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England, chiefly London and Glasgow, with funding entirely from donations. In 1891 they purchased for £9000 the first permanent Mission House, 189 Whitechapel Road in London, which remained in use by the organisation until around 1980. In a matter
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Palestine. Some missions activity in Eastern Europe was transferred to Palestine, and cooperation was sought with other Christian organisations working there to take advantage of the influx of Jewish immigrants in the wake of the
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where he excelled in his studies and won a volume of a commentary on the Talmud. In his teens he intended to emigrate to
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Christian truth to the Jews and Scriptural truth regarding Israel to Christians."
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College House for theological training, and having completed a course there in July 1881, he joined the staff of the Mildmay Mission. He was sent to evangelise Jews in
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was stifling people under what he called "Jewish popery", and that an understanding of Jesus as fulfillment of the sacrificial system brought spiritual renewal. He utilized both scriptural interpretation and
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in 1897 and every such meeting thereafter until 1906, writing reports on the discussions which were subsequently published in the long-running periodical
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