far the greater part of them, should be true and enlightened Christians, who in wisdom and in love should lead and govern, and let their light shine before their brethren according to the flesh who are walking in thick darkness.

But how in any other way could we be so certainly assured of their qualifi cations, as when its future members, having first entered the preparatory school and been trained there, have had their characters tried, and their faith and growth in true Christian know. ledge ascertained. It will also be necessary for the colony to maintain a constant correspondence, and religious intercourse with all the Jewish congrega. tions of Europe, and how difficult would this be without having some station or centre of operation on the old conti nent.

Convinced of this, Count von der Recke, was induced to purchase for the sum of 20,000 rix dollars, a tract of land of about 40 acres, with buildings formerly used as a Monastery, the whole encompassed by a wall, and to devote, and to commence preparing it for such a station. Into this asylum Israelites that desire a knowledge of the truth can be received--can obtain instruction from a minister provided for that purpose, and according to their disposition and talents can be instructed in Agriculture, in the Mechanic arts, or in Manufactures, or can enter upon preparatory studies to become teachers of schools or ministers of the Gospel.

Third Proposition.

And now passing on let us contemplate the important advantages which this station will have over every other that can be proposed.

Count von der Recke erected more than two years ago an Asylum under the name of the Society of Friends to Man, for the reception of forsaken orphans, and the children of criminals. The nature of the Institution may be learned from the first printed account now transmitted to this country.

No sooner, in the course of its

operations, were others called upon to assist in the work, than contributions in money and other valuables were made from every part of Germany, as well as from distant parts of Poland and of Russia.

The operations of the Society were also very much facilitated by a cabinet act of the King of Prussia, dated Nov. 21st, 1819; whereby such letters of the Society, as were immediately connected with their operations, were franked through every part of his dominions.

Now as the conversion of the Jews forms a part of the labours of the Society of the Friends of Man, it will easily be perceived that the station of Count von der Recke will in this respect have a very great advantage; and he himself descended from one of the most illustrious families in Germany, will be a faithful labourer in this vineyard of the Lord. Having studied economy, and prepared himself for such an undertaking, he will not merely commit to others, but constantly superintend himself, this most interesting establishment.

The application of the Count to you brethren is entirely reasonable.-He does not ask contributions for a series of years, but that present help which will enable him fairly to bring this work into operation. On this subject I will use his own words,-" In great undertakings in Germany much must be done before patronage can be induced." Aid the Count, brethren, only so far, that he may bring his plan into operation, and there is no doubt but that when manufactories are established, and agriculture and the arts are cultivated, and converted Jews are engaged in prayer and in labour at this station, that abundant help for its continuance and support will flow in from every part of Europe. In this case auxiliary institutions will be formed in all the great German cities, and especially in the sea-ports-and in every part of Holland, who will gladly make it their duty to provide for the passing over to this

country from the station above mentioned, all such Israelites as shall be best qualified for the American colony.

That liberal aid may be expected in this enterprize from the Society in London for spreading the Gospel among the Jews, we may the more earnestly hope, inasmuch as the Bible Societies of Germany and Holland will cheerfully undertake to furnish the Jews with Bibles, and particularly with New Testaments, in the Hebrew and Hebrew-German languages. So also every Tract Society will furnish them with tracts; and if each Society shall annually furnish only one Hebrew or Hebrew-German religious tract, the Word of God may by these means be richly extended among the Jews.

Finally, every Missionary Society will feel itself bound as much to send Missionaries among the Jews, as among the Mahometans and Heathen. By various help thus drawn from various sources, great burthens will be taken off from the London Jewish Society, who having an annual income of £10,000 sterling, can do much for the American colony, as well as for the general extension of Christianity among the Jews.

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And now, beloved brethren, members of this Association, permit me to add to what has been said only a few words. You will perceive from the writings that I have brought with me, that we in Germany supposed that your colony was entirely organized. There are now, perceive, considerable difficulties to be overcome, and hindrances to be removed; among these the want of a necessary correspondence and union with Germany in this work, has hitherto in no small degree retarded your progress. O let us, then, in the exercise of faith in Him who is the giver of every good and perfect gift, put our hands to the work-yea, let us lay hold of it with vigour; and as we advance in its accomplishment, He who can give us more than we can either ask or think, will bless our steps, and direct them to his name's glory.

[The whole concluded with a fervent prayer for zeal, and for a Divine blessing on all the labours of God's servants for evangelizing the world.]

Remark by the Translator.

[Count von der Recke is an unmarried man, of one of the first families in Germany, and only 27 years of age. How soon has he learned that solid glory consists in serving God by doing good! How entirely has he laid his greatness at the foot of the Cross! What a noble example to the youth of our country, and especially to those who have either obtained large fortunes by their personal industry, or inherited large patrimonies from their ancestors. Go, generous youth! go and do likewise !]

Address to the Christian Public by a Committee of the Board.

The Directors of the American Society for meliorating the condition of the Jews, have great pleasure in presenting these documents to the public, confident that their Christian fellow-citizens will also have pleasure in perusing them. Long, very long, has the house of Israel been in bondage among the nations; but a time of release has been promised of God, has been hoped for both by them and by us, and is now certainly at hand. The signs of that time have appeared, and are every year becoming more distinctly visible. Apathy to the miseries of the circumcision is no longer universal; and contempt for the person of a Jew ceases from the bosom of the Christian.

There was a time, when the seed of Abraham alone constituted the Church of God, and when a Jew would scarcely credit that men of another race were admissible to the communion. It required miracles to convince the Hebrew Christians, that "God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life." The Jews, generally obstinate in their prejudices, and zealous for their ceremonies, but heedless of the lights of their own prophets, hardened them

selves against the uncircumcision. They have since met with an awful, a long, and a just retribution. The Churches of the nations, providentially indeed, but on their part criminally, also obstinate in their prejudices and alike heedless of the lights of prophecy, have turned away their heart from the children of Jacob. The nations would scarcely believe that a Jew could be honest, or could again be made to cultivate the useful arts of life like others. The descendants of Abraham have been supposed incapable of ploughing the field, of watching the fold, and of gathering the fruits of the vine and the olive. In the estimation of many it is still next to a miracle for a Jew to become a Christian; and next to an impossibility, that the race of the Hebrews should exist together as a nation or even as a colony. Such prejudices are mischievous, because they prevent exertions to meliorate a condition which they have themselves continued if not created; for, to the general neglect or oppression of the Jews, by the nations, we must look, as the chief and immediate cause of that moral condition which is often quoted as the apology for continued neglect.

Facts are necessary to remove these prejudices; and the facts must be furnished. They already exist, and they are increasing both in number and in interest. Jews, distinguished for talents and integrity, are passing from the synagogue into the church: and distinguished Christians are taking them by the hand. Benevolent Societies are rising up among the nations to encourage the spirit of inquiry, and to direct the inquisitive Israelite to the Star of Jacob. The Rabbi Bergmann, Messrs. Marc and Adler, and many others, have seen and confessed "that Jesus is the Christ;" and such men as Dr. Steinkopff, the Count von der Recke, and the Rev. Louis Way, and our own Boudinot, have appeared to give them welcome to the church. Associations

of learned and zealous Christians are

engaged in behalf of the ancient people of the covenant. In London, in Edinburgh, and in Frankfort, in Alberfeld, and in Basle, such Societies are formed; and Princes also are engaged in meliorating the condition of the Hebrews. Alexander, at the head of the vast empire which he so ably governs, has turned his attention to the subject of Jewish colonization, and is making the experiment; and the benevolent Adelberdt, Count von, der Recke, von Vollmarstein, is endeavouring to effect the colonization of evangelized Israelites, in the vicinity of the Rhine, with design to co-operate with the American Society for meliorating the condition of the Jews. From him we received as his envoy a Christian of the circumcision, Mr. Jadownisky, who is now under our own eye, prosecuting his studies. Mr. Jadownisky is a young man of promising endowments. Born and educated a Jew, he has not read Moses and the Prophets in vain. His occupation, as a teacher, gave him opportunity of extending his acquaintance among Christians, and of studying the great question concerning Jesus of Nazareth, "Art thou he that should come, or do we look for another?" Persuaded that Jesus is the Christ, he by the grace of God received the word with gladness, and was baptized in the month of April,

1821.

The accompanying documents explain the nature of his mission to America; and his own address to the Society is proof of his talents. He is now 22 years of age, and is ardently pursuing studies to qualify him for the ministry of the Gospel, as a messenger of mercy to the House of his Fathers. The Board have undertaken, in hopes of aid from the Christian public, to provide for the maintenance and education of this gen-* tleman for the work to which he is devoted.

The Society, fellow-citizens, in behalf of which we now address you, was incorporated by the Legislature of the State of New-York, in March, 1820.

"The object of the Society, is to invite and receive from any part of the world, such Jews as do already profess the Christian religion, or are desirous to receive Christian instruction, to form them into a colony, and to furnish them with ordinances and employment." Hitherto the Directors have been without funds to effect a settlement, and without colonists to occupy under their care. Little has been done except creating a capacity for receiving donations from the benevolent, and for employing them, when circumstances called for actual exertion. The time for exertion is now arrived; and the means also begin to appear. The late excellent President of the Society, Elias Boudinot, whose praise is in the Churches, has bequeathed 4000 acres of land, as the scite of the colony, in Warren county, state of Pennsylvania, or $1000, to aid in securing other lands for the purpose, at the option of the Board of Directors. The Directors have not yet decided on the alternative. An English gentleman, too, Mr. George Conquest, lately deceased in this city, has with great Christian liberality bequeathed for the benefit of the Society, the sum of two hundred pounds sterling, 889 dollars. We still stand in immediate need of funds; and to your contributions we confidently look for a supply.

The current expenses of Mr. Jadownisky must be defrayed. We are well assured, also, that colonists will offer themselves, of the description and upon the terms which the constitution contemplates, so soon as the Society is prepared to give them a suitable residence in our free and happy land. Therefore this appeal, accompanied with a request to the benevolent, to organize auxiliary Societies, in the different towns and counties of the several states of this great and growing commonwealth.

The conversion of the seed of Abraham is an event not only desirable but certain; and the colonization of the converts seems to be one of the best means for bringing the event to pass, and

for answering the revealed designs of Providence, respecting that remarkable people. Scattered over the nations, and yet distinct in their dispersion, their condition in Society, as well as their own antipathies, is a barrier to their communion with Christians. Upon expressing doubts of the propriety of the service of the synagogue, they become suspected at home, without the prospect of gaining the respect of Christians. Upon professing Christianity, they must "leave their father's house and the people of their kindred;" they are pro scribed by the Jews, without the prospect of being received to the kindness and the confidence of those, from whom they have been so long separated: and, perhaps, it is the purpose of God that the distinction should be yet, at least for a time, continued. Say, however, that this is nothing but prejudice; still that prejudice is a wall of brass. The most obvious remedy is a colony of Christian Jews.

There are, it is true, in different parts of the world, and especially in our own city, persons of the Jewish race, who are an ornament to society. Individuals of known integrity, and of elegant accomplishments, would always secure access to the several civilities of Christian society': and every man, who makes an intelligent profession of his conversion to Christianity, may be assured of his ready reception to a Christian congregation wheresoever he offers himself: and yet, even in this city, of perfect political equality, without regard to race or religion, the Jew, who leaves the synagogue for the church, may calculate on frowns from his kindred according to the flesh, and on jealousies amidst his new connexions. Unless possessed of independence, such a one might calculate on loss of employment and of goods, as well as of the socialities of domestic life. It is worse with an emigrant. It is worse in Europe; and being worse in Europe, the con verted Jew would feel inclined to emigrate. Lo a stranger lands on our

shores Is he from France? he seeks out and meets a Frenchman. Is he a German, a Spaniard, or a Briton? he soon discovers a countryman. Is he a Jew? a Jew takes him by the hand. Is he a converted Jew? he has lost his cast, and feels himself solitary. To the Jew he is a Christian, and to the Christian he is a Jew: he is in fact both Christian and Jew, but he is in reputation neither, for by both he is neglected. What! a Christian neglected in a Christian land? Alas! the name is too general, too often, too commonly abused and prostituted to be a recommendation to special attentions. This stranger is left alone, without a friend, without a home, and without employment, until he finds a colony of his own religion and his own race. And can any liberally-minded Jew or Christian object to the erection of such an asylum for the desolate ? Humanity forbids the objection. Benevolence calls for the institution. Let Christians provide it; and the seed of Abraham will now look on, and by and by they will rejoice, and flock into it, as "doves to their windows." From such institutions may yet arise hundreds of Missionaries to their own brethren, that will accompany them on their return to Zion, where they shall see, instead of the Crescent displayed triumphantly, the Cross in which they will glory.

There are at the present day, about eight millions of Jews, independently of the remnant of the long lost ten tribes of Israel scattered among the Gentiles. With more than half the Bible in their hands; assiduously following the ceremonies of the ancient Church of God; teaching their sons and their daughters to read Moses and the Psalms; daily looking toward Jerusalem, in expectation of the Messiah; and yet without an altar or a sacrifice, without faith and without a Saviour, they invite Christian sympathy and exertion. But even unto this day the vail is upon their heart; and every saint desires that it be done away in Christ. Their souls are precious as the

souls of others; there should be cor responding exertions in this age of liberal and magnanimous enterprise for their conversion. They have facilities, for a speedy and general conversion, which most of the heathen do not know. They have civilization, literature, revelation and a weekly sabbath; they have ordinances and places of public worship; they have officers to read the law to the people and to offer up praise and prayer to God. Christians too are under special obligations to give them the Gospel. We are their debtors :From them the Gentiles received revealed religion, "the goodly land and the pleasant heritage ;" to them originally belonged "adoption and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises, whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen!"

They have been, moreover, our auxiliaries, in the war with infidelity. The Jews are witnesses for Christians that the Old Testament is both authentic and uncorrupted; dispersed and yet distinct, their very existence is proof positive of the truth of the prophecies both of the Old and the New. Their conversion as it is predicted, must be attempted: and the attempt must ultimately succeed.

If the Jews are to be converted into the faith of Jesus Christ, they must either come into the church individually, so as to sink their distinctness in the mass of Christian professors, or appear at their conversion as still the seed of Jacob. It would seem, that the latter is the event necessary to fulfil the prophetic predictions, and best calculated to put for ever to silence the objections of infidelity. In order however to prepare for a national restoration of the Jews to the Messiah, there behooves to be established in several nations some rallying point to preserve their distinctness, and to make it strikingly apparent. This consideration,