As yet I cannot speak of any abiding impression having been made on the hearts of any of the others attending the class, though they all like reading the New Testament, and even ask for it. I may say, however, that four of them, very respectably connected, are more promising. We lately read our Lord's memorable prayer, the 17th of John; and His submission to the will of the Father. They were moved to tears. Their ignorance of the historical part of the Scriptures is very great, so that they can hardly identify the founder of the Christian religion with Jesus. The adage lately read in a German book, "Time gained is great gain," was realised best by Christ, as the day had already commenced for Him, and still continued—when others were bound by the fetters of sleep. He continually did the works of Him who sent Him. One of them asked me the question then: "Is this the same we read of in the New Testament?" They lately purchased two Bible histories, containing the most essential extracts of the Old and New Testament, one for two of them, being brothers.

with her husband and

You will, I am sure, be glad to hear that Mrs. daughter, called on us a few days ago. I have already mentioned her's as a most interesting case; they spent a whole afternoon with us, and seemed very interested in our religious conversation; the girl thanked me heartily for the Testament I sent her and expressed great delight in reading it. Mrs. begged me to supply them with religious books, considering them most useful. They urged us to visit them frequently; Mrs. 's love to Christ and His doctrines is surely great, but I fear the difficulties in her way are still greater; it is only the Lord who is able to call forth those feelings into exercise, and enable her to sacrifice all that she has and is for Him who has offered a greater sacrifice than any she can bring; meanwhile I must with patience look for opportunities of conversing with her, to speak more on the influence of earnest prayer, until the persuasive love of Christ constrains her to lie low at the foot of the Cross. I am in the habit of visiting a Spanish family, of the name of They all speak English, the mother being an English Jewess from London. They are in the possession of an English Bible, which I am glad to say they diligently read; he makes very few objections to the doctrines of Christ; on the contrary, listens with attention and respect, his only reply being, however unreasonable, that in "his advanced state of life, how could he change the religion of his fathers ?"

I lately came in contact with two Odessa Jews travelling this way; they seemed very glad to find a missionary resident in this place, and purchased two New Testaments, stating that they had intended doing so at but had forgotten; however, imbued with rational principles, the name of Jesus was synonymous to them with excellence in the highest conceivable degree-in short, as a being superior to all. May this reverence lead them to a more serious inquiry concerning the person of our blessed Saviour, who, as far as I could gather from their expressions, seemed a mysterious being to them!

Since I last wrote, I was also visited by Mr. and all his family, to wish us a happy new year; also by Mr.'s family, the wealthy money changer I lately menetioned; Mr. --, the banker's family; and another very respectable Jew. I mention this because all similar visits are highly conducive to the promotion of our most holy object. With regard to the school, the contending parties have not yet come to an greement, though the government has acknowledged the school and the appointed deacons. The opposition party is strong, and use every effort to frustrate this, and with very good reason, stating that the school may be a private one, and whosoever wishes to attend, let him pay; but they will by no means agree to the imposition of a meat-tax, which, if legally enforced, they will excommunicate any member of the community buying it; nor do they acknowledge the deacons, the chief of whom is

Mr. --. The first in the opposition is Mr. names mentioned in my reports; it is difficult, therefore, to undertake anything at present, the result being as yet dubious.

MR. GOTTHEIL's remarks are so appropriate and forcible, that we commend them to the attention of our readers, although not accompanied by any facts of recent occurrence:

I was very thankful for your kind note of the 3rd, and its encouraging contents: we have indeed much reason to thank God and to take courage. The signs that He has risen to have mercy upon Zion seem on the increase, and I believe that ere long the world will look at these things with awe and wonder, and will desire to know what mean these things?

In saying so, I cannot, of course, just lay my fingers on this fact or that. The things of the kingdom of God are discernable more by their hues and the general features they assume, than by mere dry facts. Facts are already the results of a mighty working, with power from on high, and are not always vouchsaved to the outward eye-our faith is to be exercised thereby; the Lord expects of us a patient continuance in well-doing. There would be no need for faith, and hope, and patience, if facts did abound. I believe we are given facts to see just enough to sustain our faith, that our labour is not in vain; had we more, we might grow haughty and proud, and selfsufficient; we might lift up our heads and our minds and say, "See, this is the work of our hands." But if not seeing much, we hope much, believe much, pray without ceasing; when the time comes, as it surely will, that our faith is changed into sight, and our hope into fruition, oh! what a glorious amount of facts shall then be set forth before our eyes to the praise and glory of redeeming love!

The longer I am in the work, the more I learn to be satisfied with the gracious promise of our Divine Master, that His word shall not return void, but accomplish that for which it has been sent. Am I going about bearing precious seed, sure in due time that seed will yield its fruit? is it that I am not to see this yield? I am content that it be so; the Lord of the vineyard knows best; I know there is, in His divine economy, a time for all things,-a time for sowing, a time for growing, a time for reaping, &c. It will not do for me to try to be wiser than my Master, and to insist on things coming to pass when their season has not yet come. "Be still and know that I am God," says He; and if God, He is true and faithful; neither does He repent of His gifts and callings. And, my dear friend, He does above what we have a right to look for. He has a right to ask of us the labour of faith, and we are bound to yield it, though we saw not the least indication that our labour yields a fruit, but in His great mercy, He just, as it were, uplifts the veil that shrouds the things of this kingdom from our view, and reveals to our adoring gaze here a fact and there a fact; here a Jewish philosopher brought to the foot of the cross-there a Jewish sister dying in Jesus,-in another place an aged pilgrim confessing in his last moments that Jesus has been all along precious to him, and that He is now the only stay of his departing soul,-there again a Jewish youth yielding up all that he may win Christ, &c.; and shall we not be encouraged thereby? If the Lord gives more than we have a right to look for, shall we not be filled with gratitude and praise? Oh! that all the friends of Israel and of the Saviour's kingdom would lay this well to heart.

I have just received a letter from a Jewish teacher, in which he informs me that he is publishing, in a Jewish periodical, a series of papers, setting forth instances of Christian kindness and affection shewn to Jews; his object, he says, is to shew that there are God-enlightened Christians, who mean well towards the Jew, and that

therefore it is wrong to designate all Christians as haters of Jews. Another sign of the times let us do good and not faint.

BRESLAU.

From Breslau, we have very interesting information, solemnly shadowed, as several of MR. SCHWARTZ's have been, by the wing of death:

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Amongst those who frequented my lodgings during the October fair, for the purpose of inquiry and missionary intercourse, were two Jewish young men, natives of Poland; they were well instructed in the Hebrew Scriptures, took the most lively interest in the truth as it is in Christ Jesus during our conversations, and were always the last to leave; especially when, as our intercourse assumed a mode of teaching, rather than disputation, they would still linger, and modestly ask another question, or would beg for a repeated explanation of a passage which they did not quite understand; and thus they spent, almost every day, several hours together for nearly a fortnight, showing that they were impressed by the truth, and anxious to know more of it. After the fair was over, and the majority of the foreign Jews had left the town, I thought that, as they took leave of me together, they were also among that number; but in that supposition I was mistaken. Through some delay in business, they were kept back, and availed themselves of the opportunity to resume their visits me, and I was one evening surprised by their presence. When we resumed again our wonted topic, a remarkable feature in their behaviour was visible, viz., their increased frankness and candour, which I could only ascribe to the fact of their being alone with me, and being freed from that restraint which necessarily keeps back the mind of the Jew when in the presence of others. In this I was soon confirmed by the observations they made to that effect. I had on this occasion full opportunity to observe how mightily they were impressed with the Gospel truths, and how completely they appreciated them, and from this time onward, the whole of their leisure time, during nearly a month, was devoted to search the truth, making every day more progress in the conviction that Jesus of Nazareth was the real Messiah, of whom Moses and the Prophets did write. The time of their final departure, however, arrived, and we all looked with regret to the hour of separation, and our only solace was, that we should soon see each other again; but, above all, that the belief on the crucified Redeemer was beginning to dawn in their souls. They took an affectionate leave of me, and thanked me for the trouble I had taken with them, and for the New Testament and other Christian books I gave them, and having commended them to the Lord in prayer, they left me to set out, that very evening, with the express, to the frontiers of Russia. They were in the best health and spirits. It appears that no sooner had they arrived at the train than one of them was suddenly taken ill, and before the other had time to inquire into particulars, and they were seated in the carriage, he fell suddenly back, and expired without a groan. All attempts to bring him again to life proved fruitless. The mournful intelligence I did not receive until after the body had been interred, and only then his companion found time to inform me of it, and it was indeed overwhelming to me, since it was the second case of sudden death in the circle of my acquaintances within no short a time. O, that peace may have been with him in the last hour of agony! Sudden deaths have, within the last few weeks, increased to an alarming extent; we know not how soon it may be our turn also; may we be prepared to meet the Lord!

Some time ago I made the acquaintance of a Jewish gentleman of this place, a physician, whom I at first met at the house of some friends, believing Israelites, who gave me to understand that he was a total unbeliever in the Divine revelations, and I therefore waited for a fit opportunity to be able to turn our conversation seemed to a religious topic. It was not long before I succeeded, and although D to hide as much as he could his infidel opinions, as he was assailed on all sides, yet I could perceive, to my great regret, that he was deeply tainted with the pernicious notions of modern infidelity, from which the whole mode of education here is quite inseparable. To drive him out from his imagined strongholds, I simply referred him to God's dealings with Israel, and showed him how literally everything has been fulfilled which had been foretold ages before concerning them, and which he could not in the least gainsay. I took advantage of the impression it obviously made upon him, and preached Jesus as the promised Saviour of the world, and urged the necessity of faith in the work of redemption, which He accomplished by His voluntary death and glorious resurrection, to which he attentively listened, though I could not perceive that it made any decided impression upon him. At leaving, I invited him to visit me at my own lodgings, which he promised to do. He was not long before he fulfilled his promise. On the following Lord's day evening, he came and spent about three hours with me in discussing the things that pertain to life everlasting; and such was his attention, that it was never for a moment wished, or desired, to turn to another subject. On this occasion, he had a full opportunity to open his mind freely, and he mentioned the doubts and all the improbabilities (as he called them) which agitated his mind concerning revealed religion, and I had likewise a most excellent season, not only to remove the most of his objections, but once more to unfold and display the grand theme of Redemption. Before leaving, he told me of his firm resolution to study the New Testament. That it may lead him to the knowledge of Jesus, whom to know is life eternal, and likewise all those to whom I have been privileged to preach the everlasting Gospel, is the prayer of your humble and devoted servant,

G. F. SCHWARTZ.

PARIS.

THE following extract from Mr.J. BRUNNER's report is important, as indicating the Jewish mind concerning the papacy and genuine Christianity. May we have grace to adorn the doctrine we profess, and holy zeal in preaching Christ to those who feel the need of spiritual relief, and revolt from the idolatry and folly of popery!—

My intercourse with my Jewish brethren during this month has been particularly interesting. The present political horizon-rousing their hopes against a fabric that disfigures the divine spring of truth, and converts the teaching of the everlasting Gospel into a reproach to Christendom, and has been to them, as a nation, an incessant cause of their past and present hardships,-seems to provoke amongst them, now, a movement in favour of Protestantism, which they admit to hold forth the truth in relative purity.

The enmity of the Jews against Catholicism is a logical consequence; they have a long time confounded that system with Christianity; but they have now grown sufficiently enlightened to distinguish between the teaching of Christ and the precepts of men, and consequently to withdraw their aversion from the former, and hurl it upon the latter with its weight of responsibility. The momentous question of the May, in its immediate import and remote bearing, is therefore a subject of their

dearest interest. According to them, God has raised up an Alexander to cut asunder the gordian knot of Roman thraldom. On this important subject it is interesting to find the Jew the natural ally of Protestantism, and uniting with it in its prayer for the subversion of their common foe. In consequence of this present pre-occupation on the part of the Jews, my visits during this month were particularly courted, and my preaching of a truth that exhibits its principle of love to God, and good-will to man, was listened to with devout attention. Most of these conversations, I trust, were profitable, although I was often obliged to accompany them on the terrain of their present favourite topic.

On one of these occasions a highly respectable and well-educated Jew observed that Catholicism, by its life and practice, has itself forged the moral ghetto which bas, till now, not only secluded but actually preserved the Jews from the gulf of Catholic error,-just as it has, by the same agent, laid the foundation of its own successive demolition; and that, although the persecution which it wielded, from its good olden times, with a refinement of taste and charity which did it so much honour, made far less infraction upon the phalanx of Judaism than the late endeavours of Protestantism, which, in a practical point of view, he said, proved its really formidable and entirely absorbing opponent; yet he heartily voted for the latter, because he believed it destined to possess the 'Avenir' of the world, whereas Rome was not only branded with the curse of Cain, but actually had now upon its walls the divine decrees: Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin.

Another intelligent Jew, Mr. who loves the Lord Jesus, and whom I mentioned on former opportunities, in a religious conversation with me, acutely remarked, that a Pope deprived of his temporal power might, perhaps, prove a greater calamity to the world than in the possession of the same, as his passive or mere spiritual character, addressing itself more effectually to the passions and weaknesses of his adherents, would soon raise him to a far more gigantic influence and sway over conscience than in his temporal capacity, which, being a perpetual cause of animadversion, is likewise one of a salutary check to this influence. I record these Jewish opinions merely as an index of their feelings in the present conjuncture. I think I mentioned before, my acquaintance with a Jewish family, lately arrived from Galicia, and I am thankful to say that my intercourse with them is proving increasingly beneficial to their souls. They begin to acknowledge their lost and miserable stato as sinners, and the necessity of a Redeemer, whom I point out to them from Scripture to be, in truth, the Lord Jesus. It, is interesting to witness the firsteffects of the dawn of light beaming upon minds that have long been engrossed in ignorance and materialism, and listen to the first remarks prompted by the soothing comforts of the Gospel. May the Lord, in His mercy, lead this family to a full knowledge of Himself, and participation of His blessings !

COLOGNE.

Mr. WM. BrunnER is permitted to see that his endeavours to exhibit Christ as the Hope of Israel, and the Saviour thereof, have not been in vain :

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I mentioned to you in my former report the case of a Jewish girl, who has been lately roused from her state of religious carelessness and indifference, and whose thoughts I have recently directed to the all-important subject of the veracity and truthfulness of the Gospel. This person passed, a short time ago, a whole day at my house, and I availed myself then of the opportunity to expound to her the whole plan of salvation, as revealed in the Gospel, and to enforce the great truth upon her conviction, that Jesus was the Messiah, in whom the whole design and purport of the Mosaic covenant, together with, the promises and prophecies of the Old Testament,