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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 2995, 24 September 1891, Page 4

DRAG TIC A L CHRISTIANITY 7 I'UDLISHED FOR THE SpKCIAL RbnEFIT OF NoNCIIUKCIIGOEKS. True Christian Religion, intelligently understood, comftsnotto 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." lohn iii, 17 Its leading- doctrines, adapted to the use of tnis Ape sire sunimnrisc*! *is follows —•* d There is one God, in whom is a Divine Trinity of Love, Wisdom and Operation, and He is the Lord Jesus Christ. Savins Faith is to believe in Him. Evils are to be shunned, because they are of the devi! and from the 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 are from the Lord, I operating in him by him. i There are two things which constitute the essence of God—love and wisdom. And them are thre<- which constitute the essence of His love—to love others out of Himself; to desire to be one with them ; .ind to make them happy from Himself, The same three constitute the essence ol Hij 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 te know and do His will. "I , ye continue, in My word, then arc. ye My disciples indeed." John viii. 31. " Therefore all things whatsoever ye woul.l that men should do unto jou: do ye. even so unto them ; for this is the law and'.the prophets. Matt. vii. 8. The len Commandments point out what evils arc to be shunned in order that men may attain eternal life. "That it is not so difficult to ive the life of heaven as if ccmmonly believed is evident from this—that when anything presents itself that one knows to be insincere and unjust, to which his mind is disposed, ho. 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 than 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 I far as these are opened he sees what is insincere and unjust; and in so far as he sees these evils i they can be shaken oil', (or it impossible that any i evil can be shaken off until it be seen. This is a state into which a man may enter from freedom ; for who is riot capable from freedom of thinking in this manner ? Hut when he has made a beginning all goo.ls are wrought in him by the Lord, and He causes him not only to sen evils, but alsonot to will them, and finally to become averse to tin-in. This is meant by the Lord's words, "My yoke is easy and My hurden is light. I Matt. xi. SO. Hut it should be known that the I 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 not see them, and afterwards loves them, and from tin: delight oflove excuses them, and by all kinds of fallacies conlirms them, and declares that the? ! arc allowable and good. Hut this occurs witn i those who in the age of adolescence plunge into I evils as if without restraint, and at the same time ! reject Divine things from tne heart."—" Heaven ; and Hell." No. 533. I This advertisement, though containing truth for , all, is especially published for the benefit ol thosn I who from any cause do net profit by ordinary t religious ministrations. I hose who approve of the doctrines here enunciated, and who desire to assist in the work of disseminating them, aro invited to communicate with Mr T. E. 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 Swcdenborc and cognate literature, may be obtained from Messrs Tamer and Henderson, Hunter-street, Sydney. CITY BUFFET DINING ROOMS (next door to the Union Bank), : Qnsnn-strect, Auckland.—General Inti- . mation to the Inhabitants of Waikato and tho advertiser's old friends and customers.— THOS. 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