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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 Israelite in the minds of those who called
themselves the followers of Christ. Let them heed how
The interesting services and meetings which at this strong was the language God made use of respecting the
season annually bring the above admirable institution Jews,—" I will hate them that hateth thee; and curse them
more prominently before the religious world has this year , that curseth thee." And again in a passage in which no
been invested with more than ordinary interest, from the contrast could be more powerful, nothing could speak
greater success of its now widely-extended operations and ; the love of God more incontrovertibly ; nothing could
the unusual ability with which its claims have been advo- , point an argument with greater force to the Chri,-tian :
cated, both by the deputatio❑ from the Parent Society, "Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should
and by our local clergy. ! not have compassion on the son of her womb ? yea, they
In these days the claims of the Jews to Gentile grati- may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold ! I have
tude, forbearance, and assistance, are better understood graven thee upon the palms of my bands." And how
than in past ages. Now that we have the free and un- beautiful, how striking, how touching, the language of our
fettered use of the Holy Scriptures, and now that the blessed Lord, when hanging on the cross, offering up the
strife with the " scarlet tyrant," who would perforce prayer of intercession which st• 11 speaks for his sake in
withhold them from the people, has been triumphantly behalf of the Jewish people to God Almighty ; and would
decided, by the press scattering the all-powerful word of so speak, until in the fullness of time, the remnant of the
God through every street and lane, cottage and hamlet, i house of Israel is brought into the fold of Christ—
in the country,—we can remember that the words of sal- "Father, forgive them, fur they know not what they do."
vation were penned by JEWISH hands ; that the Another reason is connected with the recovery of Jeru-

ANNIVERSARY OF THE LIVERPOOL AUXI-
LIARY SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRIS-
TIANITY AMONG THE JEWS.

privileges which this as :1 Gospel country now enjoys, salem by the Israelites. They must pass on from the in-
were once exclusively possessed by the JEWISH nation ; dividual to the nation. They could not tell how far the
that the coming of our blessed Lord was announced instrumentality of man would be used in this great
by JEWISH prophets ; that the Church in that day work ; and could they only, by any means, shake into the
was JEWISH ; that the apostles and the first disciples heart of the Jew the incorruptible seed of eternal truth,
under the new dispensation were JEWS ; and that our and bring them to a state of penitence and prayer, it was
Redeemer himself—the Messiah long promised to Jew not for man to say how far this would forward the
and Gentile, but to the Jew first—was of the lineage of coming of that glorious time to which all true followers
Abraham, and himself an ISRAELITE. The very desola- of Christ were looking. God worked by means, and his
tion of the descendants of Abraham in the present day ; servants were called on to use those means. They were al!
their peculiar position, scattered over every clime and anxious for the spread of the gospel, and the arrival of
amongst every people, yet distinct from all; must touch that period when all the kingdoms of the earth shall
a chord in the heart of every true Christian, who looks become the kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ.
upon them as living monuments, attesting the truth of They could not but mourn over the tediousness with
Sacred Writ, and reminding him of that glorious time which this work seemed to be progressing ; but when
when Israel shall again be Israel, and the "chosen people" they considered that it was but the remnant of every
shall be restored to the "land of promise;" and with the nation that was to be gathered—that the conversion of
Gentiles form one fold under one shepherd: 1 the Jews was to be a preliminary to this fullness of the

The services were commenced on Saturday evening by
a public prayer-meeting at the Institution House, Slater-
stseet. in which the following gentlemen took part :—The
Rev. T. Nolan, the Rev. G. Cuthbert, Rev. A. Thomas,
Rev. Mr. Clark, &c.
On Sum'ay, sermons were preached, and collections
made at the following churches :

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 there was a blessing annexed to it, " I
will bless him that blesseth thee." A blessing which
remained unfaded, unwithered, with all its luxuriance,
and with as fresh a fragrance as when it fell from the lips
of God, thousands of years ago. But what was the great
difficulty in the way of the Jews embracing Christianity ?
The main feature of Christianity was love; but had love
been exhibited by Christians to the Jews ? He would not
I take them back to the middle ages, or to those days
when the Jews were persecuted in every country ;
but with all the sympathy expressed in modern
times, and he admitted there was a great change
of tone in Christian counties towards the Jews, at
least in those countries in which the pure religion of
the gospel was known—there was still a wonderful amount
of persecution and hostility to be endured by them. The
rev. gentleman then described the sufferings of the Jews
in Smyrna, in Turkey, and in Greece, to show that where
pure religion had not showed its light, where the gospel
had not taken hold of the human mind, there was still a
most inveterate and brutal hatred of the Jews. He then
alluded to the great changes now taking place in the
Jewish body; the repudiation of the oral law and the
Rabbinical traditions by a large portion of them, who
have returned to Moses and the prophets, and the great
hopes that were entertained that they would be led
onwards to that Messiah whom Moses, and the law,
and the prophets spoke. He then proceeded to speak
of the more direct results of the Society, and de-
scribed the pleasure he felt a year ago lest May
in hearing the Bishop of Chester preach a sermon on be-

S. D.
St. Andrew's, the Rev. A. Thomas, A.M...... 37 10 0
Aigburth, the Rev. J. Jones, A.M.
St. Augustine's, the Rev. E. Auriol, A.M lB 10 0
St. Bride's, the Rev. D. D. Stewart, A.B 45 10 0
St. Clement's, the Rev. Joseph Baylee, A.B ll 6 4
St. George's, Evertor), the Rev. T. Nolan, A.M. 41 3 5
St. Jude's, the Rev. H. M•Neile, A.M 95 0 0
St. Silas's, the Rev. T. Tattershall, D.D. 9 8 6
Seaforth, the Rev. A. M'Caul, D.D.. . 36 0 0
St. Mary's, Edge Hill, the Rev. T. Ould, A.B. 22 11 0
Christ Church, Waterloo, the Rev. H. Hampton 15 0 0
Mariners' Church, the Rev. S. P. Boutflower, 2 4 6
St. John's (afternoon), Bev. H. M`Neile 26 12 0
EVENING
Christ Church, the Rev. A. Thomas
St. Michael's, the Rev. W. Balloon, A.M...
St. Mary's, Kirkdale, the Rev. D. D. Stewart, 12 1 0
Collections were also made in the morning at St. Sa-
viones, (tbe Rev. W. R. Hunt, A.M.); in the evening,
St. Bride's, (the Rev. E. Auriol), and St. Mark's, (the
Rev. W. Pollock, A.M,), but the amounts have not
reached us. The Rev. T. Nolan was prevented from
preaching at his church in the evening, through severe in-
disposition, which also prevented him from attending the
public meeting at the Collegiate. The sermon and collec-
tion at St. Barnabas's was, in consequence, postponed
until next Sunday.

Yesterday morning, at eleven p'clock, a public meet-
ing was held in the lecture-hall at the Collegiate Institu-
tion, the Rev. W. Rawson in the chair. The attendance
was extremely thin, a circumstance probably occasioned
by the omission of its announcement in the placards.
Among the clergymen and gentlemen present were the
Rev. A. Thomas, A.M., the Rev. E. Auriol, A.M., and
the Rev. A. 111.`Caul, D.D., the three clergymen who con-
stituted the deputation from the parent society ; the Rev.
W. Falloon, the Rev. Geo. Dover the Rev. D. D.
Stewart, the S. P. Boutflower, John Rigby, Esq., Charles
Turner, Esq., Wm. Jones, Esq., &c. &c.
The proceedings were commenced by prayer, offered up
by the Rev. S. I'. Boutflower.

half of the sehools for Jewish children in London. In
these schools one hundred children were acccmtnodated ;
and instead of being taught from their infancy to blas-
pheme the name of Jesus, as all infant Jews•are instructed
by their parents, they were taught to sing hosannas to the
Son of David. Their reverend diocesan had examined the
children, and expressed great pleasure in witnessing their
proficiency ; and to show how much the Jews sought after
the privilege of having their children educated in the in-
stitution, he had heard of one child just being admitted
who had been three years on the books waiting for a va-
cancy. This ought not to be ; the schools ought to be
large enough for 300 children, and he would guarantee
that they would be filled. It was a striking fact that forty

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The CHAIRMAN then addressed the meeing, explaining years ago there was not a single Jew a preacher of the
the circumstance which led him to accept the office he gospel ; and that now there were at least forty ordained
then held, an office he would not have accepted, but that clergymen of our own church who were once Jews.
the secretaries had so much to do by way of making pre- There were, besides these, between one and two hundred
parations for the various meeting's! ke was unwilling to teachers and preachers on the continent, in the various
throw any further difficulties in their ay.. It was neces- reformed- and Lutheran churches. During the last year.
sary, before he proceeded further, to give some expla-
there had been thirty-seven baptisms, and, since the
nation how it was that so little notice had been given of establishment of the Institute, 458. There were about
that morning's meeting. (Hear.) When the Committee twenty-eight missionary stations ; and about seventy
were making their arrangements, an application was made missionaries and agents, more than half of whom were
for the hall of the Collegiate Institution, but they found concerted Jews.
that it was doubtful whether it could be had or not; a The Rev. Dr. M'Catm, Canon of St. Paul's, drew a
doubt which was not decided until after the bills an- forcible and eloquent picture of the Jews as a body, and
flouncing the meetings and services were printed. The showed, as a literary people, they were deserving of the
greatest respect and esteem. He dwelt on their love of
be held, without specifying how or in what place. This learning, referred to the works of M. Oppenheim, in the
bills, therefore, only stated that a morning meeting would
Bodleian as a proof of it, related many instances in
would easily account for the smallness of the present
meeting. He should be sorry, indeed, if their present which they preferred learning to wealth, and totally denied
number were a guage of the desires of the people of that. taken as a body, they were that sordid :race some
Liverpool towards their society, indeed—he knew it was persons supposed. He described their condition in Po-
not. Backward, it was true, they often were to enter into land, where there are upwards of two millions, detailed the
business of that kind, yet still the present meeting was no proceedings of a mission in that country thirteen years
guage of what might be expected, and what he was sure ago, and related many instances in which the tracts and
they would find in the evening meeting. However, testaments then distributed were afterwards found to have
the cause they had in hand was the cause.of God, for the been the means of winning souls to Christ.
Jews were once the people of God ; a people of whom it After a few words from the CHAIRMAN, the hymn,
might be said he had cast off, but neither totally nor " From all that dwell below the skies," was sung, and
the meeting dismissed with the apostolical benediction.
finally. It had not been total ; for there never was a
A collection was made at the doors.
time in which there were not amnng the Jews a people

wbo were the true and devoted serianta of the

Jesq,Cibrist. It perhaps was difficult to say how they
were to point out these hidden ones ; but there could be no

MEETING LAST NIGHT,

doubt of-their existence, for, at oneperiod, whenthedespai7- The meeting at the Amphitheatre last night was nume-
ing prophet thought none were left savehimself, he was told rously and highly respectably attended. Every part of
by God, that He bad then in Israel seven thousand ser- the house was filled, and the pit and boxes almost exclu-
vents who had not bowed the knee to Baal. They were a sively by ladies. We never saw the house present a more
people not cast away finally—for God had promised to beautiful appearance, and this was enhanced by the
collect his people from the east and the west, from the reflection that the immense assembly had been drawn
north and the south, from all nations; the Jewish people together in so holy a cause.
as well as others. Our blessed Lord in sending out his We observed present on the stage the Rev. Chancellor
apostles, commanded them to preach the gospel to all Raikes, Revs. H. M'Neile, Auriol, Dr. M`Caul, W.
nations, "beginning at Jerusalem;" and they found that Rawson, F. Ould, J. Cordeaux, W. Falloon, D. D.
when the apostles went forth they not only began at Stewart, R. Davies, W. W. Ewbank, H. Hampton, H.
Jerusalem, but were there a considerable time before Jones, E. Jones. J. Connor, W. Pollock, S. P. Bout-
they went to the other nations; and not even then, until flower, H. H. Higgins, and the Rev. J. Groom; W.
by a hot persecution, they were scattered abroad to Maples, Esq., J. Houghton, Esq., Forsyth, Esq ,
make known the blessed truths of the gospel to the and W. Jones, Esq.
nations around who sat in darkness and in the The Rev. CHANCELLOR RAIRES took the chair, and,
shadow of death. Even after they were thus sent to after a prayer by the Rev. Mr. Boutflower, said that he re-
.those nations, and it had pleased God directly to reveal joiced again to see another annual meeting brought together
to St. Peter that he intended the Gospel should be in behalf of the lost children of Israel. Liverpool had, in-
preached to every nation; they always went first to the deed, always led the way in forwarding this cause as well as
Jews in the towns they visited ; they sought out the Jews others of a sacred kind. The interest in behalf of the Jews
with great pains, and first proclaimed the glad tidings of was, in fact, becoming a part of the Christian community.
the gospel to the children of the promise. This might be He hoped missionary feelings were now going abroad in a
traced fora considerable period after the commencement proper direction. If the report to be read did not con-
of Christianity; and while the command of our Lord to tain anything extraordinary, still it would be satisfactory.
preach the gospel first to the Jews and then to the Gen- He knew of nothing more delightful than the contempla-
tiles was thus rigidly adhered to, more conversions tion that they were spreading amongst their less-favoured
took place, and many of these in an almost mi. fellow-beings the saving truths of Christianity. The society
raculous manner, than when this rule was departed from. had alreadydonemuch good. It had brought before the eyes
When, therefore, they found for centuries that little pro- of the world the prophetic portions of the Scriptures,which
gress was made in the conversion of mankind, and that vital would-otherwise be lessstudied and enquired into, and these
religion seemed nearly extinct, he could not but think that portions were most valuable, and, by the confirmation
the reason was, that they neglected the Jewish people they gave to the New Testament, formed the strongest
(applause.) Whenever an interest was excited on behalf of security and bulwark to the Christian belief. He la-
the Jews, and the Gospel was made known to them ; then mented to state that their secretary, Mr. Nolan, was
they always found a corresponding interest and increase prevented from attending from severe indisposition, but
amongst the Gentiles ; and the progress of the Gospel the report would be read by another gentleman.
throughout the world was in proportion to the attenion The report was read, and showed that the funds bad in-
that was paid to the Jews. Let all then join in supplica- creased as compared with the previous year, by about
tions to Almighty God to pour out His blessing not only £3OO, the receipts being £1135, including £202 for the
on themselves, but on this society ; that their sympathies Jerusalem bishopric fund, bat the increase was not
and exertions might be lavished on the people once commensurate with the demands on the ,society in mis-
chosen of God, but now left by Him to the care of His sionary labours, &c. It stated that a donation of £5O
Church, until the time shall come when they shall be had been received from Lord Kenyon for the society.
called from the east and west, from the north and south, The report also referred to .the recent removal from the
as he had promised, the salvation of the Lord made town of the Rev. James Haldane Stewart, who bad been a
known to Israel and gathered from all nations. He con- great friend of the society, and'conveyed ahope, in feeling
eluded by calling on the next speaker. terms, that a blessing would rest upon him. During the
The Rev. D. D. STEWART, Incumbent of St. Bride's, year, six Israelites have been baptised in Liverpool. The
next addressed the meeting in a short but eloquent Liverpool Institution for Inquiring Jews has been in
peach, in which, with a graceful allusion to the operation during the past year, and the six converts have
continued and strenuous advocacy of the cause of this been inmates of it. The committee regret to add that it
society by his respected and venerated father, who ever is feared that the institution must be discontinued, owing
loved the Jews because they were loved by the Lord to the illness of the superintendent, the difficulty of find•
Jesus Christ, be claimed an hereditary right to be a zea- ing a successor qualified to take his place, the inadequate
lous advocate of the claims of the Jews ; and mentioned amount of the funds, and the heavy debt already owing
some of the motives which should stimulate Christians to the benevolent treasurer. We should be glad if this
to exertions for the spiritual benefit of the people of brief notice could arrest the attention, and win the
Israel. liberal sympathy of the Christian public towards this va-
The Rev. A. THOMAS, Association Secretary for the luable institution. _ _ _

north western district, said that he bad not before had I The Rev.' Dr. M'Caut, Canon of St. Paul's, stated '
the pleasure of a personal acquaintance with the Chairman, 1 that the sole object they had in view was to preach (which
but he knew that he was one of the first friends who in- I they had scriptural authority to do) to the Jews, as well
troduced the cause of God's ancient people into that great as to others. They had to consider the Jews as a portion
town of Liverpool. (Hear, hear.) All who were aware lof the human family, whom it was their duty, if possible,
of what had taken place yesterday, must agree in the I to bring within the pale of Christianity, by which alone
truth of the Chairman's observation, that the present I they could arrive at salvation. They told them we do
meeting was no test of what was the feeling of the Chris- not take from them Moses and the Prophets, for those
tiaras of Liverpool on behalf of the Jews. Perhaps in the confirmed the whole Christian dispensation ; and if
whole range of human language there could not be found they become converted, they would be the more firm
another word on which there was a greater variety of in their belief in the true faith. The only dispute
ideas, than that of the word Jew. For centuries past, to between them was whether the Messiah had come,
the great bulk of the human race, it represented every and could alone save sinners. fhe society had now
thing that was despicable and vile ; but in later days, he seventy missionaries amongst the Jews in various parts.
rejoiced that it was better understood ; (hear, hear)— In Dantzig and in Warsaw the Rabbis bad offered great
and that those who saw the position in which it stood opposition, and some of the schools had consequently
in the word of God, did not look on it in this despicable been nearly given up. One great object was to supply
light. But what was in reality the Jew ? He was nothing them with the New Testament in Hebrew, from which
more and nothing less than the summary and substance of great good was expected. The false religion of the idola-
a guilty race. He was the glory and epitome of the degra- trous Romans had checked the spread of Christianity
dation and exaltation of man. Who could look at the amongst the Jews, for in many countries of Europe
high position once occupied by the Jewish nation ; and those calling themselves Christians were found by the
not dwell, at the same time, on the spiritual and national Jews to worship stocks and stones and dead men
degrddation in which it had now for ages been plunged ? and women, which was against their own creed. He had
Who could dwell on the reminiscences of the past, and met with Jews who knew the whole Old Testament cor-
not exclaim with the prophet, " How is the gold become rectly, and much of it by heart; but many of the Israelites
dim, and the fine gold changed ?" Yet, hope was not were destitute of the Scriptures, and others of them bad
entirely extinguished; for under the super-incumbent only portions of them. He furnished interesting statis-
desolation that rested on the Jewish nation, there tics relating to the rapid increase of the sale of Bibles to
was a voice which told that those ruins shall rise I the Jews in various parts of the Continent. Many of our
again, and that dishonored dust shall live once more. Colwell were converted Israelites—converted Jews. He
There were four plain and obvious reasons why they ought feared not to say, that if any Churchman would take the
to take a deep and increasing interest on behalf of the trouble of looking into the usefulness of this Society, with
Jewish people. First, let them look on the Jews as indi- all its littleness, they would find it equal to more import- 1
vidual sinners, separated from the church by unbelief. ant and larger societies. (Cheers.) He then alluded to
The great sin of the Jews was the rejection of the Name the financial state of the Society, the numerous calls upon
—the only one given under heaven—whereby Jews and it,; he great want of missionaries amongst theJews,and the
Gentiles can be saved. Let them look at the Jew in this conviction of the necessity of ach fined religion springing
light; let them divest him of the splendours which pro- up amidst themselves. Members of families had aban-
phecy threw around his name at a period of history yet in doped their previous ways in Berlin, but wanted the way
the future. They were too apt to study 'aim in this light ; to Christianity to be more clearly pointed out to them.
and to throw a dazzling interest round the individual Jew. I The rev. gentleman continued more fully to depict the
This led them away from the great object of the society : position of the Jewish world, and concluded by moving
that object was to send the gospel and the power of God to the report amid loudst cheers.
salvation "to the Jew first and also to the Greek." The next I The Rev. Hun II APNEILE, on rising to second the
reason for which they ought to take an interest in the Jew, adoption of the report, was received by the most enthusi-