the friends he had so fondly loved, and yet so faithfully renounced for the Lord's sake. "I stand," exclaimed the great Apostle, when addressing the splendid assembly at Jerusalem," and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers; unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come;" and still does the Hope of this promise animate the remnant of Israel. Even where Gentile philosophy, earthly honours, worldly gain, and the far prevailing influence of example, have enticed them away from the Law and commandments they profess to obey, and left them as effectually without a religion, as without a Priest, and without an Atonement, yet lingers among them this gleam of the prophetic brightness of the past; and many a Jew, to whom the Talmud is, except by name, unknown, by whom the Synagogue is unfrequented, and the solemn assembly but little regarded, still cherishes in secret the delightful thought of the glorious Advent of the long-looked-for Messiah; it is true that dreams of temporal splendour are but too often the incitement of this eager expectation: but that such is not always the case, we have seen from the preceding narrative, where the prayers of the zealous Rabbin warmed the heart of his infant grandson, and gave birth to the Hope of the promise,' which, at an after-period formed his sole consolation in the hour of deep repentance, and remained the thought, the prayer of years, until he obtained "the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ," and was brought to await in patient expec tation, in christian faith, and sanctification of life, that glorious time, when the Son of man shall be seen : sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven." May all the house of Israel thus draw near, to await their Redeemer, ready to exclaim, according to His word, "Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord!" NARRATIVE OF SAMSON MEYERSOHN. CHAPTER III. THE DESIRE OF HIS FATHER TO END HIS DAYS IN JERUSALEM, AND PURPOSE OF RETIRING THITHER WITH HIS FAMILY-HIS ILLNESS-THE SON BECOMES BAR MITZEVEH-HIS STUDY OF THE TALMUD-HIS MARRIAGE-HIS PERUSAL OF THE OLD TESTAMENT-HIS STRICT OBSERVANCE OF JEWISH CEREMONIES -ARRIVAL OF THE MISSIONARIES AT BERDITCHEF. The roll of prophecy "WHO are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows? Surely the Isles shall wait for me, the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee." is ever unfolding: from the moment the first promise was given to man in Paradise, "the seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head," the solemn train of events have been daily hastening on its perfect accomplishment. Happy are they who live in the days when the fulfilment is being displayed in characters so legible, "that he who runs may read," and such surely is our privilege now with regard to the restoration of Israel. Already have they in part ceased to become " a proverb and a by-word" among all the nations whither they have been led; already, in christian Europe admitted partially to the right of citizens, their domestic hearth secured from outrage, and their possessions from spoliation, already has their life ceased to hang in doubt," before them, so that they need not to exclaim in the morning, "Would God it were even!" and at even, "Would God it were morning!" Already has a member of the once-despised house of Israel, presented himself at the throne of the Ottoman Sultan, and demanded and obtained for his persecuted brethren, justice and protection, in that quarter of the globe which is now the last stronghold of the cruelty and iniquity long practised against them; so that even in Jerusalem, long called the prison-house of their race, a Jew may now dwell in safety. Already hath the "little horn" (Dan. viii. 10.) of the Mahometan power, which "waxed exceeding great toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant" land of Israel, "and practised and prospered;" already hath its fading magnificence and decaying strength, seemed to bespeak the approach of that time when it shall be "broken without hand," (ver. 25); already have the eyes of the European powers turned upon Palestine as a spot, which it is almost too feeble any longer to hold. The tide of its dominion, which covered the pleasant land," as it were with a flood, has begun to ebb, and the mountains of Judea to appear above the waters,; and thence the Church of Christ, like Noah's dove, may gather the olive-branch, which betokens that the punishment inflicted by the wrath of God, upon His rebellious people, hath begun to subside. Oh that there were in Israel a heart to return unto the Lord, and to look upon Him whom they have pierced! Oh for the son of Jesse's lyre- To rouse the scatter'd tribes once more, ' At no time, however, have they ceased to look with the fondest affection toward their father-land, often quitting, after a long and prosperous life, their adopted country, to end their days upon that sacred and beloved ground; from Malta, Gibraltar, Tunis and other Mediterranean ports, they are frequently to be seen embarking for this purpose. I saw,' says Mr. Ewald, a Christian Israelite and Missionary at Tunis, some who had accompanied their brethren to the Goletta, sit down upon a bank from whence they could look at the ships in which they embarked for Jerusalem; but soon there came a Moor with a stick in his hand, and drove them away. An old Jew, with a white beard, spoke some words to the man, which I could not hear, as I was standing too far off; on this the Moor got into a passion, and smote the poor Jew repeatedly in his face. 'I cannot express,' continues Mr. Ewald, 'what I felt |