BOSTON JEWS SOCIETY.

Extracts from the third Annual Report of the Female Society of Boston and its vicinity, for promoting Christianity amongst the Jews.

THE Board of Managers cannot in the discharge of this, their annual duty, give a detail of transactions equally extensive with those of many associations for charitable purposes. This they more particularly regret, lest the knowledge of the few opportunities for exertion, that have as yet occurred for promoting the original design of the Society, may strengthen many in the belief entertained of its inutility. Still, however, they have ascertained, that it has advocates warmly engaged in its prosperity, and cherish the pleasing hope, that its institution has already excited an extensive and deep interest for the spiritual welfare of God's ancient covenant people; an interest which will never be extinguished so long as there remains a Jew ignorant of the true Messiah, or of the rich blessings contained in the Gospel.

Your Committee offer their congratulations on the acquisition of another Auxiliary Society, constituted of females resident in the town of Alstead, N. H. from which they gratefully acknowledge the receipt of a donation. The amount of this, together with that of several others received, during the year past, from different individuals, are specified in the Treasurer's account.

A letter has been received from the American missionaries in Bombay, expressive of their thanks for the aid rendered by this Society, towards the establishment of a school for the children of Jews in that place. In April, 1818, the number of scholars were forty; all boys. Soon after the formation of the school, the ten commandments, and other moral precepts and lessons were given them in the Mahratta language, which is their native tongue.

It is much to be regretted that the females are not allowed to participate in these advantages. At present, according to the laws and customs of the Jews, they are not permitted to receive instruction even in the first rudiments of education. Had they the necessary qualifications for inquiring into the correctness of their creed, and for becoming in any degree convinced of its error, those especially who are mothers might early instil into the minds of their children, similar ideas, and thus effectually weaken the prejudices against the Christian religion, and probably greatly increase the number of converts to its truth.

In September, the sum of one hundred pounds sterling was remitted to the Secretary of the London Society, to be appropriated to the fund for the transiation of the New Testament into Hebrew.

Your Committee would here mention two donations of books and pamphlets, among which were three copies of the Hebrew Testament) from the Society in London, whose last annual report contains much interesting information, and many encouraging facts, evincing the success of their efforts at home, and the brightening prospects opening to them abroad.

The interest for the spiritual welfare of the house of Israel, is spreading rapidly among the Christians of all nations. That the period is approaching, when they shall look to Christ as their Redeemer and Deliverer; when the various prophecies respecting them shall be fulfilled, seems evident almost beyond a doubt. But for this, means must be used; God has no where promised to perform it by mir acle. What then remains for us to do? We are but a few. The Jews in our own country are inconsiderable, compared to those inhabiting transatlantic regions. It is not to be supposed that a little band of females, whose exertions are necessarily confined to the more retired walks of life, can have any direct influence in convincing these of their errors. Zealous and ardent in the wish for their conversion, we must however wait till a way is opened to us, to yield them service in their eternal interests, and in the interval endeavor to impart to those around us a sense of the obligations we owe to this long neglected and highly injured people, who claim the warmest gratitude of every thinking being throughout the world. To God we must look for the performance of the mercies promised to the patriarchs of old. Has he not said, "I will be as the dew unto Israel; he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon; his branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree. They that dwell under his shadow shall return, they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine?" Has

he not declared, "That a present shall be brought unto the Lord of Hosts of a people scattered and peeled; of a people wonderful from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of Hosts?" We earnestly intreat thee, righteous God, "let the wrath suffice which thou hast poured out upon that people, who were formerly thine, for the guilt of their unbelief; let their punishment give way to thy grace, and let their long continued calamity be exchanged for a felicity consummate, because spiritual and eternal. Delivered from error, let them. behold thy truth, and in it Christ, and with him salvation; and let them with us not only see, but also embrace and enjoy thee to all eternity."

ABSTRACT OF THE TREASURER'S REPORT.

May 17, 1818. Remaining in the Treasury,
From a Cent Society in North Yarmouth,
Female Cent Society in Hopkinton, N. H.
Female Religious Society, Dedham,
Individuals, by Miss Scollay,

By Mr. Ford, collected in Charity-Boxes,
Ladies in Carlisle, by Rev. P. Litchfield,
A Widow in Goffstown, by Dr. Taylor,
Ladies in Foxboro', by Mrs. Bowers,
Female Auxiliary Society, Uxbridge,
Female Charitable Society, Holliston,
Medfield Auxiliary Society,
Dea. E. Whitman, Abington,
Charitable Society in Wrentham,

A Friend to the Jews in Cazenovia, N. Y.
By Miss Rogers, from sundry persons,
Mrs. Butterfield, from do.

Rev. J. Appleton, D D. Bowdoin College,
Two Ladies in Medfield,

The late Gen. J. Huntington, New London,
Ms. S. Hoare, Concord, by J. Evarts, Esq.
Rev. D. A. Sherman, Knoxville, Ten. do.
Female Society in Newburyport,
Monthly Concert at Haverhill, N. H.

Mrs. Wm. Porter, Hadley, by Miss Hopkins,

$84 66

18 50 17 72 4.00

8 60

80.00

11 18

11 52

30 00

22.40

5 35

21 75

20 00 16.00 3.00

7 94

8 32

5 00

2.00

20 00

2.00

5.00 41.00

32 67

5.00 24 58

Female Auxiliary Society, Alstead,

Donations from friends, by Mrs. Bowers,

From fiends, 87 50; Miss Lucy Goodrich, $1,

Mr. Wm. Child, Templeton, by do.

Received at sundry times from Collectors,

18 months interest on $675 73 U. S. Stock, (8520 of which is a permanent fund,)

EXPENDITURES.

Paid for board and tuition of N. Myers,
Remitted to the "London Society for the Conversion of the Jews," to assist in the
translation of the Scriptures,

Paid J. Evarts, Esq. to be remitted to Bombay, for education of Jewish children,

Deposited in Saving Bank,

Paid for Printing, 23 50; freight, $2 35,

1 Paid for Premiums on exchanging money, Balance in the Treasury, May 18, 1819,

6 87

8 50

2.20

222 58

60 78

$809 15

$40 00

444 44

100 00

129 00

25 85

6 91

50.95

$809 15

FRANCES ERVING, Treasurer, Common Street, Boston. N. B. Since the completion of the Treasurer's account, the following sums have been received: From the Uxbridge Auxiliary Society,

A number of pious Females in Northbridge,

DONATIONS

$20.00

10.00

TO THE AMERICAN BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS, IN MAY, FROM THE 16th TO THE Sist.

$12.00

Abington, Ms. From one of the parishioners of the Rev. Daniel Thomas, for the
education of a heathen child in India, to be named DANIEL THOMAS,
An individual of the same parish, for the mission to Jerusalem,
Amesbury, Ms. Subscribers in the west parish, for the school fund, by
Mr. Jacob Kelly,

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5.00

19.00

42

Total.

Andover, Ms. (south par.) The Fem. Char. Soc. by the Rev. Justin
Edwards,

Do. (north par.) A female friend, by the Rev. I. W. Putnam,
Ashburnham, Ms. The Society for ed. hea. children in the United
States, by Mr. David Cushing, Treasurer,

Athol, Ms. From a lady, for the American Indians,

Augusta, Me. Mr. Jeremiah Babcock, one half of the sum appropriated
from his pension to charitable purposes, by the Rev. Benjamin Tappan,
Barnet, Ver. From an aged woman, one half for foreign missions, and the
other for ed. hea. children, by the Rev. D. Sutherland,
Barrington, R. I. The Fem. Char. Soc. by Mrs. Anna Wright,
Bath, N. H. The Cent Soc. for foreign missions,

Treas.

From schools, by the Rev. David Sutherland,
Mrs. Payson, the pocket money of her late daughter, Mary, appro-
priated on her death bed to the ed. of hea. children,
Berkley, Ms. (and the vicinity.) Aux. Miss. Soc. by Levi French, jun.
Cor. Secretary,

Collection at the monthly concert, by do.

Berwick, Penn. Contribution after a sermon, by Mary R. Bowen,
Boston. Mr. F. Joscelyn, for the hea. schools in India, a small balance,
From a number of ladies, by Miss Perry, for the education of CLAU
DIUS BUCHANAN, and CHAUNCEY ALLEN GOODRICH, in Ceylon,
Bridgeton, Me. From Nancy Perley, for the ed. of a female child in India,
to be named HULDAH PERLEY, by Mr. C. Southworth,
Bridgewater, Ms. Miss J. R. by the Rev. D. Huntington,
Bucksport, Me. The monthly concert in the first Congregational soci-
ety, by Bliss Blodget,

Canterbury, Con. Ladies' Newell Mission Soc. by Betsey L. Coit, Treas.
Carlisle, Ms. Mr. Ward Litchfield, for foreign missions, $2; for the
Indians of our own country, $2,

14.00

Mr. Daniel Gregg, for the school fund, $5; for foreign missions, $5, Chester, Orange Co. N. Y. Fem. Cent Soc. for the western mission, by the Rev. James H. Thomas,

Concord, N. H. The Fem. Association, for the ed. of Asa Mc'FAR-
LAND, 3d annual payment, by Sarah Kimball, Treas.

Lieut. Zebulun Spaulding, for western missions, by the Rev. Paul
Litchfield,

Zebulun Spaulding, jun. by the same,

Charlestown, Ms. A friend of missions, by the Rev. Dr. Morse,

Mrs. Frothingham, by the same,

Concord, Ms. Sarah Vassal Hosmer, by the Rev. Dr. Ripley, for ed. hea.
children in the East Indies, by Am. missionaries,

East-Hartford, Con. The monthly concert for prayer, by L. C. Duncan,
East Haven, Con. Fem. Cent Soc. by T. Dwight, Esq.

Exeter, (Lebanon,) Con. The Female Newell Society, by the Rev.Cor.
nelius B. Everest,

Farmington, Me. The monthly concert, by Mr. C. Southworth,
Francestown, N. H. The Fem. Assoc. for ed. heathen children in Bom-

bay, by Deborah Starrett, Treas.

dividuals in do.

Freeld, Monmouth Co. N. J. Society of Ladies for the support of a child in Ceylon, to be named JouN WOODHULL, by Dr. John Scudder, Gilmanton, N. H. From L. A. S.

Mr. Joshua Dane, by the same,

Gloucester, Ms. Mr. William Dane, for the foreign mission school, by the Rev. L. Hartshorn,

10.00

Hingham, Ms. Fem. Cent Soc. by Rachel Ripley, Treas.

A charity box, kept by Mrs. Williams,

Hawley, Ms. Char. Soc. for the Cherokee mission, by Mr. Calvin Cooley,
Treasurer,

Individuals in do. for the school fund,

A female friend, from a charity box,

Greenfield, Saratoga Co. N. Y. Fem. Cent Soc. by Meletabel Williams,
Treasurer,

Holliston, Ms. A friend, for the instruction of the heathen, by Miss E.
Prentiss,

3 00

Mrs. Watkins, of do. for the same coject,

1.00

Hopkinton, Ms. The monthly concert for prayer, by Rev. Nathl. Howe,
Contribution by children in a Sabbath school, for ed. hea. children in
India, by the same,

Ibswich, Ms. Ruth Conant, by the Rev. David Kimball,
Kennebec Co. Me. An appropriation from the pension of the donor, as a
soldier in the war of the revolution, by the Rev. Benjamin Tappau

1 00

2.00

Lee, Ms. Fem. Čent Soc. for the Cherokee school, by S. L. Perry, Treas. remitted by the Rev. Dr. Hyde,

A little boy, for the heathen children,

12.00
06

43 16

Ludlow, Ver. Josiah Fletcher, Esq. for the benefit of the western In

dians, by Moses Haven, Esq.

50 00

Capt. Janna Wilcox, by do.

1 50

Manchester, Ms. The Gentlemen's Assoc. for ed. hea. children, by the

Rev. James Thurston,

Ladies' Assoc. by Martha Lee, Treas.

The Fem. Cent Soc. for missions, by the same,

Mansfield, Ms. Mr. Moses Copeland, by Mr. Stephen Rhoades,

Marietta, Ohio. The monthly concert, for the Cherokee and Choctaw
mission, by Rev. Samuel P. Robbins, remitted by Mr. E. Huntington,
Medway, Ms. (west par.) The Fem. Cent Soc. for instructing Indian
children, under the care of Mr. Kingsbury, by Sewall Harding,
The Fem. Char. Soc. in do. for the same object,

A friend of missions, for the same,

From another friend of missions, $2; another, $1,

Meriden, Con. Contribution at the monthly concert, by T. Dwight, Esq.
Middlebury, Ver. Students in Middlebury College, for ed. the child
named SOLOMON M. ALLEN, the 2d payment, by J. L. Hale,
Milford, Ms. Fem. Benev. Soc. for the Cherokee mission, by Abigail
Penniman, Treas.

Monson, Ms. The monthly concert of prayer, by the Rev. Alfred Ely,
Newark, N. J. Eliza D. Campbell, of which $7 25 are from pupils in
her school, for the ed. of hea. children in Ceylon, remitted by the Rev.
Dr. Richards,

Newbury, Ver. Female Auxil. Assoc. by Jane Johnson, Treas.
Newburyport, Ms. From Capt. John Wills, jun. for the ed. of a child in
Ceylon, to be named PAUL TITCOMB,

New Castle County, Del. From the Grand Jury of the New Castle
Court, for the Cherokee school,

12 00

New Haven, Con. From a lady, by T. Dwight, Esq.

10 00

A female friend of Zion, for the American Aborigines,

1.00

New York. From several individuals, by Dr. John Scudder, for sup
porting and educating children in Ceylon, as follows, viz.

From Mrs. Elisabeth Lewis, for two children to be named BEAL N.
LEWIS, and WILLIAM CROSSFIELD,

24.00

DANIEL D. GAUTIER, for a child to be named for him,

12 00

Harriet Newell Brittan, and Mary Brittan, for a child to be named
after their father, STEPHEN P. BRITTAN,

Anna Bancker, for a child to be named WILLIAM BANCKER,
Henry Rutgers, for the support of one child, to be named HENRY
RUTGERS,

RICHARD CUNNINGHAM, for a child to be named after him,

W. &. E. S. Bloomfield, for the support of a child to be named after
their father, SMITH BLOOMFIELD,

12.00

12 00

12.00

12.00

12 00

The Female Juvenile Society of Rutgers Street, N. Y. for two chil-
dren; one to be named ALEXANDER MCCLELLAND, and the other,
SAMUEL WILLIS,

Timothy Hedges, for the support of one to be called TIMOTHY
HEDGES,

12.00

From a Stranger, for the support of one to be named PHILIP Mɛ-
LANCTHON WHELPLEY,

12.00

WILLIAM CROSBY, for the support of one child to be named after him,
From a friend, for the support of a child to be named EDMUND SMITH,
Isaac Sayrs, for the support of a child to be named EDWARD D.
GRIFFIN,

12.00

12.00

12.00

For Foreign Missions, by the same agent, the following sums, viz.
From Mary A. Whittlesey, S; De Forest and Son, $12,

13.00

Colored females, belonging to a Sunday school in N. Y. by Mr. Brittan,
E. Allen, $4; Margaret Beckman, 25 cts.
John Willard, $5; Mrs. Ezekiel Carman, $2,

1.50

4 25

7.00

John Ewen, 82; an individual, 12 cts.; Mrs. Helena Stephens, $2,
W. Swift, Surgeon of the U. S. navy,

4.12

5.00

Messrs. Loyd & Scudder,

12.00

An unknown person, with letter to the Rev. Gardner Spring,
Two individuals, $1 each,

2.00

2.00

Mrs. Butler, $3; Mrs. Swartz, S4, Mr. Smith, $3; an individual, S4,
Mr. Fenn,

14.00

5.00

From the seventh Presbyterian church in the city of New York, col-
lected at the monthly concert of prayer, by the Rev. E. W. Baldwin,

12.00

Collection in the Rev. Gardner Spring's church,

72 12

Total.

From an individual, $1; from another, $17,
Collection in the Rev. Mr. Bork's church,
North Yarmouth, Me.. (2d parish.) Contribution on the first Sabbath of
the year, and collections at the monthly concert, by Dea. Jacob Hayes,
Palmer, Ms. Fem Cent Soc. by Mrs. Colton, Treas.

A legacy, from the estate of the late Dea. Alpheus Convers, (2d year)
for the heathen in this country, by the Rev. Simeon Colton,
Mr. Jesse King, $1 50; Timothy Brainerd,
Collection at the monthly concert for prayer,

Pawlet, Ver. Contributed in Mr. J. R. Barbour's school, for the mis-
sion at Brainerd,

$1,

2.50

4 06

Pembroke, Ms. Mary E Ford, by the Rev. Daniel Thomas,

S 00
5.00

Peru, Ms. From pupils in Miss L. K. Post's school, for ed. hea. children in America, by Capt. Thomas Frissell,

Part of a contribution, for the same object,

Augustus C. Frissell, 50 cts; Semiramis Frissell, 25 cts. for ed. hea. chil. Rochester, Ms. From two mite boxes of the Rev. Oliver Cobb, and Ebenezer Haskell, $3 each,

The concert for prayer of the females of the Tabernacle church, for
the Cherokee mission, by the Rev. Dr. Worcester,
Sandwich, Ms. A little boy and girl, by the Rev. Dr. Hyde, for ed. hea.
children,

Shirley, Ms. The Fem. Char. Soc. by Esther Brown, Treasurer,
South Reading, Ms. By the Rev. R Emerson, the following sums, viz.
Three young misses in a family, for ed. hea. children in N. America,
Five children in another family, for the same object,

A charity box kept in the monthly concert, for the same purpose,
The Fem. Cent Society, by Sarab S. Yale, Treas.

The S. Reading Fem. Sabbath School Society, to purchase Bibles for
N. American Indian children,

Verzennes, Ver. Mr. Daniel Harmon, by the Rev. Alexander Lovell,
for cd. western Indian children,

Vershire, Ver. The Fem. Cent Soc. by Margaret Keyes, Treas.

Walnut Hill, Me. Fem. Cent Soc. for the Cherokee mission, by Mrs. P.

G. I. Whiton, Treas.

Children in the same parish, for Cherokee children,

Walton, Del. Co. N. Y. (first society) Fem Cent Soc. by T. Dwight, Esq.
Do. (second society) Fem. Cent Soc.

Wardstoro', Ver. A contribution on the second Sabbath of Jan. by Col.
Jonathan Robinson,

Waterborough, Me.' Mr. Archibald Me'Lucas, by Mr. D. Gregg,
Waterford, Me. From several females to educate a heathen child in Cey-
lon, to be named LINCOLN RIPLEY, from respect to their pastor, of
which $3 are towards the next payment,

Wayne, Me The Fem. Cent Soc. by Mr. C. Southworth,
Wenham, Ms The Assoc for ed, hea. children, by Dea. John Dodge,

Westborough, Ms Col. Andrew Peters, by the Rev. Elisha Rockwood,

for the mission at Brainerd,

5.00

12.50

Westminster, Ms. The monthly concert, a semi-annual payment, for the child named CYRUS MANN,

Wilmington, Ms. Fem. Cent Soc. for the Choctaw mission, by the Rev.
Freegrace Reynolds,

17 32

Westerlo, N. Y. (Albany Co.) Fem Cent Soc. by T. Dwight, Esq.
Westminster, Ver (west parish.) Soc. of Friends to Morals and Mis-

Wilmington, Del. Female Praying Soe. for the support of a female
Cherokee child, to be named ANN PORTER, in memory of one of the
late members of the society, by A. M. Macmullen,
Winchester, Vir. Mr. Lewis Hoff, by T. Dwight, Esq.
Woodstock, Ver. The Juvenile Soc., for the ed. of hea. children in the
east, by Orlando N. Dana,

The residence of donors of the following sums is urknown, viz. May 17. From a friend, by T. Dwight, Esq.

19. From an unknown friend of missions, for the ed. of hea. children,

60

60 00

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