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"Several times it has happened, that I and my assistant have been occupied unceasingly, for the space of three or four hours, on the Jewish Sabbath, in receiving the masses of Jews who crowded into the mission-house, asking for tracts."

In 1861 he was able to state that he knew personally, and had intercourse with, as many as ninety-four Hebrew-Christian persons.

We believe that much precious fruit has been gathered in, and that Bucharest is, at the time we are writing, a promising and hopeful field of labour.

Mr. Kleinhenn has sent us, still more recently, an account of some of the schools at Bucharest which he visited on the occasion of an examination of the children. You will be interested to read how little Jewish children are there taught to know the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make them wise unto salvation.

After their writing and needle-work had been shown, and some questions in geography and other subjects had been well answered, the children were asked some questions on Scripture, intended to impress upon their minds the authority of the Bible as God's Word. The answers were as follows:

Q. Did God ever communicate His will to man ?

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A. Yes! for "God at sundry times and in divers manners spake unto the fathers by the prophets." Hebrews i. 1, 2.

Q. What is meant by divers manners?

A. "And He said, hear now My words: if there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make Myself known unto him in a vision, I will speak unto him in a dream," &c. Numb. xii. 6-8.

Q. Mention cases of divers manners.

A. The vision of Isaiah. Isaiah i. 1. Ezekiel, in visions during the captivity. Daniel, in dreams, and Samuel.

Q. Through whom did God last speak?

A. "He hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son." Hebrews i. 2.

Q. Does the Old Testament tell us of this Son? A. Yes; in Proverbs xxx. 4, "Who hath ascended......What is His name? and what is His Son's name? if thou canst tell; and in Psalm ii. 7, "Thou art my Son ;" and in the twelth verse, "Kiss the Son, lest He be angry."

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Q. May one add or deduct from the Bible, and thus teach or believe?

A. No; for it is said, "Ye shall not add into the Word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from it," Deuteronomy iv. 2; and "What thing soever I command you," Deuteronomy xii. 32; and in Revelation xxii.

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18, 19. "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book," &c. Q. And what if any man add?

A. "If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book."

"I am sure," adds the missionary, "that if our English friends had been present, they would have been delighted to have heard these questions thus answered in Scripture language by the children, and have felt that missionary work has in it something indeed of reality."

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.

LXI.-Abraham saved Lot out of the hand of the four kings who had taken him captive from Sodom Gen. xiv. 14-16.

LXII.-Saul's sister's son saved his uncle's life, by telling the plot formed by his enemies. Acts xxiii. 12-31. LXIII.—Jehosheba saved Joash from being killed by Athaliah. 2 Kings xi. 2.

LXIV.-Michal saved David when pursued by Saul. 1 Sam. xix. 11-18.

LXV.-Judah persuaded his brethren to sell Joseph nstead of killing him. Gen. xxxvii. 26, 27.

LXVI.—Abishai saved the life of King David, when he was attacked by the giant Ishbi-benob. 2 Sam. xxi. 16, 17.

Printed at the Operative Jewish Converts' Institution, Palestine Place.

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