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ZERAH,

THE BELIEVING JEW.

BY

MRS. POGSON SMITH,

AUTHOR OF ARABIANS; ABDALLAH AND SEBAT; ESSAYS, MORAL, DRA-

Nineteen years ago Zerah was published in aid of laying the corner stone of a protestant
Church in the Valley of the Mississippi; several times since a request has been made to reprint,
--because many persons at that time could not procure'copies---and now as a new book for young
people; but the especial cause of re-publishing at present, is to contribute with some, who unso-
licited dispense a portion of their more favored means to assist the bereaved, impoverished, sick,
or aged woman, in procuring worldly comforts, and who experience, sensibly, that to enjoy is to
bestow.

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How blest to cheer-to stay a tear,

'Warm the cold bosom of age,'

Illume its smile-if but awhile-

Life's saddening cares assuage.

CHARLESTON:

PUBLISHED BY WM. R. BABCOCK.

1857.

E.R.

ENTERED according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1837, by SILAS PRESTON SUNDERLAND, for the author, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

TO THE READER.

WITH profound veneration the author quotes the sacred words of our Divine Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST, in order to render a certain portion of the following work more deeply impressive, and induce the careless, the young, and those who read not the Gospel, to examine it altogether for themselves. Extracts from Scripture are carefully marked in italics between commas, so that not the smallest interpolation therewith or subtracting therefrom, is even shadowed in the narrative of the Believing Jew.

Very many hundreds of disciples are mentioned as converted in the Gospel, and the private biography of some of them might have been related— apart from following the LORD, or as having followed him. The person selected to carry on these pages is no farther noticed in the sacred volume than as a man bearing a pitcher of water, whom the two, sent to prepare for the last supper, were commanded to follow into the house he should enter.

It does not appear to the author that any reader of the Believing Jew could, by any possible manner of