Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1880 — An Australian Jewess Brought to Christ [ARTICLE]

An Australian Jewess Brought to Christ

A Jewish lady, who had been brought up by- religions parents, landed in Australia, one Sunday evening, after a long, passage from England. A mirthfiil party had been assembled to meet her, and in the fwtivitiee of the hoar she joined most heartily. In describing her subsequent career, and her happy translation “trom darkness to light,” she thus writes:— “For twelve moqths I went into every kind of gayety Melbourne afforded—dress, balls, the opera. I met a gentleman to whom I became attached: our affection was mutual, but the thought of marriage I could not entertain, as, he being a Christian, and I heart and soul a Jewess, it seemed out of the question. However, time wore on, and lat last consented to marry him, though I knew it would involve the leaving all. who were dear to me. Before we were married I exacted a promise from my husband that he would never use any arguments to make me believe in Christ, as I was determined to live and die a Jewess. “I will not dwell upon my married life; my husband was ajl in all to me—l wanted nothing more. God blessed us with two dear llttlk children, and he who gave them to tne only knows the agony of mind I endured in the thought, 'How shall I teach these little ones what I do not believe myself F for I had madel up my mind, simply out of love to my husband, that they should be brought up in their father’s faith.

“Although I attended God’s house regularly, my heart was in no way changed, and 1 never thought of Jesus as my Saviour. But after my second child was born I became earnestly impresse with a desire to become a Christian. Md prayer at that time always was, ’O God, if it be right, let me believe!’ “There came a time of trial, that I must pass over quickly. Mr. beloved husband was taken suddenly from me. So unexpected was the blow that I could hardly realize that he had gone. I knew he had died in the faith of Jesus, and I I was as far off beluga Christian as the first day I met him. Lfelt that God had dealt cruelly incrushing me so, taking all the youth and brightness out of my life. It seemed impossible to live, and* I felt nothing but the desire to be with my loved one again. Many a day have I lain on his grave in the damp, and prayed that God would take me: but God, ‘while I was yet a long way off,* took compassion, and showed me that only in one way could I ever hope to see my husband again. The desire to be a Christian now became part of my life. • “One day I was reading the “old, old story,” when something whispered to my soul, ‘He suffered »11 this for you,’—and the truth seemed to .burst upon me like a flash of lightning. I had found the Saviour—my Saviour—and such a food of love came into my heart for him 1 cannot describe. I went into my room, and on my knees I sobbed aloud for joy. Words fail me in attempting to tell you half my Saviour .isto me now. He is indeed my all; and l ean say, 'The life which I now live in thp flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.’”— Th» Watchword.