This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ...is not to be described. The time had evidently arrived when a public profession of Christianity was indispensable, if I would be indeed a disciple of Jesus, and be established in the faith. Fully convinced of my duty, I went to the Christian friend to whom I have already referred, and told him the circumstances in which I was placed. He entered into my feelings, repeated many of our Lord's injunctions with regard to stedfastness, and urged the importance of my declaring my faith to the church and to the world. It was a critical moment; my state of mind was such as none can fully realize but those who have experienced it. He who searches the heart and trieth the reins was almost the only one who knew of my faith in Jesus; for unlike my brethren of old, of whom it was said, 'this people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, while their hearts are far from me," my heart was with Him, though my tongue seemed unwilling to confess it. But, on reading the account of Philip and the eunuch, the words 'What doth hinder?' seemed a rebuke directed to me from above, and I now resolved no longer to stand aloof from the comforts of the Gospel, which are only ours while in the path of obedience, and through Divine assistance, to stand or fall under the banner of Christ, and to be ready to suffer, if called to it, for His name's sake. "After this I took the first opportunity of communicating my wish to an esteemed minister, who for some time had taken an interest in my welfare, and under whose instructions I had been gradually taught the doctrines of Him whose name I once regarded with abomination, but whom I now saw to be the chief among ten thousand, and altogether lovely. The day and hour were in due time fixed for the administration of the...

Excerpt from Memories of Gospel Triumphs Among the Jews During the Victorian Era In sending forth this Jubilee volume we have to express our regret that its publication has been so long delayed, on the one hand through illness and absorbing secretarial and editorial duties, and on the other hand, from causes which it was not in our power to obviate. We are sorry also that for want of space we have been obliged to give portraits of preachers and missionaries without sketches, and crush out articles and illustrations enough to fill a volume equal in size to this. Then, once more, the lives and labours of such representatives of the Society as the Revs. John Gill, M.D., Josiah Miller, M.A., Robert Grant Brown, Principal McAll, &c.; and such spiritual sons as the Rev. Abraham Ben Oliel, and his brother, the Rev. Maxwell Ben Oliel, Dr. Schnlhof, Dr. Benzion, Mr. J. B. Lazarus, Mr. C. D. Joseph, of Jerusalem, and the Revs. John Wilkinson, and James Adler, of the Mildmay Mission, would take more than one volume to do them justice; and yet we have only been able to insert a brief account of the work of the last two named. Many years ago Mr. Wilkinson wrote to the office for copies of the Annual Reports, Jewish Heralds, lectures, sermons, &c., which the Society had published. A parcel of these was sent to him in due course, which ho studied diligently, and afterwards, in his own way, reproduced in the discharge of his difficult and important double task as the Society's able and earnest Missionary and Deputation. The Jubilee volume contains some fine specimens of these early literary products of the Society; it also includes many striking incidents of Jewish conversion, and all the telling arguments in favour of Jewish Missions. In fulfilling our task as editor, our aim has been for the glory of God and the good of His people Israel, to make the book an impressive and inspiring record of the British Society's Jewish Mission work; and we entertain the conviction that we have succeeded. The hook proves that the London and British Societies are the illustrious mothers of modern Missions to Israel. In a word, our Jubilee volume is a storehouse of interesting and instructive facts and figures, arguments and illustrations, adapted alike to the aged and the young, which unmistakably show that the work of Jewish evangelization during the last 50 years has been so rich in spiritual results that it deserves and demands from the members of the Christian Church a million-fold more support than it has yet received. Again, in perusing the book, we would affectionately ask all our readers to bear in mind, and carry along with them to the end, the following important considerations: - (1.) That the golden sheaves presented in it are only a few taken from ten thousand reaped by our faithful missionaries in our home and foreign fields during the past half-century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Between the 1870s-90s, considerable attention was paid to Jews and Judaism by English critics and writers. Argues that the consideration of Jews by English writers was often in the context of their efforts to describe and improve the English character. Observes that alongside English antisemitism there existed English attitudes which were in effect protective of the Jews. These included the Evangelical Revival's desire to both protect and convert the Jew, the English self-definition as both tolerant and believing in God (in contrast with intolerant Spain of the Inquisition and godless France of the Revolution), and the view expressed in George Eliot's "Daniel Deronda" which was affirmative of Judaism and the quest for a Jewish national homeland.