Emile's marrying a Jewess, no matter how lovely or high-born. All
she knows or remembers of the Mordecais is, that the banker was once
a poor, despised pawnbroker. No years of honest endeavor, or
successful attainment, could wipe this fact from her retentive
memory. It would be a misnomer, Leah, to call such a woman a
Christian. She is an utter stranger to the sweet principles of faith
and love embraced by true Christians, and practised by those who
believe that they have 'passed from death unto life.'

"Then, your people, too, are unrelenting in their views on such
unnatural marriages. Suppose you were to marry this man, in the face
of the unyielding opposition of the parents on both sides--there's
little hope that they could be reconciled. You see at once how you
might be considered an outcast from your people and his too. Your
children would be neither Jew nor Christian; for all the external
rites and ceremonies of the earth cannot transform a Christian into
a Jew, or a Jew into a Christian. Accursed be the nominal Christian
that would allow his children, by ceremony or rite, to be made
nominally Jews. Such a one is worse than an infidel; and has denied
the faith. God made the Hebrews a great and glorious people--his own
chosen children. But between Christians and Hebrew there is a wide,
wide difference; and God made that, too.

"No; Leah, if I were advising a Jewess to marry a Gentile, which I
am not doing, I would say, Select a man deeply rooted in religious
principle, and clinging humbly to his Christian faith. Such a man
would rarely, if ever, deceive or ill-use you."

"I see that you are right, Lizzie," interrupted Leah, apparently
aroused by her companion's words. "I'll heed your teaching, and