of the Anglican Church at Jerusalem, Dr. Ewald accompanied his Lordship as domestic chaplain, and for some ten years was arduously engaged in the great work of Jewish conversion in the holy city. An account of this interesting period of his life can be read in his autobiography, "Missionary Labours in the City of Jerusalem." Ill health compelled him, in 1851, to quit the East, and he now took up his abode in London, acting as the Principal of the Home Mission of the Jews' Society. In this responsible post, founding the Wanderer's Home for poor Jews anxious to learn the truth, visiting the synagogues, and instructing and arguing with the children of Israel scattered throughout our vast metropolis, he remained till 1872, when a general debility of constitution rendered it necessary for him to tender his resignation to the Society, whose valued servant he had been for upwards of forty years. In one of his speeches in Exeter Hall, the late Bishop Villiers, when speaking of the labours of Dr. Ewald, called him "a missionary genius," and none who knew the devotion, tact, and patience of the deceased will gainsay the title. Dr. Ewald was a graduate of the University of Erlangen, in Bavaria, and on the publication of his translation of certain books of the Talmud, the degree of Doctor of Philosophy was conferred on him. In 1872, the Archbishop of Canterbury admitted him to the degree of Bachelor of Divinity. In the death of this firm and faithful soldier of Christ, the Society for the Promotion of Christianity among the Jews has lost one whom it will with difficulty replace." Poetry. THE CITIES OF REFUGE; OR, THE NAME OF JESUS. A SCRIPTURAL STUDY. [Num. xxxv. 9, &c., with Josh. xx. 7-9 inclusive. Also Isa. xxii. 2; Joel iii. 16 (marg. read.); John x. 30.] I NEED Thee, "Holy" (a) Saviour! (a) "Kedesh" is a Hebrew word (VTP) signifying "Holy." Christ is "Holy,' the Holy One." Rev. iii. 7, &c.; Ps. xvi. 10; Mark i. 24, &c. (b) Rom. iii. 23; 1 John i. 8; Eccles. vii. 20, &c. And only in Thy Holiness (c) Could I my Father see. (d) I need Thee," Powerful" Saviour, (e) I need Thee, for I need a " Friend,” (h) Who for lost sinners died. (i) I need Thee," Refuge" of my soul !(?) Are drought, and heat, and tempests wild: Who build here, build on sand. (m) (c) 1 Cor. i. 30. "Christ Jesus of God is made unto us-SANCTIFICATION." (d) Heb. xii. 14. HE (e) "Shechem" (D) means "Shoul der," or that which bears or carries-8 word implying strength. Christ is "the Power," or " Strength of GOD." hath borne our sins and our sorrows. (Isa. liii. 4-7, &c. &c.) He bears rule, as our King: the keys of government have been laid upon His shoulder. (Isa. ix. 6, and xxii. 22.) He bears the glory (as the only Worthy One) of the Heavenly Temple. (Zech. vi. 12, 13.) He bears the ChurchHis Bride,- -as the "signet" on His heart. (Cant. viii. 6; Isa. xlix. 16.) (f) Isa. lix. 2. (g) Rev. i. 18; Ps. lxviii. 20; Isa. lxiii. 1. (h) Hebron" (17) means "Friendship," or "Fellowship;" it is from the root , to be joined or bound together, as a husband and wife, a companion, an associate, &c. (i) John x. 15, 17, 18, and xv. 13; Rom. v. 7, 8; viii. 34. (j) Rom. v. 10; Col. i. 21, 22. (k) John xx. 17; Rom. viii. 15; Gal. iv. 5, 6; 1 John iii. 1, 2; and 1 John iii. 3, last clause. "Be () Isa. xxv. 4; Deut. xxxiii. 27. zer" (732), “Stronghold," or "Rock," or "Fortress." (Nahum i. 7; Isa. xxv. 4, and xxvi. 4-margin.) (m) James iv. 13, 14; 1 Pet. iv. 7; 1 John i. 17, &c. The only sure foundation Thou, (n) The only "Fortress" made Invincible to hostile powers; The only Sun and Shade. (0) I need Thee, my " Exalted" Head! (p) And, but for Thee, I must have sunk That I may be forgiven. (r) I need Thee, my unfailing "Joy!".(8) Or, as a dream, depart; Whose chiefest joy Thou art. (v) Jesus, my LORD! Thy name I love! Its fragrance, spread abroad, Hath been a strong magnetic power To draw our hearts to God. (w) Each barrier which rose between Sad exiles and their Home, Was broken down when Thou for us Didst to this dark world come. Sin,-Thou hast blotted out, and Thou Our" Kedesh" City art; Our "Shechem," too, Thou bearest us, And reignest in our heart. No longer outcasts from our Home, We now in "Hebron " dwell; In "fellowship" with God and Thee,(x) Safe within "Bezer's " lofty towers, (n) Isa. xxviii. 16; 1 Pet. ii. 6, 7. (0) Ps. lxxxiv. 11; Isa. xxxii. 2. CHRIST, and CHRIST alone, is a Refuge from the consequences of sin; from its power; from all our enemies, visible and invisible, known and unknown; and from the troubles and sorrows of this present life. (p) "Ramoth" (MPN), i.e., "Exaltation." (This word is applied to Christ several times in Scripture.) Acts ii. 33; v. 31; Phil. ii. 9. (q) Mark xvi. 19; Heb. i. 3; Acts. vii. 55; Rom. viii. 34, &c. &c. (r) Isa. liii. 12; Heb. vii. 25; 1 John ii. 1. “Golan," (1) i.e., "Joy." John (8) xv. 11; Ps. xliii. 4; John xvii. 13. Upon the dangers and the griefs Which seemed so dread erewhile. (*) In sight the gates of "Ramoth" stand, Erst open'd to our King; And soon within their shining walls His ransom'd hosts He'll bring! (a) On "Golan's" (b) threshold we have For they who reach that blest abode For CHRIST is "all in all !" But out of Him no Refuge is No other Name 'neath Heaven To be the sinner's hiding-place Hath God to mortals given. (g) J. E. J. A gift is as a precious stone in the eyes of him that hath it; whithersoever it turneth, it prospereth." (Prov. xvii. 8.) "Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift." (2 Cor ix. 15.) Look at this Gift in whatever aspect we may, "it prospereth;" it presents some new beauty; its worth becomes more apparent. Unto those that "believe He is precious' most precious-the "unspeakable gift;" for language has no words that can - the adequately express His value "Chief among ten thousand "-" the Altogether Lovely! (x) 1 John i. 3. (y) 1 Pet. i. 8; Heb. xii. 22, 23, 24. (2) Prov. xviii. 10. (See also marg. reading.) Ps. xviii. 2; xlvi. 1, 2. (a) Rom. v. 17; viii. 17; 2 Tim. ii. 12; Rev. xxii. 5; John xii. 26; xiv. 3; xvii. 24. (b) Or, "On 'Golan's' shore we've pitched our tents," &c. (c) Rom. v. 2-11, and xv. 13; 1 Pet. i. 8. (d) The redeemed in heaven have "come out of" tribulation-the great tribulation caused by sin, and consequent suffering and death-and have left it far behind them for ever." (Rev. vii. 14.) (e) Ps. xvi. 11; xxxvi. 8; Isa. xxxv. 10; li. 11. Ps. xxx. 5. Sorrow," Weeping," (like a wayfaring man-a sojourner,") "lodgeth for a night," (the night of time, which is even now "far spent,")" but Joy (Heb. singing') cometh" (and cometh to abide)" in the morning,"-the morning of the resurrection-the nightless day which is "at hand." (f) Rev. iii. 12. (g) Acts iv. 12. Correspondence. THE LORD'S PRAYER. To the Editor of the Hebrew Christian Witness and Prophetic Investigator. I HAVE a few minutes only which I can spare, and would like to devote to a few remarks on the first article in your August number, on "The Lord's Prayer;" though as to the subjectmatter, I can now only refer you to Lightfoot, Opera, ed. Leusd., tom. ii., p. 299, seq.; and more to the same effect is to be found. It was a sermon by Dean Stanley, in his usual style, tending to represent our blessed Lord as a mere man, which led to my remarks on the subject, in my " Gospels from the Rabbinical Point of View," p. 4 sq. On my first arriving in London, after I had received the faith, in 1835, I was asked for a paper, which then appeared in The Jewish Intelligencer, in which I briefly dwelt on the fact that the learned Jew cannot but be startled at finding that some of the best things in the New Testament are to be found in Jewish writings, and suggested the possibility that the Jews may have borrowed them from the New Testament; but I am satisfied now that this was not the case. When I was once asked by a very learned Jew, "What one good thing is there in this book of yours (the New Testament), which we Jews have not?" my answer was, and it is, in the main, the only right answer-"This: 'To me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain."" The real statement, however, is not that the whole of the Lord's Prayer in integro is anywhere to be found in any Jewish work, but as Dean Stanley maliciously, it might be said, put it, as near as I can remember, in these words:-"A learned man in the seventeenth century (meaning Lightfoot) found that most of the petitions in the Lord's Prayer are to be found scattered in Jewish writings." Upon which he based the lesson, that we should imitate the Lord's example in this, make use of all that is good which is old, and add to it. He preached once to a large number of children, when he held up to them the example of Jesus at twelve years of age, as an inquisitive boy, who, thirsting for knowledge, sought instruction at the hands of those best able to teach Him. G. W. PIERITZ. [We can assure our well read correspondent that we are not only conver sant with Lightfoot's works, but with those of Lightfoot's authorities; such as the works of Bartolocci, Carpzov, Poole, &c. &c. &c. When we read any ill-digested statement-with respect to Rabbinical dogma-propounded by certain Gentile-Christian Divines, we dismiss it with a smile, which we can seldom repress. But when we find such untenable statements endorsed by a learned Hebrew-Christian Divine, such as our esteemed and estimable correspondent undoubtedly is, we stare and sigh. We would refer Mr. Pieritz at present to our first article in this month's issue, p. 491.-Editor of H.C. W. and P. I.] BISHOP WATSON ON GEN. X. DEAR SIR,-In the life of Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, there is a letter written by him, just before the French Revolution, 1791, to a gentleman whose mind had been disturbed by unbelievers of those days, on the subject of the peopling of the earth by the sons of Noah. Unbelievers then, as now, endeavoured to invalidate Divine Scripture by sceptical suggestions. Dr. Watson was a learned vindicator of Divine Scripture, and would you think the following extracts from the letter I have named worth insertion? "The tenth chapter of Genesis is one of the most ancient, one of the most anthentic, and one of the most valuable records in the world. No person has ever questioned its authenticity; it is universally allowed to have been written by the author of the Pentateuch; and as to its value, it is inestimable; for it explains to us the origins of nations, as distinct scions springing from one common stock, Noah. Bochart, Huetius, Goguet, Le Clerk, Bryant, and innumerable other authors have treated this subject with such perspicuity, that it is a shame for any unbeliever to be ignorant of what they have said; and it will be impossible for him to deny the truth of their argumentation. If my memory does not fail me, it is related by Hornius in his book 'De Originibus Americanis,' that it was proposed by some superstitious people, as a question which none but a man possessed by the Devil could answer, How was America peopled? Yet the question can now be answered without the aid of supernatural assistance. In whatever way the Islands of the South Seas may have become inhabited, the time, I conjecture, will come, when the mother language of all the various dialects spoken in these islands, will be discovered in some part of Asia. As to the mysteries of the Christian religion, it is neither your concern nor mine to explain them; for if they are mysteries they cannot be explained. But our time may be properly employed in inquiring whether there are so many mysteries in Christianity as the Deists say there are. Many doctrines have been imposed on the Christian world as doctrines of the gospel, which have no foundation whatever in Scripture, and instead of defending these doctrines, it is the duty of a real disciple of Jesus Christ, to reprobate them as gangrenous excrescences, corrupting the fair form of genuine Christianity. That Jesus Christ lived, died, rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven, are facts established by better historical testimony than that Alexander fought Darius, conquered Persia, and passed into India. But on the resurrection of Christ, all our hopes as men, and our obligations as Christians, are founded. And if we have as great or greater reason to believe that fact, than we have to believe almost any fact recorded in history, we shall act irrationally, and, in a matter of such high concern, foolishly and culpably, if we withhold our assent to it; and if we do assent to it our duty is obvious." THE DROLLERIES OF THE H. BELL LANE JEWISH WOrld. SIR,-I am not at a loss to divine that your monthly space is inadequate to the monthly contributions which I have reason to believe are extensively forwarded to you from our own quarter, Aldgate cum Aldersgate, the London Jewry, East. I, as well as other of your Jewish correspondents, do not feel aggrieved therefore, if you, now and then, defer sine die a communication from this point of the metropolitan compass. I am conscious that my last letter to you on the above subject was much too long; and if it should have to wait for insertion till you can afford sufficient space for the whole, it may probably be kept back altogether till the point of the drolleries is somewhat blunted. May I therefore be allowed to make a suggestion? I forward you, in this communication, another specimen of the humour, of which our Judæo-Bell-Lane sparkling barrel-organ has so rich a supply, being one of its harmonious tunes of last Friday, the 14th inst. I enclose the cutting from my copy of the Hebrew Christian Witness and Prophetic Investigator, on which our droll clown tried his hand at a new tune. I put the cutting from your monthly, and the capers from that weakly side by side; so that your readers may see the point of the drollery at a glance. I enclose my card. You and I have had many a polemical tossel, and we may probably encounter each other on the same arena again, but I cannot charge myself with ever having had recourse to the petty tricks of the would be wag, and I gladly bear witness that you have never betrayed the faintest bias for that sort of religious (?) discussion. I am, Sir, yours obediently, דחציף כולא האי שמא מינה ממזר .הוא We own that we have often looked upon the young upstart in that light."-Hebrew Christian Witness and Prophetic Investigator. "We must not omit, however, to remark that the last page of the magazine contains an allusion to the Jews, which could not very well be surpassed in coarseness and obscenity. It is not put in English, for public decency would be outraged; it is not couched in Hebrew, because some scholars might comprehend its meaning: it is put in crabbed Chaldaic, which only the initiated will understand; and no translation accompanies it, for obvious reasons. We could [?] translate it, but our own self-respect and the regard we entertain for our numerous readers forbid us making the attempt.' -Jewish World, for August 14th, p. 5. "The humourist, by shifting the allusion from himself to the Jews' has somewhat overshot his mark. The poor scribbler seems utterly innocent of the knowledge that the Hebrew-Chaldaic quotation is a common Rabbinical saying. If he had but been a little better read, of how much merriment might he not have deprived his readers?" We give one extract, at present, from our correspondent's former letter : In his impression of the 10th inst. [July 10th], occurs the following item, on page 2 "The Rev. Meshumad Le Hockhiss has just been appointed chief 'deputation of the Society for Provoking Christianity against the Jews. The salary is £1000 per annum, and the duties are light in more senses than one." 66 In the same paper there is an article headed 'Jews and Christianity," in which the following passage occurs : "The Jewish Journals of the day must be consulted, and there, and there alone, can the true sentiments of Jews be discovered. In the very teeth of these reliable sources of information, the most daring falsehoods are published, as descriptive of Jewish feeling." "Can the force of drollery and humour go further? A Jewish Journal, who could coolly put down such a joke as in the first paragraph, claiming to be consulted as a reliable source of information!!!" "The most diverting piece of buffoonery, at least the jester may have thought so, was the statement, inter alia reliable' items of information, which he ascribed to you -to you of all Hebrews!-as having admitted in your last month's issue, the following:"Hebrew characters, the most filthy, vile, obscene, blasphemous Hebrew."!! Surely, surely, when he pens the terms most daring falsehoods,' and False Witness,' he must do so whilst in reverie opposite his looking-glass." Literary Notices. The Jew. By the Author of "Both One in Christ." Sixth Edition, enlarged. London: William Macintosh. VARIOUS are the reasons which make us welcome this new edition with gratitude. The venerable author, the Rev. Dr. Myers, Vicar of All Saints, Dalston, has adorned THE FAITH, which he has professed upwards of two score years, with every Christian virtue. He is a noble type of the guileless Israelite indeed, the genuine Hebrew Christian. We consider this revised edition of THE JEW of suffici ent interest and importance to devote to it a certain amount of space in three or four of our monthly numbers. In a certain sense, it furnishes the clearest insight into the prejudiced mind of a large section of religious Jews. In another sense, the little work may be said to contain the antidote to the baneful effect of the misinterpretations which have been so lavishly palmed upon the prophecies respecting the people of Israel. Let the author speak for himself :— "One man writes for fame; another writes for gain; a third from motives of pure philanthropy; whilst others, impressed with a sense of man's immortality, write for eternity. The following pages are written with a view to the interests of the Church of Christ, as they stand connected with the Jewish nation. "The Author's manner of life, which was at the first among his own people, and which has been latterly among Christians of different ranks, and of various shades of opinion, has made him acquainted with the errors and the prejudices prevalent in Israel on the one hand, and in Christendom on the other. This little work is intended to remove certain misconceptions and misundertandings which have most lamentably interfered with the spread of the Gospel among the ancient people; and, as the writer believes, with the interests of humanity at large. "That a sixth edition of the book is called for by the public, would indicate that in the views here taken the author has appreciated a state of things as it is THE REALITY; and also that the object contemplated has, in some measures at least, been attained. May the blessing of the God of Israel still attend this messenger of peace !"-Preface to the Sixth Edition. The work is divided into three parts. To give our readers an idea of the comprehensive character of the little volume, we reproduce here the tables of contents of all the three divisions. PART I.-Israel's Mission among the Nations not transitory; The Relation of the Christian Church to the Church which preceded it; Christianity not a New Religion; The Place of its Nativity, Judæa; The Treatment of Christ by the Jews nationally, and their Conduct individually; The Christian Church established in Israel prior to the Calling of the Gentiles; The He |