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"Having arrived at our rooms, Mr. W. opened the prophet Isaiah, and told them, that the Prophets speak of Jesus of Nazareth. One of the Rabbies replied; 'the lip of truth shall be established for ever, but a lying tongue is but for a moment.' After a little conversation, Zech. xii, 9, 10, came under consideration. They gave a forced and fanciful interpretation which was easily answered, by simply reading the passage in its connexion. They made the following reply;-My lord, we are come from a distant land, and by sea were sick with a great sickness; and therefore our mind is a little confused with confusion, and we cannot therefore speak to-day words of wisdom and understanding and skill; for you must know, my lord, that we are wise with wisdom, and we are comely men, and honored with great honor, and sit in the first seat at the table of the rich. We will return unto you, and open our mouth with wisdom, and speak about the Holy One, blessed be He, and blessed be his name; and then you will be astonished with great astonishment.'-After Mr. W. had read a few chapters of the Hebrew Testament to them, they departed.

"Went to the Roman Catholic convent of Terra Santa, entered into conversation with two monks, and they invited us into their room. We spoke to them about their devoting themselves continually to fasting and prayer. 'Yes,' said they, 'we pray to God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost-and to the Virgin, and the saints.'-'Ah,' we replied, 'to the saints? This is something we have never seen in the Bible. We are commanded to pray to God, and to Christ; but we no where find, that we are commanded to pray to saints.' They zealously defended the practice on the authority of popes, fathers and councils. We read to them 1 Tim. iv, 1-3; and inquired what they thought of it. One said, it was against the Catholic church, but denied that it belonged to Scripture; alleging that our Tes

tament was incorrect. We assured them, that it was the language of St. Paul, and a true prediction of some who would apostatize from the faith, who were to be known by two signs, viz. forbidding to marry,' and 'commanding to abstain from meats,'-two signs which exactly described them and their Church.

"Being over-heard by the curate, he sent a request to have us come to him. We went, and meeting us at the door, he asked, if we had come there to dispute. We told him we came to see the Superior, and were disappointed in not finding him at home. He began to rail loudly against the English, saying, they were all 'excommunicated, without a priesthood, and going to the house of the devil.' We stood at the door, and spoke concerning the best means of learning the truth, such as prayer, a docile and humble mind, and the spirit of the Gospel, We said to him;—'a minister of Christ ought to speak with humility and kindness.' He replied, 'Yes,' and lowered his voice. But it was not long before he began to be in a rage again. He declared that he would preach against us with all his might. After awhile we succeeded in calming him a little, and requested him to show us his library. While we were looking at his books, he began to rave again, saying, he did not wish to converse with us, pointed to the door, and advised us to go. addressed him on the duty of praying, not as the pharisees did, but with an humble and contrite heart; told him we were all rapidly hastening to eternity, and must soon appear before God to give an account of ourselves. He interrupted us, and demanded, why we preached to him. We replied; -'Because we cannot but feel, that you have perverted the Scriptures, and received instead of them the traditions of men. We are acquainted with many of your Church, and find that your influence is not good; and you must stand before God, and give an account.' At this, which we uttered as

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mildly as we could, he assumed the appearance of a mad-man, and walked hastily across the room, saying; 'We are the true Church;-we are illuminated by the Holy Ghost. I can teach you, and not you me.' We then asked him, if he were not sensible, that he did not exhibit the meek and humble spirit of Christ. He replied; 'When men go about in this way, vomiting poison, I would crush them under my feet'-and stamping violently on the floor, he pointed to the door, and said; 'You had better go. Finding all attempts to obtain a calm discussion in vain, we left the unhappy man in the midst of his rage, grieved that any one, who could manifest such a spirit, should ever be called a minister of the Prince of peace.

"15. Spoke with a Jew who said, this is no time to make proselytes; but if the Jews would all agree to renounce their religion, he would gladly do it; as he considered the question at issue merely a point in metaphysics. Had a long discussion with four young Jews who came to our rooms. We gave them Tracts, and lent them a Testament.

"We visited the Coptic convent. Inquired about their time of beginning, and manner of spending the Sabbath. The priest informed us, that they begin it, when they rise in the morning, and spend it in prayer and religious exercises. We inquired, whether they approved of giving the Bible to all the people. He answered; Certainly for Christians, Copts, Abyssinians, Catholics, Greeks, all have but one Bible.' On parting, we gave him an Arabic Genesis, an extract from Grotius on the truth of Christianity, and a homily on reading the Scriptures. An aged Catholic priest called on us. He conversed like a zealous Catholic, but very calmly and civilly. His arguments were such as Catholics generally use, viz.; "Tu es Petrus,' &c. At six o'clock I preached in the consul's hall in Greek to about 120 or 130 hearers. To see so many was indeed encouraging.

"17. Called on the Danish consul, and conversed with him on the subject of religion, and urged on him the importance of attending to the concerns of the soul, while it is called to-day. What we said he received kindly. Two or three other gentlemen were present, one of whom began to talk violently, saying, he did not believe God would ever damn men for not believing in Jesus Christ. We asked; 'How do you know the character of God?' He answered. 'From nature.' 'If you judge in that way merely,' said we, 'you have reason to tremble. For it is possible, that the same God, who destroyed the inhabitants of Aleppo by an earthquake, and the cities around Mount Etna by torrents of Lava; and who has caused so much pain and death in this world by plague and pestilence, may make you miserable in another world forever.'

"We learned to-day, that the Superior of the Catholic convent has requested Mr. Thorburn, who acts as consul in Mr. Lee's absence, to prevent us from preaching in Italian. In the evening the four young Jews called upon us, and returned the Testament which they had borrowed, and said, they had read much in it, and had found nothing bad. We read to them Rom. iii, and addressed them at some length on the subject of the law, the corruption of human nature, and the way of salvation. They said; 'If we sin without knowing it, God will forgive us.' Our reply was; 'Unfortunately we sin when we do know it, we sin against light, we sin with the commands of God before our eyes. How then can we be pardoned?' They answered; 'If we repent and do not sin again, God will forgive us.' 'But alas,' we said, 'we sin not merely once or twice, but continually. Suppose a king makes a law, and subjects break it; but they repent, and he forgives them-again they violate it, then repent, and again he forgives; what would be thought of such a government? They remarked; 'All would laugh at it:'

'And can you then believe, that God governs the world in this way?' They made no answer, and we addressed them on the need of an atonement, stating also the leading doctrines and duties of the gospel.

"19. Doct. Marpurgo, the Jewish physician tells us, that there is much talk concerning us in the city. The Catholic priests are violent against us, though the people are generally in our favor.

"20. We have spent ten laborious, and we hope profitable days in Alexandria. During that time we have distributed 1000 Tracts, given away 70 copies of the Bible or parts of it, and sold 100 for 440 piastres. These have been distributed among all the different classes in the place. We praise God for the success he has given us, and pray for his blessing on our labors. In the afternoon we left Alexandria in a large boat, called a maash, for Rosetta and Cairo. In the night a gust of wind nearly upset our boat.

"21. A Turkish soldier from the shore called to our men, and wished to come on board and go to Cairo. We did not stop for him, and he fired his musket to intimidate our men; but we were sailing so fast, he could not overtake us. Just before night we left the canal, and entered the Nile.

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Awoke and found ourselves near Rosetta. Landed about 9 o'clock, and found Signor Bochor Carano, the dragoman of the English vice consul, at the shore ready to receive us, having received information by land, that we were coming. We accordingly removed our baggage to the house, which we found without the least article of furniture. We spread our beds upon the floor, and used our trunks and chests for tables and chairs. Soon we went with the dragoman to pay our respects to the musselim. We left our shoes at the door, and entered his room. He received us very civilly, and invited us to sit near him on the sofa. Coffee was

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