lications were 12,510.

But, in addition to their charities, the Jews are alive to the importance
of promoting religion and education. The Jewish Association for the
Diffusion of Religious Knowledge has now been in existence eleven years.
Amongst its supporters are the Rothschilds, the Goldsmids, and the other
wealthy Israelites whose charities are known all over England; but it
needs, and let us add deserves, more efficient support. It has
established a Sabbath school, where the present number of pupils is over
500, where instruction is given in reading, translation, and explanation
of the Bible, translation of the prayers, religious and moral lessons,
and Hebrew hymn-singing. It has established a synagogue in Union Hall,
Artillery Lane, where lectures on the Sabbath are given. It has provided
Scripture classes, and has published a series of Bible stories and
Sabbath readings, of which half a million of copies have been delivered.
The committee, when issuing the first number of their publications,
stated that those papers would "have for their object to impress upon the
Jewish mind proper notions of the principles and observances, spirit and
mission, of Judaism, and by appeals to the reason rather than to
sentiment, to develope and foster the most fervent conviction of the
truths of our sacred religion." In the way of Bible distribution the
Society has especially been active; until recently it was comparatively a
rare occurrence to find a Bible in the houses of the Jewish poor. Where
it was found it was of course the authorized Anglican version, which,
says the report, "however great its literary merit, must be admitted to
be faulty, and to contain numerous mistranslations adverse to the spirit
of our religion." The version they circulated was Dr. Leeser's, and they
anticipate the day when no poor Jewish home wherein parent or child can
read shall be without a Jewish version of the Holy Scriptures. Under the
auspices of the committee, a reply to Bishop Colenso was published.

The children are educated in a way of which Christians have no idea. The
Jewish free school in Brick Lane, with its three thousand children, is a
sight to see. There is, besides, an infant school equally flourishing,
and no poor Jew is relieved unless he sends his children to school. In
the visiting of the sick, in the care of the poor, all take their share.
I believe a synagogue is a little commonwealth in which the rich help the
poor,