second letter has fully persuaded us of our apprehension. You cannot imagine what weeping and lamentation your second letter has brought into our house. Your mother has fallen ill in consequence of the lamentable news. Such a disgraceis to be brought upon our family by you! I have forewarned you, not to have anything to do with the Missionaries. Go immediately to Mr. -. I will also send you letters of recommendation. I fear you have been seduced by thinking you will have an easy life; but remember, now they promise you golden mountains, but afterwards your lot will be deplorable. Endeavour to break loose from them. Take the advice of Mr. T, and other good men; for I think, in England, if you wish to return to the Jews, none can prevent you. Write to your mother that you will remain a Jew, else I do not know how it will end with her. Keep the whole matter the greatest secret, for if any Jew from here should hear of it, it would make us most unhappy." 66 "A third," says Mr. Ewald, was waylaid and ill-treated by about 30 Jews, the day after his baptism, in one of the streets of the city, on proceeding to his place of business." 66 The promise of the Lord is, 'Ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel,' and I will take you, one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.' In the course of January I received a letter from a gifted Jew, whom I had known for a considerable time as searching the Scriptures, and longing after divine light; he says in his letter: I know it will be of great interest to you to learn that I I have received the Sacrament of Holy Baptism, on the 12th of December last, at the Church of St. Giles' in the Fields, by the Rev. R. Bickersteth, the newly appointed Rector of that Church. thank most heartily my Creator, for the experiences I have been allowed to make in Christian life, and I trust He will always lead me in the same way. I am preparing at present for college.'" "A REMNANT SHALL BE SAVED." ROM. IX. 27. YE who have toil'd for Israel's sake, We are not told if grace shall be But still right well assur'd are we, We know that through the preacher's skill The sinful souls of some; and still And if the Lord our labours bless And those who treat us now with scorn, May own that we have pav'd The way for that expected morn, When-from each heart the veil withdraw "All Israel shall be sav'd." Temple. J. P. HOSEA XIV. O ISRAEL! turn unto the Lord, Take with you words and quick return; His anger will not always burn. To Egypt we'll not look to save, False gods which our own hands have made. But God alone shall be our boast, "As dew I will to Israel be," S. SHEPHERd. Chelsea. London: Printed at the Operative Jewish Converts' Institution, Palestine Place, Bethnal Green. THE JEWISH ADVOCATE. MAY, 1852. THE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM. As Bishop Gobat is about to visit England, we think the following interesting and brief narrative of his former life will be very full of interest. It is taken from "Evangelical Christendom." No. 3, March, 1848. "The high and important station which the Bishop of Jerusalem is called to fill, and the variety of talent and Christian qualification requisite to discharge its duties well, must render its occupant an object of no common interest to all whose hearts yearn to see the spiritual Zion again rise and prosper in the place where its first foundations were laid. To such, the following brief, but authentic, notices of the early career of the Rev. Samuel Gobat, who was consecrated Bishop of Jerusalem at London, on the 5th of July, 1847, may not be unacceptable. "Samuel Gobat was born on the 26th of January, 1799, in Cremine, a hamlet of the parish of Grandval, in the Canton of Berne. His aged father is still alive, and though of the peasant class, is described as a most venerable and even respectinspiring figure. In 1819, a remarkable change took place in the religious views of the family. It was first openly evidenced by Samuel, whose impressions of divine truth were at once sudden and powerful; and from him speedily spread through the rest of the domestic circle. Still there is reason to believe that his mother's deep, though gentle and unobtrusive piety, had long secretly been employed in working this blessed change. By her young Samuel was conducted, in 1821, to Basle, and placed in the Missionary College as a student. His first appearance there conveyed the idea of a somewhat uncouth, but powerfully-minded, and energetic youth; and although weak eyes greatly impeded his vigorous prosecution of study, he seemed but to make the more rapid progress in mental attainment, and in the development of Christian character. He continued in the mission-house until 1824, and spent the following year in Paris, for the purpose of prosecuting the study of the Oriental languages, under the celebrated S. de Sacy, and with a special view to mastering Arabic. In 1825, Gobat entered, along with missionaries Lieder, Kruse, H. Müller and Kugler, into the service of the English Church Missionary Society, and spent nine months in their then newly erected Seminary at Isling ton. 66 Being appointed along with Kugler to attempt a mission to Abyssinia, partly with a view to labour for the reform of the native Christians there, and partly to establish, if possible, a missionary station among the Galla tribes, Gobat devoted himself with all the quiet energy of his character to the study of the Ethiopian tongues. The following year led him, and his missionary colleagues, to the Levant, and he found interesting |