explanation, Judaism offers no other, unless it be that God has gone from his engagement because of the wickedness of the people-when God Himself instances His covenant with day and night, which was to abide notwithstanding the wickedness of men. Amongst the writings of the Jews who wrote the Christian Scriptures, there is an Epistle to the Hebrews-observe, an Epistle from a Jew, addressed to Jews, and explaining things by the help of those Scriptures which are held by Judaism, namely, Moses and the Prophets. The writer refers to the 110th Psalm. In this Psalm it is written by David: "The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou at my right hand till I shall make thine enemies thy footstool." And the writer says that henceforth, from the time the Messiah took that place, He is expecting until His enemies be made His footstool; so that David cannot want a man while there is that one, even the Messiah, at the right hand of God. And then again, in the same Psalm, it is said to the Messiah, "The Lord hath sworn and will not repent; thou art a Priest for ever, after the order of Melchisedec." Then the writer reasons that the Messiah, being of the seed of David, He could not be of the tribe of Levi; that consequently thore is a change of the priesthood, and if of the priesthood, also of the dispensation or covenant. This seems to approach the truth; but it may be said, how is the perpetual engagement to Levi fulfilled? There are many answers to this. One is, that the term "for ever "is sometimes used for all the time that a dispensation shall last, until the succeeding one be introduced, and which is the perfection of that which went before. So Zion was to be God's dwelling-place for ever. If there be not a spiritual Zion now, into which the literal one merged, then again is it an apparent contradiction, which those that hold only to Moses and the Prophets must solve; the Christian Scriptures do solve it (Heb. xii.). In Isaiah lxi., which begins with the words of the Messiah, "The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me," the Prophet says of all the people of God in the days of the Messiah: "But ye shall be named the priests of the Lord; men shall call you the ministers of our God." Now it is evident that the greater includes the less, and so just as David's reign resolved itself into the reign of the Messiah, so the service of the Levites resolves itself into the priesthood of the Messiah; and the tribe of Levi, in common with all Israel, are the priests of the Most High, so far as they come under the reign of the Messiah. But for the forfeiture of Israel, and from the first, God said (Ex. xix. 6), "And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.' Instead of this, God claimed the first born of every familythen He took the Levites instead, who had no inheritance in the landGod was their inheritance. They were to serve as between the people and God, and to be supported by the people. This was to continue while the covenant of Moses continued. But when God said He would make a new covenant, He made the first by implication old. Now, that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. When this Epistle was written the destruction of Jerusalem was nigh at hand. Until that event, not only did the Jews who held to Moses and the Prophets alone observe the institutions of Moses, but those Jews also who held with the Scriptures of the Christian Jews; but when the Temple and Jewish state were destroyed, it was no longer possible to do it, and the former covenant failed, although the Jews that held to Moses and the prophets were very zealous, and went about to establish their own righteousness by means of the law; and if the Scriptures of the Christian Jews be not true, and do not give the solution in reference to the law of Moses and the prophets, they who hold to nothing but these should shew the Gentiles, who believe in these Scriptures of the Christian Jews, a better way. The abiding character of the covenant of the Messiah and the temporary one of that of Moses are presented in various ways, in the writings of the Christian Jews; as, for instance, it is held that the covenant with Abraham was not set aside by the covenant of Moses. How could it be? That this covenant with Abraham respecting his seed, namely, the Messiah, and all nations being blessed in Him-that this is as the germ, as the seed, while the truth, as given in the prophets respecting the Messiah, and as unfolded in the writings of the Christian Jews, is the full development-the full growth of divine truth. So that the beginning and end of things coincide, while those who lived while the law of Moses could have fulfilment are found to speak of another covenant-a more spiritual one, which was all their salvation and all their desire. Now, this matter of the new covenant is of unspeakable moment. The old covenant cannot have proper fulfilment. In the 36th of Ezekiel, where similar spiritual blessing is promised in the reign of the Son of David, that is, Messiah, the Lord says: "For all these things I will be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; Oh, house of Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of the Lord!" Notice of Books. Havelock: The Broad Stone of Honour. A Tribute of the Tongue and the Pen. By EDWIN PAXTON HOOD. London: John Snow, Paternoster Row. "YES, this is the crowning epitaph upon our departed general: 'He kept the faith.' We have seen it in every circumstance-on the battle-field, in the wreck, in the camp, in the idol temple, in the study, and in the siege, 'he kept the faith.' In an age especially sceptical, when the simple, child-like belief in great realities is almost dead, he kept the faith'-the beautiful, old-fashioned faith. In a profession especially licentious, where libertinism of creed and libertinism of life are chartered, he kept the faith.' In a country where all things live, and lie, and move in a perplexing mystery-amidst men who are born sophists-amidst social distinctions which mock humanity by their abomination, and religious usages which insult God by their blasphemy, 'he kept the faith;' and amidst insidious Brahmins, and cruel, wily Bengalese, and amidst the perils incident to a life passed in such anxiety and turbid toil, he stood fast in the faith." "This gives him that exalted grandeur of character, which lifts him above the soldiers with whom it will be the fashion to compare him. Compare him with Marlborough and with Wellington, and his place seems small; compare his character with theirs, and he seems infinitely-and that is the only word to use-infinitely greater. He had none of the cupidity of the one; his deeds were not measured by the mere prudence which was the inspiring angel of the other. His fame has been so recently achieved, that he seems yong-sixty-two years of age. His deeds have been performed when the great generals whom history has immortalised were preparing to die. A thin, frail man, with nothing of the bluff soldier about him, you would have supposed that the first roar of the cannon would have separated soul and body; but the spirit, the dauntless and heroic spirit, overflowed the region he commanded. Nor can we doubt that his very superiority of character caused his death. "Inferior men, who can think, and survey, but never feel, will last, when the sensitive spirit breaks down beneath the force and pressure of its own convictions. But to us he will seem, and to fame he will seem, ever young. Death sets the seal upon the man; hence from of old came the lesson-Call no man happy till he is dead. The last moment of life seals a man's reputation. How illustriously closed that evening! Amidst storm and lightning he made his transit to heaven, Elijah-like, in his chariot of fire. He left to earth his wasted body, tired by age, by toil, by watching, and drenching, and thirst, and famine. There, in future ages, on that soil, pilgrim feet shall turn reverently to the spot where the monumental marble shall lock within its gates all that the tomb can claim as its trophy. Meantime, 'I heard a voice from heaven saying to meWrite, Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord. Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours, and their works do follow them.' That grave needs but little to hallow it as a martyr's shrine. Rest, venerated body, rest! Rest, beautiful and beloved spirit, too! Rest, thou saintly soldier-"Behold, we count them happy which endure." Posterity will twine for thy memory the unfading palm; and history, with reverent finger, pause to notice where the descendant of the lion-hearted, heavenlyminded puritans fell on India's plains. But what is that to thee? hast already entered on thine inheritance of 'glory, honour, immortality, and eternal life.' 'Henceforth, there is laid up for thee a crown of righteousness, that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for thee.' Thou "Farewell! thou great heart. Rest, saintly Soldier; rest, Warrior; rest, Missionary, and Hero, and Warrior in one. Denied the jewelled sword, the triumphal arch, a grateful people might have awarded thee; thou hast "entered through the gates into the city." Denied the coronet, thou hast the crown-the fadeless and incorruptible crown. And now, if that grave were less sacred, how then might we breathe the well-known epitaph of Collins : : "How sleep the brave who sink to rest, But not there. Illustrious victor, spared to bring relief to so many hearts, and to be the defender of so many lives; spared to vindicate the cause of Britain, and, infinitely higher, the cause of Christ; he was not spared to see the consummation of his toils, nor receive on earth the reward. He has been compared, and the comparison is faithful, to Moses; not like him in disobedience, but in the illustrious prospect illuminating the evening of the day; not to enter in, but to fight the good fight, and to see the end." Thus closes this beautiful little volume, characteristic of its talented and pious author, and well adapted to subserve the great end he has in view, not to glorify the Christian hero, but to display the dignity and the energy of living Christianity amidst scenes most alien from its nature. We cannot but hope that not alone to Christian, but even to Jewish hearts, the life and death of this man of God, valiant for the truth, and selfdevoted to his country, will present an attractive motive so to learn, and so to love, Christ. We cordially recommend "The Broad Stone of Honour" to an early perusal and a wide diffusion. Our Missions. WURTEMBURG. WE invite attention to the following facts, related by Mr. GOTTHEIL, and specially to the very judicious remarks with which he introduces them. It is a fact not often realised by God's people and the church in general, yet nevertheless true, that it is the Lord himself who is carrying on the work of converting, and thus rescuing perishing sinners from the evil of their ways, and that He is carrying on this work unceasingly and without interruption. "I have loved thee with an everlasting love; therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee, or I extend lovingkindness unto thee." We are apt to think, that because it pleases Him sometimes to employ human instrumentality towards carrying out His gracious purposes, He, as it were, cannot do without us, and that, unless we are at work, and see something done, as the result of this our work, God's work must needs be at a stand-still. Truly it is far otherwise! truly the Spirit of God is alive, and working among the children of men, and working out God's purposes. We sometimes feel its breathing, but we never know whence it comes and whither it goes. If we are privileged to be fellow workers with Him, it is not because He needs us, but because, in permitting us to act with Him, a blessing may accrue at the same time to our own souls; that, blessing we may be blessed; watering, we ourselves may be watered in our own souls; building up others, we may be built up on our own most holy faith. Oh, surely, God's everlasting love" never wearies, never ceases, never yields up its workings in the soul, as long as it is day, all the time during the day of visitation, which is vouchsafed to a soul; and therefore, though we do not see, yet we ought to believe that the work of saving souls is not arrested. Oh, surely, were we able to uplift the veil, and see the hidden workings of that spirit of compassion and love, we should have reason to marvel, and occasion to mourn over our unbelief, and to praise the Lord for all His goodness towards the children of men. 66 I am led to these remarks by a striking, and, at the same time, solemnising fact, which has lately come to my knowledge. A Jewish lady at S-, who had been hitherto living, as to outward things, in affluent circumstances, and very happily in her family relations, has lately been arrested in her thoughtless careerthoughtless as regards her soul-her life otherwise being irreproachable, to a desire to know the Lord her Saviour, and to seek peace in Him. It appears that she frequently cries to Him for peace and comfort, the want of which she feels sadly in her soul. She cries for light, and life, and peace, and knows that she can find those precious things only at her Saviour's mercy-seat. It appears that her husband, a very worldly minded man, is much distressed at all this, though not caring himself for anything in the way of religion, so long as his worldly objects and pursuits are gratified; yet he is in great distress whenever he hears his wife cry to Christ. This is a curious phenomenon, observable in a great many cases, evincing the enmity of the natural heart to all things that remind of Christ. The reason for it is easily found. Christ's name, in itself, is a rebuke to the careless and thoughtless sinner; an appeal to his consience, mayhap accusing and excusing itself, but thereby all the more, though unwillingly, admitting guilt and sin. We read of the devils being moved to wrath at the mere mention of the name, or at the appearance of the person of Christ. And well they might; His very name, implying His threefold office as king, priest, and prophet, in itself was an accusation against them, rising up in judgment against them. We can fancy this wife's cries to the Saviour awakening the husband's conscience; but, unwilling to yield up his world, resolved to prefer the shortlived pleasures and gratifications it can offer, not prepared to give up that for the riches set before him in the gospel, and for the eternal inheritance purchased for him by the King of Israel, he turns a deaf ear to these things, and lulls his conscience asleep; he will hear of none of these things! But with all this, how remarkable are God's works, how past finding out His ways! This poor distressed woman, awakened by God's good Spirit striving with her, is sought out in a way we never should have thought of. It was during an illness of hers that she was found. During that time, she made the acquaintance of a Christian lady, who failed not, as none should fail when occasion offers, to set before her the sinner's hope, as revealed in the gospel; to tell her of the peace that is to be found in the Prince of Peace; of the joy she had had under the cross, because He bore it with her who was suspended on the tree, for the sake of sins; of Him who can make darkness light, who can wipe away every tear from the eye, who can shed abroad His light in the heart. This work of love fails not to strike the heart touched already and wrought on by the Spirit; light engenders light; love calls forth love; the craving soul finds that it has found a sympathising heart, whither to go in the hour of distress. Oh, what a precious thing is Christian love! So precious, so palpable is it, that even those who are yet strangers to Christ are quick to discover it, ready to discern it, to acknowledge and admit its worth and value. Let them speak who have already tasted its sweetness; those who have already had grace to exercise this precious grace! And let now prayer be offered for this poor sister, of whom I have been speak ing. Her position is a perilous one in many respects. Access is not easy; her husband guards her jealously, thinking that the "fit" would pass away; her relatives taunt her with folly in embittering her life, when all might go well with her; and doubtless the Enemy within her is busy (as he is in every soul) to uproot the precious seed; perhaps the more violently busy, the nearer he sees Christ approaching to conquer and to put down all resistance; and the world without will not fail to do its part, to eradicate that which is foolishness in her eyes. And if we have no access to that poor sister, blessed be God that we have access to the Throne of Grace, where we can plead, and plead, and plead again, till the work for which we wrestle be achieved. Let us then be up and doing in this instance, and surely the Lord will conquer, and we shall have reason to rejoice and praise His power! I have thought it might interest you to know of this case, and therefore mention it to you, being sure of your sympathy. I have been busy this month, in some measure, with that Jewish friend whose case I mentioned to you some time ago. As yet I see no progress, but continue to struggle onward, looking up to the Lord for His hour. My little band of converts has been reduced by the departure of two of them, towards settling in a distant land. Our prayers will accompany them, that grace may abound in them, and they gradually grow up to the fulness of the stature of Christ. TANGIERS. Mr. LowITZ's recital of the conference with the rabbi at Tangiers will be read with interest. I feel thankful to an all-gracious God, in being yet permitted to go on with my work against many discouragements, amongst this deplorable portion of the Jewish people. Since my last letter, I have had various opportunities afforded to me to declare the truth as it is in Jesus, to those who still reject Him, but for whom He nevertheless suffered and died on Calvary. Among them were those who returned the visit, and others who called on me to buy the Scriptures, and with whom I generally got into conversation on the Messianic passages of the Old Testament. I have also had a good deal of intercourse with Jews at different places, especially in the shop of a Jewish friend, where I put a number of Hebrew Bibles and Pilgrim's Progress for sale. Last New-year's day I distributed many tracts and gospels under the following circumstances:-It is customary here that the poorer class of the Jews go about on that day to visit the consuls and other Christians, in or der to wish them the compliments of the season, and to receive charity from them, and I had not a few calling on me. I had of course to give each some coppers, but I gave them also some tracts besides, which they promised me to read, or have them read to them. I have lately had an interesting dis cussion with a learned rabbi. About a fortnight ago, I called on Mr. M. Pwhere I met one of those rabbis who go |