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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 248, 17 January 1889, Page 3

NOTICE OF REMOVAL. ARTHUR J. COOPER, IMPOETEB AND MANUFACTURER OF BOOTS AND SHOES, HAS REMOVED mOhiaolJ Premises,Lowe Street (opposite JL Mr D. M.On’f), where he feels confident that he will continue to receive the extended patronage of his many old Customers, and also that those who have not already paid him a visit and had an opportunity to judge of the work done at his shop, will take advantage of the first opportunity to do so. There is no necessity to make any boast, for those who have already favored this shop with their Custom have had Practical Testimony, and those who have not are invited to do so. A. J. COOPER, LOWE STREET, GISBORNE.

CENTRAL COBDIAL FACTOBY GREY STREET. R. HOULDEN, HAVING undertaken the business lately in the hands of MrL. Steele, is now prepared to supply the following Temperance Drinks:— HOREHOUND BEER., HOP BEER, DANDELION TONIC, SPICED BEOB, AROMATIC BEEB, GINGEB BEEB, HOP TONIC. Best Fruit Cordials also Manufactured on the Premises, Families wailed on for orders, Daily. A trial will suffice to ensure conviction that these Refreshing Drinks are the best in the market. R. HOULDEN - .

COACH SERVICE BETWEEN GIoBOBNE AND MURE WAI. JOHN DIXON Announces that, from Thursday, Jan. 3, he will regularly run a Coach three times a week (Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday) from Murowai to Gisborne, returning Jhe same evening. Coach leaves Murewai at 8 a.m., Gisborne at 2.80 p.m. Single Fare : 2s 6d ; Return, 4s. Te Arai to Gisborne ; Return Fare, 2s. WANTED KNOWN THAT AQAWIEB is prepared to deliver . O FIREWOOD at the following ow p ices, for CASH— Cut Manuka, Ils’] Uncut do., 12s 6d' Out Mixed Wood, 12s 6d Uncut do., Us TO LET. COUNTRY Lands and Town Sections and Houses. W H. TUCKER. NOTICE. WJ. MADDOCK has been appointed to . oarry on my Business, in Tologs, during my absence in England. E. KIRK. MR HA LIVY BEGS to announce the formation of a SIGHT SINGING CLASS. Ladies and Gentlemen wishing to join are requested to send in their names to Mb Harvt, care of Mr Townley, before the 17th of JANUARY. Terms, 7s 6d per ouarter.

I ADVERTISEMENT.] ‘PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY Published for the Special Benefit of Non-Chubchooers. 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 tne world, but that the world 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 is the Lord Jesus Christ. Saving Faith is to believe in Him. Evils are to be shunned, because they are of the devil 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, • operating in him by him. There are two things which constitute the essence of God—love and wisdom. And there are three which constitute the essence of His love—to love others out cf Himself: to desire to be one with them: and to make them happy from Himself. The same three constitute the essence of His 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. “If ye continue in My word, then are ye my disciples indeed.” John viii, 31 “ Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so unto them : for this is ths law and the prophets.” Matt, vii., 6. 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 of heaven as is commonly believed, is evident from this—that when anything presents itself that one knows to be insincere and unjust, to which his mind is disposed, he need 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 insincere and unjust: and in so far as he sees these evils they can be shaken off, for it is impossible that any evil can be shaken off until it be seen. This is 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 beginning 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 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 them, and from the delight of love excuses them, and by all kinds of fallacies confirms them, and declares that they are allowable and good. But this occurs with those who in age of adolesence plunge into evils as if without restraint, and at the same time reject Divine things from the heart.]' — (“ Heaven and Hell,” No. 533) This advertieement, 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 the work of disseminating them, are invited to send contributions to Mr W. F. Keen, Treasurer of the Sydney 1 Society of the New Church, Carabella Street, North Shore, Sydney. The Works of Swedenborg and Minor Literature of the New Ohuroh can .be obtained > .from Mr W< Bullard, BooksellWf George gUwti Sydney