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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2534, 6 October 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

Notices. J) RACTICAL CHRISTIANITY. PUULISHKD FOR Tlili HUNKI-lT OF NoN Chukchgokrs. Truk Christian Religion, intelligently under* stood, not 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 liim might be saved." John Hi 17. Its leading doctrines, adapted to the use of this New Age, are summarised as follows—* There is one God, in whom is a Divine Trinity of Love, Wisdom and Operation, and He is the Lord Tesus Christ. Saving Faith is to believe in Him. Evils arc to he shunned, because they are of the devi) and from the devil. Good Works ought to be done, because they are of God and from God, and they ought to be done by man as of himself, but w«th the belief that they arc from the Lord, operating in him by him. There arc two things which constitute the essence of God—love and wisdom. And there are thrc A which constitute the essence of His love—to love others out of Himself; to desire to be one with them ; and to make them happy from Himself, The same three constitute the essence of His wisdom ; becausc love and wisdom in God make one, and love wills these things, and wisdom accomplishes them, (True Christian Religion, No. 43.) The word of God is Divine truth clothed in human language, and adapted to the varied states of the human heart, that thus a man mar know God, and learn to know and do His will. u l f ye continue in My word, then are. yc My disciples indeed." John viii. 31. "Therefore ail things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto jou; do yccven so unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets. Matt. vii. 8. The Ten Commandments point out what evils arc to be shunned in order that men may attain eternal life.

"That it is not so tlifßcult to live the life of heaven as if commonly believed is evident from this—that when anything presents itself that one knows to be insincere and unjust, to which his mind is disposed, he need not only think that it ought not to be done because it is contrary to the Divine commands." If a man accustoms himsdf so to think, and from custom derives the habit, he is then by degrees conjoined to heaven ; ;ind in so far as he is conjoined to heaven, the higher degrees of his mind arc opened ; and in so far as these are opened he sees what is insincere and'unjust; and in so far as he sees these evils they can be shaken off, lor it impossible that any evil 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 this manner t But when he has made.a beginning all goods arc wrought in him by the Lord, and He causes him not only to see but also not to will them, and finally to become averse to them. This is meant by the Lord's words, "My yoke is easy and My burden is light." Matt. xi. 30 Hut it should be known that the difficulty ot so thinking, and likewise of resisting evils, increases in proportion as a'man from th« will commits evils, for in so far he -becomes accustomed to them, until at length he docs not seethem, and afterwards loves thcra, and from the delight of love excuses them, and by all kinds of fallacies confirms them, and declares that they are allowable and good. Hut this occurs with, chose who in the age of adolcsccncc plunge into vils as ifwithout restraint, and at the same time reject Divine things from the heart."—(" Heaven and Hell," No. 633). This advertisement, though containing truth for all, is especially 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 desire to assist in the work of disseminating them, are invitdtosend contributions to Mr \V. F. Keen. Treasurer of the Sydney Society of the New Church, C&rabclla Street, North Shore Sydney. The Works of .Swedenborg and Minor Literature of the New Church can be obtained from Air W, Bullard, Bookseller, George-street, Sydney.

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