Jewish home by saying grace at the table in the name of Jesus. He had been a pupil in the school of the mission. The result was that both he and his father joined the Christians. But how could they be received into the Protestant church. The Austrian law did not recognize the Presbyterian church as it was a foreign (Scotch) church. So these converts united with its sister-church of the same ecclesiastical family, the Reformed Church of Hungary, a church which was recognized by law in Hungary. They were confirmed by Rev. Mr. Torok, the Reformed superintendent at BudaPesth. This boy afterward became one of the most prominent of the Presbyterian ministers in London. Another very prominent convert was Alfred Edersheim, whose tutor, though a Jew, left him in the care of this mission. He soon found Jesus as the fulfillment of the Jewish hopes and was also baptized in the Reformed church at Buda-Pesth. terwards he went to England and joined the Episcopal church. He was probably the only HebrewChristian ever asked by Dean Stanley to preach in Westminster Abbey. He became the author of the best and most scholarly Life of Christ in the English language. It was a noble tribute of a

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converted Jew to "Jesus the Jew," and in it he uses all his peculiar Jewish genius to prove that Jesus was the Messiah expected of the Jews. What Matthew was among the first Evangelists the Hebrew-Christian writer, that Edersheim has been in our day among the writers of the lives of Christ.

Another of the converts of this Jewish mission was a man, less widely known in America, but destined to exert a wide influence for Christianity in Jewish evangelization, Rev. Mr. Schönberger. For it was he, who converted Rev. Mr. Venetianer from Judaism, and the latter, about twenty years ago, became pastor of a Reformed church near Odessa in southern Russia. It happened that just at that time a Jewish rabbi named Rabinowitsch had been preaching about our "brother Jesus." Although Rabinowitsch was baptized in Berlin, yet when he wanted the members of his synagogue, who became Christians, to be baptized, he turned to Mr. Venetianer, who was in the neighborhood and the latter baptized his synagogue and made its members Christian, thus starting a new movement among the Jews of Russia toward Christianity.

This Presbyterian mission to the Jews at BudaPesth has thus not merely brought converts into

the Reformed church of Hungary, but it has also considerably influenced the thought and work of that church. It has strengthened the Evangelical part of that church and has acquainted them with the aggressive practical movements of the western Anglo-saxon churches. It has also led to the formation of a German church at Buda-Pesth of over 1,200 adherents. As a result of this contact with the Scotch Mission, the Reformed church at BudaPesth has become more aggressive and practical and the Young Men's Christian Association and Christian Endeavor movements have entered there with power. A Sunday evening prayer-meeting has been held for a number of years by the Hungarians there, the writer having had the privilege of speaking on one occasion to them. This Hungarian Church, if revived by God's Spirit, and filled with Evangelical and evangelistic zeal, will be a mighty power for the evangelization of southeastern Europe.

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PRAGUE.

OHEMIA was the last country in Europe to submit to the yoke of Rome and the first

to attempt to throw it off under Huss. It has over six millions of inhabitants. Its capital, Prague, "the hundred-towered, golden Praque," is most picturesquely located on both sides of the Moldau river. It is sometimes called "the city of a hundred spires" and is an ancient city, for it contains the monuments and trophies of nearly a thousand years. Its population, including the suburbs, is about 400,000. Its ancient buildings find their crown and climax in the Hradschin, the citadel on the west side of the river, in which is the cathedral and the palace.

Prague is very interesting because of its religious history. One of its prominent buildings is the Teyn church, the church that for more than two hundred years, was the church of the Hussites. It has two towers each crowned by graceful turrets. The old Bohemian church used to have as its symbol the cup and the book, because those were the two things that the Hussites demanded from the