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leave Auerbach, and went to Worms, where, during four years, she lived as servant in a respectable Jewish family. Here also she was visited by the converted daughter of Abraham from Auerbach, who prayed with her. The good work was again commenced in Janette's soul, and she formed the resolution of going to Strasburg or Basle, with a view to being instructed and baptized. Her father did not oppose her wishes, and thus she came to me.

"In the Deaconesses' Institution she had to work hard, but did it all willingly, and received from her superiors a good testimony. On the 4th inst. she was examined, in the presence of several friends, at my house. Her answers were very satisfactory, and we felt convinced that she had a sound knowledge of the saving truth, and had already felt the power of the Gospel. The Rev. Mr. Haerter resolved to baptize her on the 13th inst., yesterday. Mr. Haerter took for his text Micah vii. 18-20. The name chosen by the convert was Lydia. She expresses herself very thankful for all the mercy and loving-kindnesses of the Lord towards her, and prays that her relatives also may be brought to the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. The father, when he heard of her intended baptism, made great objections to her taking this step, not so much on account of the strictness of his own principles, as from fear of the wrath of some rich relatives."

JERUSALEM.

Two Israelites have lately been baptized in the Holy City. One was the wife of Mr. Luria, who has been recently appointed missionary to the Jews at Cairo. When her husband became an inquirer into the truth of Christianity, she left

him, and thus he was deprived of the dearest relationship of life, for his Saviour's sake. The same Divine mercy, however, which had reached his case, and made him a partaker of salvation, sought out and brought home to the Good Shepherd his wandering and opposing wife. Thus they have been reunited, and their dearest relationship to each other restored, whilst they are given to realize the blessedness of being one in Christ Jesus. Let us pray that they may be helpers of each other in the path of life, and that she, thus restored, may be the minister of comfort and blessing to him in his many and arduous labours.

The other baptism was that of a young man, who had been for some time in the School of Industry belonging to the Society in Jerusalem. After his residence there, he had entered the service of the Rev. H. Winbolt, of Beyrout, then that of Dr. Kerns, of Aleppo. He afterwards returned to Jerusalem, and was instructed by the Rev. F. C. Ewald, until he was believed to be prepared for the important and solemn service by which he has been admitted into the Church of Christ.

In this Number we have been privileged to record several instances of conversion. Let all have an interest in our readers' prayers. On behalf of all, let us give praise and thanksgiving to the Lord.

THE FOREIGNER.

AGED figure, bending low,
That along the trodden snow,
Through the dreary streets dost go,—

Taking slow thy weary way,
From the breaking of the day,
To the evening light's decay,-

With a melancholy tone,
In a language not thine own,
Crying cast-off things alone,—
What dark corner of the earth
Gave thy wandering race its birth,
Prey of misery and dearth,-
That thou shouldest thus be led,
Here to hide thy weary head,
Here to seek thy bitter bread?
Aged figure, stern and grey,
Like proud piles that in decay,
Tell of grandeur past away!
By the lines of that dark face,
By the bearing of thy race,
By what nothing can erase,—
Marks upon thy gloomy brow,
There imprest, man knows not how,
Well I know thee, Exile, now!

While our realms that crowded stand
Thick with shrines and cities grand,
Were a waste of forest-land,-

Shone the princely palaces,

Where beneath more brilliant skies,
Did thy nation's dwellings rise.

For the glory of all lands,

Was the vine-clad shore that stands,
Now a waste 'mid barren sands.

O worn exile! raise thine head,
In the prophecies is read,
Hope for the long banished.
When thy people wash their guilt
In the blood their fathers spilt,
Then their walls shall be rebuilt.
And if thou alone should'st lave,
In that fountain's cleansing wave,
Exile, thou thy soul shalt save!

Macintosh, Printer, Great New-street, London.

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THE JEWISH ADVOCATE.

MARCH, 1847.

BIBLE HISTORY OF THE JEWS.

CHAPTER XXII.

By this time Joshua began to be an old man, and there remained much land to be possessed. To the tribe of Judah had been given a southern district, on whose borders lay Jerusalem, with her" mountains round about her," afterwards so famous in sacred story. A portion had been given to the two sons of Joseph, to Ephraim, and to the other half of the tribe of Manasseh, extending across the land from the river Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea. "Unto Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, was given a part among the children of Judah :" even that mountain of the Anakims, with its "cities great and fenced," which had daunted the hearts of the faithless spies, five-andforty years before. Of all the twelve spies sent up by Moses to report upon the promised land, Caleb and Joshua alone did not dissuade the people from going up to possess it: and in that day Moses sware that the land whereon Caleb's feet had trodden should be his inheritance, because he had wholly followed the Lord his God.

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Mr. Alexander arrived in Dantzic as a sionary to his brethren according to the flee by many of whom he was well received, treated with much kindness, and listened to w great attention, though many circumstanc reminded him of the difficulty of the work which he was called to engage.

The plan adopted by Mr. Alexander addressing his brethren was usually this:-"H endeavoured to impress on them the absolute im possibility of understanding Divine things with out the special aid of the Holy Spirit. Often would he quote with great solemnity the word of David, Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.' (Psalm exviii. 18.) He would then, with earnest affec tion, ask his brethren, Have you ever thought that there are wondrous things in the law of God? Have you ever earnestly prayed that you may be enabled to understand those wonders? If you think,' he would say, 'that every thing is plain and easy to your own understand ing, you are not in the way to find the truth." He would then often refer to the New Testament, and say, the same truth is taught by the Apos tles as by the Psalmist. Thus it is said 1 Cor xii. 3, No man can say that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost. Unless therefore w pray for assistance, we shall never attain to right judgment concerning the proofs of the Divinity and Messiahship of the Lord Jesus In this way he used to introduce the great ques tions respecting the birth, life, doctrine, miracle suffering, death, and resurrection of the Saviou as foretold by the Prophets and related by th Evangelists. Many, no doubt, still remembe

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