the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Sacraments. He also has obtained a proper knowledge of the truth, of which I hope that it will operate effectually on his heart and mind.

"3. Abrahamn S-, a native of Petrikau, was also admitted by Mr. West into the Institution, and came to me for instruction Nov. 19. He had also been here before, but was obliged to return to get a regular passport. Taking part in the instruction like the rest, he has made pretty much the same progress in acquiring a proper knowledge of the truth of Christianity that they have made, and I hope well of him also.

"4. Charles C- M-, a compositor, a native of Warsaw. This young man used to come to me now and then, and to read our books, by which he was led to a knowledge of the truth of Christianity. At last he expressed a desire to be admitted into the Institution, and to become a Christian. Having been admitted by Mr. West, he has come to me for regular instruction since 5th of November, and has made very good progress. His seriousness and steadiness of character afford also good hope respecting him. The other young man instructed by me, who was to have been baptized with these four, also a native of Warsaw, has requested that his baptism may be postponed until next Sunday. He is rather a sickly lad, and was very poorly at the time; but, living with his parents, I cannot say whether they have not had any influence on his delay; still he expressed his wish to be baptized this very morning.

"Having been desired by the Rev. Mr. Sleszyaski, member of the Consistory, to administer

the sacrament of baptism to these persons, we united in prayer with them, and the proselytes from the Institution, before we went to church, at two o'clock in the afternoon. At the church we found a very numerous assembly. The beginning was made by singing some verses of a baptismal hymn. I then prayed and addressed the meeting, and the candidates, from the words, Art thou he that should come, or look we for another?' After this and another prayer the candidates repeated the Christian Creed, and answered the questions usually asked, to confirm which I made them give me their right hand, and addressed to each of them a word of Scripture as his individual case seemed to require it; and then, after the consecrating prayer, baptized them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. I then once more addressed the meeting, exhorting them to receive these new baptized Christians in love, and to show them, by their conduct and love among each other, that they were the disciples of Christ. Prayer, and the singing another verse concluded the solemnity. Among the very numerous assembly of Christians and proselytes there were also several Jews. In the evening again, about 150 persons met at the Institution for edification, when we united again in prayer for the newly baptized, after I had preached from the first part of the fourth chapter of the Epistle to the Galatians, being the epistle for the day."

AMSTERDAM.

IN a recent letter from the Rev. W. H. Pauli, amongst other deeply interesting matter, he gives the following account of the

Conversion of a Jewess.

"In the month of June, an elderly Jewess, respectable in her appearance and address, called upon me, and expressed a desire to receive some instruction in Christianity. I asked her for her motive of such a desire, and she replied, that for many years past she has had a wish to become a Christian. I declared myself willing to instruct her if she liked; and had she leisure every day in the week. I inquired after her character among the Jews in H

and was glad to learn that she was much respected amongst them, only, they added, a little inclined for baptism. She is also related to a highly respectable family in H. She has never missed coming for instruction, from the first day I saw her. Sometime ago she was taken seriously ill, and went to the hospital; and when she became convalescent, she became a blessing to many of those who entered into conversation with her. She begged me not to let her die without administering to her the sacrament of holy baptism. That her name is cast out as evil by her relations I need not state. She is trying to Alas! we have

get her living by needlework. no benevolent Lord Ashley in this country, and the needlewomen are in a pitiful condition. It is no small privilege to see the effect of the Gospel upon the heart of a Jew, and more especially upon a Jewess. The soft, the delicate daughter of Zion appears then fully. How she laments that the Lord has cast all the glory of Israel from the heavens down to the earth! How she prays, O Lord, remember what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach!' She cries to the Christian world, 'Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if

there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done to me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.' (Lam. i. 12.) This daughter of Zion, I have reason to hope, has experienced a change of heart. She loves Christ as her all in all, and is only surprised that all who hear of him do not love him too. (May the Lord preserve her in her first love to him by the power of his might!) I have delayed up to this day baptizing this convert, as the enemies of our cause are continually watching every step I take, and in case that Jewess had not received such a measure of grace as she has, they would have raised the most deafening clamour. But if it is the Lord's will, I shall receive her into the communion of the Church on Sunday week, and I trust she will not be the worst fruit of our labours."

STRASBURG.

THE Rev. J. A. Hausmeister, missionary at Strasburg, gives in his last journal the following account of the

Baptism of a Jewess.

"In the beginning of the month of May last a Jewess, Babette S., called on me, and asked for religious instruction, and I read the Word of God with her for some weeks. In the meantime, on the 20th of the same month, her two sisters, Janette and Adelhaid, called also on me, and expressed their desire of becoming Christians. Janette made from the first a favourable impression upon me, and showed a great desire to learn the way of salvation. I instructed these three sisters together for three weeks. Babette, however, proved not upright, and left. As far as I know she went to Paris, to the Roman Ca

tholics. I succeeded, after much trouble, in finding suitable places for the two other sisters in Christian families. The seriousness of Christian conversation did not, however, suit Adelhaid, and she also left ere long. Janette likewise left Strasburg for some days, but returned soon, decided to follow the Lord Jesus.

"On the 18th July she entered our Deaconesses' Institution as servant; her being there surrounded by sincere Christians proved of great benefit to her. I now commenced a regular course of instruction with her, and in my absence it was continued by Mr. Goldberg. Janette proved very thankful for all she heard, and she learnt daily some verses of the Bible by heart, as well as the Catechism. The Lord opened her heart,

and a work of grace commenced in her.

"Janette S. is the daughter of a Jewish teacher. She was born in 1818, at Auerbach, near Darmstadt. She spent a considerable time of her youth with her grand-parents, who were pious Jews. She was by them taught Hebrew, and also sent to the Protestant school. She became intimate with the daughters of the schoolmaster, and occasionally attended in secret the Protestant Church with them. She was much affected by the history of the sufferings of our Saviour, and felt already at that time a great desire to become a Christian; but Satan and the world again obtained influence over her, and she forgot the good resolutions of her youth. At nineteen years of age she returned to her parents at Auerbach, but she felt very unhappy. In Auerbach there lived a converted Jewess; she spoke sometimes with Janette of the Lord Jesus, and gave her a New Testament; and thus her conscience was again aroused. At last she was obliged to