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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 184, 18 August 1888, Page 1

' [advertisement.] JpRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY Published for the Special Benefit of Non-Churohgoebb. True Christian Religion, intelligently understood, 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, butthat the wnrld through Him might be saved.” John iii, 17. 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 of Love, Wisdom and Operation, and he ia the Lord Jesus Christ, Saving Faith ia to believe in Him. Evils are to ba shunned, because they are of the devil and from the devil. Good Worke ought to be done, because they are of God and from God, and they ought to be done by man as of himaelf. but with the belief that they are from the Lord, operating in him by him. There are two things which constitute the ojsonce of God—love and wisdom. And there are three which constitute the essence of Hie leva—to love others out of Himself: to desire to he one with them: and to make them happy from Himself, The same three constitute the essence of His wisdom; beosuee Jove 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 m»U may know God, and learn to know and da His will. “If ye continue in My word, then are ye my disciples indeed,” John viil, 81] “ Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them : for thia is the law and the pro, phots.” Matt, vii.,B. The Ten Commandments point out what evils are to be shunned in order that men may attain eternal life, “ That it Is not so difficqlt to live the life of heaven as is commonly believed, is evident from this—that when anything present* itself that one knows to be insincere and unju»t, to which his mipd is disposed, he need not only think that it ought pot to be done because it is contrary to the Divine commands. If a man accustoms himself so to thjnk, and from custom derives the habit, he ia 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 insincere and unjust: and in so far as he sees there evils they can ba shaken off, for it is impossible that any evj can be shaken off until it be seen. Thia ia a state into which a man may enter from freedom ; for who is not capable of thinking in this manner ? But when he has made a begin, ning all goods are wrought in him by the Lord, and He causes him not only to see evils, but also not to will them, and finally to become averse to them. This is meant by the Lord's words, " My yoke is easy and My buris light," Matt. xi. 80. But it should be known that the difficulty of so thinking, and likewise of resisting evils, increase in propor, tion 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 them, and from the delight of love excuses them, and by all kinds of fallaoiee confirms them, and declares that they are allowable and good. But this occurs with those who in age of adolesence plunge into evils as it without 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 especially published for the benefit of 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 tire work of dissemi. nating them, arc invited to send contributions to Mr W. F. Keen, Treasurer of the Sydney Society of the New Church, Carabella Street, North Shore, Sydney. The Works of Swedenborg and Minor Lite, rature of the New Church can be obtained from Mr W. Bullard, Bookseller, George Steeet, Sydney.

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