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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2629, 18 May 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

Notices. p RACT IC A L CHRISTIANITY. PUULISUKJ) J.'OK TUlt .Sl'liClAL RttNKFIT OF NoNCm'KCHGOKRS. Truk Christian Religion, intelligently under* ;,tood, conies not to add to men's burdens but to remove them. " For God sent not bis Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved." John 17. Its leading doctrines, adapted to the use this New Ago. are summarised as follows—* There 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. Evils arc to be shunned, because they are of the devi l and from tho. 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 with the belief that they arc 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 love—to love others out of Himself; to desire to be one with them ; and to makethem happyfrom Himself, The same three constituto the essence of Mis wisdom ; because 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 may know God. and learn to know and do His will. "I' ye continue in My word, then are yc My disciples indeed." John viii. 31. "Therefore all things whatsoever yc would that men should do unto )on: 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 o r . heaven as if commonly believed is evident froru 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 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 aie opened ; and in so far as these arc opened he sees what is insincere and unjust; and in so far as lie 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 stale 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 arc wrought in him by the Lord, and He causes him not only to sen evils, but alsonot to will them, and finally to hccotne averse to them. This is meant by the Lord's words, " .My yoke is easy and My burden is light." Matt. xi. 110 Hut it should be known that the difUculty ot so thinking, and likewise of resisting evils, increases in proportion as a man from tho will commits evils, for in so far he becomcs accustomed to them, until at length he does not sec them, and afterwards loves them, and from the..delight of love excuses them, and by all kinds of fallacies confirms them, and declares that they arc allowable and good. Hut this occurs with those who in the age of adolescence plunge into evils as if without restraint, and at the same time reject Divine things from the heart." —" Heaven and Hell." No. 533. This advertisement, though containing truth f-or all, is especially published for the benefit of thosn who fr.-un 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, Sydney Society ol the New Church, Temperance Hall, Pitt-street, Sydney, where also the works of Swodenborg and minor literature of the New Church ran be obtained."

DUNBLANE AUCTION MART, QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND, (Opposite T. k S. Morrin's). TIIOS, M, JACKSON, AUCTIONEER, HOUSE AND LAND AGENT, Houses to t et OU»ES to Juet AND I? OR. QALE. r Oil 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 Rates.

Piiomtt Account Sales. ALL SALES will be CATALOGUED. T. M. JACKSON Has much pleasure in announcing to his friends and the Public of Auckland generally, that he will open on Monday August Ist, ISS7, 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 v share of the Public patronage. Regular Sales of Furniture, Pro duce, etc., on Tuesdays and Fridays in each week. To Consignors of Produce, speciaf advantages can be offered, as the Mart is fitted with a perfectly dry and rat proof cellar, eapablc of holding several thousand sacks of grain or potatoes. To Pjsoi'lb leaving Auckland or wanting to sell their Furniture, liberal terms can be given. The Stoke has the most central position, the largest accommodation, and best light of any mart in Auckland, comprising two good fl.its, which will be devoted exclusively to Furniture.