Christian Disciple and Theological Review Volume 5-6 (Paperback)

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. 1817 edition. Excerpt: ...approaching deliverance, that God has in a great measure turned away their reproach, by disposing the Gentiles to have mercy on them." Schools. In the Schools of the Society ten boys and five girls have been admitted since the last Report. Three boys have been withdrawn, and one placed out in service. There remain in the schools forty boys and thirty-two girls, and there are six boys and three girls, who are too young for the schools, under the charge of a careful person, a few miles from town. Female Department. Your Committee have great pleasure in again expressing their grateful sense of the zeal of the female friends of the Society throughout the kingdom, Intelligence. ass erton.) with the present wonderful' exertions to spread abroad the holy scriptures among all nations, seem to have made a deep impression on the minds of many among the Jews. From what l have seen of this people in various nations, I am convinced that many among them are prepared to peruse with avidity the scriptures of the New-Testament in their own language." ' "According to the calculation of his excelleucy M Novozilzoff, the number of Jews under the Russian sceptre is upwards of two millions, of whom about 400,000 are found in the present kingdom of Poland. Such of the twenty copies of the two first Gospels which I brought with me from Berlin, as l presented to Jews, were always received with joy; andl am' fully of opiniomthat the very circumstance of their being in the Hebrew langua, will gain them an attentive perusaieamong the learned Jews in every country, where no writings on the subject of Christianity in any other form would be attended to. Before I left Moghiley, the Jews in that city had sent in 500 rubles, to promote...