stick to the point at issue; and Mr. Clissold and all members of the New Church have been taught to regard the question of the truth of a system as much more important than the question of its novelty.

The members of the New Church have never pretended that the idea of there being an inner meaning in the Scriptures was unknown to the early Fathers. Mr. Clissold himself, in his "Voice from the New Church Porch," quotes the testimony of St. Augustine, and alludes to that of other Fathers (p. 26); and, indeed, it is a common practice for New Church writers and preachers to appeal to the views of the Fathers and the Apostles. The recent article on "The Creed of the New Church," by the Rev. John Presland (Morning Light, No. 40), is a case in point. And yet the system adopted by Swedenborg differs widely from the interpretations of Origen and the early Fathers. Swedenborg's doctrine of correspondence is a SYSTEM with a definite principle of interpretation, whereas the other authorities alluded to were admittedly open to the charge of dealing in fanciful and arbitrary modes of interpretation. Swedenborg seeks to interpret the Scriptures by means of a definite and fixed law founded on the nature and uses of things; and there is such a wide difference between this law and the method adopted to a very large extent during the first eight centuries of the Christian era, that he cannot justly be convicted of plagiarism. It is a feature of New Church belief that though the Apostles and Fathers were generally aware of the existence of an inner sense, they were not in possession of the key by which it could be unlocked and made manifest.

Again, the statement that Swedenborg from the year 1745 noted all visions in his Dream Book, and regarded them as the materials for the most careful investigation, is liable to be construed into meaning that the "revelations" of Swedenborg upon the matters alluded to in the "articles of belief" were visions recorded in this Dream Book. Swedenborg did keep a diary in which many of his dreams were recorded, but this is quite distinct from the theologic writings in which he conveyed to the world his "vast system of theosophy." Hence Swedenborg in speaking of his visions says, "These are not visions, properly so called, but scenes beheld in the most perfect state of bodily wakefulness" (Arcana Coelestia, 1885), a statement entirely in harmony with his doctrine of seership as described by Mr. De Soyres.

We demur from the idea that Swedenborg never intended to found a separate Church, though we know that several readers of Swedenborg are inclined to agree with Mr. De Soyres. A separate organized external Church we hold to be a necessity to enable us to worship the Lord in agreement with the truths of the New Church doctrines, and Swedenborg was far too clearsighted not to see this. In a note on this point Mr. De Soyres says, "The Swedenborgianism of the present day has degenerated into mere sectarianism, nor are there any signs in England or Germany of future vitality. The only two men of note since Swedenborg's time were Dr. Tafel of Tubingen, who wrote an able reply to Möhler, and Mr. Clowes of Manchester, a clergyman of the Church of England." It is probably useful that occasionally we should be favoured with the opportunity of being permitted to see ourselves as others see us;" and we are quite consoled for this somewhat unflattering description of the men of the New Church by the knowledge that the principles are permeating the religious world. There may not seem to be any signs of vitality in what is termed Swedenborgianism, in the opinion of our essayist, but we know that the old prejudice against Swedenborg is wearing away, that his works are being extensively read

by the leaders of every school of religious thought, and that they are gradually becoming better understood, and as a consequence more thoroughly appreciated. We are sorry that Mr. De Soyres should state that "Swedenborgianism has degenerated into mere sectarianism." There is no "sectarianism" in Swedenborg; there can be none in the system which he founded. The New Church is not a sect, but a dispensation; and it neither tries to win converts by the plea of "authority," nor to frighten doubters by Athanasian anathemas, nor to stigmatize unbelievers as heretics. The New Church is, in the fullest sense, Catholic in principle and in practice, inculcating a far broader charity than that of the ancient Montanus, or the Modern Anglican Church.

"The Swedenborgian conception of the Trinity" is said to be "Sabellian." This has very frequently been said before, but its reiteration does not make it true. The Sabellian doctrine differed from the doctrine of Swedenborg in one most vital point-the Glorification of the Humanity. Swedenborg's doctrine is very different from that which Sabellius illustrated by the same saying, that "God, like the sun, issued forth a beam (His Son), which returned to Himself (at His Ascension) as the beam to the sun; after which, and in the stead of His Son, He communicated Himself to individual souls through separate and distinct beams of the same Divine life by means of the Holy Ghost."

Mr. De Soyres also affirms that the "Brothers of the Free Spirit" promulgated "an anticipation of the Swedenborgian theory that the Resurrection is not future, but past, having taken place in Christ's person" (p. 122). We fail to recognise this doctrine as being the New Church doctrine of the Resurrection.

We should require a new definition of Gnosticism er we could accept the opinion that among the moder Gnostics, "perhaps, strictly, Swedenborg" should be classed (p. 142).

Yet, after all, we are not so much concerned about some of these things-Montanism, Sabellianism, Gnosticism, etc., as some people may imagine. The foremost question with us is, Does Swedenborg rightly interpret to us the Divine Word? This is the "main question" which we wish to be put.

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OPENING OF THE NEW CHURCH, KEARSLEY.

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HE dedication and opening service of this place of worship took place on Wednesday afternoon, the 4th inst. church will seat 800 persons, of whom 300 are to be accommodated in the gallery. The building is faced throughout with Kerridge parpoints, the whole of the dressings being of Alderley stone. The nave arches, supported by iron columns, are of buff and brown bricks; the walls are plastered, and the roof is open, and lighted by four clerestory windows. All the glazing is in lead lights with tinted quarries, and was supplied by Mr. J. Jones, of Manchester. The chancel, divided from the nave by a lofty arch, is octagonal, and lighted by three single-light windows with traceried heads. The ceiling is of pitch pine boards, and the floor is laid with mosaic by Mr. Oppenheimer, of Manchester, after a design of the architects. The whole of the internal woodwork is of pitch pine, with baywood The pulpit, of pitch pine, oak, and baywood, stands on a shaft of polished red granite, with cap and base of Bath stone. The font is of Bath stone on a shaft of red Runcorn stone. The gas-fittings were supplied by Messrs. Freeman & Collier, and the other ornamental ironwork by Mr. T. Ashworth, all of Manchester. The heating is by Messrs. Perkins, of London. Over the vestry is a room suitable for a class or committee meeting. The total cost (including the spire, not yet completed) will be about £6800, or a little over £9 per sitting, The general superintendent of the work was Mr. G. Napier, of Manchester, and the whole has been carried out from the designs and under the superintendence of the architects-Messrs. Colley and Beaumont, of Manchester.

introduced in the seat-ends.

The opening ceremony commenced with an organ voluntary,

"Andante with variations," by Mozart, which was followed by the hymn "Rise, every heart and every tongue," and prayer by the Rev. P. Ramage, the minister of the Society. A chant was followed by an address pointing out the general uses and purposes for which the church had been erected, by the Rev. Dr. Bayley, and the dedication prayer by the Rev. J. Boys. The "Te Deum having been sung, the Rev. R. Storry read the lesson, which was taken from 1 Kings viii. 22-61. An anthem and hymn, "To Jesus, God above," having been sung, the Rev. P. Ramage preached the sermon, taking his text from Hag. i. 7, 8.

The large congregation listened with rapt attention to the impressive discourse, and to the solemn manner in which the rev. gentleman dedicated the house to sacred uses.

At the close of his sermon he said the religious community meeting in that place had for the last four years contributed, for building purposes, £2100 a year, making £8400. That, of course, included the school and the church, and now they were desirous, if it were possible, to raise a large sum during the opening services. Of course the cry everywhere was that times were bad. The Lord had blessed them in times past, and good times were nigh at hand, and they would keep getting better and better. him, therefore, ask them to do what they could to help those who had so liberally and generously helped themselves. The collection was then made, and a hymn sung, after which Mr. Ramage announced that the collection had realized the handsome sum of £100, 75.

PUBLIC MEETING.

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A tea-meeting followed in the schoolroom, to which about 400 sat down, after which a public meeting was held in the same room. The Rev. P. Ramage occupied the chair, and he was supported by the Rev. Dr. Bayley, of London; Rev. R. Storry, of Heywood; Rev. J. Boys, of Radcliffe; Rev. T. Mackereth, of Bolton; Rev. S. Forrest (Wesleyan minister); and the Rev. G. S. Ordish, (Congregational minister). There was a very large attendance.

After singing and prayer the rev. Chairman said that since they began building many of their members had entered the immortal life. Among those who had recently passed away he might mention the familiar names of Mr. Samuel and Mr. Isaac Gee, and just as they were preparing for opening Mr. Joseph Grimshaw had also entered into his rest. But they really entered the land of the living, and would no doubt influence for good those they left behind. They should best honour the memory of those good men by carrying on with earnestness the work in which they were so deeply interested. His first pleasing duty was to give a cordial welcome to all the friends who had favoured them with their presence that day. In the name of the members of the church it was his duty to thank the Building Committee for their earnest and persevering labours, which had that day been crowned with ample success. The building which they had just opened was the expression of their faith in the necessity of a truly religious life. At the present time, when the fundamental truths of Christianity were being attacked with great vigour, religious bodies were more than ever called upon to give a reason for their existence. In the present transition state of the Christian faith many earnest souls were being swept from their anchorage, and were looking anxiously for more light on the great truths of life. It was not his intention to occupy much of their time; but it might be useful just to say that the New Church believed firmly in the plenary inspiration of Holy Scripture, in the supreme Divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the necessity of a life in harmony with the Divine Will. They were aggressive only on the empire of Satan ; and desired to unite with all good and true men in enlarging the realm of goodness, promoting the glory of God-peace on earth, and goodwill among men.

The Rev. T. Mackereth congratulated them on having erected such a structure, and the Bolton friends heartily wished they might soon be out of debt.

The Rev. R. Storry congratulated his friends on the success of the work in which they had been engaged. He had long felt, as a minister of the New Church in Lancashire, that they were able to do a great deal more in this part of the country than they had yet done, and he hoped the effort that was being made at Kearsley would stimulate others to increased zeal and earnestness and activity in building up and strengthening the Society with which they might be connected, and providing and extending the knowledge of the truth to other parts of the country, where the New Church was either not known at all or was but little known. He was quite aware that when they spoke about extending the knowledge of New Church doctrines, and building up the New Church in other places, they were open to the charge of proselytism. He took it a person was seeking to proselytize when he was acting from his own selflove, from his desire to swell his party irrespective of the moral and spiritual condition of the people he was endeavouring to influence. He concluded by urging those present to become thoroughly acquainted with the teachings of that Church.

The Rev. S. Forrest (Wesleyan minister) expressed the great pleasure he had in being present that day. He had enjoyed the

impressive opening service. He had come there that evening to show his respect and esteem for their beloved pastor, Mr. Ramage, and to wish him every success in his new and beautiful church. Mr. Francis Smith then briefly addressed the meeting. The Rev. Dr. Bayley said his recollections of the early circumstances of that Society and neighbourhood were of very considerable extent and interest. He remembered once visiting that neighbourhood when the little company of friends met at Cinder Hill in a little room in a cottage. If he recollected aright it had been a place for Nonconformists to meet in since the days of Charles II. There were then about a dozen friends. After that he preached a charity sermon, and they made a collection and got £6, and that astonished them. After that they determined to build a place, and in 1837 he, Mr. Howarth, and Mr. Smithson were called upon to take part in the service. They had admirable success, and that had continued. There were some thought that as their views were spreading it was their duty to put them down, and lectures were given. He was requested to come and reply, and a very warm series of addresses and discussions went on, the result being of a very cheering and promising character. Many of the surrounding population were by no means pleased at the New Church people being molested in any way in their efforts. There was one gentleman, famous at that time in the neighbourhood, who was particularly annoyed at the attacks made by a neighbouring curate on that Church, and he and many others signified their great sympathy with the New Church people. The result was a most encouraging state of progress, and in a very short time Mr. Woodman was invited to come there. He did, and the rest of the history of the Society they of course knew as well as he did. He concluded by dwelling upon some of the leading points of their religious belief.

Mr. James Fletcher, in the course of a few remarks, said they were only just beginning their work; having got a large building they must now make efforts to fill it with earnest worshippers. He trusted they would all cordially work together for this end.

Rev. G. S. Ordish (Congregational minister), in a short speech, congratulated the friends on the opening of this new building. It was well known that their esteemed pastor and himself were warm friends. They had in Mr. Ramage a warm-hearted and earnest worker; and if they would sustain and aid him in his work, he had no doubt but that they would be abundantly successful.

Mr. Samuel Lindley, of Manchester, in a humorous speech, challenged the congregation to raise the entire sum required for clearing off the debt by promising to give a certain portion of it. The proceedings were interspersed by the singing of hymns and anthems, the latter by the choir.

On Sunday, the 8th inst., there were three services-the Rev. Dr. Bayley morning and evening, and the Rev. R. Storry in the afternoon, when the collections amounted to £100, 11s. It is anticipated that at the close of the opening services the debt will not amount to more than £700.

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The services at Sparkbrook have been conducted with attendance and interest certainly, if slowly, improving. The Bible class has made notable progress, and the need for increased study and discussion of the writings of the Church has been so sensibly felt by the members that it was considered desirable to arrange for a week evening meeting. This was accomplished by the Committee, and on Tuesday, November 19th, the first meeting was held at the house of Mr. Garlick, Bolton Road, and was in every way encouraging. It will be continued weekly. The Sunday-school is also advancing, and the Committee was of opinion that in order to provide the teachers with books and appliances, which as yet had been very inadequate, a collection should be made on its behalf. This was fixed for Sunday, November 24th. A selection of hymns and anthems was prepared under the conductorship of Mr. Wolverson, whose constant presence and earnest efforts deserve all praise. A number of members of the senior classes in the Wretham Road Sunday-school were present, and assisted the choir, in spite of the serious inclemency of the weather. The sermon in the morning was by Mr. J. W. Tonks, and in the evening by Mr. J. T. Freeth. In the afternoon there was a gathering of the children and friends, addresses being given by Mr. Brittain, Mr. Tonks, and Mr. Freeth. The total collections amounted to £2, 5s. 6d., and in addition to this sum subscribed for the Sunday-school in the room, the Wretham Road friends devoted the contents of the offertory box for the same day, amounting to £3, 8s. Id., to the use of the mission.

In the Daily Telegraph of December 3rd a notice of a new play at the Haymarket Theatre begins with the following quotation therefrom: "Believe me,' says the earnest philosopher Bernard in M. Emile Augiet's play, 'Les Fourchambaults,' 'marriage is the most degraded of human institutions when it is merely the union of two fortunes; it is the grandest of Divine institutions when it is the union of two souls!"" It is interesting to find Swedenborg's teaching on the

subject of Conjugial Love brought prominently before the public by so popular a means as the stage.

Mr. Gunton's lectures at Tottenham have not been attended

with the usual success. The persons who have come, at least some of them, seem thoroughly immersed in the dogmas of Three Persons, Faith Alone, and Substitution, and a somewhat vehement hostility to the views presented by the lecturer has been manifested. One of the representatives of the so-called orthodox views has been allowed several opportunities for expressing them, and on each occasion they have been well replied to by the lecturer. Mr. Jobson acted as chairman at the lectures. It is a very unusual thing for uncharitable hostility to be manifested at our lectures; but at Tottenham quite an antagonistic spirit was shown, the Solifidian advocates denouncing not only the lecturer and his chairman, but imploring those present not to purchase or read the books, as works containing damnation. The field for missionary effort seems to be of the most barren kind, and had better be left over for the present.

The Scotch section of the Hymn-Book Committee met for the first time on November 30th. It began its sitting at ten o'clock and sat till five, and thoroughly revised about 250 hymns. If the other sections of the Committee approve the work of the Scotchmen very little of "the good old book" will remain.

The Rev. J. F. Potts' fourth lecture at Greenock, on Tuesday, December 3rd, was attended by the largest audience the New Church has ever drawn together in that town, the hall being packed as full as it would hold, about 300 being present. The subject was, "The Nature, Scenery, and Eternity of Hell." The answering of questions that were put to the lecturer by persons in the audience at the close of the lecture again occupied three-quarters of an hour; and on Mr. Potts intimating that this would be the last lecture he should deliver at present in Greenock, a gentleman, one of the city missionaries, who had made himself conspicuous by asking questions on three nights, rose and moved a vote of thanks to the lecturer for the "great amount of tact and kindness he had shown in answering the questions that had been put to him." Mr. G. L. Allbutt, B.A., will now follow with a course of lectures in the same place.

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"People expect such perfect crucifixion of self from little children, and the total-depravity people require the most. remember when some one gave me a reason, once, for being perfectly willing always to leave my dolls and run upstairs for her eyeglasses, which were always somewhere else. 'Little girls should be obliging. They are obliged for everything, you know. They could not get or make the least thing they need for themselves. The least they can do is to run little errands cheerfully.' It was perfectly true; that was the reason it stayed in my mind all day, and that I rushed up to Cousin Arthur when he came in at night, and asked him with absolute fierceness, what I could do to earn five dollars.' 'What do you want with five dollars?' he asked, with exasperating grown-upness. 'I want to earn five dollars somehow,' I said, in furious earnest, and live a disobliging life!"" Life has been compared to machinery which needs the oil of love to make it not necessarily run correctly but certainly to run smoothly. In teaching this child to do its duty the precepts were laid down all right, but the oiled feather was forgotten, and the consequences were, and always will be, as Mrs. Whitney has so graphically narrated them, to admit their truth but to rebel against their performance.

We must consult the gentlest manner and softest seasons of address; our advice must not fall like a violent storm bearing down and making those to droop whom it is meant to cherish and refresh. It must descend as the dew upon the tender herb, or like melting flakes of snow-the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

At a meeting of the National Association of Spiritualists, held December 2, Captain R. F. Burton gave a lecture on the subject of Spiritualism in Eastern Lands. In the course of his introduction he said that personally he ignored the existence of soul and spirit, feeling no want of a self within a self, an I within an I. If it was a question of words, and his ego or subject, as opposed to the nonego or object, or if his individuality, the concourse of conditions which differentiated him from others was called a soul, then he had a soul, but not a soul proper. For some years, however, he had managed to live without what is popularly called a soul; and it would be hard to find one violently thrust into the recusant body.

In the "Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles, Historical and Doctrinal," by Harold Browne, Bishop of Winchester, occurs the following (p. 101, ninth edition): "One of the peculiar views of Emanuel Swedenborg in modern times, and of his followers, who call themselves the Church of the New Jerusalem, was that the passages of Scripture concerning the Judgment are not to be literally inter

preted. Swedenborg taught that all men are subject to two opposite influences, one from God and good spirits, the other from evil angels; that according as they yield to one or the other influence, the soul rises or falls. Heaven and hell, then, are not the result of Divine appointment, or of a future judgment, but the necessary conditions of a man according as he is good or evil. The passages of Scripture concerning the last Judgment are to be understood of the end and consummation of the Church which now is, and the establishment of a purer and better Church, which is called the descent of the New Jerusalem from God out of heaven." This passage occurs in the chapter on the Fourth Article, which treats of the Resurrection of Christ and His Return to Judgment. And as it has not, to our knowledge, been quoted before in any New Church book or periodical, we have thought it of sufficient interest to bring it before the notice of the New Church friends.

The Church Times is in an agitated state, as appears from the following: "The Bishop of Rochester last week administered confirmation to forty-nine of the elder lads in training on board the Chichester and Arethusa. We wonder whether these boys were ever baptized. The children when in Great Queen Street attended a Baptist chapel in Bloomsbury.” The great enormity of attending a Baptist chapel ought, we suppose, to have required that if the lads had been baptized they should have been baptized again. Doubt. less the lads were rescued from scenes of squallor and wretchedness, and irreligion; and we should think that to raise a sectarian wrangle about the poor little fellows was the very extreme of bigotry.

The Irish Sunday Closing Act appears to be working in a very satisfactory manner in those places where the Act is in full force. There is, generally speaking, a large decrease in drunkenness and disorder. But in the towns exempted from the operation of the Act there is a large increase of drunkenness. An association has been formed for the purpose of securing the repeal of the "exemptions." There has been none of the "rioting" confidently predicted by the opponents of the Act.

SUNDAY-SCHOOL LESSONS.

JESUS AND HIS TRUE KINSFOLK.

December 22, Morning.-Luke viii. 19-21. This is a beautiful instance of how the Lord turned an earthly incident into a heavenly lesson. The true disciple in all times has been called "a son of God," because it has been universally perceived that though all are children of the heavenly Father, those who have believed on the Lord and have striven to do His will, are from this trust and obedience His sons indeed. But all true figurative expressions are derived from correspondences, and so is the expression here used by our Lord, "My mother and My brethren are these which hear the Word of God, and do it." A man, and particularly a brother, is the representative of truth, and a woman, and above all a mother, the representative of affection; and so to connect them together as my mother and my brethren " is sufficient to indicate a knowledge of the truth and a desire to do it, or in the very words of the lesson, they are these which hear the Word of God, and do it."

DAVID BY GOD'S DIRECTION MADE KING IN HEBRON.

December 22, Afternoon.-2 Sam. ii. 1-7. The anointing of David king over Judah, and his going up and dwelling in Hebron in royal state and power, are in many respects a marked contrast to the immediate and easy possession which followed the choice of Saul. In every other respect too their reigns contrasted strongly with each other. Though Saul's began easily, it overcast and ended in trouble and disaster. It was also very short. David's, which began with trial and hardship, became firm and fixed when he was publicly anointed king in Hebron, and was, though not without its stormy times, ever getting stronger and more secure throughout his life. David represented the Lord, and as the Lord is our great exemplar, so also spiritually may David in many of his acts; not in his natural acts, many of which were very bad, but in a number of the spiritual acts to which his natural actions correspond. Here we have a beautiful instance of dependence upon the Lord and simple obedience to His commands. For "David inquired of the Lord, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the Lord said unto him, Go up. And he said unto Him, Whither shall I go up? And He said, Unto Hebron." Obeying this command he goes, and the men of Judah came and anointed him "king over the house of Judah.' Let us too hearken to the Word through which the Lord now speaks to men and obey it, and the royal truth will be anointed king in our souls, and under it we shall live long, live peacefully, and when not peacefully we shall live to conquer what opposes.

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"Messrs. Dunn & Hewett of London, the wellknown manufacturers of Cocoa, Chocolate, and Essence of Coffee, have obtained Two Silver Medals."-Mercantile Shipping Register, October 1878.

"If actual instructiveness and scientific value go for anything, the case of Dunn & Hewett will not pass unrewarded."-Glasgow Herald, Aug. 5, 1878.

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