Sermons. Attwood, Benjamin, Esq., 137, 498 Funeral Discourse on J. Finuie, Esq., Austria, 44 481 The Married State, Here and Hereafter, Auxiliary New Church Missionary and "Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem,” in Bacup, 46 Baptist Missionary Society, 281 memory of the Rev. J. Hyde, 509 Barnsley, 356 Bath, 286, 457 Birmingham, 93, 143, 286, 356, 592 Apocalypse Revealed, 184 Blackburn, 144, 237, 457, 594 Character: its Elements and Develop- Bolton, 288 De L'Esprit et de l'Homme comme Etre Brightlingsea, 93, 288, 593 Brisbane, Queensland, 457, 504 Building Fund, 190 Butter, Mr., Testimonial to, 553 La Sapienza Angelica sulla Divine Provi. Cambridge, 400 Life of the Rev. J. Clowes, 37 Linguist and Educational Review, The, Church Missionary Society, 281 Miracles and Modern Spiritualism, On, Conference, 291, 362, 410, 444, 498, 546, 590 Conference, Religious Services, 454 Conference, Social Meetings, 453 Swedenborg, Account of, from D. G. Conference Tea Party, 450 Gregory's History of the Christian Convention, General, 455 Darlington, 236 The Nativity, 565 Fire, Correspondence of, 187 Gainsboro', 48 General Conference, 291, 362, 410, 444, The Way, the Truth, the Life, 492 498, 546, 590 To the Rev. Chauncey Giles, 534 Giles, Rev. Chauncey, 398, 555 Giles, Rev. Chaunccy, Letter from, 585 Harvest Thanksgiving Services, 594 Addresses, To and from the General Horncastle, 145, 192 ΑΙ Ipswich, 48, 145 Italy, 98, 140 A Hymn, Liverpool, 192, 239, 359, 594 Spalding, 48 Students' and Ministers' Aid Fund, 188, 231 Supernatural Religion, 43 London Association of Correctors of the Swedenborg, 185, 234, 284, 353 Swedenborg Reading Society, 142, 190, London-Buttesland Street, 239, 554 241, 409 556 London-Islington, 145, 194, 595 Testimonial to Mr. Butter, 553 London Missionary Society, 281 Theology, Old and New, 354 London N. C. Missionary and Tract United Methodist Free Churches' Mig- London-- Palace Gardens, 49, 359, 406 Vatican Decrees, 41, 89 Wesleyan Chapel Building Fund, 283 Market Lavington, 237 Wesleyan Missionary Society, 282 Modern Infidelity and Christian Apolo. Yorkshire Missionary and Colportage National Missionary Institution, 185, New Church Auxiliary Missionary So- Newcastle-on-Tyne, 96, 360, 406 Old and New Testament, Relation of, 138 Mrs. J. F. Howe, 195 Mrs. Leggatt, 100 Mrs. Jno. M'Gallon, 100 Potts, Rev. J. F., 98 Mrs. J. E. Waller, 195 Purgatory, 545 Marriages. Mr. R. Banks Barber to Miss Jennie Mr. Robert Cooke to Miss Annie Word. Saint Heliers, 52, 290 Mr. William Henry Dixon to Miss Janet Salisbury, 97, 237 Mr. Henry Higham to Miss Alice Erby, Mr. James Humphreys to Miss Sophia Rev. J. Hyde, 460, 468 Mr. William Killingbeck, 508 Mr. Thomas Lawson, 195 Mr. Edward M. Pulsford to Miss Ruth Mr. Hugh Leggatt, 412 Rev. Isaiah Tansley to Miss Clara Roden. Captain E. C. Lusby, 52 Mrs. Jas. S. M'Gallan, 412 Mr. George March, 363 Mrs. Mary Marshall, 244 Mr. Shadrach Martin, 291 Mrs. Mary Mason, 195 Miss Elizabeth Ellen Bundy, 195 Mr. Joseph Moss, 412 Mr. Thomas Ogley, 364 Mrs. Ellen Pemberton, 412 Mr. Edward James Dowling, 412 Miss Jane Rawson, 196 Mrs. Fleming, 100 Mr. Elihu Rich, 412 Miss Sarah Richardson, 598 Mr. Thos. Frederic Salter, 363 Mr. Ralph Garnett Sheldon, 556 Mrs. Ann Harrison, 243 Mr. John Westall, 243 Mrs. John Westall, 195 The Lord's first Advent was on earth attended by two grand related results which suggest certain questions of importance at this hour. The one was the detection of the want of all true vitality in the then existing Church. The Jews were numerous; they were widely scattered; they had large synagogues, and sometimes great influence in very many important cities, not in Palestine alone, but amid the influences of Asiatic luxury, and of Grecian philosophy, and even in Rome, in the very shadow of the throne of the Cæsars. They had vast wealth. An annual festival drew to Jerusalem Parthiąns and Medes and Elamites; dwellers in Mesopotamia and in Judæa; in Cappadocia, in Pontus and in Asia; in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and Libya; Romans, Cretes, and Arabians. Their zeal was conspicuous, whether in the making of proselytes, or in their endurance of persecution. They had schools of philosophy, some of which aided in giving to Alexandria a name which still is remembered. Yet the result to this Church of the Advent of its Incarnate Founder was the detection of its entire spiritual death. It had a name that it lived and it was dead. Its morality and its zeal were founded on the love of self and of the world ; good was absent, and the truth was profaned. Accordingly that Church was consummated; its synagogues remain, but it has never since that Advent, either morally or intellectually, inspired or controlled the world's life. This high and solemn duty was, as a second result, transferred to a A New Church which the Lord then established. Its vitality was in . stantly manifest. It could love its enemies. Within eight weeks of the Crucifixion, in the city of His death, to an audience in which were not a few who had exclaimed “Crucify Him,” that disciple whose passionate frankness was most conspicnous, uttered an appeal, in which he pressed the multitude to be willing to be saved. The New Church was intractable. It haunted old synagogues with its utterances of new discovered truths. It could not remain silent. It could not limit itself to old formulas. It must speak and must contradict received opinions. It was forced to assume the guise of sectlife. Though sectarian it was Catholic. Its societies were often numerically feeble, and void of either doniestic or foreign influence, yet it could not limit its activities. The knowledge of their Master as a Light to lighten the Gentiles was a continual incentive. They acknowledged but one all-embracing mission,—to give to mankind the knowledge of salvation by the remission of their sins. They went therefore everywhere preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom. was as though, long after Pentecost, the Christians spake each man with a tongue of fire. The sect became the Church of the civilized world; deriving its first voices from those of Jewish parentage, it was mainly Gentile in its constituency. It had the traditions of Judaism, the scholarship and influence of the Gentiles, the direction of Providence, the light of Divine truth, the fervour of heavenly love, the prestige of the Crucified and Glorified. And thus, in the train of the Word of God, it went forth conquering and to conquer. It had a mission, and from this mission it could not be turned by Judas in his haste to force Providence, by Ananias in his desire to compromise between charity and self, or by Simon Magus in his willingness to prostitute the holiest things of the Church to his own aggrandizement. The Jewish Church had been founded not as final, therefore it had risen and fallen, and evening and morning were its day. Even so the Christian Church was not founded as final, and, at this moment, presenting greater tokens of life than did the Jewish Church in the first Christian century, it is as dead as that Church was. A New Church is foun led, and the points of similarity between it and the first Christian Church do not need to be specified. The first message of the New Church is to the synagogues and bylodsof the old. Where truth has been slaughtered, and charity |