The Children's Jewish Advocate (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...She often addresses the girls too at their monthly meetings, and greatly helps to encourage their interest. She also made a private collection among her friends, and brought me 2, saying, as she put it in my hands, "May God's blessing go with it."---M. M. Skelton, The Missionary News, A HINT TO COLLECTORS. While opening the boxes at our last quarterly Missionary Meeting, one of the young persons told me she made her box a " Bible Study." On asking in what way she did so, she said she was in the habit of searching the Scriptures for all the texts she could find containing promises or reference in some way to gifts or works for God. These texts she wrote out on slips of paper, and whenever a friend gave her a contribution, she asked them to draw one of these slips and to accept it as " a receipt from the Lord." A FALSE ALARM. " Achilles, a Bible Society colporteur, was telling me, two days ago, of his tramping across a lonely plain, from one encampment to another, at the time of the war in Turkey: it took him three hours. Just as he was arriving at his destination, he got alarmed by a soldier shouting and running after him: he thought he had trespassed and was to be taken prisoner, and so put his bags down and gave himself up. The soldier, however, on recovering breath, and holding out some money, said, ' I want a book like those you sold to my comrade over yonder.' The man must have run six miles, and he had to hurry back again all that distance; and for the book he was ready to give a week's wages." WHAT A LITTLE CHILD MAT DO. A Little child I am, indeed, And little do I know, Much care and help I yet shall need, That I may wiser grow, If I would ever hope to do Things great, and good, and useful to. But even now I ought to try To do what...