faithfulness of the witnesses of Jesus."

In placing the following true story before the public, it has not been the author's intention so much to show how the work of grace is carried on in the heart of a Jew, or how he is brought to acknowledge Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah, as it has been to unfold a page of persecution and suffering nobly borne for the Saviour's sake; a page which may, perhaps, induce others, now wavering and staggering in their faith, to come boldly forward and undauntedly to avow their convictions that Christ crucified is He of whom Moses and the Prophets spake.

Considerably shorter accounts of Eliezer's conversion and subsequent sufferings, together with letters from

Protestant pastors and others, have, from time to time, been published in the "Missions Blatt des RheinischWestphälischen Vereins für Israel." From this source, as well as from written documents and letters of the highest authenticity, the author has compiled the narrative. For obvious reasons, the names of persons and places have been suppressed, as have also some facts of minor importance. For the rest such alterations and additions have been made as were necessary to reduce the whole into a consecutive and readable form.

LONDON, 1877.

INTRODUCTION.

HE history of suffering is a history of sympathy. Almost

any tale of human suffering is wont to enlist the sympathies of a suffering world. Whether it be a nation suffering, as the Jewish nation in past ages, or whether it be an individual; any true tale of hardship, privation, persecution, and suffering is sure to excite interest in the reader and to call forth the kindliest sympathies of man's heart. As such a history of real hardship and suffering, as a truthful account not of the past, but of the present day, we can earnestly recommend the following Jewish.

narrative. It will be found, on perusal, full of interest, not only from the manner in which it is told, but also from the actual matter and from the very facts, of which the writer has to speak. It is observable that not only months, but even days of dates are specified. And the whole character of the history bespeaks its truth. The relentless and persevering persecutions to which Eliezer was subjected, are but the natural outcome and consequence of that same state of mind and belief, which in the early days of Christianity actuated the "fiery Rabbi of. Tarsus," leading him to do all that he could against the name and followers of Jesus the Nazarene, and to carry on his persecutions against them, even to foreign cities.

Here is strong encouragement for all sufferers in the cause of truth and holiness.

The more the Israelites were persecuted in

the days of the Pharaohs, the more they multiplied and the stronger they became; the faith and fear of their forefathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel was with them. So, in like manner, fared it with Eliezer; such, too, was his experience. By opposition and ridicule in Constantinople and elsewhere, his curiosity respecting Christianity was excited and his afterconvictions of its reality and truth were strengthened. It will be clearly and beautifully and encouragingly seen in this narrative, how faith in the Truth is confirmed by the weak arguments of contumely, abuse, and abusive language and contempt employed against it. We are reminded of the encouragement given by God's prophet: "Hearken unto Me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye people in whose heart is My law Fear ye not the reproach of men,