intends his ancient people; of Zion, that Mount Zion is meant; and of Jerusalem, that that city is pointed out, so much of whose history is written in the holy Scriptures, they will understand that blessed book the better and they will love it more. The narrative sent by the Bishop is as follows:

"It has pleased God to visit my household (on October the 13th) with a serious bereavement, in the death of our valuable English servant, James Sumpter, whose loss is not only severely felt in my own family, but also as a member of our congregation, by whom he was beloved and respected. His peculiar circumstances deserve a distinct notice. It appears that it pleased God, early in life to arrest him in a giddy thoughtless career, by revealing to him the blessedness of true religion, which he adorned by a subsequent steady life and conversation in the service of a family in Regent-street, London, with whom he lived ten years before he came into my service, and who gave him the highest character. For many years he felt particularly interested in the conversion and restoration of Israel. He frequently attended the services at the Episcopal Jews' Chapel, although he lived at so great a distance, and regularly read the Society's publications, subscribing his mite to its funds, though totally unobserved. He paid particular attention to the study of the prophecies relating to Israel. When it became generally known that I was to go to Jerusalem, I received a letter enclosing a paper on the prophecies, signed by him, whose name was totally unknown to me.

"There was something in this paper bespeaking an extraordinary mind. In the note accompanying the letter, a postscript stated merely, 'A young

man would be glad to take a situation in a pious family, and would have no objection to go to Jerusalem.' On inquiry, this turned out to be the writer himself, which led to my engaging him. During the four years he lived in my family his conduct was uniformly steady and consistent. With the exception of once suddenly expressing a wish to return to England, after we had been here about six months, and had experienced many and various and almost indescribable trials, he always manifested a real attachment to the Holy City and to the family in which his lot was cast. He truly lived in the enjoyment of religion and in the blessed hope of the children of God. He seldom left the house; when he took a walk, it was either to Gethsemane, or the Mount of Olives, when he would previously pen down subjects for meditation and prayer. During the last season of Easter he asked for, and obtained permission to visit the Jordan, not having done so before. He went in the company of some English travellers, together with the thousands of pilgrims who annually visit that river. His journal, which he kept on the occasion, and which was found among his papers, proves the bent of his mind, a few extracts from which are not unworthy of being recorded,"

(To be continued.)

THE NEW YEAR.

"Thou knowest not what a day may bring forth."

A NEW Year opens on our view
With portents full of change,

But still about Jerusalem

The alien armies range.

Prov. xxvii. 1.

For nearly eighteen hundred years
Have foes possessed her gate,
The Land, her Sabbaths hath enjoyed,
The soil lain desolate,

The Turk, the Druse, the Arab horde,
Within her borders rule,

Now bows her neck to Egypt's lord
And now to far Stamboul.

Yet not for them her wine and oil,
As not of old for those
Whose lilied banners o'er her wall,
Whose leopard standard rose.

In vain upon her pleasant hills
Descends the summer dew,
Her strength to strangers yieldeth not
The birth-land of the Jew.

The mountain-steeps of Israel
Will bare and grey remain,
Till to the Land his fathers tilled,
The Jew returns again.

The Jew must taste an exile's lot,
And with sad longings burn,
Till to the King he once refused
Relenting he shall turn.

E'en in the Land, his ancient home,
His heart were homeless still,
Without the covenant angel there,
Its desert void to fill.

Lord, if thy presence go not up
With Israel as of yore,
What doth it profit that they lay
Their bones upon her shore?
Lord, if thy presence in the soul
Or Jew or Gentile share,
His long-sought Zion lo! he finds,
His long-lost Eden there.

Macintosh, Printer, Great New-street, London.

THE JEWISH ADVOCATE.

FEBRUARY, 1846.

BIBLE HISTORY OF THE JEWS.
CHAPTER IX.

"AND Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age." For this very reason Joseph's brothers hated and envied him. Nor on this account only; for the Spirit of God stirred in Joseph, and showed him visions in his sleep that were denied to the others. He dreamed that he was in the harvestfield with his brothers; and that suddenly the sheaf he had bound stood upright, and that his brothers' sheaves came and did obeisance to his sheaf. When he told this dream to them, they said, "Shalt thou indeed reign over us?" And they hated him the more.

And yet again he dreamed that the moon and the eleven stars cam sance to him: as

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e and made obeiit were not only his eleven wrethren, but his parents also should bow down before him. When he told this dream his father rebuked him indeed, but "observed the saying" -but his brothers hated him more and more.

At length one day, when he and they were far away from home, they plotted against him, and would have killed him, but that Reuben inter

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fered to save his life. So they sold him as a slave to some Ishmaelite merchants who were going that way down to Egypt. There, they supposed, was an end of him and his dreams of dominion; and so they returned home. When Jacob asked for his beloved son, they showed him Joseph's coat all sprinkled with the blood of a kid they had killed, and made Jacob believe that Joseph had been torn to death and eaten by wild beasts. "And Jacob rent his clothes and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for many days."

But this was not the end of Joseph or of his dreams. The Ishmaelite merchants carried him to Egypt, and there sold him to one Potiphar, a great man, captain of the guard to Pharaoh the king of Egypt." And the Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man," and his master Potiphar saw that he prospered; insomuch that he made him overseer of his house and of all that he had. And from that hour "the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake: and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had in the house and in the field."

But it came to pass that Potiphar's wife made a wicked false charge against Joseph; and preiled against him, so that he was thrust out of our, and cast into prison. There Dat the Lord was with

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Potiphar's a. he lay for two years. Joseph in prison also, and gave him ravou the sight of the gaoler; insomuch that the gaoler also gave Joseph charge of all the prisoners. under him.

And lo! among them were two great officers of Pharaoh's household; his cupbearer and the master of his household-who had been also