given up her friends for walking in the footsteps of Christ. No human agency could have so completely changed the course of her life. She is now as strongly and ardently attached to the Gospel as she was before attached to popery and its idolatrous dogmas. She is a regular attendant, and is a member of a Sunday-school class in one of our Baptist churches. Her father, mother and brother were converted two years ago, and are noble, sincere and active Christians.

Two large families have recently dropped the errors of Roman Catholicism. Counting the children, they are composed of fourteen members. Great victories! These children will now be educated in our free public schools, and instead of learning the Catechism of Rome, the Word of God will be their light, comfort and strength. I will tell you more about them later on, for this letter is already too long.

We are preparing a very vigorous and aggressive fall campaign. The 16th of September I will commence a series of four lectures on the teachings of the Church of Rome, in Evangelist Hall, where we had such a success last year. The same course will be delivered at Northampton and in other places around Springfield. Just before delivering these Gospel discourses I have 15,000 tracts ready for free distribution from house to house. So the whole population will be reached and hear truths that the priests have always hidden from so many thousands. The light must shine everywhere. It must not be kept under a bushel, in our churches, or in our homes alone. GIDEON AUBIN.

New York-Work Among the Jews. 340 JEFFERSON AVE., BROOKLYN, N. Y. Dear Sir and Brother: I deem it neces sary to tell you the nature of mission work among the Jews. As a rule, the Jews had and still have the impression that Christianity is idolatry, because they have never seen true Christ-like life, but only Roman Catholic Christians who persecuted the Jews. In fact, the Jews here came to this country being driven out and cruelly treated by socalled Christians. They have found in Mohammedanism a toleration which was denied to them by Christians who regard killing or torturing a poor, innocent Jew as a service to Christ. Thus they have

set before the Jews a false and distorted picture, a gross caricature of true Christianity. When they come over here they are, a few excepted, huddled together in some part or corner of the city where they dwell alone and don't see the light of Christianity. They see the lowest class people and say, "These are Christians." The Jews can live here in Brooklyn, the City of Churches, or New York, for nifty years and not know more of Christianity than they did in Russia or Austria or Germany; yea, ninety out of one hundred know not that Christ was the Son of David and claimed to be the Messiah whom God promised to our fathers; seventy out of one hundred know not that there is in existence a New Testament. The Gospel of the Lord Jesus was unfortunately and unlogically not preached to the Jews as well as to other nations. How should the Jew know if he never heard? how should he understand if never taught? There are 100,000 Jews here and no missionary has been sent to them. By the grace of God I saw this great destitution and, penniless, friendless, commenced to preach to them. But because of their deep seated prejudice they were bitterly opposed. I had at the first meeting six Jews; then a few more and more until, by God's help, after having labored very hard for nearly two years, I gained their confidence and they come now in large numbers to listen to the Gospel of Jesus, our true Messiah. At first they played tricks upon me. Once a person

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came telling me, "Mr. Cohn! Mr. A. B. asks you to come to his house and bring him a book which tells about the Crucified One." I at once went, and when I entered an old fellow met me with a slap over my face, and others spit, again others pushed me out. I therefore do not visit anyone except one whom I see in the meeting and whom I know to be in sympathy with me. course I have now many friends among them and there are above twenty who contess the Lord Jesus as their Saviour; these I often visit, which I don't count for visiting at all. It happens often that I make a mistake in finding the desired address, because of two families in one flat. I enter another family whom I never saw before and talk to them about the salvation of their souls. I don't count this, either, for visits. What I call visits is this; when a Jew, after he heard me announce, "New Testaments distributed freely," asks a New Testament, I then put to him the following questions: "Do you really want to read it earnestly? Do you promise to read it for your wife? Do you

want me to call on you and examine you whether you read and what part, and whether for your wife, too?" If he affirms all these queries I write down his name and address and he gets a New Testament. Sometimes the same thing happens when I give out a tract to such as apply for it. Now these are the ones I call visiting, for I come into such a family with freedom and talk to them fully about the Lord Jesus; so I pay but a few visits and give out but a few Bibles. I have to buy them and must be careful. We have also a work for the children-a sewing school-which is attended by 150 to 160 children. We could have a nice Sunday-school, but I have not got any helper and I cannot do it myself. Our chief meeting is on Saturday afternoon at 3 P. M., when proportionately large numbers come in. We have also an evening school to teach them English, when the Bible is also read and Christianity is discussed. We have a praise meeting on Thursday evening, when we have large crowds. It is very hard to carry on a work without means and without helpers. I am thinking, if God will, to open another hall in Williamsburg, another Jewish quarter of about 50,000 Jews, where I will preach the Gospel of Christ to them, too. I only wish that the dear Christians may awake to see their duty to the Jews and rally to help us to bring about the meeting of Joseph with his brethren. L. COHN, Missionary.

BOOK NOTICES.

ADONIRAM JUDSON GORDON. A Biography. By his son, Ernest B. Gordon. Fleming H. Revell Company, New York. Price, $1.50.

By Christian people generally, as well as by the close friends of Dr. Gordon, the publication of this biography was looked for with great interest, and is now received with great satisfaction. It is the tribute of a noble son to a noble father, and the somewhat difficult work is exceedingly well done. The author has shown excellent taste and judgment; the style is pleasing; the descriptions vivid; the life complete, so far as it could be in a book, and we feel assured that it will at once take its place as one of the best of recent biographies. The volume is attractive in its make up, there are some half a dozen illustrations, and binding and type are good. SAXENHURST. A story of the Old World and the New. By D. C. Eddy, D.D. Price, $1.50. American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia.

This volume was but just out when the death of its author, the well-known Brooklyn pastor, who for many years was an active member of the Board of the Home Mission Society, was announced. As we turn its pages he comes vividly before us, and we recall how much interest he felt in the great historical facts, and how much attention he gave to the study of the great principles which form the basis

of the story, a story which is well told and full of interest. It opens in England, in the stormy days of Charles I.; describes the struggles under Cromwell for religious liberty; the sufferings of the Puritans there and here, and the persecution and success of Roger Williams. A pretty love story runs through it, and it cannot fail to awaken a strong desire to know more of the times whose terror served to lay deep the foundations of our own great republic. An excellent Sunday-school book.

CONFLICT AND CONQUEST. The experiences of Father Flynn. By George C. Needham. Price, 50 cents. American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia.

From the author's preface we learn that this is the fourth edition of his story, and it appears in a new dress, and with several illustrations. As many already know, Father Flynn is a priest whose conscience will not permit him to remain longer in the Church of Rome, and his well-told story sets forth some of the many very serious difficulties attending his change of faith.