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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2958, 30 June 1891, Page 4

JOHN l> O L L A R D , ESfATE & COMMISSION AGENT, VALUATOR & ARBITRATOR, ETC. OIFIOK : DURHAM ST. WEST. AUCKLAND. PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY l'um.iMiKD for the Spkciai. Hknki'it or NowCmmcicGOHKs. Tun'. Christian Religion, intelligently understood, comnsr.fit to add to men's burdens but to remove them. " For God sent not his Son into the world to ro-rli-.mn the world, but that the world through him might be saved." John 17 Its leading doctrines, adapted to the use i> this New Auc arc summarised as follows—There is one. God, in whom is a Divine Trinity uf Love, Wisdom and Operation and lie is the Lord Jesus Christ. Saving Faith is to believe in Him. Kvils are to be shunned, because they : are of the devi* and from the devil. Good Works ought to be -lune, because they are of God and from God, and thry ought to be done, by man as of himself, but. I with the belief that they are from the Lord, 1 operating in him by him. ■ There, arc two things which constitute tie essence of God—love and wisdom. And thtre '-. are thren which constitute the essence of His : Jove—to love others out of Himself: todesir»t« : be one with them ; and to make them happy from ; Himsflf, The same three constitute the essence ' ol His wisdom ■• because jove and wisdom in God make one, and love wills these things,and • wisdom accomplishes them. True Chriitian i Religion, No. 43. ! The word of God is Divine truth clolheJ in. human language, and adapted to the Viried states of the human heart, that thus a manmay j know God. and learn te know and do His will. I " If ye continue, in My word, then are ys My ! disciples indeed." John viii. 31. "Therefore i all things whatsoever ye would that men siould 'i dountojou: do ye even so unto them; for thia I is the law anditlic prophets. Matt. vii. 8. I The Ten Commandments point out what evilf ! arc to be shunned in order that men may ittain ' eternal life. ! "That it is not so difficult to ive the life of ! heaven as if commonly believed is eviden: from i this—that when anything presents itself ttat o»o 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 these are opened bosses what is insincere and unjust; and in so far as he sees these evils they can be shaken off, tor it impossiolcthat any evil can be shaken off until it be seen. This is a state into which a man may enter from freedom ; fur who is not capable from freedom of thinking in this manner ? But when he has made a beginning all goods are wrought in him by tie Lord, and He causes him not only to see 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, But it should be known that the difficulty ol so thinking, and likewise of resisting evils, increases in proportion as a man from the wills commit evils, for in so far he becomes accustomed to them, until at length he does sot seetheni.and afterwards loves them, and from the delight of love excuses them, and by all kinds of fallacies confirms them, and declares that that are allowable and good. Hut 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 tne heart."—" Heaven and Hell." No. 533. This advertisement, though containing truth for •11, isespecially published for the benefit of those who from any cause do net profit by ordinary religious ministrations. Those who ipprove of the doctrines here enunciated, and wlo desire tu assist in the work of disseminating them, are invited to communicate with Mr J. K. Hawley, St. Martin's, Christchurch, New Zealand, who will be glad to afford all necessary information, and supply a copy of " The Doctrine of Life," gratis and post free to any one desirous of perusing it. The works of Emanuel Swedenborc, and cognate literature, may be obtained from Messrs Turner and Henderson, Hunter-street, Sydney. T riSI I ING CARDS printed, equal to V copperplate, at Tim«« office AGENTS FOR THE SALE OF THE WAIKATO TIMES. -> Auckland W. Ratteay Cambkidqk J. S. Bond Hamilton E. T. Davey W. Dey ~ G. C. Manning B, F. Sandee Hcntly Friar, Davies & Cui Kihikihi J. W. KIIU NGAUCAWJ.HIA ... Friar, Davies & Co, Ohaupo J. T. Edwards Taci'ihi Mrs Lovell TkAuoha Charles E. Balcka Tk Awamuiu ... Aubin & Co, Waitoa W. Abbey London Gordon &Gotcb Melbourne „ ~