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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 400, 7 January 1890, Page 2

WM. E. AKROYD, LAND AND GENERAL AGENT GISBORNE. TOWN and Country Properties for Sale or Lease, improved or unimproved. W.E.A. acts as Guide to the Government Lands in the district, SsCBETABY TO THS GISBOBNE STANDARD Newspaper Co., Limited. Office Standard Newspaper Company’s nremiees, Gladstone Road, Gisborne. [Agent forJLendon Scientific Dress Cutting Association.] TO THE Ladies of gisbobne and surrounding DISTRICT. Sept. 2,1889. While thanking the Ladies for the patronage bestowed on me during the past month, and which, I am happy to say, has exceeded my expectations, I respectfully beg to call their attention once more to the advantages of the Scientific System of DRESSCUTTING, and to state that I have still a few vacancies for pupils. Ladies who live within a reasonable distance are taught at their own homes. The DRESSMAKING DEPARTMENT is oarried.on at the address mentioned below, where Ladies can have their Materials made up, or Patterns Cut. The favor of * call is|solioited, MISS GEMMELL, St Oo.'s, Gladstone Road, Published for the Special Benefit or Non-Churchgoebb. True Christis n Religion, intelligently under stood, comes not to add to men’s burdens, but to remove them. “ For God sent not His Son into the wo rid to condemn tne world, but that ihe world through Him might be saved.” John iii, IJ.

Its eadi ng doctrines, adapted to the use of his 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. Saying 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 of 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. 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 menjehould do unto you, do ye even so unto them : for this is She 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 diffiault 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 con joined 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 is 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 of them, This is meant by the Lord's words, •* My yoke is easy and My burden light,” Matt. xl. 80* But it should ba known that ths difficulty of so thinking, and likewise of resisting evils, increase in proper; tion as a man from the will commits evils; for in so far be 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 it without restraint, and at the same time reject Divine things from the heart.”—“Heaven and Hell." (No. 538) 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 the work of disseminating them, are invited to send contributions to Mr W. F, Keen, Treasurer of the Sydney Society of the New Church, Caraballa Street, North Shore, Sydney. The Works of Swedenburg and Minor Literature of the New Church can be obtained from Mr W. Bullard, Bookseller, George Street, Sydney, " The Doclilne of Life ” will be forwarded, ginUa and poet free, tn who a,<p y for the same to tea B<ioi>kQommiitevi! Tem petMee Mail, Flit Rvrwsi.