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be sorry.

number were a guage,__ _
Liverpool towards thtir society, indeed—he knew it was

not. Backward, it was true, they otten were
business of that kind, yet still the present meeting was no
gliage of what might be expected, and what he was sure
they would find in the evening meeting. However,
the cause they had in hand was the cause of God, for the

er into

Jews were once the people of God ; a people of whom it
might he said he bad cast off, but neither totally nor
fi;tally. It had not been total; for there never was a
time i❑ which there were net among the Jews a people
who were the true and devoted servants of the Lord
Jesus Christ. It perhaps wds oiflicult to say bow they
were to point out these bidden ones; hut there could be no
d übt oftheir existence, tor, at oneperi6d, whenthedespair-
ing vim:diet thought none were left save himself, be was told

by God, that lie had then in Israel seven thrusand ser-
vants who had not bowed the knee to Baal. They were a
people not cast away finally—for God had promised to
collect his people from the east and the west, from the
north and the south, from all nations; the Jewish people

as well as otlnrs. Our blessed Lord in sending out his
apostles, commanded them to preach the gospel to all
nations, "beginning at Jerusalem;" and they found that
when the apostles went forth .they not only began at
Jerusalem, but were there a considerable time before
they went to the other nations; and not even then, until
by a hot persecution, they were scattered abroad to
make known the blessed truths of the gospel to the
nations around who sat in darkness and in the
shadow of death. Even after they were thus sent to
those nations, and it had pleased God directly to reveal
to St. Peter that be intended the Gospel should he

was for the sake of what was in the mind of Jehovah re-
specting the Jewish people. If there were a place in the
mind of God for the Jews, there ought also to be a place
for the poor leraelite in the minds of those who called
themselves the followers of Christ. Let them heed how

strong was the language God made use of respecting the
Jews,—" I will hate them that hat eth thee; and curse them

_ tiou 6.1
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contrast could be more powerwl, nothing could spent
the love of God more iucqntrovertinly ; nothin.-

at curseth

' point an argument with greater force to the tArt,tian:—
"Can a woman forget her suckin4 child, that she should
not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they
may fora.t. vet will I not forget thee.' Behold ! I have

beautiful, how 'striking, bow touching, the language of our
blessed Lord, when hanging on the cross, offering up the
orayer of intercession which st 11 speaks for his sake in
behalf of the Jewish oeoule to God Almighty ; and would
so speak, until in the fullness of time, the remnant of the
house of Israel is brought into the told of Christ-7

"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."
Another reason is connected with the recovery of Jeru-
salem by the Israelites. They must pass on from the in-
dividual to the nation. They could not tell how far the
instrumentality of man would be used .in this great
work ; and could they only, by any means, shake into the
heart of the Jew the inc:aruptible seed of eternal truth.
ana bring them to a state of penitence and Drayer, it was
not for man to say how far this would forward the

coming of that glorious time to which all true followers
of Christ were looking. God worked by means, and his
servants were called on to use those means. They were all
anxious for the spread of the gospel, and the arrival of
that period when all the kingdoms of the earth shall
become the kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ.
They could not but mourn over the tediousness with
which this work seemed to be progressing ; but when

they considered that it was but the remnant of eve

nation that was to

L—that the conversion of

the Jews was to be a preliminary to this fullness of the
kingdom, they would then understand the force of the
remark made by Archbishop Leighton, " that all who
were anxious for the welfare of the church, should pray
daily for the conversion of the Jews." And the last

reason was, that t'
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sing annex
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nainecl nnfaded, unwithered, with all its luau'
d with as fresh a fiagrance as when it fell from a
Gad, thonsands of ytars ago. But what was the

The main feature of Christianity was love; but had lot
been exhibited by Christians to the Jews ? He v
take them ba.ek to the middle ages, or to ti
when the Jews were persecuted in every
hut with all the sympathy expressed it
times, and 'he admitted there was a grt
of tone in Christi in counties towards tit

least in those countries in which the pure reli
the gospel.was known-, here was still a wonderful
of pvrsecution and hostility to endured by therr

seribvd the suffering; c

urkey, and in Gre.ce, to show that whet

to that

, where

utal h4tred oft he J

s spot(

1 that they v,

lie then procee

more dire.ct results of thd Soci

he felt a year ag

i be led

3 speak

the Bishnp of Chester preach a sermon on

for Jewish cilillren in Lorid

ad of t

3eir infanc

the name of Jens, 88,011 infant Jews
r parents, they were taught to sing Itu

David.

r reverend diocesan had ex

3, and expreved g

the Jews sough

privilege of having their children educ
ution, he had heard of one child just t
o had been three years on the books .ai

,t to be; the schools ought to
children. and he would guaran
d. It was a striking fact that fo

o there was not a ringle Jew a pres
and that now there were at least for

Men of our own church who were

:r of a
°Maine
e Jew;

besides these, b-tween one and two hundred
preachers on the continent, in the various
I Lutheran churches. During the last year.
!en thirty-'even bap isms, and, since the
tof the Institute. 458. There were abont

tn-enty-eight miss onary st

ions ; and

out seventy

and agents-, more than half of whom were

concerted Jews

The Rev. Dr. NT'CAtm, Canon of St. Paul's, drew a
forcible and eloquent picture of the Jews as a body, and
showed, as a literary people, they were deserving
.of the

learning, referred to the works of M. Oppenheim, in the
Bodleian as a proof of it, related many instances in
liich they preferred learnina to wealth. and totally denied

takeit as a body, they were that sordid 'race sDme

their cond

proceedings of a mission in that country thirteen years
nd related many instances in which the tracts and
is then distrihuted were afterwards found to hate

After a few words from the CHAIRMAN, the hymn,
below the skies," was sung, and
the meeting dismissed with the apostolical benediction.
A collection was made at the doors.

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