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half-past ten, when all departed with a sense of the happiness of New Church brotherhood, and thankfulness to their Heavenly Father, who vouchsafes to give us, in our pilgrimage below, foretastes of the happiness of heaven.

NEW CHURCH, LIMEKILN LANE, LIVERPOOL.

On Sunday morning, September 25th, Mr. Isaac Brierley, of Stalybridge, preached an excellent discourse on the Formation of Character, (text, Psalm i. 1, 2, 3,) in the Church at Rose-place. In the afternoon of the same day, the Society held their quarterly tea meeting, Mr. Brierley in the chair; subject selected for consideration, Isaiah 60. Although the weather was tempestuous in the extreme, we had a goodly assembly, fifty-four persons being present. A heavenly sphere of mutual love pervaded the meeting, and much sound information was imparted by the various speakers on the occasion.

On the 23rd of October the Society opened their new and more commodious place of worship in Limekiln-lane, the former one in Rose-place being found too small for special purposes.

Three services were held on that day, the morning and evening by our leader, Mr. R. G. Sheldon, and the afternoon by Mr. P. Addison. The attendance was excellent on each occasion, the evening particularly, there being upwards of 160 present.

Anthems were sung at each service by the choir, under the direction of Mr. W. Phillips, who gratuitously supplied musical instruments for the occasion.

A course of lectures has been announced, three of which have been delivered, and were well attended. The subject of Redemption proved peculiarly attractive, the room being filled with attentive hearers, many of whom were entire strangers.

It is a source of rejoicing to the members, and especially to the conductors of our flourishing Sunday School, that they have been enabled to gain so much additional accommodation for the trifling sum of 30s. additional yearly rent.

They also desire to express their thanks to those friends who have so kindly aided them in the good work of endeavouring to spread more and more

the knowledge of our God and Saviour among men. As they are still in arrears, on account of the fittings of their church costing more than was anticipated, they earnestly desire those who are able and willing to help, to afford them some pecuniary assistance.

Contributions to be sent to Mr. Peter Gee, cabinet maker, 148, London-road, Liverpool. (See Intellectual Repository, November, 1853.)

E. M. SHELDON, Secretary.

THE NEW CHURCH IN SWEDEN.

It naturally occurs to a new recipient of our doctrines to ask the question, To what extent do they find acceptance in Swedenborg's own country? And probably some disappointment is occasioned by the usual answer to the question, "We really know very little about it.' Now it happens, as reported in the Times of the 28th of last October, that on the 27th of the same month a deputation of gentlemen waited on the Foreign Secretary of State, to represent the intolerable persecution of all sects in Sweden by the dominant Lutheran clergy, and the following instances were presented:-A Roman Catholic and a Baptist had been transported for preaching their own faith. The Established pastors are prohibited from holding any meetings out of church, or at uncanonical hours. If they offend, they are liable to confiscation of goods, imprisonment on bread and water, and, for the third offence, transportation for life! Children are forcibly taken from their parents by the police to be baptized at the church, and the parents are punished for withholding them. Such is the law of Sweden. It is most rigorously enforced in the north. No wonder that the New Church doctrines do not flourish in such a region of intolerant persecution and bigotry.

VISIT OF THE REV. W. BRUCE TO WIVENHOE, ST. OSYTH, AND BRIGHT

LINGSEA.

The Rev. W. Bruce visited the Society of the New Church at Wivenhoe, on the 4th of October, and delivered an impressive lecture in their place of worship the same evening, to an attentive congregation. On the next day he pro-A ceeded to St. Osyth, and paid our friends

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attend either as scholars or teachers, and there receive the instruction that the ministers and others find opportunity to impart.

Secondly,-Some ministers state that they meet the children of members in classes, fortnightly or monthly, on the Sabbath afternoon or evening; and this plan your Committee would strongly recommend in all societies where it can be conveniently adopted.

Thirdly,-Your Committee would recommend in all cases, that parents should see at home that the catechism be learnt, and the smaller works of Swedenborg read by their children; and this reading should be accompanied by the use of the "Questions upon the Four Leading Doctrines," to assist in the understanding of them. And your Committee would also state, that it is within their knowledge that a cheap edition of those Questions, in an extended form, is to be published at an early period by the Sunday School Union.

These Questions your Committee would also strongly recommend to be used in all the three modes of imparting instruction.

J. BAYLEY, Secretary.

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Coercion in Education, 146
Confirmation of the Doctrine of Cor-
respondences, 254

Command given to the Israelites to
extirpate all who had intercourse with
Familiar Spirits, and who sought in-
quiries of the Dead, 297, 339
Critical Examination of the term Body,
as employed in several passages of
the Gospel, and of the Epistles of
the Apostle Paul, 429
Education, 90

Essay on Youth, its Delights, its
Dangers, and the Duties of the
Church towards it, 223

Examples of Inconsistent Objections to
the Uses of the Rod in Moral Train-
ing, 467

Extracts from Dr. Byrom's Poems, 226
Extracts from Swedenborg, 271, 308
Free-will and the reality of Evil, 249
Gradual Progress of the New Church, 1
Hints to Parents on the Moral and Re-
ligious Training of their Children,
347, 410, 466

Hippolytus and his Age, 405
How to awaken Contempt, Envy, and
Discontent in the Minds of Chil-
dren, 412

How much a Mediate Revelation which

is effected by the Word is superior to
an Immediate Revelation which is
effected by Spirits, 417

Human Soul; Influx; the various kinds

of Mental Light; and the Sensual
Man, 138

Instruction of the Children of Mem-
bers, 351

Life; its Nature, Varieties, and Phe-
nomena. 161, 208, 262

"Light! more Light Still!" 241
Materials for Moral Culture, 66, 221,
396

Means provided by the Lord for the

Promotion of His Truth, 452
Meditation on Christmas-Eve, 445
Ministers, Pastors, and People, 285
Nature and Extent of our Intercourse
with the Spiritual World, 56
Necessity of Internal as well as External
Worship. A Sermon, 121

New Church and its Progress. An
Address by Dr. Spurgin, 333
Noble, the late Rev. Samuel, 365
Noble's (Mr.) Own Account of his Recep-
tion of the Doctrines of the New
Church, 385

Observations on an Ordained Ministry
in the New Church, 308

On the Word of God and the Excellence
of its Style, &c., 457
Origin of Ideas, 11
Origin of Beauty, 22

Origen and Jerome on the Nature of

the Body after the Resurrection, 426
Parable of the Unjust Steward, 216
Physiology and Theology; or the Cor-
respondence of the Human Body and
its Parts to things Spiritual aud
Divine, 41, 201

Real and Spurious Charity, 26
Remarks on Ministerial Vestments, by
Dr. Adam Clarke, 143

Refutation of Mr. Grant's Statements
against the Doctrine of Correspon-
dences, 311, 342, 432
Social Intercourse, 325

Spiritual Body; its Nature, Life, and
Appellations, 390, 418, 460

Substance of a Lecture on Human
Development, 68

Swedenborg's Physiology and Psycho-
logy, 15

Theology, Intellect, and Imagination,
47, 168

The Two Sacraments Symbolical of the
Heavenly Marriage of Goodness and
Truth, 99

The True Idea of God the Basis of all
Genuine Theology, 181

The Chariot of Israel and the Horse-
men thereof, 367

"The living, the living, he shall praise
Thee, as I do this day," 379
The Uncle's Lecture to his Sister on
Moral Training, 412

The Duty of supporting the Public In-
stitutions of the Church, 470
Traces of the Influence of the Ancient
Word in Mongol Tartary and Thibet,
81, 131, 176

Translation of Scripture Passages, 149
True Way to advance the Church, 269..

REVIEWS.

Bridesmaid, the, Count Stephen, and
other Poems, by Mary C. Hume, 352
Churches for the Times, and the
Preachers for the People, by the Rev.
W. Ferguson, 317
Generative Organs considered Anato-
mically, Physically, and Philosophi-

cally. A Posthumous Work of E.
Swedenborg, translated from the
Latin by James John Garth Wilkin-
son, 110

Treatise on the Peculiarities of the
Bible, by the Rev. E. D. Rendell, 187

MISCELLANEOUS.

Accrington, 159
Address of M. Bayot, formerly Roman
Catholic Priest, at the Anniversary
of the Swedenborg Printing Society,

319

A Desideratum, 363

A Dream illustrating Swedenborg's Des-
cription of the Spiritual World, 402
Anniversary of the Swedenborg Print-
ing Society, 319

Apocalypse Explained, Errors corrected
in translation of, 80

Appeal to the London Missionary So-
ciety, 116

Are Ministers Shepherds? 400, 440
A Word or two on Certain Remarks in
the Notice of Mr. Chew's Tracts, 359
Christian Witness and Professor Tho-
luck, 195

Claims of Swedenborg Recognised in

the Literary and Scientific World, 157
Clairvoyance no Revelation Worth Hav-
ing, 237, 280

Complete Library of New Church Works,

154

Conference and the Newcastle Society,
279

Cultivation of Moral Philosophy in the

New Church, 278, 322, 358

Liverpool, 38, 73, 118, 199, 438
London New Church Reading Meeting,
79

Manual of Piety for the Young, 116
Manchester Printing Society, 155
Melbourne, Australia, 79
Meeting of the General Convention of
the New Church in America, 399
Meeting of Conference, 160
Minor Works of Swedenberg, 39
Missionary Efforts at Islington, 75
Missionary and Tract Society, 158
Mons. le Boys des Guays, 198
M. le Boys des Guays' translation of
Swedenborg's Works into French, 36
New Church School-room, Islington, 36
New Church Publications suitable as
Presents for Christmas, 39

New Church Lectures at the Mechanics'
Institution, Southampton Buildings,
Holborn, London, 76

New Edition of Clowes's Gospel of John,
403

New Church Society, Rose-place, Liver-
pool, 439

New Church Mission at Islington, 440
New Church, Limekiln Lane, Liver-
pool, 480

New Publications, 40, 238, 324, 363

Difference between Natural and Ma e- New Publications.-Mr. L. H. Grindon's
rial Substances, 362

Error in translating No. 689, True
Christian Religion, 156
Explicatory Remarks on the First Arti-
cle in the Miscellaneous Department
of last month, 234

Family Herald and Swedenborg, 74
Forty-sixth General Conference, 355
French Translation of the Works of
Swedenborg, 118

Genuine New Church Character, 362
Inquiry respecting the Missionary Efforts
at Islington, 37

Intelligence from Australia, 33
Intelligence from Embsay, 77
Intelligence from Liverpool, 159
Intelligence from Leeds, 199
Intelligence from India, 233
Intelligence from M. le Boys des Guays,
St. Amand, 441
Interruptions in Conversation, 80
Islington, 198

Is it proper for Professed Receivers of
the Doctrines of the New Church to
use the Marriage Ceremony of the
Established Church? 401

Jersey, 199

Sexuality of Nature, 114; Dr. Spur-
gin's Six Lectures on Materia Medica,
114; Dr. Cumming's Genesis and
Geology Examined, 115; The Spiri-
tual Library, 199; Swedenborg and
his Mission, by David G. Goyder,
283; Mr. G. J. Holyoake refuted in
his Own Words, 283
New Tract, 119
Nottingham, 37
Norwich, 237

One Use of Clairvoyance, 323
On Gratitude, 117

Portrait of the Rev. E. Madeley, Minis-
ter of the New Church at Birming-
ham, 39

Proposed Emanuel College, Islington, 78
Proprium and Prejudice, 153, 193
Presentation to the Rev. J. Bayley on

ceasing to be the Editor of the Ju-
venile Magazine, 282

Presentation of a Testimonial to Mr.

Moss, for twenty-six years Master of
the New Jerusalem Church Day-

school, Peter-street, Manchester, 272
Presentation to Mr. Sutton, Accrington,
479

Public Discussion at Bolton, 442
Queries respecting the Propriety of
Professed Receivers of the New
Church using the Marriage Cere-
mony of the Established Church, 236
Report of the Swedenborg Printing
Society for 1852-3, 437

Report of the Committee appointed by
Minute 53, &c., 481

Ruin of Christianity in the Protestant
Church in Germany, 237
Scottish Annual Assembly, 357

Spiritual Library, 400

The Trine in the Solar Ray, Spiritual
and Natural, 194

The Rev. W. Woodman's Visit to New-
castle, 156

The New Church in Sweden, 480
Too Important to be Neglected, 118
Tracts in India, 282

Views of the Residence and the Summer-
House of Emanuel Swedenborg, at
Stockholm, 479

Visit of the Secretary of the_Sweden-
borg Printing Society to Denmark
and Sweden, 476

Subscriptions received for M. Le Boys Visit of the Rev. W. Bruce to Wivenhoe,

des Guays, 78

Silent Progress of Truth, 198

Sixteenth Anniversary of the Man-
chester and Salford New Jerusalem
Church Tract Society, 279

St. Osyth, and Brightlingsea, 480
What is a Pastor iu the New Church?
113, 196

Youth-Its Delights and Dangers, 361

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