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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 413, 6 February 1890, Page 2

SIR GEORGE GREY HOTEL, WAEBENGA-A-HIK A. Cornelius O’Connell (Late or the Ormond Hotel), HAS taken over the above Hoetelry, and intends carrying on the business in a manner that must commend itself < to ”all patrons.) GOOD PADDOCKING ACCOMMODATION. The Bsbr, and',[Spirits] GOOD STABLING. C- O’Connell Proprietor. 1839 SPRING I We have much pleasure in an* nouncing the arrival of the first Shipment of NEW GOODS for the Spiung asd Summeb Rbasok, now open ac the NEW ZEALAND CLOTHING FACTOEY. Special Attention invited to our Stock of Tweeds, suitable for every purpose and offering at a small advance on Mill Prices. Splendid bunch of Tweed Samples the Tailoring. Some very choice Patterns, Cloth. ing, Shirts, Hats, &o. I SPRING 1889. NOTICE. (COPIES, of the STAND ARD may be obtained, on the dayt of vublieation, from Un A, If, BROWNE'S Library (next door to the STANDARD Office), and Mr E. Chriep, Gladstone Road,

ADVERTISEMENT. pRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY Published fob the Special Benefit of NoN-CHURCHaOBDS. Tiles Christi, a 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 eading doctrines, adapted to the use of his Ne - ’ 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 tbe 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— 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: end to make them happy from F’mself. The same three con stitute the essence of His wisdom; because ’ove 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 varird stales 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 menjshonld do unto you, do ye even so unto them : for this le’the law and the prophets.” Matt, vii., 8. The Ten Commandments point out what evils are to be shunned in order (batmen 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, ha 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 fat as he ia con joined to heaven, the higher degrees of his mind are opened ; and in so far as these are opened be sees what is insincere and unjust; and in so far as he sees these evils they can be ehaken 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 hae made a beginning all goods are wrought in him by tbe Lord, and He causes him not only to see evils, but also not to will them, and finally to become averse of them. Thia is meant by the Lord's words, “ My yoke is easy and My burden light,” Matt. xi. 30* But it should be known that ths difficulty ot so thinking, and likewise of resisting evils, increase in proper; tion as a man from the will commits evils ; or in so far he becomes accustomed to them, until at length be 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 adolesenoe plunge into evils as if without restraint, and at the same time reject Divine things from the heart."—“ Heaven and Hell.” (No. 533) This advertisement, though containing truth for all, is especially published for the benefit of those .who from any cause, dn not profit by ordinary religious ministrations. Those who approve ot the doctrines here enunciated, and who desire to assist in the work of disseminating them, are invited to sand contributions to Mr W. F. Keen, Treasurer of the Sydney Society of the New Church, Carabelia Street, North Shore, Sydney. The Works of Swedenborg and Minor Literatirre of the New Church can he obtained front Mr W. Bullard, Bookseller, George Street. Sydney. " The Doctrine of Life M will be forwarded, gratis and past free, to all persona who aoply tor the earns to the Book OotnmiDca, Tern por&Me Hall, Pitt Street.