that faith in his atoning blood is the only way to obtain the forgiveness of sin and be reconciled to God.

"Two years subsequently, during a visit to Gibraltar, I became acquainted with some members of the Wesleyan Church there, particularly with a dear young Spaniard, a convert from Popery. We spent many a pleasant hour together, under the trees of the Alameda, reading in Spanish, first, 'Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress,' and then Keith on the Prophecies.' The former convinced me of sin and the spirituality of Christianity; and the latter, that Jesus of Nazareth is indeed the Messiah-the Redeemer promised to my forefathers. Once admitting the Messiahship and Divinity of Christ, I regarded the New Testament as of equal authority with the Old; and then it became a real key to the Old; and both convinced me that faith in the Messiah, the Lord our righteousness,' is the sinner's only hope, the world's sole remedy.

"Having once arrived late at the class-room, I heard the voice of prayer. Considering it improper to disturb the friends in their sacred exercise, I waited at the door, and, as I listened, I heard brother Nicholson, the leader, earnestly praying for me. From that time I felt the burden of my sins as I never did before. I became a constant and importunate suppliant for mercy and forgiveness, in that glorious name which formerly I rejected and despised; and, thank God, ere long, the Lord heard the voice of my cry, and I obtained peace and was made to rejoice in the God of our salvation.

"It was at this time I wrote a letter in Hebrew to the Rev. W. H. Rule; and since that, I have had the gratification of corresponding with him on the things that make for our peace.

"The first time I went to the Wesleyan Chapel was on a Lord's-day morning. My friend and I had been that morning discussing Jacob's prophecy respecting the coming of Shiloh; and my surprise may be well-imagined, when I heard the Rev. Thomas T. N. Hall give out that same prophecy as his text, and meet those objections which my young friend could not

remove.

"My severe trials, temptations, and difficulties subsequently, as well as my triumphs through grace, were narrated by me on the occasion of my baptism on Christmas-day, 1847, at the Wesleyan Chapel in Brentford, and appeared in more than one religious publication, so that I need not refer to them now.

"By the counsel and aid of Christian friends at Gibraltar, I came to this Gospel land, and under the instruction of the Rev. W. C. Yonge, I attained to that knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus, that led the Committee of the British Society

to deny me the privileges of their College, and at once to send me into active service as their Missionary to the Jews in Gibraltar and Northern Africa."

To the questions, "What are the motives that induce you to engage in missionary labour ?" and In what manner do you intend to carry on your missionary work in Africa?" he replied

Having myself become a partaker of God's riches in Christ, and seeing thousands of my brethren and kinsmen in the land that gave me birth perishing for lack of knowledge, and uncared for by any one, I felt it my duty from the very first to devote my life to the preaching of Christ and Him crucified. The gracious providences that have attended my path hitherto, preparing my mind and disposing my heart to the work; removing obstacles from the way, and facilitating every undertaking; and the tokens of God's blessing which have followed my labours among my Jewish brethren in Gibraltar and Northern Africa, for above four years, leave no doubt in my mind that God hath called me to this sacred work, and that it is His will that I should continue in the Master's service, making His ever blessed name, which is above every other name, known to the dispersed of Judah, and the scattered remnant of Israel.

"In prayerful dependance on the availing aid and influences of the Holy Spirit, ever looking to God, who alone can give the increase to what I may, by His grace and indispensable assistance, be enabled to plant or water, I am, by God's grace, prepared to meet opposition, overcome difficulties, and go through persecutions, which I have every reason to believe await me in that land of darkness; but, on the other hand, I have the strongest confidence, from past experience, and believe that God's presence will continue to attend me and follow my public labours with His blessing-that my efforts will not be in vain in the Lord.' The cause is His; my aim is His glory in the salvation of souls; and I hope that the prayers of his people in this highly favoured land will follow me and bring down God's enriching blessing upon myself and my labours.

"Disappoint me not, my brethren. I go as your messenger to the Jews inhabiting a land whose spiritual darkness and political despotism exercise an undisputed supremacy.

"Pray for me; for her who will have to share in my trials and joys; and for the work itself.

"Ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give Him no rest, till He establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.'"

To this prayer of our brother, who, when these pages are in the hands of our readers, will be on the great deep, voyaging with his beloved partner to the sphere of labour to which he is appointed, we add our hearty "Amen."

FOREIGN OPERATIONS.

TANGIER.

MR. Lowitz in a recent communication informs the committee that he has returned to the above place, after having left Mr. Ben Oliel's family at Gibraltar. His connection with their late movements has excited some little feeling against him, but it is passing away. Another member of Mr. Ben Oliel's family is secretly inquiring after the truth. Mr. Lowitz's visit to Tetuan has not been in vain. The tracts he left there have been read, and conviction produced, especially upon the mind of one of the most learned men among the Jews, of whom we hope to hear yet more.

NUREMBERG.

In a lengthened communication, which we regret we are not able to give entire, Mr. Jaffé who has been travelling in different parts of the kingdom of Bavaria, presents to the notice of the Committee the various difficulties attending the work of a missionary to the Jews in that country. Some are common to all lands; others arise from the peculiar civil, political, and religious condition of society. As in many of the principal towns the Jews are not permitted to reside, the facilities for passing from place to place where they are to be found are very few. The missionary has often to travel many weary miles on foot, as the expense of conveyances would be very great; and when it is remembered that he has to carry with him a bundle, sometimes large, of tracts and Testaments, it will readily be conceived it must be extremely fatiguing. This, however, is one of the least difficulties. The servile political relations of the Jews to the rest of the people, which has excited arrogance in the latter, and bitter feelings among the former, is a great barrier to the missionary's work. The Gentile and the Jew seem to be in utter and apparently hopeless hostility to each other, and, as may be expected, there can be no doubt there are faults on both sides. The low state of religion among the so-called Christians, including both Catholics and Protestants, and the absolute idolatry of the former, are sad impediments. For any one, not even a

Jew excepted, to forsake the religion in which he was brought up, no matter what it is, is to excite suspicion, harsh animadversions, direct opposition. Alas! for a people so circumstanced.

But there are more cheering prospects than these. Mr. Jaffé speak for himself:

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"A great change has evidently been passing over the people, and we have to rejoice that multitudes have by this change been brought nearer to truth, peace, and holiness. If many have cast off the shackles of rabbinism, it has only been that they might the more earnestly and diligently cleave to the Word of the living God; if they have renounced the authority of their traditions, and regarded them as an usurpation upon the rights and liberties of men, it has been that they might give the greater heed to the authority of the law and prophets, and exercise that liberty of conscience and mind, which is the birthright of every man. Such changes we would hail with joy, and pray that through God's kind intervention, they may all lead to the acknowledgment of the truth, even the truth as it is in Jesus. This change for the better, I am happy to say, I have found, in my intercourse with the Jews, in this last missionary tour. My heart was often filled with joy and gratitude at the very warm reception I met with wherever I came; much of my labour was eased and my toil sweetened by their friendship, hospitality, and kindness; if I met with no sympathy in my work amongst Christians, I abundantly found it amongst them; they were ever ready to listen to the message of peace, and could not express their gratitude sufficiently for the interest I took in their welfare. Tracts and other useful books were most thankfully received, and in many instances payment offered for them; and though I did not find the Jews in the country so learned and refined in intellect and manners, as their brethren in large towns are, yet I found them more humble, more teachable, and more ready to admit the beauty and incomparable excellency of the Gospel. Rationalism I found had also put forth its fangs amongst them, and emitted its poison to the minds of some, but in the whole, I found them more orthodox, more sincere and conscientious in their profession, and yet free from prejudice, bigotry, and vain boasting. I shall now enter more into particulars, and state how I have found the Jews, and the manner of, and my intercourse with them in the different places where I have met them. The first place I visited is called Schopfloch, a village eighty miles distance from Nuremberg. Here I found a Jewish com

munity, of about seventy-five families, with a rabbi and religious teacher at their head. When I commenced my visits among them, I found them very orthodox, and many of them also very ignorant. But they were all kindly disposed, and received my visits with much gratitude. I was patiently listened to when I unfolded to them the mysteries of the kingdom of God, and tracts were with joy received. When I visited the rabbi, being on a Saturday, he had not returned from the synagogue, but his wife kindly entertained me, and with deep emotion of soul did she listen to me whilst I proclaimed to her salvation through faith in the blood of Jesus Christ. When the rabbi returned home he likewise gave me a hearty reception, and we soon entered into a religious conversation which lasted for more than three hours. Him I found to be a man of a most excellent character, kind, gentle, and unassuming, yet a man of a profound mind, deep learning, and of great critical powers. In the course of conversation he told me that the belief in two Messiahs is unscriptural and unreasonable, and served only as a subterfuge for those Jews who could not answer the forcible arguments of the Christians respecting a suffering Messiah, and though he firmly believed in a personal Messiah, yet can he not clearly see that He was to be a suffering one. Then we talked about the sacrifices which were anciently offered up, especially those on the day of atonement, and compared them with the present wretched substitutes for sacrifices. He confessed that they were but a rabbinical invention, unscriptural and unreasonable, and that for his part he does not adhere to the custom of offering them. He has cast off many of the superstitious beliefs to which multitudes of his brethren cling with much tenacity, but still the right way of obtaining pardon and justification before God he does not as yet know. I often think of this rabbi with feelings of deep pleasure and interest, and do earnestly remember him at the footstool of divine mercy. He thankfully accepted a tract on the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah, written by Dr. M'Caul, and promised to read it through carefully. Before I left him I was obliged to take some refreshment, and then he accompanied me for more than a mile on my way homewards.

"The religious teacher, whom I visited the following day, also received me with tokens of great respect. He is an old man, of about seventy-five years of age, but of a very clear understanding, and a most vivid conception. He has filled the office of teacher upwards of thirty-six years, and has merited the esteem and favour of both Jews and Gentiles. I had a