who is this man? Is he not a Jew? Emmanuel, it is true, very God and very man; and, as St. Paul says, according to the flesh, son of the patriarchs. He who is over all, God, blessed for ever, Amen. Who is this second Adam, who has suffered for us, wept over us, and shed his blood for us? This Saviour is a Jew! Whom do we look to for heaven? A Jew! Jesus of Nazareth, who will come as the Son of man, who will be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and who will be seated on the throne of his glory. Yes, it is a Jew, who has borne the human nature of man to the throne of God, and who will come again in the clouds of heaven.

But still, Gentlemen, without going so far back as this great High Priest, holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, who has compassion on us, who prays for us, and whom we look for again from heaven, let us bring to mind the first missions which brought us the Gospel. By whom were they undertaken ? Was it not by Jews?

How is it that we are met here this very evening, with such happy feelings? And why are there consolations in store for us when beside a deathbed, or when we shall be stretched upon one ourselves? Why are we able, when this world

appears to us through a mourning veil, still to feel hope stir in our hearts, and our eyes overflow with joy? Why, when surrounded by sorrow in our terrestrial country, or when we are obliged to tear ourselves away from it, can we seize on that heavenly one which hath foundations, and whose builder and maker is God? In a word, why are we Christians, we here on the banks of the Lake Leman, at the foot of the Alps? Is it not because Jewish missionaries, burning with holy charity, came to our Europe to preach the Gospel of Jews, saying, "Therefore I endure all things for the elects' sakes." Is it not because the fathers of these unhappy men, whom all despise, who are treated like brutes, who sell our rags in our streets, who are penned up every night in their quarters, because their sires came into our land, at the hazard of their lives, eighteen hundred years ago, to preach repentance and redemption of sins in the name of the Saviour ?

Gentlemen, if there is in this world a sacred debt which presses upon us it is this! If, as a nation, we possess a faith, it springs from hence. We owe all to the Jews! "Salvation is of the Jews," says Jesus himself. Our civilization, our country, our education, our domestic enjoyments, our consolations in this life, our hopes in another, where are

they all without Christianity? and where were our Christianity without the Jews? Let us acknowledge, then, that this second motive (were it the only one) for preaching the Gospel to them would be sufficient. They have given us the Gospel, and we must carry it to them.

A third motive, and an especial one, why we should busy ourselves about the Jews, is the express commands of Jesus Christ himself. He has said, "Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature." "He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life, and he that believeth hot the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him." But besides, he has strictly commanded that we should begin by the Jews. He has commanded that "repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations," but, "beginning at Jerusalem.” This double commandment was fully understood by the apostles, and faithfully obeyed by them during the course of their ministry: but after their death the church of Christ, remembering the first part of his orders, forgot the second. Consider the apostles ! Whatever city they came into, they went immediately to the synagogues; nothing prevented them from it, neither anger, contempt, or the fear of death. They invariably addressed themselves first

to the Jews. "It was necessary," said St. Paul to the Pisidians, "that the word of God should first have been spoken to you; but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles."

Who would then believe, that after the time of the apostles, the church should so soon forget the commands of her Master? Certainly, it is one of the most extraordinary events in ecclesiastical history, that the messengers of Jesus Christ should, during seventeen centuries, have gone forth to call the Gentiles from the extremities of the earth, and that, from the days of the apostles till very lately, they should have left the Jews in their unbelief? Might we not believe, in reading their history, that the Christians had received an order to love Jesus and hate Israel? Alas! perhaps it was necessary that it should be so, that the prophecies might be accomplished; but even this does not excuse the church.

Read the writings of the fathers! Their voluminous pages contain nothing in favour of the Jews, and their hearts felt nothing for them either. If they speak of them it is only to curse, and never to save them! The excellent Ambrosius, the spiritual father of the great Augustin, persecuted them, and boldly, before the Emperor Theodosius,

defended those Christians who, led on by their bishop, had burnt the Jewish synagogues. St. Jerome, when he wished to study Hebrew, thought himself obliged to bring the rabbi who instructed him by night into his house. And later, when Vincent Ferrier and the Dominicans tried to convert these poor creatures, it was always by the help of violence, aided by prisons and the martyr's stake. When the blessed Reformation came at last, it brought with it all other christian virtues into the church but that one; every christian doctrine but that; and innumerable volumes were written without one word in favour of Israel. Luther is, perhaps, the only author who has said that force and violence ought not to be employed against them; but at the same time he made an outcry on account of their usury, and used all his influence with the sovereigns that they should not afford them an asylum. Geneva, too, who then sent thirty martyrs a year to the churches in France-Geneva, who treated with Admiral Coligny about the sending of missionaries to the savages of the New World, then scarcely known, drew back from the Jews, and never had an idea even of showing them compassion!

It is only in these latter days that the church. has understood her mission. Astonishing pheno