The Jews and Christianity.

Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 111, 18 July 1885, Page 6

The Jews and Christianity.

Sir John Kennaway.M.P., presided lately, in the absence of the Earl of Shaftesbury, at the annual meeting of the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews In some prefatory remarks he observed that while the world was laughing at their work and speculating on what each convert cost them, forgetting what was wasted on wars and other expenditure, they were going quietly on their way, convinced that as light was not to be found in our luxury and civilisation, nor in the corrupt old churches, or even in Christian England, it would come when God's ancient people were reconciled to His Christ. He deplored the persecution of the Jewish population in the South-East Russia. The roport stated that the income for the past year had been £35,000, and gave an account of the progress of the Society's work both at home and abroad, specially mentioning the Jews' pervices held during the East London Mission, and somewhat naively gives as the result that the Jews expressed their desire to embrace Christianity as soon as they could influence their wives to follow their example. The number of Jews of all classes of society who visit Mr Bernstein's house for Christian instruction would astonish, not only Jewish authorities, but the friends of the society. Twelve had been baptised, some being men of education and precentors in the synagogues. In Abyssinia and Palestine the work is said to be progressing. The speakers were the Archdeacon of Connor, Canon Fleming, Prebendary Mason, the Rev. A. Eldersheim, the Rev. F. G. Rleinheim, and Mr R. Cust.