ABSTRACT
The young lady who is the subject of this memoir was, as its title indicates, a Jewess by birth. The majestic beauty of the religion of Jesus has, in all ages, obtained its finest representatives from the house of Israel: and among the many lovely examples of sublime attainment in the Divine life made by Hebrew Christians, Leila Ada is not one of the least conspicuous. Leila was one of those fair and flower-like natures, which at intervals rise to cheer people along dusty highways of life; but she was a plant which flourished in the shade, and her real worth was known to very few. Her natural abilities were of the highest order, and she had cultivated them with the strictest care; so that had God seen it fitting to spare her life and call her to a more public situation, she would have occupied no humble position among those noble-souled and intellectual women who are honor to country.
