she could not afford to live in a very comfortable lodging, nor could she have much attendance; the doctor, therefore, strongly advised, that she should be taken to an hospital. But all these privations did not shake her faith in the least; on the contrary, she looked upon it as an affliction that the Lord thought in his mercy fit to lay upon her, in order to try her faith and confirm and settle her. After she had been three weeks at the hospital, she was so far restored as to be able to return to her lodging, but has not recovered to this day. THE JEW. He pass'd amidst the crowd which throng In those dim winding ways, He pass'd his dark and gloomy brow His rapid glance is on me now, Oh! who, but for Heaven's stamp imprest, A thousand homes around him rose, ز His home was where the palm-trees rise, The footstep of the fleet gazelle Sounds through her grass-grown courts; Are the lone owl's resorts; The very names unknown, Still, as of old, the palm-tree waves Fallen are the rock-built sepulchres While those who fondly hold them theirs He pass'd, that outcast wandering one, Whose crown is fallen, whose nobles gone, Its tale of sorrow learn, Without one sigh for Israel, One prayer for his return! (From "Historical Reveries," by a Suffolk Villager.) Macintosh, Printer, Great New Street, London, THE JEWISH ADVOCATE. OCTOBER, 1845. THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE. PERHAPS there is no spot in the whole land of Israel, which calls up so many feelings of mournful interest as the Garden of Gethsemane-the scene of the bitter agony of our then suffering Lord. Calvary presents to us the last sad scene, "the suffering unto death" of Jesus; recalls the heartpiercing cry, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me;" yet in the midst of the contemplation of that awful event, thoughts of his triumph arise, and we remember that that ignominious cross was the throne of the conqueror— that there he "spoiled principalities and powers, and made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it." (Col. ii. 14.) We remember that there he conquered death, and "destroyed him that hath the power of death, that is the Devil." There nature owned her King-the sun was shrouded in darkness-the rocks rent-the earth quaked-the graves yielded up "many of the bodies of the saints which slept," and they "arose;" as if to teach us, that on that awful day, when the world and the works that are therein are destroyed, the saints shall rise victorious and triumph with their Almighty Lord. On Calvary the sufferings of Jesus ended. |