The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-02 00:00:00

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AMONG Tlll4 JEWS,

The twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Irish Auxiliary to
this truly interesting society was held in the Dublin Rotun-
da, on Tuesday. The room was crowded in every part by
one of the largest and most respectable assemblies we have
ever seen in the Rotunda, and the deepest interest was ma-
nifested by the entire meeting in the proceedings.
The Dean of Clogher and Archdeacon of Derry, and seve-
ral clergymen addressed the meeting, but we have only room
for the following abbreviated report of the speech of the Rev.
THOMAS NoLAN, of this town. He said,—lt is not among
the least remarkable features of the present time, the increas-
ing interest awakened in the minds and hearts of Christians
towards Jerusalem and the dispersed Judah. It is full of
good hope and encouragement ;
and even though the horizon
lowers, and danger seems to threaten, the thought of this bids
the Christian " thank God and take courage." God is faith-
ful who bath promised, and his word is, " They shall prosper
that love thee—blessed is he that blesseth thee." The great
object of Christian doctrine is to set forth the glory, the cha-
racter, and the will of God, and of Christian duty to promote
that glory, to emulate that character, and fulfil that will ; the
sole depository where the record of God's will and the rule
of man's duty is to be found is the inspired word, the Holy
Bible; this is profitable eoually for doctrine and for instruc-
tion in righteousness; and just so far as we are practically
penetrated by the power of that word, is God's will accom-
plished concerning us ; and his will is our sanctification—so
our Lord prays for his people, " Sanctify them through thy
truth, thy word is truth." Now, it is plain from this prin-
ciple—which it would have been a pleasing and a profitable
task to expound more fully—that the value and importance
of every question, in the eye of a Christian, must be eseimated
by its tendency to acquaint us with the mind of God, by
bringing us fully and frequently in contact with his word.
In this respect we are bold to claim for the Jewish nation and
question a noble pre-eminence above all others ; a depth of
intense interest clings to the Jew, that we look for in vain

elsewhere. Looking buck to the very earliest period, we find
the Jews—for " Ye are my witnesses, said► the Lord"
Throughout the entire history, fulfilled or unfulfilled, of the
church, they are not lost sight of ; for " though I make a full
end of all the nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will
I not make a full end of thee ;" and at the very end the glo-
rious promise is reserved and secure for them, " I will make
of thee an eternal excellency and a lay of many generations."
So that, in turning your attention to the patient and prayer-
ful study of the Jewish Scriptures, and bespeaking your ac-
tive sympathies in behalf of the Jewish cause, we do most
effectually promote your own growth in grace and in know-
ledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, inasmuch as to the Israelites
" pertaineth the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the ser-
vice of God, and the promises--whose are the fathers, and of
whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all,
God blessed for ever." The record of their polity is the
book of God, the charter of their hopes is the cov.,ant of
God : to love them is to be like God, for they are graven on
the palms of his hands ; they are beloved for the fathers'
sakes. To labour Ito do them good is to bring down a bles-
sing from God on ourselves, our church, and our country,
since " they shall prosper that love thee." The indirect col-
lateral advantages consequent upon a warm devotedness to
the cause of Israel, are both numerous and important—that
already alluded to, for instance, our being thereby familiarized

so much with the word of God ; and, beside this, the best
light at which to study the page of Eternal Truth is that
caught from the brightness of Israel's destiny. This is the
master-key to unlock most of the difficulties of Scripture ; it
is the master-chord with which some of the sweetest and ho-

liest strains of Scripture are accurately in tune. These mo-
tives (and they are neither few nor weak,) are wholly exter-
nal to the subject itself—they consist of the advantages ac-
cruing to ourselves from the adoption and furtherance of the
Jewish cause ; whereas the claims of any cause, or society,
must rest upon their own intrinsic merit. (Hear, hear.)
The Jewish question is one purely of prophecy ; the subject
matter of it is simply the Word of God ; the prominency as-
signed to the Jewish nation in that word—" Ye are my wit-
nesses," saith the Lord—is applicable to that nation, alike in
its spreadings over the past, its present calamitous dispersion,
and in its vast and glorious predicted outstretchings into
futurity. With this question the Jewish society, as such,
has no concern. It sends the Gospel to the Jews as to
poor sinners perishing for lack of knowledge; and any pe-
culiarity in this society, from an ordinary missionary society,
arises not from any difference in the objects aimed at,
but from the peculiarity of the people, the objects of its
solicitude, who require missionaries peculiarly trained, and as
well furnished men of God, as are required for any other por-
tion of the Lord's vineyard. The Jewish question has to do
with the nation, Israel, and Judah, the ten tribes as well as
the two. The society is in quest of the " remnant according
to the election of grace," gathered out of Judah alone, and
his companions of the house of Israel. The great things,
which are most surely believed by many of us engaged in this
holy work, and looked forward to as the bright points of hope
for this interesting people, are not to be accomplished by the
agency of man. The tide of second causes seems certainly
now beginning" to flow towards Jerusalem : the sons of the
strangers may be said even now to be building her walls, but
their glorious conversion must be the direct work of the Lord