In reviewing my missionary labours, I have reason to be thankful to the Lord for the many tokens of favour and acceptance that have attended the discharge of my duties among my Jewish brethren. Those tokens of favour have been evidenced by a freer intercourse with a goodly number of Jewish families, and the many opportunities that have been afforded me to instruct them in the everlasting truths of the Gospel. As I have now to call back to my mind the incidents of a whole year's work, it is an occasion of thankfulness to me that they are reproduced to my mental vision in a character indicative of a decided progress of our work among Israel. Formerly, it was our sad experience to see the Jews averse to the very name of a missionary, and it was with great difficulty that a messenger of the Gospel could engage the testimony of a son of Abraham to the glad tidings of a Saviour. That hostile state of mind has happily disappeared, at least among a considerable class of Jews, and, from my own experience, I can ascribe that happy change to nothing else but to the potent influence of the Gospel that is being preached around them, and is continually brought by the missionaries of the cross into their very homes and dwellings. Indeed, considering the present state of the Jews, and the movements that are in various shapes going on among them, we must say the dough is cast, and, by the grace of the Lord, the whole lump may be eventually leavened. It is true, we should be delighted if we were privileged to notice an amount of fruit commensurate to our labours; but we must bear in mind, that the plans of Divine wisdom concerning this

people are peculiar, and that it is in reference to them we read in the inspired volume, "A nation shall be born in one day," so that their collective spiritual restoration is to be effected by nothing short of omnipotent and sovereign power. Our mission then, to them, is one of preparation, to preach the Gospel as a testimony unto them; and we must rejoice for being permitted, in the meantime, to gather here and there one or two to the flock of the true Shepherd.

I must acknowledge with humble gratitude, that the families among whom I was going in and out, through the course of this year, have decidedly been benefited by my instructions, and advanced in their spiritual state with regard to the great truths that appertain to their soul's salvation. The word of life and suitable tracts, pointing to Jesus as the Saviour of sinners, have been freely circulated, and in many cases a spirit of inquiry has been aroused, leading the persons concerned therein from a state of enmity and opposition, to conviction and faith that Jesus was the true Messiah. Great encouragements have been especially afforded to me in one place, where I had ample opportunity to dispense the glad tidings of the Gospel to a vast number of foreign Jewish merchants; and in that place I have through the year been enabled to preach Christ, and Him crucified, to German, Polish, Russian, Greek, and Danish Jews severally, to many of whom I have reason to believe the hearing of the word has been a savour of life unto life. I could mention different cases of these strangers, who, after hearing the preaching of the truth, have made it a

matter of earnest inquiry, and have vehemently avowed to me their conviction and faith in the Lord. With almost all of these strangers I am keeping up communication, on their occasional visits to this country; and where an understanding of the truth is still wanting, I am endeavouring from time to time, to continue administering instruction, to add line upon line, and precept upon precept, in humble dependance upon the Divine promise, that the word spoken in His name shall prosper and be fruitful.

As regards the general state of the Jews in my district, it is strikingly observable that their faith in their system is becoming every day more loose and vague; and, although they still confess Judaism, and adhere partially to its observances, they feel that there are some serious defects in their religion, and their state of mind is such, that we may correctly and with propriety say of them, that Christianity appears to stand on their very threshholds. I mean to say, that it is the influence of our preaching that reaches them collectively, and throws rays of light into the midst of darkness and spiritual want in which they dwell. The veil is, however, still on their faces, and they are slow to look to Him who was the end of the law and the prophets. This exhorts us, therefore, to increased activity, prayer, and exertion on their behalf. It is, however, also encouraging to see, that notwithstanding their ignorance and stubborn adherence to their traditional faith, there is not among them the amount of infidelity which might be expected. On the contrary, I observe in my district that the Jews I come in contact with, uniformly believe in Godin His holy and inspired Word, and cherish the expectation of a Messiah who is to redeem them both temporally and spiritually. There is, therefore, reason to hope great things concerning persons in whom the seed of faith is not entirely eradicated or suppressed. Some Jews in my district attend the synagogue on the Sabbath and feast-days, but there are also a good number who visit Christian places of worship, and are more pleased with the Christian method of services than that of the Jews. I am thankful to report, that the Scriptures are now more widely possessed and studied by the Jews than was the case at former periods of our Mission. This fact, of their possessing now the Word of God more extensively, is certainly owing, first, to our Christian agency; but it may be also traced to the exertions that are of late being made by the Jews themselves, to encourage more widely the study of the

Scriptures among the community. As regards the Jewish youth, my experience in my district has been, that some parents send their children to Jewish schools, but that others send theirs to Christian establishments, where those youths obtain also instruction in the New Testament, and hence is thus instilled into their youthful minds the principles and precepts of the Gospel.

It is a fact, with regard to the Jewish youth, that a great number of them are brought up under the influence of Christian education, and receive at an early age those valuable impressions of our holy religion that cannot fail to prove to them a blessing in their future course, when they shall be called to fill the ranks of their fathers. Oh! that in their case may one day be realised-" A seed shall serve Him, it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation."

To sum up my review of my past year's work, I have to state to you that I have, during that period of time, been privileged to preach salvation by faith in the death and atonement of our Saviour, to some hundreds of Jewish individuals, of whom I have reason to believe a great number have been seriously impressed with the truth, and some have been led by inquiry to conviction and faith, and have become disciples of the Lord, though they have not confessed His name publicly. Some serious inquirers are now under my care, of whom I have given particulars in my former reports.

It would certainly be highly useful and desirable if we could suggest some plans whereby our great work might be facilitated, and our spiritual end more easily attained. But there is one method which must always prove all-sufficient and powerful, a method which the apostles of old have pursued, and that is to address ourselves to every son and daughter of Abraham with the Bible-the Word of truthin our hands, and to convince them from those Scriptures that Jesus is the true Christ, and that by faith in His name only, salvation and the forgiveness of sins are to be obtained.

On the whole, I think we can congratulate ourselves that our work is advancing and making progress. It is slow, but sure. It may be indeed compared to the water that floweth still, but whose current is nevertheless working its way through vast extents and ramifications, until it is seen to lose itself in the ocean itself; so our work, which is but a link in the grand chain of God's ultimate purposes towards His people Israel, although that work is not as yet

attended by greater visible results, is nevertheless continuing its progressive course, fulfilling its divinely-appointed end of carrying the seed of the truth into every part of the Jewish body, until it shall be consummated in the great and glorious event when the Lord will pour His Spirit upon the house of Judah and Jerusalem, and they shall look upon Him whom they

have pierced, and own Him as their Messiah and Redeemer.

May that happy event soon be realised, and to us more grace given, to be more fitted for this holy work, by increasing zeal, and prayer, and faithfulness, so that we may prove worthy of the high calling wherewith we have been called!

I am happy to inform you, that while I have reason to believe that God is blessing my efforts to interest Christians, my labours amongst the seed of Abraham are becoming increasingly encouraging. I commenced my labours in this department in the shop of a jeweller, who has just taken a partner into his business. These two Israelites are carrying on a large business. I had both of them listening to me for an hour and a half one evening, while I offered them salvation in the name of Jesus alone, proving from the Scriptures that Jesus was Christ. They heard me and conversed with me in the most friendly manner. I attended synagogue on the following Saturday; after the service one of the Jews came to me and shook hands with me; and as he confessed the night before that he could not answer my arguments in favour of the Messiahship of Christ, he introduced me to a merchant who was better acquainted with the Hebrew Scriptures and more conversant with the question at issue. I had a little conversation with the merchant in the street, and he invited me to come to his house some evening after eight o'clock. I accordingly went on the following Tuesday evening, and took supper with the merchant and his lady, who is an intelligent Jewess. After supper I took my Hebrew Bible, Mr. L took his, and Mrs. L-took a German one, and we had a most friendly conversation on the all-important question, which lasted until half-past eleven o'clock at night. When I left them they requested me to come again as often as other duties would permit. I called again one morning about twelve o'clock, but did not intend to stay; however, they entreated me to accompany them on the hills for a morning's walk. I gratefully accepted the invitation, and resumed the subject of conversation which had previously occupied our attention. We had another coversation of two hours' length

during this walk. I went to his house one Sunday morning to invite this gentleman and lady to accompany me to a Wesleyan chapel to hear the Rev. W.M. Punshon, and they would have gone had not Mr. Lbeen summoned to attend on a special jury at York on that day. Mr. L-— is a very intelligent Jew, well acquainted with the Hebrew Scriptures, and a most gentlemanly man to converse with. I presented to him a tract, "Salvation through a Mediator;" and he told me the other day that he is writing an answer to it. I am very glad that he is taking such a course, for he may be brought in this way to see the truth of that which he attempts to deny.

Whenever I go to the synagogue, Mr. L-invites me to his seat, and assists me with my Hebrew prayer-book; other Jews having observed this, have spoken to me and invited me to see them. Thus I am gaining a friendly acquaintance with some of the most respectable resident Jews. My labours amongst the poorer classes of nonresident Jews have been equally, if not more interesting. On my entering the synagogue one morning, I met a poor Jew, and having interrogated him as to his Jewish origin, I gave him my address, and requested him to come to my apartments after the service. He came at twelve o'clock. On entering into conversation, I found that he was a Hungarian refugee, had kept a hotel in Hungary, and for entertaining some Hungarians was thrown into prison in 1849, and lay there during twelve months. After his release he set out for England, his wife being dead, and his two sons, one seventeen and the other nineteen years of age had been forced into the Austrian army. He has now been four years in England, but has not received one letter from his sons. He also gave me a painful description of the sufferings of the Jews in Cracow in 1831. I entered on the Messianic question with great freedom, expounding the