course of last year. They 
 continue to be steadfast 
 in their profession, and 
 I trust ai-e growing daily 
 more unto perfection in 
 the risen life of Christ. 
 They are at present 
 inmates at the Model 
 Farm, where they sup- 
 port themselves by hard 
 woik in the agricultural 
 pursuit ; and my prayer 
 is, that God may foon 
 add more of such men 
 to the number of con- 
 verted Israelites. Be- 
 sides my labours here 
 in Jafi'a, I have made 
 several missionary tours, 
 to Beyrout, Khaiffa, 
 Hebron, and Jerusalem ; 
 and everywhere I found 
 some ready to listen to 
 the message of salvation. 
 " The dLspensaiy is a 
 great acquisition to my 
 work here. The num- 
 bers of Jews who apply 
 for medical advice and 
 medicines, and with 
 whom I have occasion 
 more quietly to converse 
 than either in their homes or places of 
 business, vary veiT much. But, on the 
 whole, on an average during the year, I 
 believe I can state that there are from eight 
 to ten Jews and Jewesses every day. Some 
 of them sit down at times and give me 
 opportuiiities to converse, or for reading 
 parts of the Word of God with them. But 
 while I have had there some interesting 
 cases, I cannot speak of any awakening as 
 issuing in conversion. The seeds of the 
 Word of God are sown, some may fall on 
 stony places, but I have no doubt that some
 
 Mwe Missionaries and Converts. 
 
 409 
 
 also fall in a good soil, and will spring up in 
 God's own time. I devote generally four 
 hours a day to the work in the dispensary, 
 and several hours for visiting the sick in 
 their own houses. My patients, afflicted 
 with vaiuous diseases, have been about eight 
 hundred during the last 3-ear, of these about 
 two hundred and fifty were Jews, Jewesses, 
 
 Jaffa. There they are trained with the 
 example of a Christian life, and regular 
 worship morning and evening. But besides 
 the converted Jews, who are inmates at this 
 institution, there are almost constantly un- 
 converted Jews from Jaffa., employed in 
 manual labour, and they afford many oppor- 
 tunities for conversation, during the time 
 
 THE AROU OF TITUS. 
 
 and Jewish children resident ; about one 
 hundred and fifty Jews from various parts, 
 passing merely through here ; about two 
 hundred and fifty Christians of various de- 
 nominations, and the rest Mahommedans. 
 ^ " The Model Farm is another aid to the 
 mission of great importance. The two Jews 
 whom I baptized at this institution were 
 the first Jews that ever weie baptized at 
 
 of their labour, as well as during the hours 
 of I'est between labour. 
 
 " I hold regularly an English .service every 
 Sunday morning. Sunday evening we have 
 a shoit sei vice in Hebrew, at the Model 
 Farm, and after this I give to the converts 
 an exposition, in German, of some part of 
 Strijiture. And though our fruits may not 
 be many for the present among Israel, jet
 
 410 
 
 Menwries of Gosjjel Triuviphs among the Jews. 
 
 
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 More Missionaries and Converts. 
 
 411 
 
 THE OLD FISH MARKET, GHETTO,' ROME.
 
 412 
 
 Mermories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 ■we may be suie that when our work is done 
 ■with prayer, in faith and love, the time will 
 speedily ariive when we shall see the glorious 
 spring, followed up by the much more 
 glorious harvest, of that long winter during 
 which life is springing up in Israel, though 
 hidden from our sight." 
 
 ITALY. 
 
 1866-7. 
 " In the course of the year I have had 
 religious intercourse 
 with several thou- 
 sands of Jews, in 
 Leghorn, Rome, 
 Pisa, Florence, 
 Bologna, Ravenna, 
 Farrara, Padua, 
 Venice, Veiona, and 
 Mantua, all of whom 
 had their attention 
 directed to the great 
 centre, Jesus Christ, 
 and Him crucified. 
 I have circulated 
 3 Hebrew Bibles, 
 1 3 New Testaments, 
 and 340 Epistles to 
 the Hebrews and 
 Romans. During 
 the war I circulated 
 1,200 Epi.stles to 
 the Romans, Acts, 
 and the Gospels of 
 Matthew and Luke, 
 among the Italian 
 soldiers, and sup- 
 plied a friend at 
 Spezzia with 1,000 
 of the same, for 
 distribution. Also 
 several thousands of 
 Tracts have been 
 given to both Jew 
 and Gentile. My 
 reception as a Mis- 
 sionary to the Jews 
 
 CHURCH OF THE QUATTRO CAPI, NKAR THE GHKTTO. 
 
 Above thp door I here is a largo fresco of Christ on the Cross, and 
 
 beneath it in Hetirow and Latin, Isaiali Ixv., 2; "I have spread 
 
 out my hands all tlie day unto a rebellious people," &c. 
 
 has in general been very friendly ; and, 
 though they were always ready to oppose 
 the Truth, and sometimes most violentl)', 
 yet they alvvaj's showed me the greatest 
 personal respect. I believe, with deep grati- 
 tude, we can observe that our preaching has 
 not been in vain, and that our labours among 
 the Jews have evidently produced a favour- 
 able change. Many are disposed towards the 
 Truth, and their views of Christ and Christi- 
 anity are far different to what they were ; all 
 
 of which show progress in the great work of 
 God, though it may be but slow. I have had 
 a few patients, from time to time, and have 
 assi.sted in several cases of surgical opera- 
 tions. In most of these I had an opportunity 
 of speaking a word in sea,son to the sufferers, 
 directing them to the Great Phy.sician." 
 
 SKEVICES AND SEWINd CLASSES IN THE GHETTO, 
 IN ROME. 
 
 When Robert Hall was once passing 
 through a wilder- 
 ness, and saw the 
 desolation relieved 
 only by a solitary 
 willow, he ex- 
 claimed : " Then', is 
 nature hanging out 
 a signal of diMress." 
 Such was the posi- 
 tion of our beloved 
 brother. Dr. Philip. 
 He was for years 
 the only Missionary 
 to the Jews in Italy. 
 In the Ghetto he 
 conducted services 
 on Sundays and 
 Wednesday's, at- 
 tended by fifty or 
 sixty. Mi.ss Phihp, 
 aided by Christian 
 ladies, had sewing 
 classes, attended by 
 a hundred Jewesses. 
 While they were 
 engaged plying the 
 neetUe, the Scrip- 
 tures were read and 
 explained. Many 
 of them were led 
 to confess Jesus as 
 their Messiah and 
 Saviour. Dr. Philip 
 had daily inter- 
 course with Jews. In 
 spite of the want of 
 suitable mission premise.s, he could write : "On 
 an average we have every week two hundred to 
 irhom ii:e preach the Gospel, and prove to them 
 that Jasus Ls the Christ ; with the exception of 
 a few Roman Catholics these are all Jews." 
 
 For the Young. 
 
 A JEWISH GIRL IN THE GHETTO WHO HAD 
 FOUND JESUS. 
 
 " One pretty girl, about nine years of age, 
 came running to me ; her beautiful large
 
 More M issiatiaries and Converts, 
 
 413 
 
 black eyes, as bright as they could be, and 
 such a loving smile, saying, ' You never give 
 me a book to read ; do give me a little book 
 — I can read very well.' I examined her, 
 and found that she could read very well, so I 
 gave her Jessicas First Prui/er (of which I 
 had just bought a copy at the depot to give 
 to a Christian woman), and told her to read 
 it carefully, and that I would come back the 
 next day, to hear if she knew what she had 
 read. I went back the next day ; she saw 
 me from a distance, and came again running 
 
 knew pretty well what she had read. One 
 day I found her standing beside her mother, 
 who was sitting upon a chair sowing, and her 
 father and two little brothers cleaning old 
 clothes and sorting rags. The parents 
 smiled at their child and then at me, and the 
 mother said, ' Ask him.' But she was very 
 bashful that morning, until I caressed her a 
 little, and begged her to ask me what she 
 wanted. At last she took courage, raising 
 her bright eyes, and said, ' Who is this 
 here,' turning up page 288, I.saiah liii. 5), 
 
 PALAZZO CEN'CI, GHETTO, ROME. 
 
 towards me, with her lovely smile, and said : 
 ' I know all about Jessica,' and, on asking 
 her, I found that she knew every sentence of 
 that useful tract. Oh, that God might bless 
 it to her ! was my prayer at that moment. 
 'Now you must give me another book,' she 
 said, so I gave her a copy of the Lehensbrod, 
 and told her to read a passage of it every 
 day, and think over what she had read, and 
 that I would ask her from time to time, to 
 see if she was reading it, and remembered 
 what she had read. She promised to do so. 
 I came back every day, and found that she 
 
 ' Who was wounded for our transgressions, 
 who was bruised for our iniquities ? ' 
 ' Jesus,' I said. ' Well,' she said to her 
 mother, clapping her hands, and with an air 
 of triumph, ' Did I not tell you that it was 
 Jesus ? ' Then the father said : ' They 
 explain the whole Bible with Jesus and 
 Jesus.' ' Yes,' I said, ' we do so, because 
 we believe that the whole Bible is full of 
 Jesus, who is the true Messiah.' Oh that I 
 could have drawn away this little daughter 
 of Israel, to bring her up for the same Jesus 
 whom she had found."
 
 414 
 
 Memones of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 CHURCH OF ST. ANGRLO, 
 
 Which was specially built fur the purpose of foi cing the Jews to attend sermons denouncing Judaism, aud for 
 
 which they had to pay an annual tax.
 
 Mwe Missionaries mid Gonvei'ts. 
 
 415
 
 416 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs am,ong the Jews. 
 
 JEWS AND JEWESSES IN THE GHETTO COKFESSING 
 THEIR LOVE TO CHRIST. 
 
 " What do you think of Christ ? " I asked 
 a cobbler, who was toiling away, tearing old 
 shoes in pieces. After a good while, he 
 replied, " I wish I could believe in Christ as 
 you do, and then, perhaps, he would help me 
 
 came near us." He sighed deeply, and said, 
 " I wish we were all Christians, I think all 
 here in this Ghetto would be better than 
 they are now." 
 
 "What do you think of Christ?" 1 
 asked one of our women. She rose fiom 
 her work of patching up an old carpe', 
 
 ST. Paul's holsk, accokding to dr. philip and other authorities, 
 Where Paul preached, and the first Christian Church in Kome was formed. — Ads sxvni, 12 — 31. 
 
 and my poor family." " Have you ever 
 asked His help ? " I said. " No," he i-eplied. 
 " Well, then," I said, " how can you expect 
 Him to help you if you do not ask Him ? " 
 I then read to him John sv., 16. " I know," 
 he replied. " I wish I could believe all that 
 you say, you teach us better things than our 
 rabbis ; they teach us nothing ; they never 
 
 came 
 
 ear. 
 
 close to me, and whispered in my 
 
 " / love Jesus ; " 
 then laying her index finger on hor lips, as 
 if imposing silence, she resumed her seat. 
 
 I put the same question to many more, and 
 received replies which showed that our 
 preaching Christ among them has not been in
 
 More Missiona/i'ies and Gonve/rls. 
 
 417 
 
 vain. My means of missions a great change medicjil attendant at length declared her 
 
 has been effected in (he minds of the Jews. case to Ije hopeless. One day when passing 
 
 iNIany have already been gathered in, and through the street, several women called me, 
 
 many liave been brought near to the Kingdom saying that Hannah was very poorly, and 
 
 of God. very anxious to see me. F went at once, and 
 
 \i.\ IlUA, TlIK riilNcn'AL STllEET JN THE GHETTO, HOME. 
 
 A JEWES.S DYING AS SUE HELD THE HAND OF 
 DR. PHILIP. 
 
 " A middle-aged woman called Hannah, 
 who attended for several years our meetings 
 for women, was not in a favourable .stale 
 of health for a long time, and was at last 
 obliged to ktep her bed. I often saw her 
 and did what I could for her. lier regular 
 
 found her doctor with lier. She was very 
 weak, and apparently sinking. I gave my 
 best advice in order to prolong the dying 
 flame of life. As she pressed my hand, she 
 pointed with her index finger upward, and 
 then towards her pillow. I went away to 
 fetch a little jam, and when I returned in 
 about an hour, I found her near her end. 
 
 E E
 
 418 
 
 Memories of Gospel Trumnplis among the Jews. 
 
 WiSLt 
 
 ^ri I t I < I r f I rri i_ 
 
 1 rrrrrrrrti ii
 
 More MissiondT'U's and Converts. 
 
 419 
 
 THE TUKATliE OF MARCELLCS. 
 
 These gian.l remains u£ the Theatre of Marcellus, which was Ijiiilt in honour of his young nephew, show 
 that the Ghetto must have been at one time a quarter of Rome of great importiince. 
 
 ee2
 
 420 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 With the iiuk'X finger of her one liaud she 
 again pointed iipwai-d, then towards her 
 pillow; and witli her other she held my 
 hand with a firm grasp till she expired. 
 After the legal forms about her death had 
 been made out, the few fiiends present began 
 to remove her. Then under the pillows were 
 found a few sewing materials, a small linen 
 Lag containing a few coppers, some pieces of 
 jewellery of little value, and a New Testa- 
 ment, with the words written in it, ' To 
 Hannah, 25th December, 1876.' I believe 
 that when we join the ransomed multitude 
 around the throne we shall behold there 
 many Jewish souls whom we had little or no 
 hope of ever seeing amid the splendours of 
 Heaven." 
 i 
 
 THE DEPARTUKE OF DE. PHILIP. 
 
 Our friend, the' Rev. Dr. Gray, Presby- 
 terian minister, of Rome, to whom we are 
 deeply indebted for the beautiful illustrations 
 of the Ghetto given here, wrote as follows : 
 
 " Dr. Philip passed away without a 
 struggle. He literally fell asleep. The 
 scene witnessed at his grave was a most 
 afTecting one. Besides the large number 
 of representatives from the various Evan- 
 gelical churches of the city, there was 
 a considerable number of Jews from the 
 Ghetto pre.sent, to whom the Rev. W. Meille, 
 Waldensian pastor, addressed a few simple 
 and touching woids in Italian, after the 
 preliminary service had been conducted by 
 myself. Mr. Meille had laboured alongside 
 of him very assiduously when he was in 
 Rome some years ago. Mrs. Sanders, who 
 had so effectively helped her father in his 
 ■work, was also present, having had the .satis- 
 
 faction also of ministering to him iu his last 
 illne.ss. 
 
 " La-st Friday evening we had a very 
 interesting and succes.sful ' Memorial Service' 
 in the Meeting Room. Mrs. Burtchaell gave 
 very effective help in getting the people, 
 having been the one also to suggest that 
 such a service should be held. There were 
 some .seventy Jews present. The audience, 
 along with the various fric^nds present, might 
 have numbered ninety or one hundred. 
 Having been asked to take charge of the 
 meeting, I read, after the preliminary 
 exercises, part of the 11th chapter of the 
 Epistle to the Romans. The Rev. W. 
 Meille, and the Rev. Sig. Laura then 
 addressed the meeting, after prayer had 
 been offered by Dr. Vernon. There was a 
 manifest interest created, and on its being 
 put to those present whether they wished 
 a similar seivice this week, a general desiio 
 was expressed to that effect. Another 
 meeting for Friday has been arranged in 
 accordaiice with this desire. Aided by 
 Mrs. Burtchaell I have charged m3'self with 
 the arrangements. We purpose keeping up 
 a weekly service with the help of the various 
 evangelists in the field, and so keep the posi- 
 tion occupied, until the Society shall have 
 indicated its purpose as to a successor to 
 Dr. Philip. Even if the Society should not 
 see its way to send out another agent, we 
 shall not allow the field to be abandoned, but 
 endeavour to establish a weekly Evangelistic 
 service in the Ghetto, under non-denomina- 
 tional superintendence. We aie greatly 
 encouraged to this by the meeting of last 
 week, and shall find valuable aid meanwhile 
 in the interest and work of Mi's. Burtchaell." 
 
 MR. NEUMANN, 
 
 FoilMERLY THE Ma.STER OF A LARGE ScHOOL IN THE DanUBIAN ProvINCE.S, AFTEIIWAUUS 
 AND STILL A FAITHFUL MISSIONARY IN HAMBURG. 
 
 A Specimen oi his Method. 
 
 CONVERSATION WITH A JEW ON THE 
 INCARNATION. 
 
 DURING the feast of Tabernacles I called 
 among otheiB on M. D., to whom I 
 presented a New Testament long ago. After 
 some remaiks he took the Testament down 
 from his book-shelf and said : " Recently I 
 have lead the fii-st chapter in John's Gospel, 
 
 and found that it is entirely cabalistic and 
 mystic to me." 
 
 This gave me an opportunity of explaining 
 I. The eternity of the Divine Logos, or 
 Word of God, which the ancient Jewish 
 divines also declare to be a divine essence, 
 the dispenser of light and life. " By the 
 Word of God the heavens weie made, and 
 all the host of them by the breath of His 
 mouth." Psalm xxxiii. 6.
 
 hniiorliiiit Tesiimnvy to the Sncid.y'H Worl- in 1802. 
 
 421 
 
 II. The incarnation 
 of the Logos : " Out 
 of thee (Heth-lehem) 
 shall He come forth 
 (1)6 born) inito Me that 
 is to be the Ruler in 
 Israel, whose goings 
 forth have been from 
 of old, from the Anys of 
 eteinity. Mieah v. 2. 
 
 All this was new to 
 him, and he listened 
 to it with interest. I 
 showed that tlie incar- 
 nation was an Old Tes- 
 tament doctiine ; that 
 the coming of the 
 JItssi.ih is plainly set 
 forth for our instruc- 
 tion and leception ; 
 that, therefore, it is 
 our bounden duty to 
 believe it foi- our soul's 
 salvation. 
 
 ■' Such a grave mat- 
 ter lequires thought, 
 much thought, time, 
 and ttudy," was his 
 answer. '• I will le- 
 read this chapter, and 
 
 n. NEUMANN. 
 
 more in this Gospel, 
 which is of greater 
 interest to me than 
 the others." 
 
 "Do it," I replied, 
 " and may you find in 
 it the precious pearl." 
 
 Mr. and Mrs. Neu- 
 mann have been the 
 instruments of bring- 
 ing many Jewish men, 
 women and children to 
 believe in Jesus, and 
 to sing on their way 
 to the "green pas- 
 tures " and " the still 
 waters " of the heaven- 
 ly Canaan, such songs 
 as — 
 
 Jesus is our Sliepherd, 
 Wiping every tear ; 
 
 Folded in His liosoiu, 
 What have we to fe.ar ? 
 
 Only let us follow- 
 Whither He doth lead ; 
 
 To the thirsty desert 
 Or the dewy mead. 
 
 Jesus is our Shepherd : 
 
 For the sheep He );iled ; 
 
 Every lamb is sprinkled 
 
 With the Ijlood He shed. 
 
 IMPORTANT TESTIMONY TO THE SOCIETY'S "WORK IN 1862. 
 
 THE SOCIETY S MISSIONARY AT THE EXHIBITION. 
 
 DUKING the November afternoons, when 
 the stream of visitors came away from 
 the Exhibition b}- gaslight, the ej'es of many 
 thousands were atti'acted, as they poured 
 forth from the eastern entiance, by a pretty 
 little erection which had been on the same 
 spot ever since the 1st of May, but had 
 never been so much noticed as now that it 
 was fronted with a brilliant illumination. 
 There was a m3'stery about it, which occa- 
 sioned many imiuirios and speculations; ami 
 some who did not take the trouljle to ascer- 
 tain its real nature, passed it with the vague 
 idea that it was one of the ever new contri- 
 vances for puffing and selling. A little 
 observation, however, convinced one that 
 something worthy of a closer inspection was 
 going forward ; and as soon as the eye had 
 time to take in the inscriptions on the front, 
 the matter liecame satisfactorily explained. 
 
 In seven different languages weie i)rinted 
 the words : " Believe on the Lord Jesus 
 
 Christ, find thou shalt be .saved." Beneath 
 each quotation of this passage was the name 
 of the country in whose language it was ren- 
 dered, and above it the flag and arms of the 
 particular nation. In the centre was old 
 England, and on either side of the land of 
 Bibles were France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, 
 Spain — and then, over the compartment 
 furthest on England's right, there was a 
 hlaiih, and above that the Hebrew word 
 " Israel," with the Gospel pi-omise in Jewish 
 characters. Israel has no country ; and in 
 the gathering of the nations, the' most 
 ancient of them all could only be known by 
 the name which of old time God himself gave 
 them, preserved in the sacred letters. 
 
 And this one word Israel was enough. 
 Without coat of arms or banner, or name of 
 fatherland, it caught the eyes and hearts 
 of the scattered ones, and drew them to the 
 spot. No less than two thousand Jews, from 
 almost every part of the world, called at the 
 Hebrew division of the Bible-stand, and
 
 422 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triunvphs anong the Jews. 
 
 THE LATE DR. ZUt'KEEKANDL, 
 
 llustchuk, Turkey 
 
 MKS. ZlCKKIiKANDL, 
 
 Furiiitrly of KustcLuk, uow nf L<'niliiu. 
 
 KEV. L. llOSENIlEHti, 
 
 Mci1m-;i1 Mission, .\(lri;inn|ilr 
 
 Mils, llilSKNIlKlld,
 
 Importdiit Testimony to the Society' ti Work in 1862. 
 
 423 
 
 asked for copies of the Word of Life. A 
 large numbei' of tliem, on being informed 
 that the books were not sold, but freely 
 given away, expressed themselves as un- 
 willing to receive them without making some 
 return, and accordingly deposited in the 
 oftering-box contributions which assisted the 
 work of love. It was pleasing to think how 
 God was, by this means, employing tliLs 
 extraordinary people as missionary agents. 
 Jews from every P]uropean territory, as well 
 ivs from Palestine — from Africa, Aubtralia, 
 India, and even from China — took away 
 portions, and in many ca.ses the whole of the 
 New Testament, and by this time have con- 
 veyed them to regions whei-e probably na 
 ordinary missionary has penetrated, but 
 wheie the interests of commerce give the 
 ubiquitous Israelite facility of access. 
 
 It may interest our readeis to know, that 
 while the Bible-stand was originated and 
 sustained by the private liberality of a few 
 noble-hearted Christian men, who thus 
 availed themselves of the International 
 concour.se to ciiculate gratuitously in seven 
 languages three millions of copies of the 
 New Testament, the distributor in the 
 Hebrew depaitment was a missionai-y of the 
 " British Society for the Propagation of the 
 Gospel among the Jews," who by this means 
 found an opportunity of spiritual conver.sa- 
 tion with multitudes of his brethren. With 
 many of them he h.ad repeated interviews; 
 and he has good hojie that not a few have 
 been led to embrace the Truth as it is in 
 Jesus. 
 
 This is one of the several ways in which 
 the above Society has recent ly extended its 
 operations, and no one who has observed its 
 useful course of labour can help rejoicing in 
 its success. 
 
 FKMALE MISSION TO THE JEWESSES. 
 
 Among its newest agencies is one which 
 may well command special sympathy, a 
 Feiiiali' Sfissioii (o thi' Jeirpuscn. The Jewish 
 mothers and daughters have been sadly 
 neglected, and it is time that Christian 
 women concerned themselves as to what 
 becomes of their Jewish sisters when they 
 part from the world, where no one lias cared 
 for their souls, to the awful realities of 
 eteinity. Alas ! for these children of the 
 race whose Marys and Marthas, "and Joanna 
 and Susanna, and many others ministered 
 unto lliin with their substance." Alas ! 
 that they shoulil be permitted to giow up 
 from infanc}' to womanhood without even 
 
 hearing of .Jesus, except when His name is 
 blasphemed, and to pass away from us with- 
 out a ray of light in their last hour ! It is 
 a relief to know that someone is caiing for 
 them ; and we can only say we wish the 
 Society may be enabled to employ not merely 
 one solitary Christian woman among the 
 thousands of Jewesses li\ang within our own 
 neighbourhoods, but a sufficient number to 
 reach e\'ery Jewish sister to whom access 
 can be gained. It will be a blessed day for 
 Israel when the most beautiful of all forms 
 of influence — the hallowed power of pious 
 motherhood — comes to be established among 
 them. 
 
 THE WORK AMONG THE YODNO: 
 
 Another interesting branch of Evangelical 
 effort among the Jews is found in the Chris- 
 tian schools, maintained in regions where the 
 Jews have none of their own. It is delight- 
 ful to witness the effect of the Gospel on 
 the hearts of children, and we recently 
 observed a pleasing proof of this in a letter 
 from a missionary schoolmaster in Wallachia, 
 whose young Jewish scholars have for several 
 months carried on a monthly " Mis.sionary 
 Concert," at which they give theii' offerings, 
 in a box consecrated to the object, towards 
 the evangelization of the heathen. 
 
 THE WORK IN ITALY. 
 
 Those who have concerned them.selves with 
 the affairs of Italy, \vill also have noticed 
 that a most important work is being done 
 among the Jews of that country. In 
 Leghorn they have welcomed the missionary, 
 and it seems that he not only has access to 
 them in their dwellings and in the syna- 
 gogues, but in his own house, where many 
 constantly visit him ; and large congrega- 
 tions are now a-ssembling every week, some- 
 times twice or thrice, to hear the public 
 preaching of the Gospel, specially addressed 
 to them. We congi-.atulate the British 
 Society on the blessing with which God has 
 crowned their Italian mission, and only 
 regret that we have not space for fui-ther 
 reference to the fields of labour occupied by 
 their twenty-five missionaries. It has 
 gratified us occasionally to hear of the 
 admission of converts, under its auspices, 
 into various metropolitan churches ; and it 
 was a truly animating and afTecting scene 
 when, a few weeks ago, a densely crowded 
 congiegation as.sembled in Finsbury Chapel, 
 to hear a solemn confassion of Christ from
 
 424 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triutn'phs among the Jews. 
 
 the lips of a son of Abraham, who declared 
 himself a follower of Abraham's faith. 
 
 THE WANT OF FU.VDR. 
 
 « We cannot, however, conclude this brief 
 notice without expressing the deepest regret 
 that, according to statements in the Jewish 
 Herald, of last month, the Society is in 
 difficulties for want of funds. It appears 
 that the enlargement of the mission agencies 
 in Palestine, on the Continent, in Italy, and 
 
 in London, during the last three years, has 
 entailed so much unforeseen expense, that 
 the Committee are now on the eve of with- 
 drawing some of their missionaries, unless a 
 liberal and immediate augmentation of the 
 income can be obtained. It is to be hoped 
 that the challenge of the treasurer — who 
 oflers an additional ;£10 for every £100 
 specially contributed in this emergency — 
 will meet a generous and speedy response. — 
 Evcmgelical Magazine, January, 1863. 
 
 =\\=T- 
 
 REV. PAULUS CASSEL, D.D., BERLIN. 
 
 TnnuiTK BY Kkv. M. NACHIM. 
 
 127, HiOHBUHY Quadrant, N. 
 
 February 5th, 1887. 
 
 MY DEAR MR. DUNLOP,— It was 
 quite a treat to me to listen to a 
 lecture which the Rev. Professor Paulus 
 Ca^ssel, D.D , of lierlin, delivered in the 
 Athenwum (Highliury), on Satunhiy, Janu- 
 ary 29th. 
 
 The Destruction of Jerusalem. 
 
 The subject was, " 1'he Witnesses of the 
 Destruction of Jenisalem." In his own 
 inimitable way the lecturer described the 
 historical ciicumstances which led to the 
 destruction of the Jewish state, and the ruin 
 of its capital, with its j)alaces, fortifications, 
 and temple. lie described the effect of the
 
 Rev. Panlus Cassel, D.D., Beniin. 
 
 425 
 
 awful scenes of the war on the Romans, the 
 Jews, and the Christians who had witnessed 
 them ; and pointed out in a most touching 
 manner the connexion between the rejection 
 by the Jews of Jesus, as the Messiah and 
 Prince of Peace, and the calamities which 
 came upon them. The aged orator held his 
 audience of Germans, Jews, and Hebrew- 
 Christians spell-bound by the magic of his 
 eloquence, from the beginning to the end of 
 his discourse. 
 
 His Life and Work. 
 
 A very brief bio- 
 graphical sketch of 
 this renowned German 
 .scholar may be inter- 
 esting to our readers. 
 
 Paiilus Cassel was 
 born of Jewish parents 
 in Glogau, in the pro- 
 vince of Silesia, on 
 L'7th February, 1821. 
 He first attended a 
 Catholic, and after- 
 wards an Evangeli- 
 cal Gymnasium in 
 Schweidnitz. Tlien he 
 went to Berlin, where 
 he devoted himself to 
 the study of history, 
 of whicli he .soon be- 
 came master. In 185.5 
 he embraced Christi- 
 anity, and was for 
 several years the Li- 
 brarian of the Royal 
 Library at Erfurt. 
 From 186.3 to 1867 he 
 was connected with 
 our Society. In 1866 
 he was elected mem- 
 ber in the German 
 " Abgeordnetenhaus " 
 
 UKV. ,M. NACillM, 
 
 Formerly a successful Missionary in Botush,any, 
 Ruumania, afterwards and now in Loudon. 
 
 On 5th of January 
 1868, he became pastor of "Christus Kirche," 
 in Berlin, where he still continues his Master's 
 work. In connexion with this church lie 
 ha.s a Sunday School with 60 teachei's, and 
 1,000 children. In addition to his pastoral 
 and liteniry work, of which many volumes 
 have been published, he laboured with great 
 success among his Jewish brethren as a 
 missionary. Last year he published a 
 pamphlet in which he gives .some outline of 
 
 his work as a missionary. On page 33 he 
 states that between the years 1880 and 1885 
 he was privileged to baptize sixty Israelites. 
 In conversation with Di-. Cassel, I learned 
 with mucli pleasure that besides the number 
 already mentioned, he baptized in the year 
 1886 twenty-two Jews, some of whom 
 are doctors, authors, and merchants, and 
 with one exception all the converts have 
 proved true to their profession. During the 
 next four years he 
 baptized 111 converts. 
 
 Interesting 
 Anecdote. 
 
 Some years ago. Dr. 
 Cassel was journeying 
 from Berlin to Mag- 
 deburg. When he 
 urrived at the station, 
 a venerable Jew, after 
 I'iving instructions to 
 his servant to take 
 his own luggage to 
 the hotel, turned to 
 I »r. Cassel and said : 
 ■• Allow me, doctor, to 
 carry your luggage." 
 When he saw that 
 1 >r. Cassel hesitated, 
 he said : " You have 
 carried a much larger 
 liurden for our nation, 
 sin-ely, therefore, I 
 may carry this little 
 Inirden for, you." 
 
 From the above 
 authentic .statements 
 and also the reports 
 of different Societies, 
 our own included, I 
 cannot undei-stand how 
 any person can ques- 
 mission work among 
 
 tion the success of 
 the Jews. 
 
 When saying farewell to Dr. Cassel on 
 Friday last, he requested me to convey his 
 kindest regards to you, in which I cordially 
 luiite, and remain 
 
 Very sincerely yours, 
 
 ^L Na( HIM. 
 
 Dr. Ca,ssel passed away, after great suffer- 
 ing, on December 23rd, 1892. His last words 
 were : " Wo ist deim das llimmelreich ? "
 
 426 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 THE REV. LEON ZUCKER, 
 
 Missionary in London. 
 
 Kv Rev. S. D. HILLMAN. 
 
 {With Portrail.) 
 
 THE EEV. LEON ZUCKER has been met witli a former .schoolfellow, who per- 
 
 for about 30 years an agent of "The .^u.-ulcd liiiii to accompany him to a Christian 
 
 Britisli Society," located the whole time in Mission Hull, and witli a view to gainsay 
 
 the Metroi)oIis, and devoting all hi.s energies and to scofi'. The missionary read passages 
 
 to the advancement of the cau;c of Christ and paragraplis fiom the Gospel.;, the con- 
 
 among.st his "brethren 
 according to the (iesh." 
 A native of Cracow, 
 in Poland, he became 
 involved in early life 
 in the memorable 
 Hungarian Revolu- 
 tion, which took place 
 in 1848, was wounded, 
 taken prisoner by the 
 Austrians and confined 
 in an Austrian piison, 
 the injury inflicted 
 during the conflict, 
 and the hardships con- 
 nected with the sub- 
 sequent confinement, 
 greatly impairing his 
 health. In 1853 he 
 left the home of his 
 childhood and youth, 
 and made liis way, as 
 a political refugee, to 
 England, where repie- 
 sentatives of ojipies.sed 
 nationalities have ever 
 found a safe a.sylum. 
 Before his departuie 
 for this country liis 
 mother, a devout 
 Jewess, and devotedly 
 attached to the Hebrew faith, having heard 
 of efforts being made in this land to prose- 
 lytise, warned him and pleaded with him, 
 with tears, to beware of the Apastates , and 
 which elicited from him the assurance that 
 were all the Jews in the land of his exile to 
 become Christians, he would never yield : 
 that the Christian creed was an insult to his 
 understanding, and its practices (in the 
 Roman Catholic form of it, the only form 
 with which he was then familiar) ridiculous 
 and idolatrous. 
 
 8oon after his arrival in this coinitry he 
 
 l!F,V. LEON ZUCKEH. 
 
 tents of which filled 
 him with surprisD and 
 wonder. The exposi- 
 tions given of certain 
 of the ]>rophecies, and 
 the earnestne.ss and 
 loving spirit of the 
 speaker, made a solemn 
 and favoiu-able im- 
 pression. The young 
 Hebrew felt that he 
 could not scoft', but 
 that he must reflect 
 upon what he had so 
 unexpectedly heard. 
 On leaving the hall he 
 felt excited, and hardly 
 knowing what he did, 
 he almost mechanically 
 accepted the New Tes- 
 tament. His friend 
 began to I'eproach him 
 in view of the strange 
 turn things had taken, 
 and to which he could 
 only reply, " I went 
 in to confound the 
 missionary, but he has 
 confounded me." Two 
 full years of earnest 
 searching followed this 
 i:u-i lent before the mental dilhcultics weie 
 oveiconie, and bsfore the inquirer felt that 
 he could submit to the trial of being cut off 
 for ever from his family and his nation. At 
 length, under the teaching of the Rev. Ridley 
 Heischell, he found peace with God, aii<l 
 g.'iined courage and inspiration to openly 
 avow Christ before men. 
 
 1'hen followed an earnest desire to make 
 known the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Chi ist 
 to his fellow-men. He knew that sceptics 
 were accustomed to hold discussions on 
 T'addinirton Gieen, so he resorted thither
 
 F<yi' the Young. 
 
 427 
 
 and ventured, in very imperfect English, to 
 reply to their statements, and evidence was 
 soon given that his defence of the Faith was 
 blessed to some of his hearere. The ilesiie to 
 preach the Christ, whom he had been taught 
 to blaspheme, now became absorbing, and 
 with a view to this he A\a-s introduced by 
 his esteemed and honoured pastor, Mr. 
 Herschell, to "New College, Hampstead, and 
 was admitted in September, 11^55, as a 
 student for the Christian ministry. The 
 writer of this sketch was admitted to 
 the college at the same time, and then 
 commenced a friendship which has 
 strengthened with the lapse of years, and 
 lias been the source of mutual joy and 
 helpfulness. 
 
 During his college course, extending over 
 five years, a movement was originated by 
 which some of the students took charge of 
 village churches, preaching regularly to the 
 sime people, and gaining experience for the 
 nfter-work of life. The Congregational 
 Church at Twyford, in Berkshire, was thus 
 committed to Mr. Zucker's charge, and he 
 laboured there for about two yeai-s and with 
 considerable acceptacce. The congi-egations 
 iiicreas-ed, the chapel was renovated and im- 
 proved in appearance, and much ijood and 
 ahiiliny irork was done. At the close of his 
 college course, Mr. Zucker was invited to 
 the pai-torate of the Congregational Church 
 at Westerham, in Kent. There, also, a fair 
 measure of success was secured, although 
 the predominating influence of the Estab- 
 li.shed Church, and other cau.ses, rendered 
 the work extremely difficult. It was during 
 this pastorate that the conviction grew in his 
 n.ind that it was his duty to devote himself 
 to missioi;ary work amongst his own race, 
 and that he might thus hope to accomplish 
 
 more for Chi-ist and man than by continuing 
 as the pastor of a Congregational church. 
 He took counsel with the writer and other- 
 friends, and as the result offered himself to the 
 Committee of the Br-itish Society, was 
 cordially accepted, and entered, full of hope- 
 fulness, upon what has proved to be his true 
 sphere of service and the work of hLs life. 
 The Lord has abundantly blessed his labour.s, 
 wrought under the auspices of this Society. 
 Many a Jewish family has welcomed him 
 into its mid.st, and many a Hebrew has been 
 led, through his instrumentality, to give up 
 all for Christ, and to confess llim operrly 
 before Jews and Gentiles. It may be 
 r-eeorded with deep gratitude to Him whose 
 Divine Power sustains His own life in His 
 servants, that among those who have been 
 led to confess the Saviour, through the 
 instrumentality of this missionary, there 
 has only been one ca.se which has occa.sioned 
 the worker the sorrow of disappointment. 
 The rest have continued to this day living 
 and loving Christians, in trials often, unde- 
 terred by persecutions, glorifying the Saviour 
 they had learnt to love. 
 
 The auxiliaries to all our Missionary 
 Societies are glad, as opportunity ofiers, to 
 see and to hear the men who are actirally 
 engaged irr missionary wor-k. In res[)onse to 
 this very natural wish Mr. Zucker has, from 
 time to time, been requested by the Com- 
 mittee and Secretary to travel as deputaticn, 
 and. Lis rrrissionary life extending over such 
 a lengthened period, he has, indeed, jour- 
 neyed all through the United Iviugdom 
 among the various nonconforming churches 
 pleading this cause, his ardent enthusiasm 
 and effective speaking securing him accep- 
 tance with the churches and increasing 
 their inter-est in the work. 
 
 =^V= 
 
 FOR THE YOUNG. 
 
 The Story of the Work among Orphans 
 Carried on by one of the Missionaries. 
 
 1SG4. 
 
 AN ODD VOLI'ME BOUGHT AT A LONDON 
 BOOKSTALL. 
 
 IT is now a good many years .since a young 
 Jew, fresh from Germany, where he had 
 become a sincere believer in Jesus, throusrh 
 the iristructron given him by a Christian 
 missiijrrar-y, was turning over some odd 
 volumes at a London book-stall, marked 
 
 " sixpence each," when he came to one that 
 greatly puzzled him. Its chief contents were 
 lists of all sorts of articles, including food, 
 clothes, furniture, books, jewellery, pencils, 
 paper, pens, maps — in fact, almost ever-y- 
 thing that a house can contain — inter.spersed 
 with sums of money arrd passages of Scrip- 
 ture. In vain the young student, with his 
 incipient knowledge of English ways and the 
 Errgli.sh tongue, tried to intei'in et this strarrge 
 medley, and the only thing he could make of 
 it was that it constituted the <liai-y of .some
 
 428 
 
 MemoHes of Gospel Triwnvphs among the Jetvs. 
 
 eccentric genius who combined economy with 
 piety, and while keeping a careful record of 
 his expenditure, thought fit to sanctify it by 
 a copious sininkling of Holy Writ. Curiosity 
 compelled the purchase of tlie book, and on 
 reaching his lodgings, its new owner hastened 
 to submit it to his landlady for explanation, 
 when, somewhat to his disappointment, he 
 was informed that this extraordinary specimen 
 of the current literature of her country was 
 nothing more nor less than a yearly leport 
 issued by the founder of an asjdum for 
 orphans, and giving an account of the vaiious 
 gifts sent him from time to time by benevolent 
 persons for the aid of his institution. This 
 incidental circumstance, however, started in 
 his mind many thoughts about the work 
 which the pamphlet described, and awakened 
 within him a strong desire, if C4od should 
 open his way, to attempt something of the 
 kind himself. 
 
 TWO POOR EOY-BUllGLAES WATCHED BY 
 THE society's missionary. 
 
 Some while after this, our young friend 
 was engaged, by the British f^ociety for the 
 Propagation of the Gospel among the Jews, 
 a« a missionary to the Jews, and in that 
 capacity he was sent to a towii in the north- 
 east of Prussia, where he found a population 
 of thirty-eight thousand .souls, and one 
 Protestant church, the pulpit of which was 
 occupied by an avowed Rationalist, that is to 
 say an inlidel, as the minister. In such a 
 soil as this it is not strange that he laboured 
 apparently with no success for one or two 
 years, and he did not find more than one 
 Christian who seemed to possess any spiritual 
 life. One day he was greatly troubled by the 
 discovery that a petty theft had been com- 
 mitted in his house, and on being informed 
 that some suspicious-looking boys had been 
 seen about the premises, he determined to 
 keep watch for their leappearance. He had 
 been sitting in his study later than usual, 
 when he heard a slight noise, and on 
 approaching the window, saw in the bright 
 moonlight two little forms stealthily climbing 
 vip a low roof that [irojected beneatli. Tlie 
 intruders being unconscious that they were 
 seen, he had time to observe their movements, 
 and to scrutinize their looks ; and never 
 since could he shake oft" the painful feeling 
 that came upon him as he scanned the 
 . features of tho.se poor wietched boys. 
 Though but children they were the very im- 
 personation of nii.scry — hunger, craft, and 
 fear, and precocious vice so mingling in 
 
 every line of their pinched faces, and giving 
 their keen, restless eyes such an unnatural 
 and haggard expression, that he instinctively 
 shuddered at the sight. At length the in- 
 truders found that they had been anticipated, 
 and quick as thought, before any effort 
 could be made to secure them, disappeared. 
 
 THE THOUGHT OK A HOME FOR ORPHANS. 
 
 The missionary retired for the night with 
 heavy heart, and could think of nothing but 
 these miserable, uncaied-for creatures, who 
 very likely had neither parent nor friend in 
 the world. The next day he called on the 
 chief magistrate of the town, to describe a 
 .scheme, which was unfolding itself in his 
 mind, for a home where the fatherless might 
 find a refuge, and he asked this gentleman 
 if he would be willing to render his aid. 
 The magistrate thought the idea an excellent 
 one, and the motive most Christian ; but as 
 to the practicability of the plan suggested he 
 could only express his doubts. 
 
 A HOME BEGUN IN THE MISSIONARY'S HOUSE. 
 
 So time passed on, and the project found 
 no helpers. But one of the first converts 
 given to this devoted missionary, was a 
 Jewish widow, whose confession of Christ 
 obliged her to flee the neighbourhood, leaving 
 her three children for him to take care of. There 
 being no other shelter for them, he took them 
 to his dwelling, and it was not long before 
 two others were brought him, with the en- 
 treaty that he would receive them also. Tbe 
 news soon spread, and one after another was 
 added, till the number reached thirteen, and 
 these being more than the proprietor of the 
 house approved of, he received notice to 
 quit, with the additional lemark that he 
 surely must be mad. 
 
 A HOME PROVIDED AND CALLED SALEM. 
 
 Another house was offered him, but on 
 terms he knew not how to meet ; and after 
 a sleepless night, having to give in his 
 decision at mid-day, he was still deep in 
 anxious deliberation, when a gentleman was 
 announced as desiiing to see him. ^lost un- 
 willing to be disturbed, he begged that his 
 visitor would call again another time ; but 
 this would not do. The gentleman was 
 going to leave the town by an early train, 
 and pressed for an interview. Jealous of 
 every moment for the final consideration of 
 the grave matter now before Iiim, he 
 reluctantly consented, and soon saw that the 
 hand of Cod was in this unexpected event.
 
 For ihc. V(tiiii(f. 
 
 12'.) 
 
 The visit resulted in a spacious building, 
 with suitable grounds, being placed at hLs 
 immediate disposal, on conditions about 
 which he could have no hesitation. 
 
 MANY OUPIIANS TRAIN'ED IN IT. 
 
 In the Institution thus founded, many 
 orphans enjoyed the benefit of a good secular 
 education, combined with aflectionate 
 Christian training. Such was the public 
 appreciation accorded to the missionary who 
 was a few yeai-s before taken to be a deranged 
 enthusiast that not only were three schools in 
 the town freely open, with all their advan- 
 tages, to any children he chose to send, 
 but the King gave a munificent donation to 
 the funds of the Orphanage, and other mem- 
 bers of the royal family and the court mani- 
 fested their practical sympathy. Nor is this 
 all. 
 
 Among the inm.ates of " Salem " there 
 were twenty adult believers, several of whom 
 were of tlie Jewish race. Our missionary, 
 the main instrument in this noble work, 
 knew of at least thirty-five sons and 
 daughters of Israel who had come to the 
 knowledge of Christ through his ministry, 
 and one of them was met with in a remark- 
 able manner. 
 
 At the time when the missionary was much 
 discouiaged by the seeming absence of suc- 
 cess, he re.solved to try what he could do to 
 spread the Gospel by seeking out the Jews in 
 other towns of the district, and in the 
 course of a journey for this purpose, he was 
 waiting in a railway booking-ofiice to take 
 his ticket, when a powerful man pushed 
 before him to be fii-st at the window. The 
 tickets being taken, the travellers adjourned 
 to the waiting-room, and here the stranger 
 who had acted so rudely came up to him and 
 apologized. A friendly conversation ensued, 
 in which it came out that the missionary's 
 new iicquaintance was a Jew, and though he 
 manifasted a strong repugnance to the faith 
 which the missionary declared, he sat by 
 him in the train, and continued the discussion 
 till tliey reached a junction, where they were 
 obliged to pait. Here the missionary left 
 the Ciiri'iage, and was standing on the plat- 
 form, when a young man introduced himself, 
 saying, " I believe you are a missionary ?" 
 " Yes. But how do you know that ]" "A 
 Jew that you have been travelling with told 
 me so, and I ventured to spe.ak to you, as I 
 should be glad to make your .icquaintance." 
 
 This young man was a Jewish student, 
 and, in consequence of the meeting on that 
 
 platform, he went to Bromberg, took up his 
 atxxie in Salem, entered upon the study of 
 the New Testament, and consecrated him- 
 self to God. It was a nobleman who knew 
 something of this young man, who, on 
 hearing of the benefits he was receiving in 
 Salem, introduced the Orphanage to the 
 notice of the King, and obtained the royal 
 bounty above referred to. 
 
 Two Christian Jews from England, while 
 on a Continental excursion, met at a railway 
 station a gentleman who soon indicated by a 
 few words casually dropped that he was a 
 brother in Christ, and they w'ere not long in 
 finding out that he was a Jew also. Sympathies 
 were exchanged, and the fellow-travellers sa,w 
 no more of each other till a year had rolled 
 away, when the last of the three came to 
 London, called on one of the companion 
 tourists, whose card he had kept, and told 
 him that having been much prospered l)y 
 God, he desired to devote some of his gains 
 to the furtherance of the Gospel in German v, 
 and would be glad to hear of a place where 
 he could help forward some evangelistic 
 work. Bromberg was one of the pl.ices 
 which the two friends from this country had 
 included in their route, and it was at once 
 mentioned. At that very moment the 
 missionary had in his house a well-educated 
 Jewish convert, whom he desired to emplo\' 
 as an itinerant missionarj' in the villages 
 around, and when he little imagined how the 
 object was to be realized, this unknown 
 friend cheerfully committed to the treasurer 
 of the British Society for the Propagation 
 of the Gospel among the Jews a sum sufficient 
 to support an evangelist, under the 
 missionary's direction, for three years. 
 
 A Young Convert's Greatest Trial. 
 
 Towards the close of the year ISfiS, one 
 of the British Society's missionaries in 
 Germany was ari-ested and brought Ijetoio 
 the local authorities, on a charge of breaking 
 the law by seeking to make proselytes from 
 the Jewish faith. The authors of this pro- 
 ceeding had been annoyed by the circum- 
 stance that one of their relatives had become 
 a Christian ; and they not only endeavoured 
 to get the missionary banished from the land 
 but when they found that a little compan)' 
 of young men were diligently attending his 
 instructions evening .after evening, thej- 
 violently dispei-sed the meeting, and threat- 
 ened any who continued to visit him with
 
 430 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 KEV. r. BwoiiKiiwnz, 
 Warsaw, Breslau, Dresden, Pi ague, &c. 
 
 MR. E. WEISS, 
 
 Vienna and Pressliurg. 
 
 REV. C. A. SCHOKBEUOEU 
 
 Prague and Vienna. 
 
 luua.
 
 For the Yonnn. 
 
 431 
 
 severe punishment. The missionary, after 
 a veiy rigorous examination, was acquitted, 
 and he thus describes the sequel : — 
 
 " About two days after the painful ordeal 
 J had to pass through, as mentioned in my 
 last, one of the young men who had been 
 accustomed to meet with me, and wlio was 
 turned out of his situation in consequence, 
 called upon me in the evening in a most 
 distressed state of mind, telling me that the 
 Jews here had written home to his parents, 
 and blackened his character in such a manner 
 that his friends became furious, and sent 
 him a most cruel letter, which he laid before 
 me. The letter, after de.scribing the sorrow 
 which the new.s from Nuremberg had 
 occasioned them, went on to say, — ' Consider- 
 ing that you have become an apostate, and, 
 by so doing, have brought shame and 
 reproach upon yourself and family, and have 
 blasphemed the religion of your ancestors, 
 we disown and discard you from this day, 
 and pray that the curse of heaven may 
 follow your every step.' The young man 
 with heavj' sobs, said that he would have 
 written to his parents, and told them that it 
 was only malice which accused him of having 
 become a Christian ; that it was never his 
 ntention to become one, and that all he did 
 was to engage in religious conversation, in 
 which he felt very much interested, and 
 that was no crime ; but the letter stunned 
 him so completely that he had no power left 
 within him ; and even now he was so agitated 
 that he could not write, even if he felt in- 
 clined. He then told me that he was utterly 
 at a loss to know what to do, for there was 
 not the slightest likelihood of his obtaining 
 any situation in this place or neighbourhood 
 and he was entirely destitute of means to go 
 anywhere else. 
 
 "After some reflection, I told him that, if 
 he chose, he might stay with me till his mind 
 had become calmer, and he could look out 
 for something. He hesitated to accept the 
 oft'er, for fear that it might gi-eatly inconve- 
 nience me, and perha[)s bring me into trouble ; 
 but I eventually overruled his objections, and 
 he consented to remain with me. Not being 
 able to accommodate him in our apartment, 
 I hired a room for him near by, where he 
 slept at night, but spent the day at our 
 house. I studied with him the Word of <iod, 
 and endeavouied to lead him to the only 
 true source of all peace and happiness ; but 
 it was not until I was laid up, and preached 
 to him the Word of Life from a bed of 
 sickness, that the arrow of God's Truth 
 
 penetrated his soid, and prostrated him .is 
 a humble suppliant at the foot of the cross. 
 He pas.sed through a severe mental conflict 
 before he coidd fully aapiiesce in the proflers 
 of meicy held out to him in the Gospel of 
 Christ ; but he overcame, and is now the 
 happiest of men. It would do your heart 
 good to hear him talk of the love of God, 
 and exalt that grace which to him was so 
 free and glorious." 
 
 In a subsequent letter, dated February 1, 
 1809, the writer resumes his narrative : — 
 
 " Our young brother, Mr. , who is with 
 
 me, and about whom I wrote you in my last, 
 has, for nearlj' a fortnight, been laid up with 
 fever ; but you will rejoice when I tell j'ou 
 how nobly he has acquitted himself in a fear- 
 ful trial that lie has had to pass through. 
 About three weeks ago, early one morning, 
 a middle-aged Jew rushed into my room 
 trembling with excitement, and calling out, 
 ' Where is my son Joseph, my son Joseph, 
 who is driving us to despair ? Oh, tell me 
 where I can find him ! ' I was so taken 
 aback at the suilden appearance of the man, 
 and so startled by his wild looks, that for a 
 few seconds I could scarcely utter a word ; 
 but as .soon as I had come to myself again, I 
 tried to calm the poor man's mind, and 
 inquired who his son was. ' My son Jo.seph,' 
 he replied, ' who has turned meshumed 
 (apostate), and you will probably be able to 
 tell me where I may find him.' A sudden 
 light Ijroke upon me — was this the Ivrother 
 who was with me, and was just then break- 
 f:isting in another room ? On asking his 
 family name, the whole was plain to me. I 
 was in a gre.at dilemma as to what I should 
 do ; but after a few moments' reflection my 
 resolve was formed. I went into the room 
 where my young friend was, and having 
 acquainted him with what had taken place, 
 asked him whether he would like to see his 
 father. lie turned ashy pale, and in .a 
 trembling voice said, ' By all means, I will 
 see my father ; but not here ; pray bring 
 him to my lodgings.' A quarter of an hour 
 after, I accompanied the father to the son's 
 room, and the scene I then witnessed will 
 not easily be oft'aceil from my mind. I wanted 
 to withdraw, but our brother beckoned me 
 to remain. When father and son met, both 
 stood speechless for some time, and then the 
 old man, with great eflbrt, and in broken 
 accents, tried to speak. ' Is it true, my son, 
 that you have denied the God of Israel, 
 forsaken the faith of your ancestors, and 
 tui-ned meshumed ?' 'Father,' he replied.
 
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 Memories of Gospel 2'riimiphs among the Jews. 
 
 ' will you patieutly listen to me whilst I tell 
 you what great things the Lord has done for 
 me, how He has opened my eyes to see the 
 
 g«lf ovei' ' The father, greatly excited, — 
 
 ' I will listen to nothing, but I want to know 
 whether you have become a meshumed.' 
 The son with firmnefs, — ' If you will listen 
 to no explanation, then I declare, in the 
 sight of God and in your presence, that I 
 have, as you call it, l)ecome a meshumed, 
 that I have embraced the doctrines of the 
 Christian religion, and found in them a 
 peace, happiness, and joy which I never 
 knew before ; but, my dear father, you are 
 in error if you suppose that by becoming a 
 Christian I have forsaken and blasphemed 
 the God of our fathers. Quite the contrary. 
 It is the belief in Jesus as our promised 
 Messiah that biings God near to us ; that 
 makes Him known to us in His glory, as 
 our Father who seeks our hapjiiness; that 
 prompts us to love Ilim with a love and 
 adoiation to which, as Jews, we are perfect 
 stiangers.' The father, in great excitement, — 
 ' So you pretend to be wiser than our 
 fathers, and to possess greater judgment 
 than our great and learned men ? ' The son, 
 meekl}', — 'I don't pretend to great wisdom or 
 learning, but the Lord in His infinite mercy 
 has made known to me the Truth, which our 
 wise men, in their great wisdom, cannot find 
 out ; and have they not experienced the 
 Truth of God's threatenings when He said, — 
 " The wisdom of their wise men shall perish, 
 and the understanding of their prudent men 
 shall be hid " ? And again, — " The Loid 
 hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep 
 sleep, and hath closed your eyes." ' The 
 
 father, very imjiatieutly,- — ' I have not come 
 here to argue with you; but, tell me, ha%'e 
 you been baptized?' The son, very rever- 
 ently, — ' I have not as yet taken that im- 
 portant step, but I trust that God will soon 
 pave the way for me to do so.' The father, 
 imploringly, — ' Oh, then, there is hope ! 
 Come home with me, and renounce the error 
 you have been beguiled into ; come, and 
 heal the wounds you have inflicted, and 
 once more gladden the hearts which you 
 have made to bleed. You shall Vje received 
 again as our child, and every thing shall be 
 done to render your life easy aird happy.' 
 The sou firmly, but deeply moved, — 'Father, 
 I cannot retrace my steps ! The peace of 
 mind and happiness I now enjoy are of far 
 greater value to me than all else ; and I 
 would a thousand times rather remain poor 
 and despised than part with the great 
 treasure I have found.' Upon hearing this 
 the father, in great rage, spat in his son's 
 face, and, as he rirshed oirt of the room, 
 pronourrced a terrible malediction upon him. 
 Our dear brother burst out into loud sobs 
 and cries, and it took me some time before I 
 could calm him. ' Thank God,' he at last 
 said, ' that the great trial is over. I can 
 tr-uly say that I have never once regretted 
 the step I took, nor has a shadow of a fear 
 ever crossed my mind that I am deceived in 
 my hope of salvation in Jesrrs ; but this 
 meeting with my father is the greatest trial 
 I have had to pass through.' I read with 
 him several aj)propriate portions of Scripture 
 and then we thanked God on our bcn<led 
 knees for the strength given to make this 
 firm confe.ssion." 
 
 THE SCHOOL IN LEMBERG. 
 
 (With porlriiils af the I'rincijxd, Teac]i.i'.rs and Pupils.) 
 Extract from the Jewish Herald, for January 1877. 
 
 WE are sorry that our teacher-, Miss 
 Pick, finds the work mirch hindered 
 by Popish intolerance. She has now 82 
 pupils irr her school, 53 of whom are 
 Jewesses, 19 Roman Catholics, 9 Protestarrts, 
 and 1 who is the daughter of a dignitary of 
 the Greek Church. She says : — 
 
 " They all attend the Bible class, but 
 though, in general, they are fond of the 
 Scripture lesson, I cannot be sure how far 
 their hearts are torrched by it. A few weeks 
 
 ago we had a great sorrow, caused by the 
 death of one of our pupils, a lovely Jewish 
 girl of fourteen. Latterly we had observed 
 a great change in her, arrd she showed mrrch 
 ardour iir the Bible Glass. The la-st time she 
 was pr-esent at it, she seemed deeply impressed 
 with our srrbject (Ileb. xi.), and I heard her 
 repeat to herself as she was going away. 
 ' A .city not made with hands.' Her illness 
 was braiir fever, and was very short. Her 
 last words were, ' Mother, I am going home.' "
 
 The School in Lemberg. 
 
 THE PRINCIPAL AND TEACHERS OF THE SCHOOL IN LEMBERG. 
 
 433 
 
 ABRAHAM JACOB PICK. 
 
 The Young Jewess of Lemberg. 
 
 Far frmu Kiiglind's [iliMsaiit land, 
 
 Land so rich in Bil)le lun-, 
 Group.s of little children stand, 
 
 Schuolraates on a foreign shore, 
 Led by loving teacher'.s hand 
 
 Mines of learning to explore. 
 
 Many a little Jewish child 
 
 Mingles with the busy throng, 
 
 By instruction's voice beguiled, 
 Joins in Christian prayer and song 
 
 Lisping out in accents mild 
 
 Truths which to its creed belong. 
 
 One, a maiden fair and bright, 
 
 In an Austrian city found, 
 Listened with a calm delight 
 
 And an eagerness profound. 
 As the Truths, like rays of light, 
 
 Pierced the clouds her spirit bound. 
 
 N.itive of the Hebrew race. 
 
 Proud of lineage and birth, 
 Skilfully her thoughts could trace 
 
 Paul's epitome of worth, 
 (Which nor time nor age er.ase), 
 
 Due to noblest men on earth. 
 
 CATHERINE TICK. 
 
 These her ancestors — whose fame 
 
 Nerves the Christi.in's failing hearty — 
 
 Marvellous that each loved name," 
 C3<- In Ihcir Scriptures have apart! 
 
 So she mused, yet seemed to claim 
 The deeper power such words impart. 
 
 Homeward tripped the Hebrew m.aid. 
 Thoughtful, murmuring .as she went, 
 
 " Without hands a city made ; " 
 Questioning what the writer meant, 
 
 Dreaming not how soon all shade 
 From the problem would be rent. 
 
 Soon a ministering angel flew 
 With a message, — " Sister come, 
 
 For the Master calls for you, 
 In his Mansions there is room." 
 
 Hush ! Her words are faint and few 
 " Mother, I am going home ! " 
 
 Simple, trustful, dying speech, 
 
 Of a Jewess, young and fair, 
 Let it comfort those who teach 
 
 Little one-s the wondrous care 
 Jesus takes our hearts to re.ach ; 
 
 Oh I may He find entrance there. 
 
 K. P. R. 
 
 PHILIPPINE PICK. 
 
 THERESE PICK. 
 
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 434 
 
 Menuyriea of Gospel Triuviphs among the Jetvs.
 
 Portraits. 
 
 435 
 
 REV. ISRAEL feiedbergeh, 
 Birmingham. 
 
 MRS. FRIEDBERGER, 
 
 Einnii!'.^hiini. 
 
 REV. THOMAS WIQLEY, 
 
 Superintendent, Manchester. 
 
 MR. HE.SSEL LEVINSOHN, 
 
 Miiisiouary, Manchester, 
 
 F F 2
 
 436 
 
 Memories of Gospel Trmmphs among the Jews. 
 
 THE HOME FOR AGED CHRISTIAN ISRAELITES, AND TWO OF 
 
 ITS FIRST INMATES. 
 
 THE Home Ebenezer, Ferntower Road, PJ^together for years ; then Mrs. Philipson 
 London, N., was opened in February, ^ascended from it to the better Home on 
 
 THE HOME FOR AGED CHEISTIAN ISRAELITES. 
 
 1875, through the instrumentality of the 
 Eev John Wilkinson, the Society's Mission 
 Deputy. Mr. and Airs. Philipson entered it on 
 the 8th of that month and there lived happily 
 
 High. Mr. Philipson lived on in it until the 
 call came to him on the morning of Friday, 
 June 19th, 1891. 
 
 Two days before the end we had a deeply
 
 The Home for Aged Christian Israelites. 
 
 437 
 
 interesting conversation with our aged 
 brother, when we cited some of the golden 
 promises of the Word, and repeated once 
 more the following confession of faith, to 
 which he again gave his hearty Amen : 
 
 " In peace let me resign my breath 3] 
 And Thy salvation see ; ^ 
 
 My sins deserve eternal death, 
 But Jesus tlied for me." 
 
 valley was indeed bright with the light of 
 the Saviour's love. About half-past ten on 
 Monday morning, June 22nd, a short service 
 was held in the Home, conducted by the 
 secretary of the British Society and Mr. 
 Roeder, the superintendent, after which the 
 body of our departed brother was removed 
 to the Episcopal Church, Highbury New 
 Park, where the service was very impressively 
 
 MR. IHlLiioo.s, AGED 95, AXD TWO OF HIS GBAMJCHILDKEN. 
 
 A very few hours before the close of his 
 earthly life we saw him for the last time. 
 When we prayed that he might find the 
 valley lighted up with the presence of Jesus, 
 he said, very heartily, " Amen, Amen." 
 Before our final parting I said, " Dear aged 
 friend, I hope you are still looking unto 
 Jesus ? " With a very sweet smile he 
 answered, " O, yes, I am still looking unto 
 Jesus, and what's better, Jesus is still looking 
 unto me." Our prayer was answered. The 
 
 rendered by the Eev. Gordon Calthrop, M. A., 
 a true lover of Israel, who had been not 
 only the generous friend and spiritual guide 
 of Mr. Philipson, but of all the inmates of 
 the Aged Home, for many yavrs. 
 
 At the recjuest of Mr. Calthrop, the secre- 
 tary of the British Society delivered a short 
 address at the grave. 
 
 So passed from earth, at the age of ninety- 
 five, our venerable friend, trusting in Jesus 
 to the last, and leaving us to say, concerning
 
 438 
 
 Memories of Gospel Tnuviphs among the Jews. 
 
 all, whether they be Jews or Gentiles who We are persuaded that if our departed 
 
 are in possession of like precious faith : brother, Mi-. Calthrop could see his portrait 
 
 RKV. PHEBENDAUY UORDUN CALTHROP, M.A. 
 
 ' There is ik) deatli ; tlie stiird go down 
 Til rise uiion some fairer shore, 
 And bright iu Heaven's jewcll'd crowu 
 They shine for evermore." 
 
 a.ssociated with the Aged Home, and with 
 his beloved and valued Jewish friend 
 Philipson, he would smile approval. 
 
 FOR THE YOUNG. 
 
 The Story of the Fallen Leaf. 
 
 By one ok the Societys Sfihitual Sons. 
 
 THIS world is a beautiful schoolroom. 
 The changing sky is its ceiling ; the 
 sun, moon, and stars aie its lights; it is full 
 of wise and wonderful things, and glitters all 
 over with mirrors, which reflect the face of 
 the great Teacher — God. Everything in it 
 — even the least — has its lesson, if we will 
 only listen to Him. 
 
 One day I was walking with my boy of 
 eleven in one of the noble parks of Vienna, 
 when we were joined by our landlord, a rich 
 Jew. He had so much money that j)eople 
 called him a millionaire. He had overheard 
 our conversation. I had been trying to obey 
 God's command. " Thou shall teach my 
 words diligently to thy children, and shalt 
 talk of them when thou walkest by the 
 way." The rich Jew said, " Why are you 
 whvays talking to your boy about Go J and
 
 The St<yry of the Gift of a Thousand Pounds fm' a Mission House. 439 
 
 heaven. If he reads, the Bible and prays he 
 will never be a man fit for business." It 
 was very painful for me to hear him speak 
 thus before my boy, and I said, " I am sure 
 I love my son more than you can. I do not 
 want to make him miserable and useless, as 
 you think, but to make him happy in loving 
 God." Our landlord laughed and said, "look 
 at me 1 I do not pray, nor trust in God. 
 I trust in no one but myself, and see how 
 rich I have become! No, no, boy, I am 
 Independent (unabhangry) ! " I had no 
 answer ready to give this godless man. I 
 did not know what to say to show him and 
 my boy the sin and folly and misery of 
 being independent of God. In my heart I 
 silently asked God to give me an answer. 
 At that moment a single leaf fell from the 
 great tree under which we were walking, 
 and fluttered to our feet. I tossed it aside 
 with my walking stick, saying, "Independent 
 (unabhangry) ! " I said nothing more, but 
 
 left the poor fallen leaf to speak to the man 
 who thought he could get on so well without 
 God. It seemed to say, " If you do not hang 
 upon God, you must soon wither and perish 
 like me." It put him to silence. Instead 
 of boasting any more of his success and 
 his wealth, he said not another word, 
 though we walked together for another half 
 horn-. 
 
 Dear children, learn from this fallen leaf 
 what a poor helpless perishing thing you are 
 if you are not clinging to Christ. But there 
 is one dilTerence. The leaf could never be 
 joined again to the tree, bu* you need not 
 perish, for God is able to take you up, and 
 make you one with Christ, that you may 
 live witli Him and be like Him for ever. I 
 want you to pray too, that all the Jews, 
 young and old, rich and poor, may learn 
 thLs, and soon return to the Lord their 
 God, and David their King, even Jesus 
 the Son of David. 
 
 THE STORY OF THE GIFT OF A THOUSAND POUNDS FOR A 
 MISSION HOUSE IN EAST LONDON. 
 
 (With Portrait of the donor.) 
 
 THE GIFT OF A 
 THOUSAND POUNDS. 
 
 AT a meeting of the 
 Committee, held 
 on the l^th of July, 
 1877, one of the mem- 
 bers brought before his 
 brethren the need of a 
 suitable mission house, 
 iu order to render more 
 efficient the work of 
 the Society in London. 
 Very soon aftei' that a 
 Christian friend, un- 
 known to us, and who 
 would not give his name, 
 came to the Office, and 
 intimated his desire to 
 give .£1,000 for the very 
 object prayerfully con- 
 sidered at that Com- 
 mittee Meeting. He 
 said to us, " If I could 
 I would make it more, 
 but I cannot live 
 decently on less than 
 XI 00 a year ; hut more 
 will follow after my 
 death, which will not be 
 
 W. p., THE DONOB. 
 
 long, as' I am afflicted 
 with several diseases." 
 Again and again, though 
 very poorly, he came to 
 the Office to stir us up 
 to do all that lay in our 
 power to .secure suitable 
 premises as speedily as 
 pos.sible. At length the 
 day and hour came for 
 placing that noble sum 
 in the hands of the 
 Treasurer. The scene 
 enacted in the Office 
 was one of the most 
 touching that had hap- 
 pened in the hLstory of 
 the Society. That hum- 
 ble and self-sacrificing 
 lover of the Jewish cause 
 came into the presence 
 of four members of 
 Committee appointed to 
 meet him, and stood for 
 a time somewhat con- 
 fused, being totally deaf, 
 and expecting to see only 
 our Treasiu-er. Then 
 with all the simplicity
 
 440 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs aTnong the Jews. 
 
 of one putting a sixpence in the plate, 
 he laid upon the table two five hundred 
 pound notes, and said, " Gentlemen, I have 
 perfect confidence in you." And but for 
 the wish of the sub-committee he would have 
 
 then with tears has been abundantly 
 answered, not only in the purchase of the 
 Mission House, but in gems won for the 
 Crown of Christ. 
 
 When we think of the motive and manner 
 
 THE MISSION HALL, CHURCH STKEET, SPITALFIELDS. 
 
 left without a receipt for the money. Every 
 heart was deeply affected, and one, .speaking 
 for the rest, exclaimed, " Let us thank God 
 for this gift, and ask from Him grace to en- 
 able us to discharge the significant trust we 
 have just accepted." The prayer offered 
 
 of the lowly giver, combined with the 
 matter and measure of his princely gift — 
 the self-denial involved — we regard the 
 event as one which was fitted to arrest the 
 flight of celestial intelligences passing 
 through our earth, and interested in the
 
 The Stm'y of the Gift of a Thousand Pounds for a Mission House. 441 
 
 salvation of Israel. We love to think of 
 angels and ransomed spirits like Abraham, 
 Isaac, Jacob, Peter, John, Paul, and above 
 all the Lord Jesus, gazing upon that sight 
 ■with supreme delight. Surely every Christian 
 who reads this incident should see in it the 
 Heart and Hand of the God of Israel, and be 
 raised by it to a higher point of self-sacrifice, 
 in order to carry forward in aggressive 
 majesty the splendid enterprise of giving 
 the Gospel to the Jews, and of thereby 
 bringing I about the time, when through 
 
 the power of Jesu's name ! " and an impres- 
 sive dedicatory prayer by the Kev. W. Tyler, 
 D.D., the chairman read the C7th Psalm, 
 which gives us God's order of blessing the 
 world through the Jews. 
 
 EXTRACT FROM THE CHAIRMAN S ADDRESS. 
 
 That old cry which sounded so harshly in 
 the ears of the prophet Samuel, " Give us a 
 King ! " was not altogether a had cry, inas- 
 much as there was in it some thought of the 
 
 rUTERIOR OF THE MISSION HALL. CHURCH STREET, SPITALFIELDS. 
 
 them, according to the Lord's promise, the 
 whole world shall be filled with His glory. 
 
 THE" MISSION HOUSE PURCHASED AND OPENED. 
 
 Tlie opening meeting of the Society's 
 Jewish Mis.sion House, Church Street, 
 Spitalfields, took place on Tuesday evening, 
 the 12th November, 1878. When tea was 
 over, the Chair was taken by J. E. Mathie- 
 son, Esq., and there were present to support 
 him representatives of nearly every Evangeli- 
 cal denomination. After singing " All hail 
 
 coming Deliverer. The Jews were not satis- 
 fied with their Judges, etc., and they shouted 
 to Samuel, " Give us a King 1 " But with a 
 King we do not find that they were content, 
 for they never had one who reigned over 
 them in righteousness. Centuries pass away, 
 and they cry, " We have no king but Caesar." 
 Oh, what humiliation was in that shout ! 
 And now the shout is, " We have no king 
 but Mammon ! " But they must have a 
 glorious King. Only such a King as Jesus 
 is described in history and prophecy can 
 satisfy the longings of the Jewish heart.
 
 442 
 
 Memories of Gospel Tnumpks ainong the Jews. 
 
 EXTRACT FROM THE SPEECH OP THE SECRETARY. 
 
 (■; Suppose the[^debt we owe to the Jews put 
 down at ten thousand pounds, received eighteen 
 centuries ago, and unpaid until now ; and sup- 
 pose that amount put out to thebest advantage 
 during all that time, you, who can calculate, 
 tell us how much we owe that people now ! 
 Bring down all the stars, and Ijring up 
 all the sands, multiply the stars by the 
 sands, and continue to do so for millenniums, 
 and what have we ? , Figures in endless 
 rows and countless 
 numbers, and in them 
 we have j ust an emblem 
 of the debt we owe to 
 the Hebrew people. I 
 believe it was a sense 
 of obligation like this, 
 awakened by reading 
 the Jeivish Herald, 
 which prompted a hum- 
 ble Christian brother, 
 whose name we do not 
 yet know, to visit our 
 office some months ago, 
 and put into our trea- 
 surer's hands two five 
 hundred pound notes, 
 to help to buy pre- 
 mises, in order to make 
 our work among the 
 Jews more efficient. 
 It ought to be known 
 also that he has since 
 given two hundred 
 pounds more, and 
 this excellent Mission 
 House, with its Hall 
 and various rooms, is 
 the grand result. In 
 the language of the 
 opening prayer, may 
 it be a ho.spital where 
 
 the diseased wUl find healing, and a light- 
 house where the darkened will obtain light 
 and life. 
 
 That prayer, offered by the late Dr. Tyler 
 at the opening meeting, has since been fidly 
 answered. 
 
 The Eev. M. Nachim and Mrs. Zucker- 
 kandl were the first Missionaries connected 
 with the Mission House; the Eev. E. O. C. 
 
 Eoeder, the present Superintendent, was the 
 first convert. 
 
 OUR MEDICAL MISSION FOR THE JEWS. — THE 
 FIRST OF THE KIND E.STABLISHED IN LONDON. 
 
 On the memorable night of the opening of 
 the Mis.sion House we began to pray that 
 the Lord would send us a Christian doctor 
 who would give medical advice and dispense 
 medicine to Jews and Jewesses ; and here, 
 too, prayer was wonderfully answered. In 
 March, 1879, we had 
 the great pleasure of 
 visiting our friend Dr. 
 John Reid Morrison. 
 After telling him what 
 we wanted, he most 
 kindly said that he 
 would undertake the 
 management gratui- 
 tously. Then we knelt 
 down in his surgery, 
 and he offered a most 
 impressive prayer for 
 a blessing upon the 
 Medical Mis.sion, now 
 inavigurated for the 
 glory of God and the 
 good of His people 
 Israel. And so the 
 liritish Society's Medi- 
 cal Missionforthe Jews 
 may be regarded as 
 the very fii-st of the 
 kind begun in England 
 — a Mission which has 
 lieen the means of 
 physical and spiritual 
 health to thousands of 
 Jewish men, women 
 and children. 
 
 Our noble brother, 
 Mr. W. Paul Dobson, 
 the giver first of the £1,000 and afterwards 
 of £500 more, to make the debt upon the 
 Mission House a vanished quantity, was greatly 
 delighted and satisfied with the firstfruits, and 
 asked us to unite with him most heartily in 
 rendering all the praise and glory to " Him 
 who loved us, and gave Himself for us." 
 
 In May, 1882, at the age of 72, he passed 
 triumphantly home, trusting in "Jesus only." 
 
 HJiV. E. 0. C BOEDER.
 
 Rev. J. Durdop's Jeivish Clock. 
 
 443 
 
 REV. J. DUNLOP'S JEWISH CLOCK. 
 
 The Voice of the Clock. 
 
 JOHN BEEKIDGE wrote, and pasted on 
 his clock, the following lines : — 
 
 " Here my master bids me stand, 
 
 And mark the time with faithful hand ; 
 What is his will is my delight, 
 To tell the hours by day, by night. 
 Master, be wise, and learn of me, 
 To serve thy Qod as 1 serve thee ! " 
 
 So would we give the clock a voice, as it 
 strikes the hours, and make it speak the 
 words of God, concerning the Jews. 
 
 The Clock strikes 
 
 I. " Jews."—" This word " says Dr. Eadie 
 " first occurs in this passage (ii. Kings xvi. 
 6), and denotes the Judteans, or men of 
 Judah, in contradistinction from the seceding 
 ten tribes who retained the name of Israel.
 
 444 
 
 Memories of Gospel Trnimphs ammig the Jews. 
 
 The name Israelite-; was applied to the 
 twelve tribes or descendants of Jacob (Israel) 
 as a body ; but after the separation of the 
 tiibes, the above distinction obtained until 
 the Babylonish Captivity, which terminated 
 the existence of the kingdom of Judah ; 
 and thenceforward, until the present day, 
 the descendants of Jacob are called Jews, 
 and constitute one of the two classes into 
 which the whole human family is frequently 
 divided, viz., Jews and Gentiles." (Rom. ii. 
 9, 10.) 
 
 II. " The Jews."— Here the word "Jews" 
 occurs for the first time in the New Testa- 
 ment. The Jews were regarded by the wise 
 men, as a people, with Je.sus as their King. 
 
 all kingdoms ; that scattered like the dust, 
 shall be bound togethei' like the rock ; that 
 perishing by the sword, by the chain, by 
 famine, by fire, shall be imperishable, un- 
 numbeied, glorious as the stars of heaven." 
 
 VI. " For Salvation is of the Jews," 
 — The Author of Salvation, the first 
 preachers of salvation, and the word of sal- 
 vation, were all " of the Jews." 
 
 VII. " Write not the king of the 
 Jews," — said Jewish Priests to Pilate. But 
 Pilate neither would nor could alter what he 
 had written. 
 
 The Clock strikes 
 
 VIII. " Jesus of Nazareth the Kino of 
 the Jews.', 
 
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 I'ACSHIILE OF A POST CAHD SENT liV MU. SI'DHGEON TO THE SECKBTAKY. 
 
 III. "Jews by Nature." — "Jews by 
 nature," not by pro,selytism, Jews like Paul 
 and Peter, have cast away their trust in the 
 law, and have been justified by believing in 
 Jesus. 
 
 IV. " Land op the Jews." — That land 
 should be to us most interesting, as it was 
 trodden by the feet, and hallowed by the 
 presence of Immanuel. 
 
 V. " The Nation of the Jews." — " A 
 nation that living shall die, and dying shall 
 live ; that trampled by all, shall trample 
 upon all ; that bleeding from a thousand 
 wounds, .shall be unhurt ; that beggared, 
 shall wield the wealth of nations ; that 
 without a name, shall sway the councils of 
 kings ; that without a city, shall inhabit in 
 
 IX. " We preach Christ Crucified 
 unto the Jews a Stumbling-block." Seeing 
 that the preaching of the cross excited the 
 deepest hostility of the Jews, why did the 
 Apostles preach it ? Because there was no 
 other way of bringing them to penitence, 
 pardon, peace, and purity. While the 
 preaching of the Cross was to many Jews a 
 " stumbling-block," it was to many the 
 stepping-stone from Earth to Pai-adise. 
 
 X. " Testifying both to the Jews and 
 ALSO TO the Greeks." 
 
 XI. " I BECAME AS A JeW THAT I MIGHT 
 
 GAIN THE Jews." — These voices of the clock, 
 teach us how to win the Jew for Jesus. While 
 testifying of repentance toward God, and 
 faith in Christ, treat the Jew as a brother.
 
 Rev. J. Dunlop's Jevnsh Clock. 
 
 445 
 
 As the clock strikes XIT. we learn the 
 grand result of adhering to this method. 
 " Thou seest, brother, now many 
 
 THOUSANDS (lIT., MYRIADs) OF JeWS THERE 
 
 ARE WHICH BELIEVE." — -Let the disciplss of 
 Christ adopt this method now, and the same 
 result will follow. In it we have the pro- 
 phecy of a golden time coming for God's 
 ancient and beloved people. 
 
 " The Jews," said one, " have been 
 sprinkled like millions of globules of qnick- 
 silver over the length and breadth of the 
 woi-ld; every drop reflecting bright beams 
 from the past, and mirroring forth the morn' 
 ing of a glorious future." 
 
 The Clock and the Society Com- 
 mended by the late Rev. C. H. 
 Spurgeon. 
 
 Our friend, Mr. Spiu-geon, was kind 
 enough to give our Scripture Clock the first 
 place in his admirable Magazine " The Sword 
 and the Trowel," for May, 1880, and with it 
 the following interesting note : — 
 
 " This Clock was brought out in the 
 Jewish Herald, which is the excellent 
 monthly organ of the British Society for 
 the Propagation of the Gospel among the 
 Jews, and it struck us as worthy of a wider 
 
 circulation. We commend it and the Society 
 to the thoughtful minds of all believers. 
 Has not the time come in which the Church 
 will lay the seed of Israel more upon her 
 heart ? " 
 
 Give the Gospel to the Jew. 
 
 Give to him who gave the Bible ; 
 
 Tliink from whence it came to you : — 
 Do you love your precious Bible '\ 
 
 Then restore it to the Jew. 
 
 Do you love your holy worship ? 
 
 He preserved the Word for you ; 
 Preach Immanuel, God's Anointed, 
 
 Preach the Gosiiel to the Jew. 
 
 Do you love your precious Saviour ? 
 
 Jesus Chii-st was born a Jew, 
 What should be then your behaviour ? 
 
 Tell of Jesus to the Jew. 
 
 Do you love to cling to Jesus, 
 Just because He died for you ? 
 
 Do you know that He'll receive us ? 
 Give such knowledge to the Jew. 
 
 God will grant His Holy Spirit ; 
 
 Let the Gentile teach the Jew 
 Each believing, shall inherit. 
 
 Life eternal. — Love the Jew. 
 
 Think how much you are indebted 
 
 To the poor benighted Jew ; 
 Bless him, and you shall be blessed, 
 
 Tell of Jesus to the Jew. 
 
 THE RABINOWITZ MOVEMENT. 
 
 {With Portraits.) 
 
 THE first account of this movement was 
 given in England by us, at the Forty- 
 fiist Annual Meeting of the British Society, 
 held at Exeter Hall on Tuesdaj- evening. 
 May 13th, 1884, when our friend Sir George 
 Williams ably occupied the chair. Full 
 particulars of the origin and progress of the 
 movement wnll be found in the Jewish 
 Herald for 1884 — 5. volumes VI. and 
 VII. 
 
 There are generally several links in the 
 chain which leads to the conversion of a 
 .soul and the formation of a church. In the 
 case of the woman of Samaria there were at 
 least fifteen. In the case of Joseph Rabino- 
 wit? there were several. A group of links 
 may be found in his visit to Odessa, where 
 he met with our missionary and had pre- 
 .sented to him a poi-trait of the Saviour as 
 given in the Old and New Testaments. A 
 second group of links may be found in his 
 residence in Kischinew, where he breathed a 
 Christian atmosphere, through the presence 
 there of Pastor Faltin and his flock ; and 
 
 where during his long and useful pastorate 
 many Jewish converts had confessed Christ 
 by baptism. Had there been no British 
 Society's missionary in Odessa, and no 
 London Society's agent in Kischinew, Joseph 
 Rabinowitz might not have been convei'ted. 
 In his visit to Palestine, we find the last 
 cluster of links in the chain, which resulted 
 in his spiritual birth and public confession of 
 Christ. Standing on Mount (jlivet with the 
 New Testament in his hand liLs eyes were 
 opened to see Jesus as the great want of his 
 soul and of the souls of his brethren ; and 
 ever since his vision of the Saviour has been 
 growing clearer and fuller. 
 
 Again. The formation of the Hebrew 
 branch of the Christian church would not 
 have taken place at the time it did, had not 
 the Treasurer, the Secretary, and one of 
 the missionaries of the British Society been 
 divinely led to visit Kischinew, near the 
 end of March, 1884. It was because of their 
 visit then, that the meeting was held on 
 March ■2Gth, in Pa.stor Faltin's schoolroom
 
 446 
 
 Memories of Gospel Tnumph/i among the Jews. 
 
 at which the new Church was begun, and 
 the new movement inaugurated. At the 
 close of the Conference, M. Rabinowitz turned 
 to the Secretary of tlie British Society, and 
 gave him the following simple story, with 
 a sublime spiritual meaning which may be 
 called — 
 
 Instead of looking in front for your wheel 
 you ought to look behind." That is exactly 
 the great mistake the Jews have been mak- 
 ing for centuiies. They have forgotten that 
 in order to look forward aright, they must 
 first look behind aright. The four wheels of 
 Hebrew History may be said to be Abraham, 
 
 JOSEPH RABINOWlTi!.. 
 
 The Parable of the Wheel. 
 A few foolish people driving in a four- 
 wheeler happened to lose a wheel. Finding 
 that the car moved along heavily, they looked 
 about and found that a wheel was missing. 
 One of the foolish men jumped down and ran 
 forward in search of the missing wheel. To 
 every one he met he said, " We have lost a 
 wheel, have you seen a wheel ? have you 
 found a wheel ? " One wise man at last said : 
 " You are looking in the wrong direction. 
 
 Moses, David, and Jesus. The Jews by look- 
 ing in front, instead of behind, have failed 
 to find their fourth wheel. Thank God, 
 that " the Sons of the New Covenant " 
 have found the Supreme Wheel — Jesus. 
 Abraham, Moses and David are but beautiful 
 types and symbols of Jesus. They were, and 
 still are, the repositories of His energy ; 
 they were, and are still, moved and managed 
 by Him, as truly as are the Cherubim and 
 Seraphim. Thank God, we have found
 
 The Rabinowitz Movement. 
 
 447 
 
 JOSEPH BABINOWITZ STANDINU ON MOLNf OUVBT.
 
 448 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeios. 
 
 lynX yiUJ'"' owv Brother Jesus, onr All, 
 " who of God has been made unto us, wisdom, 
 righteousness, sanctification, and redemption ;" 
 from whom alone we have found divine light, 
 life, libci'ty, and love, for the great Here and 
 the greater Hereafter. And now with 
 bright eye and jubilant heart, we are looking 
 forward to the pulsing splendours of His 
 appearing. 
 
 This parable was to us the crown of the 
 
 parable, the new movement was inaugurated, 
 which as we have said, was first noticed in 
 England by us, then by the London Times, 
 and the chief jo jrnals of many lands ; which 
 has been placed before the world in a 
 pamphlet entitled, "The First Eipe Fig," by 
 our departed friend, Professor Delitzsch, 
 which has been specially referred to in an 
 admirable address, entitled, " The Everlasting 
 Nation," delivered and published^hy our late 
 
 PASTOK FALTIN. 
 
 Conference. As the acorn has wrapped up 
 in it all the possibilities of the monarch of 
 the woods, so this parable has in it that 
 which can make the soul to grow like the 
 oak until it is so perfect that it repeats and 
 reflects the great arch of the sky overhead. 
 In one word, this parable has in it the Divine 
 and human evolving energy of Christ, which 
 is destined to fill the world and eternity with 
 the highest life and bliss. 
 
 Thus by Christian praise, prayer and 
 
 Honorary Secretary, the Rev. Dr. Saphir ; a 
 movement which has spread not only to other 
 parts of liessarabia but even to the Capital 
 of Russia ; and which we hope will go on, 
 along with the Lichtenstein and kindred 
 movements, till through Israel, all shall 
 know Jesus and His redeeming love 
 
 " Till the blissful tidings float, 
 Far o'er vale and hill ; 
 Till the sweetly echoing note 
 Every boaom thrill."
 
 Tlif Rdhiiiiiwilz Movt'iiieid. 
 
 449 
 
 \'Mfs"i'"^ 
 
 L/tfcff?*"^ 
 
 HEV. GECIBGE JTilEDMAN, DR. P. FKOHWEIN, 
 
 Our Missionary in Wilua, Pastr.r Faltin's spiritual Wilna, Sir. Friedman's able colleague. Our Wilna 
 
 son, who was associated with him for years in Medic-al Mission has been a great success. Through 
 
 Mission work among the Jews in Kischinew, and its instrument.ility thousands of Jews and Jewesses 
 
 was present with us at the Conference which have had the Gospel proclaimed to them, and many 
 
 inaugurated the Rabinowitz Movement. have been healed in body and Ijlessed in soul. 
 
 IS THEUE NO lioiijl FOU THE WA.vnEHIXC; JEW.' 
 
 Yes : there is room in the Heart of Christ, and there ought to be in every Christian land and Church. 
 
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 Mt'mnries of Gospel Tnunvphs amovi/ the Jews. 
 
 L.Wilday dvl
 
 Sir George WilliinDi^ 
 
 4.U 
 
 SIR GEORGE WILLIAMS, 
 
 The FouNDEii and Pkesidext of the Y.il.CA., and for many yeaus the valied 
 
 FlUENI) OF THE BRITISH .SoC'TElY. 
 
 »>^v 
 
 L i'Mf.rJf^rg 
 
 f{^^S 
 
 HIS 
 
 GRAND ADDRESS AS CHAIRMAN OF OUR 
 FIRST JUDILEE MEETING. 
 
 " TUBILEE morning must have been a 
 fj very glad morning iu the olden time. 
 
 'i'lie sound of the silver trumpet must have 
 thrilled the hearts of millions of people. 
 What did it mean ? Freedom from bondage, 
 freedom from death, retuiii to their own 
 
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 4.52 
 
 Mt'iiiDvies uj Uosjjt/l Tr't niHpliN <iiii<iii</ llic Jews. 
 
 possessions, all the difficulties of the paxt 
 gone, brought back ito their homes re- 
 instated. Now this is your Jubilee day — 
 a grand d.ay for you all. I congratulate the 
 Secretar}% and the Committee, and all the 
 friends who have been working in this 
 excellent Society during the past fifty years. 
 What blessings must have come to hundreds 
 and thousands of the sons and daughters of 
 Aliraham dui-ing the past fifty years. I 
 remember fifty years ago — I was compara- 
 tively young. (LaiKjhter.) I had ju.st come 
 up to the MetropolLs from the West of 
 England. In 1841 I came from the West 
 of England. I had been in London just one 
 year when this Society was formed, and 
 have been here ever since. {C'heers.) Now, 
 I have observed a little of your growth from 
 time to time. I have heard of you, and 
 have known some of your most excellent 
 agents, and something of the great woi'k 
 they have been doing for their dear Lord 
 and Master. Now, as Gentiles, how indebted 
 we are to the Jews. What could we have 
 known of the Creation, but for the Holy 
 Sci-iptures ? What should we have known 
 of the constitution of the Christian Church ? 
 What comfort the Scriptures, which have 
 come to us through the .Jews, have been to 
 our hearts ! Only think : what should we 
 have done without the Scriptures 'i What 
 noltle examples we have set before us in the 
 Scriptures of .some of the Jews ; and there 
 is one great advantage, too, we have their 
 defects pointed out to us to warn us, as well 
 as their good qualities to guide us. {Cheers.) 
 Now, beloved friends, we are familiar with 
 the Old Testament saints — -Abraham, Isaac, 
 and Jacob — oh, what a list of Bplendid men 
 we have in the Word ! Then, how often we 
 have sung the sweet songs of David. What 
 should we have done without the Jews? 
 For, to crown all, have they not given us a 
 Saviour, a precious Saviour, a deai-ly beloved 
 friend — stu'passing every other friend that 
 we can possibly have in this world 1 Now, 
 this dearly beloved Saviour I am sure is 
 with us to-day to comfort, encourage, and 
 strengthen our hearts, and to prepare us for 
 another period of time and work. i' am 
 very glad it has happened to me to be 
 with you on your Jubilee day — [cheers)-- 
 and if I had a silver trumpet, and could 
 play it, I would make it sound out so that 
 it should gladden all our hearts. [Reneived 
 cheers.) However, we have many silver 
 trumpets on the platfoi-m, and tlierefore 
 
 we shall have i 
 {Cheers. ) 
 
 really good Jubilee service.' 
 
 CONCLUDI.XG PASSAGES OF UIS BEAUTIFUL 
 ADDRESS TO THE MEMBERS OF THE Y.M.C'.A. 
 AT THE BEOINXINC OF ITS JUBILEE YEAR. 
 1894. 
 
 When the English stormed the heights of 
 Alma, the officer bearing the colours carried 
 the flag somewhat in advance of his troop. 
 He planted the flag on the rampart. The 
 captain thought the flag in danger, so he 
 called out to the ensign — " Bring back that 
 flag to the men." And the ensign — he was a 
 young man, full of dauntless courage, and 
 his eye sparkled with the fire of enthusiasm 
 — answered : " What ! bring the flag back to 
 the men ? Never ! bring the men up to the 
 flag." That is the spirit we want, and the 
 spirit which, I rejoice to believe, prevails 
 among the members of the Y.M.C'.A. 
 
 Dear Biethren, a vast and immeasurable 
 future lies before us. It is bright with 
 promise. It is big with opportunity. The 
 world is our territory. We have, as Associa- 
 tions, only touched the fringe of our possi- 
 bilities ; they are boundless. There are 
 miiltitudes of young men yet to be won for 
 Christ. Shall we not be in earnest for their 
 salvation ? Shall we not as Associations lise 
 to the occasion and respond to the call — so 
 clear and distinct — to definite effort for the 
 conversion of the unsaved? This is the centre 
 around which all our operations should 
 I'evolve. 
 
 During the revolutionary changes of the 
 last fifty years human nature has remained 
 unchanged ; the mighty forces of evil .still 
 prevail. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the 
 only remedy for sin, and Christ is the 
 only satisfying answer to all the complex 
 questions of human life and de.stiny. 
 
 Let us labour on in abiding lecognition of 
 these immovable realities. Let us seek to 
 be woi-thy of the age in which we live, and 
 of the woik coaimitted to our trust, and I 
 am persuaded th.it the " Young Men's 
 Christian Association " will not only main- 
 tain the glorious traditions which mark its 
 history, but will effect an impression for 
 God in the twentieth century far tran.s- 
 cending the most blessed achievements of the 
 past. 
 
 The Lord bless you each with a true 
 Jubilee blessing in .all the relationships of 
 life, and grant you, as He only can, a very 
 bright and happy New Year.
 
 The late W. G. Habershon, Esq. 
 
 453 
 
 THE COMMITTEES RESOLUTION OF SYMPATHY WITH THE 
 RELATIVES OF OUR LATE PRESIDENT. 
 
 THE members of this Committee deeply The Committee desire to express their 
 
 regret to record the death of their sincere sympathy with the relatives ia this 
 
 long-tried and esteemed friend, W. G. sad hour of bereavement, and affectionately 
 
 Habei-shon, Esq. His desire for the salva- commend them to the loving care and 
 
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 THE L.VTE W. G. HABERSHON, ESQ. 
 
 Jiun, 2illt Ptbraar;/, mid. JJial 13M .l«y«s(, 1891. 
 
 tion of Go I's ancient people, and liis gracious support of that Savioin- who remains 
 
 unwavering attachment to this iSociety were ever the same. 
 
 conspicuous ; whilst his zeal, fidelity, good 
 
 judgment, kindly bearing, and devotion J- ^iles IIitciiens, D.D., I'resixhnt. 
 
 endeared him to those associated with him. J Dunlop, Secretary.
 
 4J4 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs amovg tfie Jews. 
 
 REV. J. HILES KITCHENS, D.D. 
 
 jMixister ok Eccleston Square CHUiicn, and President of the British SociETy. 
 
 {For Portrait, see Frontispiece.) 
 
 ECCLESTON SQIURE CHURCH is a 
 substantial building, with seating 
 accommodation for over thirteen hundred 
 persons. IMore space has been given in front 
 of tlie pulpit, a new dais. Communion-rail, 
 Conmiunion-table, and chair have been 
 supplied. The pendent giis-lights have been 
 replaced by two of Strode's sun-burners, and a 
 new and poweiful organ has been introduced, 
 which Ls ably presided at by Mr. H. Evans. 
 
 It is haidly necessary to say that on the 
 pastor of a chui-ch like that at Eccleston 
 Square a great responsibility lests. Standing 
 in the very midst of fashionable Belgravia, 
 it is most important that Nonconformity 
 shoidd here have a powerful representative, 
 and Dr. Ilitchens is wise in keeping to his 
 own pulpit, and making it a rule to decline 
 the many and pre.s.sing invitations which 
 reach him that he should occasionally preach 
 in other churches. 
 
 There are large Sunday Schools in con- 
 nection with this Ch\uch, and about four 
 hundred children, of a superior cla.ss, are in 
 regular attendance ; the statf of teachers 
 numbers forty. Dr. Hitchens takes a great 
 and abiding interest in the young people of 
 both sexes, and his sermon on the evening of 
 the second Sunday in each month is specially 
 addressed to young men. But Dr. Hiles 
 Hitchens not only preaches to young people, 
 he writes for them ; and the following 
 extract from an article from his pen, 
 although published three or four years ago, 
 may not be out of place here ; " There are 
 multitudes of young men in society called 
 ' Christians ' to whom the title does not 
 strictly belong. With some the term ' Chris- 
 tian ' is nothing more than a geographical 
 description to which their horse or dog has 
 ns good claim as they. With others the 
 word is used in a nominal sense, and i.s 
 claimed not because they were born in a 
 land upon which the light of the Cross has 
 fallen, but because they now and then 
 observe some merely external litual. There 
 are young men called ' Chri.stinns ' who 
 in principle are infidels, and wlio in practice 
 pursue a course wholly hostile to the caieer 
 of Je.sus. There are young men calif d 
 ' Christians ' who are foremost in the world's 
 
 gayest pursuits, whose ways and words will 
 not bear close inv^estigation, who are guilty 
 of gi-oss frauds, who are habitually deceptive, 
 truthless, intemperate, and malicious. ' Such 
 persons,' says John Howe, 'are called C'hris- 
 tians just with as much propriety a.s you 
 would call a picture of a man — a man ; 
 though, perhaps, not altogether with that 
 propriety either, for a truly good picture is 
 more like a man than such persons ai-e like 
 real Christians.' Whilst lamenting that our 
 holy religion has suffered, and is suffering, so 
 grievously in the estimation of men because 
 of such characters, we yet rejoice that there 
 are in society bands of truly consistent 
 followers of the God-man — young men who 
 possess the power of godliness as well as the 
 form, to whom religion is a \'ital and vitaliz- 
 ing principle, and to whom the name ' Chris- 
 tian ' justly belongs." 
 
 Beyond this, it may be said that the 
 Young Men's Association is doing a useful 
 work. It has as patron, his Giace the Duke 
 of Westminster, and among its vice-presidents 
 are the Venerable Archdeacon Sinclair, D.D., 
 W. Burdett Coutts, Esq., M.P., and R. C. 
 Antrobus, Esq., L.C.C. There are also in 
 active work a Band of Hope, Library, Soup 
 Kitchen, Maternity Society, Tract Society, 
 Dorcas Society, Benevolent Society, auxili- 
 aries to missions both abroad and at home. 
 Clubs for Cricket, Cycling, and Swimming, 
 and a reading room is open twice a week. 
 
 THE REV. .1. HILES HITCHENS, D.D., 
 
 who is one of the best-known and most 
 highly-respected ministers in this country, 
 commenced preaching before sixteen years 
 of age, and his talent in that direction being 
 marked by his friends, he entered the 
 Western College, Plymouth, where he studied 
 imder the Rev. Dr. Richard Alliott. His 
 first pastorate was that of the Church at 
 Peckham Rye, to which he was appointed in 
 January, 1858, and where he soon became 
 widely known. The practice of utilizing 
 theaties and other places of amusement for 
 religious services was at that time in its 
 infancy, but T»r. Hitchens, .•seeing in it the 
 glorious possibilities of which it has since 
 proved the possession, gave it his warmest
 
 ite;. J. lilies Hitchem, D.T). 
 
 4.35 
 
 commendation, and threw himself heart and 
 sold into the experiment. He pi-eached in 
 most of the theatres of London, and, in addi- 
 tion, proved himself an able andjfpopular 
 lecturer on historical and biogiaphieal 
 
 pastor of the Church at Peckham Eye, Dr. 
 Hitchen.s made his first liteiaiy effort, and 
 published a volume of sermons, entitled, 
 " Words from the Watch Tower." 
 
 Dr. Hitchens was not destined to continue 
 
 ECCLESTON SQUARE CHIiRCH, BELGHAVIA. 
 
 subjects. Lecturing several times at the 
 Metropolitan Tabernacle for the late Mr. 
 Spurgton, at the Birkbeck Institute, 
 Surrey Chapel, and various institutes in the 
 provinces. During the time that he was the 
 
 his ministry in London. This work .seems to 
 have l)rought him into prominence, and it 
 was not long before he found himself invited to 
 takethepa-storalchargeof tliet 'Lurch in Luton, 
 Bedfordshire, where a handsome building
 
 456 
 
 Memorwfi of Goftpel Triumphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 had just been erected. Acting on the advice 
 of the hxte Di'. Vaughan, and others, Dr. 
 Kitchens accepted the offer made to him, and 
 in the course of a Httle while he had the 
 satisfaction of seeing the church, which lias 
 accommodation for over twelve hundred 
 pei-sons, filled at all the services. In Luton 
 Dr. Ilitchens found that there was much to 
 do besides the actual duties of his pastorate, 
 and all movements, for the good of those 
 among whom his lot was cast, found in him a 
 mo.st ardent supporter. Among other matters 
 in which he interested himself was that of 
 the postal-service ; and it was mainly owing 
 to his efforts that the new post-office was 
 olitained, and increased deliveries and 
 dispatches secured. 
 
 After a pastorate at Luton extending over 
 four-and a-half years, the Rev. J. Ililes 
 Kitchens was asked to letiu'n to London, the 
 scene of his first ministerial laliours, and he 
 again assumed the duties of a London pastoi- 
 ate, Januarj', 1871, when he preached his first 
 sei-mon as the pastor of Eccleston Square 
 Church. 
 
 Concerning Dr. Kitchens as a preacher, a 
 religious journal some three years ago said : 
 " To see and heai' Dr. Kitchens in the pulpit 
 is to see and hear him at home; vested in 
 Geneva gown, he looks all the Puritan, and 
 he speaks with an ease and dignity which 
 always command the ear of a huge and 
 intelligent congregation." While a contem- 
 porary .said of him .some time since, that 
 " in person, voice, manner, and matter 
 he is the very beau-ideal of a popular 
 preacher." 
 
 But in addition to performing the duties 
 appertaining to a large and important pastor- 
 ate. Dr. Jlitchens finds time to indulge in 
 his favourite pursuit of literature. In 
 addition to contriliuting to several periodicals, 
 he is the author of .some twenty books and 
 pamphlets. Mention has aheady been made 
 of the first of these, and among the others 
 will be found " The Face of the King," 
 copies of which were gj'aciously accepted by 
 the Queen and the Prince of Wales ; 
 " Jesuits : their Kistory and Principles ; " 
 " Ritualism, and Our Duty in Relation to 
 It ; " " Ecce Veritas," which has been well 
 described as a " masterly work " ; " The 
 Penalty ; " " P.iblo Waters ; " " The Young 
 Men of .Scripture ; " " A Ministering Angel ; " 
 and " Perfect Through Suffering ; " all of 
 which may truly be characterized as super- 
 excellent. 
 
 In 18(i3 Dr. Hiles Hitchen.s was elected a 
 
 Fellow of the Royal Society of Litei-ature, 
 and in 1886 Hon. F.S.Sc. (Lond.). 
 
 Dr. Kiles Kitchens first spoke on the 
 platform of the British Jews' Society in 
 Willis's Room.s, on Tuesday, May 10th, 1805. 
 Ke has been several times pressed to enter 
 the Established Church, once with a promise 
 of a living, but declined, feeling he could 
 .serve the One Master more freely outside the 
 Established Church. As a member of the 
 Evangelical Alliance he has been, and is, on 
 fi'iendly tei'ms with the neighbouring Evan- 
 gelical Clergy : Dean Bradley, Canon Flem- 
 ing, Archdeacon Sinclair, the late Dean 
 Stanley, and others, having frequently 
 attended and taken part in meetings at 
 Eccleston Squaie, whilst several clergymen 
 of the Established Church have officiated for 
 Dr. Kitchens. In 1887 he was chosen Deputy 
 Chairman of the London Missionary Society. 
 He is I'resident of the South M'est London 
 Sunday School Union, and is a member of the 
 Committees of the Protestant Alliance, the 
 National Protestant Congiess, Christian 
 Evidence Society, the Chiistian Instruction 
 Society, and Zenana Medical College. 
 
 Extract from the President's admirable 
 Address at the Jubilee Meeting, held 
 in Exeter Hall, in May, 1893. 
 
 A gentleman said to me this week, " You 
 are going to preside at the Jews' meeting, I 
 see. Why dou't you let the poor Jews alone ? 
 They are a most unpopular set of people." 
 When that remark was made to me I was 
 reminded of an incident that occurred not 
 long since at one of our railway stations. You 
 know that it is customary for people having 
 season tickets in their pockets to pass tlic 
 barrier without showing them, but on the 
 occasion to which I allude there was stationed 
 at one place a ticket-collector who stopped 
 everyone who passed and said, " I wish to see 
 youi- ticket." Of course, a strong opposition 
 was displayed on the part of the season- 
 ticket-holders, and one gentleman said, " I 
 say, young man, you will make yourself very 
 unpopular with the crowd." " That may be 
 so," said the collector, " but I wish to be 
 popular with my superintendent." And so 
 .some of us feel in relation to this work for 
 the Jew. It may be a very luqjopidar work 
 in which we ai'e engaged, but it is not the 
 popularity of the populace that we .seek; we 
 want to be popular with the great Head of 
 the Church, with the Superintendent, with 
 Kim who said, " Go ye and teach all nations, 
 beginning at Jeru.salem." (Cheers.)
 
 The late Rev. Adolph Saphir, D.D. 
 
 457 
 
 DR. SAPHIR'S PLEA FOR THE BRITISH SOCIETY'S MISSIONARIES 
 
 COMMITTEE AND WORK. 
 
 THE ('hiistian minister, with his services 
 ami pastorate, and oi'ganizations of 
 activity, may have anxieties and more work 
 than he is able to overtake ; but, after all, it 
 is very easy ; it is very pleasant. It contains 
 
 coiiragement. It is he that retjuires the 
 encouragement. Next to him it is the com- 
 mittee that require encouragement. They 
 have to give their time and their thought to 
 the work, to devise the right means ; and 
 
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 each day in itself tlio stinudus and impetus 
 for the next day. Uut it is different with 
 the missionary'. And then such a missionary 
 — labouring in loneliness, sighing, praying, 
 waiting, discouraged, des[)onding — gets a 
 letter saying that the })eop!e in England 
 want to be encouraged. Why do they want 
 to be encouraged ? They are very comfort- 
 able indeed. They do not rorpiire any en- 
 
 THE L4TE RES'. ADOLPH S.\PHIB, D.D. 
 
 Hon. iSecretary and Vice-President. 
 
 their hearts should be filled with courage and 
 with hopefulne.ss to enlarge their operations 
 — to watch for new doors of u.sefulness, and 
 to enter on new enterprises. We look to 
 the GhrLstiau congregations throughout 
 England. We plead for greater interest in 
 Israel ; for more simple faith in Jesus, as 
 Israel's Messiah ; for more faith in the pro- 
 mises of God : and, above all, more of that
 
 458 
 
 Memwies of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 love of which we have read this evening 
 (1 Cor. xiii.) ; then God would still more 
 abundantly bless us ; our work would pro- 
 gress ; and we ourselves should not merely 
 have the joy of seeing the good that is done, 
 but there would be a spu'itual influence 
 i-eturning back into our hearts, into our 
 families, and into our congregations. If all 
 the congregations in England, who hold the 
 
 Truth as it is in Jesus would see that it is 
 their duty to take up the Jewish mission as 
 well as the mission to the heathen, and 
 would devote to the Jewish mission a por- 
 tion of their energy and of their contribu- 
 tions ; and, above all, give it a place in their 
 affections and their prayers, might we not 
 expect an abundant blessing ? May God 
 grant it. 
 
 REV. JAMES H. nitld, D.D , 
 
 Jlon. Sccrdary and Virc-J'ixsidcrj. A nnhlc rrpnscntatirc of our Methodis/ frUmU in (irait Jiritain 
 Ireland, on the Continent, in America, Canada, Australia, ,\'c.
 
 The late Rev. William Tyler, D.D. 
 
 459 
 
 A DEPARTED HON. MEMBER OF COMMITTEE, THE LATE 
 REV. WILLIAM TYLER, D D. 
 
 (With Portrait.) 
 
 WlLLTAAl TYLER was born in June, 
 1812, atlloxtou. His father, Mr. 
 Wm. \\'att Tyler, was an engraver, a 
 prominent man in that Iccality, and became 
 senior deacon 
 in the " Kew 
 Tabernacle," 
 Old Street 
 Road. What 
 seems to have 
 been the son's 
 chief woik was 
 the establish- 
 ment of schools 
 — day and rag- 
 ged. But in the 
 free library of 
 Bethnal Green 
 he leaves a per- 
 petual monu- 
 ment of his 
 en 1 i ghtened 
 interest in the 
 welfare of the 
 people, and of 
 his personal 
 munificence. 
 
 Dr. Tyler, 
 who was for 
 many years one 
 of our Hon. ? 
 Members of S 
 Committee, was : 
 deeply inter- 
 ested in our 
 Mission Work 
 in Spitalfields, 
 and had shown 
 his sympathy 
 by his presence 
 at our meetings and by hi^ kind words and 
 deeds. On September' the 8th, 1890, he 
 administered the ordinance of baptism to a 
 Jewish father and mother and their three 
 children, the fruit of the labours of our 
 devoted missionary, Mrs. Zuckerkandl. 
 
 Dr. Tyler had been failing for some time 
 from the effect of internal cancer, but was 
 
 THE I.ATK REV. Wil.LIAM TVLEB, D.D. 
 
 able to be out only three weeks before his 
 death. His mind was clear to the last, and 
 his end came in peaceful sleep. 
 
 In accordance with Dr. Tyler's wish, ex- 
 
 piessed a few 
 days before his 
 death, Dr.Ken- 
 nedy preached 
 the funeral ser- 
 mon on Sun- 
 day, December 
 2Sth, 1890. 
 
 Dr. Tyler 
 was an earne.st 
 and evangelical 
 preacher,whose 
 mind was ever 
 on the watch 
 for souls, that 
 he might win 
 them to Christ. 
 Could he speak 
 tousoncemore, 
 we may well 
 conceive of his 
 .iddrt'ssing us 
 111 the words of 
 l'aul,tlie Chris- 
 tian Jew: "God 
 forliid that I 
 should glory, 
 save in the 
 Cioss of our 
 Lord Jesus 
 Christ, etc." 
 
 The follow- 
 ing sonnet by 
 Matthew Ar- 
 nold, refers to 
 Dr. Tyler : 
 
 'Twa.s August, and the tierce sun civerhead 
 Smote on the squalid streets of Bethnal Green, 
 And the jiale weaver, through his windows seen 
 In Spitalfields, looks thrice dispirited : 
 I met a preacher there I knew, and said, 
 '■ 111 and o'erworked, how tare you in this scene ? " 
 • Bravely ! " .said he ; " for I of late have been 
 lluch cheer'd with thought of Chiist, the living 
 Bread."
 
 460 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triu7)iphs among the Jews. 
 
 
 J.^t'nr/'^c^ 
 
 liEV. W. I,. IIOSKDAI.E, LL.D., 
 
 117/0 wiis one I'J lite Sm-iitifx Jirxt (I'llc illssionnries iind Mixsion Ikpntica, and irliu Iius Im ii fur mami ycirs a 
 riiliitd M('ii>h(r of Committee, mid on hoiionred Virr-I'resiilmt.
 
 I)i-. .1. Fj. Neu/DKm. 
 
 4(il 
 
 DR. J. E. NEUMAN, THE BRITISH SOCIETY'S TREASURER. 
 
 ( With I'orlrait.) 
 
 JACOB ELIAS NEUMAN is the gi-and- 
 .son of tlie mast eminent Rabbi of the 
 eighteenth century; one so distinguLshed, 
 that he is universally known and spoken of 
 in Jewish circles as " the great Elias." 
 
 His grandson and namesake, the subject 
 of this sketch, was born on the 9th of July, 
 in Neustadt, in Russiau Kurland. He re- 
 ceived his classical education fii-st at Dorpat, 
 then at the Prussian University of Breslau. 
 
 In 1845, under the guiding Hand of God, 
 he came to England, where he was led to 
 Christ by one of the devoted missionaries of 
 the British Society, the Rev. W. L. 
 Rosedale, LL.D., who has been for many 
 years officially connected with it, and whose 
 interest in its prosperity still burns with a 
 pure and steady flame on the altar of his 
 heart. An admirable likeness of Tiim is 
 given on the preceding page. 
 
 MR. XEUMAX's BAPTISM. 
 
 Mr. Neuman was baptized at Trinity 
 Chapel, John Street, Eilgware Road, on 
 Thursday evening, May 12th, 1847, in the 
 presence of a large congregation. With 
 gi-eat solemnity, the Rev. John Stoughton, 
 of Kensington, administered the ordinance, 
 and a very impressive address was deliveied 
 by the Rev. Ridley Herschell, to various 
 ola.sses of heai-ers, and specially to Mr. 
 Neuman and his Jewish brethren who had 
 been baptized before, about 20 of whom 
 were gathered round the pulpit as round a 
 fountain, from which they drank gi'eat 
 draughts of the Water of Life with gjati- 
 tude and gladness, and afterwards went on 
 their way rejoicing. 
 
 HIS TRAINING AT BRENTFORD. 
 
 At a meeting of the Committee held on 
 Monday, 4th October, 1847, on the strong 
 recommendation of Dr. Rosedale, it was 
 resolved that he should receive a Christian 
 training, with a view to his engagement as 
 a Hebrew Christian missionary, and that for 
 three months he should be placed under the 
 instruction and supeiintendence of the Rev. 
 W. C. Yonge, of Brentford. To the home of 
 Mr. Yonge he went, and there he soon learned 
 much of the Divine gentleness which makes 
 men great ; much of the height, and depth, 
 
 and length, and breadth of the Divine Love 
 as revealed in that gohlen Word, John iii., 16, 
 and in the character and conduct of ^Ir. 
 Yonge, who was a true under-shepherd to 
 the great and good Shepherd, who laid down 
 His life for His JewLsh and Gentile Hock. A 
 farmer was asked, " How is it that you 
 manage to rear such fine sheep ? " and his 
 reply was, " I take care of my lambs, sir." 
 Mr. Yonge took the greatest pains in guiding 
 and guarding, feeding and folding the 
 Jewish and Gentile lambs placed under his 
 care. By him, Mr. Neuman was led into 
 the green pastures, and by the still waters of 
 Gospel Truth, and began to grow into the 
 distinguished Christian, and the disinterested 
 missionary he now is. 
 
 INTERESTING ITEM.S FROM ONE OF 
 MR. NEL'MAn's reports. 
 
 Diu-ing the year 1852, Mr. Neuman re- 
 visited, for the first time, the land of his 
 birth, and afterwards wrote : — " Oh, could 
 but a Gentile Christian, a follower of Jesus, 
 e7iter into the mind, and feel the heart- 
 beatings of a converted Jew, what he thinks 
 of his Messiah, how he loves his Redeemer, 
 and how grateful he is to those who were 
 the in.struments of leading him to the Holy 
 One of Israel, I am certain that he would 
 not only long to .see the number of the con- 
 verted increasing, but would also put aside 
 all doubts, and at once inquire, ' How can I 
 be useful, and in what way can I be instru- 
 mental to make that increase a reality? ' I 
 fully believe that the time is coming when 
 Christians will look upon past days with 
 much regret, that they sliould have over- 
 looked, in the mid.st of all their zeal, the 
 mournful .state of Israel's captivity. But I 
 lejoice to know that God has not cast off 
 Israel, and that Jesus, though despised and 
 rejected by His brethren, is still their friend 
 and their compassionate brother. 
 
 HIS NATIVE LAND REVISITED. 
 
 " During my recent travels in Germany and 
 Rus.sia, I have seen much improvement in 
 the religious state of the Jews. I am, pei'- 
 liaps, able to form this judgment accurately 
 as regards my former acquaintances. ^Mien 
 I compare theii- views and belief some years
 
 4G2 
 
 Memm-ies of Gospels Triimi))hi< (i/mmif/ the Je^vfi. 
 
 ago with what they have now become, I find 
 the difference very great. Not that they 
 have advanced in any radical principles, but 
 they are labouring in earnest to find some- 
 thing real ; they have become dissatisfied 
 
 them aie in Poland, Austria, and even in 
 Prussia. The principle of their .system is 
 devotional, and the leading doctrines are, 1st, 
 Faith the only guide to Truth ; 2ud, The 
 necessity of a mediation between (rod and 
 
 DR. J. E. NEUMAN. 
 
 with the mere garb of religion, and look for 
 a body and soul. 
 
 "Those who are acquainted with the 
 statistics of the Jews, know that more than 
 half the number in Russia are ' Ghasidim ' 
 (the pious or devout). A great number of 
 
 man, by a righteous man, who, wiion called 
 by God, receiving supernatural gifts, stands 
 in the capacity of an intercessor, and who 
 has a right to demand implicit obedience to 
 his doctrinas and directions, not only in 
 matters of religion, but in other afl'airs ; 3rd,
 
 />>■. J. E. NeiiMKin. 
 
 463 
 
 Sanctification the only means of justification. 
 This system has the tendency to undermine 
 the strict observance of Talmudical precepts, 
 and indirectly to impair the precept which 
 makes the study of the Talmud a part of the 
 service of (Jod ; it was, therefore, vehemently 
 opposed by the adherents of the verbal law. 
 I have observed that the princijile of that 
 system has extended very far, and i.s now 
 prevailing among all classes of Jewish 
 theologians ; and faith is now a point dwelt 
 upon by a great number of Jewish preachers. 
 But above all, I was happy to find that 
 many have been awakened to inquire after 
 the right way of justification in the sight of 
 Ood. Not only speculatively, but because of 
 an uneasy conscience, they long to find peace 
 in the all-important assurance of being 
 reconciled to a holy and just God. The5e 
 are they who have never heard or read any- 
 thing about the Christian religion ; but I 
 have also come in contact with those who 
 are not ignorant of what real and true 
 Christianity teaches ; and some are even 
 acquainted with the effects, general and par- 
 ticular, which these doctrines produce, if 
 cherished and followed. Still, thei'e is a 
 want of the sincere milk ; they have diawn 
 their knowledge from other sources than 
 from the Word of God, consequently they 
 are without real nourishment to make them 
 grow in the knowledge of God. 
 
 PRFACHINC TO SIX HUNDRED IN HIS NATIVE 
 TOWN. 
 
 " I may state that tlie number of Jews 
 with whom I renewed my former acquaint- 
 ance, and with whom 1 have had regular 
 correspondence on matteis of religion, are 
 twenty-eight, besides sixteen to whom I 
 .spoke of the eternal Truths of the Gospel. 
 Whilst residing in my native town, I 
 declared Jesus and His salvation to an 
 audience of not less than six hundred persons; 
 and according to the information- I have 
 received since, I have reason to hope that 
 the seed sown has taken root in the hearts of 
 many ; although my own lelatives still con- 
 .sider me as being in error, yet instead of 
 hatred towards me, I have many proofs that 
 they do still feel for me as their own. 
 
 LABOURS IN LONDON. 
 
 " My labours in London during the past 
 year have, I believe, been blessed by the 
 Lord. Among the thirty-five respectable 
 Jewish families to whom I have access, 
 eighteen appear to grow in the knowledge of 
 
 God, and find pleasure in reading the New 
 Testament. Among the poor, I am also 
 actjuainted with several families, the greater 
 part of whom occ:i,sionally attend Christian 
 worship. During the past year I have held 
 forty-seven meetings for reading and explain- 
 ing the Scriptures : five of my Jewish 
 brethren have regularly attended them, con- 
 cerning whom I rejoice to know (though 
 they themselves perhajjs are not aware of it), 
 that they are gradually moving from unbelief, 
 and drawing nearer to God. Thus I praise 
 the Lord for the past, and pray that the 
 future may bring His blessing upon my own 
 soul, and upon my feeble labours." 
 
 Of a very respectable Jew he writes : " I 
 explained to him the pro])hecies on that 
 subject, wlien he appealed to be satisfied, 
 and said, ' I think it would be better for me 
 to fray to God, that if Jesus is truly the 
 Messiah, He may help me to believe in Him, 
 and if not, that He should make me firm in 
 rejecting Him.' I was much struck with 
 the earnestness and simplicity with which he 
 spoke, and I hope the Lord will pour upon 
 him the Spirit, and that he may be answered 
 to the saving of his soul. Another case will 
 illustiate the promise that there will come a 
 time when God will be ' inquired of by the 
 Houses of Israel to do it for them.' 
 
 " Mr. F , who was led to think of the 
 
 life to come by the death of a child, and to 
 whom I spoke much on the subject of Chris- 
 tianity. The last time I saw him, he told 
 me that he felt .sometimes inclined to inquire 
 of God the way he should go, and whether 
 he should look to Jesus as the One mighty to 
 save (aTid he added, I do not think God 
 would refuse to hear the utterance of His 
 sinful and ignorant creatures). I was thank- 
 ful to hear such words from a man who 
 several months ago did not like even to con- 
 verse about religion." 
 
 DR. NEUMAN's RESIGNATION AND REVIEW OF 
 HIS WORK. 
 
 Dr. Neuman having arrived at the con- 
 clu.sion that he could best serve the M.aster 
 by the consecration of at least part of his 
 time and energy to private tuition, placed in 
 the hands of Mr. George Yonge, the first 
 Secretary, a letter dated 24th October, 1854, 
 from which we give here the following 
 extract : — 
 
 " Although I hope never to cease preach- 
 ing the Gospel to my dear people, and, as 
 long as grace will be given to me, to declare 
 to them the power and love of God in Christ
 
 464 
 
 Meiiun-ies of GosjiK'l IViv/inplia ((ihoikj Ihc Jncx. 
 
 Jesus, yet I cannot now expect to wwk upon 
 the order and regulations which every society 
 justly requires. I shall, however, always be 
 happy to consider myself still connected with 
 them in their prayers and ettbrts on behalf 
 of my Jewish brethren, and shall occasionally 
 communicate to you, as their secretary, my 
 experience and observations among the Jews 
 to whom I have already preached the Gospel, 
 or those whom I may mention as new ac- 
 quaintances. I hope ever to cherish that 
 esteem and afl'ection for the British Society 
 which it so justly deserves ; specially ought 
 I to look upon that Society as the instrument 
 in the Hand of God in bringing to my own 
 soul the saving knowledge of the Cross. You 
 will also have the goodne.ss to tell the 
 brethren that I feel very thankful for the 
 support I have received from them upwards 
 of six years ; and I know they will be glad 
 to hear that the Lord has been exceedingly 
 gracious to me in every way, especially in 
 my work in His vineyard ; that He has 
 blessed my feeble eflbrts beyond all expecta- 
 tion ; and that I have now more than two 
 hundred immortal souls as the objects of 
 special prayei-, and can look upon them as so 
 many fields in which I, by the help of God, 
 have lieen able to put the seed of the ever- 
 lasting Gospel ; and though I can truly say 
 that I have sown with tears, yet now I can 
 see the fields green, and have great hopes to 
 behold them, ere long, reaped by the Lord of 
 the harvest, to the glory of His name, and 
 the joy of angels and of us all." 
 
 In this letter, we have the repose of 
 Christian faith, the struggle of Christian 
 love, patient working and waiting ; we have 
 
 Christian humility, gratitude, hope, self- 
 sacrifice, blessedness. By this letter. Dr. 
 Neuman did not really terminate his con- 
 nection with the Society's work. It simply 
 meant the renunciation of remuneration. 
 For since then, he has never ceased to obey 
 the Heavenly Father's practical and pressing 
 command : " Son, go work to-day in My 
 vinej'ard." Since then, his whole life has 
 been spent in trustful tearful eflorts for 
 others; and in doing .so, he has i cached a 
 moral peifection of which he himself is lui- 
 conscious. Many a time we have inhaled 
 from him as from a rare flower, the aroma 
 of holiness, and have seen hLs face shining 
 Moses-like, when he knew it not. We have 
 in him one of the finest illustrations of the 
 Divine law : — 
 
 " Tears bring fnrth 
 
 The richues.s of our natures a.s the niin 
 
 Sweetens the smelling briar." 
 
 Christian tears and endeavours for the 
 salvation and perfectio)! of others for Christ's 
 sake, will elicit a fragrance, a melody, and a 
 beauty that will never pass away. Surely, 
 such lives are not only worth living, but their 
 value is incalculable. Ha%-iug sown in 
 te.ars, with the Great Sower, with Him they 
 shall reap in joy. Having suffered with 
 Him, they shall reign with Him. The crown 
 of life, they shall wear by-and-by, shall be, like 
 His, a jewelled crown, without a sprig of 
 cypress, and without a thorn ; a triple crown, 
 of glory, honour, and immortality. 
 
 " The purest, Ijrightest, erowu of life, 
 Is ever made by toil anil strife ; 
 The tears now shed from Christ like eyes, 
 Are [iriceless pearls in Paradise." 
 
 F. YEATS EDWARDS, ESQ., ACTING TREASURER. 
 
 (IIV/A J'vrlmit.) 
 
 FllEDERIC YEATS EDWAllDS was 
 born in London on the 1st of July, 
 1842, the year in which the British Society 
 was formed. 
 
 When he was eight years old his father 
 died. A boy was once asked the question, 
 " Who made yo<i 1 " and gave the striking 
 answer, " I am not made yet, and I expect 
 to have a hand in making myself." Fi-om 
 our knowledge of Edwards the man, we can 
 easily imagine such a reply coming from 
 Edwards the boy, at the age when his father 
 was taken from him by death. 
 
 At eight ho was not yet made, and since 
 then, by prayer and persistent effort, he has 
 had a hand in making himself. Not only 
 praying parents, father and mother and wife 
 and children, but others, have also had a 
 hand in making him the Christian man, 
 the good son, the affectionate husband, the 
 loving father, the faithful friend, and the 
 disinterested worker he has become. 
 
 From eight to thirteen he lived on the 
 Continent, where he accjuired such a know- 
 ledge of French and CJermnn that they 
 became like English to him, and which he
 
 F. Yeats Edwards, Esq. 
 
 465 
 
 has found most helpful in his missionary and 
 other journeys abroad. 
 
 In January, 1855, Mr. Edwards and his 
 only brother returned to England and were 
 placed under the cure of Dr. Neuman, whose 
 
 with a special view to the Christian ministry. 
 Dr. Neuman had early introduced him to 
 Mr. George Yonge, and this was the com- 
 mencement of a fi'iendship which will be 
 continued throughout eternity. In 1857 
 
 influence so powerfully moulded his character 
 that he bec.vme at the early age of thirteen 
 a subscriber to the funds of the Sajiety and 
 an enthusiastic friend of Israel. After 
 following the usual curriculum of a classical 
 education, he studied under Dr. Neuman 
 
 F. YEATS EDWARDS, K£Q. 
 
 and 1858, Jlr. Elwards spent .several months 
 studying German at the university town of 
 Jena, and in 1859, visited Neuchatel in 
 Switzerland, whore he came in contact for 
 the first tim:; with those true friends of 
 Israel, the genial and gifted Petavel family. 
 
 H H
 
 466 
 
 M('iiiorii'f< of Gospel Tri ii.niph.-. "iDoiif/ the Jews. 
 
 On the 18th April, 186G, along with Dr. 
 Neuman, he beexme a member of committee ; 
 and from 1870 to 188S he was the able and 
 faithful treasurer. 
 
 lie has also rendered the Society valuable 
 service by gratuitously advocating its claims 
 throughout Great Britain and Ireland, and 
 
 by visiting and cheering our excellent mis- 
 sionaries at their stations abroad. 
 
 Mr. Edwards preached his first sermon in 
 Brunswick Baptist Chapel, London, on the 
 14th September, 18G5, and many a time he 
 has preached since with vLsible tokens of 
 success. 
 
 THE REV. JOHN DUNLOP. 
 
 By the Puesidk.\t, Ri:v. J. HILKS HITCH KNS, D.D. 
 {With Portrait.) 
 
 KNOWING so well the estimable Secre- 
 tary of our God-honoured Society, I 
 am constrained to write a short account of 
 him for the Memorial Volume, being confident 
 that, left to himself, INlr. Dunlop woidd be 
 silent about his past experience, labours, 
 successes, and usefulne.ss. Goldsmith well 
 wrote : " ^Modesty seldom resides in a breast 
 that is not eni'iched with nobler virtues." 
 Possessing excellences of character which in 
 their combinations are rare, our Secretaiy is 
 a modest man and maintains the "golden" 
 silence about himself. Believing that there 
 are times when, for the information and 
 encouragement of others, the gold should be 
 exchanged for silver, I ventuie to speak, 
 confident that the readers of the Memorial 
 Volume will be glad to know somewhat 
 about one who is the very soul of our 
 Society's work, and without some notice of 
 whom this volume would be incomplete. 
 
 Mr. Dunlop was born in Ayrshire in 1S.'J<). 
 As the child of pious parents he early gave 
 himself to Christ and Christian work. 
 When about twelve years of age he devoted 
 himself to writing sermons and commentai-ies, 
 thus giving indications of the bent of his 
 thoughts and taste. He soon was pressed 
 into conspicuous service as secretary of the 
 Juvenile Missionary Society, and leading 
 member of the Young Men's ]\Iutual 
 Improvement Society connected with the 
 United Presbyterian Church, Glasgow. The 
 accomplished Editor of " Word and Work " 
 and "The King's Own," referring to Mr. 
 Dunlop, in Exeter Hall at our Jubilee 
 meeting, said : " My first acquaintance with 
 your Secretary, Mr. Dunlop, was about 
 thirty-eight years ago, in a debating society 
 which used to meet in a vestry in connection 
 with the United Presbyterian Church in 
 Glasgow. No one who attended that society 
 could be ignorant as to who Mr. Dunlop 
 was or what he was. The poetry and the 
 exhibition of force were characteristic of him 
 then. When he was absent all was fiat, 
 
 stale, and unprofitable; when he was present 
 all was bright, fre.sh and stimulating. He, 
 indeed, was the living force and power of 
 that society." With fine openings befoie 
 him, and the prospect of being a successful 
 merchant, he yielded to the conviction thiit 
 it was his duty to sacrifice all for Christ's 
 work. A visit to Ireland, dui'ing the great 
 revival there, led to renewed consecration to 
 the Lord. On returning home Mr. Dunlop 
 devoted himself to open-air preaching, and 
 Heaven so blest his labours that, in con- 
 junction with one or two kindred .spirits, he 
 was instrumental in kindling a spirit of 
 revival by which .some thousands were .saved. 
 After invaluable courses of training at two 
 LTniversities Mr. Dunlop was ordained at 
 Dumfries in 1863. His earnest labours there 
 told injuriously upon his health. His popu- 
 larity .-^pt'ead so that in 1864: two chui dies 
 presented him with unanimous invitations to 
 take their pulpit as pastor. The call from 
 Carli.sle and that from liingwood were in his 
 possession at the same time. He was led by 
 many circumstances to feel that God pointed 
 him to the latter place. To Ilingwood he went, 
 and there he found his excellent wife ; there 
 he had the joy of healing a breach which had 
 long existed in the cliurch ; theie he was 
 instrumental in building and pajang for a 
 beautiful new sanctuary ; there, being then 
 a believer in the work among the Jew.s, he 
 raised the contributions of the church to our 
 British Society from £11, in 1865, to £20, 
 in 1872 ; and, last of all, there he was used 
 of God to the ingathering of many .souls. 
 From June, 1876, till November, 1877, Mr. 
 Dunlop advocated the claims of our Society 
 in connection with the principal auxiliaries 
 in Great Britain and Ireland, In December, 
 1877, he was elected secretary' pro tern., 
 and in March, 1878, he was fully installed 
 secretary, which oflice he has held until now, 
 and will, we trust, retain for many years to 
 come. Few know the amount of work which 
 he accomplishes. Early and late he is at
 
 Tht Rt'r John Dliiilojj 
 
 4fi7 
 
 his post. When secretaries of other societiai 
 are resting quietly at home Mr. Dnnlop is 
 often found plodding away at his ollice. 
 The missionaries of the ISociety, and the 
 friends who call at the office, always find a 
 welcome. Words of sympathy for those in 
 
 stations and cheered by his presence and 
 counsel our workers there ; whilst at home, 
 as a deputation, he is everywhere welcome. 
 I have known many secretaries of religious 
 and benevolent societies of whom I could 
 speak in high terms : but I never knew 
 
 IU;V. J. DCNLOP. 
 
 sorrow, of gratulation for those in circum- 
 stances of joy, and advice for those in 
 difficulty, may always be expected from him. 
 To cold officialism he is a total stranger. 
 His heart is large, his head is clear, and his 
 hands are ever ready for deeds of kindness. 
 He has frequently visited our Continental 
 
 a more self-denying, whole-hearted, con- 
 scientious, earnest, and devout secretary 
 than the Rev. John Dunlop. Honour 
 to whom honour is due I May God 
 long preserve his health and strength and 
 continue his official relationship to our 
 Society 1 
 
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 468 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jeivs. 
 
 CONCERNING THE PORTRAITS OF THE TREASURER, ACTING 
 TREASURER, AND SECRETARY. 
 
 THE portraits of Dr. Neuman, jSIr. 
 Edwards, and Mr. Dunlop, appear to- 
 gether by special request ; and we are bound 
 to admit that there is a fitness in this 
 arrangement ; for the three in faith, and hope, 
 and love, have been working shoulder to 
 shoulder for many years, for the promotion 
 of the same glorious cause ; and when the 
 British Society, one of the noblest institu- 
 tions ever founded, was assailed and 
 threatened with extinction by the three 
 great forces of evil described in the Word, 
 the three stood together in the strength of 
 the threefold yet one love, peace and joy of 
 Father, >Son, and Holy Spirit, and did what 
 they could to repel the foe. And now we 
 have the joy of seeing the British Society, 
 under the esteemed President, Dr. Hiles 
 Kitchens, not only " continued,'' but " going 
 forward " with renewed energy and zeal, in 
 the path set before it 50 years ago, and 
 doing a grander work for the glory of Chiist 
 and the good of Israel than it has ever done 
 in the past. 
 
 Many a time we have written at the close 
 of an article or chapter, " Will be Con- 
 tinued," and we are persuaded that the 
 British Society with Christ in its centre 
 and at its circumference, too, " Will be Con- 
 tinued," until its grand work is accomplished. 
 
 If our beloved Society had only done for 
 Dr. Neuman and for no other Jew, what 
 Andrew did for his brother Peter, thai, we 
 think, would be sufficient to justify not only 
 its existence, but all its expenditure of 
 material and spiritual power for fifty 
 years. Dr. Neuman, the son of the British 
 Society, is not only the spiritual father of 
 Mr. Edwards and other Gentile Christians, 
 but of many hunilreds of Christian Israelites. 
 We believe that through his instrumentality 
 in his native land, Russia, and other countries, 
 thousands of Jews have been led to accept 
 Christ as their Messiah and Saviour. 
 
 In conclusion, if that be the result of Dr. 
 Neuman's conscious influence, what shall we 
 say of the unconscious, which is far greater, 
 and what shall we say of the unconscious 
 influence which all of us, the least, as well 
 as the greatest, are exerting night and day 
 all our life through, either for good or evil, 
 either for the saving or the wrecking of souls ? 
 An eminent Scottish preacher and soul- 
 winner has painted for us the following 
 striking picture of unconscious influence :— 
 
 " There comes a noble ship, a London 
 merchantman, with precious cargo and most 
 precious lives aboard. The storm is up, the 
 lightning flashes, the thunder rolls, the deep 
 sea yawns, the waves roll mountains high, 
 the storm-ship groans and creaks and quiver-s 
 through the watei-s : but there is no fear 
 (for 'tis a good strong ship), if they could 
 only sight the lights ? Where are these 
 lights ! We ought to sight them here- 
 abouts, or have we lost our way ? Ah ! there 
 they are ! red and white, and red again. All 
 right ! The ship goes safely on her way, saved 
 on the part of those that in the lighthouse 
 there have been the means of saving it 
 unconsciously. Their duty is to do the work 
 that has been given them to do, and leave 
 results to God — to trim the lamps, adjust 
 the lenses, cleanse the mirrors, and set and 
 keep in motion the revolving wheel of fire. 
 For if they fail to do so, through feasting, or 
 through slumbering in the night, so that the 
 lamps have gone out, and the revolving 
 wheel of fire has ceased to move, what then ? 
 There comes another noble ship, a British 
 man-of-war, or transport ship, with many 
 hundred soldier and sailor lives aboard ; the 
 storm is up, the lightnings flash, the storm- 
 ship groans and throbs and shudders through 
 the water ; but 'tis a good strong ship : no 
 fear if they could only sight the lights ! 
 Where are the lights ? Breakers ahead ! is 
 shouted from the prow. That cannot be, 
 for where the breakers are, lights ought to 
 be ! Breakers ahead ! Crash goes the ship, 
 and hundreds of precious lives are in the 
 sea, and in eternity ! Who is to blame ? 
 You in the lighthouse there — you should 
 have showed the lights ! It will not do to 
 say you did not know that such a ship was 
 looking out for them. Your duty is to do 
 the work that God has given you to do, and 
 leave the results to Him. The ship is lost 
 wholly through fault of yours ; and none 
 the less that it is lost through you uncon- 
 sciously." 
 
 May the Divine Spirit help us all to do 
 our duty as Christians, " to shine as lights, 
 literally, as lighthouses ; " to trim the lamps, 
 to keep the celestial fire ever burning and 
 revolving ; and thereby make us His instru- 
 ments of saving myriads of Jews and 
 Gentiles, each of whom outweighs in value 
 a million million of the noblest ships full of 
 the costliest gems of earth and sea.
 
 Ottr Visit to Amei'i.ca and Canada in 1886 bearing Fniit now, 469 
 
 OUR VISIT TO AMERICA & CANADA IN 1886 BEARING FRUIT NOW. 
 
 BETWEEN the years 1683 and 1885, a 
 voice seemed to say to us, " Send a 
 Deputation from the British Society to 
 America and Canada." Then next, a louder 
 voice reached usfiom Toronto and Montreal, 
 which -we began to obey by leaving Liver- 
 pool for New York, on the 19th of August, 
 188G, in the steamship America, under the 
 able and gentle command of Captain Grace. 
 When we arrived in New York, and found 
 that nothing could be done thei-e for a 
 month, most of the leading ministers being 
 absent, just then very sweet voices reached 
 us from Oakland, California : " Please come 
 to us and plead the claims of Israel." 
 Having responded to these voices, we have 
 ever since had the strongest grounds for the 
 conviction that these were tlie voices of God's 
 mini.stering angels, and that the calls we 
 obeyed were calls from Heaven. 
 
 God's care over us ma}' be compared to a 
 sun, a shield, a wing, and a pillar. His 
 pillar of cloud and fire went with us from 
 London to Liverpool, and from Liverpool to 
 New York. That pillar was with us as we 
 crossed the great American Clontinent, and 
 climbed the lofty rocky mountains, by day 
 and by night, right on to San Francisco and 
 Oakland, where we were entertained by 
 friends as near the angelic as any friends 
 could be this side of Heaven, and wliere 
 through them doors of usefulne.ss were opened 
 for us on every side. That pillar was still 
 with us as we passed across the Pacific Ocean 
 in the good ship Mexico, to Victoria ; and in 
 the Princess Louise, to Poit Moody. It was 
 still with us, as we moved on by the Canadian 
 Pacific railroad as tluough " a great sea of 
 mountains" to Winnipeg, and from Winnipeg 
 to Montreal, and from Montreal to Niagara 
 Falls, and from the majestic Niagara Falls, 
 along the side of the beautiful lake Ontario 
 to the lovely city Toronto, where our success 
 reached its climax by a crowded meeting held 
 in Knox Church, and an overflow meeting, 
 al.so crowded, in the adjoining Hall ; at the 
 close of which a collection on behalf of the 
 British Society was taken up amounting to 
 237 dollars. 
 
 Some of the Things we Discovered 
 by our Tour of Inspection. 
 
 In the first place, we discovered the vast- 
 ness of America and Canada. There is 
 room, and there are resource.s for a thousand 
 millions of healthy, active men and women, 
 boys and girls. The call of the Americans 
 
 and Canadians is : " Come over and he^) us 
 to possess the land ; come and build up for 
 yourselves and your children happy homes." 
 Again, we discovered that there are many 
 noble minister's and other servants of Christ 
 in America and Canada, most willing to 
 co-operate with us in our efforts to give the 
 Gospel to the Jews. In New York, in San 
 Francisco, in Oakland, in Montreal, at Niagara 
 Falls, and in Toronto, it was our privilege to 
 be entertained in some of the sweetest homes, 
 and by some of the choicest spirits on earth. 
 Once more. We discovered that there are 
 myriads of Jews on the other side of the 
 Atlantic, accessible to Gospel influences ; 
 and yet very little has been done for them. 
 Our dear friend, the Rev. Jacob Freshman, 
 and his beloved partner, were doing a noble 
 work in New York, but what were they 
 among .so many ? We were persuaded that 
 there ought to be fifty like them labouring 
 in the same field. In New York we found 
 not less than 270,000 Jews; in Salt Lake 
 City, 3,000 ; in San Francisco, kc, 40,000 ; 
 in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, etc., 10,000. 
 We have reason to believe that our vLsit 
 prepared the way for the establishment of 
 the Toronto INIission to Israel, whose esteemed 
 president is our friend William Mortimer 
 Clark, Q.C., and for the wonderful work now 
 being carried on, in New York, on the one 
 hand, by Mr. Herman Warszawiak, and, on 
 the other hand, by Dr. Herman Paul Faust. 
 We most heartily commend the workeis and 
 the work in all the transatlantic mission 
 fields, and among them these two eminent 
 Hebrew Christian Evangelists, who have been 
 the instruments of leading hundreds of 
 JewLsh souls to Christ. The intelligence has 
 just reached us that Dr. Faust's Hebrew 
 Christian Mission was begun on October 27th, 
 1892, and the following is a summary of the 
 results up to date : — 
 
 Families visited... ... ... 3,717 
 
 Tracts and papers distributed ... 15,832 
 Bibles and parts distributed ... 2,682 
 Children gathered into School... 650 
 Adults gathered into Bible Class 2,420 
 Prayer-meeting, average ... 100 
 
 Hours spent in visitation ... 1,192 
 
 Meetings attended ... ... 617 
 
 Attendance at the meetings ... 41,428 
 Number of inquirers found ... 5,944 
 Number asking assistance ... 13,628 
 Number assisted ... ... 1,934 
 
 Candidates for baptism ... 14 
 
 Under instruction ... ... 60
 
 470 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs amontj Ike Jnvs. 
 
 INVASION OF OUR MISSION HOUSE BY THE AMERICANS. 
 
 ON Saturday, July the 26th, 1890, the 
 Mission House at Church Street, 
 iSpitalfields, was the scene of a most inter- 
 esting and unusual meeting, which will be 
 long remembered by all present— Jews as 
 well as Christian workers. Mr. Boeder 
 invited the regular attendants of the Mission 
 House to a tea, previous to closing the Hall 
 for the much-needed holidays. While tea 
 was being served, the workers piesent were 
 agreeably surprised to see several strange 
 visitors. There were six Christian ministers 
 and the noble wife of one of them, all from 
 the other side of the Atlantic, Our beloved 
 Secretary arrived veiy eaily, and was soon 
 followed by two detachments of these friends, 
 some of whom had made Mr. Dunlop's 
 .acquaintance when visiting America and 
 Canada. 
 
 The meeting in the Hall was delightful ; 
 but the need of larger premises was very 
 much felt. After a hymn had been sung, Mr. 
 Dimlop engaged in prayer, read a portion of 
 Scripture, and gave a most telling address. 
 
 After another hymn, Mr. Roeder addressed 
 his brethren in German, and Wiv> followed by 
 the Rev. Dr. McTavish, of Toronto, who 
 said : — " I can assure you, dear Mr. Dunlop 
 and friends, that I feel it a great pleasure to 
 be here, and able to address a few words to 
 you. I must confess, I did not .always take 
 an interest in the Jewish cause ; but since I 
 became a closer student of God's Word — and 
 especially since I came to Toronto, where Mr. 
 Dunlop had awakened an interest in Jewish 
 mission work, and also from reading the 
 Jewish Herald, which he kindly forwards to 
 U.S — my interest has very lai'gely incrensed. 
 And after what I have seen today, I will go 
 back to my country and be able to tell my 
 people how wondrously God is working 
 amongst His Ancient People. You do a 
 great work here, bringing the Jews to Christ 
 who is our All. If tliey read the Scriptures, 
 sooner or later, they must see Him. Away 
 yonder in the States there is a wondeiful 
 picture. It is the recoid of tlie declaration 
 of American Independence. When you lirst 
 go towards it, you only see letters, words, and 
 sentences ; but when you get closer to it, you 
 see not words, but a face — the face of George 
 Washington. It is just so with the Word of 
 God. You begin to read it, and at lirst you 
 see nothing but verses ; but as you read on, 
 
 you see on every page the face of Jesus. I 
 am sure that the grand aim of your leader is 
 so to unfold the Word, that you may see 
 Jesus in the Law and the prophets, from 
 Genesis to the Revelation." 
 
 Rev. R. P. Mackay, M.A., said : — " Since 
 we left home, we have seen a great many inter- 
 esting things — by land and by sea. In New 
 York, on the only night we spent there, we 
 visited the Florence IMission in Blecker Street. 
 This mission was started in commemoration 
 of a little gii-1 named Florence, by her father, 
 who was himself converted through her 
 death. There we saw a large meeting of 
 the lowest in that great city. Many testi- 
 monies that night illustrated the power of 
 the Gospel to save to the utt(!rmo.st. That, 
 to me, was the most intei'esting thing in 
 New York. This meeting is the most 
 interesting scene in London. There are 
 different leasons why I should be interested. 
 There is, in the first place, the painful fact 
 that the attention of the woi-ld has been 
 directed to London East, and to this very 
 section, by the horrible murders recently 
 perpetrated here. Then there is the visit of 
 Mr. Dunlop to Toronto. He addressed my 
 church, as well as others ; and created 
 a leal enthusiasm for his work. But, above 
 all, is the fact indicated by the text on the 
 wall before your eyes — 'S:dvation is of the 
 Jew.s.' Jesus, our common Saviour, was 
 born of the Jews, and that gives you an 
 honoured place amongst the nations. When 
 I go home, if I tell my people anything 
 about what I have seen, I will certainly tell 
 what I have seen here ; and that I have had 
 the honour of speaking a few words to a 
 Jewish audience, and so far putting my 
 hand to the great work — ' To the Jew fii-st.' 
 I have just to say to you, what I would say 
 to any audience — If we ha\e accepted Jesus, 
 let us live near to Him. Our power is in 
 abiding in Him. You have a great work 
 here, as we all have wherever we may be — 
 We have great resources in Him. For our 
 own comfoit, and for the salvation of our 
 brethren, let us walk with Him, and He 
 will honour us. May God very abundantly 
 bless Mr. Dunlop and Mr. Roeder, and all 
 connected with this Mission." 
 
 Rev. John Neil, M.A., .said : — " Dear 
 friends, 1 am glad to be able to say here, 
 that the vi.sit paid to our country by Mr.
 
 Invasion of our M!f<fiion Ifoiiftc In/ the Americans. 
 
 471 
 
 Diiiilop deepened our interest in missions 
 to the Jews. A young man connected with 
 my cliurch in Toronto, who was quite 
 indifl'erent about mission work and cai-ed 
 nothing for missionary addresses, has become 
 quite enthusiastic since listening to your 
 Secretary. i\[r. Dunlop's address, he re- 
 marked, was the most interesting he had 
 ever heard. Since our arrival in this great 
 city, we have been going about sight-seeing 
 and visiting all kinds of places. We have been 
 in the Metropolitan Tabernacle, and heard 
 tliat great preacher, Mr. Spurgeon ; we have 
 been in Westminster Abbey, in St. Paul's, in 
 the House of Commons, where we heard that 
 great statesman, Mr. Gladstone ; but none of 
 these lias given me a tithe of the pleasure 
 I feel to-night at this Jewish meeting. 
 Our party having become separated, I had 
 great difficulty in finding the place ; but after 
 wandering about for some time from one 
 street to another, not having the address, 
 I am so thankful that at last I wa-s directed 
 here, so that I am able to tell you of the 
 gi-eat joy I feel at being amongst you. May 
 the Lord bless you all, and may He open 
 the eyes of Israel to the glorious Gospel of 
 Jesus Christ." 
 
 The Rev. Williasi Patterson said : — " I 
 do not wish to detain you long, but I must 
 say how thankful I am to God that I am 
 here to-night, so that I might see with my 
 own eyes how mightily God is working 
 amongst Israel, and how He is blessing the 
 work of the British Society. Nothing else 
 has given me so much joj' here in London, 
 as coming to this Mission Hall ; and I trust 
 that the workers here will be still more 
 blest in bringing the Jews to the knowledge 
 of their Saviour." 
 
 Eev. Jajies Grant said : — " Although I 
 did not understand the language in which 
 ISIr. Roeder addressed you, I heard the words 
 'Jesus Christ'; and I am sure that Christ is 
 faithfully preached by him to you in your 
 own tongue. I can onlj' repeat what my 
 brethren have alieady said. I mu.st express 
 the great joy it gives me to be actually 
 present at a Jewish meeting. Of course, we 
 have read in your interesting Ihralcl about 
 your work, and we listened to the eloquence 
 of ]Mr. Dunlop, when he vi-sited us in 
 order to plead your cause ; but still one 
 can scarcely realize it, except he enjoys the 
 privilege of being present at a meeting like 
 this. I will go back lejoiring, and my 
 people will rejoice with me. when I tell them 
 what I have witnessed to-night. We will 
 
 try to strengthen and help you in this 
 work as much as we can, and the Lord will 
 bless us. I love the people of God for their 
 own sake, but also for my sake, a's I read in 
 God's Holy Word, ' They shall prosper that 
 love thee,' and I want to have a share in 
 that blessing. May the God of Israel be 
 with you." 
 
 Rev. M. Glexdenning, of Kansas, said : — • 
 "I am not ashamed to admit that my 
 feelings have so overcome mo that I am 
 scarcely able to give expression to my 
 thoughts. Seldom in my life have I been so 
 powerfully moved as when your Secretary, 
 brotlier Dunlop, told me in that little room 
 upstairs of the opening of this house nearly 
 twelve yeai's ago ; how that, just as they had 
 on their knees dedicated this house to God, 
 a knock was heartl at the door and your 
 Supeiintendent entered to learn about Jesus 
 and His love. I could not restrain my 
 tears. And then, when I came downstaii's 
 into this Hall, and saw this gathering of 
 Jews addressed by him, I had to sit down ; it 
 was almost too much for me. I praise God for 
 His goodness and for His wondeiful ways. 
 My heart has alwaj's gone out in love to the 
 Jewish people. At home, whenever I meet 
 a Jew, a brother according to the flesh of 
 our dear Saviour, I feel that I must embrace 
 him ; and now I am worshipping in a con- 
 gregation of Jews who love Jesus. Our 
 Canadian brothers are in the majority ; but 
 the United States, which I represent this 
 evening, must not be outdone in this love for 
 the Jews. May God bless you, Mr. Dunlop, 
 and your Society, and prosper the gi'eat work 
 carried on here." 
 
 Rev. H. R. Grant .said : — " It gives me 
 peculiar joy to be pi-esent with you this 
 evening ; and I am sure when I reach home, 
 and convei-se with my dear mother about my 
 travels, nothing will give her so much pleasure 
 as to liearabout my visit tothis Mission House. 
 She loves the Jewish people so much, and of 
 course I have imbibed some of this love. To 
 bring Christ to His own, is the duty of every 
 Christian, and I cannot conceive how any 
 lover of ClirLst can neglect the duty of 
 helping this Society, which has as its great 
 object the bringing of Israel to Jesus. It 
 reminds me of a story I once heard of a littl« 
 boy at the Sunday School, who was asked ti. 
 repeat the ver.se. ' Sufler little children.' He 
 said, ' Sufler httle children,' and stopped. He 
 tried again and again, but got no further, 
 until at last he said, ' SulTer little children — 
 to come to me — and don't let the big folks
 
 472 
 
 Memories of Gonpel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 drive them away, for Jesus wants them.' 
 Is it not .so witli us ? We must not put 
 hindrances iu the way of our Jewish bretliren 
 coming to Christ. He wants them; and may 
 we all do our part in bringing them to Him." 
 
 After singing again, Mr. Dunlop spoke a 
 few words to the workers, and closed with 
 one of his hymns, entitled '' The Lord is near." 
 Mr. Eoeder prayed in German, and the 
 meeting was concluded with the Benediction. 
 
 A REPLY TO THE NEW CHIEF RABBI. 
 
 THE following article appeared in The 
 Christian, Commonwealth, June 11th, 
 1891 :— 
 
 In the interview with Dr. Hermann Adler, 
 which we published last week, the Chief 
 Rabbi said : — 
 
 "I do not believe that Christianity is 
 making any headway among Jews. We 
 know very well there is a Society for Pro- 
 moting Christianity among the Jews, which 
 has its liead-quarters in Palestine Place, and 
 which may succeed in entrapping some few 
 famished starving Jews who come over to 
 this country and have no means of livelihood ; 
 but we hardly ever hear of anyone who has 
 joined Christianity from conviction." 
 
 In regard to this statement we have re- 
 ceived the following letter from the Rev. 
 John Dunlop, secretary of the British Society 
 for the Propagation of the Gospel among the 
 Jews : — 
 
 To the Editor. 
 
 Dear Sir, — First of all allow me to con- 
 gratulate you on the success of your journal. 
 We have it through our bookseller regularly, 
 and regai-d it as worthy of a place in every 
 Christian family, both at home and abroad. 
 In reply to Dr. Adler's remarks on the " Jews 
 and Christianity," I beg to send you the ab- 
 stract of my report, from which you may 
 easily answer his statement. We have 24 
 missionaries, who are converted Jews, work- 
 ing in various fields in England, Germany, 
 Austi'ia, Turkey, and Russia ; and during 
 the last few years there have been hundieds 
 of converts. — I am very cordially yours, 
 
 John Dunlop. 
 
 90, Great Russell Street, 
 Bliinmsbury Sijuare, W.O. 
 June otli, 1891. 
 
 The June number of the Jewish Herald 
 and Record of Christian Worli amotuj theJeirs, 
 which Mr. Dunlop has forwarded, is almost 
 wholly occupied with a report of the 48th 
 anniversary meeting of the Society, held in 
 Exeter Hall, on the 13th ult., and presided 
 ovi'r by (.V>lonel J. T. GritKn, president of the 
 
 Baptist Union, who said the Society's record 
 for the past year is " a marvellous report of 
 work attempted and accomplished." We 
 quote a few of the passages from the Secre- 
 tai'y's report : — 
 
 London. 
 
 " Mr. Lazarus has been in the mission 
 field for nearly 40 years. Jews are now- 
 scattered all over the city. Many of them 
 nmv hold Jesus in high esteem, regard Him 
 as a great Reformer, the Prophet of Nazareth, 
 the Saviour of the world. Mr. Lazarus adds : 
 ' Through the preaching of the Gospel many 
 of all classes constantly leave the synagogue, 
 join themselves to the Christian Church, and 
 show by their life and conversation their 
 faith and hope in Jesus as their all in all.' " 
 Mr. Nachim, another London agent, says : — 
 " I was invited to visit a Jewish family 
 when several relatives were present. After 
 spending a couple of hours in religious con- 
 versation, before leaving I was requested to 
 engage in prayer. Mrs. B. asked her hus- 
 band to lock the door in oider that we might 
 not be disturbed, and at the conclusion of 
 the prayer all joined me in saying ' Amen.' 
 It may be interesting to the friends of Israel 
 to know that not one of the members of the 
 family has confessed Christ by baptism, and 
 yet we have reason to regard them all as 
 sincere Chiistians. We are convinced that 
 there are many such families in Israel who, 
 through circumstances best known to them- 
 selves, have been prevented from making a 
 public profession of their faith in Christ, and 
 yet whose names may be written in the 
 Lamb's Book of Life." 
 
 Manches-ter. 
 
 " Our missionar}', Mr. Hessel Levinsohn, 
 informs us that our Mission Hall had been 
 visited by thousands of Jews. During one 
 month there were 379 Jewish visitors, and 
 all these were spoken to of ('hri.st as their 
 Saviour. Mr. Levinsohn asked eight Jews 
 who had for some time regularly attended
 
 A Reply to the New Chief Rahhi. 
 
 473 
 
 his Bible-class, ' What think ye of Christ ? ' 
 All with one accord said, ' Christ is the 
 Messiah according to the prophets.' Then 
 one of them took a pencil, and in the presence 
 of the others showed that Daniel's prophecy 
 of the 70 weeks must have been fulfilled in 
 the coming of Christ. ' That,' said he, 
 ' explains why my Rabbi and my father had 
 forbidden me to read Daniel, chapter ix.' " 
 
 Koenigsberg. 
 
 " ilr. Jacobi gives an interesting account 
 of the baptism, fiist of a Doctor of Medicine, 
 and then of a Doctor of Law, and says : — 
 ' Many Christians fall into the erior of 
 believing that only poor Jews become con- 
 verts to Christianity. Among the number 
 of Jews which I have had the privilege of 
 baptizing, not one was in adverse circum- 
 stances. They all held good positions, and 
 our University has in every department 
 Proselj'tes, among whom there are are many 
 wealthy men. More than this, their lives 
 testify that they are indeed sincere believers 
 in Christ.' " 
 
 Vienna. 
 
 " Mr. Kamaras says : — ' Since Mr. Schon- 
 berger left Vienna for London, I have 
 instructed five persons, who have been 
 received into the Protestant Church by 
 baptism. Another is still under instruction, 
 and will, God willing, be baptized after 
 Easter.' " 
 
 Wilna, Russia. 
 
 " Mr. Friedman, of the Medical Mission 
 instituted by the British Society in this 
 country, says : — ' Many sons and daughters 
 of Israel, who had never heard of Christ 
 before this mission was begun, now believe in 
 Him and read HLs Word with joy.' Lately 
 four converts had been baptized, and during 
 the year about 24,000 patients had been 
 treated by Dr. Frohwein." 
 
 Baptism of a Jew. 
 
 May loth, 1891. 
 Dear Mr. Dunlop, — Mr. B. made his 
 public confession of faith on Sunday last at 
 the Congi-egational Church, South Norwood. 
 We had a very interesting service, of which 
 I will send you a full account shortly. Mean- 
 
 while, please publish this notice. With very 
 kind regards, and wishing you every blessing, 
 I am, yours very truly, 
 
 Leon Zucker. 
 
 In the course of his speech at the annual 
 meeting, the Rev. F. W. Brown said : — - 
 
 " I have had considerable experience in 
 connection with the work of this society in 
 the West of England. I have the honour of 
 being one of the secretaries of the Bristol 
 and Clifton Auxiliary, and I have also had 
 opportunities of becoming acquainted with 
 other branches of this grand society in the 
 surrounding neighbourhood. I must confess 
 that the more I have seen of the deputations 
 and of the agents of the society, and the 
 more I have come into personal contact with 
 them, the more highly have I e.steemed them, 
 and the more thoroughly have 1 believed in 
 their work. I, therefore, know something 
 of the society, its labours, its methods, and 
 its successes." 
 
 We have also received the following letter 
 from the London Society for Promoting 
 Christianity amongst the Jews : — 
 
 Dear Sir, — Our committee, as a rule, do 
 not notice paragraphs in the public Press, 
 but in reply. to your kind letter of inquiry I 
 may say that the fourth law of the society 
 is strictly enforced, which declares, " It shall 
 not be the object of this society to grant 
 temporal aid to adult Jews out of its general 
 fund." Christian charity may be, and in- 
 deed is, extended to poor starving fellow 
 creatures, in Jewish missions, as in all 
 Christian missions following the Master's 
 footsteps, but in our case it cannot be drawn 
 from the fund nor used for the purposes of 
 proselytizing. 
 
 Moreover, no Jew is baptized in London 
 unless he ha.s been first examined under the 
 authority of the Bishop of London. We have 
 received upwards of 80 of his lordship's 
 certificates of permission in the last three 
 years. So that the question of a candidate 
 baing genuine does not rest with the society 
 nor its agents. 
 
 Yours faithfully, 
 
 W. Fleming. 
 
 16, Lincoln's Inn Fields, 
 
 June 8th, 1891. 
 We leave our readers to determine whether 
 the foregoing is a sufficient reply to Dr. 
 Adler's remarks.
 
 474 Memones of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 MEMBERS OF COMMITTEE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE JUHII.EE YEAR. 
 
 GKUIUiK UILDITCH, ESQ. 
 
 Chairman of Conimiltee: 
 KEV. J. HILES KITCHENS. D.D. 
 
 liKV. W. H. K1>0. 
 
 UEV. DK. MAC EWAX. 
 
 HEV. DH. WICKSON" 
 
 KKV. W. Wl.Nl^AlE.
 
 Representative Mo nhtr of Cuiinc'd nl l/ie Voinmencemeut of ilw. JithUec. ■ilii 
 
 REPRESENTATIVE MEMBER OF COUNCIL AT THE COMMENCEMENT 
 
 OF THE JUBILEE. 
 
 "A^ 
 
 AS A PltEACllEK AND LECTURER. 
 
 S a preaclier," wrote the Rev. Urijah 
 R. Thomas, in Sunday Words, '• Mr. 
 Brown is always fresh and forceful ; extem- 
 poraneous in delivery, every seimon give.s 
 due sign of fitting preparation. He is a 
 master of alliteration, and with a copious 
 vocabulary is vigorous and fluent. Evan- 
 gelical in doctrine 
 and fervent in 
 .'spirit, he has al- 
 ways been wel- 
 come in the many 
 anniversary ser- 
 vices of the neigh- 
 bourhood, as well 
 as esteemed and 
 useful in his own 
 pulpit." We may 
 add to this none 
 too flattering meed 
 of praise that Mr. 
 Bi-own ha.s pro\'ed 
 him.self a lecturer 
 of marked and 
 vei-satile ability. 
 The repertoire of 
 lectuies he has 
 given includes be- 
 tween thirty and 
 forty subjects upon 
 historic, scientific, 
 and biographic 
 matters. 
 
 AS A WRITER 
 
 he has also done 
 yeoman sei'vice. 
 He possesses a 
 lead}- pen, free 
 and flowing, and 
 of wide and vai'ied powers, and he has used 
 it to good purpose. In association with the 
 Rev. J. H. Jellie, he has written, amongst 
 other things, a very able and exhaustive 
 " Preacher's Commentary on the Book of 
 Leviticus," and another upon the " Book of 
 Jonah." The latter is entu'ely from his own 
 pen, and both appeared in the pages of the 
 lloiiiilist, to which Mr. Brown has been a 
 frequent contributor. The Pulpit Aiiahjst 
 and the Hi>inili-licnl (juarlfrlij have shared in 
 Mr. Brown's literary labours, and for many- 
 years he was a valued contributor of numer- 
 ous poems and articles of a Biblical character 
 
 I:EV. F. W. EHuWX, .M.A., OF CLIFTOX 
 
 to the Sunday School Times. His writings 
 have also graced the Christian World Pulpit. 
 But although thoroughly devoted to literary 
 work and every efi'ort connected with his 
 pastorate, Mr. Brown has found time for, 
 and has not hesitated to take, his full share 
 in the public, educational, and philanthropic 
 movements of the city. Amongst the 
 
 secretarysliips he 
 holds are those of 
 the Bristol and 
 Clifton Auxiliary 
 of the British 
 Society for the 
 Propagation of the 
 Gospel among the 
 Jews, the Bristol 
 District Free 
 Church L^nion, the 
 Bristol Congrega- 
 tional Ministers' 
 Federal Associa- 
 tion, and last, but 
 not least, the Bris- 
 tol -United Free 
 Church Ministers' 
 Fraternal, which 
 embraces all the 
 denominational 
 bodies. He is also 
 connected with the 
 Bristol Protestant 
 League, e.-»tablish- 
 cd fur curtailing 
 the encroa chments 
 of Rituali.-m, and 
 is president of the 
 Hotwells branch. 
 He is likewise an 
 active member of 
 the committee of 
 the Clifton Dispensary. Few men have greater 
 capacity for establishing friendships than Mr. 
 Brown. His entire nature bubbles over with 
 cheerfulness, which opens, like spring, all the 
 blossoms of the inward man. Not tliat old 
 Care has foregone having a stout fling at 
 him ; but he has always endeavoured to look 
 upon the bright side of things, evidently 
 believing with quaint Dr. Wolcot — 
 
 " Care to our ooffiu .adds a uail no doubt. 
 And every grin so merry draws one out." 
 
 Fxtracts from an admirable Biographical Sketch, hy 
 Rkv. Fuedk. G. Wabne, the able Kdilm- of The Bristol 
 Christian Leader.
 
 476 
 
 Meinories of Gospel Triumphs amonrj the Jexvs. 
 
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 Ut"iH 
 
 THE LATE Mil. J. W. S5IITH, 
 
 Accoiintaut for upwards of 30 j-ears. 
 
 MH. H. J. WK.^^tiN, 
 
 Present Accountant. 
 
 G()d*.s glory be my aim, 
 From morn till night tbe 
 
 same, 
 A bright and blessed flame, 
 Mv God knows. 
 
 I've sought the kingdom 
 
 first, 
 The b2st and not the worst. 
 For righteousness I thirst, 
 My God knows. 
 
 My daily bread I'll get, 
 A^ I have got it yet. 
 Then wherefore should I 
 fret ? 
 
 My God knows. 
 
 Of morn I'll take no heed, 
 For all that I may need 
 Will come in gracious 
 speed, 
 
 Mv God knows. 
 
 And now I look up where 
 There's neither jiain nor 
 
 care. 
 And all are true and fair, 
 Mv God knows. 
 
 At length, on wings of 
 
 prayer, 
 While breathing Heavenly 
 
 air, 
 I shall be lifted there, 
 Mv God knows. 
 
 MB. HENRY lilSHOI', 
 Assistant, who has been in the Society's service for 1." yearp.
 
 For the Younrj. 
 
 All 
 
 FOR THE YOUNG. 
 
 Little Sarah. 
 
 " A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM. 
 
 THE following letter of our venerable 
 friend the Rev. W. Wingate, and the 
 touching stor}' of the holy life and trium- 
 phant departure of his beloved child, " Little 
 Sarah," show us that — 
 
 " God moves iu a mysterious way 
 His wonders to perform : 
 He i)laiits His footsteps in the sea, 
 And rides upon the storm ; " 
 
 that He often hangs upon the smallest wires 
 the heaviest weights ; that He who turned 
 " the darkness of night into the light of the 
 morning " at the creation of the world, when 
 His " morning stars sang together and all His 
 sons shouted for joy," is still " doing wonders ; " 
 " doina; wonders " by the fall of man ; " doing 
 wonders " by the death of Christ ; " doing 
 wonders " liy the afflictions of His children ; 
 and " doing wonders " by their translation to 
 Paradise. 
 
 May the Divine Spirit take the letter and 
 the story and use them for the conviction, 
 conversion, consecration and consolation of 
 many, both aged and young, who will thereby 
 " Glorify God and enjoy Him for ever." 
 
 Letter of Rev. W. Wingate. 
 
 "My Dear Mr. Dlnlo;',—' Little S.uah '• 
 the Lord has used to be a blessing to many 
 children and adults. My first marriage was 
 in 1834, and Sarah was my only child. The 
 sudden removal of her mother to glory God 
 used as the means of my conversion, and little 
 Sarah's translation to the heavenly mansions 
 while I was preparing for the Jewish mission 
 at Berlin, snapped my last link in the 
 domestic chain which bound me to this world, 
 and set me free for the Jews. ' Little Sarah ' 
 was written l)y her aunt. She is in glory 
 now with ' little Sarah and her mother,' all 
 dear, devoted Christians. It was, after pub- 
 lication for private use, caught up by Rev. 
 Andrew Bonar, and published and circulated 
 largely amongst Sunday-schools in Scotland. 
 When I went to Hungary it was translated 
 into German and circulated there. It has 
 been for years out of print, l)ut if yoa feel 
 it may still be of service, I give you full 
 liberty to do what you feel best for the great 
 cause. Send it back when you have done 
 with it, as it is now our only copy. The 
 
 Lord continue to bless the work and streng- 
 then you for your many calls on mind and 
 body. " Yours truly, 
 
 " Wm. Wingate. 
 " 100, Talbot Road, Bayswater, W. 
 
 "21th May, 1893. 
 " P.S. — It was my dear wife who sent you 
 'Little Sarah.' Till she asked me to write 
 you to return it, I did not know you had it." 
 
 Little Sarah. 
 
 In the month of February, 1838, it 
 pleased Him, who doeth all things after the 
 counsel of His own will, to i-emove from me 
 a m^lch loved sister, who left but one little 
 daughter, not then two years old. 
 
 My brother-in-law took up his abode under 
 my father's roof, his child being thus com- 
 mitted to my care. 
 
 For three years and a half, I was permitted 
 to watch over this little plant of the Lord's 
 planting ; when, on the 24th of Augu.st, 
 1841, after a short illness, she also was un- 
 expectedly removed to the mansion prepared 
 for her in her Father's bouse. The same 
 stroke which had deprived this dear little one 
 of an affectionate mother, had been blessed 
 by God for the bringing of her other parent 
 to the knowledge of the Truth as it is in 
 Jesus. He was chosen in the furnace of 
 affliction ; and to his instructions, his earnest 
 wrestling prayers on behalf of his child, 
 may, in a great measure, be attributed the 
 early sowing of the precious .seed of the Word 
 in her heart. 
 
 The promise is, " Whatsoever ye shall ask, 
 helieving, ye shall receive." It w.-is a subject 
 of instant prayer with him, that (Jhrist 
 might be early formed in her heait, " the 
 hope of gloiy ; " and, blessed be God, the 
 prayer was answered — out of the mouth of 
 this babe the Lord did perfect praise. 
 
 The influence exerted in the nursery also 
 tended to impress her with the value of 
 eternal things. She was gentle, playful, and 
 affectionate — for a child so young, more than 
 usually thoughtful — remarkably free from 
 that deceit which is naturally bound up in 
 the heart of every child ; in her it might be 
 said, " there was no guile." If a command 
 was given, or she made a promise, you might 
 rely with confidence on her obeying the one, 
 and fulfilling the other. Adhering to the 
 strict path of rectitude herself, she checked
 
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 Memories of Gof<pel Triumphs mnon</ the. Jews. 
 
 the slightest tlepnrture from it in others, 
 exacting from all scrupulous adheience to 
 v.'hat they had promised. Her temper was 
 quick ; from infancy she occasionally gave 
 way to almost ungovernable fits of passion, 
 much increased by a naturallj' nervous habit 
 of body. This gave me much uneasiness ; 
 often when all my efiorts to calm and sub- 
 due her failed, I would sit down and weep, 
 not knowing whether to use the rod, or to 
 persevere in the use of gentler means. 
 
 When obliged to punish her, she submitted 
 as knowing that she deserved correction. 
 Even when in the height of paf^sion, she 
 would acknowledge she was naughty — that 
 she knew she was grieving God, and vexing 
 me ; but she couldn't be good — she must cry. 
 It was .seldom, and with reluctance, I 
 resorted to this ; but it never failed of its 
 effect. 
 
 Her conscience was quick and tender, the 
 ffai- that God would not forgive her gave 
 her great concern. Assured again and 
 again, that if she confessed her fault and 
 souglit forgiveness, she would receive it, still 
 it was long ere she would believe this. She 
 would still cry, she was so very naughty, 
 God couldn't forgive her. She had grieved 
 Him — He was angry with her. 
 
 One evening, after having been naughty 
 dining the day, she, of her own accord, 
 piayed that God would forgive lier evil 
 temper ; and, on rising from her knees, said, 
 "I know we've all wicked hearts, but I don't 
 
 see aunt M and you naughty, just as I'm 
 
 luiughty." When I sought counsel of her 
 papa how to proceed, he genei-ally encouraged 
 mo not to be faint-hearted, saying, that if I 
 was truly seeking that she might early be- 
 come a subject of Divine grace, I could not 
 but expect a war in her soul. 
 
 Earnestly did I entreat the Loi-d that she 
 might be enabled to overcome this .sinful tem- 
 per ; and it is worthy of notice that these 
 lits, dui'ing the last winter, were much less 
 fiecjuent ; and, for several months previous 
 to her death, her jieculiar meekness and 
 gentleness attracted my attention, while the 
 future was still hidden from my view. 
 
 Watching for her soul, as one that must 
 give account, I hailed with joy and gratitude 
 the many tokens given of the Lord's work 
 being carried on in her soul ; and I reflect 
 upon them with all the moie satisfaction, 
 that the dear object of my solicitude is now 
 no moi-e. They form sweet lesting-places, 
 when the heart is sad and weary. 
 
 When scarcely three years old, running 
 
 one winter day to her papa's room, she .saw 
 the sun reflected brightly from the opnosite 
 windiiws, she came back saying, " the Lord's 
 a sun and shield." I was much pleased at 
 the connexion of ideas in her mind, that 
 seemed like the faint dawn betokening the 
 coming day. 
 
 During the course of the same winter, a 
 little conversation took place, which 
 strengthened this expectation. Spending 
 an afternoon with one of her uncles, while 
 sitting on his knee, she looked up, and, with 
 a sweet smile, said, " Do you know, uncle, 
 there's such a sweet little verse in my bible ? 
 and it's ' God is love.' " — " Aye, is there ? " 
 he said. " Yes, uncle ; but it's such a sweet 
 little verse, ' God is love.' " — " Does God love 
 yon, then ? " — " Oh yes. God loves all good 
 people." — " Then, are you good ? " — " Oh no, 
 I'm a sinnei- ; Ijut Jesus died on the tree, and 
 God loves me for Jesus' sake." 
 
 She always received instruction willingly. 
 Her memoiy was good, so that what was 
 once learned was seldom forgotten. Lattei-ly 
 the pleasure she seemed to take in her sciip- 
 ture lessons was so evident, that I several 
 times took notice of it to my sister. When- 
 ever I called her, she would put her little 
 hand in mine, and, with a light step and 
 joyous look, accompany me to theroom whore 
 I was wont to instruct her. So eager was 
 she, that I had rather to check than excite 
 her desire to learn. It was generally when 
 s^o engaged, that conversations took place 
 between us, which convinced lue .she was 
 under the teaching of the Spirit, and really 
 apprehending the truths she was tatight. 
 When about four years old, repeating her 
 verses one Sabbath evening, this one occurred, 
 " He that believeth in me shall never die," 
 John vi. 26. I asked in whom she was to 
 believe? She replied, "in God." I said 
 yes; but say, "Jesus Christ."— "Oh," she 
 answered, " Jesus is God ; wait, and I'll say 
 my Ciitechism, and you'll see 'God the Father, 
 God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, these 
 three persons are one God ' ; so }ou see Jesus 
 is God, and why do you say that to me ? " 
 Some weeks afterwards, coming into the 
 dining-room, as usual, after tUnner, she ran 
 forward to her gi'andpapa, saying, " Well, 
 grandpapa, I'm going to tell you stories." 
 Seating hei-self on a little stool beside him, 
 she related the history of Cain and Abel — 
 the flood — Joseph being sold by his brethren 
 — Moses being placed in the ark of bulrushes 
 — our Saviour's birth — the angels appearing 
 to the shepherds — the wise men oll'ering their
 
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 479 
 
 gifts — liis betrajal by Judas — crucifixion — 
 l)iii-ial -lesuripction. Desirous to know how 
 niiinli slio reniembeied, I continued my work 
 witliout interrupting her, yet watching witli 
 much interest her manner when so employed 
 — her Httle cheek flushed, her hands chisped 
 together, sometimes laid on my father's 
 shoulder, to attract his attention. " Do you 
 know, grandpapa," she continued, " Jesiis 
 died tor wicked sinners, that we might go to 
 the good place?" I then said, " Who are 
 wicked sinners ? " " I'm a wicked sinner, 
 and 3'ou and papa were all wicked." Her 
 grandpapa said, " But you're good" ; " Oh ! 
 no," she replied, " 1 can't be good ; I'm 
 wicked — God must give me His Holy Spirit — 
 I must pray — God's Holy Spirit is in my 
 heart just now. when I'm telling you these 
 good stories. Do j'ou know, gi-andpapa, what 
 my verse says, ' God is love ; ' and, if ye love 
 !Me keep my commandments.' There's just 
 ten commandments." She then repeated 
 several of them, and proceeded to the history 
 of St. Paul. I said he was .shut up in prison 
 for Christ's sake. Misunderstanding me, she 
 said, "Oh no, it was wicked men shut him 
 up, and they couldn't do it for Christ's sake. 
 He was a bad man once ; but after he was 
 gooil, do you know, grandpapa, what he did ? 
 he went and pieached Christ. These men 
 shouldn't have been wicked ; they should just 
 has'e gone and preached Christ too." 
 
 About a year after this, instructing her in 
 the meaning of the words — " My Spirit shall 
 not always strive with man," I took notice 
 of tlie death of a little child, which had 
 taken place \inder our roof but a few weeks 
 previous. She asked, " Was God's Spirit 
 striving with eveiybody in the house?" I 
 said yes, " And was he striving with every- 
 body in the whole world then ? " — " No,'' I 
 replied. " Oh ! " .she (piickly and seriously 
 answered, " but God's Spirit is every- 
 where ! " 
 
 Deatli, and the happiness of the redeemed, 
 were her favourite topics. The former had 
 no terrors for her. She never spoke of it 
 with a sad look, Ijut merely as something 
 necessary to be undergone, ere she could enter 
 heaven, to which she looked as her proper 
 home. So frequently did she express her 
 desire to reach it, that I almo.st trembled, 
 lest it migiit be the will of our Father in 
 heaven early to transplant this little blossom 
 to the paradise above. 
 
 Often she would say, "When will Je.sus 
 come for me ] I wish to be in heaven. I 
 could wish to bo there just thLs minute. 
 
 Aunt S- 
 
 -, what would you say, if Jesus 
 
 were to come for me first ? " I would answer, 
 " I would rejoice to know .she w.as with Jesus ; 
 but I would grieve to lose her, I would mi.s-s 
 
 her so very much." " What ! Aunt , 
 
 woidd you grieve, even if He were to take me 
 to heaven ? " 
 
 Sometimes, what it was to come to Jesus, 
 and believe in Him, seemed to puz/de her. 
 She would ask, with gi-eat earnestness, if I 
 thought she loved Jesus, urging me again, 
 and again, saying, " But do I really believe 
 
 in Jesus, Aunt ? " Stories of little 
 
 children who had died in the Lord, always 
 excited a lively interest. Of young and old 
 around her she would ask, whether I thought 
 they loved Jesus ; and if she would see them 
 in heaven. 
 
 An evasive answer might silence, but never 
 satisfied her. Of her papa she wovild fre- 
 quently speak, as one who .'•he knew loved God. 
 
 Nurse having one day sent her to knock 
 at his door, she soon returned, saying, " Oh ! 
 I couldn't knock just now, I hear my papa 
 praying. I wish I were like papa !" "And 
 what would that do to you ? " said nurse. 
 " Oh ! if I were like papa, I would have more 
 of God's Holy Spirit, and love Him more 
 and more." 
 
 She seemed to understand something of 
 the value of prayer. Once during a smart 
 illness of a few days, when sorely distressed, 
 she looked up, and, with an imploring look, 
 said, •' Oh ! pray for me ! " At another time, 
 under a severe fit of toothache, she said, " I 
 wish to kneel down, and a-sk God to make 
 my tooth better ! " 
 
 Her father having resolved to spend some 
 months on the Continent, I took her to 
 
 G , to see him embark. The noise and 
 
 bustle alarmed her — she began to cry — soon 
 (]uieted. She sat so long .silent, taking no 
 notice of anything around her, that Nurse 
 asked, " what she was thinking of i " She 
 replied, " I've just been piaying to God all 
 the way ! " When we met her papa, he took 
 her in his arms. At once she burst into 
 tears, clung round his neck, and, with con- 
 vulsive sobs, cried, " I don't wLsh papa to 
 leave me ; I don't wish papa to go away." 
 Her father was much moved ; but ah ! little 
 did he think he was never to hear that sweet 
 voice again — that it was for the bust time he 
 clasped his beloved child in his arms. Ere 
 his return, she slept in the silent dust — her 
 happy, ransomed spirit having joined the 
 company of the redeemed in heaven. 
 
 It was but a short time after this departure
 
 480 
 
 Memm^ies of Oospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 that my sister, going one evening into the 
 nursery, after she had been put to bed, began 
 to mention to Nurse some circumstances con- 
 nected with the death of a Christian friend, 
 who, ere she departed, dwelt much on the 
 happiness of meeting us again in heaven. 
 A motion was heard in Sarah's bed ; she then 
 
 called. Aunt M , Aunt M . The 
 
 Aunt went to her, when Sarah bursting into 
 tears, exclaimed, " Oh ! aunt, I'm so afraid I 
 won't be a Christian ! " My sister said, 
 " Why do you cry, my dear ? All that I was 
 saying was very joyful ; if you ask God for 
 His lloly Spirit, He will enable you to 
 become a Christian." — " Oh ! I know all that 
 quite well, but I'm just so afraid I'll not be a 
 
 Christian ! Aunt , when I'm older, I don't 
 
 want toysorplaymateSjOr anything, I just want 
 to know more and more of that bles.sed book !" 
 My sister seeing her so excited, said, " Well, 
 my dear, if you love Jesus, you will try and 
 go to sleep ; that's what you should do now ; 
 and I and Nurse will leave the room for a 
 little." They did so. After about twenty 
 minutes' absence, returning, and finding her 
 still awake, Nurse asked why she cried. " Oh !" 
 
 she .said, " I heai-d all that Aunt M 
 
 was saying, and I was so afraid I wouldn't 
 be a Christian ; but although I haven't been 
 out of my bed, I've been praying to God in 
 my heait, and saying over that little 
 hymn — 
 
 ' And now another day is gone, 
 I'll sing my Maker's praise ! ' " 
 
 She revei-enced and loved the Sabbath. On 
 awaking, her fiist remark usually was, 
 " Nurse, this is God's Holy Day." Nor was 
 she slow to check the profanation of that day 
 by others, either doing so openly, or coming 
 close up to me, would say, in a low voice, 
 
 " Aunt M should not do that, this is 
 
 God's Holy Sabbath !" At public and private 
 worship, she was always serious ; and when 
 any p.'issage with which she was acquainted 
 occurred in the exercises, she would repeat it 
 to me afterwards. 
 
 The time drew near, though I knew it not, 
 when this much-loved treasure was to bo 
 snatched from our embrace, and that by a 
 stroke so sudden, so unexpected, that we 
 heard it in our Saviour's words, " Behold, I 
 come as a thief." 
 
 On the Evening of Sabbath, 22nd August, 
 1841, she seemed .slightly indisposed, was 
 restless during the night ; and her illness 
 increasing, medical aid was called. The 
 principal feature in her illness was a heavy 
 sleep, from which it was difficult to rouse 
 
 her, but when roused she was quite conscious 
 of everything around her, and able to answer 
 any questions that were asked. 
 
 From eleven o'clock on Monday night, she 
 became more re.stless, we never left our watch 
 beside her bed, yet without any fear of 
 immediate danger ; alas ! we knew not death 
 was already at the door. 
 
 A little before eleven on Tuesday morning, 
 the painful truth was too evident that her 
 time was come. With anguish of heart we 
 looked on until, " natures conflict o'er," she 
 calmly and softly fell asleep in Jesus. The 
 Saviour she had loved on eai'th had now 
 received her unto Himself, that she might be 
 with Him " to behold His glory " no longer 
 seeing through a glass darkly, " but now face 
 to face." 
 
 During her illness she made no mention of 
 toys or playmates ; her whole thoughts appeared 
 to dwell on the Word of God. 
 
 From daybreak on Tuesday morning ber 
 lips were constantly mo\dng. Sometimes she 
 spoke aloud. While standing beside her, 
 the stillness of the night was broken by 
 hearing her repeat a well-known verse, " I 
 will be a father unto you, and ye shall be My 
 sons and daughters, saith the Lord 
 Almighty." 
 
 These words sent a thrill through our 
 hearts. Shortly afterwards she began to 
 repeat parts of hymns and paraplirases, also 
 various texts of Scriptures. At nine o'clock 
 one of her aunts* came in to inquire for her, 
 and took her hand ; we heard her murmer 
 in a low gentle voice, " A fair good night to 
 my dear papa ! A fair good night to my dear 
 papa ! A fair good night to my dear Aunt 
 
 S— - — , dear Aunt S ! " She then, in a 
 
 louder voice, repeated the fifth hymn. — 
 
 " The hour of my dejjarture's come, 
 I hear the voice that calls me home.'' 
 
 When I heard the voice of my dear child, I 
 was troubled in spirit ; could it be, thought 
 I, that she was about to depart, and that she 
 did hear her Saviour's voice calling her 
 hence ? We wept in silence, but did not 
 interrupt her. 
 
 She then began the forty-third Para- 
 phrase, — 
 
 " Yon now mu.st hear my voice no more ; 
 My Father calls me home." 
 
 This had been a great favourite ; she 
 stopped at the last verse, and remained silent 
 
 *About seven weeks afterwards this Aunt also 
 entered into rest, receiving beforehand foretiiste.s of 
 glory.
 
 For flw Yo 
 
 V III/. 
 
 181 
 
 for some time. By-and-by she asked, might 
 she say her Bible verses ? Not just now, I 
 said, I will hear them again — fearing she 
 might exert herself too much. I, however, 
 saw her lips still in motion. The following 
 lines, great favourites with her papa, she 
 several times repeated,— 
 
 " When little Samuel awoke, 
 And heard bis Maker's voice, 
 At every word He spoke, 
 How much did he rejoice. 
 Oh blessed, happy child, to find 
 The God of Heaven so near and kind." 
 
 After this she remained quiet, until about 
 ten o'clock ; suddenly she turned. I asked, 
 did she wish a drink ? Without answering 
 me, she, with an energy I shall never forget, 
 began the eighty-fourth psalm. At the 
 second verse, she stretched forth her little 
 arms, her voice waxing louder as she 
 exclaimed, — 
 
 " My very heart and flesh cry i>ut. 
 Oh, living God, for Thee ! " 
 
 Her soul seemed already winging its flight 
 on high ; her voice failed about the middle of 
 the psalm, but gathering strength as she 
 proceeded, she rested not until she came to 
 the last verse. Again she began the forty- 
 third Paraphrase, taking up the last four 
 lines which .she had previously omitted, next, 
 the fourth hymn, — 
 
 " Blest morning, whose first dawning rays 
 
 Beheld the Son of God 
 Arise triumphant from the grave, 
 
 And leave his dark abode." 
 
 She seemed to be triumphing over death — so 
 visibly was she at that moment dwelt in by 
 the Spirit. Texts of Scripture followed each 
 other in rapid succession, — " Trust ye in the 
 Lord for ever, for in the Lord Jehovah is 
 everlasting strength." " Sufl'er little children 
 to come unto Me and forbid them not, for of 
 such is the kingdom of God." " Be thou in 
 the fear of the Lord all the day long." 
 
 I stood listening with breathless attention, 
 eager to catch every word that fell from her 
 lips. I was deeply impressed with the 
 solemn scene before me, my heart alternately 
 wrung with anguish and glowing with 
 gratitude. The voice cea-sed, it died away 
 while .still speaking Jehovah's pi-aise. In 
 less than an hour afterwards, she was singing 
 the new song before the throne of God and 
 the Lamb. 
 
 How gloriou-s is God's grace, manifested 
 in little children, whose hearts He makes 
 temples for His own indwelling. Tliis little 
 plant early blossomed, gave promise of 
 
 precious fiuit ; the fruit was speedily ripened 
 into maturity. 
 
 May the dear little ones, like my dear niece, 
 be brought to love Jesus, and remember His 
 gracious words, — " They that seek Me early 
 shall find Me." 
 
 [The late Dr. Saphir is a spiritual son of our valued 
 friend, Little Sarah's father. — Editor.] 
 
 Little Isaac. 
 
 Little Isaac was born in Kovno in the 
 year 1855. His parents were pious Jews, 
 much devoted to the glory of (jod under 
 the Jewish tradition ; and it was their wish 
 that the children should be brought up 
 in the fear of God, and specially that theii' 
 sons might be devout Jews. 
 
 When little Isaac was five yeais old his 
 father began to instruct him in Hebrew, that 
 he might read the prayers of the liturgy 
 every morning, afternoon and evening, and 
 informed him that if he did what the Eabbi 
 wished and obeyed him in all things, and 
 also prayed three times a day, God would be 
 very plea.sed with him. 
 
 The idea that God would be pleased with 
 him gave him much encouragement, and he 
 tried all he could to obey his rabbi, and ac- 
 cording to the words in the oral law, " The 
 fear of the rabbi is as the fear of God." 
 
 At eight years of age he could read any 
 part of the Hebrew Bible, the Targum, and 
 the great jRabbi Eashi's Comments on the 
 Bible. On his tenth birthday his father 
 invited a few learned friends, with the rabbi 
 who was his teacher, to examine him and 
 judge as to his qualifications for becoming a 
 minister. This examination proved so satis- 
 factory that his father, out of gratitude, 
 gave a dinner to the poor of the synagogue, 
 and asked them to pray on behalf of his son. 
 But about this time serious questions began 
 to arise in the lad's mind, and he would ask 
 him.self, "What is really the Word of God ?" 
 and after some reasoning, he came to the 
 conclusion that the Bible must be the book 
 given by God, and so a.sked his rabbi if he 
 could devote a little more time to its study. 
 The rabbi told him he wished him to occupy 
 himself solely in Talmudic study, but he 
 managed to spend one hour every night before 
 going to bed and two hours every morning 
 before pi'ayers in reading the Bible alon'e. 
 
 " At the end of twelve years and eleven 
 months," he tells us in his " Story," * " my 
 
 • " The Story of Isasic LeviuBohn." 
 London. 
 
 Holnesa ;
 
 482 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs 'cmoiig the Jeia 
 PORTRAITS OF OUR MISSION DEPITTIES. 
 
 EEV, AARON STERNBERG. 
 
 REV. ISAAC LEVINSOHN. 
 
 father took me to the synagogue, and in- 
 formed me that all the sins I had committed 
 were upon him ; but for all the sins I com- 
 mitted fi'om my thirteenth birthday I should 
 be responsible before God. I entreated him 
 to bear my sins for two or three months 
 longer, as I was afraid I should very soon 
 sin against the Holy One ; but he told me 
 this could not be done. Then I cried bit- 
 terly, being perfectly certain that it was an 
 utter impossibility for me to live a perfect 
 life." 
 
 So great was his trouble on account of sin 
 that he became very ill, and the physician 
 who visited him thought his recovery doiibt- 
 ful. His distressed mother did all in her 
 power to comfort him, assuring him that if 
 he continued leading the Talmud and obeying 
 his rabbi he would be saved. But this did 
 not .satisfy him, and all he could say in reply 
 w:vs, " No good ; I'm lost! I'm lost ! " 
 
 One night he awoke suddenly with these 
 words in his mind, " Get thee out of thy 
 country, and from thj' kindred, and from thy 
 father's house, unto a land that I will show 
 
 thee." The words had such a hold upon 
 him that he could not shake them off, and 
 he told his father that, with or without his 
 permission, he must go or he would die. 
 His father consented, with the prayer that 
 God would be with him wherever he went. 
 
 Very touching is his description of the 
 parting .- — " The morning of my departure 
 came, and many assembled to bid me fare- 
 well. In the afternoon we started to the 
 railway station, some five miles off, about 
 one hundred people following us. The eyes 
 of my beloved mother were dim with tears, 
 and her tenderness of heart, and the thought 
 that I should never meet with anyone in 
 this world with such love, filled me with 
 grief. My father, as he bade me farewell, 
 put his hands upon my head, and said, ' May 
 the God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Jacob, 
 our fathers, keep and preserve thee near to 
 His holy Word, the Bible, and to the holy 
 writings of ihe holy rabbis,' and I replied, 
 Amen and Amen. 
 
 " The train started ; the assembled friends, 
 with my most beloved father and my mother.
 
 Fm' the Ymuiy. 
 
 483 
 
 who had a babe in her arms, lifted up their 
 hands, and from the railway carriage, I saw 
 my mother faint away. Never shall I forget 
 that time. I, too, fell upon the floor of the 
 airriage, fainting, but was revived by the 
 people around ; then, whilst sitting in the 
 carriage, I lifted up my voice and prayed 
 unto the Lord to take me in His arms, and 
 be my father, mother, brother and friend, 
 yea, my all in all." 
 
 Thus, like hLi father Abraham, he ' went 
 out, not knowing whither he went.' 
 
 After passing the boundary of Russia he 
 came to a small village in Germany, where 
 he took the train to Konigsberg. Here he 
 stayed a few weeks but could get no satisfac- 
 tion for his soul. He then proceeded to 
 Hambiu-g on foot, and after walking for 
 three or four hours he overtook two men, 
 who said they were travelling to England. 
 He journeyed with them for a day or two, 
 but they proved to be enemies ; he had fallen 
 among thieves, for one day, while he was 
 sleeping, they stripped him of clothes and 
 money, and left him. This reduced him to 
 such a state of destitution that he had to 
 walk for days feeling the pangs of hunger. 
 One day he met an old man, and he asked 
 him if he would give him a piece of bread. 
 He did so with pleasure, but alas ! the bread 
 was buttered, and as a Jew he would not eat 
 butter made by Christians ; so, hungry as he 
 was, he refused it. 
 
 So wretched did he become through hunger, 
 weariness and home-sickness that he deter- 
 mined to destroy himself. He made for a 
 tree and resolved to hang himself upon it, 
 but was stopped by the solemn words flash- 
 ing before him, " He that is hanged is ac- 
 cursed of God " (Deut. xxi. 23). This Blled 
 him with terror, and made him cry unto 
 God to be gracious unto him, and God com- 
 forted him with His precious promise, " I 
 will not fail thee nor forsake thee " (Joshua 
 
 On he journeyed, .sometimes meeting with 
 kind Jews who would feed and clothe him, 
 and start him on his way with replenished 
 pockets and a lighter heart ; at another time 
 robbed and spoiled of all he possessed. !Many 
 and many were the loving lettei-s from home ; 
 heart-rending entreaties from mother and 
 father to return to them, but all in vain. 
 Home-sick as he was, deep as was his affection 
 for them all, great as were his sufferings, he 
 pressed on, the load of sin heavier each day; 
 his one cry was, " Oh, for satisfaction for my 
 soul ! Oh, for pardon for my sins 1 " 
 
 His object was to reach England, and in 
 order to get money for the journey he began 
 to woi-k. Fii-st he became a servant to the 
 manager of a hotel, from that he became 
 carrier to railway passengers, then after a 
 time he engaged himself to a Jew to sell 
 milk from house to house. We quote an 
 incident of this time : — 
 
 " My occupation of milk-lx)y did not pre- 
 vent me from misfortiuie, for one day a mis- 
 chievous lad threw a rat into the milk-can 
 and ran away. This disgusted me exceed- 
 ingly, and knowing that, according to the 
 law of Moses, the milk was polluted, I poured 
 the contents of the can into the street, went 
 to my master, and reported the unfortunate 
 event. To my surprise, he was exceedingly 
 angry with me, told me that I should have 
 pulled the rat out of the milk instead of 
 pouring the milk out of the can, and having 
 done so, should have gone on selling the 
 milk ! " 
 
 For this adherence to the law of Moses 
 the poor boy was discharged without wages. 
 
 On Tuesday, September 19th, 1871, he 
 left Hamburg for Hull, and arrived in Lon- 
 don on the eve of the great day of Atone- 
 ment. To his great delight he was able to 
 join in the Feast, and purchased a bird, ac- 
 cording to the Jewish custom, for his sacri- 
 fice. "As the bird was being killed, and I 
 watched its blood flow and saw its dying 
 struggles, I felt deeply moved. My sins 
 were the cause of its death, and I wondered 
 deeply in my soul, ' How can the blood of 
 this bird cleanse me from my sins ? ' Oh, 
 how little did I think that I shoiUd ever 
 beUeve and rejoice in the blood of Jesus 
 Christ, God's Son, which cleanseth us from 
 all sin ! " 
 
 One day he passed a Christian church, and 
 strongly tempted by curiosity, he entered it. 
 There he met a gentleman who became in- 
 terested in him, and answered several ques- 
 tions concerning the Messiah. This opened 
 his eyes and increased his desire to know the 
 Truth ; it also brought persecution upon him 
 from his Jewish friend, who began to curse 
 him for entering a Christian church. This 
 same gentleman introduced him to the Rev. 
 H. A. Stern, a devoted minister, who for 
 some years suffered for Christ in Abyssini i. 
 He lovingly took the young man under his 
 care, and spent some time every day in read- 
 ing and explaining the Scriptures to him, 
 and in seeking to lead him to a knowledge of 
 the Messiah, the Hope of Israel. 
 
 For some time the darkness of his soul
 
 484 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs among the Jews. 
 
 became more intense and his anguish almost 
 unbeiirable, and he told Mr. Stern that he 
 thought he should go back to his Jewish 
 friends ; but the good man ad\-ised him to 
 continue studying the Bible, saying that he 
 was sure that God would be merciful to him 
 ere long. 
 
 However, he left Mr. Stem and returned 
 to his brethren, but not to peace or satisfac- 
 tion, for the words, " What doest thou here, 
 Elijah?" were constantly coming to his mind, 
 and .at last the awful unrest of soul com- 
 pelled him to run off to Mr. Stern, with the 
 ci-y, " What must 1 do to be saved ? " 
 
 " Believe in the Messiah," he answered. 
 " You must be born again." 
 
 " What ! Be born again ! How can I be 
 born again ? " 
 
 He calmed him by telling him he would 
 yet find the Messiah. After this he entered 
 the Home for Jewish Inquirers, whei'e he 
 employed every moment of his time in study- 
 ing the Scriptures. 
 
 As a result of this study, he became per- 
 fectly satisfied that Jesus is the Messiah of 
 Israel, but for some time could not realize 
 that He is his Saviour, and this filled him 
 with sorrow ; but at last faith came, and 
 with it peace and joy; and on Sunday, 
 February 4th, 1872, he publicly confessed 
 Christ liy liaptism. 
 
 This naturally brought upon him the biiter 
 hatred of the Jews, and he became an object 
 of contempt and scorn. He received several 
 letters, threatening him with death if he did 
 not give np Christianity, and on one occasion 
 he was mercifully delivered from a plot made 
 to poison him in the house of his friends. 
 But far more bitter than the wrath of the 
 Jews were the letters received fiom his home. 
 
 During the period he w-as with Mr. Stern 
 he constantly wrote to his father, telling him 
 of the state of his soul, and asking his coun- 
 sel respecting the great questions which occu- 
 pied liis mind ; and his father replied in 
 loving terms, espi-essing his anxiety for his 
 son's welfare, but with it a strong word of 
 warning against Eabbi Stein. 
 
 For want of space we are obliged to be 
 brief, but we cannot refrain from quoting 
 passages from letters received after the news 
 had reached home that their beloved son 
 had been baptized upon a confession of his 
 faith in Christ : — 
 
 " Woe is me ! woe is me ! You have 
 filled us with eternal shame and disgi-ace. 
 Remember, my beloved Isaac, you cannot 
 find a father or mother in the world. I can- 
 
 not rest because of my sorrow ! Oh, Isaac ! 
 Isaac ! Isaac ! through you I shall never be 
 able to enjo3' heaven ! What is my life ? 
 Better had I never been born. Your mother 
 has become a different being since she heard 
 the dreadful news. Your brothers and sisteins 
 — oh, would it not be better for God to take 
 their lives away than to leave us to go in old 
 age in shame to the grave ? . . . My 
 heart is overwhelmed with sorrow, grief and 
 woe. I cannot \vi-ite any more. 
 
 " Your mourning father." 
 
 " My dearest and loveliest child Isaac ! — 
 Remember ! remember ! Even before your 
 birth you were a care to your mother. Three 
 years she carried you, an infant, in her arms. 
 Have you forgotten all this ? Four years 
 ago. when you were dangerously ill, and I 
 told your mother to send you to the hospital, 
 do you remember what your mother replied ? 
 ' My house is not for my.self ; my life is not 
 for myself ! They are for my dear child 
 Isaac. He shall remain at home, and the 
 physician shall %dsit him every day.' And 
 now have you forgotten all this, and turned 
 away from me, your father, from your 
 mother, from your sisters and brothers, and, 
 worst of all, from your God ? Remember 
 these things my son ! . . . Your mother 
 prays every day to God that he would put an 
 end to her life, and wishes every moment to 
 be dead rather than that she should live 
 and know that she has a son a meshumad." 
 
 " My dear son, all this has taken place, 
 but you yet have time to repent, and then, 
 at least, you will be saved in the world to 
 come. The advice I give you is — Come 
 back home and become a pious Jew. 
 
 " If you will do this we will wish yon 
 great happiness and God will bless you ; but 
 if you do not, then farewell ! farewell ! 
 f aiewell ! I am not your father, your mother 
 is no longer yours, your sisters and brothers 
 are no longer your relations, and you can no 
 more claim the name at all of a Jew. Fare- 
 well ! farewell ! farewell ! " 
 
 In vain did he appeal to his parents; about 
 twenty letters were sent, but no answer came, 
 and the la.st was returned to him unopened. 
 Referring to this time he says: — 
 
 " I can never forget my anguish when I 
 received this letter. I prayed the Lord to 
 take my life and longed for death ; for father 
 .and mother, for whom at all times I could 
 have shed the last drop of blood in my heart, 
 liad cut me off. But it was necessary for 
 me, as a follower of Christ, to take up my 
 cross and follow Him."
 
 Our Jubilee Visit to Our Missionaries and to Rabbi Lichtenstein. 485 
 
 Since that time God graciously led His 
 servant from the Jewish Institution to the 
 Pastors' College, from thence to become the 
 pastor of a Christian chuich, and now, as he 
 says, " The desire of my heart is realized, for 
 
 my present position enables me to go to all 
 parts of the Kingdom, preaching Jesus Christ 
 and Him crucified, and gives me the oppoitu- 
 nity of relating God's gracious dealings with 
 myself and with many of the nation of Israel." 
 
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 OUR JUBILEE VISIT TO OUR MISSIONARIES, AND TO RABBI 
 
 LICHTENSTEIN. 
 
 (With Portrait) 
 
 OUR Jubilee visit to our foreign mission 
 fields filled and thrilled us with a joy 
 that is like a pang in its intensity. It has 
 placed us in a posi- 
 tion to aflirm from 
 personal knowledge 
 that the Secretary's 
 summaries are but 
 poor accounts of a 
 splendid work. From 
 what we beheld, we 
 are persuaded that 
 some of the grandest 
 results of missionary 
 labour can never be 
 enumerated on any 
 schedule here, and 
 can never appear in 
 the columns of any 
 of earth's journals 
 and reports. 
 
 A MEMORABLE DAT 
 
 WITH RABBI 
 
 LICIITEXSTEIN. 
 
 The day we spent 
 with Rabbi Lichten- 
 stein at Tapio-Szele, 
 in Hungary, shall 
 never be forgotten. 
 After washing our 
 hands, we sat down 
 to a meal in the 
 Jewish manse. At 
 the table there were 
 the Rabbi and his 
 dear wife, ouiselves, 
 and Jesus was in the 
 midst. While at the 
 table, the Rabbi, in 
 reply to a question, 
 said : " My troubles are great, but in Christ 
 I have no fear. ' I am sitting under His 
 shadow with great delight and I feel His 
 fruit sweet unto my taste.' He is soothing 
 
 every sorrow and filling the soul with 
 every joy." 
 
 By-and-by we stood with the Rabbi in the 
 Synagogue, where he 
 has put to his lips 
 the silver tiumpet of 
 the Gospel and pro- 
 claimed the advent of 
 the year of Jubilee ; 
 and then we saw him 
 by the bed of a dying 
 relative, whei'e he 
 proved himself to be, 
 like Barnabas, " A 
 Son of Consolation." 
 Further on in the 
 day, the Rabbi said : 
 " The Jewish system 
 is wholly external : 
 its laws, rites, and 
 ceremonies do not 
 touch the inner man, 
 and do not reveal the 
 heart of God. I 
 never knew God until 
 I knew Christ. God 
 to me was only a 
 stern judge. Now, 
 in Christ I know 
 Him as an unspeak- 
 ably merciful and in- 
 finitely loving Father. 
 Through Christ I 
 throw ofi" all care as 
 a bird aftei- a dip in 
 the river shakes oflf 
 the drops of water 
 from its wings. My 
 enemies have called 
 me in mockery ' a 
 missionary,' and I 
 have replied : ' Yes, I am a missionary in 
 the sense in which Abraham was a mis- 
 sionary ; in the sense in wliich everyone is 
 a missionary who seeks to lead men into and
 
 486 
 
 Memories of Gospel Triumphs amoiig fhe Jeios. 
 
 along the right way. If I strive to lead 
 men into the Truth as it is in Jesus, I am a 
 missionary.' And so a Eabbi wrote to me 
 lately : ' You have shown us the laddei' that 
 leads up to heaven.' That is nij' mission." 
 
 Before we parted, the Eabbi said : " Like 
 the woman in the Go.spel, the Jewish nation 
 had been and still is suffering from an ' issue 
 of blood.' That ' issue ' had been draining 
 her life for centuries. And she had suffered 
 many things of many physicians, and had 
 spent all that she had, and was nothing 
 
 bettered but rather grew worse.' Surely we 
 have ten thousand promises in the firma- 
 ment of .Scripture, bright as the stars on the 
 Ih-ow of night, to kindle and sustain our 
 hope that the Jews will soon come in great 
 numbers to the Lord Jesus Christ, the 
 great and good Physician, and that they will 
 touch the hem of His garment, and receive 
 from Him all the healing, all the strength, 
 and all the joy that they need for their mag- 
 nificent mission on earth and ministry in 
 heaven." 
 
 CONCLUDING PART OF THE JUBILEE REPORT. 
 
 WE have heard of a Sabbath school scholar 
 who was asked to repeat the Ten 
 Commandments. She began and went on all 
 right until she finished the words, " Eemem- 
 ber the Sabbath day to keep it holy." And 
 then, instead of saying, " Six days shalt 
 thou labour and do all thy work," she said, 
 " For six days our neighbours shall do all 
 our work." The great majority of pro- 
 fessing Christians have been quite content to 
 let their neighbours, the members of the 
 British Society and kindred institutions, do 
 the work in the Jewish mission field, which 
 is equally binding upon everyone who names 
 the Name of Christ. 
 
 A little girl had succeeded in cariying a 
 child almost as big as herself across a crowded 
 slippery thoroughfare in Glasgow, when her 
 foot struck the kerbstone of the pavement 
 and she fell. As she rose, a gentleman 
 stepped forward and remonstrated with her. 
 He said : " You ought not to carry a child 
 as heavy as that." She respectfully and 
 firmly replied : "No, sir, he is not heavy at 
 all : he is my brother." So she lifted the 
 lad once more in her arms and went on her 
 ■^^■^7) g'ad that she was able to be of some 
 use to her own brother. There are thousands 
 of Christians who need to be reminded of 
 their intimate relationship to the Jew, and 
 their infinite obligation to him ; and certain 
 we are that we shall not feel the Jew a bur- 
 den too heavy for us if we realize that he is 
 indeed our brother, and that it is our bounden 
 duty and our unspeakable privilege to carry 
 him to Jesus, the great Burden-bearer and 
 Brother of all. 
 
 WHAT IS OUR GREAT WANT? 
 
 Our great want is not money, not ma- 
 chinery, not methods. These we have, and 
 
 they are all more or less excellent. Our 
 want is a universal baptism. Our good 
 Vice-President, the Rev. William Aithur, 
 M.A., says : — 
 
 " Suppose we saw an army sitting down 
 before a granite fort, and they told us that 
 they intended to batter it down : we might 
 ask them, ' How ? ' They point to a cannon- 
 ball ; well, but there is no power in that ; it 
 is heavy, but not more than half-a-hundred 
 — or perhaps a hundredweight ; if all the 
 men in the army Inu'led it against the fort, 
 they would make no impression. They say, 
 ' No ; but look at the cannon. Well, there 
 is no power in that. A child may ride upon 
 it, a bird may perch in its mouth ; it is a 
 machine, and nothing more. ' But look at 
 the powder.' Well, there is no power in 
 that ; a child may spill it, a sparrow may 
 peck it. Yet this powerless powder, and 
 powerless ball, are put into the powerless 
 cannon — one spark of fire enters it — and 
 then, in the twinkling of an eye, that powder 
 is a flash of lightning, and that ball a 
 thundei-bolt, which smites as if it had been 
 sent from heaven." 
 
 So we have got the cannon-ball, the 
 cannon, and the powder ; we want, and we 
 must have, the bright and blessed fire of 
 God. We want the fire that burned in the 
 Shekinah ; the file that flashed on the 
 jewelled breast-plate of the Hebrew high 
 priest in the Holy of Holies ; we want the 
 same fire that burned and shone in Peter and 
 the re.st of the disciples on the day of Pente- 
 cost, when thousands of Jews were won to 
 Chri-st. 
 
 There are many who have the Spirit, but 
 that is not enough ; we want the Sjnrit in 
 fuluess. The fulness of the Spiiit is abso- 
 lutely necessary to high attainment in the
 
 Last Woi-ds. 
 
 487 
 
 Christian life ; necessary to that " joy of the 
 Lord " which is " strength " for service, self- 
 sacrifice, suflering ; necessary to that un- 
 quenchable enthusiasm for Christ and souls 
 which is alwMVS, sooner or later, crowned 
 with the hiifhest success. 
 
 A young sculptor of brillant promise had 
 finislied a statue of St. George, and invited 
 Michael Angelo to come and see it. It was 
 a wonderful piece of work chiselled in marble. 
 There were such marvellous proportions and 
 combinations, such blended strength and 
 grace, such majesty and energy. The entire 
 form and all the features of the face of St. 
 George seemed pulsing with life. The eye 
 seemed beaming with calm, clear, Christian 
 tliouglit ; and the feet ready and eager to 
 
 prove theii- power by moving forward. 
 Michael Angelo, as he gazed upon that 
 sculptured form and face of wondi-ous beauty, 
 was filled with admiration, assumed a fitting 
 attitude, and excliimed; " iV(«« March." 
 That was the finest tribute of piaise he could 
 have paid to the young artist. 
 
 There are ten thousand times ten thou- 
 sand gloriou? spirits standing on the heavenly 
 shore watching the celebration of this 
 Golden Jubilee, whose voice tons is: " Xow 
 March." Baptized with the Holy Spirit anew, 
 let us at once respond to the Celestial Call. 
 Let us march on, singing together in purest 
 harmony our Jubilate Deo ; let us march on 
 in our efforts for the conversion of the Jews ; 
 and through them, and with them, let us 
 march on to the Jubilee of a regenerated 
 and rejoicing world, radiant with the Glory 
 of Infinite and Eternal Love. 
 
 LAST WORDS. 
 
 DEEPER INSIGHT WANTED, 
 
 EARL CAIRNS, who was eminent as a 
 lawyer, a scholar, and a statesman, and 
 who was hardly less fhstingmshed for his 
 knowledge of, and faith in, Christian mis- 
 sions, uttered the following wise words at a 
 missionary meeting, not long before he 
 entered into rest : — 
 
 " In society we may often hear people say, 
 ' We know there is a great talk about mis- 
 sionary work ; but we think that after all 
 there is very little work done.' We have 
 heard people who have come from abroad 
 say, ' Yes, the missionaries go out there, a 
 great deal of money is spent on them, but 
 there is no result.' I have observed, how- 
 ever, that people who are in the habit of say- 
 ing such things very readily admit, when 
 questioned, that they know nothing about it ; 
 that they have never taken the trouble to in- 
 quire into it. It is considered a very smart 
 thing to condemn that about which they 
 know nothing. I l)elieve there never was a 
 time in the whole history of missions, when 
 they were so successful as now." 
 
 We want more of this spii-itual insight ex- 
 pressed by Earl Cairns. The Treasurer and 
 Secretary' of this Society from personal obser- 
 vation are convinced that the work in which 
 we are engaged is the very greatest work, and 
 is never without result. The flow-ei-s do not 
 bloom in vain ; the stars do not burn in vain ; 
 
 the sun does not shine in vain. It is his 
 silent, slanting beam — 
 
 " That gives to fields and woods their gorgeous hue, 
 And sends the pulse of life through Nature's frame." 
 
 So Christian workers among the Jews ever 
 give and gain ; their work is never in vain. 
 Every faithful C'hristian worker should be 
 encouraged by the absolute certainty of ulti- 
 mate success. The Divine ordainment in 
 the physical domain, that no force once 
 exerted is ever lo.st, is equally true in the 
 spiritual realm, with this important differ- 
 ence, that the energy expended for the 
 present and permanent well-being of Jews 
 and Gentiles is iransfonned into service ren- 
 dered unto Him who died for us, and Who 
 shall by and by say to us ; '• Inasmuch as ye 
 did it unto one of the least of these My 
 brethren, ye did it unto Me." 
 
 PRESS ox ! PRESS ON ! 
 
 When the engineers came and told the 
 Duke of Bridgewater they had come to a 
 piece of the earth's crust which was so hard 
 that even with pickaxes they could make 
 little impression save the smoke, he said, 
 " Well, go on, and as long as smoke comes, 
 something will come." And something did 
 come ; at the end succe.ss came. So, too, let 
 us pre.ss on, whatever difficulty may rise 
 before us, and something will come. Let us 
 pr&ss on, too, with more of the self-denying
 
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 489 
 
 spii-it of those who have gone before us, and 
 something good will come to each one of us 
 aa it has come to the dear departed. The 
 " mark " will come, and with the " mark " 
 " the prize of the high calling of God in 
 Christ Jesus." Sooner or later, Christ Him- 
 self will come, whose riglit it is to reign. He 
 who had formerly received the crown of 
 thoriLs, and afterwards the crown of Heaven, 
 will then receive the crown of Earth. The 
 Jew will no longer cry, " Crucify Him, Cru- 
 cify Him ! " but " Crown Him, Crown Him ! 
 Everlasting King of righteousness and peace." 
 And Gentiles all round the world will reply : 
 " Crown Him, Crown Him ! Everlasting 
 
 King of righteousness and peace." Then 
 Jews and Gentiles in chorus will cry : — 
 " Bring forth the royal diadem, and Crown 
 Him, Crown Him, King most High." Then, 
 
 The horrid diu 
 
 Of war will cease ; 
 And out and m, 
 
 There will be peace. 
 
 Each demon thing 
 
 Will flee away ; * 
 When Christ will bring, 
 
 The perfect day. 
 
 Great King of liglit 
 
 And peace, come soon, 
 And turn our night 
 
 To endless noon. 
 
 THE NEGLECTED JEWS. 
 
 By the President, Rev. J. HILES KITCHENS, D.D. 
 
 AA/HAT is this vision that disturbs my rest, 
 ' ' And turns my couch into a bed of tears ? 
 ^Vllat are these voices, raised with such a zest. 
 Sounding so plamtive in my listening ears 't 
 I see vast thousands of God's ancient race 
 Groping for light, amid a mass of woes, 
 Lifting to heaven a tear-stained troubled face, 
 Asking, " W Inch way the Prophet's foot now 
 goes I-" 
 Why does He tarry P When will He appear h 
 
 Why has He kept us waiting age on age ? 
 Is He indifl'erent to our hope aud fear ? 
 
 Mocking our patience, while the heathen 
 rage 'f " 
 I see them toss'd as chaff before the fan. 
 
 Driven from nations, where their vine once 
 grew, 
 Partridge-like fleeing from a monarch's ban, 
 Treading a path of sorrows few ere knew. 
 I hear their cry of bitter anguish, loud. 
 
 As thc-y would cry whose bread-winner were 
 dead. 
 As cliild would weep, at sight of mother's 
 shroud, 
 As bride would wail, to bier not altar led. 
 They sigh for light, for leadmg, ay ,for Christ ! 
 They call to men who've known the Saviour 
 long, 
 Who might be thought to rise and, in a trice, 
 
 By gospel tidings, turn sighs into song. 
 Yet do I see the Christian peoples dull 
 To their entreaty, dull t" duty's call. 
 
 Willing the Gentiles' rising fears to luU — 
 To feed the hungry, watch lest youth should 
 fall, 
 And give the Saviour to the savage tribes — 
 But leave the lust sheep of famed Israel's 
 house 
 To grope, and languish, neath the heartless gibes 
 Of men whom nought but gain and vice will 
 rouse. 
 How lung P O Lord, how long must Israel wait 
 
 Before the followers of Thy Son shall leam 
 Their duty to the Jew, and, ere too late. 
 
 With zealous efl'orts tow'ard Thy people turn ? 
 Not as the Priest and Levite turn'd of old. 
 
 But as the good Samaritan, who knelt 
 Beside the needy one, so faint and cold, 
 
 And like a brother with a brother dealt. 
 Let those, whom Tliou hast gifted with earth's 
 wealth. 
 Keep not their gold m napkins hid from sight, 
 But use it for the Jew, and, as by stealth, 
 Thus gain from Thee Thy smile, so sweet and 
 bright. 
 Arouse Thy children — those who love to pray — 
 That they may bring the Jew before Thy 
 throne. 
 And, there, their helping hands upon him lay, 
 
 That he no more maj' gi-ope his way alone 
 But be led up to see, with beaming face. 
 The Long-expected has already come. 
 And feel consoled beneath His wing of grace, 
 Finding in Jesus Christ the heart's true home.
 
 490 
 
 Memories of Gospd Triumphs am,ong the Jews. 
 
 THE GLORIOUS INGATHERING FOR ETERNITY. 
 
 " They that sow iu tears shall reap in joy. 
 Though he goeth on his way weepiug, 
 
 bearing forth the seed ; 
 He shall come again with joy, bringing 
 his sheaves with him." — Psalms cxxvi., 5, 6. 
 
 " They joy before Thee according to the 
 joy in harvest." — Isaiah ix., 3. 
 
 THE JOY OK HARVEST. 
 
 ' See full^of hope, thou trustest to the e.arth 
 The golden seej, and waitest till the spring 
 Sunuiions the buried to .a h.ippler birth ; 
 
 But in time's furrow duly scattering, 
 Think'st thou how deeds, by wisdom sown, may be 
 Silently ripened for Etei-nity." 
 
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