Notices.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 2823, 16 August 1890, Page 6 (Supplement)

Notices.

T)RACTICAL CHRISTIANITY. I'UJIUSHKD FOR Tldi SPKCtAI. Ht!NKHT OP NoNCmiKCIIGOIiKS. Tuuk Cliristian Religion, intelligently under, stood, comes uot to add to men's burdens but to remove them. " For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved." John Its leading 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 in Him. Evils are to be shunned, because they are of the devil and Irom the devil. Good Works ought to be done, because they are of God and from God, and they otiuht to he done by man as of himself, but with the belief that they aru from the Lord, operating in him by him. rherc are two things which constitute the essence of God-love and wisdom. And there are thre- which constitute the essence of His uve-to love others out of Himself: to desiru to be one with them ; and to make them happy from tiimsclt, Ihe same three constitute the essence ol 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 loam to know and do His will. ','. If . y< ? "P'inuein My word, then are ye My disciples indeed." John viii. 31. "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto jou: do ye even so unto them ; for this is the 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 difficult to ive the life ef eaven as if commonly believed is evident from this—that when anything presents itself that on* knows to be insincere and unjust, to which his mind is disposed, he need r.ot 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 conjoined to heaven, the higher degrees of his mind are opened; and ill 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 shaken off, for it impossible that an» evil can be shaken off until it be seen. This is a state into which a man may enter from freedom ; for who is not capable from freedom 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 sen evils, but alsonot to will them, and finally to become averse to them. This is meant by the Lord's words, "My yoke is easy and My burden is light. , ' Matt. xi. 30 Bat it should be known that the difficulty of so thinking, and likewise of resisting evils, increases in proportion as a man from the wills commit evils, for in so far he becomes accustomed to them, until at length he does «ot 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. Rut this occurs with those who in the age of adolescence 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 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 T. E. Hawley, St. Martin's, Christchurch, New Zealand, who will be glad to afford all necessary information, and supoly a copy of" The Doctrine of Life," gratis and post tree to any one desirous of perusing it The works of Emanuel Swedcnborg, and cognate literature, may be obtained from Messrs Turner and Henderson, Hunter-street, Sydney.