INQUIRERS' HOME AT JERUSALEM. SPEAKING of the inmates, the Report says:

was taken when a

"Of these Abraham child for the Russian army. He served at Sebastopol, where he was severely wounded, and became deaf. He afterwards was a soldier in a Turkish regiment. Since coming to us his mind is not only awakened to the terrors of eternity, but, it is also hoped, to its blessed promises. He often goes down to the Jewish quarter to warn the Jews in his own simple way. He is very earnest in his desire for baptism. Another, Solomon was born near Kiev.

His great desire to visit Jerusalem and unite with the Mission arose from the frequent descriptions which his schoolmaster, after seeing the Holy City, gave of the congregation worshiping in Christ Church."

THE GIRLS' SCHOOL AT TUNIS.

MR. FENNER writes:

During the past year, my wishes and requirements to reach also the female portion of the seed of Abraham in Tunis have at length been met by the establishment of a school for Jewish girls. This is the chief and almost sole means of access to this deplorably neglected and morally degraded race. In the commencement

of this praiseworthy undertaking, I have been materially encouraged and supported by the great interest shown for these daughters of Africa by a benevolent lady in the North of England, who paid a flying visit to Tunis some eighteen months since. To this Christian lady I feel I am not only indebted for sympathy and substantial help to carry on the enterprise; but, above all, I am persuaded we have her constant prayers, and this, to a missionary, is the best of all help. In the beginning of October, our zealous and pious schoolmistress arrived, and, other preparations being completed, we were waiting in prayerful readiness to receive the thirty-four children who joined the school in its first week.

"Since the 20th of October only ten weeks have elapsed, and now, at the close of the year, the number of girls on the list is but one short of a hundred, all, with the exception of thirteen, being daughters of Abraham.

"What a cause for gratitude and praise is here.

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My feelings can be better imagined than described, when early on Christmas morning a pretty little Jewish girl, dressed in her holiday attire, and accompanied by an elder sister and her cousin, came to wish me a 'buona festa,' and then went on to recite, in Italian, 'The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light; they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death,

upon them hath the light shined.

For unto us a

child is born, unto us a Son is given,' &c., &c., and concluded by repeating Psalm cxix. 105, Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.'

"At that moment I forgot all my hours and days of sadness and gloom, and felt abundantly rewarded for the labour and toil I had had to pass through."

THE BREAD OF LIFE.

WE read the following in connexion with the Mission work at Amsterdam :

The colporteur offered a tract to a Jew.

"Ah," said he, "what shall I do with this thing?'

"You must read it," was the reply.

"Will it give my wife and children bread?" 'Yes, the Bread of Life."

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"I thank you," said the Jew, and went on his way; but he had not gone out of hearing of the colporteur when he met a number of his brethren, and he called out: Here is the Bread of Life, whoever is hungry, let him come, and I will give it to him.' The Jews surrounded him, and he read them that tract."

BULRUSHES.

THERE are few parts of the world in which the bulrush is not found. In all marshy places, by the banks of rivers, and even on some parts of the sea coast, bulrushes are met with.

In the Holy Land they are often observed. Many are seen beside the Jordan, and by the springs which are found near the border of some

parts of the Dead Sea. In basket and other work, the bulrush is very useful.

It was in a little ark or cradle made of these thick reeds, that the infant Moses was placed on the Nile, when he escaped the murderous hand of the king of Egypt. It was evidently made water-tight, by being daubed with pitch or something of that kind. (Exod. ii. 3.)

In Isaiah xviii. 2, we read of ambassadors being sent by sea in vessels of bulrushes. There is much difference of opinion on the meaning of this. But it seems to belong to that time when the Jewish nation shall be restored to their land, and to the favour and love of God.

FRUITS OF A SERMON.

AFTER a sermon preached by Dr. Schultze, at Frankfort, for the building of the Mission-house at Berlin, the collection amounted to 101 dollars, or more than £15. In this same Church at another time only six silber groschen, about one shilling and fourpence, had been collected for an Orphan Asylum.

But beside this, after the sermon there were other results. One good man, a maker of cloth, sent a present of seventy yards of cloth for the Jewish converts. Another sent a whole piece, with a very kind letter. One old invalid brought