sants) and actual freehold proprietors of the fields they cultivate, but also that their ancestors had been such before and at the dispersion by the Romans, and continued such in those parts ever since, up to this present time. This their traditionary belief is fully confirmed by their speaking no other language (besides the Hebrew) except the Arabic, as spoken in that part of the country, and by their Druse neighbours; as well as by their being still in possession of their ancestral vineyards and fields.

Their number (about forty families) is perhaps too inconsiderable for an actual station there; but it will form a most important appendage to that at Safet, and a highly interesting object of occasional visits from Jerusalem.

Next day we proceeded to Acre, and thence visited the only other Jewish village we could include in our present tour on our way to Car.. mel. At this village, Shefa Amre, we found the Jews much less interesting, not only because their Khazan was absent, and their synagogue under repair, but chiefly because they are not so exclusively agricultural Jews, not genuine peasants; being near to, and having also traffic with both Acre and Khaifa, at which latter place they have of late begun to settle. Khaifa, therefore, where the number of the Jewish population is rapidly increasing, should be the centre of a station for both Acre and Shefa Amre, whence also Bakeeâh might be visited.

Meetings of Associations, &c.

Revds. S. Higgs, (Baptist) and John
Hopwood prayed.

Independent Lecture by the Rev. J. P. Palmer. The
Revds. J. Reynolds, J. Jenkins, and J.
Rutter, conducted the devotional ser-
vices.

Orange-street chapel..
Manchester-Hope cha-
pel (Rev. J. S. Poore's)
Paddington chapel
Manchester

Bury St. Edmund's....

--

Cheetham Hill Wes-
leyan chapel
Grosvenor-street chapel
(Rev. R. Fletcher's)
Irwell-street-Wesleyan

chapel
Rochdale-Baptist and
Wesleyan chapeis...
Stowmarket-Indepen-
dent chapel

14,

14,

14,

14,

15,

15,

Rochdale
chapel

Wesleyan

Oldham- Queen-street
chapel

Woodbridge-Beaumont

Ordination service of Rev. A. Ben Oliel.
Sermon by Rev. A. Ben Oliel.

Sermon by the Rev. J. Gill.
Address by Rev. A. Ben Oliel, to Mr. J.
Dilworth, second senior Bible class.
Sermons. Morning, Whiting-street Inde-
pendent chapel; afternoon, Garland-
street Baptist chapel; evening, North-
gate-street Independent chapel.
Sermon by the Rev. A. Ben Oliel

Address to the young, by the Rev. A.
Ben Oliel.

Sermon by the Rev. A. Ben Oliel.

Sermons by the Rev. J. Gill.

Lecture by the Rev. J. P. Palmer. Rev. J.
H. Browne conducted the devotional
services.

Public Meeting. Revds. W. F. Burchell
(B.); J. Statow (W.); J. Hornby (W.);
A. Ben Oliel, and J. Gill.
Lecture by the Rev. J. Gill. Rev. J.
Hodson prayed.

Lecture by the Rev. J. P. Palmer. Revds.
J. Ross, F. B. Browne, and H. Taylor,
led the devotional services.
Annual Public Meeting. J. Dilworth,
Esq., Rev. Dr. Clunie (I.); A. E. Pearce
(I.); H. Christopherson (I.); J. Stnch-
bery, B.A. (I.); J. D. Brocklehurst (W.)
W. Davison, (W.); J. Muncaster, (I.);
A. Ben Oli-1, and J. Gill.

Wesleyan Public Meeting. W. Butcher, Esq., in
the chair. Addresses by Revds. J.
Harrison, A. Ben Oliel, and Mr. Scho-

field.

Lecture by the Rev. J. Gill. Rev. H.
Christopherson prayed.

END OF VOL. VII.

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FOR THE SPIRITUAL GOOD OF GOD'S ANCIENT PEOPLE.

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