"enough, but not wanting ingenuity, began to fhew "the children the breafts which had given them "fuck. She defcanted alfo upon the benefits of "education, and the tenderness of that natural affec❝tion which is betwixt parents and children."-" At "the fame time the father began to figh, to weep, "and to lift up his hands to heaven." Do not the Miffionary Society, by the publication of this tract for diftribution among the Jews, wound them in the tenderest part? Do they not give them juft caufe for alarm? Let them reverse the cafe, and place themfelves in the paffive instead of the active fituation; let them imagine themselves under the reign of Mary, the daughter of Henry the eighth. Cruel, however, as her conduct was to us Proteftants, I do not recollect any circumftance fimilar to this, I am not aware that she or those whom fhe employed ftole the infant children of the Protestants away from their parents. But though things were not carried to this length in the reign of Queen Mary, it is eafy for the directors and members of the Miffionary Society to confider themselves living in her reign, and that her party had proceeded to fuch lengths; let them place themselves in the fituation of this parent, thus bereaved of his infant children! children by no means arrived at years of difcretion, and confequently unable to form any correct opinion for themselves. Let them, if it is poffible, feel the ANGUISH OF SOUL endured by this Jewish parent at that moment in which he beheld his dear babes "pale and trem"bling before him." It is only a parent and an hufband

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hufband that can know the feelings of a parent and an hufband; and I therefore addrefs myself especially to fuch directors of the Miffionary Society as are parents, and as are bleffed with tender-hearted and affectionate wives. Let them then place themselves in the fituation of this Jewifh parent, and feel fomething of that anguifh, which would rend their fouls at beholding their tender infants ftanding "pale and

trembling before them." A parent feels for the diftrefs of his children, in whatever way produced. The affectionate hufband feels for the affliction of his wife, a thousand times more ftrongly than he does for himself. Let them then endeavour to realize that moment in which the anguish of the father was accumulated, by beholding the agony of the dear partner of his life, the dear mother of his children! Behold the fhews them her breafts, those breasts which had given them fuck! She points to them with those arms that had ever tenderly embraced them. Well might the Jewish parent, under fuch circumftances, figh and weep, and lift up his hands to heaven!

It was the unanimous opinion of those to whom this matter was referred by the king of Pruffia, that thefe children fhould NOT be reftored to their parents; but thank God we do not live under an abfolute government, we are protected by laws; where then is the ufe of the Miffionary Society printing this tract? There is no law in force in this land which would enable any fociety or individual to take away the child of a Jew from his parent.

“ Woe

"Woe unto the world because of offences! for tit muft needs be that offences come: but woe "unto that man by whom the offence cometh.""It were better for him that a millftone were hanged "about his neck, and he were caft into the fea, than "he fhould offend ONE OF THESE LITTLE "ONES." Matt. xviii. 7. Luke xvii. 2. We shall do well to recollect that they were JEWISH CHILDREN to which our Saviour pointed, when he faid, "One of these little ones." Their education was committed unto their PARENTS, who were thus enjoined by Mofes, the fervant of God: "Thefe "words, which I command thee this day, fhall be ❝ in THINE HEART: and thou fhalt TEACH THEM 66 DILIGENTLY UNTO THY CHILDREN, and "fhalt talk of them when thou fitteft in thine house, ❝ and when thou walkeft by the way, and when thou "lieft down, and when thou rifeft up. And thou "fhalt bind them for a fign upon thine hand, and "they fhall be as frontlets between thine eyes. "And thou shalt write them upon the pofts of thine " house, and on thy gates." Deut. vi. 6-9. What offence can be committed against one of these little ones of fo great enormity as removing them from under the care of their parents, who are thus BOUND to inftruct them in the law of JEHOVAH, the God of their fathers? Is it poffible to conceive a greater offence against one of these little ones than this? Yes, it is poffible to commit a greater offence against them, for it is poffible when they are taken from their

parents to inftruct them to defpife the Mofaic difpenfation, and to imitate what is fet forth in the tract already referred to as an inftance of piety, to confider the Jewish ordinances as "CONTEMPTI"BLE," and the "GREAT DAY OF ATONE"MENT" itself, as revolting to "the feelings of "the heart." O that the Miffionary Society may rejoice with thanksgiving morning, noon, and night, that by the mercy of God they have not fucceeded in this matter, but have laboured "UNDER GREAT

DIFFICULTIES, AND HAVE MET WITH PAIN"FUL DISAPPOINTMENTS." If they had fucceeded, it would have been as a millftone about their necks; but it has pleafed God mercifully to prevent them, and to give them a gracious opportunity to escape from the fnare of that enemy who goeth about like a roaring lion, feeking whom he may devour: 1 Pet. v. 8.

It is hard, very hard, to abandon a favourite purfuit, and to adopt a line of conduct the reverse of that which we have purfued; it is like cutting off a right hand or plucking out a right eye. If Saul of Tarfus, when he fet out in his journey to Damascus, had been exhorted to abandon his favourite object, what would have been his reply? But no fooner did the Lord, even JESUS, appear unto him in the way, and fay unto him, "Saul, Saul, why perfecuteft "thou me," than his favourite purfuit was abandoned, and instead of praying for a bleffing upon it, he inquires, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do ?"

It was told him what he was ordained to do; and when his path was thus made plain, he was blessed with SUCCESS.

What is the right eye that we are to pluck out? It is an OFFENCE, as may be seen by the connection there is between the 7th and 8th verfes of the 18th chapter of St. Matthew: "Woe unto the world "because of offences! for it muft needs be that of"fences come: but woe to that man by whom the "offence cometh! Wherefore, if thy hand or thy "foot offend thee, cut them off, and caft them from

thee it is better for thee to enter into life halt 86 or maimed, rather than having two hands, or two "feet, to be caft into everlasting fire. And if thine

eye offend thee, pluck it out, and caft it from "thee it is better for thee to enter into life with ❝ one eye, rather than having two eyes to be caft "into hell fire. Take heed that ye defpife not one ❝of thefe little ones; for I fay unto you, That ❝in heaven their angels do always behold the face "of my Father which is in heaven." Matt. xviii, 7-10.

Whether the time now approaches that the Heathen will become the inheritance of Meffiah, must be left to the event; and whether the efforts that have been made in these ifles, in that hope, will be crowned with ultimate fuccefs, time alone can prove; but it seems to me that great, very great, ENCOURAGEMENT is given unto us to cherish this hope in God's most holy word, and notwithstanding the mistakes that have been made concerning the Jews, I conceive

that