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CHILDREN'S JEWISH ADVOCATE

OCTOBER, 1862.

PRAY FOR THE MISSIONARY.

THE Rev. H. A. Stern, our devoted missionary, is now about to start with a fellow-labourer on a second visit to Abyssinia. The missionaries who were left there, give a most cheering account of the work that God is doing among the Felasha Jews. And there are many things which again call upon this servant of God to go forth to this branch of our Master's work.

Mr. Stern's last journey was full of danger. Fever of a most serious kind often laid him low. Amongst the savage people his life was often in peril. In a strange country, he and his companions had none to comfort and help them. But the Lord kept him safe, and often raised him up from the bed of sickness.

But now the dangers are greater than they were before. We hear that there is war on

the borders of Abyssinia. The king is warring against Egypt and Persia, and the question is, how will the missionaries be able to go to the work to which they are called of the Lord.

We say, to all those who read these pages, begin at once to pray, and continue to pray for the missionary Stern and his companions. Pray that God may watch over them and preserve them in health and strength. Pray that He may not allow any hindrances to arise in the way of their holy work. Pray that, as the messengers of peace, He may enable them to do the work of peace. Pray that He may greatly honour and bless their mission, and make it fruitful to the salvation of many of the Felasha Jews. Let us pray with confidence and in faith, and the Lord will hear, and the Lord will

answer.

THE GREAT MOSQUE AT JERUSALEM. OUR frontispiece gives a view of the great Mosque at Jerusalem, which travellers are wont to call the Mosque of Omar. Its proper name is the Mosque of the Sak'ra, or of the Rock, for it is under its dome that the sacred rock lies, which

hought by many persons to be the threshingor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Our view is from a photograph taken from the ley of the Tyropean, near the Damascus gate. e beautiful dome is seen on Mount Moriah, ing above all the other buildings.

There are many different opinions about it. -me persons think that it is the church built by e Roman Emperor Constantine over the place here the Lord Jesus was buried. They think at the great rock is really the place of the epulchre. But although it may be the church hich Constantine built, it is almost impossible hat it could have been the place at which our Lord was buried.

There are others who believe that it was built by a celebrated Arab, about the year 670, and that it was never used for any other purpose than for a Mohammedan mosque. There are no accounts which lead us to believe anything else about it.

It is truly a beautiful building. It has eight sides, each of which is 67 feet long. Each side has seven windows, and in all these there is fine coloured glass. These windows are all covered outside with wood-work, which is carved in different patterns. On the sides there are coloured porcelain tiles, which are also of various patterns. And on the top are written many passages from the Koran, or Mohammedan Bible.