10 thalers for his mission, and 10 thalers for his poor.'

"Two women, who earn their bread with their needle, have during this year also contributed a large sum for missionary purposes, 54 thalers, (£8 28.)

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Many children in different places save all their pennies and half-pennies, even the money for their sugar and butter, that they may have something to give to the mission. Even children of the poorest people have sent contributions; some earned the money by collecting rags and bones, others have gone on errands, others have copied papers, others have begged for money instead of birth-day presents."

A JEWISH TEACHER.

MR. SKOLKOWSKI speaks of a Jewish teacher with whom he had long had much intercourse, and of him the Christian Pastor often said, that he was not far from the Kingdom of God.

On one occasion, before they separated, Mr. Skolkowski asked him whether he did not believe that Jesus was the promised Messiah. The aged Jew lifted up his eyes and hands, and replied thus :

"As true as God lives, whom I trust and serve so true is all which is written in the New

that it sometimes produces two crops from the same plant in the course of the year.

In some countries it is called guinea-corn. In

China and Japan the seed of the millet is much smaller than that which is found in the Holy Land. It is not only good for the use of man, but it is also much used for feeding birds.

THE SCHOOL AT BUCHAREST.

Mr. KleinhenN writes thus about the progress of the school :

"On the school-roll I have 196 girls and 56 boys, as having attended in the course of the year; making no less than 621 children since June, 1856. Our schools are opened and closed with prayer. Bible History and Geography occupy a prominent place in the instruction given, with which is mixed up a catechetical and conversational teaching of the truths of the Bible, both Old and New Testaments. 110 Library books were lent last quarter.

"One little lad, who through a long period regularly attended the services in the house of God, being in the school, said, 'We could live without Christ, but not die without Him;' and he added, ‘In order not to be compelled to die without Him, without peace and hope, wę must in life live to Christ.' In the house of God he responds in the most audible manner, also repeating the Belief.”

REV. W. FENNER'S JOURNAL.

(Continued from page 111.)

Rabbinical opposition to the School.

DR. BENCINI informed me that upwards of ninety children, Jewish and others, had begged for admittance to the new school, and whenever I visited his house I invariably found him surrounded by young Israelites,

to whom he was imparting instruction before the preparatory arrangements could be completed. These always joined me in a religious conversation with much apparent satisfaction; although at this early period I had to proceed with the greatest caution, lest they should take alarm and keep away altogether; the Jews of Susa being almost as difficult to deal with as those of Tunis. On one occasion, during my absence in Monastier, a young Israelite came to Dr. B.'s house, bringing with him his uncle, a rabbi of the town. This sly old man, who had evidently come for the purpose of discovering our real intentions in Susa, immediately set to work examining the various books and papers laying on the table. To the Hebrew Bible and some other works he could not object; but when his eye encountered some tracts, and the so much dreaded New Testament, all in the sacred tongue, he quietly slipped one of the former into his pocket, and walked off with an air of triumph. With such demonstrative evidence in his possession, he successfully persuaded his Superior to excommunicate all those who should attend the school. The number of daily visitors immediately fell from twenty and thirty to two or three trembling individuals, and when at length the 21st July, the day appointed for the opening of the school, had arrived, no less than nineteen children were admitted, but not one of these was of Jewish origin; all, with the exception of one lad of colour and four or five Italians, were Maltese. The temptation, however, to the Jews was too great. Although unwilling to join the classes, some five or six walked in during the morning as passive spectators, and by the end of the first week the number of scholars had increased to forty-one, amongst whom might have been seen one Israelite. During the succeeding week, probably in consequence of Romish interference, the attendance was reduced to twenty-five, but another Jew joined us, and thereby encouraged the hope that ere long the effect of rabbinical hostility will wear off.

This opposition salutary.

That we should have to contend with a systematic opposition on the part of the rabbies, and that especially at the outset, is what I had already counted on, and pre

pared our schoolmaster for; and instead of being in any way discouraged thereby I hail it with thankfulness, as nothing is more calculated to open the eyes of the Jews in general to the baneful system of rabbinism, which is to keep them in ignorance and darkness. The manner in which our project was received by the rising generation, and the numbers that flocked to Dr. B.'s dwelling before the aforesaid cherem was pronounced, give sufficient proof that their views do not coincide with the wishes of their blind spiritual guides, and that although they may for the moment have received a check, their general desire for enlightenment and thirst after truth will ultimately overcome all their scruples. Ruins of Ancient Carthage.

To the right, on the other side of the lake, may be seen a plain of some ten miles in length, rising towards the sea, where it forms a bold and highly romantic coast, on which are distinctly conspicuous the modern town of Sidi Bou Said, and a small church erected by the French to the memory of St. Louis, who died here on his crusade to the Holy land. The whole of this space was once the site of ancient Carthage, that played so great a part in the world's history, and whose present desolation has so often been the subject of wonder and regret to many a curious traveller. With the exception of some well preserved and gigantic cisterns, as also the remains of what is supposed to have been the Temple of Esculapius, together with a few heaps of stones, pointing out the spot where once stood the Temple of Saturn, in which that most revolting scene of all heathenism-the casting of children by their mothers into the red-hot brazen arms of Moloch-was transacted, nothing remains to tell of the former greatness of this once famous rival of Rome, so well has that "besom of destruction," Mohammedanism, done its work.

Islamism the declared foe to Christianity.

Numerous are the vestiges of heathenism and idolatry, scattered about the Regency of Tunis, but you look in vain for some trace of the once flourishing Christian Church, in which such men as Augustine, Tertullian, and Cyprian, laboured and died. No better proof can be given of the hatred and intolerance of the followers of