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Entered at Post Office at Brooklyn. N. 'V., January 10, 1896, as second class matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879

Salutation opprobrious names that ruffians apply to Jews in general. As we walked our way, not mind- irk • "We go to salute the childi4 of the King." I Kings, TO, 73. ing their taunting, they picked up stones, sticks My Dear Friends: and other missiles, throwing them at us, and hit- "Grace unto you, and pe ce, be multiplied, ting one of us on the ear. The devil had lots of fun, Vhile I felt continual heaviness in, my May all His. power and wisdm be engaged for heart your good and your welfare.,Amen." • COMPORT A LAST. THE GREAT HONOR. Upon reaching home, ound two letters con- What a great honour it is to he a child of the taining sisterly and broth ly expressions, cheer- greatest King ! What a wonderful influence that ing and encouraging woi s, and assurances of dignified title brings to bear upon people on some their prayers in my behalf Instantly my sorrow occasions, carrying comfort, ,strength, and en- turned into joy, my weak soul was refreshed, couragement to the weary. A little incident in and my broken spirit w strengthened. Why ? my experience recently will illustrate the state- "But ye are a chosen ge ration, a royal priest- ment. One day, as I Vas visiting, I came across hood."—I Peter, 2: 9. ain, "And hath made a number of those cases loaded with misery of us kings and priests unto d."—Rev. I : 6. Ah ! which there are plenty among:my poor brethren here is a letter from a ki g who is praying for in the Ghettos, and which ddw out one's sym- me ; there is the hand-w ng of r. queen who is pathy. First. I found a man, :1nable to work be- mindful of me in her ntercession with the cause he accidentally cut off ais fingers, a wife Father. These heirs of everlasting kingdom ; and four helpless children denending upon him. these partakers of Christ' onor are my friends! Next, spoor sick Voman. the h isband nursing her, That satisfied me and I ed no more about the while their six little children Were crying for lack honor or reproach of the 11-orld. of food. Then I was urgentl) called to the aid of a poor woman whose husband leserted her ; she is THE PRIESTHOOD rRANspERRED. sick, needs a physician, a nurstand food for her- In Ex. 19: 5, 6, God prilnised the royal priest- self and children. These are either believers in hood to all Israel if thee-obeyed Him. When through their prej' Christ or inquirers after the tenth. Then I came .rliceta gainst the Gentiles, into the house of the poor widr,'w whose husband they refused to act as pri sts and mediators be- was killed, as was briefly narrated in the last tween God and the heatien, the function was number. The poor widow, a frail body, was transferred to you, dear f-e iends. And. I am so washing clothes, for in this W2 she supports her glad that you help bring e Gospel to the Jews, seven children. the oldest eight years, and the showing thus, that you a fitted for that holy youngest fourteen Veeks. NN, hat a sad sight ! vocation of mediatorshile; not discriminating The widow's hard labor, the baby's crying, and against the Jews. The Wine is coming when all the other children's sighing, :ill bearing record Christians, together wit' their leaders, Vill that they are fatherless. There.. my grief reached aVaken to their duty to t ris people. its. climax. The Rev. H. C.,Buell -,1-1 a sermon made the MOBBED BY JF, s. following confession : "WI have been giving the water of life from an eve,:-flowing fountain, but On leaving, tVo Jews stop d me on the side we have not stopped to ti411 that the fountain is walk and I talked to them bout their souls. a Jewish one. * * * If we had done our Soon a number of other Jeri gathered around duty, I do not believe so 'much prejudice would us and listened, when one of em began to yell r exist against the Jew a ere is among us to- shouting at the top of his vo e saying : "Apos- day." tate! Kill him ! Break his bon 1" You can im- If the Christian Churel realized the debt Ve agine what followed, anything but a pleasant owe the JeV: it would be asking the question time for the number of toughs \vas legion. I es- more seriously : "What n we do to pay the caped, hoVever, with unbroken bones, and the debt ?" two Jews overtook me express'%1 their sympathy. The Rev. Dr. Van D Water writes : "Am On we Vent. walking outside the Ghetto, in a troubled in conscience ab ut the seeming indif- Gentile neighborhood. talking s we went. about ference amongGod Christians Vill ri ,th this God-given work, the Lord JeSus, and contrasting- the attitude of (JeVish.) er he satisfied Vith the Jews with that of the Chr ,,tians. Suddenly heaven. if only Gentiles a found there." Dear a gang of Gentile lads Vhom Vie Jews regard as friends, continue the g• and great Vork of Christians (they think every 11211-Jew, a Christ- your kingly priesthood, ely, intercession. ian) began to halloo at us, u 'ling us by those Yours in the Gos LEOPOLD COHN. 2 THE CHOSEN-PEOPLE.

Articles Received ness. If the friends are led to send us means for Twenty four hymn hooks donated by the this purpose we Nbill gladly distribute it among Marcy Ave. Baptist Church. the poor Jews of our acquaintance. •

Receipts During October About Remittances FOR RENT. When our friends Vish to remit a subscription R. L. C $25.00 or a contribution by enclosing stamps, please send J. T. P 25.00 one cent stamps instead of two cent. We can "THE CHOSEN PEOPLE." use the penny stamps when THE CHOSEN PEOPLE Subscriptions and extra copies 12.00 is mailed in the ,city or for additional copies, FOR TRACTS, BIBLES AND LITERATURE. while the two cent stamps can be put only - on Mrs. Elnathan Sweet 5.00 small packages of tracts as we use the stamped FOR ASSISTANTS. envelopes. Stamps can be sold only at consider- J. T. P 40.00 able discount. FOR GENERAL FUND. Also, money orders are better than checks as M. Patterson 2.00 we have to pay a collection fee of ten cents on J. G. Sitton .50 each out-of-town check. S. B. Dyckman .5o Edwin H. Volckman,TR. r Mrs. Pope 2.00 Delivery of the Paper Mrs. C. R. Deane 2.00 Mrs. John Pope .5o Since the October number of THE CHOSEN Mrs. H. E. Coolidge 5.00 PEOPLE was mailed a number of letters have Mrs. Elnathan Sweet and Daughter 25.0o been sent us, saving that the paper had not been (Continued on page 8.) received and as g for a copy. This we feel sure is because o some mistake in delivery for as all must realize, e post office department is not Higher Critics and the Jews infallible, but we are glad to knoV that our Many highly educated Christian leaders have friends miss TH CHOSEN PEOPLE when it fails nobly put forth theiq efforts in shoVing up the to reach them. t shows their interest in this folly of the Higher Critics, and the hieroglyphics Gospel work. on the tablets and mimuments of the East haVe We shall alw s gladly attend to such com- been some of their clifief proofs. But they have plaints so when 'on do not receive the paper, all missed using against them, one of the most please drop us a postal card giving your address, powerful explosives known, and that is, the Jew- and we Vill mail- you a copy at once. ish nation. The critics can chew the cud on the dead leaves of Isaiah or Jonah, but let them try The Jews' Claim and chew the livingand everlasting nation, the The fact that God Himself exhorts us to pray Jews, and they are likely to break all their teeth for the Jews, as is written in Isaiah, 62 : 6, 7, "Ye on them. Let every Higher Critic bump his that make mentieiri of the Lord, keep not silence head against this highest monument the world and give him no*-est, till he establish, and till he has ever had and so lose his brain and be forgot- make Jerusalem a praise in the earth," makes the ten forever. claim of the Jews upon every member of the The history of the JeVs was not, like that of Church of Christ most strong. Far a Christian other nations, written after it had occur red, but to pray for the *salvation of the JeVs is not a thousands of years it advance. Let the Higher work that will involve expense or extra time or Critics explain why that higlory which was once any great labor. Why the visible Church of prophecy, is being literally carried out now as Christ has eliminated the JeV from their prayers well as tVo thousand years ago. The Church of is as much a mystery as why the Jews rejected the Lord Jesus Christ and the JeVs are the tVo their own King, the Lord Jesus Christ. mighty monuments Vitnessing for the truth of But thanks be to God, there are a few members the Lord and His Annointed beyond any human within the Church who stand in this matter out- refutation. side of the visible church, whose leaders are in- different to the JeVs, and these members keep Jews and Thanksgiving Day the above and elsewhere reiterated command of God by praying for the salvation of poor scat- On Thanksgiving Day Vhen thousands of poor tered Israel. people are made to rejoice by 'having plenty of food for at least one day in the year, no one cares "For thus saith the Lord : Sing with gladness to do anything of the kind for poor JeVs. They for Jacob and shout among the chief of the na- . of course would not enjoy slain turkeys, but if tions : publish ye, praise ye, and say, 0 Lord, they Vere given a dollar or tVo to buy what they save thy people, the remnant of Isra,e1."—Jer. like, it would indeed.be an occasion for thankful- 31 : 7. THE CHOSEN PEOPLE. 3

Incidents in the Work. tives. He remembered their honor and their feelings which would be greatly injured if they learned that he had anything to do with Christi- A Wond,:rful Story anity and on one occasion Vhen I pressed hard the need of his acceptance of the Lord as his Sav- The accompanying sketch represents a Jewish iour, he said in a very earnest attitude and with Christian family, consisting of father, mother an air of confiding a secret, "When I put my mind and five children, the head of which is a remark- to thinking of accepting Christ, a small voice able servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. He was seems to Vhisper to me, 'Don't, don't. It is baptised in the irst Baptist German Church, by idolatry.' " This of course gave me no hope for the Rev. Dr. Grimmell on Sunday, the fifth of this his ultimate conversion. month. On account of his riot knowing Eng- GOD'S WAYS ARE ABOVE OURS. lish, and being desirous of speaking to the au- But as heaven is higher than the earth, so dience and explaining his position, I introduced are God's ways above our'Vays and our thinking, him to this Cerman church instead of to Marcy It seems that this was the last struggle between Avenue. darkness and light in the young man's heart, for

At the extreme left is Monheim, a boy of so years, next to him is Mrs. Rosenzweig, in front of them sitting at their feet is Alexander, 4 years old, the boy standing between Mr. and Mrs. Rosenzweig is the oldest son, Abraham 17 years. At the extreme right is Netta, a girl of 7 years, next is Mr. Rosenzweig. All of these dear ones love the Lord Jesus Christ. I had the pleasure of seeing them all at my table, and it was inspiring to witness the smallest ones bow their heads in asking a blessing. Twelve years ago in New York. I met this Mr. he at last confessed the Lord Jesus Christ and Rosenzweig, then a mere boy of about twenty- began to talk about Him to other Jews. Soon four. He Vas an inquirer after the truth and we after. he was told by physicians that this climate had many conversations about the Lord Jesus did not agree with him. so he decided• to go to Christ. I coveted the man's gifts for the service his home in Poland. The ,following facts are as of the Lord Jesus, and used to pray earnestly for given me by himself. his conversion. Sometimes it seemed as if the Upon his arrival, he began to present the Gos- truth had gotten hold of him, and again he would pel to his wife and she having great confidence utter such expressions as would lead me to think in his sincerity, piety and learning acquiesced in him very far from Christ. her husband's new doctrines and was on the road He had been married. while quite young. as of acceptance of Christ as her Saviour. Mr. the orthodox Jews believe in this, and his wife Rosenzweig. being happy at the results of his was in Poland. His mother. - whom he loved first labor which he considered most important, very dearly, lived there also and his father whom began then to reach out, gathering in his old ac- he highly respected and all his numerous rela- quaintances, young men with whom he used to 4 THE CHOSEN PEOPLE.

study in rabbinical schools and in, an orthodox Church„ if he, was a. Christian., Tp ,tbis he an- Talmudic way he explained to them many of the swered, "What ! I just escaped one 'sin; should I Scriptures and' passages from Talmudic litera- commit another?" They Vere much enraged at ture which are mysteries to most Jews oVing this and the officer said, "Do you dare to offend to their ignorance of the Lord Jesus. Soon he our church of which hii Majesty the Czar is the showed them that all these verses referred to head ?. NoV you have condemned - yourself, and Christ. They at once fell in line Vith him and I am going to send you to Siberia."- a circle of educated young men believed and 'It is Vell knoVn that when a Russian merely , confessed Christ. This all happened in the toVn hears the name of Siberia he shudders ; hoV Pshedbosh, which is exclusively a Jewish one much more terror stricken must be one upon re- with a population of about one thousand fami- ceiving such a sentence. lies. Not one Gentile is to be found amongst SAVED OUT Or IT. them except those who come in to help on the But Mr. RosenzVeig calmly and smilingly an- Sabbath. swered the officer, "If I am sent to Siberia I'll A SHABBATH GOY. The Jews all over the Vorld observe the Sab- proclaim the Gospel there and it doesn't make bath in a very rigid manner. They do not make any difference to me as long as I have found my fires or light a candle or strike a match on that Saviour Jesus." At this all present in the day, but employ a Gentile man or Voman who is court were astonished. How could a man be so taught beforehand what there is to do, because peaceful in the face of such a calamity. They it is a sin even to tell a Gentile about Vork on the looked at each other and the clerk raised his fin- Sabbath. A person helping in this way is called ger to his head indicating that the man must be a Shabbath Goy. He comes in Saturday morn- demented. After, a short consultation they de- ing and makes a fire and heats the prepared cided to set him free as they didn't want to send foods made ready the day before. an insane man to Siberia. Now when the parents of these young men When our brother reached his home, all his heard of their new belief they were shocked and people were stirred again and they- began to plan severely questioned and exhorted him not to con- some other means to stop this fellow from teach- tinue propagating his ideas. But the young man ing other young men to believe on the Crucified showed the rabbi and others present not only One. So the rabbi and the rulers of the syna- from the Scriptures and from the prophets Vhich gogue held a meeting at which they put him the orthodox Jews usually regard as obscure under excommunication. This meant that no and beyond their understanding, but also from Jew, man or woman, was alloVed to come near Talmudic passages, that Jesus is the Messiah, him, to speak to 'him, to sell him anything or to so that they could not gainsay him. This, how- buy anything- from him. When the neVs of his ever, only made things worse, Satan caused them excommunication was circulated the first one to to grow more angry. and finally decide to put show its effect Vas his wife, who. although she him in prison. loved her husband and sympathized with the PUT IN PRISON. Gospel.,yet being a true and loyal JeVish' Voman They went to the government offachals and found it her. duty according to tradition to obey said that Mr. Rosenzweig had just come from the rabbi and the synagogue rulers as Moses America where he had imbibed Socialistic ideas himself. which he was promulgating among the young men. This was sufficient to imprison him at Then began most terrible suffering ,for the once Vith a prospect of being sent to Siberia, young man. He Vas locked tip alone in his house where he might be kept for all his life and someone threatened :to ,throw him into the for that is the way they do things in Russia. nearby river. if he ventured out at all. The ex- The first day of his imprisonment he wrote me citement was so great that had he escaped this a letter stating the facts. When this reached fate he would have been attacked by the youths me I went over to Mr. Gabelein, (who was do- and ruffians of the town. He could not buy a ing mission Vork among the Jews in New York niece of bread, no matter how much he paid for at that time), and he secured a certificate en- it. and his plight was becoming very serious dorsed by the Russian. Consul. that Mr. Rosen- when fortunately the Shabbath Gov came in to zweig was a convertgd JeV, an honest and up- do his weekly tasks. The man was fond of Mr. right man, but not a socialist. RosenzVeig who had talked to him about Christ In the mean time, fourteen weeks of a misera- and he managed to bring him food daily for some ble existence had passed for our friend. He was time. But when the JeVs found it out word was 11 not allowed to see anybody, or talk to anybody sent to all the dealers not to sell anything to that until the certificate came, Vhen he was brought Shabbath Goy. He. hoVever, walked four miles for examination. An army officer was detailed to daily to another town_ and so supplied his pa- be present at the trial and after Mr. Rosenzweig tron's needs. But 'it was a life o: utter misery had told his story, the officer questioned him and the young man began to pray that God and asked why he didn't join the Greek Catholic Vould take him out of the world. THE CHOSEN- PEOPLE. 5

RELIEF' SUGGESTED. gogue leaders with the excommunication which This terrible condition lasted fully a month is a serious crime in Russia. Consequently they until one day Mr. Rosenzweig's mother called to Vere arrested and brought to Warsaw for trial, him from a distance that she had persuaded the but he refused to press the charges against them. rabbi to be lenient to her son if he Vould go bare- On the contrary he begged the court to set them footed to the synagogue and lying on the thres- free. Then the people took notice that the young hold let every. JeVish communicant step on him man had been with Jesus and the door was and spit at his face. Then he must go into the opened for him to preach the Gospel to them. synagogue. and •standing- on the platform an- Mr. Gabelein, hoVever, placed him in Warsaw nounce his regret for his great and terrible sin. where there are over one hundred thousand Her son at once said that he Vould do as sug- JeVs. There he Vorked in his peculiar Vay, go- gested and a day was appointed and everyone ing to the synagogue and doing all that the Jews notified to be at one large synagogue. do, and yet showing from the Scriptures that all are lost Vho do not accept Christ. The young man obeyed the directions and When the troubles in Russia began to grow those that entered apparently stepped on him, worse and Vorse his work Vas greatly hindered but did not hurt him. There were, hoVever. a and he had to return to America Vith his family. large number of fanatics who spit in his face which made him very uncomfortable. At last he HIS TESTIMONY IN AMERICA. went into the synagogue and stepping up to the He arrived here last August and settled doVn platform near the shrine containing the Scroll in Brownsville, has visited the synagogue every called Thorah (The LaV of Moses), Vhich is time it has been open for services and has considered the most sacred thing in the world, preached Christ to his brethren whenever oppor- addressed himself to the large audience saying, tunity offered itself. He has been to nearly "Brethren, you want me to confess that I am a every meeting of the Mission and has spoken to sinner, so I am. and because I am a terrible sin- the audiences Vho have appreciated his earnest ner therefore I must believe on the Lord Jesus appeals to accept,the free gift of God. Christ Vho is the only sacrifice for my sins ac- The accounts Vhich folloV Vere told me not cording to that Thorah," pointing in the direction only by himself, but by others who witnessed the of the shrine, "and be it known unto you that if incidents. Last Jewish New Year's Day. Sunday October that Thorah is true then Jesus of Nazareth is our first, as he Vas standing in the synagogue. he true Messiah and Saviour and if He is not the spoke of Christ to some of those nearby from Messiah then the Thorah is a lie." passages in the prayer book. The rabbi was per- • No bomb Vould have terrified that company as forming the most solemn part of the prayers, the Vords of this humble believer. They began namely, the bloVing of the Shoffar (Ram's Horn to shriek and to Vail as if they were going to be Trumpet) to commemorate the ram substituted killed and ran out Vith great speed, tumbling for Isaac, supposed to have happened on that day over one another and rolling out of the doors of and asking God for his sake to have mercy on the building. But no hand was laid on Mr. them and forgive their sins. The talking dis- Rosenzweig who had expected to be killed and turbed the rabbi as all the Jews turned around to who really Vished for death. the speaker, when suddenly they sprang on him The secret of this action may not be realized by shouting. "This is a Mis'sionary. He talks about ;Gentiles, for superstitious Jews regard such ut- the Crucified One. Heraus mit him." One said terances especially in their- sacred places and in "Break his bones," another. "Rush him out." the presence of the Holy Thorah as the greatest There was tumult and confusion in the whole blasphemy and they feared that God in His dis- congregation, but the brother stood calm, not at pleasure Vould destroy the building. all afraid. A relative of his, however, hastened • HE RAN AFTER THEM. to his rescue and assured them that he was not a The young man was not satisfied to be left missionary and begged them to leave him alone alone, but ran out after the people and among and succeeded in restoring quiet. them groups discussing the • subject Vith seri- ANOTHER REMARKABLE TESTIMONY. ous faces Vere all about and Vhen he came near As the man is without any employment his to tell them further of his belief in the Lord cousin who has been helping him look for work Jesus they at once retreated. They did not mo- went to the president of a Jewish society in lest him further though there was hatred and NeV York consisting of a large number of prejudice in all their hearts, but a little later, wealthy members. to see if they couldn't give him however, he gained their love and admiration. a position. For his cousins' sake, the president At this juncture, Mr. Gabelein and a friend gave some encouragement, but said he must be a visited him and the village officials Vere so member of the club. Consequently the cousin frightened at the presence of the foreigners introduced him to the society at their session on Vhom they imagined might take Mr. Rosen- October fifteenth, having paid all necessary dues. zVeig's part that they accused the rabbi and syna- After they had read the by-laws to him and his lit THE CHOSEN PEOPLE.

duty to the club brothers had been made plain, ious to see his baby paid a visit to her father's Mr. RosenzVeig asked for an opportunity to house, but was not permitted to enter, his fa- speak and addressing an audience of one hun- ther-in-law roughly dismissing him from the dred and fifty Vealthy prominent Jews gave a door. They wanted him to give his wife a divorce, word in season connected with the Feast of according to the laV and tradition of the rabbi's, Tabernacles, which was then being held. He but he Vould not. The poor young man had to spoke of the tabernacle of David and the taber- forego seeing his child and stay aVay from his nacle of Peace Vhich was broken, according to wife as well as from all his relatives-and friends. the Jewish prayer books, and then folloVed with He suffered many things on this account, but he a most powerful testimony as to his belief in the never lost faith in the Lord Jesus Christ for Lord Jesus as his personal Saviour from sin. "I whose sake he had been willing to stand all must tell you," he said, "what my faith is, so that these deprivations. you shall not say later on, that I deceived you One day last month as he was reading his and pretended to be a Jew in the sense you Bible, he came to the promise of the Lord Jesus mean." Then a terrible uproar arose, shouting where He said that anything 'asked in His name and howling, "Stop that, stop that, get out of would be done. He then decided to ask this one here." But Mr. Rosenzweig not minding, went thing, namely that the Lord would cause his on Vith his speech from the platform until a wife and child Vhom he had given up because number of Jews ran to him seizing his arms and of his faith, to return to him. This was in the coat and trying to drag him down. At that he evening and he prayed Vith an earnestness never jumped on a chair and escaped their grasp shout- before known. From the Vay he described in ing still louder, exhorting them to accept the one of our meetings the nature of his prayer, we Lord Jesus Christ according to their own Scrip- are justified in saying that he, like Jacob, wres- tures. tled Vith God. The next morning he received a Here he was again in a critical condition, but letter from his wife written that very evening, some of the men who were near him and had after she had been absent from him for half 'watched his face with interest warned the others a year and had not sent a single word. In it she saying, "This man talks like a prophet of old. expressed her surprise at his not being anxious You'd better leave him alone." This discouraged to see his wife and child for so long a time. In them somewhat and he, finally got aVay safely reply to this, he went in person and came back being kept in perfect peace. But the remaining accompanied by them. "Now," said he, full of members Vere not peaceful and after excitedly joy, "Vill any JeVish rabbi dare to tell me that discussing until after midnight they expelled him the word of the Lord Jesus is not true ? I have from his recent membership. His cousin Vas been Vondering why the Lord permitted so blamed for it all and he came asking me to per- many hardships to come upon me, but now I see suade Mr. RosenzVeig not to talk about Christ it was all for the reason that I should experience among the Jews because he disgraced him, al- His mighty poVer, His truth and His nearness though he loved him and Vanted to find work for to His folloVers in time of trouble. Blessed be him. I told him that his relative would never the name of Jesus." listen to a man and not even to any creature for he was impelled by the Holy Spirit through the The Poor Widow Word of God. "As for, me, I thank God that he The friends will remember that reference Vas does talk about Christ. I Vould not advise him made in the last number of THE CHOSEN PEOPLE to stop for any consideration." He became very to the widow whose husband was instantly killed sad, but there is hope that he, too. will eventually by a car. and Vas left with seven small children. come to this wonderful light of the Lord Jesus She lives right in the Ghetto of Brownsville, Christ. where the houses, with the exception of a few, Mr. Rosenzweig is anxious for work that he are owned by Jews. Until a short time ago she may labor Vith his hands to support his family, but preach the Gospel in his spare moments. In had been in a tenement Vhere there were other JeVish families and Vhere she was secretly the mean time he is assisting me in the tVo fields. watched, as are many, in her observances of the laV. Last Day of Atonement there was a great change in this home from the year before when A Young Convert's Wrestling they rigidly kept the fast, but now since they Mr. Orah Heend, one of the converts whose have accepted Christ as their Saviour they have story of conversion and picture were given in Atonement every day and that, too, the real one THE CHOSEN PEOPLE about two years ago has and not fictitious, like their blind brethren Vho had a remarkable experience along the line of fast Vithout bringing the sacrifice which makes God's answers to prayers. We reported once the atonement. It is against the law for anyone about his troubles Vith his wife who Vith her to present a sacrifice anyVhere but in the Tem- parents are bitterly opposed to him and his ideas. ple, which God chose, where were the Altar and At last she left her husband and settled down the High Priest, but now for more than eighteen with her parents. Mr. Heend' being very anx- hundred years there has been nothing-of the kind. THE CHOSEN PEOPLE. 7

It Vas noticed by the neighbors that the widow leader. Then the explanation of the lesson fol- had made a fire on the Day of Atonement, and loVs and its truths we believe will long remain after closer investigation it was found that she Vith the girls. had prepared food and that she and the children were eating. This alarmed the JeVs and they Many Superstitious Yet at once demanded of the landlord that he should disposses the woman. The owner came and No one can realize the difficulties in Jewish mis- asked if it were tree, and, she answered that she sion work unless they have been in it for years. believed in having a Day of Atonement every There are still many superstitions among the day in the year and to be good likeVise every Jews and their children which are not overcome. day. She did not believe in picking out one day The following incident illustrates this fact. of the year, pretending to be godly then and be- We thought it good to take a number of these ing sinful all the other days. The landlord said, Sunday School girls to the Long Island Baptist that he didn't understand her and asked, if she Association which was held the latter part of was crazy, did she believe in God, and Vhat kind October in the Strong Place Baptist Church, to of a religion did she have if not the Jewish one. sing a few hymns to the Christian audience. Then she told him that she believed in the Lord When the girls were told about it tVelve of them Jesus Christ, who is her atonement. gladly offered to go. But Ve said that they That was sufficient and soon a disposses war- must get their parents consent. One girl with rant was sent to the por woman. She can not her little sister went home and old her mother read English and one of the neighbors had to about it, but being smart, she Vorded the idea help her out. She asked the reader what she rather differently and said that Mr. Cohn Vanted could do with so many little children if she Vere them to go to a big mission and. sing. The put out into the street at such short notice. He mother consented at once, but the little sister of advised her to go to Court and when she ap- about eight years piped up. "Oh, Mama, it isn't peared there and told the officials that she had a mission at all, it's a church." Upon hearing this done nothing wrong and had only told the land- the mother Vas horrified and withdreV her pro- lord that she believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, mise. they granted her a week's time during which she Another girl was told by her mother, not to go could look for rooms. Next day she found a because they would brand a cross on her arm the little cottage by itself in the yard of a tenement, minute she entered a church. "Why," said the consisting of four rooms. She saV in this the girl, "Miss Susdorf and Miss Bigelow will be hand of God for she had long wished that she with us and they Vouldn't let them do such a might have such a home when she could be by thing." The mother answered, "You can go, but herself and all her troubles had but worked for if you come back with a cross burned on you, I her good. "Can anybody tell me that this is not tell you before hand that you cannot stay under the special care of my Heavenly Father," she my roof, but you'll have to go to Miss Susdorf said. and Miss Bigelow and stay Vith them." Very rarely does one see a Christian who so It rained heavily on the appointed evening and cheerfully resigns to God's Vill and accepts that only six children came. When we reached the great bereavement Vith such a lovely spirit. church a Superintendent of a large Sunday School was giving his experience in the work and telling hoV they distinguished scholars from The Sunday School outsiders by marking the former with one cross It seems that the children who come to our and the latter with two. These remarks made Williamsburg school on Sundays have at last us most uncomfortable as Ve feared that the determined to come regularly. For a long time girls would rise and run out with fear. But it Vas almost impossible to get them to come at nothing happened and at the close of the talk Ve all, because of the superstitions and pride which Vere called up and the girls sang beautifully. would not allow them to make such a concession "That will be glory for me," and "I love to tell to Christianity. I would gladly have gathered the story." All the audience Vere delighted and them on the Sabbath when they rest and have applauded the children heartily. time to spare, but then Ve must hold our adult meetings which require all the workers and all the rooms Vhich are at our command. But The Williamsburg Sewing School now, hoVever, they have learned to come regu- Our friends are already acquainted Vith the larly on Sundays though they have objected to Brownsville SeVing School and know that al- reading the NeV Testament and to being taught though we are in great need of teachers at pre- from it. But this they are also becoming used sent yet there are a few to carry on the work. to and Ve give a copy of the New Testament to But in Williamsburg there is no one to do any- each child Vhile Miss Susdorf reads responsively thing and I have had to employ a Christian lady, the lesson of the day with them. In this way a regular dress maker to prepare the sewing. the Vords are impressed upon their memory Also for the sake of teaching the Gospel I give more than Vhen simply read for them by the myself to that part of the work as Vell. I have THE CHOSEN PEOPLE.

never had any education in the line of sewing The following lines came from Miss Susdorf, who to- gether with Miss. Bigelow are teaching the Sunday vet through Christ and for Christ I can do sew- School in the Williamsburg mission. ing too. I can thread needles for• the little girls who Vatch and make fun when I don't do it The importance of teaching the children, has quickly, and I can show them hoV to trace the shown itself, particularly since we have re- stitches in the patch work, show them where they opened the school for the Fall and Winter. On 401. made mistakes, keep order and give them the the first day of the Jewish New Year, which Vas Gospel. It is a hard thing for a man to do and I Sunday, we opened the school with songs of pray that some Christian ladies may be found .in praise to Jesus. and one bright girl would not this large city Vho will seize this opportunity to sing. When asked, "Fanny why don't you sing," not only teach sewing, but chiefly to tell them she ansVered angrily she had just come from the about their own Messiah Jesus. temple (synagogue) hoV can she sing of Jesus When I started the school in Brownsville and after a few minutes she and her little bro- ther got up and Vent out, and soon one after the eleven years ago I had to go through the same ex- perience, but after a time the Lord sent Chris- other got up and Vent out until two were left. They stayed until the closing. tian ladies for this Vork. and I know it Vill be Beloved reader is there anything id the above so in the other field if we only wait patiently for you. What are you doing for Jesus as the and pray to the Master of the Vineyard and He days go by. Have you done anythiug to shoV will in His own time thrust out some laborers. some Jewish child that Jesus is the Messiah. One Sunday in speaking of the Prophets, I asked what a prophet was ; one modest girl said, if you buy something and sell it for more. I Our Girls in Brownsville asked Vhat a peacemaker Vas, we had the Ser- mon on the Mount for our study, one boy got up The Sewing School has again re-opened for and said pocketbooks. Well, I kneV his father the fall and at the first session, twenty-eight girls Vorks at pocketbooks and is probably paid piece- were present. Since .then a few new names have work. Oh the children know nothing of God in 'been added to our rote, but we should be glad to the light of truth, but false teaching of men, and have others with us. Doubtless, hoVever, this are taught from babyhood to hate Jesus who has will surely be the case though the Public School been so misrepresented by so-called Christian has a sewing class on Tuesday afternoons and nations. Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one though there is opposition to missionaries and of the least of these my brethren, ye have done Christianity, but we have never known De- it unto me. cember to commence without our having all —Gussig StTSDORV. our classes filled and more children in the school than Ve could well take care of. But (Continued from page 2.) this year Ve almost dread having neV scho- Mr. William Benz .50 lars arrive as our corps of teachers is so unu- Mrs. L. A. Curtis .50 sually small. We can depend upon only two, Edwin H. Volckman 2.00 as through illness, some have been laid aside for Mrs. S. H. Kelley Loo a time, but we are hoping for others to come to G. H. Decker 2.00 our aid before long. Is there not some reader Mrs. Elizabeth Barlow .50 of THE CHOSEN PEOPLE living in Brooklyn who Miss J. Elliot would be glad to help in this work of the Lord, I.00 A. J. Mansfield 4.50 . by giving her time for this cause ? We need Mrs. G. Gabrielson your assistance very much and pray that you will 20.00 Rev. E. L. Carr Loo not turn a deaf ear to our request. F. M. Stewart •75 By the time this paper reaches you Ve are hop- Caroline A. Gray .50 ing to have some hymn books for the use of our FOR POOR FUND. girls and are looking forVard with much pleas- Mrs. Elnathan SVeet and Daughter ure to their arrival. The children sing so well 5.00 Anonymous 2.00 and learn riew hymns so quickly, that we feel Miss J. Elliot the books will be a decided advantage over the 2.00 slow method of teaching word by word. Could THE BUILDING FUND, you have been present the other day and heard U. S. Society, East River through Miss these interesting looking JeVesses singing heart- Leete 5.00 ily, "I love to tell the story," you would have Mrs. Daniel C. GrisVold 2.00 realized what sermons Vere being learned in the Miss Hattie M. Gilley r.25 simple words of the old hymn and how perhaps Mrs. Elnathan Sweet and Daughter 15.00 it might be the means of leading some one from Jane Curtis Jo darkness to light. Julius R. Jaeger Loo Mrs. Luthera C. Allen —ELLA T. MARSTON: 5.00 Miss Fannie E. Comings 5.00