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The Letters comprising the present volume were
written for the purpose of presenting, perhaps,
in a new aspect, and from a new point of view,
the advent of the Son of Mary, Christ the Lord,
among the people of Judea. It was the editor's
hope, in writing them, to tempt the daughters of
Israel to read what he wrote, and receive and
be convinced by the arguments and proofs of
the divinity of Christ as here presented. For
the Israelite as well as the Gentile believer this
volume appears; and if it may be the means of
convincing one son or daughter of Abraham to
accept Jesus as Messias, or convince the infidel
Gentile that He is the very Son of the Lord and

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Saviour of the world, he will have received his
reward for the midnight hours, stolen from parochial
labors, which he has devoted to this work.

All the scenes of the life of Jesus during the
last four years of his stay on earth, as recorded
in the Gospel, are here narrated as if by an eye-witness
of them.

Adina, the writer, a Jewess, is assumed to have
been a resident of Jerusalem during the last four
years of our Saviour's life; and to have written
to Alexandria, to her father, numerous letters,
describing all events of interest, and especially
giving a minute narrative of the wonderful events
of the life of Christ, whom she daily saw.

With sacred awe and deep reverence, as conscious
of treading on “holy ground,” the writer
has unfolded, with the four Gospels as his guide,
the successive incidents of their marvelous History,
such as no four years, before or since, have
paralleled.

Jesus was man, as well as God! In this book
He is seen, conversed with, eaten with, as a man!

Some of the scenes present Him (as evidently
He did pass them) in the hours of domestic intercourse
and friendly companionship.

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There can be no charge of irreverence where
none is intended, and where the writer has trod
“with his shoes off his feet,” and with the most
cautious steps.

The subject is one of infinite delicacy, and the
writer believes and trusts, that while he has sought
to present (in order to attain the end he seeks,)
the MAN Christ Jesus, he has not forgotten the
“Godhead veiled in the flesh.”