The President and Trustees of the American Relief Society for the Indigent Jews in Jerusalem have issued an address to their co-religionists throughout the United Sates, on the subject of the deep distress which is now devastating the land of Israel’s past and future glory. "Poverty threatens to hasten the death of the pious pilgrims scattered through the four cities associated in holiness, who, in their dire condition, appeal in words that rend the hearts of all gifted to feel, for immediate relief from the horrors which encompass them. The Trustees have not the heart to place before their fellow Israelites the picture of woe brought to their view in well-authenticated documents; it will suffice to show the extent of the distress by the following extracts. Sir Moses Montefiore, Bart., in answer to a draft sent by the Society, writes: "The distress of Israel at the present moment is truly heartrending. The high price of provisions and house-rent, the diminution of the usual revenues for the poor, afford the best evidences of the state of the indigent." The house of Leheren at Amsterdam, appeal in the fervent words of patriotism for the relief of the poor in Palestine, and state that ‘nearly half of the usual revenue will now be taken from the Jews in the Orient by the ukase of the Czar prohibiting his Jewish subjects from transmitting any money to Jerusalem.’ Leon Dyer, Esq., a respected citizen of Baltimore, writes: ‘Were I to describe the misery endured by the poor Jews, it would scarcely be credited; yet it is increased a thousand fold at the present moment, owing to the unparalleled high price of food, which has caused numbers to die of starvation, and many more must share the like fate, unless relief comes from some quarter. The small-pox has been raging at Jerusalem since the middle of December, and when we left, January 17^th, its virulence had not abated. Seven-eighths of the Jews in Palestine depend on support from abroad, which, at best, does not half supply their wants, and to which our happy country contributes a very small portion.’"—Advent Harbinger.

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