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with their church. It had gone through very serious and great
difficulties from that time to this, had had many mortifica-
tions, many disappointments, many trials, but still the eye of
God was upori it, his favour had regarded it, he had helped it
through its difficulties, and now to all succeeding years this
year would be a memorable year in the history of their
society. (Hear.) The two archbishops of their country,
and fourteen of their bishops have joined the society to
give to it their full episcopal patronage. He was present
at a large meeting at Derby, and had the delight then to
hear the Bishop of Lichfield testify his entire approbation
of the society, and it was an honour to the bishops of
Lichfield and Chester that they had joined the society be-
fore the Archbishops of York and Canterbury. (Applause.)
Those who were enrolled in that cause before it had all this
patronage would feel it an honour and a privilege to have
had a share in it before. How had that patronage been ob-

tained ;
that ther

Not by any compromise of principle. -God forbid
should be the slightest departu!.e from that grand,

that glorious doctrine, " Salvation by faith, through grace
unto holiness," or any of those great evangelical principle
which had distinguished the church ; but it was merely by
boldly adopting a principle which had always animated and
always regulated the proceedings of the society—submission
in matters of rites and discipline to those in authority over
them. They had ever acted on that principle, and it had
ever animated the society from the beginning. But it was
not merely the bishops of their own country who were inte-
rested in this cause. (Hear, hear.) In the providence
of God other countries were taking a lively interest
in the Jewish cause. He did not speak of America, where
something was doing; nor of Scotland, where they all knew
how the sister church of Scotland had taken up the cause as
a church caring for the people ; but he was happy to say that
the King of Prussia, a pious monarch, was endeavouring to
take steps, in union with their own church, for the futherence
of this great and unlimited work. He was glad to say also
that there would be soon a bishop at Jerusalem, in connection
with their church, independently of those persons already
ordained by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York. It
was very delightful to see how wonderfully God was pro-
gressing their blessed church. If they looked at the western
hemisphere, in great difficulty their church was planted there.
The bishop then was consecrated by the Archbishop of Can-
terbury, but there were now 20 dioceses in that country, and
1,000 of the clergy of the Episcopalian church of England
connected with those dioceses. He did not know, and there-
fore he would not speak as to the cause of the Acadia sailing
on a Sunday, which prevented them from having the testi-
mony of a bishop on the subject that night. Alluding to
the state of Christianity in the East, the rev. gentleman said
the Jews, in returning to their native land, witnessed nothing
but idolatry, for he could call the worship of images in Po-
pery nothing but idolatry. (Tremendous applause.) The
rev. gentleman proceeded at some length to advocate the
cause of the institution, and concluded by calling on the
meeting not to suffer the Liverpool Jewish Institution to
sink for want of ample aid.
The Rev. F. EWALD, Missionary to the Jews at Tunis,
proposed the next resolution in an address full of interest as
to facts, and heightened by its being delivered in a foreign
accent. He said he had been labouring among the Jews
upon the northern coast of Africa for nine years ; and he
gave a graphic account of the conversion of his father forty
years ago, who then lived in Bavaria, and gave each of his
sons a sound Christian education. After that, he (Mr.
Ewald) studied at one of the colleges of this society in
London for three years, and he was then sent to preach the
Gospel among his Jewish brethren at Algiers. When he
arrived there he applied to the English consul for his advice,
who recommended him to ask the permission of the French
governor to preach, which he did, but it was refused, it
being supposed that he was an English spy. He was not
allowed to remain in Algiers, and he was therefore sent to
Tunis. The reverend gentleman described his proceedings
among the Jews, Protestants, and Roman Catholics in that
place, from which it appeared that his preaching had been
attended with signal success. He mentioned that he had
distributed upwards of 60,000 copies of the Bible, and
effected many conversions, although he had experienced very
great opposition. • Indeed, he had been encouraged not '
less by the word of God than by examples, to proceed till
the whole world should cry, " Crown him, crown him Lord
of all." (Cheers.)
The Rev. HUGH AVNEILE, on rising to second the reso-
lution, was received with enthusiastic applause. After some
appropriate observations, the rev. gentleman said there was
a subjeet introduced into the resolution which he supposed
the managers of the meeting intended to reserve for the
mover and seconder of it, but the speakers had not been so
kind. The resolution called attention distinctly to the great
increase of patronage given to this society lately, yet it had
been a theme from the very commencement of the proceed-
ings, not excepting the chair. (Hear, hear.) There was,
however, one point of view in which he had looked at this
subject whilst sitting listening, which has not hitherto been
uttered, and upon which he would take the liberty of saying
a few words. He thought that the accession of the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, and other pre-
lates to this society at this period, supplied a very remarkable
rebuke to those persons who objected to originate any move-
ment unless they had the bishops to begin it. There were
those who would stay our hands in any movement which in
our zeal, perhaps in our ignorance, we set a going, by telling
us, "you have not the heads of the church with you. mind
what you are about." He was quite willing to take care what
he was about, but he was not at all willing to wait for the
heads of the church. (Cheers.) He loved the bishops and
he loved the church, as well, as honestly, and as scripturally,
he hoped, as any man who loved and defended the Church of
England. He remembered when he first had the happiness
and privilege to join this society, now nineteen years ago. it
was frowned upon in the metropolis. Those who joined it
were considered a set of ultra enthusiasts, comparatively few
in number. Had any any man predicted in that day—" Wait a
little, go on steadily, you have a scriptural cause, and by and by
the Archbishop of Canterbury will become your patron, and
the Bishop of London your vice patron," they would have
thought that we were true enthusiasts to utter such prophe-
cies. Yet it had come to pass. (Cheers.) After the
experience of years, our prelates had ratified by their
accession the deed which we had been doing all the time,
and showing them that it could be well done. (Cheers.) I,
proceeded the rev. gentleman, am disposed to derive encou-
ragement from this. There are movements now that are not
much more popular than the Jews' Society was twenty years
ago, and the heads of our church have not joined them yet,
but Ido not despair. (Great cheers.) The heads of our
church are good reformers, and when they see their way they
will join our Reformation Society and our Protestant Society.
(Renewed cheering.) Will the Archbishop of Canterbury
give his name to such an ultra movement ? Just have patience
—just wait a little. Do join, indeed, in your rejoicing in the
accession of this patronage to this society ; and I thank God
for it in various ways, both for the encourag-went for the
work to go on, and for the blessing it will bring upon the
hearts of those right reverend prelates, and upon the church
over which they preside. (Hear, hear.) The rev. gentleman
then, at considerable length, proceeded to call attention to
the sovereign grace of God, giving success to all attempts to
communicate his mercy to the house of Israel, by introducing
Christianity among them, and in the course of which he re-
viewed the entire history of God's dealings with the children
of Abraham, shewing how the atonement of the Messiah
bore upon them. He concluded, amidst loud applause, by
strongly recommending the society to the support of the

meeting.
The last resolution was moved by the Rev. J. H. STEW-
ART, and seconded by another gentleman, after which ahymn
wiis sung, and the meeting separated about half-past ten.

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