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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2572, 5 January 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

Notices. H. WAITE, MANUFACTURING TINSMITH LLIGH - STREET, AUCKLAND, Has Always on Hand— Plunge, Hip, Sponge, and Shcver Baths Jjaikymkn's Utknsim (which cannot bo equalled in the colony) comprise : Choose Vats Milk Pans and Cans Cream Tins Milk Sieves aud Buckets London Milk Cans Milk Coolers, &c. Pannikins Billies (any size, or in nests) Round, Oval, and Square Bakiog Dishes Wash-up Dishes Wash-hand Basins Bakers' Tins Biscuit, Flour, and Lolly Tins Cake Tins (with movable bottom) r J>ea Kettles Coffee Pets Tea and Coffee Urns Preserve Tins Iron Boxes (with or without divisions Lanterns Coal Ho A s Baking Powder Tics Dust Pans Kerosene Fillers Oil Feeders Bird-seed and Water Boxes Birds' Nest Boxes Watering Pots Water Cans Grocers' Tea Canisters, Flour, Sugar &c Bins (painted or bronzed) !nd every other Article in the Trade kept in Stock or Marie to Order. "PRACTICAL CFiRISTIANITY. PUIILISHKD FOR TUB SI'KCIAr. KIiNEFIT OF NoNCIIL'KCIIGOIiKS. Tri'R Christian Religion, intelligently under, stood, coinreiidt 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 Hi 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 i>l Love, Wisdom and Operation, and He is the Lord Jesus Christ. Saying Faith is to believe in Him. Evils arc to be shunned, because they arc of the. devi! and from the devil. Good Works ought to be '.lone, because they are of God and from God, and they ought to be done by man as of himself, but with dm belief that thny are from thcLord, operation in him by him. There are two things which constitute the essence of God—love and wisdom. And there are thren which constitute the essence of His lovc-to Icii-c others out of Himself: to desire to be one with them ; and to make them happy from Himself, The same three constitute, the essence ol Mis wisdmn : because love and wisdom in God make one, and love wills these things, and wi-dom 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. "If ye continue in My word, then are ye My disciples indeed." John viii. 31. " Thcreloro all things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto jou: do ye even so unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets. Matt. vii. 8. The Ten Commandments point out what evils are to be shunned in order that men may attain eternal life. "That it is not so difficult to live the life of heaven as if cemmonly believed is evident from this—that when an.uhing 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 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 degrees of his mind are opened; and in so far as those 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 impossiole 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 .' Hut when he has made a beginning all goods are wrought in him by the Lord, and He causes him not only to see evi'-, but alsonottowill them, and finally to bet. ...e averse to them. This is meant by the Lorfs words, "My yoke is easy and My burden is li K l.t." Matt. xi. 30 ])ut it should be known that the difficulty ol so thinking, and likewise, of resisting evils, increases in proportion as a man from the accustomed to them, until at length Im does not see them, and afterwards loves them, and from the,dclight of love excuses them, and by all kinds of fallacies confirms them, and declares that thev are allowable and good. Hut this occurs witn those who in the age of adolescence plunge into evils as if without re'straint, and at the same limereject Divine things from the heart."—{" Heaven and Hell." No. 533). This advertisement, though containing truth for all, is especially published for the benefit ol 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 Air W. l< , , Keen. Treasurer of the Sydney Society ol the New Church, Carabella Street, North Shore Sydney. The Works of Swe lenborg and Minor Literature of the New Church can be obtained from Mr W. liuilard, llooksellcr, George-street, Sydney.