304 Foreign.-Marriages.Obituaries.-Poetry. Addresses were delivered by clergymen of different denominations, and a collection taken up. Thomas Todd, a young lad belonging to one of the Sabbath Schools, presented a small box containing three hundred and thirty-three cents, which he had collected during the year, for the cause of missions.do In Hudson river district, more than 2000 persons have been added to the Methodist church within three years. Important Foreign News. By late arrivals at New-York, London papers to the 22d April have been received, bringing the intelligence that hostilities had commenced between the French and Spanish. The information which follows is by way of Boston. The French army, headed by the Duke d'Angouleme, entered Spain on the 7th April, and had invested St. Sebastian and Pampeluna They met, however, with a spirited resistance from the Spaniards.-Two severe and bloody skirmishes had taken place, in which the invaders suffered a decided disadvantage. A dreadful war appears inevitable.--The first blow has already been struck; and Spain now a field of blood.- -Ch. Watchman. OBITUARY NOTICES. DIED-At Mechanicksburg, in the 23d year of his age, Mr. Amasa George, late of the county of Philadelphia. Departed this life, about 5 o'clock on the morning of the 19th inst. Mr. John M. Maclay, Esq. Sheriff of Franklin county, aged about 43. For the Miscellany. MATTHEW VIII. 24, 25, 26. When we scarce our course are keeping, We are sinking in despair!" Then unto the billows speaking, He commands them-"Peace, be still," Printing of every description neatly ex ecuted at this office, on the shortest notice. No. 20. Religions Miscellany. "Say ye to the daughter of Zion, behold, thy salvation cometh " PRAYER FOR THE COMING OF GOD'S KINGDOM. Vol. I. then let us repair; His grace let us supplicate; for without it we are nothing, we can effect nothing. Our For this object we should pray, be- blessed Saviour has taught us, when cause to God it belongs to accomplish we pray to our Father in heaven, to it. He does indeed employ the agen- say, Thy kingdom come; and all His cy of His people, but vain would be true disciples ever have been, and all their efforts, without His blessing. ever will be mindful of the direction. To the Lord of the harvest we must It is according to the established look for suitable laborers; and He a-arrangement of Divine Providence, lone can render them successful. By that the kingdom of God should come, His spirit were the apostles qualified in answer to prayer. Hence in close for their work, and by His spirit were connexion with the declaration, they rendered instrumental of laying When the Lord shall build up Zion, the foundations of the Christian He will appear in His glory, it is addChurch among Jews and Gentiles,ed, He will regard the prayer of the and of extending with such wonder-destitute and not despise their prayer; ful rapidity the kingdom of their this shall be written for the generation Master. In every age the faithful to come, and the people that shall be ministers of Christ have been called created, shall praise the Lord. Let of God; and whatever success has at- us not undervalue the privilege of tended their labors, they have been prayer. The prayer of faith has powconstrained to attribute to His gra- er with God. He is a 'Rewarder of cious influence. Of what avail would them that diligently seek Him.'be the labors of the husbandman, were He hath never said to the seed of the Lord of nature to withhold His Jacob, seek ye me in vain. Before vivifying energy? In vain would he they call, I will answer; and, while prepare the ground. In vain would they are yet speaking, I will hear.' he sow his seed. When the plant "There remaineth yet very much land has arisen; will his cultivation ensure to be possessed.' Survey those vast reit growth? Is the sun at his control?gions of the earth, where the errors Will the rain descend at his com- and abominations of paganism still mand? The whole process of vegeta- prevail. Look at the populous countion is conducted by that Almighty tries of China and Hindostan, the Being, who spake creation into exist- greater part of Africa, the principal ence, and who still upholds and gov-islands of the sea, and many parts of erns all things. It is equally His North and South America; where work to commence and maintain spir- millions worship 'gods, that cannot itual life. By His power the good save; where the name of Jesus has seed of Divine truth takes root; by scarcely been heard, and only a few His care the rising plant is nurtured thinly scattered rays of light have and defended; is made flourishing penetrated the darkness that has for and fruitful. Without Him all means ages enveloped them. Yet they are are useless, all efforts vain. With-accountable beings; they are hastenout Him the most able reasoning willing to the bar of God; they are unnot convince, the most pathetic en-der the curse of His law; they are treaties will not persuade. To God" perishing for lack of vision;' ought they not to be regarded with compas-ing the past year. The following is sion? a copy of that discourse. If you think it will be interesting to the readers of the Recorder, it may be insertYours, &c. P. FISK. But what can we do for five hundred millions of heathen? or for the deluded followers of Mahomet? or fored. the blinded descendants of Abraham? | or for the multitudes in Christian lands, that are suffering a famine of hearing the words of the Lord-We Our feet shall stand within thy gates, PSALM CXxii. 2. O Jerusalem. can pray for them. Prayer can be ofered for all men; and for all men The blood of Jesus Christ, that. are we commanded to pray. Why Lamb without blemish, which was should it be supposed, that Christian shed on the cross for our eternal benintercession is availing, in behalf of efit, the express order he gave, and those only, with whom we are conthe value of immortal souls are sufnected, or to whom we may have ac- ficient inducements to us to carry the cess? The conversion of many Jews gospel of Christ to every nation, kinand heathen, in our own times, may dred, and tongue; and especially to have been in answer to the petitions that ancient people who were once of those, who live in far distant lands, his beloved people-his dove, his unand who will never see them, until defiled, but who lost their rights by all the ransomed of the Lord shall having trampled under foot the blood meet in heaven. Prayer for the com- of Christ, and even misinterpreted ing of Christ's kingdom, is a privi- and perverted the documents of the lege, which the most obscure and in-claim of our Lord Jesus Christ— digent believer may enjoy. He, who in other ways can do but little, may by his prayers do much for the advancement of that cause, for which his Redeemer died. 'Ye, that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence, and give Him no rest, till He establish, and till He make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.' EGYPT AND SYRIA. even when he bled on the cross-on the cross for them;-I say by having gone so far, that, not satisfied with having crucified the Lord of glory, the Redeemer of our souls, they even misinterpreted the clear documents of his right to the Messiahship. Even on the cross when he said 'Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani? they said, he calleth for Elias. But I confess that I was strengthExtract of a letter from the Rev. Mr. Fisk, to ened in my purpose of proclaiming to the Editor of the Boston Recorder, dated them the everlasting Gospel, since I went out unto my brethren, to look Malla, Jan. 1, 1823. on their burdens,-even in the literYou have probably seen in the Jewish Expositor, some account of Mr. tain, even upon Lebanon, and since al Egypt, and upon the goodly mounWolff, a converted Jew, who has been employed the year past by Henryrusalem-of that Jerusalem, of which my feet stood within the gates of JeDrummond, Esq. of London, as a missionary to the Jews in the East. After spending a year in Egypt and Syria, he returned a few weeks ago to Malta. On the 18th of last month he delivered a discourse in our Chapel to a crowded audience, in which he gave an account of his labors dur Jerusalem which is a type of that Jeso glorious things are spoken-of that rusalem above, whose Founder and Builder is God. Reference to a former Discourse. Before I left this Island for the Holy Land, I addressed myself to My desire of showing forth to the Gentiles the importance of promoting the light of the gospel was strength my English friends in this place, from the words of the Royal Prophet, when enraptured by the view of the future state of Jerusalem he exclaimed, 'Oened after my feet stood within the that the salvation of Israel were come gates of Jerusalem, there where the out of Zion! When the Lord bringeth tribes did go up the tribes of the back the captivity of his people, Ja- Lord-formerly the centre of the cob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be worship and government of Israelglad.'-Psalms xiv. 7. In consider-where justice was administered acing this text, I took the liberty of ad-cording to the law of God- in Jerudressing myself to you, requesting salem which that High Priest, who you to pray and to endeavor to pro- is set on the right hand of the throne mote the conversion of the children of the Majesty in the heavens, did faof Israel by the power and favor of vor with his presence-where he Jehovah, to pray for his people in the showed strength with his arm-where captivity or bondage of Satan, for he began to fill the hungry with good their return to the banner of Christ, tings-where he gave by his precithat he may finally deliver them from ous death knowledge of salvation unthe bondage of Satan to the glorious to his people, through the remission liberty of God's service, that the pow- of their sins-where he began to guide er of Christ may compel them to exour feet into the way of peace. By claim, 'Save us, O God of our salva- God's infinite grace and through hution, and gather us together, that we man accounts, I had perceived before may give thanks to thy holy name, my arrival in that city of God, of and glory in thy praise; that thus which glorious things were once spokthey may bless and adore the God of Israel through the Lord Jesus Christ. en, the literal fulfilment of the prophets, and of our Saviour's words, but I I endeavored then to prove to you confess I am now more than ever that there has already begun a shak-anxious to entreat true Christians to ing among the dry bones of the house of Israel in that valley of darkness promote the knowledge of Christ Jefull of human bones, by pointing out actually seen how that city doth sit sus among my brethren, since I have to you the inquiring spirit which is solitary, that was full of people--how now observed among the Jews, and she is become as a widow, she that by the instances of individual conwas great among the nations, and version; but I must confess that I am princess among the provinces! But as more confirmed in my views of the you, my Christian friends, may perimportance of proclaiming the holy haps be desirous of hearing some acname of Christ among his ancient peo- counts of my proceedings during my ple since my feet stood within the gates of Jerusalem-since I have learning what reception I met with, pilgrimage to those places, and of heard the following cries uttered by among my brethren according to the my brethren, the Rabbi in the syna-flesh, I hasten to lay it before gogue exclaiming, 'Our Father, our King, we have sinned-sinned before thy sight,'-The Rabbi again, 'Our Father, our King, there is no king unto us but Thou; and the people repeating, 'Our Father, our King, there is no king but Thou.' Increased conviction of duty toward the Jews. you ac cording to my feeble abilities. I am Visit to Alexandria, whether those Jews, who have stated their objections against the New Testament had not been punished by the English, and they were surprised to learn that English Christians have not only been very far from punishing those Jews who have candidly stated their difficulties, but that they were even rejoiced to observe an in and arrived at Alexandria the 4th of Sept. Having been very kindly received by both the English Consuls, who assisted me kindly in getting all the information possible, I visited the burial ground of the Jews, where I ascertained from the inscriptions that there must have been very many Jews at Alexandria 900 years ago, and among them great and learned men.quiring spirit among the Jews. They There are now perhaps 250 families told me that no Jew throughout Egypt residing there, a few of them well ac- would ever dare to state to Mohamquainted with their law. These few medans their objections against the well-informed persons did not only Coran. I had here then a good opreceive from me with the greatest portunity of making those Jews acreadiness the New Testament and quainted with the true spirit of ChrisTracts, but even desired them with tianity, which consists in meekness, the greatest eagerness, and two Jews patience, forbearance, long-suffering, called on me, on my second arrival in gentleness, and kindness, and which Alexandria, as I returned from Jeru-teaches us when we are reviled not salem, and desired New Testaments to revile again. They became anxand Bibles and both of them express-ious to read the New Testament, and ed their high veneration for the Chris- to see what it contains, and to state tian religion, as it is believed by Pro- afterwards likewise the difficulties testants. One of them even observed they met with. I had thus the pleathat he was convinced of the excel-sure and satisfaction of distributing lency of the gospel by attending the four New Testaments among those sermons of the Rev. Mr. Holt, Eng-very Jews with whom I dined. lish clergyman at Leghorn. This Jew understands well the English language. Objections of learned Jews. There was then at Alexandria an old Rabbi, 70 years of age, born in Obstacles to the Conversion of the Jews. Poland, and residing at Jerusalem. You will allow me to mention some He called on me as soon as he had observations which I heard made by heard that I have some knowledge of the Jews at Alexandria, by which you the Hebrew language, and that I came may easily perceive what the obsta-on purpose to converse with Jews. cles are, in the way of the conversion | He had with him his Hebrew Bible. of that interesting nation. I dined When I asked him whether he had one Sabbath day with a whole party heard of Moritz, the Missionary in of Alexandrian Jews. One of them Poland, he replied, that Moritz tries desired to learn from me the reasons to prove to the Jews in Poland that why the English have translated the the Messiah is already come, and that New Testament into the holy lan- the Jews at Jerusalem received not guage of the Jews? I replied, "The long ago a parcel with New TestaEnglish Christians are anxious to ments and little Tracts sent to them, 'make the Jews acquainted with the by a German, from Acre, and that doctrines of Christianity; and many they were informed that a Jew, conJews have read it, and have either verted to Christianity, intended to go been convinced of the truth of Chris- to Jerusalem to converse with the tianity, or have published their objec-Jews on Christian topics. He observtions against it.' They asked meed then, what is very remarkable, |