and profligate men, pursued his victories successfully through Media, Parthia, Persia, Mesopotamia, and Armenia. But he at last cheated the Jews, and set up a new sect for Mahomet. A.C. 1500, Rabbi Ascher Lemla appeared in Germany as the forerunner of the Messiah, who he promised should come and restore the Jews to the land of Canaan that same year; and the Jews generally, every where did believe him, and appointed public fasts and prayers to prepare for the coming of their Messiah. About the year 1534, a new Messiah rose up in Spain, who was burned by Charles the 5th; as was another at Mantua, R. Salomo Malcho; whom many of the Jews did believe came again to life after he was burned, and every Sabbath visited his wife Zephati. But the emperor spared R. David, who called himself one of the emissaries of the Messiah, then soon to come. Who, when he was at Rome, is said to have fasted six days together. Another PseudoMessiah rose up in the East Indies about the year 1615, and another in Holland, A.C. 1624. The story of the famous Pseudo-Messiah, Sabbattai Zevi, A.C. 1666, is remarkably well known; who, after all the expectation of the people of the Jews, turned, at last, Mahometan, to save his life. And no longer since than the year 1682, there has got up another false Messiah, R. Mordecai, a German Jew, whom almost all the Jews in Italy, and many in Germany, have owned; but, like wise men, with due respect to the inquisition and self-preservation."

Dear Jewish brethren, how can we remain deaf to this, and harden our hearts in unbelief? How ought the words of Jesus of Nazareth, "Behold, I have told you before," to awaken our minds from any dormant carelessness?

Jesus foretold His own death, and the circumstances attending it, as we read, "From that time forth began Jesus to show to His disciples how that He must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders, chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again

the third day." (Matt. 16. 21; 20. 18, 19.) He likewise foretold His betrayal, His desertion by His disciples, and denial by Peter. (Matt. 26. 23; 31. 46.) All of which had their accomplishment to the very letter. His prediction concerning His resurrection was likewise fulfilled to the letter. He said: "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up, but He spake of the temple of His body." (John 2. 19-21.) Again, "The chief priests and Pharisees came unto Pilate, saying, Sir, we remember that that Deceiver said, while He was yet alive, After three days I will rise again." (Matt. 27. 62, 63.) The accomplishment of it we find recorded in the Gospel according to St. Luke, 24. 5, 6; John 20. 14-19; Acts 1. 3. Jesus of Nazareth foretold the descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles, in miraculous powers and gifts; and the place where it should be given: “Behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you, but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem until ye be endued with power from on high." (Luke 24. 49.) He likewise described what the effects of the Spirit should be: "And these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall lay their hands on the sick and they shall recover." (Mark 16. 17, 18.) Of the full accomplishment of these promises we read enough in the Acts of the Apostles.

Jesus of Nazareth predicted the persecution of His disciples: "Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake." (Matt. 24.9; Luke 21. 12.) All of which

was accurately fulfilled, as recorded in the

Acts of the

Apostles. There we find that some were delivered to councils, as Peter and John; some were brought before rulers and kings, as Paul before Gallio, Felix, Festus, and Agrippa; some were imprisoned, as Peter and John; some were beaten, as Paul and Silas; some were put to death, as Stephen and James the brother of John. Every reader

of history will find that the early Christians were an incontrovertible proof of the correctness of the prophecies of Jesus of Nazareth. But I would earnestly point out to the unbelieving Jews, that their own feelings towards their converted brethren are enough to verify the predictions of Jesus. Alas! what do Jews even now suffer from our nation at large (especially in those countries where they have some power) as soon as they are in any way inclined towards Christianity! How are they persecuted! How is their destruction planned by all kinds of wicked stratagems to this present day! As recently as 1828 was Rabbi Moses, brother of the celebrated Rabbi Solomon, of Liddi, thrown into prison (and died there) by the instigation of the Jews, who bribed the government at St. Petersburg to pass a verdict of insanity against him, after he embraced Christianity.* There is yet a living monument to testify to the truth of our Lord's predictions relative to the sufferings of His followers. I mean Mr. Cohen, now Missionary to the Jews in Smyrna, who was a year and a half in exile,

* "In the year 1828 a Russian general happened to stay with the brother of the Rabbi above-mentioned, [Rabbi Solomon of Liddi] whose name was Rabbi Moshe. This General, who, I now perceive, must have heen a good Christian, conversed with the Rabbi about Christianity, and gave him a New Testament, which he diligently read, so that in three nights he was, by the grace of God, convinced of the truth, and wished to make an open confession of his faith. The General fearing that this might occasion a disturbance in the place amongst the Jews, thought it prudent to send him to Petersburg. There the Rabbi was baptized...... Within a week or two after his baptism, he found many things in that church contrary to what he read in the New Testament, and was particularly offended by their image-worship, against which he began to preach in their own church, and was shortly thrown into prison for his zeal. The Jews also considering his conversion to Christianity as a blot on their nation, took advantage of this opportunity for taking vengeance upon him, and by giving large bribes to corrupt men in power, they obtained a decision against him of insanity, and cast him into an asylum where he soon died of grief."-Ebenezer, p. 76.

together with two others, in consequence of their embracing Christianity.* Alas! how many places are there on the Continent that a Jew is obliged to quit as soon as he expresses any favourable remark on Christianity.

The prediction of Jesus concerning the siege of Jerusalem was minutely fulfilled: "The days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side, and shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knowest not the time of thy visitation." (Luke 19. 43, 44.) Josephus, in his history of the wars of our nation, relates that a trench was really cast about Jerusalem, when that city was besieged by Titus. The Roman army encompassed her around about with a wall, so that no person could escape out of the city, nor could any provisions be introduced. The soldiers of Titus burned the temple, and Titus gave orders to demolish the very foundations of both city and temple, so that scarcely one stone was left upon another.

Jesus foretold that He should have a Church and people,

"Mr. Cohen is one of the three Christian Jews who endured such extreme sufferings in 1826 and 1827, at Constantinople, on account of their confession of Christ. Sentence of death was passed upon them by the Grand Rabbi and his three assistants, and a large reward offered by the Jews, if the Turkish authorities would carry the sentence into effect. These faithful confessors of Christ were accordingly imprisoned. A full pardon, and immediate deliverance, were promised them if they returned to their old religion, and death was held out to them as the conseqnence of their perseverance.

"For a whole night they had the view of death before their eyes, and they spent it in reading the New Testament and prayer. They were loaded with heavy chains, beaten, and otherwise illtreated, and remained for many months in the closest confinement, where they were treated as the worst of malefactors; the Jews giving a considerable sum of money to the officers of the prison to induce them to put them to hard work, and to beat and to torment them."-Jewish Intelligence, Vol. 1x. p. 100.

and that the Gospel should be preached throughout the whole world. The Church of Christ is, to the present day, "like a city set upon a hill, a standing memorial to the world of the duty which we owe to our Maker; to call men continually, both by example and instruction, to attend to it, and by the form of religion ever before their eyes, remind them of the reality; to be the repository of the oracles of God; to hold up the light of revelation in aid to that of nature, and propagate it throughout all generations to the end of the world." It is also distinguished by monuments of perpetual observances, instituted by Christ Himself for His Church; viz. Baptism and the Lord's Supper.

The first propagation of Christianity is recorded in the Acts of the Apostles, and its subsequent spread is attested by Christian and heathen writers of succeeding ages. The present many existing societies for the promotion of the Gospel in all the parts of the world, furnish another link to the great chain of testimonies that Jesus was a true Prophet, and that what He predicted came to pass, and therefore that we are bound to hearken unto Him.

My dear Jewish brethren, I would entreat of you, in the name of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, not to reject the Gospel of Jesus without due investigation. I am aware that the majority of our nation refuse even to examine the doctrine of Jesus for fear they might be seduced from the right way* ; but I am persuaded they are mistaken. The more truth is investigated, the brighter it shines; and the more error is investigated, the more odious and deformed it appears; for error thrives always in the dark, but the sun of truth, when permitted to shine over it, disperses it as the darkness of night is dispersed by the rising sun. Let us never forget that Christianity, as well as Judaism, is of Jewish origin, and that both were once confined exclusively to our nation. The Author of

* Such was the Author's own experience.