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Barlow being in the chair. There were present about forty friends from Glasgow and Paisley, a few from Alloa, one from Dundee, and one from Cupar. The little meeting-place of the Edinburgh Society was quite filled. Among those present was Mrs. Morton from America, who may be called the grandmother of the Paisley Society. Her husband, Mr. Morton, was, we believe, the originator, and for many years the leader, of that Society, and as such will be remembered by the older ministers of the Church.

NATURAL SCIENCE COMPLETED ONLY BY SPIRITUAL

DOCTRINE.

The Chairman in his opening address explained the objects and purpose of the Scottish Missionary Association; and the benefits to be derived from such meetings as the present, in which the friends of the Church were brought together, became acquainted with one another, and could talk over their plans for the future. He then went on to show the need that exists for some rational system of spiritual truth. He said that natural science, Darwinism so called, moral philosophy, in fact all kinds of natural learning, had more or less truth in them, but still they could not go beyond a certain point. They required something to complete them. This, he declared, could be supplied by the doctrines of the New Church. He compared the work of scientific men to the building of the temple, and the doctrines of the New Church to the little stone which would fit in nowhere and had been cast aside as useless. But as in the case of the little stone, so it would be with the doctrines of the New Church. It would be found that "the stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner." Natural sciences must have the doctrines of the New Church to complete them, and carry them from the region of nature to that of spirit.

THE STATE OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

The next speaker was Mr. M'Lachlan of Alloa, who in a stirring and earnest address described the condition of the Christian Church. He said that his subject was not a pleasant one to treat, because he could not give the Christian Church such a good character as he would like to do. It must be described as being "in a woeful condition," and that for three reasons. First, because by its doctrine of the Lord, in which it divides Him into three separate Divine persons, it had destroyed the very foundation of religion; and this in spite of such Divine declarations as, "I am the Lord, and beside Me there is none else." In the second place, because it had no understanding of the Divine Word. It not only did not know that the Word had a spiritual sense, but even when told, denied it, and refused to accept any interpretation but a strictly literal one. "In the Christian Church," he said, "the Bible is explained according to the tastes, proclivities, and fancies of individuals. Each minister chooses his own mode of interpretation, and so long as he does not touch on any point which is considered sacred, so long he is at liberty to explain it in whatever way his thoughts may lead."

In the third place, the Christian Church was, he said, “in a woeful condition," because it had denied the doctrine of life and had made faith its all in all. "Only believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died for you, in your very room and in your very stead," such, he said, was the doctrine of the Christian Church. The doctrine of life had practically no place in its tenets at all. It told men that they must do nothing, that everything had been done for them already, and that their work was but filthy rags. No wonder that the Christian Church had failed to regenerate the world. There was written on its banner "Total Failure." It had been weighed in the balance and found wanting.

The Rev. J. F. Potts next addressed the meeting on

THE SECOND COMING OF THE lord.

He said that there were two ways in which this subject might be understood, and it was necessary clearly to distinguish them. The subject would then appear in clear light, but otherwise it might lead to a falsity. The Lord's Advent might be viewed as a completed work, and as a work still in progress. The Lord in one sense had made His Second Advent and finished it, and in another sense it was still going on. It was the same as with His First Advent. The Lord made His First Advent and finished His work; He had done His part, but there were still millions of human beings to whom it could not be said that He had come. They had never heard of Him. They knew nothing at all about Him, and in one sense He had not yet even made His First Advent to them. The two senses which we must distinguish were the Lord's Advent with reference to the Lord and His Advent with reference to man. He illustrated this distinction by supposing a man from a far-off country unexpectedly visiting a friend's house. His friend is in one of the upper rooms, and does not yet know of his arrival, but still he is there, his arrival is an actual fact, he is in the house. This represented the Lord's Advent in the first sense. But His Advent in the second sense was represented when the friend in the upper room learnt of the other's arrival, and came down to welcome and

serve him. Before this, so far as the friend was concerned, he had not arrived. The Lord, Mr. Potts continued, had made His Second Advent in the first sense, and He was making it in the second. When we spoke of the Lord's Second Advent we must carefully distinguish to which of these two senses we referred. The Lord had made His Second Advent through the instrumentality of a man, Emanuel Swedenborg; He had made it in the spiritual sense of the Word, and the spiritual sense was contained in the writings of the New Church, hence the writings of the New Church were the Second Coming of the Lord. Mr. Potts supported his argument by several extracts from the writings of the Church; in particular by quoting the inscription which was made on one of the smallest of these works in the spiritual world, and which was also placed by Swedenborg on two copies of the same work in Holland, "This Book is the Advent of the Lord. Written by command."

Mr. Potts' address was followed by an interval of fifteen minutes. This is always an interesting and useful part of such meetings. It gives an opportunity for the friends to renew their acquaintance with one another, and to have a pleasant chat. The interval might, indeed, profitably be made longer than is usually done: we were enjoying it so much that we almost felt sorry when the Chairman called us to our seats to hear Mr. Allbutt's address. Mr. Allbutt's subject was

THE NEW CHURCH-ITS PRACTICAL TEACHING.

In considering this subject Mr. Allbutt took up some of the leading New Church doctrines, and showed their practical bearing on life. He pointed out how the doctrine of the Lord might be applied to our lives and be of use to us. The glorification of the Lord, he said, was the pattern of our regeneration. The doctrines of the New Church, by disclosing to us the real nature of the Lord, enabled us to live more and more like Him, and truly to become His followers. In speaking of the doctrine of the Sacred Scriptures, he showed how, by the increased light of the New Church, we were able to understand the true meaning of the Word, and thus to make it more perfectly the rule of our daily life; and as the Word was the means of communication with heaven, so by a inore perfect understanding of the Word we had a fuller communication with heaven, and were brought into closer consociation with the angels. Mr. Allbutt next touched on the doctrines of resurrection and judgment, and lastly on the New Church teaching regarding heaven. He said that in heaven there were laws which were Divine Truths, and that the New Church doctrine respecting heaven was of very great practical value to us, because the laws which rule there must become the laws of this world before the Lord's will could be done on earth.

The time for the Glasgow and Paisley members to leave having nearly arrived, Mr. Paterson proposed a hearty vote of thanks to the Edinburgh Society. The Glasgow and Paisley members then left, and shortly afterwards the meeting was closed. It was most surcessful. The Edinburgh Society had their little church nicely decorated with evergreens and plants. During the evening the choir

sang several anthems.

The next annual meeting is to be held in Paisley.

AUXILIARY NEW CHURCH MISSIONARY AND TRACT SOCIETY.

FOURTH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL.

THE Auxiliary Society celebrated its fourth anniversary on Thursday evening, October 24th, in the schoolroom of the church at Camberwell. The gathering, notwithstanding the severity of the weather, was a large one, and one which represented very fairly all the New Church Societies of the metropolis. The proceedings commenced at seven o'clock. A hymn was sung, and prayer was then offered by Mr. E. Austin, the minister of the Camberwell Church. The Chairman, Mr. C. Higham, who is also the President of the Auxiliary Society, in a few

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

described the principal objects of the Society. He said they had recently listened to a lecture in that schoolroom upon the life and reign of William III., the great Protestant King of England, in the course of which the lecturer adverted to the strenuous efforts made by the Jesuits at that time to upset the government, and to the wonderful organization by which they strove to effect their purposes. The lecturer, he said, expressed his surprise that similarly effective organizations were not formed by those who sought to advance causes far more worthy of respect than that of the Jesuits. A similar idea had, the Chairman continued, occurred to those who five years ago founded the "Auxiliary." They fancied that work could be found which lay quite outside of the sphere of the then and now existing organizations of the New Church, admirable ad comprehensive in design as they undoubtedly are. If in these war

like times he might be permitted to use a warlike metaphor, he would say it was thought that the Church had heretofore lacked an organization analogous in its uses to the bodies of sharpshooters and scouts who in warfare pay especial attention to the doings of individual members of the opposing hosts, and thus harass the enemy while assisting their friends. That this idea was in the main correct had been amply proved by the success which had attended the Society's work. In that work every member of the New Church could assist, and it was with a view of spreading an active interest in the Society's operations that the present meeting was held. Mr. J. F. Howe next addressed the meeting. Speaking on

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THE NAME BY WHICH WE ARE KNOWN, he said every Society was a companionship of kindred souls, and from the fact of their presence that evening, he might, he supposed, address his audience as members of the Society all banded together for the purpose of disseminating the glorious truths of the New Church. It had occurred to him, whilst thinking of the remarks he was to make to them, how plainly the external effects of the New Dispensation were by the science of correspondence capable of manifesting its higher or inner truths. This specific subject, he was aware, was allotted to a speaker who would follow, and he would therefore only touch upon one of the marvellous scientific discoveries which had recently burst upon the world-the electric light. natural phenomena were but the effects of spiritual causes. light, which was introduced into general use only in 1799, was, he might say, the first physical effect of the new age. After having served a useful purpose for nearly eighty years, it would seem that it was destined to give place to a light which exceeded it in power and brilliancy as much as it had exceeded that of the common but useful dip. The new light was opposed by self-interest and prejudice, it was, moreover, costly, and although it promised to be infinitely stronger and purer, and less liable to the deteriorating effects of the atmosphere, it would meet with many difficulties to its general adaptation. How true a symbol was all this of the difficulties the new doctrines had to encounter! In every particular the correspondence held good. But in natural and spiritual things there was progress. Gas-light, which succeeded candle-light, was itself being superseded by a brighter and purer light. There was a great danger in standing still. A lesson might be learned, he thought, from the very general demolition of ancient houses in the city, and the erection in their stead of buildings more suited for the requirements of the times. New states of thought necessitated new modes of operation, and therefore eternal progression.

At this juncture the Chairman read a letter from the Rev. John Presland, expressing his regret at being unable to be present and his hearty appreciation of the work of the Society.

THE POLICY OF THE SOCIETY.

The Secretary, Mr. H. T. W. Elliott, said that as with an individual so with a society was it an important element of success to know the objects for which it existed, and the principles with which it was intended to effect them, and which, to use a convenient expression, were to constitute its policy. The Society was essentially a young society. It celebrated that evening the completion of only five years of existence. Its members were for the most part young in years and in the service of the Church. And therefore, he thought, the chief characteristic of the Society should be the quality, pre-eminently that of youth, activity. And selecting one branch of the Society's operations, he thought all would admit the urgent necessity for its display. He found that, taking the recent Conference statistics as a basis, out of the seventy-two towns in England with a population of over 20,000, twenty-three only had New Church Societies, in nine others there were about the same number of isolated receivers, and in the remaining forty, with a population of one and a half millions, there did not appear to be a single New Churchman. Or looking at the matter in another light, that in eleven of our English counties, with over two and a half millions of people, no New Churchman was to be found, and in eleven others, with about four and a half million inhabitants, there were about twenty receivers of our doctrines. Now, he did not believe that these figures displayed the real condition of things, but in that case it needed all the activity of the Society to obtain representatives in outlying districts, and wherever possible to bring, in the various ways pointed out by the Society's rules, before the neighbourhood in which they resided, the writings of the New Church. And if the figures were accurate, the urgency for activity was the greater. Of course the activity must be comprehensive. Little things as well as great ones must be carefully attended to. And it must also be prudent and educated. Mr. Elliott referred to the various suggestions recently made for inducing a closer study of Swedenborg by the young people of the Church, and said that in his opinion the work of the Society was an excellent means of inducing this. task of preparing letters on doctrinal subjects called for frequent references to the writings of the Church, and thus the work was of benefit both to the receiver and sender. If all would display in church-work this comprehensive and educated activity, he did not

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doubt the success of the Society, which he thought deserving of very general co-operation.

Mr. Jobson, whose appointed topic was

THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES,

thought that as it was the first opportunity the Society had had of officially meeting the friends at Camberwell, a brief sketch of its composition and the uses it sought to accomplish would not be altogether out of place. Having succinctly touched upon these he proceeded with his address. There were many things amongst the signs of the times that plainly indicated that the human mind was becoming more and more open to the light of the new age. The correspondence of the Society included letters from authors, clergymen, ministers, and others, couched in so kindly a manner and referring to Swedenborg and his writings with an amount of respect that was really surprising. He had had occasion, at the meeting of the Swedenborg Society in May last, to allude to the vital changes that were then taking place in the religious world. The change was proceeding, and that too at a rapid rate. He had but lately seen a letter from two dissenting ministers asking for a grant of books, and wishing to know if they could be received into the New Church ministry. In the Wesleyan body the change of thought was manifested in the humane views respecting the future life put forth in the Fernley lecture, as well as the case of another brother who, although grown literally hoary in the cause of his Church both as a minister and a missionary, had been compelled to sever his connection with that body. The Congregationalists, confirming their memorable resolutions in May last, had passed others quite recently at Liverpool for the purpose "of increasing a healthy denominationalism" in their body, recommending the adoption in their churches "of systematic teaching in their scriptural teachings.' Their want appeared

to be that of a written creed and a definite and denominational theology. Who could give them this? First there was the Church of England with its Thirty-nine Articles and the Athanasian Creed. But besides the great difficulty of its being "by law established, there had arisen grave doubts as to its evangelical purity. There was the Wesleyan body with a definite and evangelical theology, and with a recently developed tendency towards infallibility. Then again there were the Presbyterians of England and Scotland, who could also offer them a definite theology. He (the speaker) knew their Shorter Catechism from beginning to end, for as a boy at school its theology was thrashed into his body while the love of religion and reverence for the Bible was thrashed out of his soul, and he would venture to affirm that it was as fine a specimen of definite denominational theology as could possibly be found. The Congregationalists had, therefore, plenty of definite theology at hand, but in selecting a creed they would have to be more than usually careful, for it was now too late to endeavour to "crib, cabin, and confine" the human mind into the narrow ideas and dismal notions of a dying theology of the past. He (Mr. Jobson) did not undervalue definite religious teaching. Theology is the queen of the sciences, and the propositions of spiritual truth ought to be as capable of demonstration as the problems of natural truth. The theology of the future must be definite and rational, capable of reconciling faith with reason, science with revelation, religion with common sense, a real practical theology applying the sacred truths of the Divine Word to the cleansing of the hidden motives and outward actions of the life.

Mr. Speirs spoke upon the relations which exist between

THE NATURAL AND SPIRITUAL SCIENCES.

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He said we heard much of the correlation of forces, of the interaction, and the convertibility from one to the other, of heat and light and electricity; but there was a correlation and a connection existing between spirit and nature of which the members of the New Church alone were cognizant, and the value of which was incomparably greater than any which had been brought to our knowledge by scientific men. He did not need to demonstrate at length before a New Church gathering the fact of the spiritual world being the world of causes, and the natural world the world of effects; and that this was only a general principle because it was also a particular principle, so that down even to the grain of sand the natural object only exists because something exists in the spiritual world which is, to use a New Church expression, its "efficient cause.' To know this law of connection between spirit and matter, which we call the science of correspondence, is of the greatest importance, and was a means of bringing us into a position to illustrate spiritual truths by natural examples, and on the other hand to bring down the light of spiritual principles in the pursuit even of natural knowledge. Mr. Speirs enlarged upon the necessity of the revelation which was made at the Lord's Second Advent, not only to enable man to unfold the higher meanings contained in the book of God's Word, but also in His book of nature; and gave illustrations of the subversion of true order which characterized the conclusions of many of the sciences. The eternity of matter; the independence of creation; zoological classification; the evolution of man, by which, contrary to the common-sense axiom that the fountain cannot rise above its source, the

lower and inferior invariably originated the higher and the superior. He referred also to the theories of natural science respecting the sun, and to the one which believes it to be so great a fire that it must inevitably by-and-by require all the planets which revolve around it to maintain it, though he could not see, he must confess, the use of a sun when all the worlds containing human beings had been drawn in to feed its flames. Spiritual science, on the other hand, taught that the sun was the representative in nature and the outcome in nature of the Lord, who is the Sun of righteousness. And that, far from its requiring to consume the habitable earths around it, they were in fact the sun's children and it their father, and all nature was created by it and depended momently upon it for an inexhaustible supply of everything which fosters life in nature and in man, acting thus as a true type in the material plane of the Infinite. The final illustration was taken from Swedenborg's doctrine of the Grand Man, and was a consideration of its effect on political economy, in which it was shown that it would, as in the other instances, entirely reverse its central idea, and for a motive of selfishness give us instead the golden rule as a law of life and conduct, make us consider others before ourselves, secure their happiness before our own, and thus, because we seek to secure their happiness, according to the grand law that all efflux determines influx, also secure our own.

THE WORK OF THE SOCIETY.

Mr. Bannister offered some interesting remarks upon the work of the Society, describing one or two undertakings with which he had been connected, especially that of helping to search the catalogue of the library of the British Museum with a view of completing its collection of New Church works. The information as to what books were wanting was now obtained, and steps would be shortly taken to procure them by an appeal to the Church at large.

Mr. Isaac Gunton, who was announced to speak on the second coming of the Lord, excused himself on account of the time at which the meeting was intended to conclude having arrived. The doxology was sung and the proceedings terminated with the benediction, pronounced by Mr. Tilson. During the evening half an hour was agreeably spent in conversation, and refreshments were handed round. The intervals between the addresses were also pleasingly filled with songs by Mrs. Rawsthorne, Mr. Sydney Barber, Miss Van Senden, and Mr. Blabey.

LECTURES AT ALBION HALL, DALSTON. THE winter campaign of the Missionary and Tract Society has been very satisfactorily opened by the delivery of two lectures at the above hall, by the Rev. John Presland, on the evenings of Oct. 22nd and 29th respectively. The subjects were "The Lord Jesus Christ, the only God of Heaven and Earth," and "The Plan of Salvation." There was a good attendance at both lectures, fully three-fourths of those present being strangers. The lectures were admirable expositions of the themes selected, and gave great satisfaction to many of the strangers present; the lecture on "The Plan of Salvation" was singularly clear and beautiful, and as the eloquent lecturer at its close referred to the objections which might be raised, and cleared up each difficulty as he went along, there was little room for questioners at the close. The concluding two lectures of the present series will be delivered by the Rev. Dr. Bayley, on "Christ's Second Coming" and "The Return of the Jews to Palestine.' Mr. Dick's first lecture on the "True Spiritual Nature of Man" was delivered on Sunday, Oct. 27: a good number of strangers were present, who listened with evident interest to the great truths enunciated; and manifested their desire to know more of the New Church teachings by being also present at the lecture by the Rev. John Presland on the Tuesday following.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

It is curious to find a distinguished writer on art arrive at the same conclusion with respect to the mode of study of the art pupil that Swedenborg has laid down for the guidance of the Christian in his intercourse with his fellows. Winckelmann's piece of advice to young beginners is as follows, and we think if "persons" be substituted for "works of art" all will recognise the similarity of the teaching. "Seek not," he says, "to detect deficiencies and imperfections in the works of art until you have previously learned to recognise and discover beauties. This admonition is the result of experience-of noticing daily that the beautiful has remained unknown to most observers who can see the shape but must learn the higher qualities from others because they wish to act the critic before they have begun to be scholars.'

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Advices from New Zealand state that a number of bush natives have murdered and eaten five Wesleyan missionaries. The traders and coast natives have killed eighty bush natives in retaliation.

The Rev. Dr. Tafel has published the controversial articles on Swedenborg and the Lord's Second Coming, which recently appeared in the Intellectual Repository, together with a postscript, in which he deals with the concluding remarks of the editor of that magazine in the number for August 1878. The views of Dr. Tafel are of course ably and clearly stated, and though he is regarded in some quarters as an extreme man, he is able to give a good account of himself and to bring forth many cogent reasons for the hope that is in him. Dr. Tafel seems to wield the sledge-hammer (of controversy) as if he enjoyed the handling thereof as well as did the (legendary) deities of our Saxon ancestors.

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JESUS DEFINES HOW MANKIND ARE TO LOVE. November 17th, Morning.-Luke vi. 27-36. The general subject is the true doctrine of charity, the central precept of which is, "Love your enemies;" the secondary subject is the various forms which this charity must assume; and the third point is the reason of the doctrine, that we may be the children of our Father: the doctrine: the forms of the doctrine; the reason of the doctrine. We are to love our enemies, i.e. negatively, we are not to harbour any evil feeling toward them; and positively, we are to regard them with charity, and be willing to do them a service. Dislike, malice, cherished anger, vengeance, are here wholly forbidden as simply and purely evil. But this inculcation of love does not mean that we are to love everybody alike—a thing impossible. No two loves are alike we love men in their degree, some more, some less; but we can love all in the sense defined, exercising charity towards them. It is often our own fault that we dislike people: we fail to see, or will not see, the good in them; and even when we do see the good we fail to overcome our own prejudices. We are not of course to love people's evils; but in spite of their perceived evils to wish and do well towards them. It is simply an extensive, nay, universal, will of welldoing in our own hearts this doctrine of charity. Then as to the forms of the doctrine: we are (verse 28) to desire blessings on them from the Lord; to pray for their true welfare; to cherish (verse 29) complete unresentment, and so ourselves be clear of the injury they could otherwise inflict on us through the excitement of our evil passions, and this even to the endeavour on their part to deprive us of our affection for and understanding of truth, both interior and exterior; to communicate (verse 30) whatever we know, whether it will be perverted or not; and in a things (verse 31) to do as we would be done by. And the reason? Clearly we should love all were it not for the evils in ourselves. They did so and so to us! but what reason is there in that for not loving them except that we are devoid of the love? If we love only those who love us wherein (verses 32, 33) do we differ from the world's children? But to be the all-loving Father's children we must love with the reflex of His love, be disinterested as He is disinterested (verses 34, 35), and merciful as He is merciful, i.e. we must try.

SAUL PURSUING DAVID IS FRUSTRATED. November 17th, Afternoon.-1 Samuel xxiii. 16-19. Saul's pursuit of David is representative of the natural man's enmity against the spiritual; the mediator being Jonathan,-the good affections of the natural man, which save the spiritual from destruction. In these three verses we have rather the encouragement of David by Jona than under Saul's pursuit than the frustration of that pursuit itself. In reality that frustration was not effected by Jonathan, but by the instrumentality of the ephod which was consulted by David to discover whether the men of Keilah would deliver him into the hand of Saul; and his actual means of after-refuge was the mountain in the wilderness. First, then, the ephod as the instrument of knowledge in the case; next, the mountain as the actual protection; and last, Jonathan as the comforter under persecution-these are the points here. The ephod with its breastplate of consultation is heaven in ultimates, the principles of the spiritual kingdom brought down for use in daily life. These principles being consulted are the means of warning the spiritual man in times of temptation of the evil of the natural within him, and which it may finally accomplish upon him if he do not escape. Taking refuge in the mountain in the wilderness is the actual ascent of the will by love into the principles seen to be true in the reason, and is the only means of safety. Jonathan, then, what is his part? It is just when we are endeavouring by will towards good to avoid the evils of the natural man that we find the benefit, in their strength and comfort, of the good affections of the natural man. It is upon these at the last that our reliance in the struggle must be placed. Beliefs of principles and resolutions towards good will fail unless we have cultivated the good natural stuff which clings to the spiritual and eternal in spite of all discouragements.

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The gentleman above named is a man of mark in India.

With respect to him the Bombay Gazette of December 13, 1877, had the following paragraph: "We learn that the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for India has been pleased to send, as a present to our wellknown citizen Rao Bahadoor Dadoba Pandurung, a copy of a new and splendid edition of Patanjali's Mahabhashya,' with Kaiyyata's 'Bhashyapradipa' and Nagojibhatta's 'Bhashyapradipoddyota,' in six volumes. This erudite and elaborate work on Sanscrit philology has been got up in the ancient Hindu style, and published at the expense of the State. All the copies are intended to be offered as gifts to distinguished scholars and to learned Societies. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, in his recent_tour in India, distributed a few copies to the learned Societies and University libraries in this country. This valuable gift is a deserved recognition of the philological acquirements of Mr. Dadoba Pandurung, whose name has been intimately associated with the operations of the Educational Department from its foundation, his school works having been, as they still are, recognised as text-books throughout this Presidency.'

Notices of the present work have already appeared in a number of papers, in which the literary ability of Mr. Dadoha Pandurung is freely acknowledged. From these we adduce the following. The Argus, a Liverpool paper, says, "The little work is evidently what it professes to be, the production of a genuine Hindu, who has come to the conclusion that the truth is to be found in the peculiar form of Christianity which was expounded by Emanuel Swedenborg. The style of the Oriental convert to Swedenborgianism is always simple and clear, and those who wish to obtain in a small compass a fairly trustworthy and comprehensive exposition of the doctrines of the New Jerusalem Church will find in this neatly got-up tractate just what they require.' The Malvern News remarks, "This is a capital book to put into the hands of infidels, and those who believe in no hereafter.... To such men there will be several nuts very hard to crack found in this work." The Northampton Mercury says, "A store of food for thought will be found in 'A Hindu Gentleman's Reflections respecting the Writings of Swedenborg.' The Freemason calls it "the work of a cultivated and educated Hindu.' The Brighton Examiner has the following: The author of this little work, after relating the means by which he became acquainted with the works and teachings of a writer who is, like many others, frequently condemned without being understood, has given a lucid and brief résumé of those matters. the understanding of which is held to be essential to Christian knowledge. The remarks and arguments are worthy of attention, and the perusal will not fail to benefit."

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