Page 2 Advertisements Column 3

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 301, 21 May 1889, Page 2

advertisement.) pRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY Published for the Special Benefit or Non-Churchooebs. 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 tneworld, butthat the world through Him might be saved." John iii, 17. Its eading doctrines, adapted to the use of this New Age, are summarised as follows :— There is one God, in whom is a Divins 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 art of the devil and from the devil. Good Works ought to be done, becsuM 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 whioh constitute the essence of God—love and wisdom. And there are three which constitute the essence of Hie love—to love others out cf Himself: to desire to be one with them: and to make them happy from Himself. The same three con. stitute 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. 48.) The Word of God ie Divine truth clothed in human language, and adapted to the varied states of the human heart, that thus a men 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, 811 " Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even ao unto them: for this is the law and the nro. pliets." Matt, vli., 8. Ths Ten Commandments point out what arils ere to be stunned in order that man may attain eternal lite. ” That it is not *0 difficult to live the life of heaven as is commonly believed, is evident from this—that whan anything presents Itself that one knows to be insincere and unjust, to which his mind is disposed, ha need only think that it ought not to be do is because it ie contrary to the Divine commands. It a man accustoms himself so to think, and from custom derives the habit, he ie then by degrees conjoined to heaven ; and in so far as he is conjoined to heaven, ths higher degrees ot hie 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 evil* 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 tree, dom ; for. who is not capable of thinking in this manner ? But when he ha« made a begin, ning all goads are wrought in him by tha Lord, end He causes him not only to see evils, but also not to will them, and finally to beco ns averse to them. This is meant by the Lord's words. " My yoke ia eaay and My burls liqbt." Matt. xi. 30. But it should ba known that the difficulty of *0 thinking, and likewise of resisting evil*, increase in proportion as a man from the will commits evils; for in so far he becomes accustomed to them, until at length he doe* not see them, and after, wards loves them, and from the delight of love excuses them, and by all kinds of fellauJei confirms them, and declares that they are al. lowable and good. Bnt thi* occurs with those who in age of adolesenee plunge Into evils as If without restraint, ana at the Mme time eject Divine things from the heart. •— Heaven and Hell,” No. 533) Thia advertisement, though containing truth or all, is especially published for the benefit >f those who from any cause do not profit by rdinary religious ministration*. Those who ipprove of the doctrines here enunciated, and rho desire to assist in the work of dissemi. luting them, are invited to send contributions 0 Mr W. F. Keen, Treasurer of ths Sydney lociaty ot the New Church, Cerabella Street, forth Shore, Sydney. The Works of Swedenborg and Minor Lite. Sturt of the New Church can !be obtained ram Mr W. Bullard, BOokMlier, Gefirgt treet, 8/dnoV,