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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 453, 13 May 1890, Page 2

J. WHINRAY. This is the shop for great and small To get Goon Value, the delight of all. In proof of this give me a call; I’ll gratify your whimsiest freak. If you’ll but give me time to speak, And search that fine oblong retreat Of bricks and stone up the main ‘street, Surrounded there with all that’s good. Churches and chapels built of wood. Schools, high and low, pride of the land, Around that sightly centre stand. Whinray's Furniture Show SOUTH BRITISH FIRE AND-MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, Of New Zealand. CAPITAL £2,000,000 Head Office AUCKLAND. The undersigned having been appointed Agent in Gisborne for this Company, is prepared to take Fire and Marine Risks at Lowest Current Rates. Special attention is paid to Marine losur ance on Hulls. Merchandise, and Freights, and Wool is held covered against all risks, from sheep's back to port of destination. JOHN COLEMAN, Agents

NOW READY. KIRKPATRICKS SPECIAL QUALITY “K” K’’ BRAND NEW SEASON’S FRESH FRUIT JAMS. ' All the many persona who have tested the • K ’ JAMS are loud in their praise, and we must unreservedly congratulate Messrs Kirk Patrick and Co. upon turning out a Genuine Fruit Jam fit to grace the tables and please the palates of the most luxurious and fastidious.”—Hawke’s Bay Herald, July 18th. S. KIRKPATRICK & CO., M A NJU F A C T U R E R S,_ N EL S ON.

ADVERTISEMENT. p R ACT IC A L CHRISTIANITY Published fob the Special Benefit of Non-Cbubchgobb3. True Christi, n Religion, intelligently under stood, comes not to add to men’s burdens, but to remove them. “ For God sent not Hie 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 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 son stitute the essence of His wisdom; because "ive 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, 31 ‘‘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 pro phets.” Matt. vli., 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 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. It 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 is seen. This is a state into which a nun may enter from freedom ; for who is not capable of thinking ,g ibis manner? But when he has made a beginning all goods are wrought in him by the Lord, and He causes bi n 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,” Man. xi. 30’ But It should be known that this difficulty uf so thinking, and likewise of resisting evils, increase in proportion as a man from the will commits evils ; or in so far he betom is accustomed to them, until at length be does not see them, and afterwards loves them, and from the delight of love excuses them, end by all kinds of fallacies confirms them, and declares that they are allowable and good. But this oooure with those who in age cf adolesenoe plunge into evils as if without restraint, and at the same time reject Divine things from tbe 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 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 communicate with Mr J. E. Hawley, St. Martins, Christchurch, N.Z,, who will be glad to supply copies of The Doctrine of Life,” gratia and post tree, to persons desirous of perusing it. The works of Swedenbiirg and Minor Lite, rafure of tha New Ohuroh can ha obtained from Turner and Heudtrsou, Hunter Ht.. Sydney,