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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 496, 18 January 1879, Page 3

To those Jews whose religious faith is { a living reality, the approaching marriage of Margaret, daughter of Baron Charles "Roths-, hild, of Frankfort, to the Due de Guiche, and her reception into the Roman Catholic Church, is anything but an auspicious event. The prominence of the Rothschild family in the Jewish com : muniiy malices it only too likely that such an example will be followed by others ; and hence a London Jewish organ declares that " the conditions under winch the marriage is to take place are such as to fill us with profound sorrow, for on the consummation of this union another daughter of the Rothschilds will have set an example .compromising to the.best interests of the religion of our forefathers.'' Mr. Spurgeon is the next man to .-be testimonialised. He has nearly completed a quarter of a century of his ministryin London. Xt was in 1803 that the., boy preaeher of ninetfen, who had been attracting enoraoas crowds to! a barn at Waterbeach was "called" to. preside over a congregation which met in Dr. RipdonV bld chapel in New Park street, Sjoulhwark. In two years the chapel was fotmd much too small for him. A few months later its enlargement was "discovered to be insufficient ; and sinse then he; has constantly increased both the number of his admirers and the sphere of his work. To commemorate his first appearances as a boy in London, lie will be given, if the gam can he collected, five thousand pound notes. 2*eedless to say,.he will nqt use it forhimself. -JiewilL Bevote-it.te- -.tbß .endowinont of bis almshousea.