THE

Children's Jewish Advocate.

JUNE, 1864.

OUR INCOME.

OUR Society has to thank God for a good income this year. It is better than it was last year, and amounts in all to £32,680 88. 1d. It is also pleasing to know that the Associations have done better than usual. This shows that

our friends have been more earnest, and have

met with greater success.

But it is right also to say that the amount of money which has been spent is greater than the income. This is £35,105 188. 8d. In this there is much to prove that our wants are much greater than our means.

Among the objects which have been carried out, is the building of the school-house at Constantinople, of which our readers will have an engraving. It is the fruit of the "Children's Jubilee Memorial.”

THE PERSECUTOR.

PAUL, the great Apostle of the Gentiles, was a persecutor. At Jerusalem, in every place whither he went, it was his great effort to destroy believers in the Lord Jesus. Yet this was the man whom the Lord raised up, to be the greatest means of making known the word of salvation to Jews and Gentiles.

In our own day, we often see the persecutor turned into the friend. The grace and mercy of God can do all things, and that grace sufficient to make the enemy a friend, and the sinner a saint.

There is nothing so sad, as when these troubles come into a man's own house and among his own family. This is just what the Bible would lead us to expect. Our Lord said that through the Gospel families would be divided. Some would love, and others would hate the Gospel. And therefore it would come to pass, that the evil would try to overcome the good.

There is at Constantinople a Jew, who some time ago became a believer in the Lord Jesus. He had long been seeking the Saviour, and was in the habit of going to the mission-house to hear of Him whom he had learnt to love. The son of this man was most bitter against him.

The poor father had to meet with the

most cruel persecutions from him, and he never seemed to be weary of trying to do him harm. But the old man held on his way, and was baptized.

One Sunday morning the son came to the mission-house. His manner was quite different to what it had been. The lion seemed to be turned into a lamb. He said that he intended to come to Divine service that morning. Soon after this the father came. "Is my son here ?" he asked.

"Yes," replied the missionary, "he is in the other room.

The old man's face was lighted up with joy. It was the turning point in his son's life. "Soon after this," wrote our missionary, "both the once-persecuted father, and the persecuting son, might be seen kneeling down, and joining in our prayers to the author of peace and lover of concord."

This young man and seven others were prepared for baptism. We believe that ere this time, he has become a Christian outwardly as well as inwardly. But his hour of trial had

come.

The relatives of his wife cast him into prison. They generally in these cases get up a cry of debt. He was brought before the Pasha, who was most likely bribed by the Jews in order to condemn him. But no brow

beating, no threats of the Pasha could make him move from what he had done. The Jews wished him to divorce his wife. But he said to the judge, "Your excellency may cut off my head, but I shall not divorce my wife. The New Testament and my religion forbids it." Those who hold to the Lord shall prevail. Their enemies shall fall before them.

THE INFANT LEARNER.

In the infant school in London of one of the best friends of Israel, is at the present time a little Jewish child. He tells us, that no one could look at the face of this dear child without being struck by its beauty, and loving her. She comes very regularly, is very attentive, and is most well-behaved; and besides this, she learns with great care all her lessons, and repeats very well her hymns, and passages of Scripture. But whenever she comes to the name of Jesus, the child stops suddenly. She never will utter that sweet and blessed name.

Why is this? Because her grandmother, an old Jewess, who has all the hard thoughts against our Lord that many of them still hold, tells her never to mention that name. She does not stand in the way of her coming to school, but the name of Jesus is never to pass her lips.

The habit of obedience, which is better carried out among the Jews than by any other people, has its power upon the little heart. But the Lord may use it for good. The very hindrance may be the means of leading her to Christ. She may ask, why am I told not to say this? And when she learns all that is taught her at school, we may hope and pray that the blessing will

come.

How all this shows us the feelings of some of the Jews! We can hardly account for this enmity. But we fear that it is the life and the conduct of Christians, that has led them more than anything else to think and act thus.

THE PALMYRA PALM.

THE engraving gives us a view of another kind of palm, and is also drawn from a photograph.

This kind of palm is found in all southern countries. In South and Central America, in the West Indies, in Africa, and in India. It must have been found in Egypt and Arabia, and was most likely the kind of palm of the leaves of which the people of Israel made their booths in the wilderness.

This palm is also of different sizes and kinds, and is in some countries commonly called the thatch, because it is chiefly used for roofing dwellings. There are smaller kinds, and one