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 only ours, because His, Every worker in.soul-winning 
 
 should bear in mind that the work is the Lord’s; and 
 
 that we do not do God’s work for Him, but that He does 
 His work in and through us. Itis necessary that the instrument 
 be absolutely. surrendered to the will of the Divine Worker. 
 There must be prompt, cheerful, unquestioning obedience to 
 the clearly ascertained will of Him we call, Master and Lord. 
 The Christian is not his own, he is the property of Another, 
 and can honestly dispose of what he is and has, only accord- 
 ing to the Owner’s pleasure. If we allow the Lord to do what 
 He pleases with us and by us, we shall get the greatest bless- 
 ing, and He will get the greatest glory; and He will bear. all 
 
 Wee work of Jewish conversion is God’s work, not ours ; 
 
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 the expenses of His own work. Ifa master send a servant 
 to a shop for a shilling’s worth of anything, he will make 
 himself responsible for the shilling; and shall it be thought 
 for a moment that God will not pay for all work He ac- 
 knowledges as His? Assuredly He will. But if the servant 
 should go to a shop without the master’s order, it 1s no 
 surprise that he goes without the master’s shilling. Is there 
 no work called God’s work that is not His but only ours? 
 Are there no worldly, and even sinful modes adopted in 
 getting money for work professedly God’s, and from which 
 a Holy God is obliged to withhold His blessing? Where 
 there is life there is growth, and the growing needs of the 
 Lord’s work will be provided for by the Lord of the work. 
 
 All doctrinal, practical, and experimental religion, to be 
 worth anything, must be based on the Holy Scriptures. 
 The doctrines we believe must be taught in the Book. 
 The work we do must be commanded in the Book. The 
 experience we attain to must be warranted by the Book. 
 The Book from the Lord of the Book must be everything 
 to us. Let us then glance at God’s Word as the warrant 
 for God’s work among the Jews. 
 
 ‘‘ Preach the Gospel to every creature.”’ The Jew must 
 have the Gospel preached to him, ‘“‘whether he will hear 
 or whether he will forbear,” unless we dare to be knowingly 
 disloyal to our Lord. Some say, “ Yes, that is all very well, 
 but the Jews won’t listen, they are so hard, so blind, it 
 seems no use preaching to them.’’ God says, ‘There is no 
 difference between the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord 
 over all is rich unto all that call upon Him; for whosoever 
 shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Rom. 
 x. 12, 13). God says, absolutely, ‘‘ There is no difference.” 
 The Christian Church has made a difference and is reaping 
 the result. A very practical lesson immediately follows :— 
 ‘* How shall they call on Him in Whom they have not 
 believed ; and how shall they believe in Him of Whom they 
 have not heard ; and how shall they hear without a preacher ; 
 and bow shall they preach except they be sent ?’’ The Church 
 must send men to preach to Jew and Gentile ; that Jew and 
 
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 Gentile may hear; that hearing, they may believe ; and that 
 believing, they may call upon, or confess the name of the 
 Lord to salvation. There is, with God, no difference. Further, 
 the Gospel was to be preached ‘‘ to the Jew first’ and then 
 to the Gentile. If we accompany Paul in all his journeys 
 we shall find he never entered town or city but he sought 
 out the synagogue and preached the Gospel first to the Jews, 
 although he gloried in being the apostle to the Gentiles. 
 In precept we have apostolic doctrine—“ first to the Jew,” 
 and in practice we have apostolic precedent—‘ first to the 
 Jew.” Paul preached and practised this Divine order. Why 
 should not we do the same? 
 
 There is much to encourage the observance of this order. 
 The Jews are in all lands, have access to all people, are 
 familiar with all languages, are acclimatised to all countries. 
 They believe three-fourths of our Bible; they are waiting 
 for a Messiah; they believe in the one true God. Hence 
 how much there is to encourage effort for their conversion— 
 loving, prayerful effort, that would redress the wrongs of 
 ages, show gratitude for the priceless blessings received 
 through them, and secure in them glorious auxiliaries in 
 spreading the Gospel throughout the world! 
 
 The Jews have made, by Divine grace, illustrious men of 
 God. One Old Testament convert said, ‘‘ I will speak of 
 Thy testimonies also before kings and will not be ashamed.” 
 This was not-idle boasting, for on another occasion the same 
 Jew said, ‘‘ With my lips have I declared all the judgments 
 of Thy mouth.” 
 
 .We have not only Scripture warrant, but much to encour- 
 age work for the Lord amongst. the Jews. 
 
 Some think that this work is very discouraging, if not 
 hopeless. But is there no connection between the hostility 
 of the Jews to Christ and the cruel treatment they have 
 received for ages from so-called Christians? All the 
 Christianity the Jews have seen for ages has been idolatry ; 
 and all. they have felt has been cruelty. No wonder they 
 have been prejudiced. After centuries of cruelty; with its 
 natural results, and which has not yet ceased, we have had 
 
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 a few years of kindness shown to a very limited extent, but 
 yet with most encouraging results. 
 
 Many thousands of Jews now believe in and confess 
 Christ. Hundreds preach His Gospel. . 
 
 Tens of thousands of Jews are now reading the New 
 Testament, and are becoming better acquainted with its 
 contents than are many Gentiles. True, they may not 
 always read it from the purest of motives; some, however, 
 have been converted while reading it only to oppose its claim 
 to Divine authenticity. 
 
 A few years ago, blasphemy of Christ and of His mission 
 was largely prevalent among the Jews; now they are speak- 
 ing and writing in the most respectful terms of Jesus of 
 Nazareth. 
 
 A distinguished Jew has spoken and published the follow- 
 ing beautiful and eloquent sentiments :— 
 
 “Tt has been said, and with some commendations on 
 what was called my liberality, that I did not in this discourse, 
 on its first delivery, term Jesus of Nazareth an impostor— 
 I have never considered Him such. The impostor generally 
 aims at temporal power; attempts to subsidise the rich and 
 weak believer, and draws around him followers of influence 
 whom he can control. Jesus was free from fanaticism: His 
 was a quiet, subdued, retiring faith; He mingled with the 
 poor, communed with the wretched, avoided the rich and 
 rebuked the vain-glorious. In the calm of the evening He 
 sought shelter in the secluded groves of Olivet, or wandered 
 pensively on the shores of Galilee. He sincerely believed in 
 His mission. He courted no one, flattered no one. In His 
 political denunciations He was pointed and severe ; in His 
 religion calm and subdued. These are not characteristics 
 of an impostor; but, admitting that we give a different 
 interpretation to His mission, when 150,000,000 believe in 
 His Divinity and we see around us abundant evidences of 
 the happiness, good faith, mild government and liberal feel- 
 ings which spring from bis religion, what right has anyone 
 to call Him an impostor? That religion which is calculated 
 to make mankind great and happy cannot be a false one.” 
 
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 Another Jew, a distinguished Rabbi, speaking of Jesus of 
 Nazareth, says :—‘' We are far from reviling His character or 
 deriding His precepts, which are indeed, for the most part, 
 the precepts of Moses and the prophets. You have heard 
 me style Him the ‘ Great Teacher of Nazareth,’ for that 
 designation I and the Jews take to be His due. No enlight- 
 ened Jew can or will deny that the doctrines taught in His 
 name have been the means of reclaiming the most important 
 portions of the civilised world from gross idolatry, and of 
 making the revealed Word of God known to nations of whose 
 very existence the men who sentenced Him were ignorant.” 
 
 Sympathy manifested by Christians with the suffering 
 Jews in Russia, and with Russian Jews in England, has had 
 a wonderful effect on Jewish minds and hearts, and induced 
 numbers to listen to the Gospel. 
 
 But now let us speak of the Mildmay Mission to the Jews. 
 There are other missions to the Jews, as The London 
 Society ; British Society ; Presbyterian Societies of England, 
 of Scotland and of Ireland: smaller societies in England, 
 Germany, France, Sweden, Sydney, and in the United States 
 of America. This Mildmay Mission is a Mission nota Society. 
 It has no committee or travelling secretaries. It does not 
 advertise for funds. Its agents simply testify to the Jews 
 that Jesus is the Christ, in obedience to Him we call Lord, 
 looking to the Lord to move the hearts of His people to send 
 in voluntary offerings all the money needed to carry on the 
 Lord’s work. Let me give the reader a little personal history, 
 and then a history of the origin and growth of this Mission. 
 
 Personal. 
 
 I was awakened to a sense of my danger and need of 
 salvation in the year 1838, but did not definitely trust in 
 Christ till 1839. I united with others in carrying on cottage 
 prayer meetings; was called to engage in lay preaching, and 
 invited to devote myself to the Christian Ministry. To this 
 last request I gave a decided No, under a deep sense of un- 
 
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 fitness. But I continually told the Lord that I would do 
 anything, or go anywhere, at His plain call. In 1851, a 
 friend in conversation incidentally mentioned a Mission 
 to the Jews, and asked my thoughts about it. I simply 
 replied, I knew nothing about the Jews, but would gladly 
 go if God called, for I like difficulties when grace is promised 
 to overcome them, for facing and overcoming difficulties 
 gives strength to character, and the Jewish field must be 
 one of the most difficult. I parted from my friend intending 
 to think no further about the topic of our conversation. 
 The impression followed, which deepened day by day, ‘‘ That's 
 your sphere.” I prayed much about it, but had no peace till 
 I offered myself and was accepted as a missionary student 
 by a Jewish Missionary Society. My three years’ course of 
 study in Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, Greek, Latin, Logic, and 
 Theology, together with my subsequent service in Israel’s 
 cause, have tended to confirm the above impression, 
 “ That’s your sphere.” After twenty-five years’ ‘connection 
 with the Society, preaching Christ to Jews, and truth about 
 the Jews to Christians of all evangelical denominations, 
 travelling 10,000 miles a year during 22 years, 1 began to 
 feel that much more ought to be done than was done, in 
 direct evangelistic work among the Jews. Not permitted 
 to carry out the plans I proposed, the Lord appeared to be 
 calling me to greater freedom of action, and to more simple 
 and direct dependence on, Him, both, for the needs of the 
 work and for personal support. Such a Mission depending 
 directly on the Lord, would furnish a powerful argument 
 to the minds of Christians in favour of the work being God’s 
 work, and would bring down blessing from God on the Jews 
 themselves. 
 
 In 1876, I voluntarily gave up a salary of £350 a year and 
 threw myself and the new Mission on God for support. I 
 had frequently urged upon the late Rev. William Penne- 
 father the importance of a Mission to the Jews in connection 
 with the Conference Hall, telling him I believed the Lord 
 would send unsolicited £1,000 a year for. such a Mission. 
 His reply was always to this effect, ‘‘ Yes, I will gladly have 
 
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 a Jewish Mission if you will come and conduct it.” This. 
 dear servant of God was taken home before I saw my way 
 to take the step suggested. On the first day of June, 1876, 
 this Mildmay Mission to the Jews was instituted, linked to 
 the Conference Hall, and I was lovingly welcomed by Mrs. 
 Pennefather, and by Captain the Hon. R. Moreton, as its 
 Missionary and Director. My personal needs were kindly 
 guaranteed by private friends for a period of three years, so 
 that I could not conscientiously take a salary for that period. 
 We asked the Lord definitely for £1,000 a year for three 
 years, and then waited on Him for further guidance as to 
 whether we should continue the Mission or abandon it. 
 
 It may be asked, What led you to commence this Mission 
 at this time ? 
 
 Origin and Object. 
 
 During the Autumn of 1875, from notices in the papers, 
 I.saw the war-cloud arising between Russia and Turkey, 
 and the Hastern question coming up again, which would 
 bring nearer and nearer the restoration of the Jews to 
 Palestine and the return of our Lord. The fact came home 
 to my mind. with heavy pressure—there are 80,000 * Jews 
 in Great Britain, about 40,000 in London, and 40,000 in 
 Provincial towns and cities, but little is done to reach them 
 with the Gospel. . Much is done in preaching about the Jews 
 among Christians, with a view to collections and subscrip- 
 tions, but little done amongst the Jews themselves to lead 
 them to Christ. What if Jews should soon leave us for 
 Palestine, or our Lord return for His waiting ones, would 
 there be no blood-guiltiness attaching to the conduct of 
 Christians in our own land ? 
 
 - The simple object of the Mission at the first was, as far 
 as possible, to preach Christ to all the Jews of Great Britain 
 
 
 
 
 
 * They have now, 1896, increased to'150,000 ~ 100,000 in London and 
 - 50,000 in the Provinces, etc. 
 
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 and Ireland, before the Jews. leave us for Palestine, or the 
 Lord returns for His people. 
 
 A printed circular was issued on the first of June, 1876, 
 setting forth the way in which we proposed to mission the 
 Jews in London, and by an intinerant Mission to mission 
 the Jews in the towns and cities of England, Scotland, 
 Ireland, and Wales. Our principle in money matters has 
 always been —ask the Lord and tell His people. The Lord 
 sent tous the sum of £1,000 a year during our first three 
 years. The £1,000 in 365 days of the first year; the £1,000 
 in 3865 days of the second year; and the £1,000 in 363 days 
 the third year. On the 364th day of the first we were 
 between £9 and £10 short of the £1,000. Noone was asked to 
 make up the £1,000, the matter was left altogether in the 
 Lord’s hands. On the 364th day of the second year we 
 were about £25 short of the £1,000. On the last day of the 
 first year a cheque came in for £25; and on the last day of 
 the second year there came a cheque tothe value of £30. 
 The work growing and our needs increasing, we asked the 
 Lord for £2,000 during our fourth year, and one day before 
 the year closed the £2,000 were in. The promise by friends 
 to supply personal needs for three years was kindly fulfilled, 
 after which new arrangements were made. 
 
 I felt the difficulty of appointing my own salary from the 
 Mission fund; so put the matter entirely into the Lord’s 
 hands, telling Him that if He would Himself supply my 
 personal needs I would take no salary from any quarter. 
 I praise God, He has granted my desire and honoured my 
 trust, for although I have no private means, and have no 
 rich friends pledged to give me one penny, and have never 
 written a letter to ask for help, God has graciously moved 
 the hearts of His people voluntarily to supply my need to 
 this day, and has sometimes given me the luxury of giving 
 pack to Him the “ running over.” 
 
 Indeed, we cultivate the habit of speaking to the Lord 
 about every detail of the work. We not only ask Him for 
 money, but also for workers; and although at first I thought 
 only of another missionary besides myself, and perhaps 
 
 
 
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 a Bible woman to work among Jewesses, the Lord has 
 given us about 60 workers—male and female—sent from 
 almost every evangelical denomination. About one-third 
 of these workers are able and willing to give their services 
 gratuitously. 
 
 Let me digress for a few minutes to give two or three facts 
 which God used as stepping stones towards a life of absolute 
 dependence on Him for the supply of all the needs of His 
 work and His workers. 
 
 Over 25 years agoa JewI metin the Midland counties, 
 after much prayer and effort was brought to confess Christ. 
 His wife opposed him and threatened to leave him: I visited 
 and prayed with her again and again, and she confessed 
 Christ also, and I baptized husband, wife, and children. He 
 seemed to possess the missionary spirit, for he won another 
 Jew to Christ before his own baptism. I commended him 
 to a secretary for mission work. His reply was, ‘‘ We have 
 no means, and besides, he ought to go to college for further 
 education and discipline.’”” My mind was much exercised 
 about the case. My wife and I agreed to ask the Lord for 
 £50 and I would then send the man to college, and trust 
 the Lord for all further expense needed. A friend, unknown 
 before, having heard of this case, called on me and said, 
 ‘IT have it on my heart to aid you with this case; how 
 much shallI give you?” ‘Excuse me,I shall name no 
 sum, but will leave it with the Lord.” He took out his 
 cheque book at once and wrote a cheque for £50 saying, 
 ‘*Is that of any use to you?’ I burst into tears of gratitude 
 to God; it was just the amount asked of the Lord. That 
 case in college and other expenses cost me over £300, but 
 the Lord sent it all, and a little over. The balance I gave 
 to the man, saying, ‘‘Get your wife anew dress and your 
 children boots.” This man afterwards told me that he had 
 won for Christ seventy-five Gentile souls in three years. 
 
 The next thing in which the Lord signally answered 
 
 rayer, was in the matter of a Home for Aged Christian 
 ews. Some of these dear old folks between 70 and 80 years 
 of age used to call at my house for relief. Considering that 
 
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 we got our Bible and our Saviour from them, it seemed 
 ungrateful and unkind to let them goto the workhouse. 
 Having failed to interest a committee, I went to see dear 
 Mr. Pennefather and told him I wanted him to kneel with 
 me and ask the Lord for £500 for a Cottage Home for Aged 
 Christian Jews. We agreed, and knelt and prayed together. 
 He arose from his knees and wrote the first cheque. This 
 was on the 27th of November, 1872.' The £500 were sent 
 in, the cottage bought and furnished, and soon occupied. 
 I believed the Lord would smile upon the work though men 
 discouraged. He seemed to say to me, ‘‘Cannot you take 
 your orders from Me and lean on Me?” Take your instruc- 
 tions from head-quarters. 
 
 On Messrs. Moody and Sankey’s visit to London, many 
 years ago, I made an effort to arrange for one meeting a 
 month for Jews in the north, east, south, and west of London, 
 proposing myself to read the 53rd of Isaiah in Hebrew, 
 Mr. Moody to preach in English. In this effort I failed. 
 I went to Great Marlborough Street, whence papers were 
 to be distributed from house to house, and said, ‘‘ Will you 
 have some Hebrew leaflets to distribute among the Jews?” 
 The reply was, ‘No, we cannot have sectional work.’ 
 ‘‘ But, your work is sectional already, for Jews will not 
 receive your papers, but will pass them on to their Christian 
 neighbours ; but if you have leaflets in Hebrew they cannot 
 well refuse them. «I will make you a present of a few 
 thousands.”’ These were accepted, and I sent 5,000, and 
 had other 10,000 distributed by volunteer ladies and gentle- 
 men on two successive Saturdays along the: streets of 
 London. The leaflet was just this—‘‘ Salvation for you,”’ 
 and a verse or two from the 58rd of Isaiah, in Hebrew, 
 German and English, and an invitation to hear Mr. Moody 
 speak and Mr. Sankey sing the Gospel of Christ. I wrote 
 a letter to the Christian inviting lady and gentlemen 
 volunteers to assist in distributing all over London. About 
 forty met me at the Conference Hall, Mildmay, and we went 
 forth, two and two, on two Saturdays in succession. I found 
 letters coming to me, saying: ‘You are ‘doing a blessed 
 
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 work among the Jews, we should like to help you.” When 
 Icame to add up the contributions sent in for this work 
 exclusively, I found the sum to be the exact amount of the 
 printer’s bill for these 15,000 leaflets. Get your work from 
 your Master alone on your knees: be sure it is His work, 
 and yours because His, and needed funds will come in. 
 
 These facts awakened thought in my own mind as to 
 whether the worker with God and for God should not take 
 his work direct from his Lord, and do it direct to his Lord, 
 untrammelled by men, who, in many cases, have neither 
 knowledge of the work nora heart-interest in it. None of 
 the three efforts above stated had the slightest sympathy 
 from the Committee—indeed the first was very strongly 
 opposed—until they, by the Lord’s blessing, proved a 
 success, and were then acknowledged as of God. 
 
 To return to our narrative. We began our work in the 
 open-air on Sunday mornings in the Hast End of London, 
 by reading the 58rd chapter of Isaiah in Hebrew, and 
 preaching Christ. Crowds of excited and angry Jews 
 gathered about us and opposed, We took shelter in a 
 place of worship till the police dispersed the crowd, then 
 we went and preached in another part, and by and bye 
 found ourselves in Wellclose Square. A converted Jewess 
 came out of her house and invited us in, to converse 
 with Jews indoors. We accepted, and went again week 
 after week, until we settled down and engaged the room 
 for regular Mission Work. We had two rooms thrown 
 into one, then took also a back room for a Night School for 
 Jewish children. We began meetings on Saturday after- 
 noons from three to five o’clock, opened with silent prayer, 
 a short prayer-meeting having previously been held for 
 power in testimony. We read a chapter in Hebrew, in Ger- 
 man and in English, and then showed from the Scriptures 
 that Jesus is the Christ. Questions were answered, diffi- 
 culties met, opposition and blasphemy silenced, and many 
 souls in those rooms have confessed their faith in Christ. 
 We opened another room in Bethnal Green, and had similar 
 work going on at the same hour. 
 
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 Sewing Class for Jewesses. 
 
 We soon found that Jewesses could not be reached by 
 male agency, so we asked the Lord for a Bible-woman. We 
 learned from our dear friend, the late Mrs. Way, how to 
 reach the Jewesses, This led to the institution of a weekly 
 Sewing Class, with a provident fund attached, and to the 
 employment of ladies in various branches of the work. The 
 Jewesses were poor, ignorant and superstitious, and at first 
 it was difficult to get any to come. We worked and prayed 
 for 25, and got them. Then for 50, and got them. Then 
 for 75, and then for 100. The rooms at Wellclose Square, 
 including the back room, will hold when packed 120. We 
 have had this number and over, again and again, with some- 
 times 10 to 20 more outside.* They are wonderfully im- 
 proved; they hear Gospel addresses, sing Gospel hymns, and 
 many have acknowledged their faith in Jesus as the Messiah, 
 and some secretly trust in Him as Saviour. The rooms were 
 used as Reading Rooms for Jews on some afternoons and 
 evenings. Prayer meetings, Bible readings, preachings on 
 Sunday evenings, and inquirers and converts meetings were 
 also held at Wellclose Square. 
 
 Night School for Jewish Children. 
 
 The next thing we did was to open a Night School for 
 Jewish Children. The first night 31 came. We taught 
 them to sing ‘‘ Hold the Fort,” then I asked, ‘“‘ Would you 
 like to sing another?’’ And they sang “Safe in the arms of 
 Jesus.” ‘ Now,’ I said, ‘‘I have 36 new hymn books, if you 
 can say or sing these two bymns to-morrow, you shall each 
 have one of these books as your own, with your name written 
 on it.” The books were all cleared out on the following 
 evening. These children are from the homes of the very 
 poor. Our Medical Missionary one day found a family of 
 
 
 
 * The number now is over 300 weekly. 
 
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 eight—father, mother, and six hungry children, dining 
 contentedly off a dinner that cost only fourpence, consisting 
 of rice and dripping. In these poor homes when the father 
 returns at night, weary, he asks the children, ‘‘ Rachel, can’t 
 you sing?’’ ‘* Yes, I can sing ‘ Life fora Look.’” ‘ Ben, 
 what can you sing?” “TI can sing ‘Come to the Saviour.” 
 ‘Well, sing then.” The parents remark to each other, ‘ If 
 we let these children sing like this, they will sing us into 
 Christians.” 
 
 Our number now on the books is 220 boys and girls.* 
 The School is conducted four nights a week by Christian 
 ladies, who teach and sing the Gospel. Many of these dear 
 Jewish children have learned to love Jesus and to sing His 
 praise. The School was opened in December, 1876, 
 
 Medical Mission. 
 
 When, about 1872 or 1873, I mentioned at the Annual 
 Mildmay Conference that I desired a Home for Aged 
 Christian Jews, before referred to, a doctor wrote to me 
 offering his services as Medical Attendant, gratuitously. 
 As soon as the Home was opened, these services were 
 gratefully accepted, and cheerfully given for some years. 
 
 In the month of August, 1877, while in Lincolnshire, 
 holding services in my native village, I received a letter 
 from the same doctor, with the request, “Will you and 
 your wife join me and my wife in prayer that the Lord 
 would direct me as to my future? I have had it laid on 
 my heart to become a Medical Missionary.”’ My reply 
 was, ‘Yes, we will, and if the Lord should honour me 
 by allowing me to establish a Medical Mission in the 
 interest of His people Israel, and that you should be the 
 first Medical Missionary, we will rejoice together.”” On 
 my return to London we met and had prayer together, 
 asking the-Lord for £500 as a token that we were on 
 the line of His will. Soon £300 were sent in. Then we 
 
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 had special prayer at Mildmay for the £200 more, A few 
 weeks later, I had to address a meeting in the suburbs of 
 London. While praying in my study for blessing on the 
 meeting, it was laid on my heart that there might be some 
 present at the meeting able to give the £200, and I prayed 
 accordingly. 
 
 There was no collection, no freewill offerings at the door, 
 but the announcement was made, that if anyone would like 
 to give anything, they might communicate with Mildmay. 
 My wife and I hastened to the station, but lost the train by 
 half a minute. Two ladies waited with us for the next half- 
 hour train, and remarked, ‘‘ We have been much interested 
 in your desire for a Medical Mission, it is so Christ-like; our 
 Lord was .a Medical Missionary. You must have it. ._How 
 much do you need?” ‘*£500.”" ‘‘ How much have you ? ” 
 ‘¢ £300.” “* We will give you the rest. Our blessed Lord is 
 coming back again, and perhaps soon, and He must not find 
 us too heavily weighted with gold when He comes.’’ A short 
 while after, a cheque for £200 was put into my hands with 
 these words :—‘‘ Our love-token to our Lord Jesus.” 
 
 One of these dear ladies has since gone in to see the King, 
 the other remains behind. 
 
 Subsequently to my receiving the letter above referred to 
 from the doctor, I received another from a qualified Dis- 
 penser, offering gratuitously his services as Dispenser at the 
 Medical Mission, till we could get the services of a younger 
 man. We thanked the Lord for this offer, and although 
 nearly two years elapsed before we opened the Medical 
 Mission, we had. this kind and aged friend’s services for 
 several years, until advanced age and increasing infirmities 
 obliged him to relinquish his loved work. He has since been 
 called home. 
 
 This Medical Mission, opened in Hooper Square, Leman 
 Street, in January, 1880, has grown wonderfully. Though 
 all know the Gospel will be preached to them, yet they come 
 in crowds, taxing heavily the time and strength of two 
 Medical Missionaries, Dispensers, and trained Deaconesses 
 who assist them. 
 
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 Other Christian ladies render efficient aid by singing the 
 Gospel to the patients while waiting to see the doctors. 
 
 Railway necessities obliged us to change our Medical 
 Mission premises in 1884; and on the 18th of June of that 
 year we had our dedicatory service at our new rooms in 
 Cannon Place, Whitechapel; and on the 9th of September, 
 1887, we removed to more commodious premises in Aldgate. 
 
 On the 2nd of November, 1892, we dedicated our New 
 Central Hall, Philpot Street, E., where our Medical Mission 
 is now carried on with increasing numbers and blessing. 
 
 Dr. Dixon our Senior Medical Missionary, has been with 
 us from the first day of the Medical Mission. We have had 
 also valuable help from Dr. Marshall, who had part private 
 practice. Now we have a second Medical Missionary, Dr. 
 Roberts, wholly given up to the work; and the services, for 
 a part of each day of a third Doctor. We have also one 
 trained Deaconess, and other lady helpers. The Medical 
 Mission has brought to the surface an amazing amount of 
 real and deep poverty and consequent sickness, but it has 
 opened hundreds, nay, thousands of doors and ears to the 
 Gospel message, and many have received the message to 
 the salvation of their souls. 
 
 Though we never ask anyone to be baptised, we have 
 baptised nearly two hundred since the commencement of the 
 Mission. Many beyond these have given evidence of conver- 
 sion ; and several, whom we kept waiting longer than they 
 wished, went and got baptised elsewhere. It is baptism that 
 cuts off a Jew from His people, not faith in Christ. Baptism 
 is thus wisely delayed, in many cases, that the convert may 
 possibly win his relatives to Christ. 
 
 Itinerant Mission. 
 
 This is a most important branch of the work ; and during 
 the existence of this Mission its Missionaries have visited 
 the Jews in nearly every city, town, and village where Jews 
 axe located in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Some 
 
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 of the places have been visited twice, and some three times 
 over. 
 
 In our Itinerant Mission we carry with us the 53rd of 
 Isaiah, in large Hebrew characters, place it in the windows of 
 our lodgings, which soon draws the attention of all the Jews 
 in a town, and our rooms have often been crowded till eleven 
 o’clock at night. 
 
 After our visit to Hull, three young Jews followed us to 
 London to give up all for Christ, and were afterwards bap- 
 tised. Five of our Missionary Staff I baptised at the 
 Conference Hall. A young Jew in Grimsby professed to 
 trust in Jesus during our visit. Another, who was passing 
 through Sunderland during our stay, professed to accept 
 Christ in our lodgings. Another accompanied our Mission- 
 ary from Liverpool and gave a clear testimony to his trust 
 in Jesus, and preached Christ to his Jewish brethren at 
 our Mission Room. ‘Two others have been baptised in 
 Glasgow, one by Dr. Andrew Bonar, and the other by myself. 
 Others are asking for baptism. O! for a mighty outpouring 
 of the Holy Spirit on Israel, that hundreds and thousands 
 may flock to Jesus! 
 
 The Lord. has graciously manifested His approval of this 
 itinerant work in direct conversions, and also in other ways 
  —for instance: we sent two Missionaries to Scotland to 
 preach Christ to the Jews, and gave them £20, saying, 
 ‘‘Spend it economically, and if you want more send to 
 me, but do not ask anybody else.” I told them to seek out 
 a godly cabman, P. J., who had written to me expressing 
 interest in the Jews. On arriving in Edinburgh, they left 
 their luggage at the station till they found lodgings. P. J. 
 first found them, and informed them that they had taken 
 rooms in which prayer had been offered for about two years 
 that God would send Missionaries to the Jews in Edinburgh. 
 When they left, the lady of the house would not charge for 
 the lodgings. 
 
 The morning on which our brethren left Edinburgh for 
 Glasgow, a merchant in the latter city sent me a letter to 
 London, stating in substance, “I hear you are sending 
 
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 Missionaries to the Jews in Glasgow; this will be attended 
 with expense, will you accept the enclosed bank notes, value 
 £20?” This was the exact amount of the cheque! As 
 further expense was incurred, further contributions flowed 
 in. Indeed, we seemed to have nothing to do but to pray 
 and praise, and then praise and pray. 
 
 Our Itinerant Mission is now supplemented by our Mission 
 Band, which God has marvellously blessed to both Jews and 
 Gentiles in several towns. 
 
 Convalescent Home. 
 
 The growing work and increasing usefulness of the Medical 
 Mission suggested to the mind of Dr. Dixon the desirability of 
 a Convalescent Home, where, shut out from Jewish influence, 
 and shut in to Christian influence, many a son of Abraham 
 might find health for his body and salvation for his soul. 
 We took the matter to the Lord in prayer and He graciously 
 answered, 
 
 One Saturday evening in October, 1882, after preaching 
 to the Jews in the Kast Knd, I called upon a delicate lady 
 in Mildmay and prayed with her, and she quietly put into 
 my hand an envelope which contained a cheque value £500. 
 During the next month, a lady who was present at an 
 address I gave at the house of a nobleman in the country, 
 wrote a letter to the Countess expressing a desire to give 
 £1,000. The Countess sent the letter to my bedroom, and I 
 knelt to praise God with the letter in my hand. Some 
 property was afterwards sold by this lady, which realized 
 £1,166 6s. 7d., and a cheque to this amount was sent to me 
 for our Convalescent Home. We purchased and furnished 
 a leasehold property in Langdon Park Road, Highgate ; 
 which was dedicated to the Lord by praise and prayer on 
 the 5th of February, 1884. The first Jew who entered the 
 Home was brought to Christ, and many a soul has since 
 then received the Lord Jesus Christ as Messiah and Sayiour. 
 
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 Home for Inquirers. 
 
 In the growth and:development of the work, it was soon 
 felt that a Home for Inquirers, having no trade, or thrown 
 out of employment because of their attending our Mission 
 Services, would be a most useful institution ; keeping the 
 inquirer near us until he found Christ, and in the meantime 
 helping him, if possible, to some suitable employment in 
 this land, or by emigration to some work in another land. 
 
 We brought the matter before the Lord in prayer for guid- 
 ance. We thought first of a shoe-making business, then of 
 @ carpenter’s business, and at last decided on a printing 
 business, in which, during enquiry, the inquirer might learn 
 a trade, by which he might, after three years’ instruction, 
 earn his own living. The Lord graciously answered prayer, 
 provided us with the necessary means and guided us toa 
 suitable site on Newington Green, and our Printing House 
 and Inquirers’ Home was dedicated to the Lord by praise 
 and prayer on the 7th of November, 1882. An interesting 
 incident may be mentioned here to the praise of God. The 
 night before the dedication of this Institution, I was in my 
 study at nine o'clock asking the Lord to guide me to a suit- 
 able portion of His Word to be read at the meeting the next 
 afsernoon. My mind was directed to the 29th chapter of 
 1st Chronicles, noticing specially, ‘‘Who then is willing to 
 fiil his hand this day for Jehovah?’’ in verse 5; and ‘ From 
 Thine own hand we have given Thee,’’ in verse 14. I closed. 
 the book and went down to supper. I was called from the 
 table about ten o’clock that night to see a working man who 
 wished to speak to me. I asked him in; he threw his old 
 cap on the fioor and said, ‘‘I understand you are going to 
 dedicate to the Lord to-morrow your Home for inquiring 
 Jews, I cannot be with you except in spirit, for my time is 
 not my own, but I have brought you an offering.” He then 
 filled his hand for the Lord with 35 new bright sovereigns— 
 every one George and Dragon—and laid them on my table. 
 T° said, ‘* Let us kneel down and praise the Lord together, 
 you pray first.” He simply said ‘‘ Lord, of Thine own have 
 
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 I given Thee, please accept this in the name of Christ. 
 Thanks be unto Thee for Thine unspeakable gift.’”” This 
 was great encouragement to consult God about the choice 
 of a chapter to be read in His public service. Five young 
 Jews confessed Christ in this Institution during its first 
 year, and many others since. Many who have had the 
 benefits of this Institution are now earning their own liveli- 
 hood. The Printing business has been given up, and our 
 Workshop at the East End has taken its place. We now 
 teach poor Jews the trades of tailoring and shoe-making, 
 and preach the Gospel to them. 
 
 Home and School for Jewish Children. 
 
 For many years poor Jews have been flocking to our 
 country from Russia, Roumania, and other countries. Some 
 have large families. They are ignorant of our language and 
 of our ways of doing business. Neither Jews nor Christians 
 will employ them. What are they to do? Many fathers 
 leave wife and children for some other country, believing that 
 somebody will look after and help them when they are 
 gone, whilst they were sure to starve as long as the father 
 remained with them. The mother struggles on to get bread 
 _ for her six or eight children, and it is a struggle- Under 
 these circumstances I often felt what a blessing it would be 
 to have a Home and School for the Christian training of 
 destitute Jewish children whether orphans or not. On the 
 22nd of April, 1883, I was preaching in Kent. Between 
 morning and eyening services I walked in the grounds and 
 sat in the summer house of my host, In that summer 
 house, with no one near but God, I found myself talking 
 to the Lord about His work amongst Israel, thanking Him 
 for allowing me to do something for His still beloved people. 
 I mentioned to the Lord these poor children, and asked Him 
 whether He had laid their interests on my heart, or was the 
 thought about them simply a hobby of my own? At once 
 the following passage was borne home to my heart. with 
 
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 great force: ‘‘Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.” 
 I meditated for a moment, and then said audibly, ‘‘ Lord, 
 this is Thine own word, I take Thee at Thy word; please 
 give me for Christ’s sake, in the interest of poor Jewish 
 children, a larger amount in one sum than’ you have ever 
 yet given me.” It was impressed on my mind to ask that. 
 it might come within twelve months. I prayed the whole 
 year for it. The 22nd of April, 1884, came round, and only 
 two or three pounds came by the morning post. I still 
 waited on God, and about eleven o’clock in the forenoon 
 a lady called and brought a note by hand from another 
 friend in the suburbs of London. The lady who called 
 with the note had just said, ‘‘ I am going to the City to-day, 
 and shall call on Mr. Wilkinson at Mildmay on my way.” 
 The friend replied, ‘‘ I wish you would kindly take a note 
 for me, it would save a penny stamp, and my servant the 
 trouble of taking it to post.” The note simply said, ‘1 
 know the Lord is guiding me, and He has laid it on my 
 heart to give you £1,350.” I was evidently guided by the 
 Lord to purchase Cromwell Lodge on Newington Green, for 
 the sum of £1,200 freehold: furnished it, and dedicated it 
 to the Lord by praise and prayer on the 20th of February, 
 1885. Dear little Jewish children have been coming in one 
 by one ever since, some with us from the commencement, 
 and others for a longer or shorter period according to the 
 circumstances or wishes of their friends. Several of these 
 lambs have been brought under the care and love of the 
 Good Shepherd. Two of them are supported by private 
 friends at the rate of £20 a year each, and another friend 
 sends half the cost of a third. 
 
 Hospital Beds. 
 
 When the Cottage Hospital was built at Mildmay we 
 desired two beds for Jews for twelve months as an experi- 
 ment. The sum of £100 was needed. One friend sent £25, 
 and we had no more sent till the time of the opening. At 
 
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 one of our Monday noon prayer meetings at Mildmay we 
 reminded the Lord that the hospital was now ready, would 
 He be pleased soon to send us the remaining £75 needed ? 
 We had the £75 promised the same evening by a friend who 
 was not at the prayer meeting, and who did not know that 
 the £75 had been prayed for that day. I was taking tea 
 that evening at Mr. Mathieson’s, in company with Mr. and 
 Mrs. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Hudson Taylor, Dr. and Mrs. 
 Burns Thompson, and others, when a friend sitting next to 
 me said quietly, ‘‘I wish to give you £50 for a bed at the 
 hospital for Jews.” I thanked the Lord and the friend, and 
 then said, ‘‘ J think the Lord intends me to have two beds.” 
 ‘‘ How much have you got?” ‘‘ With your £50, I have £25 
 over the cost of one bed, but £25 short of the cost of two.” 
 The friend replied, ‘‘I would just as soon give you £75 as 
 £50.”’ This provided two beds for one year, but we after- 
 wards found that the sick Jews preferred the hospital at 
 Bethnal Green as nearer to their homes. Our Mission pays 
 at that hospital £1 a week for adults, and half price for 
 children. It is open to any of the Lord’s stewards to provide 
 beds for the poor sick ones, at the rate of £1 a week for one 
 patient. 
 
 It must not be supposed for one moment that we have 
 had no trials, for we have had them, and sharp ones, too; 
 but our gracious Father has hitherto strengthened us to bear 
 them and then brought us safely through them, giving us 
 an ever enriching experience of His faithfulness. One 
 special instance may be given here which made a deep 
 impression on my own mind and may be encouraging to 
 other workers in different fields. At one time we had no 
 money coming in for several days, neither for the Mission 
 Fund nor for personal use. I talked the matter over with 
 my dear wife, whose suggestion was that it was a fresh call 
 to our knees. I felt the same. When such trials are ex- 
 perienced our minds are exercised to ask the Lord if there 
 is anything displeasing to Him in the conduct of the workers 
 or the work; or is it simply a trial of faith? I closed my 
 study door, fell on my knees, and with feelings too deep for 
 
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 utterance, I put the Mildmay Mission to the Jews back again 
 into the hands of the Lord, telling Him that I could go on 
 no longer unless He would shew His hand, and continue to 
 own the Mission as His by sending in supplies at once. The 
 next day a friend called and said, ‘‘ God has sent me to your 
 house, and impressed me to write a cheque for £50.” We 
 knelt and praised God together. Enclosed in the envelope 
 with the cheque, I found the following on a separate bit of 
 paper which lies on my desk asI write this: ‘‘ By orders from 
 the Courts above—£25 for the general work of the Mission 
 and £25 for yourself.” On the day following, another friend 
 drove to my door with carriage and pair, asking for an im- 
 mediate interview. On entering my study he said, ‘“‘ God 
 has sent me here to write you a cheque; give me pen and 
 ink.” He wrote a cheque value £10, and said, “ £7 for the 
 Mission Fund and £3 for your own use.” We knelt and 
 praised the Lord together. He was an ‘“ exclusive brother” 
 up to that day but not since, and the Lord has graciously 
 honoured him in winning souls. He has kindly written 
 several cheques since then; and so also has the first named 
 friend. 
 
 To this day God has frequently tried our faith, but He has 
 always been faithful and supplied our need this more than 
 twenty years. 
 
 The reguiar Mission Work, support of Missionaries, Medi- 
 cal Mission Work among Jewesses and children, Itinerant 
 Mission, Mission Band, Workshop, Boarding House, Conva- 
 lescent Home, Children’s Home ; besides the most blessed 
 but necessarily expensive work of distributing the Hebrew 
 New Testament among the Jews throughout the world, 
 needs about £10,000 a year. 
 
 New Testament Distribution. 
 
 The New Testament movement seems to us the most 
 wonderful work of God in these latter days. 
 
 We here give a brief account of the Hebrew New Testa- 
 ment movement, its origin and its progress down to date. 
 
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 Mr. Salkinson was the first Jew to translate the New 
 Testament into Hebrew. Other translations existed, in 
 many respects excellent, and faithful to the grammar and 
 lexicon, but lacking in the spirit, style, and sweet flow of 
 the Old Testament Hebrew idiom, of which Mr. Salkinson 
 was a master, and perhaps had not his equal in Europe. He 
 had, a few years before, translated the Epistle to the 
 Romans, and had also translated into beautiful Hebrew 
 poetry Milton’s ‘* Paradise Lost,” which has been highly 
 eulogised by competent critics. 
 
 This was the man, a Christian Jew, whom God raised up 
 and prompted to give as his life work to his own beloved 
 people a translation of the New Covenant into idiomatic 
 Hebrew. 
 
 When far on towards completion, Mr. Salkinson came over 
 from Vienna to London in the autumn of 1882 to make 
 arrangements for getting his work into print. He spent a 
 day with me, and begged me to help him. I urged him to 
 seek the aid of the British and Foreign Bible Society. He 
 replied, ‘I have already done so, and they refused it. “Wil- 
 kinson, can’t you help me?” 
 
 After a while I thought of the Trinitarian Bible Society, 
 the Secretary of which Society, the Rev. Dr. Bullinger, 
 Iknew well, though of the Society itself I knew little or 
 nothing. I wrote to Dr. Bullinger at Walthamstow, and 
 requested an interview. 
 
 Through an oversight, I received no reply to this request, 
 though other matters were answered.’ The matter thus 
 stood over till the 26th of December, 1882. This being a 
 holiday I walked over for a constitutional, and laid the whole 
 matter before Dr. Bullinger. His reply was, ‘““ It seems quite 
 providential, for we have just had a legacy, and have been 
 praying for guidance as to its use ; lay the matter in writing 
 before our Committee and they will probably take it up.” 
 This was done. Mr. Salkinson and the Committee came to 
 terms. Shortly after, however, and before the translation 
 was finished, dear Salkinson was called to rest. The Com- 
 mittee then secured the services of Dr. Ginsburg, a scholar 
 
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 of Kuropean reputation, and a fellow-student of mine and of 
 Salkinson’s from 1851-1853. 
 
 Dr. Ginsburg laid aside other important work and threw 
 himself heartily into the unfinished work of his old friend. 
 He edited the entire work, and conducted it through the 
 press; besides translating the last fifteen chapters of the 
 Acts of the Apostles. 
 
 The first edition of 2,000 was exhausted ina month. This 
 was issued in 1885. Scores of Jewish Missionaries expressed 
 their appreciation of the translation in loud praise. Three or 
 four Gentiles and one or two Jews criticised it unfavourably. 
 There were undoubtedly several errors, though none ofa 
 serious character. A thorough revision was called for, which 
 engaged the attention of six Hebrew scholars during the 
 latter months of 1885 and the former of 1886. 
 
 I had already acquainted myself with Rabinowitz and his 
 movement in South Russia, and had formed his personal 
 acquaintance in Berlin, where I invited him to meet me 
 in March, 1885. His conversion was effected through the 
 instrumentality of a Hebrew New Testament. It was again 
 and again pressed home to me—Why not a wide and free 
 distribution of Hebrew New Testaments amongst the Jews 
 throughout the world? 
 
 This was thought and prayed about till the matter took 
 the form of 100,000 copies of the revised edition for free 
 distribution. This number at one shilling each would cost 
 £5,000. The matter was first mentioned in public at our 
 Annual Meeting for praise and prayer, held in the Con- 
 ference Hall, Mildmay Park, on Monday, January 4th, 1886; 
 J. EH. Mathieson, Esq., presided, and the Revs. J. Denham 
 Smith, and Dr. Sinclair Paterson gave addresses. Some 
 friends thought we were going too fast, but we committed 
 ourselves to nothing, we asked only for prayer for the 
 guidance of our God in the matter. On February Ist, 
 at a drawing-room meeting in Highgate, a friend asked, 
 ‘‘ How soon do you expect light on this matter?” I replied, 
 ‘‘ During this spring.’”’? An account of the Annual Meetings, 
 including a reference to this desire for 100,000 Hebrew New 
 
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 Testaments, appeared in the February number of Service for 
 the King. This came under the eye of a gentleman who was 
 led voluntarily to give a cheque for £3,000. This came 
 on April 19th, 1886, while I lay on a sick bed at Hastings. 
 It was at the same time an answer to a prayer offered 
 for three years but without any definite object beyond 
 the general good of Israel. The same friend who gave 
 the £3,000 gave a guarantee for all that might be short of 
 the £5,000, in order that we might make better terms with 
 the printers in Vienna by ordering the 100,000 at once. 
 The Trinitarian Bible Society ordered an edigion of 110,000— 
 100,000 for our Mission, and 10,00C additional for themselves. 
 When the cheque for £3000 arrived we had already in hand from 
 other friends about £630. On the 27th of April 1886, the friend 
 who gave the £3000 on the 19th of the same mouth sent £120 
 more, which made the sum £3750. This was deposited in the 
 Bank in the joint names of Dr. Bullinger and my own until it 
 should be required. To allow the work to proceed as rapidly as 
 possible the sum of £3750 was paid over to the Trinitarian Bible 
 Society early in September 1886, which paid for the 100,000 
 copies at the rate of ninepence each. On the 9th of October 
 1886, I received the first presentation copy by post direct from 
 Vienna. ‘he friend who gave the £3000 and also the £120 
 kindly sent another cheque for £700 in April 1887. Other 
 friends had voluntarily contributed to the amount of £1180, so 
 that the £700 made up the £5000 as at first promised. The sum 
 of £1250 was appropriated to aid the distribution of these Hebrew 
 New Testaments throughout the world. 
 
 In the autumn of 1886, two of our Missionary brethren were 
 sent out by this Mission into North-East Prussia, taking one 
 side of Pomerania on their outward journey, and the other side 
 on their return. Full accounts of their arduous but blessed 
 5 Be were given in subsequent numbers of Service for the 
 
 ing. 
 
 In the spring of 1887, these same brethren were sent out to 
 Austria proper, Hungary, Bohemia and Galicia, with increasing 
 encouragement as testified by notes from their journals pub- 
 lished in Service for the King and in the Quarterly Record of the 
 
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 Trinitarian Bible Society. It was on this journey that they 
 obtained at Leipzig the names and addresses of between two 
 and three thousand Rabbis. 
 
 Our brethren were authorised to spend the sum of eighteen or 
 twenty pounds in postage, and 2237 Hebrew New Testaments 
 were sent by post to as many Jewish Rabbis. 
 
 While all this was going on abroad, and our hands pretty full 
 with growing work at home, we were earnestly praying that the 
 Lord would open Russia, where nearly 5,000,000 of Jews are 
 located, or about one-third of the Jewish population of the 
 world. Mr. Mathieson and I had a very friendly interview with 
 the Russian Ambassador, His Excellency Count Staal, who 
 advised us to put ourselves in communication with our own 
 Ambassador in St. Petersburg. The Rev. Dr. Bultinger, in the 
 meantime, sent copies of the New Testament to all the leadin 
 Censorships in the Russian Empire, and obtained permission to 
 send them into the country. Scores of initial difficulties were 
 in our way, but the Lord led us His way, and the difficulties 
 were overcome. Our Missionary, Mr. Adler, though twenty 
 years in this country, was still a Russian subject, having never 
 been released by that Government. We thought it better to 
 pay arrears and renew his Russion passport, so that he might 
 work as a Russian subject. Dr. Althausen, a Christian Jew of 
 St. Petersburg, a Russian subject, and wearing military honours, 
 ’ associated himself with Mr. Adler. His local knowledge, social 
 influence, religious character, and true sympathy, were of the 
 greatest service. Early in July 1887, Mr. Adler left London 
 for St. Petersburg, followed by hundreds of prayers for guidance 
 and blessing.. Prayer was answered, doors were opened, local 
 Governors gave their consent, and, notwithstanding many 
 difficulties, Mr. Adler and Dr. Althausen had about three months 
 of blessed work together. In the course of their work they called 
 on Pastor Gurland at Mitau. Pastor Gurland is an evangelical 
 Lutheran minister, a Christian Israelite of great experience and 
 influence, and Primarius of the district of Courlana, with its 130 
 Lutheran Pastors. Pastor Gurland was formerly a Missionary 
 to his Jewish brethren, but practical sympathy failing among 
 his supporters he subsided into a Lutheran pastorate. When he 
 
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 heard from Mr. Adler how the Lord had raised up friends in 
 England, voluntarily, to give means to purchase 100,000 Hebrew 
 New Testaments to be freely distributed as love-gifts among his 
 Jewish brethren. he seemed overwhelmed, his missionary fire 
 and zeal rekindled, and he longed to help in the work. 
 
 He sat down and wrote a stirring circular * and sent. copies 
 all over the Russian Empire. t 
 
 We opened a Depot at Wilna on March 29th, 1888. Crowds 
 of Jews of ail classes came for the books, so that by the 7th of 
 April 1250 copies were discriminately distributed. In a letter 
 from our Mr. Adler dated September 5th, 1888, he tells me that 
 in the course of a few days nearly 3000 copies were distributed 
 among the Jews in Minsk; and that this popular town and 
 district was all astir ; crowds eager to possess and read the book. 
 We obtained the consent of the local Governor to open a depot 
 also at Minsk, which is under the direction of Pastor Meyersohn. 
 We have also a work in Wilna, and have also opened depots 
 at Bjalestock, Berditcheff and Odessa, large Jewish centres, 
 
 Besides the distribution of several thousands through the 
 personal efforts of our Missionaries in various parts of North 
 Africa, Pomerania, Austria, Hungary, Bohemia, Galicia, Rou- 
 mania, and Russia, we have cheerfully responded to requests 
 coming from Missionaries of the London, British, ana Presby- 
 terian Societies, from individual workers, and from private 
 individuals interested in Israel. We have sent in response 
 toalarge number of requests grants varying from 6 copies to 
 6000. ‘The letters of thanks and encouragement received from 
 Missionaries, and from other friends, bear one testimony that 
 the work is of God. 
 
 For obvious reasons we withhold the names. of those who 
 have applied for and received copies to the extent above 
 named. 
 
 Those copies have been distributed in London, Liverpool, 
 Leeds, Glasgow, Belfast, Dundee, Paris, Marseilles, Rome, Con- 
 stantinople, Adriancple, Salonica, Philippopolis, Prague, Lemberg, 
 
 * This circular is printed in full in our ‘‘ Occasional Paper,’’ No. 1. 
 
 + Pastor Gurland has since resigned his Pastorate, and devoted himself 
 to work among the Jews. 
 
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 Dresden, Leipzig, Hamburg, Dantzig, Kornthal, Strasburg, 
 Cologne, Gibraltar, Altona, Kischeneff, Jerusalem, New York, 
 Chicago, Jamaica, The Cape, Brazil, Melbourne, Singapore, 
 Burmah, Jaffa, Canada, United States, America, India, Persia, 
 Arabia, and Australia, &c. 
 
 Altogether over two hundred thousand copies—these, with 
 New Testaments in various other languages, and Judeo-German 
 Portions, to the total number of about one mzllion—have been 
 sent out into various parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, America, 
 and Australia. 
 
 This blessed work is still carried on with energy, in prayer 
 and faith. 
 
 We ask much prayer, for we have many opponents, but God 
 is assuredly with us. 
 
 In the Spring of 1887, our Missionary, Mr. Halbmillion, was 
 sent to North Africa, and part of Morocco. During three 
 months, he and Mr. Mercadier of the N. A. Mission, visited 
 several towns, preached Christ to great numbers of Jews, and 
 distributed many hundreds of New Testaments amongst them. 
 Accounts of this most interesting Mission appeared in ‘ Service 
 for the King.” 
 
 On Mr. Halbmillion’s return he expressed an earnest desire 
 to go back for a more lengthy period, to preach Christ to these 
 poor sbeep, in many cases without a shepherd. We prayed 
 ~ about it, and ina few months the Lord opened the way by 
 inclining the heart of a Christian gentleman to consider the needs 
 of the Jews in North Africa and Morocco, to write to us respect- 
 ing those needs, and then voluntarily, the Lord enabling him, to 
 guarantee the expenses of a Mission for three years. This was 
 evidently of the Lord, and we praised Him .for this answer to 
 prayer. Mr. and Mrs. Halbmillion left London for Tangier early 
 in December, 1887. 
 
 They laboured amongst the Jews in Tangier ; visited the Jews 
 in Gibraltar and Tetuan, until August the 8th, 1888, when Mr. 
 Halbmillion was suddenly called to his rest. 
 
 We sent out another Missionary, an earnest young Jew, who, 
 while stationed at Tangier, made tours throughout Morocco, and 
 rendered good service. He was withdrawn and the Mission 
 
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 suspended for some time. We have since made further arrange- 
 ments for resuming the work in Morocco and North Africa, by 
 sending out a well-qualified Medical Mission Staff in the persons 
 of our beloved friends—Dr. and Mrs. Rocha, and Miss Lilian 
 Seth-Smith. 
 
 Mission Hall in the East End of London. 
 
 The numbers of Jews and Jewesses coming weekly under the 
 influence of this Mission, and willing to listen to the Gospel, had 
 outgrown the capacity of our rooms, and when we had gather- 
 ings of three or four hundred for Gospel addresses with magic 
 lantern, or at our annual tea meetings, we found great difficulty 
 in hiring suitable rooms near. 
 
 We had long thought how helpful it would be to our work in 
 London if we had Onz Centra Mission HaLL LARGE ENOUGH 
 TO EMBRACE ALL THE DEPARTMENTS OF OUR WoRK. Of course 
 the Convalescent Home at Highgate, and the Children’s home 
 on Newington Green, would remain as they were. 
 
 We desired, if the Lord’s will, to have a building that would 
 accommodate our Medical Mission, Rooms for Gospel meetings, 
 prayer meetings, sewing classes, night school, reading rooms, 
 rooms for special lectures and tea meetings, indeed every 
 accommodation for reaching the largest possible number with the 
 Gospel of Christ, and as numbers of Jews had broken with the 
 Synagogue but were not yet formally attached to the Church 
 we might possibly register the names of such and encourage them 
 to meet frequently for conversation, for further instruction, and 
 for prayer, and perhaps be led to form a Jewish Christian 
 Assembly for mutual encouragement and help. The estimated 
 cost for the freehold ground and the building and furniture was 
 about £10,000. The need, however, was real and urgent, and 
 very few of the Lord’s stewards had as yet been led to do liberal 
 things for Israel, to whom we are indebted for our Bible and 
 our Saviour, and who will yet be a blessing to the whole 
 world. 
 
 Numbers still flock to England, hear the Gospel, and carry the 
 tidings to other parts of the world. 
 
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 Ask the Lord and tell His people has been our line of conduct 
 to this day. 
 
 The circumstances under which God gave us this much 
 needed and commodious Hall will ever call for grateful praise to 
 His name. We issued a circular setting forth our need, and our 
 entire staff of workers united in constant prayer to God. We 
 wished to be a little farther. out, in a new locality, and yet in 
 the centre of a large number of Jews. The district between 
 Whitechapel Road and Commercial Road seemed just the locality 
 for us.. In this very locality an old Scoteb Church had been 
 closed. for lack of attendants. It was for sale. It had a lease 
 of 29 years still to rnn at a ground rent of £25 a year. We 
 were offered it and pressed to purchase it at the price of £2,000. 
 We refused to give so much. It went into the market but was 
 not sold. We felt that if the Lord intended this place for us 
 He would manage things infinitely better than we could. The 
 morning after the Church had been in the Auction Mart, I was 
 written to and asked to call on the agent in Chancery Lane. 
 The result was, we got the Church for £1000. The Directors of 
 the London Hospital are our ground Landlords. They had the 
 ground re-valued at £100 a year, and offered to extend the lease 
 to 60 years at a ground rent of £50. These terms were ac- 
 cepted. Asto the money, weasked the Lord to move His people, 
 _ to send what was needed soon, and specially in large sums, 
 that the regular Mission needs might not suffer. Indeed, in this 
 particular scheme we were led to ask the Lord to show His 
 control over individual hearts as well as over definite sums, by 
 moving certain Christians mentioned to Him only by name, to 
 send us voluntarily £1,009 each, if He saw that with their other 
 claims, they were able to do this. 
 
 After a few weeks, the first on the list saia ‘I intend to give 
 you. £1,000 towards the New Hall. This was the first given, 
 and cheered our hearts to pray on. 
 
 Another, who was mentioned to the Lord for many months, 
 called me aside one day and asked me, “‘ Do you think I should 
 please the Lord if I gave you £1,000 towards ycur proposed 
 Mission Hall”? I replied, ‘‘ My dear friend, when you meet the 
 Lord Jesus face to face, you will feel it unnecessary ever to have 
 
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 asked such a question.” The £1,000 had evidently been sug- 
 gested to the mind of this friend, and so far was an answer to 
 prayer ; but the £1,000 were not given in this case. Another 
 wrote through his daughter to say that he would give the tenth 
 thousand, and afterwards said that he would give £200 a year 
 for five years. This was so far another answer to prayer, but we 
 got only £200 in this case, for this friend was called away by 
 death just before the second £200 became due. In another case 
 the £1,000 were sent in in one gift. In another case, about 
 which we had prayed for months, a cheque was sent value £750. 
 We thanked the Lord for this and continued in prayer that we 
 might have the joy of seeing the Lord’s hand in the making up 
 of the £1,000. A few months subsequently we had that joy in 
 another cheque value £250. After the £1,000 had been received 
 I thought I might venture to tell this friend how the sum had 
 been prayed for, so that we might praise the Lord together. I 
 received a sweet letter in reply, thanking God for the honour 
 He had put on His servant, 
 
 The Lord evidently approved of His servant’s gratitude, for 
 the honour of being enabled and disposed to give this sum, for 
 He soon after put it into His servant’s power and heart to give 
 an additional £2,000. As we could not purchase the freehold 
 we did not need quite the £10,000, so with the above and other 
 smaller sums, the Lord sent us all we expected we should need. 
 Our architect and clerk of works were both godly and able 
 business men. This Hall, and house adjoining, comprising 
 together 41 rooms, was dedicated to the Lorp by praise and 
 prayer, on November 2nd, 1892. Three meetings were held 
 during the day ; the Hall was full of friends, and the Meetings 
 were seasons of power and blessing. 
 
 Troubles with the builder, together with many unforeseen 
 extras, delayed settlement for some months; so that on the 
 opening day we could not know our liability, indeed, for aught 
 we knew, we might need five or six hundred pounds more. We 
 do not incur debt. We were perpiexed. How could we use the 
 Hall until it was paid for. 
 
 Just before we entered the Hall for the third and last meeting 
 of the day, a friend called me aside and said, ‘You can go on 
 
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 with the use of the Hall, God has told me to pay the balance.” 
 Eight months after, when the account came in, though we had 
 then enough money in our current account at the bank to pay 
 all, our friend gave us a cheque value £600 towards the amount, 
 In all this we trace our Father’s hand, and praise iis Holy 
 Name. 
 
 We have since had large and blessed meetings of Jews, some 
 of whom have found salvation in Christ ; also blessed meetings 
 for consecration amongst the workers themselves. Our dear 
 brethren, Hermann Warszawiak, Joseph Rabinowitz, George C, 
 Grubb, and Rabbi Lichtenstein, have preached in the Hall to 
 large congregations of Jews. The two last named brethren 
 preached a month each. The Medical Mission; the Sewing 
 Class for Jewesses; the Night School for Jewish Children, 
 Bible Classes for Jewish youths, and also for Jewish Young 
 Women ; Meetings with Converts; and preaching services on 
 Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday, are all carried on by our 
 regular workers. 
 
 During our first year’s use of the Hall (1893) we had 43,000 
 attendances of Jews, Jewesses, and Jewish Children ; 44,000 in 
 1894; and in 1895 we had 49,322, 
 
 In 1884 the late Mr. Russell gave his first contribution of 
 £250 towards the general purposes of the Mission. His next 
 ' gift was a sum of £3000 in 1886 towards our first 100,000 
 Hebrew New Testaments, and, at the same time, guaranteeing 
 all that might be needed to make up the £5000 desired. After 
 this Mr. Russell voluntarily offered #500 a year for three snare 
 for Missions among the Jews of Morocco. 
 
 In 1890 our first 100,000 of Hebrew New Testaments were 
 nearly all distributed, and our special funds exhausted. What 
 were we to do—stop the work or continue it? It was the Lord’s 
 work, and we looked to him to decide. In June, 1890, a strange 
 lady called at ny house to ask if we intended to continue this 
 work of freely distributiag the New Testament among the Jews. 
 I replied, “ Yes, if the Lord is pleased to send in freewill offer- 
 ings to carry it on.” The lady observed, “Ib is a Christlike 
 work and ought to go on; I have had it laid on my heart to 
 help.” She named no sum, and declined to give me her name. 
 
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 We had prayer together. After the lady had gone, I told my 
 wife of this strange visit, and said, “ This lady will send me £5, 
 £50, £500, or £5000. I shall be the least surprised if it turns 
 out to be the £5000.” Three or four days after this I received 
 notice from our Bank on Newington Green that a sum of £5000 
 had been received from the Bank of England and placed to the 
 credit of the Mildmay Mission to the Jews. 
 
 Mr. Russell heard of this through a mutual friend, and wrote 
 to me at once to say that he did not wish to withdraw from this 
 work, and that if I would engage more men and spend the money 
 as wisely and quickly as possible in the free distribution of the 
 New Testament amongst the Jews, all over the world, he would 
 give another £5,000. We did not reply for about ten days, but 
 prayed about it, and then accepted the responsibility. The 
 cheque for £5,000 was sent at once. Thus we had £10,000 sent 
 in within about a month to continue the work. This was to us 
 a great encouragement. We plainly saw the hand of our 
 gracious God in supplying the needs of His work, and, at the 
 same time, it was to us a token of His smile of approval on the 
 way in which the work was done. 
 
 We purchased largely, and distributed far and wide the New 
 Testament and Judeo-German Portions. Numerous other sums 
 in smaller amounts were sent in, but these and the larger ones 
 together were exhausted in the course of three or four years, 
 This brings us down to 1894. 
 
 Between the spring of 1884 and the autumn of 1890, Mr. 
 Russell had given to this Mission over £10,000, the most of it 
 for New Testament distribution. His last cheque was for £250 
 in the interest of work among the Jews of Morocco. I desire 
 the reader to take special notice of the fact that the large gifts 
 just referred to were not and could not well be traced to any 
 personal influence of mine over the donors; for the lady who 
 gave the £5,000 I have seen only for a few minutes, but have 
 never known her name, and have not the slightest idea who she 
 is ; and as to Mr. Russell I have never seen him, nor have I ever 
 seen a photograph of him; and as he is now with the Lord, my 
 only prospect of seeing him is the hope of meeting him in the 
 Lord’s presence. Mr. Russell passed away to his rest early in 
 
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 the year 1891. He had neither wife nor child, so he willed the 
 whole of. his estate to this Mission, to be used for the purposes 
 of the Mission according to the discretion of the Director. 
 Some relatives instituted legal proceedings, so, to prevent litiga- 
 tion, prolonged perhaps for years, which might swallow up the 
 estate, we, by the advice of our Trustees, consented to a ccm- 
 promise, by which the Mission sacrificed £20,000. The Mission 
 has already received £17,960. and £1,200, altogether £19,160. 
 There is still a small balance outstanding (1896), besides which 
 the sum of £6,000 is invested, the interest from which pays 
 annuities of £100 to two widows. On the death of these 
 widows, or on their re-marriage, this sum falls to the Mission. 
 Though by the will of Mr. Russell we are at liberty to use his 
 legacy for the general purposes of the Mission, we shall be glad 
 as far as possible to devote it to New Testament. distribution, 
 in which we know Mr. Russell was so deeply interested. 
 
 From 1886 to 1890 we distributed our first 100,000 Hebrew 
 New Testaments. From 1886 to 1893 inclusive, we distributed 
 New Testaments and Portions in various languages to the 
 number of more than half a million copies. Now, in 1896, we 
 have got beyond a million, We intend to continue this blessed 
 work as long as the Lord moves his people voluntarily to send 
 us the money needed, and as long as there is a colony of Jews 
 on the face of the earth who have not yet been reached with 
 the Gospel, even if the supply of the need should cost One 
 Million pounds sterling. 
 
 We desire that every Jew on the face of the earth may have 
 an opportunity of seeing a Holy Ghost photograph of the Lord 
 Jesus as given in the New Testament, instead of the caricatures 
 they have seen for ages in the lives and conduct of professing 
 Christians. God is wonderfully using this New Testament 
 distribution for rapidly gathering ‘‘the remnant according to 
 the election of grace’”’—the Jewish portion of the Church of 
 Christ ; and, at the same time, He is preparing the way for a 
 National recognition of Christ on His return. We regard this 
 as the great work of God in the closing days of tais dispensation, 
 However much some Christians may object—from worthy or 
 unworthy motives—to this work, or to the mode of conducting 
 
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 it, he must be a bold man who dares to deny the hand of God 
 in supplying the needs, or the blessing of God on the work 
 itself. To Him be all praise and glory. 
 
 We are gathering information as to the Jews in every part of 
 the world, with the view of rapidly reaching them with the 
 Gospel, both by the living voice and by the printed page. Will 
 all the Lord’s people who read. these lines join us in earnest 
 prayer that we may have wisdom and grace to do the Lord’s 
 work, in the Lord’s way, and for the Lord’s glory only ? 
 
 Beloved friends, the time isshort. Israel’s restoracion is near. 
 The Eastern Question hastens for settlement, and the Coming. of 
 the Lord draweth nigh. Has all been done that ought to have 
 been done in testifying to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ? 
 Brother, Sister, let us each one be able to tell our Lord, and with 
 truth, that we are doing something for His name’s sake, to bring 
 His brethren according to the flesh to acknowledge Him Lord to 
 the glory of God the Father. 
 
 “O Israel, thou shalt not be forgotten of me.” Jsaiah 44. 21, 
 
 
 
Mildmay Mission to the dews. 
 
 (INSTITUTED JUNE, 1876). 
 
 FOUNDER, DIRECTOR, AND TREASURER— 
 Rev. JOHN WILKINSON. 
 
 TRUSTEES— 
 
 The following gentlemen are the Trustees of the 
 Mission Property :— 
 
 Henry Carr, Esq., Carlisle. 
 
 SAMUEL FiEeLpD, Esq., Worthing. 
 
 James Hi. MarureEson, Esq., London. 
 BENJAMIN THOMAS, Esq., Bournemouth. 
 James Woop, Hsq., L.L.D., Southport, 
 JOHN WiLKINsoN, Mildmay. 
 
 
 
 FORM OF BEQUEST. 
 
 I give and bequeath to the Mildmay Mission to the Jews, 
 instituted in London, in 1876, the sum of £ (free 
 of duty),* to be expended or employed at discretion in aid of 
 the objects for which the said Mission was established. And 
 I direct that the receipt of the Treasurer for the time being 
 of the said Mission shall be a sufficient discharge for the 
 said legacy. 
 
 * The words in parentheses must be omitted if it is not intended to give the 
 Legacy free of duty. 
 
 NOTE.— Under the Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act 1891, land may now 
 be given by Will to the Mission and the provision formerly inserted in 
 Wills directing Charitable Legacies to be paid out of pure personalty are 
 now unnecessary, By the Act, land given for charitable purposes by 
 Will, has to be sold within one year from the Testator’s death, or such 
 extended time as may be allowed by the Court or the Charity Com- 
 missioners, 
 
Supplies. The Mission does not canvas or advertise for money, but waits 
 on God to move His people to send voluntary offerings for the support of the 
 Mission, and also for the personal support of the Director who takes no salary. 
 
 The Rev. John Wilkinson, or others, will be pleased to address meetings 
 by invitation to set forth the work of the Mission. 
 
 Needs. The needs of the Mission are about £10,000 a year. 
 
 We ask much and constant prayer for the guidance and blessing of the Holy 
 Spirit in every detail of the work. 
 
 Contributions towards any branch of the work will be gratefully received 
 by the Director and Treasurer.— 
 
 Rev, Joun WIvxkinson, 79, Mildmay Road, London, N. 
 
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“ISRAEL MY GLORY,” 
 
 Jarael’s Mission & Missions to Israel. 
 eat By JOHN WILKINSON, 
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 CHAPTER I.—The National Election and guaranteed pre- 
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 CuapTEeR II.—The Promises to the Fathers neither annulled 
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 CHapTeR III.—The rejection of Israel; its causes, . con- 
 
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 ‘CHAPTER: 1V.—The Restoration of Israel, and the Hime of 
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 CuapTER VI.--David’s throne occupied by David's Son and 
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 Cuaprer VII.—The Ten Tribes—Where are they not ? And 
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 CHAPTER X,—The mistakes of many (uizistiaria concerning 
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 CuHaptER XIII.—The Lord’s Leadings in Mission Work 
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