FOR MELIORATING THE CONDITION OF THE JEWS. 
 
 Nearly two years have passed, since this Society was incorpo¬ 
 rated by the Legislature of this State. To the present time, the 
 Directors have been principally occupied in opening a corres¬ 
 pondence, and preparing the way for future operations. A cir¬ 
 cumstance, under the direction of Providence, has unexpectedly 
 occurred, which, it is hoped, will give a powerful impulse to the 
 exertions of the Board, and excite in all classes of the Christian 
 community a lively interest in the concerns of the Institution. 
 We allude to the recent arrival of Mr. Jadownisky, a converted 
 Jew, as a special Agent from a benevolent Nobleman in Germany 
 who is devoting his property and his life to the great object for 
 which the Society Avas formed. 
 
 Soon after his arrival, Mr. Jadoaa^xisxv attended a special 
 Meeting of the Directors, and laid before them the following 
 Documents :—1st. A letter from Adelberdt, Count von uer 
 Recke, dated “ Overdyck, Germany, September 12, 1820,” in¬ 
 troducing Mr. Jadoavnisky to the Rev. Mr. Frey.— 2d. A 
 letter from the same Gentleman, under the same date, to the 
 Hon. Elias Boudinot, late President of the Society. —3. An 
 Address from the same gentleman to the Directors, announcing 
 the efforts he is now making in behalf of converted Jews, and 
 soliciting the countenance and co-operation of the Board.—And 
 4th. An Address by Mr. Jadownisky. 
 
 These Documents, accompanied Avith an Address prepared by 
 a Committee of the Board, Ave now have the pleasure to present 
 to our Readers. 
 
 INTERESTING DOCUMENTS. 
 
 Count von der Recke to the Rev. 
 Mr. Frea'. 
 
 Beloved Brother in Christ— 
 
 The deep and sacred concern of my 
 heart for the salvation of Israel, has in¬ 
 duced me to send to you my beloved 
 brother Jadownisky, who is of the house 
 of Israel, and has been translated from 
 darkness into the marvellous light of the 
 Gospel. 
 
 Oh ! I beseech you most cordially, 
 for Christ’s sake, receive him in love ; 
 be unto him, dear friend in the Lord, 
 counsellor and friend : please to con- 
 Ftb. 1822. 1 
 
 duct and direct the important coneeru 
 of his mission, which he will lay before 
 you. 
 
 Oh ! assist by exertion and by prayer, 
 that it may be accomplished to the ho¬ 
 nour and praise of the dear Redeemer, 
 and the salvation of this poor, persecu¬ 
 ted, and forsaken people. 
 
 May the blood and sufferings of Jesus, 
 by which Ave arc healed, intercede for 
 me; and through the same I feel my¬ 
 self cordially united. 
 
 And re maul, &c- ha. 
 
 Your friend and brother, 
 
 AnFt.BERPT, Count von der Recke, 
 von Vollmarstein. 
 
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 ‘i AMERICAN SOCIETY 
 
 Count von der Recke to the Hon. 
 
 Elias Boudinot. 
 
 Beloved Brother in Christ— 
 
 With the deepest emotions of heart I 
 have read of your love to the dear Re¬ 
 deemer, manifested in your benevo¬ 
 lence to the people of Israel; and you 
 will perceive by my address to your 
 Society, that through the grace of Christ 
 my heart is also warmly affected to¬ 
 wards this great and sacred cause. 
 
 Oh ! I beseech you, for Christ’s sake, 
 do not reject my humble application. 
 Let not, dear Sir, my solicitation from 
 a far country, for help, be in vain. 
 
 Please to receive affectionately my 
 faithful brother and messenger, Jadow- 
 nisky, and gladden his heart by the 
 prospect, that, through your assistance, 
 my faith will be strengthened, and the 
 W'ork already commenced, advanced. 
 
 The Lord reward your labour of love, 
 and comfort you with the same conso¬ 
 lation you may show to me. 
 
 May the abundant grace of our Lord 
 and Saviour Jesus Christ strengthen us 
 to persevere in love, and to work by 
 faith, till w'e shall see him as he is. 
 
 I have the honour to be, 
 
 Yours, &.C. &c. 
 
 Apelberdt, Count von der Recke, 
 von Vollmarstcin. 
 
 .address to the board by count 
 VON DER Recke. 
 
 [Translated by the Rev. Mr. Shaeffer.'] 
 Beloved Brethren, in Clirist Jesus ! 
 
 Blessed be the Lord and praised be 
 his holy name, that he has moved your 
 hearts also, to consider with love and 
 care the forsaken house of Israel, and 
 to publish the comforting gospel unto 
 those, who for more than 1800 years 
 have been destitute, like erring sheep, 
 without priest and without ephod. 
 
 It elevated my heart with joyful gra¬ 
 titude, when I learnt the object of your 
 Society; that you had founded an 
 Asylum for the wandering people of 
 promise. 
 
 For some years past I have also been 
 
 FOR MELIORATING 
 
 Constrained by the love of Christ, to 
 labour among the Jew'S, and, though 
 not without obstacles and afflictive ex¬ 
 periences, the scorn and obloquy of the 
 world, yet, thank God! not entirely 
 without success. 
 
 Amid my various attempts to promote 
 a more rapid extension of Christianity 
 among the Jews, one and the same 
 difficulty continually opposed me r 
 “ Cast out by Jews, and not received b\' 
 Christians, how shall we support our¬ 
 selves after our conversion ?” 
 
 Many consequently resolved, in their 
 hearts to be Christians, and yet to abide 
 by the external profession of the Jews, 
 until a more favourable opportunity 
 should offer itself to them. Butin this 
 situation, fraught w'ith danger, in which 
 they could as little avail themselves of 
 the Christian means of grace unto the 
 strengthening and quickening of their 
 faith, as of the intercourse with true 
 Christians, many had their bark of faith 
 wrecked, and they sunk again into 
 their former indifference toward the 
 state of their souls. Should these un¬ 
 fortunate persons, however, be deliver¬ 
 ed from this ocean abounding with 
 dangerous shelves, should they be 
 gained unto intellectual life, they must 
 be received into the bosom of the Chris¬ 
 tian church, and a situation must be 
 provided for them, where if not free 
 from care, they might nevertheless 
 enjoy a state of existence more exempt 
 from perplexity. 
 
 In order to attain this end, w^e re¬ 
 ceived some, as far as circumstances 
 and our limited sphere allowed, into 
 our own dwellings, and into the Asylum 
 for orphans and children of criminals; 
 and others were provided with situa¬ 
 tions for the purpose of learning some 
 of the mechanic arts. 
 
 Having gained some information from 
 all these various experiments, it is de¬ 
 cidedly obvious to me, that the salva¬ 
 tion of Israel cannot be outwardly pro¬ 
 moted by any better method, than the 
 founding of a sort of Colony, in which 
 AgriGulture and Manufactures should 
 
THE CONDITION OF THE JEWS. 
 
 assist each otlier; connected with this, 
 there should be an Institution for the 
 education of botli sexes of Israelitic 
 children, a catechetical school, or school 
 of instruction in the Christian evan¬ 
 gelical doctrines of faith, for those adult 
 Jews who might join the Colony; as 
 well as a regular school for instruction 
 in various kinds of workmanship, so that 
 the Jews might no longer be exposed to 
 their pursuit of traffic and concomitant 
 corruption, but be trained unto a life 
 of industry. 
 
 And in reliance upon the Almighty 
 aid of God, I have determined to found 
 such a Colony, unto which my way has 
 been more especially opened, by the 
 work of faith which the Lord has 
 through grace given me to perform, viz.: 
 the establishment of an Institution for 
 the benefit of forsaken orphans and 
 children of criminals, of which the ac¬ 
 companying plan and report will furnish 
 you some idea. 
 
 As this work, however, has called 
 into requisition all my pecuniary pow¬ 
 ers in order to accomplish something 
 considerable for this establishment, and 
 as something of moment must be done 
 in Germany before we can meet with 
 desirable aid, therefore, in consequence 
 of your Public Call, I turn to you my 
 dear brethren, in the Lord! with the 
 urgent prayer, that though the ocean is 
 between us, you would nevertheless ex¬ 
 tend to me your helping hand, in order 
 that I may be enabled completely to ex¬ 
 ecute this work, in one of the finest and 
 most suitable parts of Germany, in the 
 vicinity of the Rhine. Consider the nu¬ 
 merous expenses which such an esta¬ 
 blishment requires, for land, buildings, 
 and utensils for manufactures; am pro¬ 
 mote by an energetic support, a labour 
 of love, which, without your aiding 
 arm would perhaps not flourish before 
 the expiration of at least the first ten 
 years. 
 
 Many Jews in Germany, who have 
 embraced Christianity, and who are fa¬ 
 miliar with arts and trades, are ready 
 
 dnyote, themselves to such a work, 
 
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 for the salvation oftheirpeople, and wait 
 with the most ardent desire to enter in 
 such wise upon a course of active em¬ 
 ployment. 
 
 To convince you the more effectually, 
 my beloved brethren in the Lord, of the 
 high interest which engages my soul for 
 this sacred concern, which, properly 
 ought to be the concern of all true 
 Christians, and that you might be able 
 to inquire most minutely into every 
 thing you wish to know on the subject, 
 I have concluded to send unto you, at 
 my own expense, Mr. Jadownisky a 
 faithful brother of the house of Israel, 
 who will attend to your counsel in this 
 sacred concern, which fills his heart also 
 with lively emotion, and will deliver to 
 me your messages, and perfectly ac¬ 
 quaint himself with the organization of 
 your Colony, so that ours may be form¬ 
 ed as a complete preparatory school for 
 yours. 
 
 I therefore sincerely beseech you to 
 impart to him particular Instruction 
 concerning all the conditions and rela¬ 
 tions of your settlement, in order that I 
 may know, for which branches, whether 
 for agriculture, arts, or manufactures, I 
 should principally and chiefly prepare 
 my pupils; and in what manner the 
 voyage, reception, and residence in 
 your settlement, are conditioned and 
 practicable. 
 
 I commend my fraternally beloved 
 friend and envoy Jadownisky to your 
 faithful fraternal love and care, and 
 again repeat my urgent prayer : O 
 brethren, beloved brethren in Christ, 
 let me not entreat you in vain for help; 
 wdth ardent desire I await the evidences 
 of your love! 
 
 The rich, everlasting grace of oiu' 
 Lord Jesus Christ, and the precious 
 Holy Spirit, guide and bless your steps 
 for the enlightening of Israel who are 
 buried in the night and shadow of death. 
 
 Unto all the dear members of your 
 society, to whom I extend with cordial 
 affection the hand of a brother, in tho 
 mutual exertion toward one and the 
 same holy object, the spreading oj' the 
 
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 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MELIORATINC 
 
 kingdom of Clirist on earth—I wish 
 from the fulness of my soul, God’s rich, 
 exceedingly abundant grace, Spirit, and 
 peace ! 
 
 Through Jesus’ grace and blood. 
 Your faithful Brother, 
 Adelberdt, Count von der Recke, 
 von Vollmarstein. 
 
 Aodress to the Board by Mr. Ja- 
 
 DOAVNISKY. 
 
 ITranslaltd by the Rev. Dr. MiUedoUer.] 
 
 The Board being already acquainted 
 with the object of my mission, from the 
 letter of Count von der Recke, von Voll- 
 marstein, I doubt not but they will 
 heartily approve the Christian disposi¬ 
 tion manifested by that Nobleman, in 
 the establishment of the Society of 
 Friends to Man—and especially of his 
 interest in the salvation of Israel, evi¬ 
 denced not only in general exertions for 
 their welfare, but in founding a settle¬ 
 ment, as a sanctuary, in which they are 
 received and prepared for future use¬ 
 fulness. 
 
 The undersigned trusts that this Boai’d 
 will not only approve the plan of the 
 Count, in the organization of that set¬ 
 tlement, but that they wdll also feel dis¬ 
 posed to co-operate with him at his call, 
 in the great work in which he is enga¬ 
 ged, and to render such aid as may be 
 in their pow'er. 
 
 It would be superfluous here to speak 
 further of the importance of the work 
 itself, or the claims of the Count to the 
 aid he has requested. It is necessarjq 
 how'ever, that the Board should be made 
 acquainted with the difficulties that exist 
 abroad in relation to the conversion of 
 the Jew's, and which not only obstruct, 
 but threaten wholly to prevent the 
 spread of Gospel light and of Gospel 
 principles among them. In attempting 
 this, and proposing means of counter¬ 
 action, in a condensed form, I shall en¬ 
 deavour to show— 
 
 1. That the founding of a Christian 
 Hebrew colony, which may perhaps 
 best be done in America, is the most 
 
 effectual measure that can be devised to 
 promote the eternal welfare of that 
 people, and to lay the foundation of 
 their national conversion. 
 
 2. That a colony founded in America, 
 if it shall not be seriously injured in its 
 commencement, will need a preparatory 
 station in Europe, which shall serve as 
 a telegraph to the Jew's in that quarter, 
 and in wdiich inquirers into truth, as 
 w'ell as those who have embraced the 
 truth, shall by previous and all manner 
 of useful instruction, as w'ell as trial of 
 their character, be prepared for emigra¬ 
 tion to America. 
 
 3. That there are such important ad¬ 
 vantages connected w'ith the station con¬ 
 templated, or rather establishing by the 
 Count in the vicinity of the Rhine, as 
 will render it the most eligible to answer 
 the great purposes contemplated. 
 
 Already in the year 1728, the labours 
 of the Rev. Professor Callenberg to 
 spread Christianity among the Jews, 
 w'ere not in vain. He erected at Halle, 
 in Germany, a Jewish Institution, and 
 printed and circulated the Gospels of 
 Matthew and Luke, with other suitable 
 tracts in Hebrew', and Hebrew-German; 
 and we learn from his Missionaiy, Ste¬ 
 phen Shulze, W'ho was employed from 
 1733 to 1756, in travelling among the 
 Jews in Europe, Asia, and Africa, that 
 these writings were read by some of 
 them W'ith avidity; that many by these 
 means were brought to serious reflection 
 on their situation, and that some were 
 induced to make a public profession of 
 Christianify. 
 
 But it may be asked, w'hat became of 
 these converted persons, and of the 
 writings circulated among them ? I re¬ 
 ply, that being persecuted by their bre¬ 
 thren according to the flesh, they fled to 
 countries where they w'ere unknown, 
 and lived and died in the Christian faith 
 —and that the writings so extensively 
 circulated among them were bought up 
 by their opposing brethren, and com¬ 
 mitted to the flames; so that solitary 
 copies can only be found here and 
 there in public libraries. The conse- 
 
THE CONDITION OP THE JEWS 
 
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 qucnce was, that further information 
 favourable to Christianity could not be 
 circulated among them, and the institu¬ 
 tion above mentioned was discontinued. 
 
 In our day we perceive among Chris¬ 
 tians of different nations and denomi¬ 
 nations an interest in the welfare of 
 that people ; and many begin to think 
 it a duty to care for their state. This 
 lias been especially manifested by the 
 Society organized through the indefati¬ 
 gable labours of the Rev. Mr. Frey, 
 about twelve years ago in London, who, 
 possessed of greater means than Callen- 
 berg, has not only reprinted and circu¬ 
 lated his Gospels and tracts, but thou¬ 
 sands of copies of the whole of the New 
 Testament, with additional tracts, in 
 Hebrew, Hebrew-German, and Hebrew 
 Polish. It also sends out Missionaries, 
 and its labours thus far have not been 
 unattended with a divine blessing. In 
 confirmation of that fact, and among 
 other interesting things contained in a 
 letter of Dr. Steinkopf, giving an ac¬ 
 count of the anniversary of the Society 
 for the conversion of the .lews, held in 
 London, May 4, 1821, he declared, that 
 it was an undeniable fact, that in many 
 lands and provinces, there exists a con¬ 
 tinually increasing desire on the part of 
 the Jews to become more accurately 
 acquainted with the truths of Chris¬ 
 tianity, and to receive oral and written 
 instruction on this subject, and espe¬ 
 cially from the New Testament. 
 
 During the presence of Mr. Marc, a 
 faithful brother of the house of Israel, 
 and an agent of the London Society at 
 Frankfort on Main, a small Society was 
 formed in that city for the benefit of the 
 .Tews, who, in the course of one year, 
 rejoiced in the conv'ersion to the Chris¬ 
 tian faith of no less than twenty Israel¬ 
 ites. Among these was a venerable 
 Rabbi of the name of Bergmann, aged 
 about G4 years, w'ho is not ntiknown in 
 the literary' world. At the time of 
 meeting of the great Sanhedrim assem¬ 
 bled by the Emperor Napoleon, at Pa¬ 
 ris, he wrote against the superstitious 
 doctrines of the Talmud. This man 
 
 was instructed and baptized by Pastor 
 Stein. There was also a Mr. Adler, son- 
 in-law of the principal Rabbi of Bonn, 
 on the Rhine, who joined the Christian 
 church with his w ife and four children 5 
 these w'ere instructed and baptized by 
 Pastor Manuel, of the French Reform¬ 
 ed Church. Principally, how'ever, these 
 converts were composed of young peo¬ 
 ple of the principal Jewish families, 
 some of whom wmre employed as teach¬ 
 ers of .Jewish congregations in the vi¬ 
 cinity of Frankfort, and others in insti¬ 
 tutions and private houses in Frankfort. 
 They forsook their employments, and 
 regardless of the threats of their fathers, 
 the tears of their mothers and sisters, 
 and the ridicule of their political friends, 
 by whom they' were considered as fana¬ 
 tics, made a free and public profession 
 of their faith in tlie Lord Jesus Christ. 
 They were instructed and baptized by 
 Pastors Spiess, Stein, Blum, Handw'erk, 
 and Kirchner. These and other instan¬ 
 ces like these, show the latest progress 
 of Christianity' among the Jews in Ger¬ 
 many', and w'ith some of these you have 
 doubtless, brethren, been made ac¬ 
 quainted, through the medium of the 
 public prints. But the hindrances to 
 propagating the Gospel among the .lews, 
 are unspeakably greater than the faci¬ 
 lities. The former are seldom learned 
 from the public prints, and therefore 
 deserve the more particular attention, 
 for if we w’ait for that information from 
 the public prints, it may be received 
 wdien it is too late. 
 
 Christians, friends of Israel, if you 
 knew' with me, w'hat a rich harvest 
 might be gathered among the Jew's 
 in Germany', and knew also how lit¬ 
 tle has thus far been done to effect it, 
 you would weep aloud with me, as 
 those did w'hoare noted in Ezra iii. 12, 
 when they saw and compared the foun¬ 
 dation of the second temple with that 
 of the first. 
 
 Of the many and different hindrance.s 
 and difficulties to the knowledge and 
 profession of Christianity among the 
 •Tew's, I will only mention some of 
 
AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MELIORATING 
 
 it 
 
 tliose of which I have been an eye wit¬ 
 ness. To relate only a few of these 
 W'ill be sufficiently grievous. 
 
 Several young Israelites of unble¬ 
 mished character, who had been brought 
 by perusal of the Holy Scriptures, to 
 think seriously of the state of their souls, 
 and who in the spring of the last year 
 applied to Pastor Stein, one of the most 
 W'orthy Christian ministers in Frank¬ 
 fort, to receive evangelical instruction, 
 were informed by that excellent man, 
 with heartfelt sorrow, that they must 
 first procure employment among'Chris- 
 tians. Now as this was not so easy 
 to be obtained, and as the thought oc¬ 
 curred to them that in making the ap¬ 
 plication they might be considered as 
 interested hypocrites, they found them¬ 
 selves under the necessity of returning 
 to Judaism.—And are they not now in 
 a situation in which they are tempted 
 to put down every favourable thought 
 of Christianity that may arise in their 
 inmost souls ? Missionaries, therefore; 
 and ministers, when Israelites, by the 
 influence of the Holy Spirit, are awa¬ 
 kened by their conversation or preach¬ 
 ing, and open their hearts to them, are 
 placed in the most distressing dilemma. 
 
 Another young Israelite, who was 
 baptized last spring by Rev. Mr. Peter¬ 
 son, ofWeidmar, left his able parents 
 at Cologne, and hired himself to a far¬ 
 mer, on condition that he would suffer 
 him to obtain Christian instruction from 
 an evangelical minister. This part of 
 the contract was most shamefully disre¬ 
 garded by his employer, who, under 
 various pretexts, kept back this poor Is¬ 
 raelite, starving for the knowledge of 
 the truth, from day to day, until the case 
 was discovered by a Christian farmer 
 in the neighbourhood, wdio gave him 
 employment, and sent him for instruc¬ 
 tion to the minister above named. 
 
 How many an Israelite, whose heart 
 is touched by the Gospel, and who feels 
 a desire of instruction, in not knowing 
 xvhither he shall go, falls into the hands 
 of sncli nominal Christians; and finding 
 himself deceived in his expectations of 
 
 an example in them worthy of the Chris¬ 
 tian profession, is driven back again 
 into Judaism. 
 
 On my way to this country, I met in 
 a small town on the borders of Ger¬ 
 many, a converted Jew, w’ho by the 
 reading of the New Testament wms 
 brought to reflection. For a whole year 
 he paid stolen visits, (for he then lived 
 with his parents,) to a Christian minis¬ 
 ter of the place, to obtain Christian in¬ 
 struction. That well-disposed minister 
 was satisfied of the faith of this Israelite, 
 but would not consent to his union to 
 the Christian church, until he had ob¬ 
 tained some secular employment. When 
 the Israelite, however, who could no 
 longer conceal his faith in Christ, insist¬ 
 ed upon being baptized, that sacred 
 rite was administered. He is now with¬ 
 out bread, and would be forsaken, were 
 it not for his Jewdsh father, who, less 
 barbarous than others under similar cir¬ 
 cumstances, pays occasional attention 
 to his wants. 
 
 In a letter from our beloved Marc to 
 Peter Diederichs, Director and Corres¬ 
 ponding Secretary of the Elberfeld Mis¬ 
 sionary Society, after a late Mis.sionary 
 excursion on the Rhine, he observed 
 among other things —“ Generally, I may 
 venture to say, that all the Jewish 
 teachers in the whole vicinity of the 
 Rhine, are inclined to receive the Chris¬ 
 tian religion, if they only knew how, 
 as Christians, they should obtain their 
 temporal support. The harvest indeed 
 is ripe, and requires only sun-shine to 
 gather it.” 
 
 Independent of difficulties of the 
 above description, the Jews themselves, 
 on the other hand, are concerned to 
 destroy every rising germ of Christian 
 knowledge.—They abuse and vilify, not 
 only in societies and in public prints, 
 those who go out from among them, 
 but associate to buy up and commit to 
 the flames, all writings of every descrip¬ 
 tion, prepared and circulated among 
 them for their illumination and conver¬ 
 sion. 
 
 On a view' of the whole ground, be¬ 
 loved Christians, if we continue to 
 
THE CONDITION OF THE JEWS 
 
 / 
 
 ))loy former means for the conversion 
 of the Jews, namely, the sending them 
 Missionaries—the putting Christian wri¬ 
 tings into their hands—or in some in¬ 
 stances employing- such as have em¬ 
 braced Christianity, we may hope at 
 most to have occasional and individual 
 conversions:—but in such a procedure 
 where are the means of effecting any 
 thing like national conversion ? And 
 yet both prophets and apostles speak in 
 the clearest manner of such a national 
 conversion. Now as it is acknowledged 
 that we cannot reap except we sow—so 
 in the view of a national conversion— 
 the best physical means of its accom¬ 
 plishment are to be devised and brought 
 into action. In returning to the first 
 subject of consideration then, we may 
 see, that the plan of forming a Jewish 
 Christian colony, is not only calculated 
 to meet and counteract the hindrances 
 and difficulties which have been above 
 stated, but also to lay the foundation or 
 prepare the way for national conver¬ 
 sion. 
 
 Such a colony, reared in due delibe¬ 
 ration and in wisdom, will serve as a 
 rock on which every wave of opposi¬ 
 tion shall be broken,and become harm¬ 
 less. Missionaries and ministers will no 
 more be in doubt how they shall act 
 when Israelites open to them their 
 hearts; but will be placed in a situation 
 in which with the most joyful sensa¬ 
 tions they may make known to them 
 the Gospel. 
 
 Here will be a secure haven into 
 which every Israelite, whose heart the 
 Lord hath touched, may run for secu¬ 
 rity, and avoid the danger of falling 
 into the hands of unchristian Christians, 
 among whom his faith might suffer 
 shipwreck. 
 
 Such a colony would at the same time 
 have the advantage of attracting the at¬ 
 tention of the Jews in all the world, 
 and serve as a constant fixed barrier 
 against their attempts to put down 
 every appearance of Christian know¬ 
 ledge among them. The converted 
 Jews of such a colony, especially when 
 
 it should contain men deeply versed in 
 knowledge of the things of the kingdom 
 of God, would be inclined by love to 
 their brethren after the flesh, to main¬ 
 tain, on the subject of Christianity, a 
 most profitable correspondence with 
 them, and thus lay the foundation of 
 their national conversion. 
 
 Finally, it would serve as a monitor 
 and corrector to the Jews in Roman 
 Catholic, Mahometan, and Heathen 
 lands, who have been thrown into con¬ 
 fusion by the corruptions and false doc¬ 
 trines with which Christianity has been 
 disfigured. Much were we rejoiced du¬ 
 ring the last year, when we received 
 from one of your ministers, the Rev. 
 Mr. Frey, a brother of the house of Is¬ 
 rael, a printed account of your honour¬ 
 ed Society, and its benevolent plan of 
 forming a colony. 
 
 Long ago we had heard of the noble- 
 mindedness of American Christians, 
 and their wise zeal, in extending the 
 kingdom of Christ among all people 
 and tongues. And well might we also 
 confide to them this glorious work, 
 which many of our German brethren 
 could only wish for but had not, from 
 the peculiar nature of their situation, 
 the pow'er to accomplish.’^ 
 
 Every Christian therefore and friend 
 of Israel, blessed their loving Re¬ 
 deemer when they received the in¬ 
 telligence, that he had thus inclined the 
 hearts of his American people—and in 
 their public as well as in their more 
 private assemblies, they united in 
 warm, and heartfelt thanksgivings for 
 it to Almighty God. A colony ,«uch as 
 we have contemplated founded in Ame¬ 
 rica, for which such great and holy 
 duties shall be required, will absolutely 
 need, according to our 
 
 Second Proposition. 
 
 A preparatory school, on the old 
 Continent. It is desirable, yea even 
 necessary, that the future members of 
 the American colony, at least by 
 
 * Their difficulties arise from want of land as. 
 well as from governmental discourat'einent. 
 
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 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MELIORATING 
 
 tar the greater part of them, should be 
 true and enlightened Christians, who 
 in wisdom and in love should lead and 
 govern, and let their light shine before 
 their brethren according to the flesh 
 who are walking in thick darkness. 
 
 But how in any other way could we 
 be so certainly assured of their qualifi¬ 
 cations, as when its future members, 
 having first entered the preparatory 
 school and been trained there, have had 
 their characters tried, and their faith 
 and growt!} in true Cliristian know¬ 
 ledge ascertained. It will also be 
 necessary for the colony to maintain a 
 constant correspondence, and religious 
 intercourse with all the Jewish congrega¬ 
 tions of Europe, and how difficult would 
 this be without having some station or 
 centre of operation on tlie old conti¬ 
 nent. 
 
 Convinced of this. Count von der 
 Recke, was induced to purchase for the 
 sum of 20,000 rix dollars, a tract of 
 land of about 40 acres, with buildings 
 formerly used as a Monastery, the 
 wdiole encompassed by a w'all, and to 
 devote, and to commence preparing it 
 for such a station. Into this asylum 
 Israelites that desire a knowledge of 
 the truth can be received—can obtain 
 instruction from a minister provided 
 for that purpose, and according to their 
 disposition and talents can be instructed 
 in Agriculture, in the Mechanic arts, 
 or in Manufactures, or can enter upon 
 preparatory studies to become teachers 
 of schools or ministers of the Gospel. 
 
 Third Proposition. 
 
 And now passing on let us contem¬ 
 plate the important advantages which 
 this station will have over every other 
 that can be proposed. 
 
 Count von der Recke erected more 
 than two years ago an Asylum under 
 the name of the Society of Friends to 
 Alan, for the reception of forsaken 
 orphans, and the children of criminals. 
 The nature of the Institution may be 
 learned from the first printed account 
 now transmitted to this country. 
 
 No sooner, in the course of its 
 
 operations, were others called upon to 
 assist in the work, than contributions in 
 money and other valuables were 
 made from every part of Germany, 
 as well as from distant parts of Poland 
 and of Russia. 
 
 The operations of the Society w^ere 
 also very much facilitated by a cabinet 
 act of the King of Prussia, dated Nov. 
 21st, 1819 ; whereby such letters of the 
 Society, as were immediately con¬ 
 nected with their operations, were 
 franked through every part of his do¬ 
 minions. 
 
 Now^ as the conversion of the Jews 
 forms a part of the labours of the So¬ 
 ciety of the Friends of Man, it will 
 easily be perceived that the station of 
 Count von der Recke wdll in this respect 
 have a very great advantage; and he 
 himself descended from one of the most 
 illustrious families in Germany, will be 
 a faithful labourer in this vineyard of 
 the Lord Having studied economy, 
 and prepared himself for such an under¬ 
 taking, he will not merely commit to 
 others, but constantly superintend him¬ 
 self, this most interesting establishment. 
 
 The ap|)lication of the Count to you 
 brethren is entirely reasonable.—He 
 does not ask contributions for a series 
 of years, but that present help which 
 will enable him fairly to bring this work 
 into operation. On this subject I will 
 use his own words,—“ In great under¬ 
 takings in Germany much must be done 
 before patronage can be induced.” Aid 
 the Count, brethren, only so far, that he 
 may bring his plan into operation, and 
 there is no doubt but that when manu¬ 
 factories are established, and agricul¬ 
 ture and the arts are cultivated, and 
 converted Jews are engaged in prayer 
 and in labour at this station, that abun¬ 
 dant help for its continuance and sup¬ 
 port will flow in from every part of 
 Europe. In this case auxiliary institu¬ 
 tions will be formed in all the great 
 German cities, and especially in the 
 sea-ports—and in every part of Holland, 
 who will gladly make it their duty to 
 provide for the passing over to this 
 
XHK CONUIXION OF XHE JKWft. 
 
 9 
 
 country trom the station above men¬ 
 tioned, all such Israelites as shall be 
 best qualified for the American colony. 
 
 That liberal aid may be expected in 
 this enterprize from the Society in Lon¬ 
 don for spreading the Gospel among the 
 Jews, we may the more earnestly hope, 
 inasmuch as the Bible Societies of Ger¬ 
 many and Holland will cheerfully un¬ 
 dertake to furnish the Jews with Bibles, 
 and particularly with New Testaments, 
 in the Hebrew and Hebrew-German 
 languages. So also every Tract Society 
 will furnish them with tracts; and if 
 each Society shall annually furnish only 
 one Hebrew or Hebrew-German reli¬ 
 gious tract, the Word of God may by 
 these means be richly extended among 
 the Jews. 
 
 Finally, every Missionary Society 
 will feel itself bound as much to send 
 Missionaries among the Jews, as among 
 the Mahometans and Heathen. By va¬ 
 rious help thus drawn from various 
 sources, great burthens will be taken oflF 
 from the London Jewish Society, who 
 having an annual income of £10,000 
 sterling, can do much for the American 
 colony, as well as for the general ex¬ 
 tension of Christianity among the Jews. 
 
 And now, beloved brethren, members 
 of this Association, permit me to add 
 to what has been said only a few words. 
 You will perceive from the writings that 
 I have brought with me, that we in 
 Germany supposed that your colony was 
 entirely organized. .There are now, I 
 perceive, considerable difficulties to be 
 overcome, and hindrances to be re¬ 
 moved ; among these the want of a ne¬ 
 cessary correspondence and union with 
 Germany in this work, has hitherto in 
 no small degree retarded your progress. 
 O let us, then, in the exercise of faith 
 in Him who is the giver of every good 
 and perfect gift, put our hands to the 
 work—yea, let us lay hold of it with 
 vigour} and as we advance in its ac¬ 
 complishment, He who can give us 
 more than we can either ask or think, 
 will bless our steps, and direct them to 
 his name’s glory. 
 
 [The whole concluded with a fervent 
 prayer for zeal, and for a Divine bless¬ 
 ing on all the labours of God’s servants 
 for evangelizing the world.] 
 
 Remark by the Translator. 
 
 [Count von der Recke is an unmarried 
 man, of one of the first families in Ger¬ 
 many, and only 27 years of age. How 
 soon has he learned that solid glory 
 consists in serving God by doing good i 
 How entirely has he laid his greatness 
 at the foot of the Cross ! What a noble 
 example to the youth of our country, 
 and especially to those who have either 
 obtained large fortunes by their per¬ 
 sonal industry, or inherited large patri¬ 
 monies from their ancestors. Go, gene¬ 
 rous youth ! go and do likewise !] 
 
 Address to the Christian Public by a 
 Committee of the Board. 
 
 The Directors of the Amei-Ican So¬ 
 ciety for meliorating the condition of 
 the Jews, have great pleasure in pre¬ 
 senting these documents to the public, 
 confident that their Christian fellow-citi¬ 
 zens will also have pleasure in perusing 
 them. Long, very long, has the house 
 of Israel been in bondage among the 
 nations ; but a time of release has been 
 promised of God, has been hoped for 
 both by them and by us, and is now 
 certainly at hand. The signs of that 
 time have appeared, and are every year 
 becoming more distinctly visible. Apa¬ 
 thy to the miseries of the circumcision 
 is no longer universal; and contempt 
 for the person of a Jew ceases from the 
 bosom of the Christian. 
 
 There was a time, when the seed of 
 
 l> 
 
 Abraham alone constituted the Church 
 of God, and when a Jew would scarcely 
 credit that men of another race were 
 admissible to the communion. It re¬ 
 quired miracles to convince the He¬ 
 brew Christians, that “ God also to the 
 Gentiles granted repentance unto life.” 
 The Jews, generally obstinate in their 
 prejudices, and zealous for their cere¬ 
 monies, but heedless of the lights of 
 their own prophets, hardened them- 
 
10 
 
 AMERICAN .SOCIKTV FOR MKHOKATliVO 
 
 selves against the uncirciimcision. They 
 have since met with an awful, a long, 
 and a just retribution. The Cliurches 
 ('ll' the nations, providentially indeed, 
 hut on their part criminally, also obsti¬ 
 nate in their prejudices and alike heed¬ 
 less of tlie lights of prophecy, Iiave 
 turned away their heart from the cliil- 
 dren of Jacob. The nations would 
 .scarcely believe that a Jew could be 
 honest, or could again be made to cul¬ 
 tivate the useful arts of life like others. 
 Tlie descendants of Abraham have been 
 supposed incapable of ploughing the 
 field, of watching the fold, and of 
 gathering the fruits of the vine and the 
 olive. In the estimation of many it is 
 .still next to a miracle for a Jew to be¬ 
 come a Christian ; and next to an im¬ 
 possibility, that the race of the Hebrews 
 should exist together as a nation or even 
 as a colony. Such prejudices are mis- 
 eJiievous, because they prevent exer¬ 
 tions to meliorate a condition which 
 they hav'e themselves continued if not 
 created ; for, to the general neglect or 
 oppression of the Jews, by the nations, 
 we must look, as the chief and imme¬ 
 diate cause of that moral condition 
 which is often quoted as the apology 
 for continued neglect. 
 
 Facts are necessary to remove these 
 prejudices; and the facts must be fur¬ 
 nished. They already exist, and they 
 arc increasing both in number and in 
 interest. Jews, distinguished for talents 
 and integrity, are passing from the syna¬ 
 gogue into the church ; and distinguish¬ 
 ed Christians are taking them by the 
 hand. Benevolent Societies are rising 
 up amotig the nations to encourage the 
 spirit of iriqiiiry, and to direct the in¬ 
 quisitive Israelite to the Star of Jacob. 
 The Rabbi Bergmann, Messrs. Marc 
 and Adler, and many others, have 
 seen and confessed “ that Jesus is the 
 Christand such men as Dr. Stein- 
 topft’, the Count von der Recke, and 
 the Rev. Louis Way, and our own 
 Boudinot, have appeared to give them 
 welcome- to the church. Associations 
 of learned and i^ealous Christians are 
 
 engaged in behalf of the ancient people 
 of the covenant. In London, in Edin¬ 
 burgh, and in Frankfort, in Alberfeld, 
 and in Basle, such Societies are formed; 
 and Princes also are engaged in melio¬ 
 rating the condition of the Hebrews. 
 Alexander, at the head of the vast em¬ 
 pire which he so ably governs, has 
 turned his attention to the subject of 
 Jewish colonization, and is making the 
 experiment; and the benevolent Adel- 
 berdt. Count von der Recke, von Voll- 
 marstein, is endeavouring to effect the 
 colonization of evangelized Israelites, 
 in the vicinity of the Rhine, with de¬ 
 sign to co-operate with the American 
 Society for meliorating the condition of 
 the Jews. From him we received as 
 his envoy a Christian of the circumci¬ 
 sion, Mr. Jadownisky, who is now un¬ 
 der our own eye, prosecuting his studies. 
 Mr. Jadownisky is a young man of pro¬ 
 mising endowments. Born and educa¬ 
 ted a Jew, he has not read Moses and 
 the Prophets in vain. His occupation, 
 as a teacher, gave him opportunity of 
 extending his acquaintance among 
 Christians, and of studying the great 
 question concerning Jesus of Nazareth, 
 “ Art thou he that should come, or do 
 we look for another Persuaded that 
 •Jesus is the Christ, he by the grace of 
 God received the word with gladness, 
 and was baptized in the month of April, 
 1821. 
 
 The accompanying documents ex¬ 
 plain the nature of 'his mission to Ame¬ 
 rica ; and his own address to the SocieW 
 is proof of his talents. He is now 22 
 years of age, and is ardently pursuing 
 studies to qualify him for the ministry 
 of the Gospel, as a messenger of mercy 
 to the House of his Fathers. The Board 
 have undertaken, in hopes of aid from 
 the Christian public, to provide for the 
 maintenance and education of this gen¬ 
 tleman for the work to which he is de¬ 
 voted. 
 
 The Society, fellow-citizens, in be¬ 
 half of which we now address you, was 
 incorporated by the Legislature of the 
 State of New-York, in March, 182(> 
 
THE CONDrnO\ OH T71E JEWS. 
 
 J'1 
 
 Tlie object of the Society, is to invite 
 and receive from any ])art of the world, 
 such Jews as do already profess the 
 Christian religion, or are desirous to re¬ 
 ceive Christian instruction, to form them 
 info a colony, and to furnish them with 
 ordinances and employment.” Hitherto 
 the Directors have been without funds 
 to effect a settlement, and without co¬ 
 lonists to occupy under their care. 
 Little has been done except creating a 
 capacity for receiving donations from 
 the benevolent, and for employing them, 
 when circumstances called for actual 
 exertion. The time for exertion is now 
 arrived; and the means also begin to 
 appear. The late excellent President 
 of the Society, Elias Boudinot, whose 
 praise is in the Churches, has bequeath¬ 
 ed 4000 acres of land, as the scite of the 
 colony, in Warren county,state of Penn¬ 
 sylvania, or ^1000, to aid in securing 
 other lands for the purpose, at the op¬ 
 tion of the Board of Directors. The 
 Directors have not yet decided on the 
 alternative. An English gentleman, too, 
 Mr. George Conquest, lately deceased 
 in this city, has with great Christian 
 liberality bequeathed for the benefit of 
 the Society, the sum of two hundred 
 pounds sterling, 889 dollars. We still 
 stand in immediate need of funds; and 
 to your contributions we confidently 
 look for a supply. 
 
 The current expenses of Mr. Jadow- 
 iiisky must be defrayed. We are well 
 assured, also, that colonists will offer 
 themselves, of the description and upon 
 the terms which the constitution con¬ 
 templates, so soon as the Society is pre¬ 
 pared to give them a suitable residence 
 in our free and happy land Therefore 
 this appeal, accompanied with a request 
 to the benevolent, to organize auxiliary 
 Societies, in the different towns and 
 counties of the several states of this 
 great and growing commonwealth. 
 
 The conversion of the seed of Abra¬ 
 ham is an event not only desirable but 
 certain; and the colonization of the 
 converts seems to be one of the best 
 means for bringing the event to pass, and 
 
 for aiiswcriiig the revealed designs of 
 Providence, respecting that remarkable 
 peofjle. Scattered over the nations, 
 and yet distinct in their dispersion, their 
 condition in Society, as well as their 
 own antipathies, is a barrier to their 
 communion with Christians. Upon ex¬ 
 pressing doubts of the propriety of the 
 service of the synagogue, they become 
 suspected at home, without the pros- 
 j)ect of gaining the respect of Christians- 
 Upon professing Christianity, they must 
 “ leave their father’s house and the peo¬ 
 ple of their kindred they are pro" 
 scribed by the .Tews, without the pros¬ 
 pect of being received to the kindness 
 and the confidence of those, from whom 
 they have been so long separated : and, 
 perhaps, it is the purpose of God that 
 the distinction should be yet, at lea.*-! 
 for a time, continued. Say, however, 
 that this is nothing but prejudice ; stiVl 
 that prejudice is a wall of brass. The 
 most obvious remedy is a colony (»f 
 Christian Jews. 
 
 There are, it is true, in different parts 
 of the world, and especially in our own 
 city, persons of the JeM'ish race, who 
 are an ornament to society. Individuals 
 of known integrity, and of elegant ac¬ 
 complishments, would always secure, 
 access to the several civilities of Chris¬ 
 tian society': and every man, who makes 
 an intelligent profession of his conver¬ 
 sion to Christianity, may be assured of 
 his ready reception to a Christian con¬ 
 gregation wheresoever he offers him¬ 
 self: and yet, even in this city, of per¬ 
 fect political equality, without regard 
 to race or religion, the Jew, who leaves 
 the synagogue for the church, may cal¬ 
 culate on frowns from his kindred ac¬ 
 cording to the flesh, and on jealousies 
 amidst his new connexions. Unles.s 
 possessed of independence, such a one 
 might calculate on loss of employment 
 and of goods, as well as of the sociali¬ 
 ties of domestic life. It is worse with 
 an emigrant. It is worse in Europe; 
 and being worse in Europe, the con¬ 
 verted Jew would feel inclined to emi¬ 
 grate. Lo ! a stranger land? on our 
 
12 
 
 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR MELIORATING' 
 
 sliores Is be from France? bo seeks 
 out and meets a Frenchman. Is he a 
 German, a Spaniard, or a Briton ? be 
 soon discovers a countryman. Is he a 
 Jew ? a Jew takes him by the hand. Is 
 he a converted Jew ? he has lost his cast, 
 and feels himself solitary. To the Jew 
 he is a Christian, and to the Christian 
 he is a Jew : he is in fact both Christian 
 and Jew, but he is in reputation neither, 
 for by both he is neglected. What ! a 
 Christian neglected in a Christian land? 
 Alas ! the name is too general, too often, 
 too commonly abused and prostituted 
 to be a recommendation to special at¬ 
 tentions. This stranger is left alone, 
 without a friend, without a home, and 
 without employment, until he finds a 
 colony of his own religion and his own 
 race. And can any liberally-minded 
 .Tew or Christian object to the erection 
 of sucli an asylum for the desolate ? 
 Humanity forbids the objection. Bene¬ 
 volence calls for the institution. Let 
 Christians provide it; and the seed of 
 Abraham will now look on, and by and 
 by they will rejoice, and flock into it, 
 as “ doves to their windows.” From 
 such institutions may yet arise hundreds 
 of Missionaries to their own brethren, 
 that will accompany them on their re¬ 
 turn to Zion, where they shall see, in¬ 
 stead of the Crescent displayed trium¬ 
 phantly, the Cross in which they will 
 glory. 
 
 There are at the present day, about 
 eight millions of Jews, independently 
 of the remnant of the long lost ten 
 tribes of Israel scattered among the 
 Gentiles. W'ith more than half the 
 Bible in their hands; assiduously fol¬ 
 lowing the ceremonies of the ancient 
 Church of God; teaching their sons 
 and their daughters to read Moses and 
 the Psalms; daily looking toward Je¬ 
 rusalem, in expectation of the Messiah ; 
 and yet without an altar or a sacrifice, 
 without faith and without a Saviour, 
 they invite Christian sympathy and ex¬ 
 ertion. But even unto this day the 
 vail is upon their heart; and every 
 saint desires that it be done away in 
 C-hrist. Their souls are precious as the 
 
 souls of others; there should be cor¬ 
 responding exertions in this age of libe¬ 
 ral and magnanimous enterprise for 
 their conversion. They have facilities, 
 for a speedy and general conversion, 
 which mo.st of the heathen do not know. 
 They have civilization, literature, reve¬ 
 lation and a weekly sabbath; they have 
 ordinances and places of public wor¬ 
 ship ; they have officers to read the 
 law to the people and to offer up praise 
 and prayer to God. Christians too are 
 under special obligations to give them 
 the Gospel. We are their debtors:— 
 From them the Gentiles received re¬ 
 vealed religion, “ the goodly land and 
 tlie pleasant heritage;” to them origi¬ 
 nally belonged “ adoption and the 
 gloiy, and the covenants, and the 
 giving of the law, and the service of 
 God, and the promises, whose arc the 
 fathers, and of whom as concerning 
 the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, 
 God blessed for ever. Amen !” 
 
 They have been, moreover, our auxi¬ 
 liaries, in the war with infidelity. The 
 .lews are witnesses for Christians that 
 the Old Testament is both authentic 
 and uncorrupted; dispersed and yet 
 distinct, their very existence is proof 
 positive of the truth of the prophecies 
 both of the Old and the New. Their 
 conversion as it is predicted, must be 
 attempted: and the attempt must 
 ultimately succeed. 
 
 If the Jews are to be converted into 
 the faith of Jesus Christ, they must 
 either come into the church individu¬ 
 ally, so as to sink their distinctness in 
 the mass of Christian professors, or ap¬ 
 pear at their conversion as still the 
 seed of Jacob. It would seem, that 
 the latter is the event necessary to ful¬ 
 fil the prophetic ])redictions, and best 
 calculated to put for ever to silence the 
 objections of infidelity. In order how¬ 
 ever to prepare for a national restora¬ 
 tion of the Jews to the Messiah, there 
 behooves to be established in several 
 nations some rallying point to preserve 
 their distinctness, and to make it stri¬ 
 kingly apparent. This consideration. 
 
THE CONDITION OF THE JEWS. 
 
 13 
 
 if well founded, prevents tlie circum¬ 
 cision from being, at anytime, previ¬ 
 ously to conversion, politically amalga¬ 
 mated with tlie Gentiles; and even at 
 their conversion from falling indiscrimi¬ 
 nately into the ranks with their fellow 
 Christians. Though all the people 
 assemble under the same Captain, the 
 house of Israel and the house of Judah 
 must not only be united, but must also 
 be distinctly recognized by all the Gen¬ 
 tiles returning to David their King, 
 “ and joining themselves to the Lord in 
 a perpetual covenant.” 
 
 The final restoration of the Jews to 
 their own land is not at all problemati¬ 
 cal. When they were yet in the loins 
 of Abraham their increase was pre¬ 
 dicted, and they did become a multi¬ 
 tude. When they were united under 
 Princes of the house of David, their 
 dispersion was foretold, and they have 
 been scattered. When the people and 
 the rulers rejected the Messiah their 
 conversion was promised; and it shall 
 be accomplished ; for he that promised 
 is also able to perform. In every con¬ 
 dition, and for the space of fifteen hun¬ 
 dred years, from Moses until John the 
 Divine, their restoration has been pros¬ 
 pectively set forth by the prophets. 
 The apostle Paul amidst the fury of their 
 infidelity spake in terms, not to be mis¬ 
 understood. “ For I would not brethren, 
 that ye should be ignorant of this mys¬ 
 tery, that blindness in part is happened 
 to Israel, until the fulness of the Gen¬ 
 tiles be come in. And so all Israel shall 
 be saved.” 
 
 At the close of the Jewish monarchy ; 
 on the captivity of the profane and in¬ 
 fatuated Zedekiah, the tributary King, 
 the last of the house of David that 
 reigned in Jerusalem, the prophets an¬ 
 nounced, that after a long dispersion, 
 and subsequently to the appearance of 
 the Redeemer on the earth, the seed of 
 Jacob should be restored to the cove¬ 
 nant and be happy and powerful in 
 their covenanted land. “ Thus saith 
 the Lord God, Behold, I will take the 
 children of Israel from among (he 
 
 heathen whither they be gone, and will 
 gather them on every side and bring 
 them into their own land: and my 
 servant David shall be their Prince for 
 ever. Moreover I will make a cove¬ 
 nant of peace with them—an everlasting 
 covenant; and the heathen shall know 
 that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when 
 my sanctuary shall be in the midst of 
 them for ever more.” 
 
 Few, indeed, of the modern Jews 
 have an opportunity of reading Ezekiel 
 and the rest of their own acknowledged 
 prophets. Otherwise greater fruits 
 might be expected from their use of 
 the Scriptures. Their teachers neither 
 read the prophets in public, nor expound 
 them in sermons to the people. Very 
 few have access in private to an entire 
 copy of the Old Testament; and many 
 even of their synagogues content them¬ 
 selves with a copy containing only 
 Moses and the Psalms. Yet there is a 
 shaking of the dry bones. These bones 
 shall live. The sinews and the flesh, 
 and the skin shall come upon them. 
 The breath shall be in them, and they 
 shall stand upon their feet, an exceed¬ 
 ing great army—the whole house of 
 Israel. ‘ I (he Lord have spoken it.’ ” 
 
 Let us then, fellow-citizens, co-ope¬ 
 rate with our God in this spiritual re¬ 
 surrection. Let us impart of our goods 
 and our prayers for the purpose. As 
 fellow virgins of the daughter of Zion, 
 let all the Churches of the nations, 
 while endeavouring to extend their 
 own particular welfare and usefulness, 
 unite in exertions to bring the oldest 
 daughter of the King in raiment of 
 wrought gold and needle work to the 
 palace, into which they shall enter, with 
 rejoicing. 
 
 When Josiah, the last pious king, the 
 last real sovereign of the house of Ju¬ 
 dah, fell at Megiddo, the beauty of 
 Israel departed, and the land was left 
 in mourning. For upwards of two 
 thousand three hundred years, they 
 have now been looking for the Son of 
 David to resume the government and 
 
14 
 
 AiilEElCAN SOCIETY, 
 
 raise them up among the nations. Thus, 
 it was foretold. The time is at hand. The 
 sixth vial is poured out. The conster¬ 
 nation of unbelieving nations will speed¬ 
 ily follow, and “ in that day shall there 
 be a great mourning in Jerusalem,” 
 preparatory to the triumphs of the 
 Israelitish restoration, “ as the mourning 
 ©f Hadadrimraon in the valley of Me- 
 geddon. At evening time it shall be 
 
 light. Living waters shall go out from 
 Jerusalem, there shall be no more de¬ 
 struction, and the Lord shall be king 
 over all the earth.” 
 
 By order of the Committee, 
 ALEXANDER McLEOD. 
 
 Donations for the American Society, 
 for meliorating the condition of the 
 Jews, will be received by any of the 
 officers. 
 

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