kind purpose, but we are not told what it was. The clergyman's wife received her, and they had some conversation on religion, after which he himself came in. He found the Jewish lady very ignorant of the New Testament, but still, as is the case with too many of her people who know nothing of what it contains, she had a great dislike to it.

Before she went away the clergyman put a Bible into her hand. it from him, and to read it attentively. She took it home, but the request of her kind friend was forgotten, and for six long years the Word of Life lay unheeded on a shelf. Still Israel's God was watching over her in love. His eyes were upon her while wandering far from Him. He was about to lead her in paths she had not known.

He begged her to accept

At the end of these six years, as she was one day returning from a shop with something she had bought in her hand, she was struck with some verses printed on the paper in which the parcel was wrapped. It was part of the history of a poor young woman, who had committed some great sin, and who was very miserable. The Jewish lady was much interested in what she read. She returned to the shop, and asked for the remaining part of the story. It was taken from among the waste-paper, and given

her for a mere trifle. Little did she know how God would make that history a blessing to her soul. It spoke not only of the misery of mind the young woman had felt, but of how at length she was led to Christ, and found peace and happiness in believing in Him.

read it.

“Christ!" thought the Jewish lady, "I have heard of Him before." The long-forgotten gift of the good clergyman came into her mind; she took it down from the shelf and began to Hours passed on, the book still lay open before her, and she continued to study its sacred pages. As sometimes the rays of the sun enter into a dark room, so the light of God's holy truth came into her mind, showed her something of the darkness which was there, and made her very anxious to learn more of the Saviour. She sought once more the house of the man of God, and He who had cast the bread upon the waters, was permitted to find it again after many days, in its blessed effects upon the Jewish lady's soul. She was further instructed in the truths of the New Testament, and learned to love the Saviour who first loved her. She had many trials to endure, for her old friends forsook her, and much of her earthly property was taken from her.

We do not know whether she is still alive, or whether the God of Israel has taken her to

Himself, to that home" where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest.”

The blessing given to the good clergyman's work is an encouragement to us, to labour for Israel. Let all our readers remember the promise of the word of God, "Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days."

WHAT CAN I DO FOR THE POOR JEWS? THE following little simple fact will, I think, go far to show you what even children, yes, and infant children, may do, when they have a will, to help forward the holy cause of our Society.

The writer of this was staying the other day at the house of a clergyman, who has been for a long time a warm and active supporter and friend of our Society, and takes a deep and lively interest in the conversion of the Jews to Christianity.

his

One day I observed that there lay upon table a large quantity of pence and half-pence, and several farthings, as well as a mite, a piece of coin not often to be met with now-a-days. On my inquiring of my friend, the clergyman, where all these pieces of money had come from,

he smiled, and said, "You will, I am sure, be very much delighted to hear, that that money came from our infant-school children. It is their contribution to our local association. And how do you think," added he, "that money was raised by them?" I could not guess. "Well," said the clergyman, "it was got by the sale of old bones, which they brought whenever they could to the school, and being afterwards sold, have produced this sum of money." I certainly was both pleased and surprised, for on counting the money which had in this singular way been got together, I found that it amounted to nearly five shillings.

This clergyman told the writer, that he had also once an infant-school in one of the northern counties, where the children belonging to it were in the constant habit of bringing all the bones they could find to the school-house, and placing them in a particular place, where they were afterwards disposed of, and the money thus raised was given for missionary purposes.

Some time ago, this clergyman went into a distant part of England to advocate the cause of the Society, and at a village meeting, held in a national school-room, he happened, in the course of his speech, to mention the circumstance just related. The children of the school where the meeting was held, were all present on the occa

sion, and were very attentive, as children at meetings always should be, and seemed very much interested in all that they heard from the various persons who addressed the meeting. The next morning the wife of the clergyman, in whose parish the meeting was held, went into the school-room, as she often used to do. No sooner had she entered the room, than all the children eagerly and anxiously surrounded her; one, and another, and another, all with loud voices exclaiming, "Please, Madam, may I bring a bone? Please, Ma'am, may I bring a bone?" One little boy, more eager even than the rest, pushed his way through the little crowd, and with sparkling eyes and the most animated countenance, standing before the lady and looking up into her face, said, "Please, Ma'am, father says, if I like, I may have all the bones in the house."

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A HOME MISSIONARY.

WHAT do our young friends think that we mean by "a home missionary?" Is not a missionary one who goes with some message to deliver, and with some work to do, into far distant lands?

It is quite true that missionaries have to go to distant lands, where Jews and Gentiles live, to