Publisher's Preface to this Edition
Since we first had the pleasure of publishing "The Story of Isaac Levinsohn," very many friends the wide world over, have written to ask us particulars about his subsequent career. We have therefore taken the opportunity, now that a further edition of the book is required to gather from various sources, information concerning our friend's work and service generally, since he was brought to a knowledge of Christ as his Savior.
The following pages tell how the Lord has led him right up to the present time. How He has kept him steadfast in the faith and true to the One Who called him out of darkness into light.
It is true, alas, that some, even of God's chosen people, who have professed faith in Christ, turn aside when persecution, or sometimes when prosperity comes; but our brother has gone on all these years steadily following the Lord, and is now probably more useful and has a wider influence for good than ever before.
We have been enabled to add a new photograph of himself to this issue, and also one of the late Dr. Stern, who after his captivity in Abyssinnia, and his rescue by our brave British Army, under Lord Napier of Magdala, proved such a friend and brother to the young convert to the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The letter from the Rev. William Cuff will be read with interest and also the communication of other good men, who have testified to the value of our friend's labors in recent years. There is now surely, an awakening amongst the "dry bones." For years and years God has been calling loudly to Israel and the veil has fallen from off the faces of many. Shall we not pray that my rinds more may have their eyes opened to see Christ as the Messiah; and follow in the train of grand and noble men like Saphir Edersheim, Ridley, Herschell, D. A. Herschell, Dr. Laseron, and a host of others, who were once like Isaac Levinsohn, blind to the glories of the Savior, but who eventually recognized Him as the Redeemer of their souls, and lived afterward lives fragrant with testimony to the value and worth of the Name of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
In sending forth this new and enlarged edition of the work, we earnestly trust that God's blessing may rest upon it as hitherto, and that the perusal of it by fresh friends may lead very many more of God's people to pray constantly for
"THE TRIBES OF THE WANDERING FOOT.”
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It may be well to state that this edition is re-printed from stereo plates, but in later years for convenience of correspondence our friend has anglicized his name and subscribes himself "Levinson" instead of "Levinsohn.”