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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 298, 14 May 1889, Page 3

ADVERTISEMENT. J "pRAGTICAL CHRISTIANITY Published fob the Special Benefit of Nos-Churchgoebs. Thue 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 tae world, but that the world through Him might be saved.’ 1 John iii, If. Its! eading 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 ip Fpm. Evils are to be shpnned, 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 aqd wisdom. And there are three which constitute the essence of His lore—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 jn human language, and adapted tq the varies States of the human heart, that thus a man may know God, and learn to know and do Hia will. "if ye continue in My word, then are ye my disciples indeed,’ 1 John viii, 311 " Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even eq unto them : for this is the law and the prophets.” Matt. Viiqg: The Top Gommanfintents point out what evils are to be shunned iq order that men mhV attain eternal lito, it That ;t je net 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 oe insincere and unjust, to which his mind is disposed, he need qnly think that it ought not to be done because it ie contrary to ths 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 eo far as he is conjoined to heaypn, the higher degrees of his mind are opened ; and in eo far as these are opened he sees what is insincere and unjust and in eo fat as he sees these evils they can be shaken off, for it is impossible that any evil ean be shaken off until it be seen. This is a state into which a man may enter from freedom ; for who to put capable of thinking in this manner; But when he has made a beginning AU goods are wrought ;n him by the Lord, and He causes him qqt qnly tq sea evils, but also not tp will them, and finally to begome averse to them. Thia is meant by the Lord's words, “ My yoke is easy and My bur. is light," Matt. xi. 80. But it should be known that the difficulty of sq thinking, and likewise of ms;st;ng evils, insrease in proportion as a man from the will commit? evils; for in so far he becomes accustomed to them, until at length ha does not see them, and afterwards loves them, and from the delight of love excuses them, and by $ll kinds of feilaclea confirms them, and dealarea that they are’ al: lowable andgood. But this occur? witjf thqqa who in age of adoleeenca plunge into evils as if without restraint, and at the same'time eject pivinp things from the heart, ’— (’’Heaven and Hell," No. 533) This advertisement, though containing truth for all, to 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, arc invited to send contributions o Mr W. F, Keen, Treasurer of the Sydney Society of the New Church, Oarabelte Street, North Shore, Sydney, The Works oi Swedenborg aqd Minor Literefine of the New Churqh can :h? obtained from Mr W. Bullard, Bookseller, George Sydney,