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"The true Christian Church, what it is." Evening "The reality of Heaven, how to be thought of." The audiences on these occasions were unusually large, especially in the evening, when almost every seat was occupied by an attentive hearer. The manner in which the subjects were handled gave the greatest satisfaction, and without doubt performed much use to all who heard them. On the next Tuesday evening Mr. R. again lectured in the temple on the "Nature of Instinct," the Philosophy of Reason" and the "Spirituality of Man," the audiences again being numerous. These efforts to do good were accompanied also by the administration of the Lord's Supper on the Sunday morning; and as the Word does not return unto the Lord void, it has in this instance doubtless fulfilled its mission. R. C.

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ORDINATION AT BOLTON. On Sunday morning, November 8th, in the New Jerusalem Church, Bolton, Mr. R. Edleston was ordained into the ministry of the New Church, by the Rev. D. Howarth, assisted by the Rev. E. D. Rendell. Mr. Edleston was attended to the altar by Mr. Wild and Mr. Horrocks, as representatives of the society. The performance of the beautiful and instructive ordination service seemed to be impressive and interesting to a large and respectable congregation; and was further improved by the delivery of a most excellent charge, by the Rev. E. D. Rendell, founded on Luke x. 2:-" The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest."

On the same day, the anniversary sermons were preached: that in the afternoon by the Rev. D. Howarth, and that in the evening by the Rev. J. Bayley. These were truly edifying discourses, and were listened to with profound attention and delight, by many persons unaccustomed to the doctrines of the New Church.

The day was one of enjoyment and gratification, and will long be remembered. The collections amounted to upwards of £28.

TIVERTON, NEAR BATH.-The Rev. T. Goyder, of Chalford, on Sunday, October 11, consecrated and opened a neat chapel in this village, for the worship of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Only True God and Eternal Life. He delivered two discourses, explanatory of the doctrines of the New Church, to crowded congregations. Sermons were also delivered by him on the following Monday and Thursday evenings. These have excited much stir and attention among the inhabitants, by which a fair prospect is presented of ultimately establishing a congregation of the New Church in that populous village. Mr. Goyder also visited Bristol, and preached there on Sunday, the 18th of October, and the following Tuesday. He attended the anniversary there on the Monday evening, when thirty-five assembled to tea. Psalm cxxxiii. was explained and illustrated by several speakers, and the meeting was both, instructive and happy.

CHALFORD AND STROUD.-During Mr. Goyder's absence from home, the Rev. T. D. Dyke, of Salisbury, visited Chalford, and on Sunday, October 11th, preached two discourses to numerous and attentive audiences. Mr. Dyke also gave an elucidatory lecture on Monday, October 12th, at Stroud, to a very respectable assembly, all of whom expressed delight at the truths advanced. For an hour after the lecture, conversation concerning the doctrines kept the lecturer fully employed, and a desire was expressed that exertions should be made to give a course of lectures on the whole of the doctrines, by Mr. Dyke and Mr. Goyder, at the Subscription Rooms in that town, during the ensuing winter. Efforts are now making to accomplish this object.

Obituary.

Died, at Liverpool, aged 88, Mary Brownbill, relict of the late Robert Brownbill. She has been connected with the New Church since its first introduction into this town, and was, we believe, the oldest member living.

S.

At Lucea, Jamaica, on the 19th March last, aged 50 years, Lydia Hine, relict of the late Jacob Edward Chambers, and last surviving daughter of the late Alex. Chambers, Esq., of that place. She was early in life introduced by baptism into

the communion of the Lord's New Church, and remained a steadfast adherent to the doctrines throughout her sojourn in this world, which had been to her one of much sorrow.

On the 24th September, 1846, in the 47th year of her age, Elizabeth, wife of William Holbrook, London-road, Manchester, finished the period of her earthly probation. Mrs. H. was formerly a member of the calvinistic persuasion. Mr. H. introduced the doctrines of the New Church to her notice prior to their marriage, her religious creed being the only obstacle to their union. She first read various works of the late Rev. J. Clowes; next some of the writings of Swedenborg, and her mind gradually became impressed and enlightened by the truths thus presented; but it was not until the lapse of three years that she became fully convinced of the truth and excellence of the principles of the new dispensation, which was shortly after her marriage. She then joined her husband in membership with the Salford Society, and continued to be a most worthy member of that body for nearly twenty years, to the time of her death. For some time past she had suffered much from physical debility, which led to pulmonary consumption, attended with a most harassing cough, which resisted all attempts to cure, or even relieve her. Finding herself no longer capable to perform her accustomed family duties, she often expressed a hope that she should not long continue in what she called a useless state. On the Sunday previous to her decease, she requested her husband to read that portion of the "Treatise on Heaven and Hell" which describes the first, second, and third states of man after death. He did so; and she then said, "I am satisfied; I know that the Lord in his mercy has made every needful preparation for us." She repeatedly declared her conviction that she should not recover, yet her resignation was complete; not a murmur escaped her lips; her steadfast faith in the doctrines of the New Church, and unshaken reliance on the Lord, had completely dissipated the fear of death, in the anticipation of which her mind was weaned from earthly ties, and consoled with a strong confidence that the Lord's merciful providence would render all needful assistance to her surviving husband and family, by whom her loss is felt to be irreparable. To herself the change

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is doubtless a blessed one,-a removal from the uncertainties and trials of earth, to the realities and enduring felicities of heaven, where the adorations of the Lord, the performance of spiritual uses, and the more exalted contemplation of those truths with which she was delighted here, will more eminently delight her expanded and expanding mind for ever.

W. H.

On Sunday, the 18th of October, the earthly remains of John Grayson Butter, the last son of Mr. Henry Butter, of London, the present Secretary of the General Conference, were interred in the Highgate Cemetery. The funeral was attended by a numerous band of friends, whose esteem for him while living had brought them to see the last rites paid to his earthly tenement. The short but amiable life of this young man claims a notice amongst the obituaries of those who have by their conduct adorned the doctrines of the New Jerusalem. Early imbued with the truths of the new dispensation as his mind gradually expanded, and as he was enabled to form them into doctrine applicable to life, he loved and practised them the more; and it is manifest to all who knew him that his gradually-increasing sphere of usefulness was only checked by the inability of the body to be the full instrument of carrying out the ends of so energetic a mind. When it was determined that a Sunday school should be commenced in connexion with the New Church in Argyle-square, none were more active than he in labouring for its establishment, and when established, none more regular in attendance for its support, so long as his health permitted him to be so. illness, during which he exhibited the patience and confidence of a New Church Christian, and testified to the efficacy of New Church truth, he died October 13th, in the 23rd year of his age. To contemplate such a life and such a death, must, from his parent and only sister, take away, or at least alleviate, the sting of separation, because it assures them that he has gone where he was wanted, and has now entered into his sphere of usefulness above. As a young man of business the straightest line of integrity marked his path, and thus he gained the esteem of all his employers, one of whom (the writer of this) feels that in this dispensation of Providence he has been separated from a friend and companion. May the example

After a long

of his short life be followed by all the young friends who knew him! J. B.

On the 25th of October, 1846, Marie, the widow of my youngest son, the late Samuel Bradley, B.A., was divested by death, as we usually call it, of her material covering, and entered thereby into the sensible experience of true substantial life, in the spiritual world. There is every reason to believe that she was a sincere and intelligent recipient of our heavenly doctrines, which she appeared to receive without much difficulty, as fast as she became acquainted with them by reading. She appeared to enjoy the felicity of perceiving at once their genuine character and tendency, and to have much delight in conversing respecting them, which I have observed with great pleasure on several occasions. After the death of her husband, she lost few opportunities of attending Divine worship, and the Holy Supper. She attended nearly the whole of the last course of lectures delivered in the New Jerusalem Temple, Bolton-street, Salford, by the Rev. D. Howarth, and would have attended the whole but for her declining health. She returned from these lectures with a great flow of spirits, on account of the certainty of the truth they seemed to communicate to her mind, and the pleasure inspired by such certainty. On these occasions she would say to a kind friend, with whom she was staying, "If you had been there, you must have been convinced of the great superiority of the New Church doctrines." It is to me a great pleasure

that her German friends regarded her with so much affection and esteem, as an amiable and talented woman, and which they shewed to her by tokens not to be mistaken. The death of her husband occurred only three months and a few days after their marriage, and another twelve months and a few days has consigned her mortal remains to an early grave. In the New Church we cannot mourn on these occasions as those without

hope. Her early removal into another and better world, we trust will be to her infinite gain. She died a very quiet and happy death: "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."

JAS. BRADLEY.

Nov. 9th, 1846.
Ardwick Cemetery, Manchester.

Died on the 16th November, 1846, Mrs. Sarah Allum, widow of Mr. Thomas Allum, and eldest and last surviving daughter of the late Rev. Manoah Sibly, in the 66th year of her age. Mrs. Allum was a constant and punctual attendant on the divine worship of the Lord as long as her health permitted; but a life of activity and usefulness was succeeded by paralysis, which prevented her, for the last three years, from leaving her house. This affliction she bore with patience and quiet resignation; and it is confidently trusted that her spirit, now freed from the trammels of earthly impurities, will rise to perform higher and nobler uses in the Lord's kingdom above. This thought serves to console her sorrowing children, six of whom survive her.

INDEX.

ESSAYS, &c. &c.

Angels, every Man attended by, 138 Answer to the inquiry respecting Taste as predicated of Angels, 96 Application of the term "Saint," 140 Attributes, four, the parting and meeting again of, 12 Birmingham, visit to, 350 Blessings of Content, &c., 167 Blessings of Public Worship, &c. 184 Bush, Professor, and Sweedenborg, 6, 415, 450

Cause of Goodness and Truth, Progress of, 260

Children, Influence of, 91

Character, Distinctive, of the Laws of
the Spiritual World, &c., 321, 371
Church, New, Source of Increase to, 41
Church, Protestant, in Germany, 144
Church, Public Worship of the Lord, the
means of establishing, 341
Church, New, Duties of, 241, 281
Circle of Life; or, the Improvement and
Regeneration of Man, 121

Conference in Birmingham, Visit to, 350
Content, why are we not, 361
Culture, Materials for Moral, 47, 127, 206,
294, 366, 456
Dei vox populi vox, 174

Discontent, Evils of, 167
Discrepancy, Supposed, between Paul and
James, 87

Duties and Blessings of Public Worship,
184

Doctrine, Genuine, the guide of Reason,
223

Doctrine, Uniformity of, in the New
Church, on the Trinity, 179
Duties, Every Day, 329
Eden, Man in, 405

Editor's Address to the Readers of this
Periodical, 467

Eternity, Time and, 1

Extracts from Swedenborg's Spiritual
Diary, 142, 226, 330, 377, 354
Explanations without Foundations, 32
Ewald, Professor, on Job, xix. 25-27,
Faith alone, Justification by, &c., 269
Fear of the Lord, Walking in the, 81
"Feed my Lambs," 266

Forgiveness and Forbearance, 441
Garments, in their Spiritual Signification,

452

Germany, Protestant Church in, 144
God, Kingdom of and his Righteousness,
161

Goodness and Truth, gradual Progress of,
260

Guide of Reason, Genuine Doctrine the
223

Importance of the Knowledge of Good-

ness and Truth, 348

Importance of that Source of Increase to

the New Church which arises from
the Church itself, 41

Man, every, is attended by Spirits and
Angels, 138

Manuscripts from the late Rev. J. Clowes,
1, 161, 401

Materials for Moral Culture, 47, 127, 206,
294, 366, 456

Matthew xi. 12, query concerning, 227
Meditation on Psalm xix, 52

Mode, new, of combating the Tripersonal
Theory, 132

Music, Instrumental and Vocal, in Wor-
ship, 211, 411, 461

Nahum the Prophet, new version of, 25
Nature of Public Worship, the, 255
Objects of Worship, Ideas of Professedly
Evangelical, 23

Ordination, on, 16, 58

Parting and Meeting again of four Attri-
butes, the, 12

Passage in Rev. xxii. 13, on the Right
Application of the, 462

Paul and James, supposed Discrepancy
between, 87

Phisyology the basis of Mental Philoso-
phy, 201

Populi Vox, &c., 174

Progress, gradual, of Goodness and Truth,
260

Query respecting Matthew xi. 12, 227
Reason, 218

Reason, Genuine Doctrine a guide to, for
the proper understanding of the
Word, 223

Remains, and the Formation and Deve-
lopment of States connected there-
with, &c., 298

Inquiry respecting Taste, as predicated Remarks on 1 Timothy iii. 16, 333

of Angels, 64

Influence of Children, the, 91

Reverend and Saint, use of the terms of,

211

Interior and Exterior Memory, a Remark Reverend, &c., and on Instrumental Music
on the, 446

Justification by Faith alone, a new Shift,

269

Kingdom of God and His Righteousness,

161

Lambs, Feed my, 266

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in Churches, on the terms, 461
Saint "
140

on the application of the term,

Sherer, Dr., and Swedenborg, 99
"Son, the, of his Love," 281

Time and Eternity; or, New Year's Day, 1

Laws, distinctive character of the, in the Thoughts on New Church Life, 103

Spiritual World, &c., 321, 371

Truth, on the saving efficacy of, 409

Letters from a Minister to the Youth of Uniformity of Doctrine in the New Church
the New Church, 424

concerning the Trinity, 179

Life of the Senses and Life of the Soul, Use of the terms Reverend and Saint, 211
401

Limbus; or, Cutaneous Covering, &c. 183
Lord, walking in the Fear of the, 81
Man in Eden, &c., 405

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REVIEWS.

Arthur, (T.S.) "Sweethearts and Wives;
or, before and after marriage," 71-

Church of England weighed in the Balance
and found Wanting, &c., 229

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Anniversary of the Society at St. Helier's, General Conference, Thirty-ninth, 357

Jersey, 75

Annual Meeting of the Manchester Society

How many Religions are there in the
World, 318
Intelligence from Africa, 75
Additional Subscriptions, &c., 160, 198, Intelligence from Hull, 76
239

of the New Church, 118

Intelligence from Bolton, 112

Annual Meeting of the Sunday School Ipswich Society, 274
Union, 318

Juvenile Literature, 111

Annual Meeting of the Societies of the Juvenile Magazine, 192
New Church in Scotland, 359

A Friend in Need is a Friend indeed, 399
An Appeal from the Society of South-
ampton to the Members of the New
Church, 438
Brightlingsea, 159

Breakfast to John Wild, Esq., on Laying
the First Stone of the New Jerusa-
lem School Room, Heywood, 194
Birmingham Missionary and Tract So-
ciety, 396

Bolton, Ordination at, 475
Congregational Aid Society, 116
Clowes' (Mr.) Address, &c. to the Clergy
and Ministers of Religion, 119.
Chalford Quarterly Tea Meeting, 159
Chalford, 398

Chalford and Stroud, 475

Derby Society, 118

Knowledge of the Doctrines of the New
Church, a means suggested of Ex-
tending the, 473

Lectures at Chatham, 38
London Junior Mental Instruction So-
ciety, Argyle Square Church, 77
Liverpool Quarterly Meeting, 158
Liverpool Tract Society and Quarterly
Tea Meeting, 474

Light, Wine, and Water, 435
Missionary Visit to Jersey, 74
Mahomet defended against the charge of
Imposture by a Clergyman, 76
Manchester Day Schools, 157
Missionary Visit to Norwich, Ipswich,
Brightlingsea, St. Osyth, and Chal-
ford, 280

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Music, its Correspondence," 434
New Church News from America, 39

Extended Circulation of the Scriptures New Church Bible Society, 233

in Manchester, 76

Emanuel College, 193

Ensuing Conference, the-its Business

and its Necessities, 317
End, the, of the Church, 399
Extracts from a recent Work by Mrs.
Child, 434
"Employment essential to Woman's
Happiness," 435

Extract from an American Letter, 437
General Convention of the Societies of

the New Church in America, 314

New Publication, 239

New Church in the city of Aberdeen, 275
in Germany, 278
Reader and Class Book, 360

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 474

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On the Use of the term Reverend,"
197, 237

On the Review of Mr. Hindmarsh's
Work, 279

Opening of the New Jerusalen School-
room, Heywood, 437
Preston, 76

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