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 Independent Lecture by the Rev. J. P. Palmer. The Orange-street chapel.. Bury St. Edmund's.... -- Cheetham Hill Wes- chapel 14, 14, 14, 14, 15, 15, Rochdale Wesleyan Oldham- Queen-street Woodbridge-Beaumont Ordination service of Rev. A. Ben Oliel. Sermon by the Rev. J. Gill. Address to the young, by the Rev. A. Sermon by the Rev. A. Ben Oliel. Sermons by the Rev. J. Gill. Lecture by the Rev. J. P. Palmer. Rev. J. Public Meeting. Revds. W. F. Burchell Lecture by the Rev. J. P. Palmer. Revds. Wesleyan Public Meeting. W. Butcher, Esq., in field. Lecture by the Rev. J. Gill. Rev. H. END OF VOL. VII. Partridge and Oakey, Printers, Paddington. THE JEWISH HERALD, AND Record of Christian Effort FOR THE SPIRITUAL GOOD OF GOD'S ANCIENT PEOPLE. "Publish ye, praise ye, and say, O Lord, save thy people, the VOL. VIII. LONDON: PUBLISHED UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL AMONG THE JEWS, BY PARTRIDGE, OAKEY & CO., PATERNOSTER ROW. 1853. |