have tried all that can be done to recover their child. The Emperor of the French, and other great people, have asked the Pope to set the child free. But he will not do it. He says that the child is now a Roman Catholic, and that it would be wrong to allow him to go back to such heretics as the Jews. But we know that the Roman Catholics are greater heretics, and walk in a more evil way than the Jews do.

Sir Moses Montefiore has gone to Rome, to try what can be done with the Pope. But all seems to be useless. The child is carefully kept in the monastery. He is being brought up to be himself a priest. And he tells people that when be grows up to be a man, he will convert his own parents!

This wicked act of the Romanists has caused much feeling among the Jews. Even the Jewish children think and talk much about it. At the fair at Frankfort, they came almost every day to Mr. Gans, asking him, "What will become of the boy Mortara?"

I have heard," said one, “that all the kings and the princes are going to join to make Mortara free."

"Another replied (vide Frontispiece), "The kings do not care about it; for the stolen boy is not a Christian."

The first said, "It is the same whether he be

a Jew or a Christian.

He has been stolen, and

he must be made free again."

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Who shall make him free?'

another, “if the kings will not do it?”

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exclaimed

The Jews must do it," replied his friend.

The Jews," said another boy, “have no power to do it. If the Jews had as much power now as they had when they were in Palestine, they would set the boy free."

This was the manner in which the boys talked one with the other. It was a good time for the missionary to show them that they were all slaves, and bound with the chains of Satan, and that Christ alone could make them free.

THE JEWS IN AARGAU.

Ir may not be known that the Swiss have always tried to prevent the Jews from living in Switzerland. They have a great dislike to the Jews, and although there was a time when numbers of the seed of Abraham settled in Basle, Zurich, Lucerne, Geneva, and other Swiss towns, yet there are few at the present time. They were driven out of the country in the persecution of 1349.

As far back as 1287, a Jew called Joel, living in the town of Berne, was accused of having killed a Christian boy of the name of Ruef

On account of this, although the charge was quite false, the people of Berne drove out all the Jews.

The Emperor Rudolph, of Hapsburg, had given to the Jews a promise of protection. He felt himself bound to do something for them. He asked the Bernese to receive them again. On this being refused, he brought 30,000 men against that city, but without success. At that time Aargau belonged to Austria, and it may be, that he then allowed the Jews to settle in that place. They live in two villages, called OberEndingen and Lengnau. These have been lately visited by our missionary, Mr. Schlochow.

In Ober-Endingen there are 990 Jews, 629 Roman Catholics, and 332 Protestants. In Lengnau there are 525 Jews, and 1236 Christians.. They are only distant four miles from each other. In each, the Jews have good school-houses, and their synagogues are finer buildings than the

Churches.

Many of the houses of the Jews also are very good. They live chiefly by shopkeeping; but many practice different trades and crafts. The young Jewesses also do a great deal of weaving.

There is a teacher living with them, who has

been in that post for 25 years. He has done much for the good of his brethren, and has great Influence with them.

There is a Jewish burial-ground between the two villages. This belongs to both, and the dead lie side by side. But there is not a kind feeling between the living. The Jews at Lengnau are the richest, and they seem to keep the others afar off. When they opened their new synagogue, they did not invite their brethren from Endingen to be present. The others however acted in a better spirit. When they opened their new school-room, they asked their brethren from Lengnau to come and help them in their festivities.

I WISH TO KNOW MORE OF JESUS. How glad we should be, if this were the language of all our readers! What a blessed thing it would be, if all of them could say from the heart, "I wish to know more of Jesus."

A little Jewish boy came to Mr. Gans, and asked him for a book.

Missionary.I have many little books, what book do you wish to have?

Boy.-I wish to have one, in which something is said of Christ.

M.-Have you a New Testament?

B.-Yes, I have the whole Bible.

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M.-If read the New Testament, you will find in it all that we know about the Lord Jesus

Christ.

B.-I do so in the school, as well as at home; but I wish to know something more of Him, than what I read in the New Testament.

M.-What do you wish to know more of Him? B.-I wish to know what He did, while He was still a boy.

M.-You will find this in the New Testament. Mr. Gans then opened the Bible, and let the boy read the account which is given of the Lord Jesus, when He was twelve years of age.

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After reading this, the boy said, I know all this, but I wish to know something more of Jesus."

The missionary then said that this was all that we knew of the childhood of Christ, except what is related about His birth. He then showed him that enough is given in the Word of God, to make certain the salvation of the soul. After exhorting him to seek Jesus, he gave him some tracts. The little boy had hardly left the missionary, when he began to read them. May his search after truth meet with a blessing.

THE HORSE.

WHAT a noble animal is the horse! It is perhaps the most useful of all animals.

There are few parts of the world in which horses are not found. Some of them in Palestine are very fine, being genuine Arab steeds. Most