Their whole literature is anti-Christian.

So are their education and internal religious policy.

The great effort of Jewish learning for fifty generations, has been to prevent the Old Testament from suggesting Christian ideas to the Jewish mind.
Hence a Jewish mission requires an extraordinary amount of preparatory work, in the first instance; though its main objects and duties afterwards will differ little, if at all, from those of other missions.
Mr.Schauffler was specially adapted to the preliminary work in Jewish missions, growing out of the peculiar state of the national mind.

What this was, up to the year 1845, has been sufficiently indicated.

In that year, a second edition of the Pentateuch, in Hebrew and Hebrew-Spanish, was printed at Vienna; and a new edition, of five thousand copies of the Old Testament in the same languages, was commenced at Smyrna.