"We have great reason to think that the Hebrew New Testament is doing good among the Jews in Poland and Germany. The fields there seem white, ready to the harvest. The Jews abroad are of a very different cast and complexion from the poor sordid people in England. We are going at private expense to take a Chapel at Amsterdam, and send a Chaplain there. In that city are 30,000 Jews. In less than a week the thing will be done: and if it succeed, so as to promise well, we shall, after two years of trial, bring it before the public. But till the experiment has been fully tried, the public will not be burdened with one shilling expense about it. I have a similar plan for Hamburgh; only, if I succeed there, it will be without any expense; there being already the train completely laid, and nothing remaining but to apply the port feu to it.

"At home also, blessed and adored be our God, all is going on well. My Church more thronged with Gownsmen than ever: and my people going on better than for many years. The bad spirits are withdrawn, and peace and love are abounding in the midst of us. "Professor Farish is doing great things; he has built two School-rooms, one for 400 boys, and another for 300 girls and is now enlarging his Church, so that it will seat as many as mine. This last will be some expense to him.... I wish you could see and hear the Professor at a Bible Meeting. You would not at all know him, or believe your eyes and ears, he is so earnest, so fluent, and so eloquent. The Bible Society has done more for him than for any other person I know.

"The papers will tell you all about the death of the Princess Charlotte of Wales. She died in child

bed. The whole nation was ready to rejoice at the birth of an heir to the throne: but it pleased God to take away both the mother and child; and the whole land was thrown into consternation. I suppose that no event ever penetrated the nation with such grief. At Cambridge the pulpit at St. Mary's and the reading-desk and throne were all put into mourning: and a day, the day of her funeral, was spontaneously kept throughout the land as a Sabbath. At St. Mary's, the Regius Professor of Divinity, Dr. Kaye, preached to a congregation, not seated, but jammed. We assembled in the Senate-house, and then walked in procession round the Senate-house yard to St. Mary's. Every pulpit in the Town, too, is in mourning. Nothing but black is seen anywhere.

"Poor Prince Leopold will feel himself a stranger now in this land, and will doubtless go back again to his own country. He has behaved nobly on the occasion, and gained the hearts of the whole country. Were he to die now, there would be nothing but busts and monuments all the kingdom over. In a year's time his name will scarcely be known.

"Most affectionately yours."

CHAPTER XX.

LETTERS TO REV. T. THOMASON ON EFFORTS FOR THE JEWS IN HOLLAND-FEMALE AGENCY-KINDNESS OF BISHOP BURGESS

VISIT TO

AMSTERDAM-INTERVIEW WITH DR. CAPPADOSE

SERMONS FOR THE JEWS-ENGLISH EPISCOPAL CHURCH THERELETTER TO BISHOP BURGESS ON THE OBJECTS OF HIS JOURNEY TO THE SAME, ON NOTICING THE JEWS IN THE

HOLLAND-TO

OF A STUDENT

TO REV.

KING'S LETTER MORBID STATE
MR. ON DELIGHT IN HIS WORK-DUTY TO A HARASSED
FRIEND ADVICE ABOUT VARIOUS PERSONS-KIND COUNSEL FOR
HIMSELF TO REV. T.

THOMASON ON SENDING HELPERS TO
INDIA-STATE OF HIS PEOPLE-PROGRESS OF HIS NEW WORK-
TO REV. T. THOMASON ON THE CAMBRIDGE MISSIONARY SOCIETY—
GOWNSMEN AT TRINITY CHURCH-TO BISHOP MANSEL, ON GIVING
LETTERS DIMISSORY TO A FRIEND THE BISHOP'S REPLY.

"Here I am on my way to Holland. But

I must go to other matters first....

"Mr. Lewis Way is gone to Petersburgh, Moscow, (where he was most kindly received by the Emperor of Russia), and the Crimea; to search out the state of the Jews, and to spread the Hebrew Testament among them. Mr. C. went with him as far as Moscow, and is returned. There are at Berlin a great number of Jews who put away the Talmuds, and read the Scriptures by themselves, and even believe in Christ as the Messiah, though they do not confess him openly. At

Amsterdam too, whither I am going, I understand that there are some of this description. I have got a Minister to superintend that Chapel; and for two full months, till he can come, Mr. Marsh and myself are going over to collect the Congregation, which has been scattered for seven years, and to set on foot a great variety of plans in reference to the Jews. I hope to do the same at Rotterdam also; if as I expect a third friend follow us. My strength is not great; but with Mr. Marsh I shall be able to do all that the occasion calls for.

"We propose to converse with the Jews, and to collect into a body all who may be disposed to obey the call of course our object will not be to call them to merely nominal Christianity. But for all that you will give us credit; you know our minds on such subjects as these. It may seem strange that we should go thither, but with God's help we may be able to effect in two months more than quite a young man could in a much longer time; more especially as God has been pleased to make use of me as His instrument to take the Chapel, where they have not had Service for seven years. I was to have travelled this year into Scotland for the Jews (my last year's tour you have already heard of); but I must defer that, in hopes of accomplishing it, if my life be spared, the next year....

"On my return from Amsterdam, I propose to go to Brussels, Waterloo, Valenciennes, &c., and Paris: and I think that when my young Minister comes to me at Amsterdam, I shall desire him to take James in charge, and bring him to me. It is a great joy to me, an exquisite delight, to shew love to him: and it will be a great benefit to him, I trust, in every way.

"Your Orphan Asylum-What a blessed work! I greatly rejoice in it, and bless God that the ladies have begun to exert their influence in India, as they have done in England. In fact, they have done almost all that has been done in the Bible Society,-Missionary Society, and Jews' Society. They are God's great instruments for carrying on every benevolent and pious work. But how shall the Duke of York be prevailed upon to give you £1000? He has no public money at his disposal; and no thousands of his own to spare. But if you will send over a kind of Address to him through Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. W. thinks he may be prevailed on to give you his name. This, perhaps, may be as good as his money.

"I thought how Rammohun Roy's reading of the Scriptures with a number of other persons would terminate: I was well assured it would end in somewhat like Socinianism. But still good may arise out of it all.

"Wonderful are the tidings I have to communicate. It appears to our Governors in the Church that Missionaries are sent out by every denomination of Christians, except the Church of England. They have therefore applied to Government for a King's Letter, to ask subscriptions through all the Churches of the kingdom in aid of this good work. I am endeavouring to take care that the Jews shall not be forgotten. It will give you pleasure to hear that I am on the best footing with the Bishop of St. David's, and that he will do anything I can wish (in prudence) to promote my views. He is going to establish a Missionary Class in his College. He has taken under his protection Friedenburgh, a converted Jew of great talent and piety, and a young man from New Holland; both at my request. I hope and trust that God will make