and excellent. We wish there were a little more tenderness in dealing with opponents, for we are exhorted "to speak the truth in love," and the great Master Himself brought precept and example to bear on that behalf. But, taking it altogether, a more valuable volume for a present or for mutual reading, as connected with the people we love so well, we do not know. The Lost Sheep, by J. Friedberg, of the English Presbyterian Jewish Mission, records twenty years' experience among the Jews. In the introduction Mr. Saphir says: "The narrative is well calculated to stimulate us to greater earnestness in prayer, and to greater and more sympathetic co-operation with Christian servants who are seeking to bring the Gospel to the dispersed of Israel." This aptly describes the little book: it is simple and interesting, and must awaken inquiry and thoughtfulness, as well as answer the reiterated and unjust reproaches of those who dare to question the reality of the evidences of God's grace amongst His ancient people in their confession of Jesus as the Messiah. The author is himself a Jew, and his witness on these vital points is clear and true. He has worked in some of the most benighted and degraded districts; among thieves, in ragged schools, and with the lowest class of Jews, and latterly has laboured in the Crystal Palace. He gives some striking examples of his domiciliary visitation, and in continuing his mission, he says: "I trust and pray that God may give a greater increase during the time yet spared to me, and that more souls will be brought, especially from among His ancient people Israel, to acknowledge Jesus as their only Saviour." We wish him all blessing and success, and to his little book many appreciative readers. It is published at Mr. Friedberg's own expense, and as the cost is small it would be useful both as a present and for distribution. The publisher is Ranken, Drury Court, Strand. We wonder if ample contributions have flowed in since the new year to replenish the fund for giving temporal relief-through our Society—to poor and destitute Jews. Strange, passing strange, that so much solicitation and so many reminders are needful. We entreat our friends to pray that over urgent call, and then we are certain they will give a willing and liberal response. Our friends in general, and the officers of our auxiliaries in particular, will do well to remember that our financial year closes on the 31st of March, and to send in contributions as SOON AS POSSIBLE. They will find an appeal on this behalf upon the cover of the Herald. 1875. Although we cannot always notice or review books at once, we do not pass any over, and they may be sent to the Editor of the Jewish Herald, 38, Bloomsbury Square, W.C., to whom likewise all communications are to be addressed. Palestina: the Land of the Jew. PART II. CHAPTER XXVIII. WHEN trumpet-note and shouting told King Solomon of the approach of his illustrious visitor, he went forth with his glittering train to receive and to welcome her. He led her into his palace courts, seated her by his side, and entertained her with royal magnificence. He spoke much with her, and explained the meaning of those things which had puzzled her in her far-off land. The Queen of Sheba came especially to prove Solomon with "hard questions" (1 Kings x. 1), and every longing inquiry her heart suggested was met, and every difficulty was solved. When she had heard his wisdom, and had "communed with him of that was in her heart"; when she with him of all that was in had seen the grandeur and of his kingdom, and the glory of his state; when she had gone with him to the House of God, resplendent in all the beauty of its recently completed perfection; when she had stood and gazed in the Court of the Gentiles, and had seen the white robed priests, the myriad sacrifices, the smoking altars, and the flowing blood; when she had heard the resounding hosannas to Jehovah, Israel's one God, rising from ten thousand voices, then, we are told, "there was no more spirit in her." She had told King Solomon all that was in her heart; she had seen the vastness of this dominion, and the profound peace of his reign; had beheld the attendance of his ministers and their apparel, his cupbearers, also, and their apparel, and "his ascent by which he went up to the house of the Lord," and she exclaimed with a full heart, It was a true report that I heard in my own land of thy acts, and of thy wisdom; howbeit I believed not their words until I came, and mine eyes liave seen it and behold the one-half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me, and for thou exceedest the fame which I heard: happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom. Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighteth in thee” (2 Chronicles ix. 3-8.) And giving many costly gifts, she went back to her distant realm better and wiser for her visit, and, we trust and believe, carrying with her the knowledge, above all other, of the great God, Maker of heaven and earth, and the way by which He was to be approached. We think that Solomon, then a devout and holy man, had led her faith to these invisible, blessed realities, and that we shall know in that Day, when all shall be made manifest, that this interesting woman found heavenly riches and abiding peace for time and for eternity in the fair land of Israel, and in the place concerning which Jehovah had said, "My name shall be there." 1875. This account gives us a graphic and lovely picture of Immanuel's Land in its best and brightest time, and shadows forth that kingdom in the Millenial days, when one mightier than Solomon, even the Son of God, its rightful Heir, shall "reign in Mount Zion, in Jerusalem, and before His ancients gloriously," when He shall govern righteously amidst profoundest peace, and when all nations, even from the utmost part, shall come up as did the Queen of Sheba to Solomon, to see His glory, to hear His wisdom, and to learn of Him. In the meanwhile we have access to this exalted Mediator and "King eternal, immortal, and invisible," as He stands exalted, with all power given to Him in heaven and on earth, and can plead for that beloved nation to whom first the revelation was made, and who have preserved the oracles of God for us. Let us learn from this touching episode in Israel's history, as connected with her land and inheritance, as Jesus Himself teaches, that the Queen of Sheba came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, "and BEHOLD A GREATER THAN SOLOMON IS HERE (Matthew xii. 42). M. E. N. "To the Jew First." In the January Herald we pointed out the Scriptural position of the Jew in relation to the true interests of the world, and suggested that if the example of the Apostle Paul were followed, and the Divine precept, "First to the Jew," were obeyed by the Church of Christ, we might expect blessing on the Jews, and large blessing on the Church and the world through them. It appears very strange that the Church should have given so little attention to God's revealed purpose in the Jew, and have been so little influenced in her missionary operations by the fact that the Jews stand in close relationship, for all practical purposes, with all the nations, peoples, and tongues of the earth. The following extract from the Bible Society's Report for 1873 will illustrate the importance of securing converted Jews as colporteurs among corrupt and dead Christians. The Rev. W. Parkes, the Bible Society's agent in Mexico, writes respecting a converted Jew as follows: "Some two months since there came into the evpendio a dusty, travel-stained young man, to purchase a Hebrew Bible and Hebrew Testament. I found that he had lost the use of his right hand, and could not work at his trade as a tailor. The German Benevolent Society here had assisted him to travel as a hawker in the interior. He always travelled with his Hebrew and German Bibles. Nearly 200 miles away from this city, in the district of Morelia, he had been robbed of all his possessions, among which were his Hebrew and German Bibles, and I found that the chief motive of his walking back the 200 miles was to purchase fresh copies. After he had gone, I thought he was just the man to make a good colporteur. I was afraid I should not meet with him again. I made various inquiries, and was giving up the hope of finding him, when I met him unexpectedly. I arranged to take him on trial, and soon found how much superior was this 1875. German, a Jew by birth, but of the Lutheran religion, to our Mexican Protestants. He will go where the Mexican men are afraid to go, and will do his work conscientiously, with as little expense as possible. The other day he walked along a lonely route of sixty miles, with not more than two villages in the whole distance. He has just come off a long journey to Quernavaca, recently the scene of Protestant persecution. While there, he was assaulted and stoned by two fanatics. Very firmly and wisely he called in the police. The two men were taken before the Perfect, who maintained the law and gave them four days' imprisonment. With such men as this Bernard to send through the length and breadth of the land, we should be justified in spending thousands on this superstitious country." Ought not so strikingly interesting a fact like this to call the special attention of all earnest Christians to the claims of the Jew, who, when converted, will be found a glorious auxiliary in distributing God's blessed Word amongst corrupt Christians? Our next fact will illustrate the importance of laying hold of the Jew in the interest of the heathen world. The following sketch of the career of a converted Jewish pedler, murdered at the early age of thirty-three, has been taken from an Indian journal. “About the year 1851, there might have been seen in the streets of Princeton, in the state of New Jersey, a little Jewish pedler, hawking jewellery and stationery. He was no common pedler, this little Jew, either in appearance or character. Indeed, from the earnestness aud eloquence he displayed when speaking of the wrongs of his unhappy country, many thought the peddler's part a mere disguise to hide political operations. In 'stature almost a dwarf, nature had compensated for a weak and insignificant body by a magnificent head, and a strength of will and powers of endurance and perseverance fit for a giant. At the time to which we refer he was a young man, about twenty years of age, of remarkable intelligence and observation. The peddler was a Pole, and being suspected by the Government of conspiracy in the interest of Polish nationality, he had to flee his country. He set sail for America, and found his way to Princeton. In or near this place, leading a life of retired, though literary habits, was a much-respected clergyman, who had more than one conversation with the eloquent pedler. Perceiving in him talent of no common order, he offered to assist him in the prosecution of his studies. An appeal to two or three princely merchants of New York speedily produced the funds necessary to send the young Jew to the Princeton University. At this time he was a bigoted Jew, but his course of studies, his intercourse with his tutors, specially with this kind clergyman, brought about his conversion, and he boldly declared his conviction of the truth and asked for baptism. With the ardour and zeal of a young disciple he rejected the offers of advancement and honour which the various walks of ambition presented, and decided upon dedicating his life to the work of spreading the knowledge of the Saviour, With this view he offered himself as a missionary to the American Presbyterian Society. To India he directed his steps, and fancying from what he had read that among the Affghans might be found traces of the lost tribes, he proposed that he 1875. should be sent to Peshawur as a missionary to the Affghans. There, in the year 1856, he commenced his work, and there, too, in 1864, he met his death by the hands of an assassin. "That young pedler, and afterwards the able missionary, the late Isidore Loewenthal, were the same. A greater loss to India could not well be sustained; remarkable as a pedler, he was more remarkable as a missionary. It may give some idea of his linguistic attainments to say that in four years he was able not only to master that difficult language, the Pushtoo, but also to complete an eloquent and faithful translation of the New Testament. Perhaps no man in India had so great a knowledge of Asiatic literature, and few are so complete a master of the manners and customs of the natives, and of Oriental politics, as he was. His library, which filled the four sides of his room, reached by a ladder, was the richest one at Calcutta in ancient MSS. and rare books. It was said of him that no man but he had ever gone, or dared to go, into the Kyber Pass, and he was respected by all who knew him, whether European or native, and loved by many. During the mutiny, and later still in the frontier war, his knowledge of the natives and his advice were very valuable. Indeed, if he had not been a missionary, he might have been a statesman. It has often been remarked by some of the best judges in India that Isidore Loewenthal had one of the most powerful intellects that ever came to India. Little, idea can be formed of the laborious habits of the man. Three or four hours' rest were all that he allowed himself. Compositions for “ Blackwood” or the Westminster," essays on various subjects, contributions on missionary points of literary interest, with kindly correspondence to a numerous circle of friends, together with daily preachings in the bazaar, served as a change from more severe studies that yearly told upon that slender and delicate frame. To spend an hour in his society was a treat never to be forgotten. With the most perfect command of our language, he combined great fertility of illustration and abundant stores of knowledge, which made him a most fascinating companion. He was no less remarkable as a preacher than as a writer or a talker, and will ever be remembered for the able sermons which he delivered to the soldiers at the Umballa Pass." 66 Any Christian can make his own inférences front such facts as the above. It cannot be mere accident that the Jews are in all lands, have access to all people, possess an amazing acquaintance with the languages of all nations, and are able to endure every climate. They fear God; they believe the Old Testamen; their "casting away" has occasioned large, though limited, blessing to the world; their "reception" will be the instrumental cause of "life from the dead" to the whole world. O that the Holy Spirit would arouse the Christian Church earnestly to seek the salvation of the Jews. For their own sakes, for they are sinners and perishing in ignorance and unbelief; for her own sake, for the Church's faith and zeal would be refreshed by a large ingathering of Jews to Christ; for the world's sake, which needs such missionaries as the Jews are likely to make by God's grace; and for Christ's sake, who is "exalted a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins," and who |