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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2525, 15 September 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

Calico print works at Providence, R. 1., are running nicht and day, and with an .extra fores of 300 hands, to fill an order of 2,000,000 bandannas. The manufacture of all other goods has been stopped.

Notices. 'pi It A CTICAL CHRISTIANITY. I'UIILISHKD FOR THE KI'KCIAL BENEFIT OF NoNCIIURCIIGOP.KS. l"ituß Christian Religion, intelligently under, stood, convsnot to add to men's burdens but to remove them. "For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved." John iii Its ica.lin ff doctrines, adapted to the use of this New Age. are summarised as follows There is one God, in whom is a Divine Inmtyof Love, Wisdom and Operation, and He is ihe Lord Jesus Christ. Saying Faith is to believe in Him. livils are to be shunned, because they are of the devil and from the devil. Good Works ought to be done, because they are of God and from God, and they oußht to be done by man as of himself, but with the belief that they are from the Lord operating in him by him. 1 here are two tilings which constitute the essence of Crod-love and wisdom. And there are thre" which constitute the essence of Hi* ove-to love others out of Himself; to desire to of His wisdom ; because love and wisdom in bod make one, and love wills these things, and K$Sh,No CO T8 D ) iShe ' them - (TrUE ChriS ' ian I'lie word of God is Divine truth clothed in human language, and adapted to the varied states of he human heart, that thus a man may know God, and learn to know and do His will If ye continue in My word, then are ye My djjc.ples indeed." John viii. 31. "Therefore a,l things whatsoever ye would that men sheuld Ho unto joii: do V e ever, so unto them ; for this "'•}" '* w :,nd tl,e prophets. Matt. vii. 8. lheien Commandments point out what evil. .ire to be shunned in order that men may attain

"That it is not so difficult to live the life of heaven as if ccmmonly believed is evident from knows to b P re ?ents itself that one mlndi, °^p:j a a n p ToVtMnk'thatt ■ ' the ?nivinnr°n T b< j c f ause il is contrary to sUf so to tunk, and from custom derives the liahit, he is then bj- degrees conjoined to heaven"; and in so far as he is conjoined to heaven, the higher degrees of his mind are opened; and in so lams these are opened he sees what is insincere evi can be shaken off until it be seen. This is a state into which a man may enter from freedom ; for who is not capable from freedom of thinking in tins manner ? Hut when he has made a beginning all goods are wrought in him by the Lord, ana He causes him not only to sen evils, but also not to will them, and finally to become averse tpthi-m. llns is meant by the Lord's words, : My yoke is easy and My burden is light." • Matt. *~ 30 But it shonld be known that the difficulty of so thinking, and. likewise of resisting eviis, increases in proportion as alman from th» will commits evils, forjhytti' far he becomes accustomed to them, untTm length he does not seetliom.and afterwards loves them, and from the delight of love excuses them, and by all kinds of fallacies confirms them, and declares that they _j are allowable and good. But this occurs with i% those who in the age of adolescence plunge into -J eiils as if without restraint, and at the same time & reject Divine things from the heart."—f" Heaven 'I and Hell," No. 533). * This advertisement, though containing truth for all, iscspecially published for the benefit of those who from any cause do not profit by ordinary religious ministrations. Those who approve of the doctrines here enunciated, and who desireto ' assist in the work nf disseminating them, are in■vicdtosend contributions to Mr W. F. Keen. ireasurer of the Sydney Society ot the New Church, Carabella Street, North Shore Sydney. The Works of .Swedenborg and Minor Literature of the New Church can be obtained from Mr W. Bullard, liookseller, George-street, Sydney.