at Malta might be established. On account of my short stay here, I was not able to form such a Society, but I desired my American friends to make a collection in their Chapel, and Mr. King preached a sermon, and after this a collection was made of fourteen dollars; and I received the day before, from Mr. Kerby, who is an annual subscriber, two dollars and a half, and D. Grant, Esq. gave to me two dollars as a donation, which I gave to Mr. Jowett; and I wrote a subscription paper, which imme diately was signed by the Rev. Mr. Temple from America, who is a stationary Missionary at Malta, and by Mr. Kerby. The latter is so kind as to procure the other subscribers. Both Mr. Kerby and Mr. Everard are annual subscribers to the Society, and they desire with great eagerness to read the publications of the London Society for promoting Christianity amongst the Jews. Would you, Gentlemen, be so kind to send those publications to our common friend, Dr. Cleardo Naudi? You will allow me to observe, that Dr. Cleardo Naudi would be a very valuable correspondent to the London Society for promoting Christianity amongst my brethren. He is a truly pious gentleman, and zealous for the Divine glory, and highly respectable. He could draw the attention of Maltese Catholics to the glorious cause you have at heart, and he is really the father of Missionaries; and I know of him several facts which afford to myself great evidence of his true piety. He is a friend to all and with all, who love the name of Jesus Christ in sincerity and uprightness; and he himself told me, that he should be most happy to promote the cause of your Society as much as the Lord shall enable him. He has furnished me again with a considerable quantity of Hebrew New Testaments. If you take in consideration the poverty of the Jews in the Levant, you will not be displeased at my having given them gratis. I sold seven at Aleppo for fifteen piastres-those poor creatures were however interrupted in reading the word of life by the terrible earthquake! which made a ruinous

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heap of Aleppo and Antioch, and Jisas Alrhogl and Scanderoon, and of all the villages twenty leagues around Aleppo. The whole Pashalic of Aleppo is gone, and men had no time to repent: and infidelity was no longer permitted to blaspheme, or to utter a malicious smilenor to call the saints of the Lord, enthusiasts. Surely, you would have been delighted, even as I was, if you had seen the New Testament published by your Society read by Jews upon the highest tops of mount Lebanon; and if you had seen at Jerusalem, Jews, seventy years of age, reading the New Testament; and verily, several of them declared, that the power of God, is contained in the writings of St. Paul; and although I did not always think it worth while to answer the whimsical objections of Rabbi Mendel, he nevertheless acknowledges that another spirit must be in the Gospel, than in the Christians of the East.

I hope that the Lord will finally hear my prayers, so that I shall meet one day upon Calvary one of your Committee-the Rev. Lewis Way.

Malta is the very centre place for the Levant, and if you favour Dr. Naudi with your confidence, I hope you will be blessed by God's grace, in your labours for my brethren in the Levant. I hope to be at Jerusalem next Easter-day, if the Lord pleaseth, together with brother Fisk and King.

You will have heard that I took with me from Cyprus two Greek boys, the father of the little one was beheaded, the father of the other saved his life by turning Turk. The younger is eleven years of age, the other fifteen years of age. Both of them write, read, and speak the modern Greek, and understand the ancient Greek. I send them to the care of Henry Drummond, Esq. that they may one day or other be sent out as missionaries for their nation.

I should be very much obliged to you indeed, if you could send to me Hebrew tracts, but not in Jewish German characters, which the Jews in Palestine are not able

to read; but rather in biblical characters; as for instance, Mr. Bayford's tracts, and it might be well if the tract

.would be printed in large Hebrew characters דברי נצחון

I am this time taking with me the printing press of Henry Drummond, Esq. I should be very much obliged to you, if you would favour me with Hebrew types, for I might print Hebrew tracts at Jerusalem. It might be well if you would send me those Hebrew types with which Rabbi Solomon Isaac's Commentary (W) is printed. I should be very much obliged to you for them indeed. I read to-day the Jewish Expositor, of December, 1822, by which I perceive that Mr. M'Caul is returned to receive holy orders, about which I very much rejoice indeed-for it gives me some ground of hope that he will come to Jerusalem, in the company of the Rev. Lewis Way.

Since I experienced the earthquake, a curious feeling, from time to time, takes hold of my heart. I think often to hear it again, and this is just the case in this moment that I am writing to you. God preserve us from all evil, and from all trouble.

The editions of the prophets are very much liked by the Jews at Jerusalem; it might, however, be well if the Society would reprint them, without the Latin character in the title page, for they are scrupulous, and desire to have exactly their editions; namely, their Masoretical editions. The edition of Jablonsky is very much liked, and the edition of Simon, with large types, not that with crosses. I am far from trying to undervalue the other editions, they may be very acceptable among the Jews at Berlin and Frankfort, but certainly not among those of Jerusalem, Safet, and Tiberias.

On our return to Egypt, I shall visit again, together with the two American brethren, the spot of mount Sinai, and then we go from Suez to the Jordan, and from thence to Jerusalem. I send my two printing presses from Cairo to Damiat, and from thence to Jaffa and Jerusalem.

I preached again last night (1st of Jan. 1823,) in the chapel of Mr. Temple, on pardoning grace proclaimed by our Saviour Jesus Christ. It is a great comfort to a ransomed sinner as I am, to speak often on the mercy of God. It is now just midnight. That the blessing of our Saviour may rest upon you, and that his Holy Spirit may bless your labours, by calling to Israel, “Hear ye him!" this is the earnest prayer of, Gentlemen, Yours, &c. Valetta, Jan. 2, 1823.

JOSEPH WOLF.

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