THE CHILDREN'S JEWISH ADVOCATE NOVEMBER, 1855. THE JEWISH SURGEON. THE picture on the frontispiece is that of the ward of one of the great London Hospitals. It is full of beds for poor sick people, who are brought here in the hope that they may obtain benefit from the skill of the doctors, and the medicine which is given to them. Many become well again, but there are some who never recover. The walls of these hospitals have seen many die, and taken away to their last resting place on earth. By a bed-side, a young man is seen reading to a poor sick woman. How kind it seems of him to do so! But how much more strange it appears, when we learn that the young man is a Jew, reading the New Testament to the dying woman! This happened some years ago. A youn Jewish surgeon was passing through the ward of this hospital, when he saw a young Gentile surgeon go up to the bed-side of the sick woman. He observed that she was dangerously ill. It appeared to him that she could not live many days. He was therefore very much surprised when he heard the other young man say to the poor woman, "Oh! you need not be alarmed. There is not much the matter with you. will soon get well again." You The Jewish surgeon felt sure that this was not true. He also felt that it would be wrong to lead the sick woman to think that there was so little the matter, if she was really so dangerously ill. So, after the other surgeon had passed on, he went up to her bed, and said, "My poor woman, I do not think that it would do for you to deceive yourself. I am afraid that you are very ill. Indeed I hardly think that you can recover." "I thought so," replied the sick woman, "although that gentleman told me that I should get better. I have been sinking day by day, and feel that I am getting near the end of my days on earth." The Jew looked with an eye of sympathy and compassion upon the invalid, especially when he saw how resigned she was to the will of God. Can I do anything for you?" he asked. 66 6 Thank you, Sir," replied the poor woman, "there is a New Testament behind my pillow, and I should be very much obliged to you, if you would read two or three chapters to me." When the woman made this request, she did not know that the surgeon was a Jew. Although he was rather surprised at it, he yet took the Testament, and asked her what part he should read. She mentioned some chapters to him, which he read to her. The next day he came back to the room, and again did what the sick woman desired, and read several chapters to her from the New Testament. This he did for several days, and he was always very much struck by the comfort and peace, which the Word of Life seemed to give to the poor invalid. At the end of this time the sick woman died, and we may fully hope was taken by God to live for ever with Him in glory. With almost her dying breath she gave the New Testament to the Jewish surgeon, and urged him to read that which would be, as she said, a means of blessing to his own soul. He took the book home with him, and determined to keep his promise. He began to read regularly the revelation which God has given concerning His dear Son. And our readers will, we dare to say, be surprised, when we tell them what were the passages which first aff the heart of the young Jew. It was a part which we fear is often passed over and neglected. It was the former part of the first chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel. But they will say, "Why, that is full of a number of hard names!" Yes, but that list of names, called a Genealogy, shows how the Lord Jesus Christ, according to the promise of God, was the Son of David, as well as the Son of God. The Jewish surgeon saw in this that Jesus must truly be the promised Messiah of Israel. God the Holy Spirit taught him this blessed truth, and he believed with all his heart. He was enabled to come and cast all his sins at the foot of the cross, and to feel that God had forgiven him for Christ's sake. And he continued to walk in the right way. Like all the children of God, he had to meet with trials and sorrows, but they only served to draw his heart nearer to Jesus. Amongst his trials was the death of a young lady, to whom he was about to be married. Her death made him long more for that dwelling-place, into which sorrow and death never enter. He not only, when writing to a friend after the removal of this lady, said that he was perfectly resigned to the will of his Heavenly Father, but he wrote, Thanks be unto God, which giveth us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ." 66 Well may all of us pray for this true conversion of heart, so that we may have our affections fixed upon things above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. CHRISTIAN LESSONS FROM JEWISH We have no doubt that we could give our young friends accounts of what goes on among Jewish children in our own days, that would be much for their profit. It would be well, indeed, if Christian children were all as kind, and loving, and obedient as many Jewish children of whom we might speak. But we are now about to go to the Bible for our examples. We are going to enquire what children, who call themselves Christians, may learn from some of those of whom they read in the Word of God. But it may be that some will think it very strange that we are going to the Bible for examples of what Jewish children have done. They may think and say: Surely those children cannot be of the same people as those of whom we hear in the ever, the same. 66 Advocate ?"" They are, how |