The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

(EXTRACT.)

" I shall now proceed to endeavour briefly to anticipate, and an-
swer the inquiry, • By what means can temporal relief be safely ad-
ministered to poor baptized or inquiring Jews ?' I would at once '
say, nothing can be more easy. The London Society is now so ex-
tensively supported throughout the kingdom, that there is scarcely
a town of any importance, where any Jews are to be found, that an
auxiliary is not established. All that would be required, then,
would be to instruct each auxiliary to form a sub-committee, whose
exclusive duty it should be to receive applications, and search into
and investigate the cases of these poor Jews, in their respective dis.
tricts; and then to afford relief to such as may appear to be proper
objects, according to their several necessities, out of the funds in the
hands of the local treasurers; without the trouble or delay of com-
municating with the committee of the Parent Society, except on
especial occasions. Then, as to the mode or measure of relief, there
are a variety of ways in which very small sums, seasonably and
judiciously applied, (and it is only small sums which would be ge-
nerally required for individual cases,) might be of the most essen-
tial value. For instance, no poor Jew can at present attempt to get
his bread by selling a few wares without having a hawker's license,
and this requires an annual cost of £4 ; and without it, he both sins
in defrauding the revenue, and is also liable at any time to be seized
by the police and taken to prison; but where is he to get the money
from to procure it? an advance, therefore, of only this small sum
would, in such a case, be a boon of the highest value. So, again,
when trade is bad, or their little stock of goods is exhausted, or they
are visited by sickness; or where a poor Jew, who is unable to suc-
ceed in one place, may wish to remove to another, where he may
hope to find friends and do better; in any of these cases, the supply
of a few pounds would at once obviate much of the evil which is
now complained of; and would remove from these poor patient
sufferers the reproach of being such a burthen on the Christian
public, as they are at present, alas ! too commonly considered. And
may I not ask, why should not the society also appropriate £2OO or
£3OO a year to the object, which you so pathetically advocate in
your appeal,' to be applied to the general relief of poor Jews (whe-
ther converted or unconverted) according to the new commandment
of love, bequeathed to us by our Divine Master? lam fully per-
suaded that such a practical proof of what Christianity really is,
would induce them to lend a more willing ear to the instructions in
its soul reviving precepts • for although a few might perhaps at first
come for' the loaves and fishes,' as they dii to our blessed Lord
himself; yet who can say how many might be drawn by these
• bands of love' to become eventually sincere believers and partakers
with us of the marriage supper of the Lamb.'
" Another and most important mode by which the spiritual and
temporal advantages of the poor Jews might also be essentially pro.
moted, would be, by the London Society taking our humble little
unpretending institution for inquiring and converted Jews at Li-
verpool,' more cordially under its wing. At a small annual expense
of only a few hundred pounds, (collected with great ditficulty,) we
have hitherto been enabled to keep up the establishment, and to
board and lodge from eight to eleven inquiring Jews successively
for a limited time, (about five or six mouths,) of whom the Lord has
graciously given to us, in the short space of five years, thirty-eight
sincere converts, who have been all baptized in the faith of Jesus
Christ, and are all continuing, as we have reason to believe, to walk
steadfastly iu the truth, and several of whom are preparing for the
ministry, and likely to become eminently useful, as "burning and
shining lights" in the Church of Christ. Now, if the London So-
ciety would only kindly come to our help, in a brotherly spirit, and
give us a small annual grant, it would enable us at least to double
our present number of inmates, (for which we have many appli-
cants,) and so to look, with the Lord's blessing, for a proportionate
increase in the number of our converts • and if they would, more-
over, treat our institution more in the light of a handmaid to the
Parent Society, (as it has a fair claim to be considered,) in facilita-
ting the reception of our converts, after baptism, into their college
and Operative Institution, (which we have hitherto found great
difficulty in accomplishing,) it would greatly facilitate our mutual
object of promoting both the spiritual and temporal welfare of our
beleved brethren of the house of Israel. The society might also
greatly relieve the present but-then on the Christian community, by
receiving some of the converted Jews into their service, in some of
the numerous departments of their establishment, where 1 conclude
they must require clerks, porters, warehousemen, or other similar
servants; as.l am credibly informed, however anomalous it may
appear, that although professedly a Jewish society, they have not at
present a single Jew in their employ, notwithstandiugthe large and
continually increasing number of them, in all parts of the kingdom,
who are in want of work. But only let the restriction against tem-
poral relief be once effectually removed, by expunging the obnox-
ious rule,' and the details of the new operations might be easily
adjusted by the committee of the Parent Society, assisted by com-
munications with the several auxiliaries; for I have merely thrown
out these few hints to show that the plan is perfectly feasible; and
I would only add, that such is my confident assurance in the fulfil-
ment of the promise, • there is that scattereth and yet increaseth,'
that I am fully persuaded that the funds of the society, with ' the
blessing of the Lord, which maketh rich,' would be more than pro-
portionably increased, were the appropriation of a part of them to
the proposed benevolent and truly Christian object to be adopted.
"A LOVER OF ISRAEL."

EARLY CLOSING OF SHOPS IN ORMSKIRK.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR,—In your last I noticed a statement, respecting the
public meeting which was held here on the 11th inst. for
the purpose of considering the subject of early closing of
shops, in connection with which appeared in a brief form
the resolutions which were passed.
Those resolutions were promptly and almost unani-
mously adopted the same evening. It was interesting, and
almost amusing, to see the activity which manifested itself
the moment the church bell commenced the signal for 8
o'clock. I know not whether the rattle of the shutters,
or the sound of the bell, was most noisy ; but the former
certainly produced the most harmonious music in the et.rs
of those who were engaged in tuning them.
I said the resolutions were almost unanimously adopted,
as I am sorry to say. that one person, and but one, has de-
clined to comply with the resolutions. I am glad to say
that the persons who decline to co-operate with us in our
endeavours to rescue an hour or two from our otherwise
incessant occupations, to devote to physical and mental
recreation, are those who, being totally devoid of either
literary or scientific tastes, cannot imagine why young men
in the present day should be so anxious to have a few hours
leisure at their disposal, in order to follow suck pursuits.
Such persons are pitiable, not only for their own mental
deficiency, bat for their selfishness and illiberality, in at-
tempting to deny to others those privileges and opportuni-
ties which they have wantonly
or ignorantly wasted, and
thrown away. But for their own sake, I would hope that
ere long they will conform to the general practice, if it be

from no other motive than to save themselves from the lash
of public odium which is already beginning to descend
upon them.
Amongst those tradesmen who have taken the greatest
interest in the movement, and have publicly exerted them-
selves in order to bring about the reformation, I may make
honourable mention of Messrs. A. B. Goss, Evans,
11 ark ness, and Garside ; these gentlemen have manifested
a zeal and energy in the cause worthy the imitation of all
Jiberal-mindrd and enlightened men.
I need not apnlogise for thus trespassing upon your
space, as I an aware the subject is one to whion you are
ever willing and anxious to give your utmost aid in devo-
loping and advocating, in common with all others tending
to alleviate oppression and dispense justice to all a.an-
kind.—l am, sir, &c.,
VERITAS.
Ormskirk, Oct. 19, 1844.

SHIPPING MASTERS.

TO THE E 9ITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR bez your kind insertion of this letter in your
valuable paper as being a proof that the shipping masters
may be dispersed with. I shipped all my own bands on
board the ship, gave them their notes, and without any
agent or shipping master. I have been detained three
tides, and each time they have all been on board, ready to
start—sober, willing, and ready to go; and now, without
any trouble, I find them ready on board, and apparently
a good crew. If any of your contemporaries extract this
fact, it may do much to do away with the abominable
practice of shipping masters.—l am, sir. &c.,
JAMES GORDON,
Commander of the barque Spencer, of Liverpool.