thought too sanguine, when we believe that it may be for the sole purpose, that thus light might be brought there, where the darkness of ignorance, superstition and unbelief are spreading their deadly shades? The disciples of the Lord fled in all directions on account of the severe persecutions which arose against them; and wherever they went, they brought with them the seed of eternal life. Thus let us who love the Lord Jesus Christ, earnestly pray that this may also become the case with these our dear converts. O may the Lord be with them, and give them boldness to profess his holy name without fear; may he keep them by his power, through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed!'

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All ye who read this, and are in the faith, help me with your prayers in this great work the Lord has given me to do, for I have not to wrestle with flesh and blood, but with the powers of darkness. O may Israel speedily be delivered and saved by the Lord Jesus Christ!"

In a subsequent letter, dated March 7th, Mr. Pauli alludes again to the case of this young Jewess and her cousin :

"I did not hear of her having been ill-treated till after it had taken place. If I could have prevented it with the risk of my life, I should have felt happy in doing it. The police director was afterwards informed that the Jews had illtreated the girl, and he said she must come herself, and make her complaint. She remains shut up among the Jews, so close that she can have no communication with a Christian. However, she remains, as I have learnt, steadfast in her faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who strengthens and supports her under her trials, sevcre as they

are.

In due time he will deliver. I have taken the proper means to protect her.

"As it regards her cousin, with whom she came to me, and whose case is so interwoven with her's, I am happy to say that he also remains steadfast in his faith in the blessed Redeemer. It was only last week that he was in the house of Benjamin von Geldern, a pious Jewish believer, whom I baptized, with his family, two years ago,-to whom he related, with tears in his eyes, that the Lord Jesus Christ is his only comfort and consolation under his present trials. His father and other Jews prevent him from being baptized at present. He professes publicly, among Jews and Christians, that Jesus Christ is his Saviour. He is far advanced in the knowledge of Christianity; may the Lord strengthen his faith to follow the example of father Abraham, and leave his kindred, and be led by the blessed Jesus into the land of promise.

"Deeply afflicting as these trials are for me, yet I bless the Lord for them, for it is necessary that such witnesses for the truth should arise among the Jews, and prove their sincerity by sufferings, such as both these individuals endured and still endure."

In a letter, dated June 6th, Mr. Pauli says

Sarah is still retained among the Jews, and closely watched, and not allowed to move out of the sight of a bigotted Jewish family; but she remains steadfast in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. The rabbies have imposed upon her to fast every Monday and Thursday; but she finds means to supply her hunger. Of late her Jewish mistress, a very harsh and forbidding sort of person, injured her foot, and could not get about to watch Sarah's movements, who then came

secretly to a pious family belonging to my Church, and was much refreshed in body and mind. She begged for a New Testament, 12mo., which was given her, and the joy and gratitude she expressed would be difficult to describe. Sarah repeated her visit, and said that she cannot restrain her tongue from speaking a good word for her blessed Saviour to his bitter enemies, for who can tell,' she said, 'whether it may not turn one of them from his unbelief to belief?' One day she became very bold, and the Jews afraid to beat her, took to an old trick of Satan, to lying. They told Sarah all was now of no use to her, 'the Zion's Chapel is shut up, for that Pauli has been obliged to leave Amsterdam; van Geldern has been cast into prison for theft, and de Vries has gone back to the synagogue,' and as to the other proselytes, I know not what shameful lies were told about them. The poor girl became greatly alarmed when hearing these reports. The evening came, she ran into the street where our chapel is, she saw people going in, she trembled for joy, she saw me at a distance entering the chapel too; soon came van Geldern with de Vries, now she could no longer restrain herself, she came running to them, and they had the joy of hearing a confession of faith, and of noticing a degree of ardent love to the blessed Jesus, such as only a highly favoured soul can feel. They exhorted her to remain steadfast to the end, as the time may soon be at hand when the Lord will turn her captivity, and redeem her from all her troubles. She was then obliged to leave them.

"Let us continue to pray for this child of Abraham, that she may remain a faithful witness of Christ, in the midst of all her afflictions and trials. ' (To be continued,)

FRUGALITY AND GENEROSITY.

A USEFUL hint may be gathered from the following story. How much larger would the contributions to all our Institutions be, if we saved all we could that we might give all we could!

"Some ladies, collecting for a charitable institution, called on a rich financier, in order to solicit a donation. Overhearing him finding fault with a clerk, who had thrown away a pen which might have been still serviceable, our visit is in vain,' said one of the ladies, in a low voice; there is nothing to be expected for the poor from a man who is so stingy about an old pen.'

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'They were, however, astonished when the financier most graciously gave them a large sum of money. They could not resist telling him what their apprehensions had been in respect of the pen, when he answered them: Ladies, it is by the strictest economy in the arrangements of my house, that I save that which enables me to contribute to the very charitable institutions for which you are collecting.'"*

Let our young readers learn a lesson from this anecdote. SAVE ALL YOU CAN, THAT YOU MAY GIVE ALL YOU CAN.

THE JEWS IN LONDON.

THE REV. Mr. Douglas, a minister of the Church of Scotland, sees much of the Jews in London. He is himself of the seed of Abraham, according to the flesh, and deeply interested in the spiritual

* Quoted from Moral and Religious Tales, in the Jewish Chronicle.

condition of his brethren. He gives a weekly lecture in the Jewish quarter of the city, which "has excited a considerable portion of interest amongst the Jews; some treating his statements with contempt, while others are anxious to acquire information and to receive instruction.”

Mr. Douglas gives the following account of the London Jews:

"The twenty or twenty-five thousand native and foreign Jews inhabiting the metropolis, may be described as Portuguese, German, and Polish, according to the various countries from which they come; their fortunes in those countries having so powerfully affected their intellectual and religious character, as to distinguish even those who have lived here for a century or more. But when considered in a religious point of view, they are better divided into orthodox and reformed.

"The former admit in theory the divine inspiration of the Old Testament Scriptures, but insist on these being interpreted in complete submission to the rabbies; the latter totally reject the rabbies, and maintain the sufficiency of the Scriptures of themselves, as a rule of faith and morals.

"I do not think that the reformed can be said to have reached the end of their reforms. Their state is still one of transition, and they seem to be poising between infidelity and the religion of Christ. One of them writes: The Bible is the message of love from a pitying father to his repentant and believing children. This is the Bible, the whole Bible, and not the Mosaic books alone. It is the foundation of religion. In it we

* Home and Foreign Missionary Record of the Church of Scotland, for August, 1848.