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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2623, 4 May 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

Notices. JpRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY. Published for the Special Benefit of Nop<* Churchgoers. True 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 world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved." Toha 17. Its leading doctrines, adapted to the use this New Age, are summarised as follows—* Pp T'! cre ' s 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 be shunned, because they arc of the devi! and from the devil. Good Works ought to bo done, because they are of God and from God, and they ought to be done by man as of himself, but with the belief that they arc from the Lord, operating iu him by hira. There are two things which constitute the essence of God—love and wisdom. And there are thrc* 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 cssencc ot His wisdom ; because love and wisdom in God make one, and love wills these things, and wisdom Accomplishes them. True Christian Religion, No. 43. i The word of God is Divine truth clothed in i human language, find 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 "If ye continue in My word, then are ye My I disciples indeed." John viii. 31. "Therafore j all things whatsoever ye would that men should I do unto >ou: 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. M That it is not so difficult to live the life of heaven as if commonly believed is evident frork this—that when anything presents itself that one knows to be insincere anil unjust, to which his mind is disposed, he need r.ot 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 these are opened he sees what is insinccre 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 oft* until it be seen. This is a state into which a man may enter from freedom ; lor who is not capable from freedom of thinking in this manner ? Jiot when he Jkjs made a beginning all goods are wrought in him by the Lord, and He causes him not only to se« evils, but alsonot 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 J»ut it should be known that the difficulty of so thinking, and likewise of resisting 1 evils, increases in proportion as a man from the will commits evils, for in so far he becomes accustomed to them, until at length he does not see them, and afterwards loves tbem, and from thc,delight of love excuses them, and by all kinds of fallacies confirms them, and declares that they are allowable and good. Kut this occurs with those who in the age of adolescence plunge into evils as ifwithout restraint, and at the same time reject Divine things from the heart."—" Heaven and Hell," No. 533. This advertisement, though containing truth for all, is cspeci illy published for the benefit of those who from any cause do not profit by ordinary religious ministrations. Those who approve of the doctrincs here enunciated, and who desireto assist in the work of disseminating them, are invitdtosend contributions to Air W. F. Keen, Treasurer, Sydney Society of the New Church, lemperance H.ill, Pitt-street, Sydney, where also the works of Swedcnborg and minor litera* turc of the New Church ran be obtained."

DUNBLANE AUCTION MART, QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND, (Opposite T. & S. Morrill's), THOS. M. JACKSON, AUCTIONEER, HOUSE AND LAID AGENT. Bouses to t et OUbES TO JLiET and T?OR QALE. IOR OALE. GOODS BOUGHT AND SOLD ON COMMISSION. MONEY TO LEND AT MODERATE INTEREST. LIBERAL ADVANCES MADE ON CONSIGNMENTS. Sales undertaken in Town or Country on Low Bates. Prompt Account Sales. ALL SALES will be CATALOGUED. T. M. JACKSON Has much pleasure in announcing to his friends and the Public of Auckland geuerally, that lie will open on Monday August Ist, 1887, those large and commodious premises in Queen-street (opposite T. and S. Morriu and Co,, Ltd.), as an Auction Mart, and hopes by strict attention to business to merit a share of the Public patronage, Regular Sales of Furniture, Pro; duce, etc., on Tuesdays and Fridays in each week. To Consignors of Produce, special advantages can be offered, as the Mart is fitted with a perfectly dry and rat proof cellar, capable of holding several thousand sacks of grain or potatoes. To People leaving Auckland or wanting to sell their Furniture, liberal terms cau be given. The Store has the most central position, the largest accommodation, and best light of any mart in Auckland, comprising two good flats, which will be devoted exclusively to Furniture.