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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2558, 1 December 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

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Notices. PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY. PUIILISMBD FOR TIMS SPBCIAL BENEFIT OF NoNCIIURCIIGOIiItS. Tiu«! Christian Religion, intelligently under, stood, comes not to add to men's burdens but to remove, them. " For God sent not his Son into the word to condemn the world, but that the world through Him miEht be saved." John iii Its leading doctrines, adapted to the use of this New Age. are summarised as follows —• lliere is one God, in whom is a Divine Trinity of Love Wisdom and Operation, and He is the Lord Jesus Christ. Saving Faith is to Believe in Him. fcvilsarcto be shunned, because they are of the devi! and from the devil Good Works ought lo be done, because they are of God and from God, and they ought to he done by man as of himself, but with the belief that they are from the Lord, operating in him by him. There are two things which constitute the essence of God-love and wisdom. And there are thro- which constitute the essence of His ove-to love others out of Himself: to desire to be one with them ; and to make them happy from Himsclr, Ihe same three constitute the essence o| His wisdom : because lovcr.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 may know God, and learn to know and do His will, i> ye continue in My word, then are ye My disciples indeed." John viii. 31. "Therefore ail things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto jou: do ve. eve-, so unto them ; for this ,s ' he ! aw " nd tl,e prophets. Matt. vii. 8. Iho icn Commandments point out what evils are to be shunned in order that men may attain

"That it is not so difficult to live the life of heaven as if ccmmonlr believed is evident from this —that when anything presents itself that one knows toi be insincere and unjust, to which his mind is disposed, ho need not only think that it ought not to he done hecause it is contrary to the Divine commands. If a man accustoms himself so to think, and from custom derives the habit, he is then by degrees conjoined to heaven ; and in so far as he is conjoined to heaven, the higher decrees of his mind are 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, for 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 ? But when he has made a beginning all goods arc wrought in him by the Lord, and Ho causes him not only to see rvils, but alsonot to will them, and finally to become averse to then. This is meant by the Lord's words. My yoke is easy and My burden is lieht." Matt. xi. 30 But it should be known that the difficulty of so thinking, and likewise of resistinr evils, increases in proportion as a man from the will commits evils, for in so far ho becomes accustomed to them, until at length be does not see them and afterwards loves them, and frem the delight of love excuses them, and by all kinds of fallacies confirms them, and declares that theT are allowable and good. Hut this occurs wit& those who in the age of adolescence plunge into evils as if without restraint, and at the same time reject Divine thingsi from the heart."-(" Hearea anci rxtiii, Ao. boo). This advertisement. though containing truth fot 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 desireto assist in the work of disseminating them, are invitdtoscnd contributions to Mr \V. F. Keen Treasurer of the Sydney Society of the NeW C & re Kv Ca i ral>0 <- lla Screot ' North Shore Sydney. The Works of hwedonborg and Minor Literature of the New Church can be obtained from Mr W. Bullard, Bookseller, George-street, Sydney.

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