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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 290, 25 April 1889, Page 4

Do you think I’m a fool, sir,” thundered Scotch laird to his new footman. Heel, sir,” replied the canny Scot, “I’m no lang here, and I djinna ken yet.” Some old dinner customs still prevail. Jhe Romans used to redine at their ban9»ets, and the habit of lying at public dinners still prevails.

I advektisem jot. j JDBACTICAL CHRISTIANITY Published fob the 8? >ecial Benefit of Non-Chubc bgoers. Tbce Christian Religh ,n, intelligently understood, comes not to a Jd to men’s burdens, but to remove them. " ?or God sent not His Son into the world to oc ndemn tneworld, butthat 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 ia 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 tbe 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 of 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, 81’ •• Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, 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 or 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 tbe 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 lie has made a beginning all goods are wrought in him by the Lora, and He causes him not only to see evi's but also not to will them, and finally to be-' come averse to them. This ia meant by the P 0 ’ 4 *’? rd , 9 ' " My yok ® ’• easy and y bur. blight." Matt. xi. 80. But it ould be known that the difficulty of so think ing, and likewise of resisting evils, increase In proportion as a man from the will cpwmits evils; for in so far he becomes accustqv ied to them, uptil at length he does not see th* .m, and after, wards loves them, and from t'ue delight of them ’?" d y al! W' ad « of fallacies fowable and good. But thig or ours with those 01 ado , leeenlll ‘ btoh ge into evils as At nt ’ &n . d W ”? e “ me li »« eiMt Divine things frow the heart. and Hell," No. 3138) . ” bl J.advertisement, though containing truth far all, is especially published for the benefit ot those who from any came do not profit bv ordinary religious ministrations. Those who approve of tbe doctrines here enunciated, and UZJT aBl,i,, ‘to the work of dissemisatHM m Swedenborg and Minor Lite. Bu “