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The year that approaches, O bring us to Jerusalem."

On this occasion, the master of the family amongst the very pious Jews, is clothed in his burial shroud, to remind him and his family of death and judgment. During this festival they are not allowed to eat leaven of any kind, and this will continue for eight days, until the 18th of the month. I would, then, earnestly solicit the prayers of God's people, in behalf of my dear Jewish brethren, that they may be directed to the true Paschal Lamb, "Christ our Passover who is sacrificed for us," both Jew and Gentile ; then shall they keep the feast, "not with the old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth."

Letter from a believing Jew to a friend, who is also a believing Jew. Dated 14th day of Nisan Passover, 5602.

"PEACE AND ABUNDANCE OF BLESSINGS TO YOU, MY DEAR FRIEND!-I cannot help informing you of the great joy that I enjoy at present, and that I will rejoice on the coming feast of Passover, and will offer thanks to the Lord God that he has enlightened my eyes. This is the first Passover that I know our true Messiah, the sure mercies of David.' Whilst on the past years I rejoiced with Passover cakes, the four cups of wine, the Seròah, the Aphikomen, bitter herbs, and many other carnal things, as a remembrance of the Passover, even the sacrifice which the children of Israel, our ancestors, offered up, when they went out from

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Egypt, from bondage into liberty. Not so, on the ensuing Passover, I will rejoice and give thanks to God for the Lamb that taketh away the sins of the world,' even the Lamb of the true Passover. I will rejoice in common with the true Israelites, a spiritual joy in the blood of Jesus Christ, which cleanseth us from all sin. Amen. May you rejoice in the joy of this feast according to your soul's desire, together with the venerable Rabbi, a lover of righteousness and uprightness, with his wife and family. Ever your faithful friend,

SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY AMONGST THE

JEWS.

THE following extract of a letter from a Clergyman resident on the Continent, to a friend in England, is both encouraging and instructive; encouraging as showing that there is a great work going on amongst the Jews; instructive, as teaching us how necessary it is that Christians should walk worthy of their holy profession, lest their worldliness and neglect of God's Sabbath should continue to be a stumbling-block to the Jews:

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I am happy to inform you that the Jews here are in a most enquiring state of mind. Mr. and his family have lately been baptized in this city. He is a man immensely rich; no earthly motive could, therefore, have induced

him to break loose from the entanglements of Judaism, and to attach himself to the little flock of Christ; and I hope ere long, with God's grace upon my present labours, to baptize a family of eleven, a respectable merchant in this city. His eldest son is already a member of my congregation, and the father and family occasionally attend. After many a mental struggle, his judgment is now convinced; but there are some strongholds of Judaism to be yet broken down-some prejudices to be removed; and one of the greatest stumbling-blocks is the dissolute lives of many who call themselves Christians. I saw him yesterday, when he observed to me, Can the Messiah be come, when on Sunday last we witnessed such scenes of vice and immorality? It is now the annual fair, when the whole population appear to be in a state of mental derangement. Oh, how necessary, for the sake of others as well as for ourselves, is it for us who acknowledge Jesus as our Messiah, to let our light so shine before men, that others may see our good works, and glorify our Father who is in heaven. Tell this to your friends, that they may be induced to spare a little for the Society for promoting Christianity amongst the Jews."

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JERUSALEM.

THE following extracts from a letter of the late beloved Bishop Alexander, written in 1845, will interest many of our readers :

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I so often refer back with much interest to the seasons of high privilege

which I enjoyed in happy England-happy even in the midst of all her trials and distractions— when I was permitted to be a humble advocate of, and witness for the cause of truth in reference to my poor benighted and fallen nation; and whilst I am content to be where the Lord in his Providence has placed me, and patiently to bear the trials of my more conspicuous position, I cannot but often wish it were even now permitted me to have such opportunities of telling our friends what mine eyes have since seen, and my ears heard, of the state of my brethren in this Land of their Fathers. I should indeed have to speak of mercy and judgment. I see daily before me the desolation of the land once designated the joy of all lands. I see not one stone left upon another of that beautiful temple, which was once the joy of the whole earth : Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation, our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised the Lord, is burned up with fire, and all their pleasant things are laid waste. Mine eyes, mine eyes run down with water when I see all this occupied by the abomination of desolation. I see the affecting sight of the poor blinded children of the promise repairing every Friday afternoon to the site of the temple, mingling their tears of lamentation with their prayers, which seem to go no farther than the stones which they moisten with their tears; for they are not heard; their prayers do not enter into the ears of the Lord of Hosts, and all this because Israel hath grievously sinned; they have rejected the Holy One of Israel; they have despised the Lord of Glory, and tremendous have been his judgments upon them; for under

the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem.

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"Yet in the midst of all this, there is mercy. Yes, the eye of faith may discern it, even in these very judgments: For thus saith the Lord, like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people (of which we are eye-witnesses), so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.' The very fact of our being here, to behold these judgments, and to sympathize with them, and endeavour to alleviate their sufferings, bodily and spiritually, is surely a sign of God's returning mercy to them, although, alas! in their blindness they know not the day of their visitation. The fact of so considerable a number of Jews having been allowed to retain a hold upon this city of their forefathers, although under cruel oppression, misery, and poverty, is a token of mercy in the midst of judgment. And as regards our own work, in reference to the city and land generally, and to the people of Israel in particular, we have indeed to speak of mercy. Whatever

the enemy, in his varied form of attack, may put forth in opposition to the work of God here, the fact of a branch of the Anglican Protestant Episcopal Church having obtained a footing on Mount Zion, under all the peculiarly remarkable circumstances, in immediate connection with the interests of the people of Israel, can be considered otherwise than as a mercy by him only who is ignorant of God's purposes as revealed in His holy word, and who wilfully shuts his eyes against the signs of the times. Every one who enters our Church on the Lord's-day, and sees our congregation, composed of Jews and Gen

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