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Literary Notice.

The Banner Unfurled: Choice Selections from Christian Writers. By E. A. H., Author of "Things Touching the King." London: Partridge and Co., &c. &c.

THIS Volume consists, as its title clearly indicates, of "choice selections from Christian writers," on a great variety of subjects of the highest moment to believers. The extracts from the works of the most valued dead and living authors are short and pointed, and very suitable for reading aloud at

Dorcas meetings, and when persons
are prevented from attending places
of worship. To those who are engaged
in Missions of Mercy, and who are
often at a loss for a suitable subject to
speak on, it will prove an invaluable
help. There is added a copious index
of subjects and authors, which greatly
enhances the value of the book. It is
printed on toned paper, and the bind-
ing and get-up generally are admirable.
We should add that the proceeds aris-
ing from its sale will be devoted to
the purposes of educating one of Miss
Macpherson's band for mission work
in China.
J. A.

PROPOSED HEBREW CHRISTIAN WITNESS CHAMBERS AND READING ROOM.

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UR conferences with the better classes of Jews have of late become more frequent than ever. We have no accommodation for numbers. We are obliged therefore to make appointments for meetings at the different Museums and Reading-Rooms. Meetings in this manner, however, we have found neither desirable nor satisfactory as regards the object which we have in view. We have often been wishing therefore that it would please God to put us in a position to take some chambers, in a central locality, where we might be able to accommodate, for the purpose of Biblical conferences, considerable numbers of respectable Jews, as well as for Meetings of Hebrew Christians and Students of Prophecy, for prayer and reading God's word. But the estimated annual expense scared away the wish from our thoughts. Five hundred pounds per annum is far beyond our power of raising.

On the 13th Jan., however, we received the following note from one of our subscribers :

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Chertsey, Jan. 12, 1874.

"Dear Sir,-I am requested by my brother-in-law, Mr.to send a Donation of £10 towards the Hebrew Christian Witness, &c. &c. -Yours very truly,

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This unexpected contribution from an utterly unknown friend,-who "is at present abroad," as our correspondent informs us,-whispered to our desponding spirit, "Courage! God has hearts and hands at His disposal of which you know nothing!" We do take courage. We look upon this timely contribution as a token for good-as an earnest that He whose is the silver and the gold, as well as the hearts of men, will provide the necessary means for the required accommodation for the promotion of his glory. We consider therefore this gift of ten pounds in the light of a nest-egg for the organisation of "HEBREW CHRISTIAN WITNESS CHAMBERS AND READING-ROOM." We shall devote to the same object the proceeds of the sale of the volumes for 1878 and 1872. (See advertisement on the second page of wrapper.)

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NOTICES TO OUR READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS.

Several incidents, whose interest is of a temporary character, and therefore requiring to be noticed at once, have compelled us to postpone several Literary Notices, communications, &c., to a future issue.

There will be a paper on Prophecy, in our next number, from the pen of the Rev. F. Whitfield. Also, Stanzas on Isaiah ii., by E. S. G. S., will appear in next number.

Books intended for review, must be in the Editor's hands as early as possible in the month preceding the one of publication. Advertisements must be in the printer's hands by the 18th of each month.

Theod. J. Meyer.-The announcement of the name of a Jew at baptism, before a crowded and mixed congregation-such a name is already most effectually published.

Charles Vincent.-We intend to treat of the subject of Missions in a future number.

Our answer to M. P., and others, is the same which we gave last month to L.A.-The Quarterly Journal of Prophecy, as its designation tells you, was a three-monthly Magazine; it consisted of six sheets and a half, or, of one hundred and four pages. The price of that Quarterly was Half-a-crown. THE HEBREW CHRISTIAN WITNESS AND PROPHETIC INVESTIGATOR is a monthly Periodical; it consists of three sheets, or forty-eight pages. The price is only Sixpence per month. You are at liberty to order its delivery to you quarterly,

when you will have nine sheets, or one hundred and forty-four pages, instead of one hundred and four, for which you will have to pay Eighteenpence instead of Half-a-crown.

All Communications and Books for Review to be addressed To the Editor of the Hebrew Christian Witness and Prophetic Investigator, Pelham Library, 151, Fulham Road, Brompton, S. W.

The Editor will not, in any case, return rejected communications.

The Editor does not, as a rule, identify himself with all the views espoused by his correspondents.

No communication unauthenticated by real name and address-not necessarily for publication-will be noticed. We regret to find that this notification is unheeded by some.

LETTERS RECEIVED.

Harrison Hayter, Esq.; Mr. Geo. Hearn; Henry Davidson, Esq.; Marcus H. Lewis, Esq.; Revs. W. Denton ; Dr. Rosenthall; A. A. Isaacs; J. B. Goldberg; H. H. Miles; R. A. Taylor; J. B. Salter, &c. &c. &c.

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

הפודה ומציל : .Warsaw

Aus Guten Stunden, von Paulus Cassel-Gotha.

Expository Lectures on the Epistle to the Hebrews, by the Rev. Adolph Saphir, B.A. Part I. London: John F. Shaw & Co.

Die Gerechtigkeit aus dem Glauben. Von Paulus Cassel-Gotha.

&c. &c. &c.

The Hebrew Christian Witness

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PROPHETIC JNVESTIGATOR.

AN ANGLO-JUDÆO CHRISTIAN MAGAZINE.

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UR heart is full of joy and gladness! From the abundance of the

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heart the mouth speaketh. Gratitude for the wonderful tokens of mercy, from the hands of our God and Father in Christ Jesus, constrains us to begin the work of the HEBREW CHRISTIAN WITNESS AND PROPHETIO INVESTIGATOR, this time, with testifying to the Truth of God's immutable Word, as it is brought to light in and through His beloved Son, in whom He is well pleased, and whom He commands us to hear. He has declared, "I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain,"* that is— as St. Paul explains with reference to the present eclectic dispensationto the "remnant according to the election of grace." He has just vouchsafed unto us some incontrovertible evidence of the same. So that nought but praise-notwithstanding our weakness, and many trialsexuberant praise fills our heart to overflowing. We cannot attempt anything else this time, ere we have communicated to our God-loving and Christ-loving readers, what our gracious Redeemer, the Lord of Hosts, has done for us. So that they may rejoice with us, and praise Him for His goodness and mercy towards our humble work.

Those tokens of blessing upon our work were moreover shown to us at a time of great perplexity, which enabled us to experience the realisation of such divine declarations as the following: "Because He

* Isaiah xlv. 19.

† Rom. xi. 5.

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hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him."* Just as we began to feel disheartened and dispirited, jaded mentally and physically, on account of the over-work, over-worry, and over-anxiety which the conducting of our monthly magazine entails upon us; when we began to think seriously whether it might not be God's will that we should relinquish the work, a succession of letters began to reach us, day after day-which now amount to upwards of thirty-from as many highly respectable Jewish families in different parts of the country (to whom we sent, by the generous help of a few Christian friends, gratuitous copies monthly), to apprise us that our humble messenger, in the form of the HEBREW CHRISTIAN WITNESS, was the bearer of blissful tidings to their respective souls. Some of those families have already quietly joined the Christian Church, and others are about to do so. We ourselves have under Christian instruction, at present, three large families preparatory for the sacred ordinance of baptism. The aggregate number of the members of the thirty-three families amounts to upwards of a hundred and sixty. The Lord's most Holy name be praised.

The most interesting feature, connected with the various conversions, is the diversity of the secondary means and instrumentalities which subserved to conduce to the blessed consummation. In one case it was this paper, in another that paper. There is scarcely a leading article, in our already published volumes, which is not mentioned in one or other of the communications which we have received from our new correspondents. Some refer particularly to our expositions of "The Lessons from Moses and the Prophets, read in the Jewish Synagogues on their Sabbaths, Feasts, and Fasts;" "The Weal and Woe of Israel, the Essence of Prophecy ;" "Judaism in its Modern Aspect; ""The Mission of Israel," &c. &c. &c. Others again have been led to search the Scriptures in a way they had never done before, by such articles as the following:-" The Promises made unto the Fathers;" "Israel's Messiah, and the Emancipator of

*Ps. xci, 14, 15.

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Humanity;' "The Messiah and His Apostles on Conversion and Conversionists; """The Tree of Life, an Antidote to Death; ""The One Faith;" "The account of our meeting at the Mildmay Conference Hall;" "The Feast of Pentecost;""The Feast of Tabernacles; ""The Crowning Sign of the Times;" "Israel's Present and Future;" "Israel's Rejection the Church's Election; Israel's Restoration the World's Salvation," &c. &c. &c. Scarcely one letter, however, omits special reference to our article on "The Day of Atonement." Equally interesting is the diversity of the instrumentality in the living voice which was first employed in leading the heads of the respective families to search whether these things be so. In one case it was a young son; in another a little girl. Here a brother; there a sister. In one case even a Christian servant, like the little captive maid in the house of Naaman, the Syrian prince, was the highly-honoured instrument of a Jewish household's salvation. In a future number, we purpose, God willing, to give some extracts from some of those remarkable letters which we have received in the course of last month.

As our heart is full of these TOKENS OF GOD'S BLESSING UPON OUR TESTIMONY, we cannot help making the subject the chief topic of our communication wherever we may happen to be. We were talking about this grateful theme to a very learned Jew, still one of the teachers in connection with the synagogue. With a very animated countenance, and in words most earnest and impressive, he thus responded: "I lend about the numbers you kindly send me to some of my learned Jewish friends and acquaintances. They all agree with me in believing that the extensive circulation of your periodical amongst the higher classes of Jews, is more likely to lead us to reason frankly about Christianity than all the tracts scattered broadcast by the missionaries, which no one ever reads." It is not the first time that learned Jews have made such statements to us.

Dear Christian friends, ye who have helped and sustained us with your prayers hitherto, continue to plead in our behalf, at that Throne where mercy rejoiceth over judgment.

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