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himself. He will restore all things—the kingdom of Israel
included His spirit will be poured out of grace and of sup-
plication upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants
of Jerusalem. This is not a society for the accomplishment
of prophecy—the Lord will hasten His own work, in his own
time, " even so Lord Jesus come quickly—amen." But,
while he tarries, the Jewish society seeks, like a faithfui ser-
vant, to fulfil the Lord's command—preach the Gospel to
every creature, " beginning at Jerusalem."—(Hear, hear,
and applause.) This distinction 'tis important to make,
equally for the society's sake as for our own—first, because
it places the matter on its true basis ; and, secondly, there
are many who, though unable to sympathize with us in our
hopes and views concerning the glory reserved for Jerusalem
at the coming of the Lord Jesus, yet fully concur in acknow-
ledging the duty of sending the Gospel to the Jews now.—
(Hear, hear.) Again, it is of advantage to ourselves also to
realise to our own minds the hopeless wretchedness of the

unbelieving Jew; for there is danger lest, in contemplating
the grandeur of national pre-eminence designed for him in
the " revealed counsels of the Lord, that changeth not," we
may lose sight of the ruin in which he is now involved,
" cast off because of unbelief." We must all agree in re-
garding the Jew especially as an object of anxious commis-
aeration and tender sympathy to the Christian; his common
claim as a fellow-creature belonging to the family of fallen
man, is surely not weakened by his special claim as a Jew,
to whom " pertaineth the adoption." Every motive by
which we are exhorted to bring the tidings of great joy with-
in reach of the Heathen, apply as forcibly to the case of the
Jew, nay, more—are fearfully enhanced by the recollection of
the privileges which he still continues to neglect and despise.
His great advantage and profit above other nations was, that
" unto him were committed the oracles of God." To this
day he professes to reverence and to be guided by these
oracles, but, alas! he is blind to their contents. The vail is
upon his heart when Moses is read : he cannot find Him, of
whom Moses in the law and the prophets did write, for the
spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus. He has light
enough to aggravate fearfully his responsibility, but not
enough to secure his salvation. He has the words of salva-
tion in his hands, but, like the 2Ethopian eunuch, he under-
stands not what he reads, and with him may reply to us,
" How can 1, except some man should guide me?" Oh !
dear brethren, here is a great claim upon us to send some
Philip, to go near and speak unto him, that through your
mercy he may obtain mercy." This is truly the object of
this society, and a glorious object it is, to go out into the
byways to seek the lost ones of the house of Judah, and to
speak to them words whereby they may be saved ; to take
them to their own Scriptures, and out of those same Scrip-
tures to preach unto them Jesus and the resurrection—ex-
horting them to repent, to be converted, and to be baptized.
It was thus we were dealt with ourselves by the ancestors
of those Jews, the first preachers of the word : it was in this
spirit of cornpassionating love our blessed Redeemer (him-
self a Jew) went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, to be-
stow peace and blessing upon the poor Syrophcenician woman,
as the first fruits of the Gentiles. So be commanded his
apostle St, Peter to go down from Joppa to Caesarea, nothing
doubting : to him had been committed the keys of the king-
dom of Heaven : with the Jewish key he opened up the Gos-
pel on the day of Pentecost at Jerusalem—and now he is
sent down with the Gentile key to Cornelius, to open a door
of mercy unto him, since God had granted to the Gentiles
repentance unto life. The middle wall of partition is broken
down. The Gospel was thenceforth to be the power of God unto
salvation to every one that believeth it—first, doubtless, to
the Jew : but, also, though after, to the Greek : and so the
Apostles testified both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks,
repentance toward God, and faith to our Lord Jesus Christ.
—(Hear.) The case is now reversed : we, who were not a
people, now are a people. These are the times of the Gen-
tiles : God is still visiting us to take of us a people for His
name. Jerusalem is still trodden down. Behold, therefore,
the goodness and severity of God—they were cast off because
of unbelief; and we stand by faith—we walk by faith—we
live by faith. Faith works by lore, as Christ also loved us
—and love keeps his commandments. " Preach the Gospel,
beginning at Jerusalem," is still unrepealed—" Blessed is
he that blesseth thee,"iis still unrecalled. Now is au oppor-
tunity, and so we read, even so have those also now not
believed that through your mercy they may obtain mercy.
The sympathy of the Lord Jesus is still undiminished to-
wards them : they are beloved still for their father's sake :

his bowels of compassion still yearn towards them as when
he wept over Jerusalem, and mourned over her approaching
ruin. He wills us to speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and
to seek to do her good.—(Hear, hear.)

The body of Mr. E. F. Busfield, who was unfortunately
lately drowned near Blackwall, was found on Thursday last
about a mile and three quarters from where the melancholy
accident took place. The coroner's jury, on view of the
body, found a verdict of accidental death.
DISASTER AT CAMDEN-TOWN.—On Wednesday evening,
about seven o'clock, the neighbourhood of Camden-town was
thrown into consternation by the following distressing cir-
cumstance :—Mr. T. Hall, about 40 years of age, upholsterer,
of 3, Stucley-terrace (near Mother Redcap's), was lying ill
in his chamber of brain fever. Being delirious, he attempted
to leap out of the window, two stories above the shop. His
brother tried to prevent the leap, but was immediately felled
to the floor by the unhappy maniac, who speedily accom-
plished his purpose. He was nicked lap from the pavement,
with nothing on but his nightshirt, by a workman, in whose
arms he expired in about three minutes after. Deceased has
left a wife, but no family.

MURDERS AT SUNDERLAND.—On Tuesday an extraordi-
nary sensation was produced at Sunderland, by the following
tragical occurrence. William Ferry, a seaman, had been for
some time confined in the Gateshead Lunatic Asylum. On
Saturday be contrived to make his escape, and arrived at
home on Monday. His family consisted of himself, his wife,
and five children, three of whom only were in the house
on the night of Tuesday, vii., Sarah Anne (the eldest) about
seventeen years of age, William, aged nine years, and Han-
nah, a child nine months old; there was also a youth named
Duncan, who lodged in the house. The children went to bed
at their usual hour, and the wife did not entertain any doubts
of her own or their safety, for a neighbour who was in the
house about nine o'clock, and suspecting the man's insanity
proposed to remain in the house during the night, but the
left soon afterwards. The house
in the front room the wife slept
poor woman thought there was no necessity for this precau-
tion, and accordingly she
in the back. room Ferry was to
consists only of two rooms ;
in a camp bed with her daughter, and in a desk bed were
the young boy and Duncan;
sleep. About twelve o'clock tl-1 little boy was awakened
manner.. Not a word passed between
by hearing his father beating his sister over the head with a
fire shovel, which very speedily killed 1-,
-er, her head being
fractured in a shocking
dbut her maniac husliand pursued
them that he heard. Whilst this Was going on Mrs. Ferry
probably to call the
awoke, and alive to the awful nature of her situation, jumped
womanout o f bedab o v e andre
feartrteerupot e;
her, and when she was at t!lteotebspeaoPfe,the stairs, he threw a
water skeal at her, which bit her over the face, and she in-
stantly fell. He then took of'. a gof wood about ten inches
long, and six or seven
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immediately
which it hi ceh
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time
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her head, as if in the act of beating a substance to powder,
and for the purpose of more effectually finishing the work
‘Yinsierval had got out of
he used a fire poker.
the house) succeeded in neighbours, and some
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death,these D ruenpceaant e
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of them with the police were speedily in the house, and the
author of this sad tragedy, was secured and taken to the
Monkwearmouth police station, where he raved all the day.
and the boy named
spectator of the murder
The
William w
youngest
as
allowed child
re uninjured,
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of his mother and the child, his father promising not to hurt
coro-
ner's inquest was held and the jury returned a verdict of
him because his name was William. In the evening a "
wilful murder" against the unfortunate man.