IN MANY places a real interest is awakening on the part of our workers for our Jewish friends. In the early Advent awakening of more than a century ago certain leaders felt a great urge to bring to the Jews a knowledge of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Especially was this true in Europe. In succeeding years that urge lapsed, but we thank God for the revived interest in this people for whom the Christian message can mean so much once prejudice has been overcome.
The newly established journal The Israelite is making a very real appeal to the Jewish mind. The information this journal contains is helpful not only to Jews but also to our own ministers generally, for it puts into their hands information that is invaluable for Christians as well. The ministers who are already receiving this magazine testify of its worth in their work generally and in their work among the Jews particularly.
Many years ago the messenger of the Lord said:
The slumbering faculties of the Jewish people are to be aroused. The Old Testament scriptures, blending with the New, will be to them as the dawning of a new creation, or as the resurrection of the soul. Memory will be awakened as Christ is seen portrayed in the pages of the Old Testament. Souls will be saved from the Jewish nation, as the doors of the New Testament are unlocked with the key of the Old Testament. Christ will be recognized as the Saviour of the world, as it is seen how clearly the New Testament explains the Old. Many of the Jewish people will by faith receive Christ as their Redeemer.—Evangelism, pp. 578, 579.
March 18 has been set aside as a time when we can bring this journal before our people. In spite of all the other pressing appointments, we sincerely trust that our workers will take this opportunity to impress our members with its purpose and worth.
Doors of opportunity are opening to this message in many parts of the world, but these dear people, who for so many centuries have been unable to understand the place of Christ in the reading of the Old Testament, are surely deserving of our special thoughts and prayers in these closing
days of history. That there will be a great ingathering of souls from the Hebrew people has been emphasized again and again in the Spirit of Prophecy. Let us seek to bring a knowledge of Jesus Christ to them while we have the opportunity.
R. A. A.
