consented to marry the Jew. The match was quickly made up, and the marriage got over. The father thought that he was quite safe now, but, behold, soon after her marriage her husband died. Immediately after his death she went and took Christian instruction, without caring for her father's threat to disinherit her, and was baptized. Her parents were extremely angry with her, and entirely cast her off. However, having grown old, their anger was not so relentless, and, by degrees, they approached each other again. She married a second time, and is now living in B——.

Thus are God's providences wonderful. He only knows how many such secret enquirers and secret believers there may be scattered over the country, whose history may never reach the ear of man. May He continue to add to his Church daily such as shall be saved.

SCRIPTURE ENIGMAS.

No. X.

THE first anointed king for Israel's throne;
The first on whom the curse of sin was shown;
The first who sang of Egypt's fallen pride;
The first abode of him whose faith was tried;
The first-born who the younger son should serve ;
The first who did the written law preserve.
Join the initials and you quickly tell

The last of those who judged in Israel.

XI.

JANET.

Follow my guiding, till your feet have trod
Eight sacred mountains of the Word of God.

First, seek that spot whence blessings did abound, To vast assembling multitudes around.

Then climb the hill, where his last words were given,

Who thence ascended to the courts of heaven.

See, with what zeal large bands of men prepare
These forest trees to build a house of prayer.
Now view that spot, where Israel's prince was
slain,

By one, God told him to destroy, in vain.

Next gaze with joyful hope where soon our eyes
Shall see our king descend, with glad surprise.

See then a mount, whence, at a woman's cry,
Israel, o'er thousands, gained a vietory.

Look then to that famed rock, which once was riven,

And is the type of Christ," the Rock of Heaven."
Then tread that mountain where our fathers stood,
And saw the verdant earth made pure and good.
If you have pondered well each sacred hill,
T'will lead you unto one which has been still,
More blest of God; seek now that holy spot,
And when you find it, oh! forsake it not.

Answer to No. VIII., page 203.

THE Queen Ahinoam was bereaved
Of David's heir, her son, her pride,

J. W.

When first deceiving, then deceived,
Amnon, through Absalom's treachery, died.

Bathsheba sought her aged lord,

(2 Sam. iii. and viii.)

When Adonijah grasped the throne,

To ratify his spoken word,

That none should reign but Solomon.

(1 Kings i. 17.)

Iscah was Milcah's sister-thus
Grandaunt of Rachel, Jacob's wife.
Joseph their son was generous

To brethren who had sought his life.

ABI was Hezekiah's queen,

And if we trace his great grandshire, It was he who once had mighty been, Presumptuous, leprous king Uzziah.

(Genesis xi.)

(2 Kings xviii. 2.)

Answer to No. IX., page 204.

'Twas Obadiah who foretold a time
When Jacob should be fire and Joseph flame,
And Esau but as stubble; and when

Deliverance and holiness shall be on Zion.

(Obadia.h)

'Twas Ruth who left the country of her birth, Trusting Naomi and Naomi's God.

(Ruth i.)

'Twas Phinehas, son of the priest whose holy zeal
In cutting off offenders, was rewarded
With promise of an everlasting priesthood.

(Numbers xxv.)

'Twas Adam who, created in God's image, By disobedience lost his first estate.

'Twas Haman who prepared the gallows For Mordecai and was hung thereon.

(Genesis iii.)

(Esther vii.)

'Twas ORPAH, who, returning to her people and her gods,

Lost the rich blessings which attended Ruth.
E'en wealth and honour, and a name among
The honoured line from which the Saviour sprung.

(Ruth i.) JANET.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

ANSWERS to the Questions in the September Number, deferred till our next.

A CONTRAST.

A FEW years after the London Society had commenced its labours, an excellent minister was sent by the Committee to visit the Jews in various places, and to enquire into their state. In the report of his progress, he mentions having arrived at a place whose inhabitants, amounting to upwards of two thousand, were nearly all Jews. As the Sabbath was just beginning he went to the synagogue, which was filled with both grown-up people and children. In beholding their worship, an increasing desire was excited in his mind that this people, so grievously blinded, might soon know the things which belong to their peace, and learn to worship God in spirit and in truth. Particularly," he adds, "the sight of such a number of children, and the unmeaning repetition of words with their lips, constrained me to pray that the time might soon arrive, when they, like the children in the Temple of Jerusalem, should exclaim, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!

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The pious wish of this Christian Pastor has been heard on high, and could he now visit the Jews, in many places he would find hundreds of their children singing Hosanna to the Son of David! and many a Christian Hymn besides.

At the time when he visited the Jews, there were but few of their children under Christian instruction,-now what do we behold? In our schools in London alone, as many as 650 Hebrew children have been received and educated in the faith of the Lord Jesus. In the Duchy of Posen, eleven schools open their doors to receive poor Jewish children. In some of these

you may hear them rejoicing on account of the birth of Jesus, as around their Christmas trees, singing Christian hymns, they celebrate that glorious event. At Constantinople, at Bucharest, at Smyrna, at Cairo, and in Jerusalem itself, you may hear the songs of Hebrew children in praise of Jesus. What hath God wrought!-may well be the language of those, who, remembering the former days, meditate upon the great work which HE, through the instrumentality of his servants, has accomplished.

THE CROSS OF CHRIST.*

THE Cross of Christ is an object of such incomparable brightness, that it spreads a glory round it to all the nations of the earth, all the corners of the universe, all the generations of time, and all the ages of eternity. The greatest actions or events that ever happened on earth, filled with their splendour and influence but a moment of time, and a point of space; the splendour of this great object fills immensity, and eternity. If we take a right view of its glory, we shall see its spreading influence, and attracting looks from

* From Maclaurin's "Vail of the Flesh," republished by a Layman.