“True, the efforts to evangelize them (the Jews) contrary, as I think, to the manifest predictions of the prophets, continue to be unceasing, yet even in this there is charity and good feeling, which cannot fail to be reciprocally beneficial.” He then quotes the letter of the late President of the United States, Mr. Adams, to which we referred above (see Chapter IX.), and draws the attention of the Americans to the idea of Restoration in most forcible and often eloquent language. Another American, Warder Cresson (1798‒1860), United States Consul in _Jerusalem_, was a great Zionist in his time. He wrote a book¹ on the subject, in which he says:―― ¹ Jerusalem――the centre and joy of the whole earth.... By Warder Cresson, United States Consul at Jerusalem.... Second Edition. London.... M.DCCC.XLIX., _p._ 3. “All the different nations have appointed consuls in _Jerusalem_, as in anticipation of some very important and general movement; which is regarded with a jealous eye by the Turks, as well as the other European Powers. ‘Britain has had a consul in _Jerusalem_ three years before any other nation, except Prussia; but no sooner did she send a bishop, than France, Russia and Austria sent consuls forthwith; and thus in _Jerusalem_――which is, in a commercial point of view, but a paltry inland Eastern town, without trade or importance of any kind――sit the five consuls of the Great European powers (as well as one appointed by the United States of America), looking at one another, and it is difficult to say why and wherefore.’ To use the words of Dr. Alexander Keith (1791‒1880): ‘A country which for previous centuries, _no man inquired after_, excites anew the liveliest interest among the greatest of earthly potentates.’”¹ ¹ The Land of Israel.... By Alexander Keith, D.D., Edinburgh:... 1843. _p._ 476. Having devoted some considerable time to Biblical study, Cresson embraced the Jewish faith, and after his conversion was named Michael Boaz Israel. He founded a colony in Palestine which was one of the pioneer enterprises of its kind. Meanwhile, the propaganda in England made considerable progress. The Rev. A. G. H. Hollingsworth aroused public opinion and appealed to the British Government for help for the Jews to regain the land of their fathers. He says:――