The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-12-21 00:00:00

MISSIONS TO THE JEWS.

The meeting in behalf of this society was held at the
National &boohome on lisaiday last, cud was a eery fall
me, ladies being le the majority.
Alter prayer, the Rev. M. wATNET. Metwe &mem of Me
rector, as reading the 31st Jeremiah, pointed out that the
came of the Jews—thelr authority ter preaching to them is
fated In all parts of the Bible. Maims to the heathen are
written of abundantly in the New Testament • hut
intakes to the Jews are spoken ot, both in the Old cud
Now Testament.
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Kr. R. ff. Kum then sees an account of the local
society fee 1879, when the collections were .Cl 4 4.. 104.1
Including eleellnei after meetitics, and after Par.:moot of
experurea £7ll 8. 4d. were remit.ed—e few thallioe more
then the year before. The Parent Societe was ARV or
£6,000 deficient last year, and if it was to continue and
inciresee its work it must look for increased support from
the local sesculadons.
Mr. BRUNS we. not altotether *seed with the mono.
troy of the repate, and he hoped they would he able soon
to make the contributions from Weymouth three figures
Instead of two.

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--The Rev. Kr. Wartntr eeld CI6 16e. 91. were collected
at St. Kary'r, or awl, 0 better Kum last year, and he
had bad a chqs• forth. society for SOUBd, pr9rowis of
seal. of work by the young lodise of Kies Parker' school,
(Applause.) They seed not to be told the work needs
more help than ever—they need to deny themselves mon
and more every year. If they hid the same number of
stations, sad fair work VIM being done, then the, might
oontinu
n=4 re the same contribution.; but the stations
m are and all of them are trying out for more
labourers. • believe that the Lord Jesus Quist is soon
coming, sad that it is still more fru* than ever—" That th •
night =Beth when no man mit work." We are told th-t
all vertigo ars looking Moat& Palestine, that it ts th
' to Ind* that all are saying soma neutral nation mn.t
stay there, and that the Jews are reedy to go heck—then
WI feel that the end Ls near, and that the work will soon
be stopped. In ailasions to the heaths, we have to tell
1 them about the lIIALDOWO God, of whine attributes they
! how nothing; but when we so to teach the Jews they
down upon us as quite young in the faith. When we
go to heaths we have to take them • book thy have
Dim me, spj yr cm,
_often to make a language for therm
and tracilate eib• Mle into It,. Not, with the Jew tire
have to take to him the book be kik. given to as, and to
add—" We have also to give you • book you don't holier.
In—the book of the Lord Jesus Christ." Jews do not
worship idols ; they worship the living aid true God; but
they worship Him as On God of Sinai, of fear, the God
eler of. _ .

—fb•—itirV. W. BUMS remarked that these anniveranrlr
meetings aro Wass to give an aoootint of the stewardship
by the society. AA to the work—although in Irindon there
is an incases, of tlts Mail, 761 as to tho mars) work ad
over the world. tho sodety is not *dread/An, or area 0150 d
tog ; but it be. bees coespellod to km" hank nod
contract its wcok, bows ita has not bad the mew,
Being MAI in debt. Was having ineressed its &At rovr
veer. it has had to makes* he work in order to be Moist.
Openings have been dust aad own keys be.. reedy:
but tho yeasty ban boon compelled to keep them bock.
aim the society ham bees doles its beet with kw Nada no
comma& 10.v..7 pert of Belem exempt in Bee N.. Is
AN. !Liam, korocaN nsd LhpepJa. tbs mid* lam

emote. mere than bell of whom are couverted Jews.
Neethers of Jew. are totted lietsaleg in all the churches,
except in Jerusalem, which is • very peculiar place—loth'
Gospel, while peer • large number of New Testa.
meats are bought by t we J•wa, and the miestoussism visit
the Jews at their own house. In the schools are 1.300
Jewish eblldren brotight up in Christian principles, in
Jerusalem they lam an hospital, apes to the Jews mad
wiser* thousands have received relief, and it is kaown
threoghout the whole world, fee the patients come from
all parts, sad whin they rotary, too love that has been
Mews I. tho hospitals is spoken of wherever they bays
rose. When to it was .u.scli physical distress is Morocco.
the wire of the missimaries west about Mt 'Alm to the
~.so' h. Jews, sad rel•eviag their distress. Mr. end
Mart Kiwbwit. miseeeeries there, were blessed with
huge seesite, sa4 ap-ot large SUSS/ of their owe remetres
for the good of the Jews there; but owing t some political
questim, Mr. and Mn. Kinstarg hey. nem expelled from
' the Morocen„ awl the 011.14011 bat suffe,ed • great lees.
Between 30 and 10 hays been baptised is London. and
others in I,iverponi, h(nicbester, and various stations,
inclodlng ilsgadnr. Svsrei interesting cases were in
Holland. where the omverted Jews are a considerable
number. These are only some of the eases showing what
I God is doing; ponds skit their eyrs to the facts when
they say tbs work iii nailer one; there are thousand' of
converted Jews in the world and may of them are deem-
men of the Church ot Zeeland—God is working and
blaring etforte, and bringing them to accept and coulees
the Lord Jesus Christ. Tim Jews tbenteelvee. in their
papers, remit of the echools of the s ciety as excellent
met, and as doing much temporal goni to the Jew. wham
the rabble r•ek to keep in the most thoemeh bodily and
spiv toil ttrlplsmorm, whereto in the smiety s schools they
are t ught • insdera luau'., and *onetimes a trate.
But Lissy also spak of the persecution that in Cttrietisn
countries are being raised on sides: thorn again. God is
stirrirg up Jew/ In study Helmer, ant at the 1,11010 time
ha' st,rred up a enovertei J• • to give his people • fami
p 4 ithed and Mari t translat sued the New Tee tement into
Heine.. In concha( di to pressed upon them to
'entombs" the proatim—' Blessed lobe that blesseth thee,
land cursed it he that corset', thoe." (LOOlsnsr.)