Nazareth have just declared themselves Protestants

MY VERY DEAR BROTHER IN TIIE LORD, — Your two letters of Nov. 20 and Dec. 19 have both safely reached this, nearly at the same time, and have, indeed, as you say. made my heart glad, not only on account of the remittances, which I see you understand are very welcome for the carrying on of divers works in this country, but, I assure you, it is always a source of joy to hear of you, and especially to receive your kind letters. The Lord bless you abundantly for your kindness. I should be very glad, before you proceed, as you intend, to America, to see you and your dear wife in Jerusalem, and I think you would find some change for the better in the disposition of the people of this country since you left it. But whether you come or not, I pray that God may bless you abundantly on your visit to America.

Since I saw you at Beyrout in 1827, I have never been so long in one country as I have now been in Jerusalem, now above four years. Many sweet and many bitter blessings have we received at the hand of the Lord in our wandering life, and all is intended for our good.

You will hear with much pleasure that thirteen families, with sixty-one souls, at Nazareth have just declared themselves Protestants, several of whom, I hope, are under the influence of the Spirit of grace. Here among the Jews we see just fruits enough to keep up our courage, but certainly 1 do not yet perceive any important change among the Jews at large. Oh that the Spirit of life might be breathed upon these dry bones!

Please remember us kindly to your dear wife.

Ever faithfully yours,

S. ANGL. IIIEROSOL.

He left Constantinople May 3,1831, and reached Boston just in time to go to the dying bed of his life-long friend and fellow- laborer, Rev. Daniel Temple, and to preach his funeral sermon at Reading, Mass. The sermon, which was published in pamphlet, besides being a striking comment upon the text, “ There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God,” was a warm-hearted tribute to the exalted character of one whose conversation had long been in heaven.

Soon after reaching this country, he made his way to his native town, which he had left nearly forty years before, and had seen only in vacations while a student. lie arrived at Templeton late on a Saturday evening. The next day, on going into the pulpit and looking round upon the congregation, he could not recognize a single countenance, not even among the hoary heads. The church itself, an orthodox society, had been organized and built up since he had left the place. His first call was at the burying-ground, of which he said, “ I thought I should find there more whom I knew than anywhere else.” But even the graves of many of his friends were obliterated. He wrote at the time, “ The changes everywhere are very great, ‘ one generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.’ All the former elders of the land, the deacons, the selectmen, the school committeemen, the town-clerks, the lawyers, the representatives, — all, all are gone!

‘ The world passed away and the lust thereof, but he that doeth the will of God abided for ever.’ Oh how blessed are all those who are connected with that which is eternal! ”

lie visited the home of his childhood in a distant part of the town, where he had left his aged father when he went at the call of God, as did Abraham, into a far distant country. But that too was gone. The site only remained. Near by he found living an aged aunt totally blind, of whom he wrote: “ She said that sometimes when she lies awake in the night the whole room seems as bright as day, and she thinks she sees every thing, but when she puts out her hand and waves it, she finds she ‘ can see nothing but the love of God.’ Blessed eyes that can see that! ”

As extensively as possible he visited his relatives, especially his brothers and sisters, who were scattered over the country tour packages bulgaria, from Massachusetts to Wisconsin, and many were the sacred and joyful, and sometimes amusing, scenes that occurred as he made himself known to them in his own humorous way. In every case they failed at first to recognize the family likeness in the aged man who called at their doors and asked in the name of a disciple for a shelter, or a cup of cold water. He had kept the fire of love for his kindred burning bright on the hearthstone of his heart, during the many years that had separated him from all to whom he was bound by natural ties, and as he joined them in their family circles, and bowed with them at their family altars, he felt as if he had not been absent a day. The account which he gave of a visit to a brother in the far West, when they laughed and wept by turns, but all for joy, is too domestic to be here transcribed, although strikingly expressive of his genial, loving character.

District of Columbia

The two years that he spent in this country were devoted almost exclusively to hard work in the same blessed cause for which he had gone forth to the Eastern world so long before. lie was constantly going from place to place, from one part of the country to another, preaching and advocating the cause of missions, on the Sabbath, during the week, and on all occasions. During these two years, lacking five days, he travelled about twenty-one thousand miles, visited eighteen States of the Union, and the District of Columbia; he occupied two hundred and thirty-five different pulpits, preaching or addressing more than four hundred congregations, speaking on an average about an hour each time, and addressing, in addition, the students of colleges and theological seminaries, Sabbath schools, select schools, Ac., all over the country. As he was leaving for the scene of his labors in the East he wrote: “ Instead of being worn down by this service, I feel all the fresher and the better for it. AVhat thanks are due to Him‘who giveth power unto the faint,* and what thanks shall we render to Him for all that cordiality, that truly Christian hospitality, with which lie inspired the ten thousands of Ilis dear people to receive us.”