bly impressed with the evil which mars them, never looks to himself as the consociated cause of it. This fact so illustrated, might be made a powerful moral engine in the education of youth. While their tender minds are open to the instructions, and their young hearts alive to the sympathies of nature, let them be led to contemplate the evidences of their own corruption in the various instances of calamity and cruelty from which they shrink. When the thunder peals above their heads, and the vivid lightnings flash before their eyes; then teach them to regard these effects of Almighty power, as indications likewise of Almighty wrath. And if they see a poor fly struggling more and more faintly in the grasp of the spider, till the last life-blood is drawn from the passive and expiring victim, let them be reminded of the pang which creation probably felt to its centre, at the tremendous moment of man's first sin,* and under which she still continues to writhe,-aye and will writhe, while sin defaces the moral world. This appeal would surely tend to lessen the difficulty (so visible in men regardless of the workings of their own hearts) of believing the fundamental principle of our holy religion; wherever evil is mixed with good-and where is it not?—they would read the truth, stamped on its different forms, which could not otherwise have blemished the works of an all-wise and all-gracious Being.

* "Earth felt the wound; and nature from her seat
Sighing through all her works, gave signs of wo,
That all was lost."-MILTON.

JEWISH RETROSPECT OF 1842.

WE borrow the following brief but comprehensive summary from the " Voice of Jacob." Many of our readers will peruse it with interest :

"In the East.-Many Jews have been emancipating their slaves after the example set by the Damascus victims.-At Constantinople, an unhappy accident occasioned a serious misunderstanding between the Jews and the Armenians.-In Algiers, the disposition of two of our brethren to undertake a mission from France, for the moral and social improvement of the African Jews, was fostered by the minister, and constituted a state-mission.-In Jamaica, the high position of the Jews was manifested by their address to Sir Charles Metcalf; and by his expressive reply.-In England, one Jew has been elected high sheriff, and another sheriff.-In Holland, a list of Jewish functionaries upon whom the king has bestowed honors, proves how faithful and useful to the state the Jewish citizen can be. No less honorable to our Dutch brethren, have been the testimonies to their standing and character elicited by the attack of a Swedish consul. Into Norway, Jews may not yet enter, but the great and good have laboured zealously in their behalf. The high court of judicature, the faculty of theology, the commercial interests, and lastly, the law commission, by a majority of six to one, advocated the admission of the Jews; but the

Storthing, to whom it was ultimately referred, (it being a fundamental principle,) failed to confirm the proposition by the needful majority of two-thirds: and it must stand over to 1845.-In France, where a renewed zeal for religion begins to manifest itself among our people, three distinguished Israelites are elected to the chamber of deputies, instead of the sole one of last year. The liberality exhibited at Strasburg towards the Jewish citizens, is also conspicuous. In Switzerland, the petition to erect a synagogue at Geneva was rejected.-In Italy, an insensate mob rose against our brethren at Mantua; it was put down only by military force.-In Russia and Poland, Dr. Lilienthal's mission, on the one hand, manifests a disposition to promote intellectual improvement, and agricultural pursuits among the Jews; while on the other hand, a partial system of newly enforced conscription has thrown the whole people into consternation.—In Germany, many laws for Jewish affairs have been reduced to paper, and but few to practice. The balance is still suspended, to the agitation of those concerned; and now a grain in this scale, and then one in that, leave all in uncertainty.-In Baden, the Jews have again petitioned in vain.-In Bavaria, the disqualification of Jews for civil offices has been strained so as to include military rank.-In Hesse Darmstadt, a casual incident has occasioned a government decree, in favor of the Jews, to be addressed to the states.-In SchaumburgLippe, and in Anhalt Bernburg, the oath, previously administered to Israelites, has been better adapted to the spirit of the times.-In Hanover, a ten years' debate has been so concluded, that the Jews lose more than they gain by it.-In Denmark, the Altona MARCH, 1843.

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Jews have attained the privileges of burgesses, and got rid of the toleration tax.-In Hamburgh, our brethren may now hold landed property, and dwell in any part of the city.-In Prussia, has existed the most feverish aspect of Jewish interests. A policy of isolation has been propounded, and the whole of our brethren, from the Rhine to the Vistula, have been kept in a constant state of agitation. The peculiar and alone-dwelling destinies of Israel have been declared to favor this policy; but in an unsettled state of public feeling, and under an irresponsible rule, the union of a few is not strength, but a facilitated subjection to the possible vagaries of caprice: so that the power of eluding any adverse influence is rendered almost impossible. Nothing definitive is adopted, and all is still in uncertainty.-In the Austrian dominions, the toleration tax in Hungary, has been bought off for a large sum.-The year has been a remarkably fatal one for Rabbis of old standing, the following have descended to the tomb-Trebitsch, Deutz, Gugenheim, Egers, Hirschel, as also Romann Rehfuesz and Creutznach.

"The reviewer concludes with an earnest appeal : -he invokes our national zeal, our fraternal sympathies; and urges every Israelite not to rest idly while time makes its revolutions, leaving us in the back ground, while our duties are in the van. one is uncalled, every man can do something for the common good, and Heaven helps those who help themselves."

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In this sentiment we heartily concur. The destinies of the earth are wrapped up in that of Israel, and the Gentile who doubts it had better re-peruse his Bible, from first to last, with a special eye to

what God has declared on that subject. We must lay before our friends one of the beautiful prayers of the synagogue, to shew them bow scripturally founded are the hopes, how deeply yearning the desires, how importunate the supplications of Israel for that which God has promised. The following is a portion of the afternoon service for the day of Atonement.

"We have sinned against thee, O our Rock! forgive us, O our Creator!

"O remember unto us the covenant with our ancestors, as thou hast promised, ‘and I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember, and the land will I also remember.' O remember unto us the covenant with the Patriarchs, as thou hast promised, 'I will, for their sakes, remember the covenant with their ancestors, when I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God; I am the Eternal!' Act by us, as thou hast assured us ; 6 And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I am the Eternal, their God!' Have mercy on us, and destroy us not; as it is written, For the Lord thy God is a merciful God, he will not fail thee, nor will he destroy thee; neither will he forget the covenant with thine ancestors, which he sware unto them.' O circumcise our hearts to love and revere thy name; as it is written, The Eternal, thy God! will circumcise thine heart, and the hearts of thy seed, that thou mayest love the Eternal, thy God! with all thine