last they agreed that the house of the British Consul should be built on the same spot, so that the Church might be looked upon as a part of the Consulate, or the Consul's house. As one of my letters will be entirely taken up with an account of the Church, I shall not speak more about it here. While it was being built, means were taken to commence regular services. A room was hired, and a daily service was commenced in it in Hebrew. On the Lord's Day the worship of God was conducted in English, Arabic, and German, so that very many would have the opportunity of hearing the blessed Gospel.

In the year 1841, a very important event took place. It was the establishment of the Jerusalem Bishopric. This was a matter of great joy to many. They felt that it would give strength and new vigour to the Missionary work in Palestine. It would be a means of blessing to Gentiles as well as Jews, for the new Bishop would have to do with all the Protestants in that part of the East. Then again, all the Churches in the East (which are so dreadfully sunk in error and ignorance) have Bishops, and they thought that there was something wrong in our Church because we had not one. This thing, therefore, had a good effect upon their minds.

But who was the first Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem ? He was a Jew. The Rev. M. S. Alexander was the first who was appointed. He was a Missionary of our Society, and God seemed to be honouring our good work, by causing this to be done. A Jew, even the Apostle James, was the first Bishop of the Holy City; and a considerable number of Israelites occupied the

same office for many generations afterwards. How good and proper then it seemed, that a Jew should be called to this office when it was restored!

Everything showed that it was a happy choice which had been made. Mr. Alexander was a truly earnest and faithful man. His amiability and kindness of heart, led to his being liked by every one. His desire for the salvation of souls was very great, and no one could be more anxious to bring sinners to the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Rev. F. C. Ewald was sent, at this time, to Jerusalem by the Committee, to strengthen the mission. The Committee also established a College there for training missionaries for the work, and the Rev. W. D. Veitch was made the head of it. There was thus a great increase of workmen, and the Lord blessed their labours. Many were led to enquire what they must do to be saved. In the year following the arrival of the Bishop, eight converts were baptized. Among those who embraced the religion of the Lord Jesus, are Messrs. Goldberg, Lauria, and Hershon. Bishop Alexander had often said, that if during the whole time he was Bishop, the Lord made him the instrument of baptizing forty of the house of Israel, he should feel that his labours had received a full reward. And the Lord fulfilled the desire of his heart. He had not been four years in Jerusalem, when he determined to come to England for a visit. It was not the Lord's will that this should be done. When he was journeying in the wilderness between Canaan and Egypt, and was not far from Cairo, he died. Many mourned over his loss. But before he left Jerusalem his desire had been fulfilled,

for just at that time he baptized the fortieth

Jew.

It would have been difficult to find one so well fitted to succeed Bishop Alexander as the excellent clergyman who now was appointed in the good providence of God. This was Bishop Gobat, who had laboured for many years in the East. The first Bishop was a missionary of our Society, the second Bishop was a missionary of the sister Institution, the Church Missionary Society.

Many other means of good and usefulness were opened in Jerusalem. The most important of these was the establishment of the Hospital for the Jews, and the appointment of Dr. Macgowan to be the head of it, who went out to Jerusalem with Bishop Alexander. But we must make the Hospital the subject of a whole letter. One will be occupied by an account of the Church; another by the Diocesan Schools; a third by the House of Industry; and we may fill up another with the mention of many interesting facts, connected with the missionary work in the Holy City.

Your sincere friend,

THE EDITOR.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

XIII. Give some examples from the Bible of obedience and its reward.

XIV. Give examples of disobedience and its

punishment.

XV. Mention examples of meekness.

XVI. Mention examples of anger and revenge. XVII. Give cases of falsehood and deceit. XVIII. Give others of truth and integrity.

ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS

In the Volume for 1855.

XXXVII. When David fought with the Philistines. (2 Sam. v. 22-—25.)

XXXVIII. The silver trumpets were blown to assemble the congregation; as a signal to set off on their journeyings; as a signal for the battle, and on the occasions of the feasts and solemn assemblies of the people of Israel. (Numbers x. 1—10.)

XXXIX. In the deaths of Abiram, the firstborn, and Segub, the youngest son of Hiel, who rebuilt Jericho. (1 Kings xvi. 34.)

XL. No; several of the tribes of Israel allowed the Canaanites to remain in the land. (Joshua xv. 63; Judges i. 21, 27-35.)

XLI. For the fraud practised by the Gibeonites, see Joshua ix. 3-15.

XLII. Saul sought to slay them. (2 Sam. xxi. 2.) XLIII. By the king of Assyria they were taken into Assyria. (2 Kings xvii. 6, 23; xviii. 9—11.)

XLIV. By Nebuchadnezzar, they were taken to Babylon. (2 Kings xxv. 11; Jer. xxix. 1; xxxix. 9; 2 Chron. xxxvi. 20.)

XLV. No.

XLVI. Yes. (Ezra ii. 1; Neh. vii. 6, &c.)

XLVII. For the captivity of Judah seventy years. (Jer. xxv. 11, 12; xxix. 10.)

XLVIII. For Israel. (Is. xiv. 2, 3; Ezek. xxxvii. 21-24; Hos. xiv. 5-7 ; Amos ix. 14, 15.) For Judah. (Is. xi. 12; lx. 14, 15, 21; lxii. 12; lxvi. 20; Zech. ii. 12; x. 6; Ezek. xxxiv. 11-16.)

XLIX. The Feast of the Passover, of Unleavened Bread, of Weeks, or Pentecost, of Trumpets, and of Tabernacles. (See Lev. xxiii.; Exod. xxxiv. 18-22.) L. The Day of Atonement, the only appointed fast. LI. Shortly after the Exodus, when Israel was in the wilderness.

LII. (1.) The Feast of Passover was in remembrance of the angel of the Lord passing over the houses of the Israelites, when he smote the firstborn of the Egyptians. (2.) The Feast of Unleavened Bread, in commemoration of the people having eaten unleavened bread seven days on coming out of Egypt. (3.) The Feast of Weeks, or Pentecost, was to be held at the time of the ingathering of the first fruits. (Lev. xxiii. 15— 21; Deut. xvi. 9, 10.) The Feast of Tabernacles was to be a time of rejoicing after the harvest, during which they were to dwell in booths seven days, that all generations might know that the Lord made "the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when He brought them out of the land of Egypt."

LIII. Till the destruction of the second temple by Titus, viz., till A.D. 69.

LIV. The Lord's Supper now takes the place of the Passover.

LV. Enoch is the first who is mentioned as delivering a prophecy. (Jude 14.)

LVI. Melchizedec.

Aaron.

Of the Levitical priesthood,

LVII. Saul, the first king of Israel.

LVIII. Of the former dispensation, Malachi; of the present, St. John.

LIX. Ananias is the last of whom mention is made in the New Testament. (Acts xxiii. 2.)

LX. Before the captivity, Zedekiah;

before the sceptre finally passed from Judah, Archelaus, son of the Herod during whose reign Christ was born.

SCRIPTURE CHARADE.

XII.

WHEN an inspired apostle took his pen,
My first addressed he, to the living men,

Sons of my whole; who flourish now, as then.

Next take the Queen, deposed from royal state,

And one who trembling stood, fearing to share her fate, But mercy interposed, ere 'twas too late.

C. J. O.