The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-10-24 00:00:00

TIANITT AMONGST THE JEWS.

LONDON aOe7El7 F`Ok P110.11011N4 CIIRM.

The Rev. C. Simeon, Fellow of Ring's College, Cambridge,
preached in behalf of this Institution, at St. Nicholas Chords,
in 'Gloucester, on Tuesday evening last, from John, iv. 22,
Saltation la of the Jews." The distinguished Patrons of this
Society are the Right Rev. Lord Bishop of St. David's, sad
the Hon. and Right Res. the Lord Bishop of Gloucester.
The great ohjeet of this Society is, to convince the Jews that
our Lord Jesus Christ is the true Messiah foretold by their
Prophets; and to advance their eternal welfare, by their
conversion to the Christian faith. A spacious Episcopal
Chapel has been erected near Bethnal Green, and was opened
in July 1814, ander the sanction of the Lord Bishop of Lon-
don, and is under the ministerial charge of the Rev. C. S.
Hawtrey, M.A. one of the Secretaries of the Institution. Its
design is to instruct the Jews in the nature of the Christina
religion. The children under the care of the Society attend
sheltie worship here every Sabbath. Many of the parents of
the children also attend, and occasionally Jews who have no
connexion with the Society. Schools have also been esta-
blished for the maintenance, clothing, and education of 100
Jewish children. These are received into the schools wilts
the consent of their lateen's • educated in the Christian faith;
taught to repeat the Church Catechism, and a brief explana-
tion of it ; mid are further instructed by the Chaplain in the
doctrines and duties of the Gospel of Christ. Two large
buildings for this purpose have been erected uo the
ground contiguous to the Episcopal Chapel. There are
✓ow in the schools 41 boys, sod 43 girls. The total
number admitted since the establishment of the schools
amounts to more than 200. The children, when of age,
are placed out under the rare of Christian masters and
mistresses. The New Testament has been translated into
the Hebrew language By this means the Jewish nation is
now presented with an entire eopy of the history of the true
Messiah, and the writings of the Holy Apostles in the pure
Biblical Hebrew. Daring the past year, 3,1811 copies of the
Hebrew New Testament lave been circulated amongst the
Jews, in various parts of the world, in addition to seemly
4,000 copies which eonstituted the first edition of the wink
—2,00 n copies of the Epistle to the Hebrews have been
printed separately-3,780 copies of the German New Testa-
ment, its the German Hebrew character, have also been dis-
tributed ; and the Society is contemplating an edition of the
Old Testament in the same cbaracter:-10,000 copies, eons-
prising parts of the 2,1, 3d, and 13th chapters of the Acts
of the Apostles, in Hebrew and German, have been circa.
laced on cards. The New Testament has also been translated
into the JodensPolish language, and 4,000 copies have al-
ready been struck off. Appropriate tracts have been printed in
various languages, and extensively distributed amongst the
Jews in Eueland, Germany, Prussia, PoLoo.l. Kontos, and
Italy, and also in the Fast Indies—the nuraher of these
amounts to 250,000, its English, Hebrew, German-He-
brew, German, and Italian. A Foreign Tract Society has
undertaken to circulate them on the Continent. One of
these tracer, twilled Deborah to Ma Remnant of Israel,
was written in English gad Hebrew by an Dogfish lady, and
circulated in Malta and the coast of Barbary. By the Di-
vine blessing it proved the meatus of convincing a Jewish
merchant, a man of large property, of the name of Murtheins.
that Jesus Christ is the true Messiah, and from this period of
his conversion till his death, he employed his time, talents,
and fortune, with unwearied zeal, in promoting the conversion
of his beet Iwo. In Russia, Holland, Germany, Prussia, Bo-
hemia, and Poland, many of the Jews are inquiring into the
credentials of the Christian religion, and • grarral ear elation
of the manifestation of the true Messiah prevails; the Society
has therefore directed its attention to this foreign object, by
preparing and sending abroad pious converted Jews, and other
*sinister', to proclaim aniougat the dispersed of Israel the
smsearchable riches of the Cowl of Christ. These have
beta 'tattooed in Holland, Germany, and Poland. A Semi-
nary has lately beets established for the instruction of Mos-
'lotteries to the Jews, tender the superintendence of the Rev.
Edwin Jacob, M.A. late Fellow of Corpus Christi College,
Oxford, with the assistance of a competent Hebrew and Ger-
man teacher —The Rev. Preacher expresses his t bops,
that the support given to this good cause would nut termi-
nate with the collection of that evening; but be trusted that
an Association might be formed for the purpose of obtaining
I subseriptione. Vte are happy to learn that this here-
talent °tikes is in cuatemplatiou. The collection aluotaultd
to 211. la. 3id.