the Jews, built in the high mountains, and representing "the city set upon a hill.” And we can see Cana of Galilee in the valley to the north, where our Lord turned the water into wine. Pleasant, truly, are the memories of Nazareth.

THE PIOUS BOOKBINDER.

AMONG the apprentices of a Christian bookbinder in Germany, was a young Jew. The bookbinder was a man of judgment, and he did not attack the young man on account of his views and feelings. But he acted and spoke like a Christian, and this was not without its effect.

The bookbinder was a cheerful man. His religion made him happy. He would sing Psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs. The young Jew caught up some of these, and in this way"the truth as it is in Jesus" began to gain a hold over his heart. And he might have been seen Sunday after Sunday going with his Christian master to the house of God, and there listening to the message of salvation.

The Jews soon found this to be the case. They now sought to take him away from his friend, and laid their plans for this. One day he was walking in the streets, when some police

men came and seized him. They said that he was accused of having stolen something, and that in order to avoid the penalty, he must enlist as a soldier.

In his distress, not knowing what to do, the young man agreed to enter the army. After he had been fourteen years so engaged, one of our colporteurs met him. His health had been ruined, and he hardly dared to think of what might become of him. But he listened most attentively to all that the colporteur said. It brought back the memory of past days, and we may hope would lead him anew to seek that Saviour of whom he had so often heard through the Christian bookbinder.

THE WHEAT.

BREAD is often called " the staff of life." It is so called, because it is the kind of food which is most known and most used in different parts of the world.

Bread is made of many kinds of grain, but that which is chiefly used for this purpose is wheat. And since there are few parts of the world where wheat cannot be grown, it is always connected with the use of bread.

We need hardly show how wheat seemed always to have been grown in the Holy Land.

It was in wheat harvest that Reuben found his mandrakes. (Gen. xxx. 14.) Gideon was threshing wheat when he was spoken to by the Angel of God. (Judges vi. 11.) Ruth was gleaning at the end of wheat harvest. (Ruth ii. 23.) And they of Beth-Shemesh received the ark of God at the time of wheat harvest. (1 Sam. vi. 13.) And when Solomon had to give food

to the cutters of cedars in Lebanon, we read that Solomon gave Hiram wheat for food. (1 Kings v. 11.) Wheat must have abounded in the land, for we read that in the markets of Tyre, “Judah traded in wheat of Minnith." (Ezekiel xxvii. 17.)

At the present time a great deal of wheat is grown in Palestine. There is more than is sufficient for the wants of the people, and a great quantity is sent to other countries. There are many similes employed in the Word of God, in which corn or wheat form a part.

THE CLERGYMAN'S STORY.

ONE of our colporteurs in Germany, while pursuing his labours, called on a German clergyman. This clergyman was very kind to him, and did all that he could to help him in his work.

The clergyman told the colporteur that he had instructed and baptized a Jew and his wife a few years ago. They had shown in many a way they are in earnest for their souls good, and

loved the Lord Jesus.

that

For a long time the Jews strove and did all they could to keep these people from becoming Christians. And when they were baptized, they so persecuted them, that they were obliged to leave the place.

Some months after this, the Jews gave out

that the man and wife had repented of what they had done; that they had given up Christianity, and returned to the Jews.

The clergyman did not believe this report, and he was much cheered when the wife, who had become a widow, came back to the town to see him. She said that her husband had lived and died a devout Christian. That his faith in

the Lord Jesus never failed him, and that with his dying breath he asked her to come to their old pastor, and to tell him that he died as he had lived, calling upon the name of the Lord.

This account was enough to show how idle was the report of the Jews. They often say things of this kind, which they know to be

untrue.

THE BIBLE WOMAN.

We have just begun to employ a Bible-woman among the Jews at Berlin. She has been a friend to the mission for eighteen years, and has long been a great help to the missionaries. The poor Jews and Jewesses have ever found her willing to work for them, and thus we may hope that she may be still more blessed in her labours.

There is not much to report at present about the Bible-woman's work. But there is much to assure us, that she will obtain great access to the poor Jewesses. One family upon whom she