It was a sight not soon, if ever, to be forgotten, those keen Jewish faces, such as our LORD Himself looked into daily during His ministry, eager, expectant, hopeful, while questioning again, as in the Synagogue of Capernaum, how it could be possible for Him to be not only Way and Truth, but _Life_; how He could in any comprehensible sense be said to _live_ in His people, and how any one could with any conviction say or sing "And now I live in Him." It made one feel that even there, in far-away and comparatively unknown Russia, that same Spirit is moving upon the waters to whom the _Quarterly Review_ gave its testimony in the October number of 1912, when it stated at the close of a remarkable review of modern German and other critical literature that the net result of modern negative criticism had only been "to make the living CHRIST a greater Reality to-day than He has been since the days of the Apostles." So it was at Warsaw that night. They wanted to understand the CHRIST whom S. Paul not only taught but had _experienced_ ever since his conversion, and which enabled and impelled him to say, "I live, yet not I, but CHRIST liveth in me." The Jews have had hard experiences in Russia, and the story of their wrongs would take long to tell; but let us hope that now there is no reason for wishing to tell it. We are hoping that in more ways than one Russia is going to "forget those things which are behind, and reach forward to those things which are before," and which are worthy of the aims of a great nation. Few nobler things have been said during the war than General Botha's counsel to his fellow-countrymen when the Beyers and De Wet revolution had come to a fitting end. He reminded them that what had happened was within their own household, and their own affair, and that the only right course was to let by-gones be by-gones, and "cultivate a spirit of tolerance and forbearance and merciful oblivion" with respect to the errors of the past. A year ago, if writing upon Russian life of to-day, one could not but have touched upon the hardships of the Jews who have to live "within the pale" in Russia, and have been alternately tolerated and persecuted, even massacred within recent years; and one would have had to own that there was something to be said upon the Russian side as well, even if not agreeing with it. But this is now no longer necessary. In Russia as in South Africa we must say, "Let by-gones be by-gones, and let the spirit of tolerance and forbearance and merciful oblivion" blot out the errors of the past for Russian and for Jew. It should be remembered also that the devout Jew is as mystical in his religion as the Russian, who must surely now and then, as he looks toward the seven-branched candlestick within his own sacrarium, or listens to the psalms, be reminded that his devotion has a Jewish source.