From 1848 to 1853 he edited the Jewish Herald, the monthly journal of the British Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Among the Jews (BSPG) He went on a Sabbatical as the guest of Frederick David Mocatta on a nine-month journey through France and Italy to Egypt, Syria and the Holy Land.
[3] On his return he published a book: Voices from Many Waters, Travels in the Lands of the Tiber, the Jordan and the Nile: with Notices of Asia Minor, Constantinople, Athens, etc.
This book contained correspondence between Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, and prominent British religious authorities of the 18th century.
The Dictionary of National Biography (1885) incorrectly states that "some years before his death he received from the Washington University the degree of D.D.
degree in 1874 from Howard University in Washington, D.C.[4] Aveling died at Reedham, near Caterham, on 3 July 1884, and was buried in Abney Park Cemetery, London.