fourfold by the great increase of correspondence and the preparation of the Reports for the Consistory, with his usual fidelity and punctuality, and is still known as the ever ready friend of all that are in distress, Jews and Gentiles. There are many converts in Warsaw and other parts of Poland who walk worthy of their profession, and now fill responsible stations in society. That which especially demands the attention of the committee, is the printing and book-binding institution for Jewish Converts, not only because of the great importance to inquirers and young converts, but because of the interest with which it is regarded by the Government, and the public there, both Jews and Christians. It is, in fact, the visible symbol and centre of Missions in Poland; and ought, therefore, in every respect, to be worthy of Protestant Christianity, as to its regard for external cleanliness and order, its spiritual superin. tendence, and operative efficiency.

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'I cannot conclude the report without expressing my great thankfulness in having been once permitted to visit Warsaw, which still seems to me half a home; and the great joy I felt in beholding many whom I am permitted to count amongst my spiritual children. Jews, converts, and English, all crowded about me; especially, after I had preached in English on the Sunday. Some baptized as children, others as adults, others whom I had instructed as children, others to whom my preaching had been blessed, came about me with an affection which is not to be forgotten. One young man, whom I had instructed as a child, was on his death-bed, and begged to see me. I administered the sacrament to him, his mother and brother joining in it. He thanked me for my former instruction, and for the hope which now took away the sting of death. Others, young people and old, I found stedfast in the service of our Lord; and to some, who had stumbled, I had an opportunity of speaking a word of admonition, which was received with deep feeling, and will, I hope, be blessed. To God the Father of our 1845-FEB.

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Lord Jesus Christ, be all praise and glory for all his mercies. My journey has, I trust, been blessed to others; I am sure it has to myself. I return with a deeper conviction than ever, that the work amongst the Jews is a blessed work, and to have any part in it a high privilege; that it is also a prosperous work; that God's blessing is upon it; that there is every encouragement that human heart can desire to proceed; and therefore I would respectfully say to the committee, "Go on, and be not weary. Abound more and more in the work of the Lord. Your past labours have not been in vain. Your future labour for the honour of Christ, and for the good of his people, will assuredly be blessed."

THE JEWS IN FRANKFORT.

The following extract from a Frankfort letter, appears in some of the late Paris journals. All that concerns this wonderful people, who have been for so many ages a standing miracle for the truth of Revelation, can hardly fail to interest the reader.

For some time past, a violent schism has existed in the Jewish commune of our city. Nearly twothirds of the commune have separated themselves in a very marked manner from the ordinary ritual of the synagogue, and are about to form a sect apart. They recognize neither the religious ceremonies, nor the fundamental laws of the Talmud. In their profession of faith, they declare that they will not any longer have their children circumcised, and deny their belief in the Messiah. M. Anselme de Rothschild, the head of the banking house, has declared an unrelenting war on this sect, and refuses bills signed by any member. The matter has been carried before the Germanic Diet, and the new sect is accused of fomenting and concealing, under their religious tenets, political tendencies, pernicious to the state. Notwithstanding those accusations, our senate has declared itself in favour of the new sect, and several eminent Jews throughout Germany have joined it. At present, it is pro

posed to form a committee, for the purpose of founding Jewish colonies in the North of America. Several petitions have been signed for this purpose, by a great number of Jews and Christians. In these petitions, the parties demand permission from

the Emperor Nicholas to have the Jewish population of Russia directed towards the North of America, to make colonists of them. There is, however, but little hope that the Emperor will consent to the request.

THE JESUITS EJECTED AGAIN FROM PERSIA.

To the Secretaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

Oroomiah, (Persia,) March 28, 1844. REV. AND DEAR SIRS, We have often had occasion, during the last five or six years, to refer in our communications to obstacles thrown in our way by French Jesuits. A crisis has now come, in the operations of these agents of the "Man of Sin" in Persia, which seems to render it proper that we give you a more detailed statement respecting them, than has yet been furnished. A royal order has just been issued, at the instance of the Russian Ambassador at the Court of Teheran, requiring the French missionaries now in this country immediately to leave the realm; and a Khan, who is at the head of the police in the city of Tabreez, a man of renowned energy and fidelity, has been sent to Oroomiah, and has promptly carried into effect the said order, having seized and confined the Jesuits, a few days, till they might put their effects in readiness, and then caused them to be conveyed to the Western boundary of the em. pire, and set down in Turkey.

PRUSSIA.

At Bromberg, in Prussia, a congregation of Catholics has separated from the Mother Church. It refuses to acknowledge the authority of the Pope as head of the Church, or to continue auricular confession; but it preserves the celebration of the mass.

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ORPHAN ASYLUM.-A number of converts have come forward on every

Sunday for the last two months. The form of recantation used is the same as that published in the October number of the "Achill Missionary Herald." The application of this test has discovered some traitors in the camp, and it has also shewn that some were converts to our faith, who were not previously regarded as such by the heads of this institution. Among the converts who came forward on Sunday, 15th, was a young woman, who had been educated in our Orphan Asylum, and of whose history the following particulars will be read with deep interest.

The subject of this narrative was placed in our Orphan Asylum, with two little brothers, by her mother, some years ago. One of her brothers died in the institution, and about four months since, her mother came to remove her and her surviving brother from the institution, assuring us that she had procured a situation for her daughter, in which she would receive £15 a-year wages; and she, at the same time, assured the managers of the institution, that she and her brother should have the fullest liberty to follow the religion in which we had brought them up, and to which she is ardently attached.

But she had not long left the Settlement, until she discovered the falsehood of all these promises. There was no situation for her, and instead of being permitted to act according to the dictates of her conscience, she was forced, by threats and blows, when flattery and promises failed, to accompany her relatives to the Westport Mass-house. as she read her own book during the time of this idolatrous service; and as she refused to bow down when the wafer-idol was held up by the priest, her partial compliance with the wishes

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of her relatives served only to exas. perate their fury. When she got ill, they threatened, contrary to her expressed inclination, to force a priest upon her. To avoid this annoyance, the poor girl, though she thought herself dying, made an effort to get up. This saved her from the intrusion of the priest, but she was visited by two "Sisters of Charity," who told the invalid, "that her mother would have done a comparatively good deed, had she thrown her into the river and killed her, rather than suffer her to go to the Achill Settlement.' They then asked her to give up her books to them, (a Bible, Prayer, and Hymn-book,) and when she declined doing so, they threatened to send Father O'Dowd, one of the priests of Westport, where these occurrences took place, to force them from her. When the poor girl had regained sufficient strength, she watched her opportunity, and, with fear and trembling, effected her escape to this Settlement; we say with fear and trembling, for her aunt had threatened if she attempted to fly to us for protection, she would overtake her on the road, and break both her legs. She is now safely lodged in this refuge; and as she is about eighteen years of age, we are determined to avail ourselves of the privilege which is secured to us by the laws of our country, to defend her against any attempt to force her from the Settlement, so long as she desires to remain under our protection.

PERSECUTION AT DINGLE.-Our correspondent at Dingle writes:"A fiery persecution is still going on here. For seven Sundays the priests have cautioned their congregation against buying or selling with the Converts, and the country people are beginning to carry out the priest's orders, so that our poor people find it difficult to get milk, or potatoes, or turf in the market; indeed, last Sa turday, some of them had to go home without either, as regarded the market. I have got two cows which give a drop of milk to those who most require it, and Mr.

is sending me in turf to-morrow to give out again, of course, for mo. ney. Potatoes, we have four fields produce of. So they cannot starve our poor people, who are all firm to a man. I think the persecution will only serve to strengthen them, and open the eyes of some more of the Roman Catholics. I never felt happier than in the midst of this warfare."

DISSENT

FROM THE ROMAN CHURCH IN GERMANY.-The Roman Catholic priest, John Ronge, in Upper Silesia, excommunicated for having written his celebrated letter to the Bishop of Treves, in which he denounces the late exhibition of the holy garment, has addressed a pamphlet to the lower orders of the Romish clergy, calling upon them to unite their exertions with him, in the pulpit and in the confessional chair, against the Ultramontanists and the Bishop of Rome, in order to found, by council and synod, a national German Roman Catholic Church, independent of Roman darkness. He wants to abolish auricular confession, the celebration of mass in Latin, the making of proselytes by money, the stultification of the lower clergy by the commands of the higher hierarchy, and at the same time he asks for liberty to think and to investigate for every clergyman, and permission to marry for all priests. The police have seized the pamphlet. The priest Czerski, who stands at the head of a small German Catholic community in Schneidemuhl, in Prussia, distributes the Holy Supper in both forms, without auricular confession, and reads the mass according to the recognized Roman rule, but in German, and omitting what refers to the saints and their intercession. In Bromberg the excitement in favour of the new German Catholic Church is very great; and from Konisberg an address has been sent to Czerski, signed by forty-three of the most influential men in East and West Prussia, including several professors of the University, the chaplain of the garrison, teachers and directors of schools, and several members of the upper law courts.

ONE of the most remarkable attempts in modern times to revive the influ. ence of the Papal power over the minds of its votaries, was furnished by the exhibition, lately, at Treves, in Germany, of a garment which the exhibitors wickedly pretended was the seamless vesture worn by the Divine Redeemer. This disquieting mockery is the more incredible, as it is a well-known fact that there are no less than seventeen other coats of our Lord, kept at different places; just as the head of John the Baptist is shown at the same time in several Roman Catholic churches on the continent. But at Treves, and to their worthy head, Bishop Arnoldi, the existence of 17 or 100 other coats appears to be a matter of perfect indifference: the poor deluded people who can swallow the doctrine of a wafer God, can easily be persuaded that the priests at Treves have got the original coat. The late Bishop Hommer, of Treves, always refused to exhibit the coat, to prevent the spread of superstition and idolatry; the present Bishop, Arnoldi, has acted differently.

The whole spectacle, however, exhibited at Treves, is looked at with disgust, alike by Protestants and enlightened Roman Catholics. It is despised by all who believe that God is a spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. The word of truth (harmonising with the voice of reason) teaches us that it is not by the merits of dead men's bones, filthy rags, the hair and toe-nails of men (however holy their owners may have been) that man is to be justified in the sight of God, and made partaker of his holiness. What, then, shall we say to the man who should dare to address such language as the following to the professed followers of Him whose instructions have emancipated the

Is it to be wondered at, that individuals of weak intellect and shallow understandings should be awed into obedience to an idolatrous mandate by such awful anathemas. It is not, therefore, surprising that hundreds of thousands of ignorant peasants, in the hope of obtaining rest for their burdened minds, together with hypocrites and pleasure-hunters, should set out on a pilgrimage to Treves, and offer sacrifices to the priestly idol. Nor is it surprising that poor landowners have contracted heavy debts upon their little property; that others have sold the produce of their fields, or their household furniture, and brought upon themselves poverty and distress, in order to receive a title to heaven by adoring the relic at Treves. Deep, however, as must be the regret of every enlightened Christian at the fact that above a million of men, led by bishops and priests, from Germany, France, and Belgium, were prevailed upon to go and celebrate Bishop Arnoldi's spectacle at Treves; the more will he rejoice to know that a Roman Catholic priest, with the utmost frankness and determination, in a letter directed to Bishop Arnoldi, has publicly denounced and severely chastised the Tetzelian traffic carried on again by his own Church. This honest and intrepid man is John Ronge, priest at Laurahutte, in Silesia. We cannot sufficiently admire the moral courage exhibited by him in sending such a letter to Arnoldi, and it is equally impossible to describe the anxious desire of reading it shown both by Catholics and Protestants all over Germany. It has been reprinted in