1873.

The Superintendent is the Rev. J. Lowitz, the Society's former missionary at Algiers. Feeling that he possessed the needful qualifications for this important work, he was requested to exchange the sphere in which he was engaged for the oversight of the Home. He has entered upon the duty eight months only, but has not been, even during that comparatively short period, without a measure of success and blessing.

Eight inmates have resided in the Home during the time it has been opened, and we will next month give a more detailed account of them, and of the work, from Mr. Lowitz's report. We are desirous, in this paper, of bringing it prominently before the notice of our friends, that they may help us. Separate funds from those for the general operations of the Society are called for, and these fall far below the actual need. We invite special subscriptions and donations, and we request all friends who may be in London to pay a personal visit to the Home, and to converse with Mr. Lowitz on the subject. They will be surprised at the interest it excites and at the important scope of its operations; and they would discover-what we hope to bring convincingly from time to time in these pages before all the wellwishers of the people of Israel on this behalf-that the Home will prove itself to be a most valuable auxiliary.

We also refer our readers to the appeal in the children's page of the present issue, with regard to a collateral branch of the same work-that to the JEWISH ORPHANS. It has been recognised in former appeals, and has not been forgotten, but the local changes to which we have alluded, and the want of funds, have kept and still keep it in abeyance. If our friends-those who really care for the Jews, and who pray, and labour, and watch for means of winning them to Christ-will in each locality set on foot a children's effort such as we have indicated, heading it with tangible proofs of interest, and calling meetings for the especial object, we are sure it will approve itself to many, and that ere long the Committee will feel at liberty to receive destitute orphan Jewish children, and, whilst their hearts are young and tender, to train them up for God and for heaven through the merits and atonement of Jesus Christ our Lord.

Judaica.

THE Chaldean tablets, recently deciphered by Mr. George Smith, have been placed in the glass cases of one of the Assyrian rooms in the British Museum, and during the holidays attracted crowds of gazers.

"S. E. H." STATES that he went to hear a converted Jew preach, when "Jews and Gentiles" were invited, and only eighteen attended. Our correspondent should have made the number seventeen.

[We thank God for eighteen Jewish hearers, and only wish all our missionaries could have that number at all their meetings, that they might proclaim Him in their hearing who is "mighty to save."

1873.

MANY Christians have united in a blessed agreement to pray once in the twenty-four hours for God's ancient people scattered over the earth. Their union is called "The Watchman's Daily Prayer-Union for Israel."

THE BOARD OF DEPUTIES AND THE PERSIAN JEWS.-The Rev. Robert Bruce, Chairman of the Relief Committee at Ispahan, writes that in that city alone the assistance forwarded through Sir Moses Montefiore, the President of the Jewish Board of Deputies, was the means of saving a thousand lives.

JEWISH BURIAL.-In a letter signed "White," which appears in the Times of 27th ultimo, it is stated that the burying of dead in houses is a rite transmitted to the African by the Jew. This statement is utterly unfounded. The Jews bury their dead far away from the living. They were the first civilized people that adopted extramural interment.

A MEETING in behalf of the Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews was held at Worcester last week. The Rev. J. E. Brenan stated that during the last few months upwards of thirty Jews had been baptised in Palestine Place, London. To aid the object of the society, Bibles were distributed and tracts were sown broadcast; even along the coast of Morocco they were distributed, and Jews came for them from the interior towns of Africa.

We understand that the Rev. Canon McCaul, rector of St. Michael, Bassishaw, is preparing another volume for the press. It will be entitled Dark Sayings of Old, and will consist of twelve discourses upon some of the more difficult passages in the Old and New Testaments, and will be illustrated from ancient Jewish and modern services, somewhat after the manner of the author's "Paraphrastic Commentary" upon the Epistle to the Hebrews. Two of the discourses will be especially devoted to the consideration of the modern heresy of the Annihilation of the Wicked, and the Inherent Immortality of the Soul.

JERUSALEM.—The Habazeleth contains an interesting notice of the visit of the Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia (brother of the Emperor) to Jerusalem. He was received by the Pacha, consuls, and other officials, including the Chief Rabbi of the Sephardim congregation, who went to meet him on horseback with great ceremony. The German Rabbis also met him. These being natives of Russia greeted him, according to Russian usage, with bread and salt on silver chargers. When the Imperial Prince approached, they uttered the usual benediction, and the Grand Duke made a gracious reply, duly accepting the bread and salt. He then turned towards the Sephardim Rabbis and received their obeisances. The German Rabbis waited on him afterwards with an ode written in his honour by the Russian Jews.

1873.

TURKEY.-We learn from the Levant Herald that the mutilated remains of a little girl and a young man were discovered partially interred in the Jewish burying ground at Gallipoli (Thrace). It is suspected that the Wallachian shepherds are connected with the perpetration of this crime, as a report is current among them that the flesh of Jews is a sovereign remedy for mange and other cutaneous diseases. In periods of murrain in their

flocks numerous Jews have mysteriously disappeared.

M. CLERMONT GANNEAU has just published an interesting pamphlet on "Three Inscriptions of the Tenth Legion Fretensis found at Jerusalem.” This tenth legion played a prominent part in the siege and occupation of Jerusalem by the Romans, and the bricks on which the inscription appears must have formed part of the buildings erected by this legion after the capture of Jerusalem, in the time either of Titus or Hadrian, or possibly later still.-Revue Israelite.

AMERICA AND THE ROUMANIAN JEWS.-The American correspondent of the Times writes:- "The Government has been informed that a movement is on foot by the Israelites of Europe to send a colony of Roumanian Jews to America, and a correspondence has been opened with the Land Office for the purpose of obtaining a tract of land of about 250,000 acres for their homes. About 40,000 persons are, it is said, to be sent out, to be followed by other detachments if the colony is successful." The information as to the emigration of 40,000 Roumanian Jews is inaccurate.

RUSSIAN POLAND.-Formerly the Jews of Poland who became converts (?) to Christianity were exempted from military service—a great bait to the pusillanimous—a great incentive to hypocrisy. We learn, however, from the Pall Mall Gazette that this exemption has been recently annulled by a ukase of the Czar, and that henceforth proselytized Jews must serve in the army as well as the faithful adherents to their religion.

[The note of interrogation is from the columns of the Jewish Chronicle. Thank God it is not needed by our readers.-ED.]

LET us examine the position of the Jews of this country as a community. We are a growing, thriving, prosperous people. We are not strong-certainly not dangerous; but we are regarded with general esteem and respect. No wonder we have made our mark on the face of English society. We need not pursue the subject. It is clear that the Jewish community is honoured and respected, and that it will be still more honoured and respected when the intellectual world shall have perceived and admitted that much which it considers as instances of modern progress and human ability and ingenuity are traceable to the inspirations of the Jewish Bible and the traditions of the Jewish people.-Jewish Chronicle.

Do you know what an orphan is? If any dear children read this who have lost their earthly parents they know it full well, alas! It is a sad thing to be left thus alone in the cold, wide world, without near and dear friends, and perhaps without a home or means of living. No loss is equal to the loss of father and mother, and nothing can supply it or make it good. But there is many a promise in the Bible for those that are orphans, as well as for other people in this changing life. One said, "When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up." And the good God Himself declares, "Leave thy fatherless children to Me, and I will preserve them alive." But He works by means, and inclines the hearts of people to do the thing which is right in His sight. So there are Homes for Orphans in our own dear land of England, and in other lands too. There you may see hundreds of these dear “fatherless" little ones cared for and happy.

Kind people have said to the British Society, "Why do you not open a Home for little orphan Jewish children ?”—and we receive many letters about it. But we are obliged to say, "We have got no money to do it, though we should like it very much." You will find in this number of the Herald an account of the house in London for grown up Jews, and if we had the means we would gladly join to it one for orphans.

Now what do you think is upon our mind? It is that this Home might be begun by an effort of the children of England themselves! There are hundreds and hundreds of Sunday schools, and if each one whose teachers and friends see the Herald would take this thing to heart the stone might be set in motion at once, and it would roll on and on until the thing should be done. It would not want so very much money to start it-we would not make a great show-but, as the means were given, would seek out one little Jewish stranger at a time, and bring the dear orphan child to our Home, caring for it for Jesus' sake.

Now shall we begin at once? There is no time like the present, and there is one Sunday school in London, at least, which we are sure will do so. And if the teachers and the superintendent will bring the matter before the children, and will call a meeting to arrange what shall be done for this purpose, we will come ourselves, or one of our friends will come, to meet and to tell them more about it. We know the heart of dear children well. For forty years we have been among them in Sunday schools, and we can bear witness that they never fail in willing help when the matter is put before them. Do write to us then, and tell us you are willing to begin, and let us have in the next Herald to give a good many names of schools wherein the effort is to be made.

Let it be done above all things-in the name and for the sake of Jesus Christ, and ever feel our great object must be, not merely to give a home to little orphan Jewish children, but to make known to them the Good Shepherd, and to lead them to His arms and to His fold. Will You, therefore, help, and help AT ONCE?

CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED from DEC. 15th, 1872, to JAN. 18th, 1873.

Camberwell, Mansion
House Chapel.

Cardiff, Colls.

Carmarthen, Coll...

Edinburgh, Miss M.

Liverpool, Colls....36 8 11
Llanelly, Coll.... 20 3
Londonderry, Don. 1 5 0
Loughboro'
7 3 10
Manchester ..50 0 0
Mildmay Park, St.

Jude'sSchool, Coll. 1 9 6

SERMONS AND ADDRESSES ON THE BEHALF OF THE SOCIETY
Have been delivered as follows:-From Dec. 15th, 1872, to Jan. 18th, 1873.