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PART 111.
Temptations.
A year passed. His correspondence
with the family was returned to him
unopened. Absolutely no word has
come to him from his loved ones, and
his heart was beginning to yearn for
some little bit of news from them,
when, one day he received a card from
another uncle of his, who had come
from Russia especially to see and
do his utmost to bring the young man
back to his home.
As soon as the card was received,
he hastened to meet this uncle at a
West End Hotel. He was received
with open arms and treated with ut
■wost kindness and love. All the home
news was given to him about his
father, mother, only sister and two
brothers, and the heart of the young
fellow was wrought up to a high
pitch of affection and love, with tears
streaming from his eyes. Seeing that
his heart was in condition to receive
the proposal which he had come to
make, his uncle finally said to him,
“Do you know what brought me here
to this country?” And the young
man answered, “I suppose it is busi
ness.” “Well,” said the uncle, “the
business I could easily do through my
agent, but what brought me especially
here was to see you and, if possible,
take you back home.” “Well, ans
wered the young fellow, “I am ready
any time you wish to go.” “I know
that you are ready. We all know
that, but there is one condition to
your returning home and that is that
you leave your religion in England.”
It was then that the young man real
ized his temptation and the real ob
ject of his uncle’s visit. But, com
ing to himself, he answered right away,
"“Uncle, it took me three months of
struggle against the decision of be
coming a Christian. Three months of
bitter struggle! I did not want to
become a Christian but, after strug
gling against my own heart and my
own convictions, counting the cost,
knowing what would happen, I decided
I could not live without Christ, and
what I decided then, I am still of the
same opinion. It is therefore useless
for you to imagine that you can take
me by surprise, for my decision is
made once and for all.” “Oh,” said
the uncle, “you are only a boy. You
have not really thought of the conse
quences. I have authority from your
father to call a Jewish Rabbinical coun
sel, and, if you persist in your er
ror, you are liable to be excommuni
cated, and disinherited and entirely
separated from all your loved ones
■once and for all. You had better
study it over before you render your
final decision, and I give you one week
to think about these things,” The
young man said, “Uncle, I have thought
cf these things and have made my de
cision. I will not change.” But the
man took hold of the boy and put him
nut and said, “Come back a week
from today, and the Jewish council
will be here, either to receive you back
into your father’s faith, or separate
you entirely from us.”
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(Continued from last week.)
The Lake of Despond.
The horror of that week can bet
ter be imagined than described. Ev
erything seemed to conspire to upset
him. The nervous strain very likely
contributed a great deal to making
him careless, and expecting slights,
and many times during that week he
was in danger of being expelled from
his home. He did things during that
week that he would never have thought
of doing were it not for his state of
excitement. Often did he have to get
up at one or two o’clock in the morn
ing and plead for help, as the strain
was too much and the temptation to
go back home was so great.
Victory.
Finally, the week passed, and he
presented himself once more at the
hotel where his uncle was staying, and
found him in company with ten other
venerable looking Jews who received
him gladly, treating him as one of
their own, with all respect due to a
Rabbi’s son. But, after awhile, he
was asked as to his decision and, with
a trembling voice, the young convert
ed Jew repeated his experience, his
decision and previous deliberation.
This confession was received with
marked sorrow, while his uncle wept
like a child. One of the venerable
looking Jews, who was one of the
Rabbie of London, tried to argue with
the young man, but he soon realized
that it was useless to enter into an
argument, and then stood up and, af
ter a few words, declared that it was
his painful duty to excommunicate,
on behalf of his colleague in Russia,
this young man who had abandoned
the faith of his fathers, the holy re
ligion of Moses and the Prophets.
With trembling voice, he began read
ing the awful and terrible ex-commu
nication, which covered four sheets of
foolscap paper, and containing all the
curses that could be gathered togeth
er, beginning with the words at the
beginning of this story. The young
man received these curses with a ter
rible feeling of helplessness coming
over him. He felt like a man stun
ned. It seemed to him as if earth was
opening up and as if he was being
dragged down to the lowest depths
of hell. But, in a moment, the words
of Jesus came to him in full power,
“I will never leave thee nor forsake
thee,” and then the spirit brought to
his mind those beautiful words of the
Apostle Paul, “He was made a curse
for you,’ ’and a feeling of peace and
delight came over him and he rejoic
ed to be able to suffer with Christ
and for Christ before these men. Af
ter the reading was over and all the
venerable, looking men stood with
tears streaming down their faces, the
young man asked whether that was
all, and he was told that it was. Then
he exclaimed, “Good-bye! May the
Lord have mercy upon you,” and left
with his heart full of joy as if a big,
heavy load had been lifted from his
shoulders.
Joy and Peace.
Reaching the street, he was return
ing to his place of work but was so
raised out of himself that he did not
see what he was doing and ran into
the hands of a policeman, who asked
him whether he was drunk, and he
answered with a happy face, “No, sir!
Not drunk, but happy!” That was
a great and final victory.
While at the Mildmay Mission Print
ing Office, he learned the art of print
ing. This young man availed him
self of every opportunity to enlarge
his knowledge, not only of the Eng
lish language, but especially of the
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