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ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF THE LONDON SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY AMONGST THE JEWS.

THE large room of Exeter Hall was densely crowded by the friends of the Society, at the Annual Meeting, on Friday, May 8. The venerable President of the Society, Sir Thomas. Baring, was unable to preside, from the growing infirmities of advanced age. We know that his heart and his prayers were engaged, and his best wishes, for that cause which he has befriended by his counsel and his contributions during so many years. May his evening of life be bright and calm, and may he, in the abundance of peace and hope, realize the fulfilment of the Divine promise, "I will bless them that bless thee!"

The Right Honourable Lord Ashley, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society, occupied the chair. The boys and girls of the Schools established by the Society, in London, who were, as is usual at the Anniversary Meetings, placed on either side of the platform, were then addressed by the Rev. Dr. Marsh. We give nearly all his address, for our readers are rational, sinful, yet redeemed creatures, and need exactly the same lessons of instruction as are communicated to these children of the ancient people of God. Dr. Marsh said :

"Dear children! Frequently have I had opportunities of addressing you; and as it has pleased God to spare my life to the present time, I am happy to address you again. I have much to say, but I shall endeavour to compress it in a few words. Dear children, it has pleased our gre

Then shall the Christian's heart be cold
Sheltered within the Saviour's fold?
O, can we now forgetful prove,
Of our Redeemer's dying love?
Christ is the Lamb once slain for us,
He bore our guilt upon
the cross;
He died, that we might die to sin,
He rose, that we might live with him.

Now from corruption's bonds released,
Joyful we'll keep the Saviour's feast;
While in the souls his love doth free
No leaven of sin can harboured be,
But, by the Holy Spirit's light,

They strive to cleanse themselves aright;
Their guilt they mourn, Christ's love they feel,
And humbly round his table kneel.

One hope still cheers sad Israel's breast,
That he shall be ere long at rest:

His sorrows past, his wand'rings o'er,

When he shall reach loved Canaan's shore.
"Thy temple quickly build," he cries,
"And let thy people's glory rise;
"From servitude once more set free,
"Jerusalem our home shall be.'

Lord, teach these blinded Jews to own.
Christ as the "precious Corner-stone;"
Thy promise is for ever sure,

On Him the temple stands secure;
Let Israel own their Saviour-God,
No more to feel Thy chastening rod;
Let them now turn in faith to Thee,
That they more prosp'rous times may see.
Still must the Christian's prayer ascend,
That God the vail will quickly rend,
That vail so long o'er Israel cast,
And brightly shine on them at last;
Then shall one grateful song arise
From Jews and Gentiles, to the skies;
Hosannahs through the world shall ring
To Christ, our Saviour, and our King.

Macintosh, Printer, Great New-street, London.

THE JEWISH ADVOCATE.

JUNE, 1846.

BIBLE HISTORY OF THE JEWS.
CHAPTER XIII.

THE first-born of the king whose throne
That gorgeous realm obeyed;
The first-born of the captive lone
Deep in the dungeon laid.—
The sleep of ages holdeth him!
The prince and the pale slave !
And thy sad wailings, Mizraim !
Rose wild above the grave.

Oh! Israel went forth hastily,
They waited not for day;

When woke the night that fearful cry,

They hurried them away.

The presence of the taskmaster,

The hope-entombing river,
The house of bondage and of fear,
They quitted them for ever!*

AND now the tenth and final plague was coming, and Moses said, Thus saith the Lord, "About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt, and all the first-born in the land of Egypt shall die; and all the first-born of beasts. And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there was none like it, nor shall be like it any more."

From "the Hebrew," by the Author of "Historical Reveries."

Meanwhile the Israelites were commanded to take a lamb without blemish, according to the size of their households, and to keep it until the evening before this terrible plague should fall upon the Egyptians, when they were to kill and eat it in haste, with bitter herbs and unleavened bread, with their loins girded, their shoes on their feet, and each man with his staff in his hand, ready to depart. dip a bunch of hyssop in its blood, and sprinkle their door-posts with it. This slain lamb was a

They were told to

type of Christ our Passover, sacrificed for us! For, said Moses, "The Lord will pass through to smite the Egyptians, and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel and on the two side-posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. And ye shall observe this night for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever." And when asked by their children in time to come, "What mean ye by this service?" they were to say, "It is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses."

On the tenth day of this month, which from this time was to be unto them the first month of the year, they were to take a spotless lamb, and keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, when they were to slay it in the evening, and observe the appointed feast, at once a memorial of past deliverance, and a type of future blessing.

All was done as Moses commanded. And lo ! whilst the Israelites were engaged in these observances, the great cry arose at midnight: for