1873,

The London Home for Jews.

28, ALFRED PLACE, BEDFORD SQUARE.

NEXT month, if the Lord will, we will give a detailed account of this Institution, commenced by the Committee of the British Society some two years ago, after the removal of the former Home from Leyton, which was found too far from London.

The Home is under the care of Rev. J. Lowitz, and its operations are carefully and economically conducted.. There are now eight inmates, and as our readers will hereafter see, the God of Israel has already been graciously pleased to set His seal of approbation upon the work.-ED.

The Reason Why.

'Twas the Great Shepherd's voice: we heard it saying,
"Go after the lost sheep until ye find!

The lost of Israel-the scattered, straying

Bring them to Me, whose touch can cure the blind.”

1873.

To the Doung,

WHO DESIRE TO LOVE AND CARE FOR THE JEWS.

We want you to work with us and to help us. You will find the Jewish Herald pleasant to read, and we will take care to put in some pages for you, that you may claim for your very own. The writer of the "Land of the Jew," in this number, loves all young persons, and said he wished, among his other readers, to do them good in what he wrote. Read it with care, and you will learn about the places where God's people Israel have lived, and of the great actions done there. There is to be a history, also, of the Jews, I believe, written for you by a Christian Lady, showing you in very plain words what was in their past, what is in their present, and what will be in their future. This history will surprise you. There is no story in all the world so full of wonderful things: of men and women whose lives have been full of those adventures of which children love to hear-of cities, and towns, and villages of giants and kings-of wild beasts and birds-of the sea and the land. Everything is true, and all is full of lessons of grace and love to us who are not Jews, but Gentiles. You will learn how God's great acts and mighty counsels were seen and proved in long past ages to His own people; what ruin sin has wrought on the one hand, and what triumphs grace has done on the other hand. I am sure you will be pleased, and I hope my dear young friends in many a home, and in many a Sunday school, will watch with anxious care for each month's JEWISH HERALD,

But I said we wanted your help as well as your interest; we look for great things from you, because we have not been brought into close contact with children for more than thirty years without knowing what they can do if they are willing to try.

We will tell you next month, if the Lord will, what is our plan, and we are sure you will fall into it. In the mean time think over everything you could do, and let us see if you can hit upon the same idea. And may the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob bless you through the blood and righteousness of that Saviour, Jesus, whom the poor Jews and the little Jewish children do not know, and have never been taught to love.

Judaica.

THE following are notices, from the periodicals of the day, relating to Jews and Judaism, directly and indirectly. The Editor is not responsible for the sentiments that may be incidentally expressed. They are collected to afford our readers information which may prove of interest.

A MOTION to exclude Jews from the landwehr has been rejected by the Servian Skuptschina.-Echo.

1873.

NEW Jewish Schools have just been erected at Stepney, at a cost of £1,260, or with the fittings about £5 per child.—Builder.

THE London correspondent of the Cologne Gazette writes that a daughter of Sir Anthony Rothschild is about to be married to a son of the Earl of Hardwicke, without, however, embracing Christianity.-Pall Mall Gazette.

THE MODERN JEWS.-The Rev. Prof. Marks delivered a lecture on "The Modern Jews" to a crowded audience in the school-room adjoining Unity Church, Upper Street, Islington. The lecture was well received.--Jewish Chronicle.

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ADELAIDE.-On August 27th the Rev. A. T. Boas, minister of the Adelaide Congregation, delivered an interesting lecture on The Nature and History of the Talmud," at the Lecture Hall of the North Adelaide Congregational Church, to the Young Men's Society. There was a very large audience. The Rev. James Jefferis presided.—Jewish Chronicle.

THE Eastern Budget states that thirty-five Jewish families, including children, have been forced to leave their residences in Wallachia, in consequence of the persecution to which they were subjected by the people of that country, and they are now at Vienna under the charge of the American Consul, who is collecting subscriptions to enable him to send them to America. -Pall Mall Gazette.

THE DELUGE.-An important discovery in Biblical archeology has been made by Mr. Geo. Smith, of the British Museum, who has, among the Assyrian records, met with an account of a deluge similar to that recorded in Genesis. Mr. Smith will read a paper on the subject before the Society of Biblical Archæology in the course of next month.

[This lecture has since been given, and we will take an early opportunity of giving our readers a synopsis of the deeply interesting and important announcements.-ED.]

AUSTRO-HUNGARY.-Count Andrassy has presented the Jewish community of Töke-Terebes with a plot of ground whereon to erect a synagogue and adjacent buildings in connection therewith, and has further subscribed a handsome sum towards the cost of the edifice.-A riot occurred at Winiki, near Lemberg, some few weeks back. Owing to a Christian resident having embraced the Jewish faith, the peasants attacked and ill-treated the Jewish inhabitants. Troops were sent to the scene of the disturbance, and the rioters arrested. The Synagogue at Eperies, in Upper Hungary, has lately received a handsome gift, in the form of a silver candelabrum and a lamp for the perpetual light, from Mr. Louis A. Goldschmidt, proprietor of the opal mines at Dabnik.-Jewish Chronicle.

1873.

THE following letter appeared in the Jewish Chronicle of October. We say to our readers and missionaries, notwithstanding, "Be not weary in well doing, for in due time ye shall reap if ye faint not." Some eye, directed by the good Spirit of God, may rest on words of eternal life and the soul be saved :

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"To the Editor of the Jewish Chronicle.-Sir,-I am inundated weekly at my private house with all kinds of tracts or papers from missionaries or others, who promise to save our souls!" These papers I occasionally destroy in my fire-place, but often when I am out they are read by persons whom I do not wish to see these indecent papers in my house. I have often sent them back by post unpaid to the printer, as there is no other name to be found on them. Are there no means to stop this nuisance?— Yours obediently, A Jew."

In a letter to the Manchester Friend, Professor F. W. Newman asserts that there is not a shadow of reason for assuming that the Jews whom we see and know are minus ten of their tribes. He maintains that after the first captivity a mixed population, consisting of all the then known Jewish tribes, returned to Jerusalem. Meantime the Israelites who remained in Persia, and belonged to the northern and southern monarchies—that is, to the ten tribes, and to Judah and Benjamin--were blended together indiscriminately. The Jews, therefore, who spread from thence into the depths of Asia, as well as westward into Italy, Greece, and every part of Europe, were, according to Mr. Newman, members of all the Jewish tribes. "There is not," he says,

a shadow of reason for asserting that the two tribes migrated westward more than the ten. The entire nation, mixed into one, were found in the century before Christ as far west as Italy, and are the progenitors of the Jews whom we now see." When Jerusalem was destroyed "if any tribes were here chief sufferers it was the two tribes. If any tribes were then 'lost' it was Benjamin, Levi, and Judah.”

The Secretariat.

THE Rev. Josiah Miller, as announced last month, enters upon his solemn and interesting duties with the new year, amidst the prayerful sympathy of all the friends of the British Society.

To our Readers.

COMMUNICATIONS to be addressed to the Editor of the Jewish Herald, at the offices of the British Society, 96, Great Russell Street, London, W.C., be sent books for review and letters.

where

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CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED from NOV. 15th to DEC. 15th, 1872.

Error in November Herald-Wolverhampton £5 17s. '3d., should have been £10 6s. 5d. Error in Report-G. Stevenson, Esq. £1., should be G. Thomson, Esq. £1.

SERMONS AND ADDRESSES ON THE BEHALF OF THE SOCIETY

Have been delivered as follows:-From Nov. 15th to Dec. 15th, 1872.