1815, called the AMERICAN EDUCATION SOCIETY, whose object is the education of pious young men for the Gospel Ministry. This society, has, during its existence, rendered itself eminently serviceable to the church, and promises by its permanent funds, to continue to do so to the end of time. 545 beneficiaries have received assistance in the first ten years.

Toward the close of the last century the attention of the church was directed to her children and youth. Schools were established in Great Britain on the Lord's day, through the agency of Robert Raikes, for the instruction of the ignorant poor in divine things. The churches in America and other parts of the world saw their utility and followed the example. În Great Britain and Ireland 700,000 youth are now receiving instruction in 6,000 schools from more than 50,000 teachers. In the United States, about 180,000. In the whole world more than a million.

The Seamen, who have in all ages, been deplorably destitute of religious instruction, have also of late received great attention from the pious and benevolent. Places of worship have been prepared in some of the principal sea-ports in the Christian world; preaching has been afforded, and some thousands have been converted to the Lord.

We have briefly contemplated the operations of the Protestant world for the enlargement of the Redeemer's kingdom. By these, the great Captain of salvation is going forth conquering and to conquer. How beautiful are his feet upon the mountains! The church is moving rapidly toward millenial glories. Forgetting in a measure, the contentions and sectarian animosities which have, in past ages, engrossed her, she is with apostolic benevolence and zeal, carrying the light of life to "the old wastes, the desolations of many generations." Who is not grateful that he lives in this age? that he stands on this spot between the living and the dead? Who, in this moment of holy enterprize, of lofty exploit, will not pray, with greatest earnestness, Thy kingdom come? Who will not consecrate to Messiah's triumphs over Pagan darkness and idolatry, Mahometan imposture and Popish superstition, his time, his talents, his possessions, his influence?

"BEHOLD THE TABERNACLE OF GOD IS WITH MEN; AND HE WILL DWELL WITH THEM; AND THEY SHALL BE HIS PEOPLE; AND GOD HIMSELF SHALL BE WITH THEM AND BE THEIR GOD. AND GOD SHALL WIPE AWAY ALL TEARS FROM THEIR EYES; AND THERE SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH, NEITHER Sorrow, nor CRYING, NEITHER SHALL THERE BE ANY MORE PAIN; FOR THE FORMER THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY."

APPENDIX.

HISTORY OF THE JEWS FROM THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM TO THE PRESENT TIME.

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No mind can contemplate the ancient history of the children of Israel, the chosen people of God, without feeling a strong desire to trace their course subsequent to their excision from the Church, for their unbelief, and to know something of their sent state and future prospects. In this place can be presented only a brief view of THEIR RESIDENCE, GOVERNMENT, RELIGION, LEARNING AND LEARNED MEN, THE FATE OF THEIR BELOVED CITY AND COUNTRY, THEIR FALSE CHRISTS, PERSECUTIONS AND SUFFERINGS, NUMBERS AT VARIOUS PERIODS AND IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES, EMPLOYMENT, ATTEMPTS FOR THEIR CONVERSION, PRESENT STATE AND PROSPECTS.

THEIR RESIDENCE.

The Jews have been scattered, as Moses declared they would be, among all people, from one end of heaven to the other. When the Roman General, Titus, in the year of our Lord 72, had destroyed Jerusalem and ploughed up its foundations, all the lands in Judea were ordered to be sold, and such oppressive acts were passed, that only a few who felt an attachment to their land, which could not be destroyed, remained to die amid its desolations. Multitudes retired to Egypt and the islands of the Adriatic; great numbers fled to Persia and Babylon; and ma ny took refuge in Italy and the western part of the Roman em

pire. From that day to this, they have been found, when suffered by civil governments, in every region of civilized man.

GOVERNMENT.

It was predicted that the sceptre should not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh should come. The Jews governed themselves until Christ came, and then the government departed from them, and they have now for 1800 years, without a moment of independent sovereignty, been subject to others. They have, excepting in the United States, served their enemies in every land and had an iron yoke of bondage put upon their necks. They could not, however, well long remain as a separate body without some internal organization, and soon after their dispersion, they divided into two great branches, the eastern and western, and chose distinguished leaders to be their guides. The head of the eastern Jews was styled the Prince of the Captivity. His residence was at Babylon or Bagdat. The head of the western, the Patriarch. He resided at Tiberias. These chiefs were of the Levitical race; and, being excluded from the royal dignity and confined to religious concerns, they never became alarming to the Romans. As the Sanhedrim could meet in no place but Jerusalem, it became extinct at the destruction of the city, but tribunals called houses of judgment, for the decision of religious disputes, were afterwards erected.

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In the year 429, the office of Patriarch was abolished by imperial law to the great grief of the western Jews. They were in consequence of this, left solely under the direction of the chiefs of the synagogues, whom they called Primates. Princes of the captivity were splendid and powerful, but they were totally extinct in 1039, when the Jews were banished from the East. In the Ottoman empire, the Jews are subject to a chief of their own nation called Cochan Pasca, whose power over them is very absolute.

Every Jewish church is at present governed by a presiding Rabbi. Two or three of these Rabbis form a tribunal termed Beth Din, the house of justice, for settling religious and sometimes civil disputes.

RELIGION.

To their religion, the Jews have adhered with an inflexible obstinacy. Such parts of their worship as were necessarily confined to Jerusalem, particularly sacrifices, have ceased; but

as closely as they could, in their dispersed state, they have adhered to the Mosaic dispensation. Since their dispersion, they have had no High priest. A Rabbi or priest presides in their worship, preaches and marries.

Their articles of faith have been few and simple. Their principal one respects the future coming of the Messiah, who is expected to be a great temporal prince. Some have anticipated two; Ben Ephraim, a person of low and mean condition, and Ben David, a prince of great glory.

They have supposed a two fold law of God-the five books of Moses and oral tradition. The traditions were said to have been delivered first by God to Moses, and then, from age to age, to the leaders of the Jews; until the middle of the second century, when they were collected into one book called the MISNA, which is received as a sacred book of equal authority with the written law. A commentary on this, by Jochanan, is called The Jerusalem Talmud. This and another work compiled in the fifth century, called the Talmud of Babylon, a collection of the sayings, debates and decisions of Rabbis for 300 years, are also esteemed sacred books.

About the sixth century, a fear prevailed among them that they should lose the sacred scriptures as their native tongue had nearly ceased, and the MASORA was formed, called "the hedge of the law; in which the true reading of the Hebrew text" was fixed by vowels and accents, and the chapters, sections, verses, words and letters of the Old Testament were numbered; -a most stupendous labour.

The Pharisees have ever formed the bulk of the nation. But among them are many real Sadducees. A reformed party has recently appeared in Germany, who are genuine deists.

LEARNING AND LEARNED MEN.

The Jews have never been a literary people. Rabbinical knowledge is all that has been esteemed by them of any value, and from this they have feared the study of the Greek and Roman classics, would wean their youth. In the twelfth century, however, a constellation of learned men appeared in Europe who were an honor to the nation. The chief of these, were Nathan Ben Jechiel, Abraham Ben Ezra, a commentator on the Old Testament; Moses Maimonides, master of many eastern languages, a distinguished physician and an able defender of the Mosaic institution; Isaac Jarki, called by the Jews, Prince of Commentators and the family of the Kimskis, distinguished for Hebrew learning, In a knowledge of the Scriptures