They either mean nothing, or through a talmudic gloss, aided by self-righteous blindness, they foster his confidence in the mercy of the God who is his peculiar friend, and loves him more than he loves the Gentile world, or even his own justice and truth." Mr.Parsons also says, after a visit to Seres, a city fifteen miles northwest of Salonica: "The Jews of Seres have the same blind submission to the rabbis, the same prejudices, the same evasions of the truth.

Gold is their God, and traffic is their religion,--one would say, who should meet them only in their fair.

But in their prayers, and their Sabbath observance, the deceiver makes them appear to themselves the holy favorites of heaven, separate from the nations." Mr.Schauffler had now printed his Hebrew grammar, and commenced the printing of his Hebrew lexicon.

The edition of the Pentateuch was nearly exhausted.
The Rev.Homer B.Morgan and wife reached Salonica in February, 1852.

The brethren were of the opinion, that while for two thirds of the year the climate of that city was tolerably healthy, the low portions, where the Jews and Greeks chiefly resided, were subject to malaria.