"Contributors of £5. and upwards, in one sum, and those who contribute annually 10s. and upwards, will be members, and entitled to purchase a copy of each new work, at a deduction of 25 per cent. from the retail price. And contributors of £10. and upwards, in one sum, will be entitled to a copy of each new work on its publication. "The annual subscriptions are payable in advance, and the first year's subscription extends to the 3rd of June, 1848. Donations are received of any amount. 66 Communications may be forwarded addressed to the treasurer, Mr. Dean, 35, Seething Lane, London; or to Mr. Penn, 143, Holborn Bars, London; or Mr. A. Essex, 22, Crawford-street, Portman-square, London, collectors for these purposes." The present notice of the proceedings of the above society, will enable friends having no immediate connexion with societies, but wishing to aid its funds, to correspond with the gentlemen acting as collectors in furtherance of their wish. We are promised particulars of the general meeting of the society to be held on the 3rd of the present month, and shall have pleasure in noticing them in our next number. EXAMINATION OF THE DAY SCHOOLS OF was extremely interesting to all present, and proved that they had an intellectual discerument of what they were taught. It was seen that faith has no life except as it lives from charity, that charity is merely natural except it is elevated by faith, and that the two together realized in the life-in our acts and words, constitute the salvation and perfection of man. Other classes, both of boys and girls, were examined in the catechism, not, however, as a matter of rote, but as an intellectual and religious exercise, in which they were led Scripturally and rationally to see the great truths of salvation. The The singing, which has for some time been especiaily cultivated in the school, and which now assumes a scientific and artistic form, was extremely pleasing. The children sing occasionally in parts, which adds much life and variety to the harmony. We are certain, that in the improved state of education now coming on, singing will be much cultivated, as a means of social as well as of religious harmony. Germans have long since introduced singing into their schools, as a means of intellectual and moral development, and the salutary effects have been experienced and recognized. The examination afforded great satisfaction to all; and all who desire to see education conducted on New Church principles, which we know is the great field of labour,-the great vineyard of the rising church, into which our exertions are especially invited, will feel it as an urgent duty to direct their energies and their aid into this vineyard of education, and assist these useful institutions. We therefore strongly appeal to all our friends to come, and, by their pecuniary assistance, to prevent these schools from falling into a languishing state. Their assistance, at the present period, is much required. SWEDENBORG, STILL FARTHER DISCO- An examination of these schools, especially in religious knowledge, and singing, took place May 19th, when a number of friends,-not so many as could be wished,-assembled to witness the efficiency of the mode in which the children are instructed. The examination, conducted by Messrs. Moss and Kennerly, consisted in intellectual exercises on important subjects of doctrine, such as Goodness and Truth, the Will and Understanding, Charity and Faith, and their mutual relations to each other. The children were led to see clearly that Truth has no life, no elevation in the mind, no (From the Daily Tribune, New York paper.) consociation with heaven, and no conjunction with the Lord in man, unless united with Goodness; that Truth comes by an external way from the Lord through his Word, and that Goodness comes by an internal way from Him through the operation of His Holy Spirit; and that they are united, when evils are shunned as sins against Him. In this way, a man receives a new will and a new understanding, and becomes regenerate. The manner in which the children were led to see these great truths of practical Christianity, "In the number of Silliman's Journal for January, 1847, pp. 108-9, under the heading of "Researches on the Blood," we have an account of some interesting experiments performed by the distinguished French philosopher, M. Dumas, and by which the vitality of the blood globules is demonstrated. After some account of his experiments and their results, the Report says:- In attempting to overcome this difficulty, M. Dumas discovered the remarkable property of the blood globules, that as long as they were in contact with the air or aërated water,-in short, as long as they were in the arterial condition-the saline solution containing them passed colourless through the filter, and left them upon it; on the contrary, as soon as the globules have assumed the violet tint of venous blood, the liquid passes coloured.' Toward the close of the report, the following conclusion is drawn from the experiments of Dumas, and considered fully demonstrated by them:-Thus the globules of the blood seem to possess vitality, as they can resist the solvent action of sulphate of soda as long as their life continues, but yield to this action readily when they have fallen into asphyxia from privation of air.' "Now, it is to be observed, that the doctrine respecting the vitality of the blood, which Dumas has now demonstrated experimentally, has not been the generally received one among men of science, though some have regarded it as a highly probable theory. But in one of Swedenborg's Philosophical Tracts, which has recently been published, and the translation of which has just reached this country, we find a short treatise on "The Red Blood,' in which the author distinctly asserts that the blood is a living substance. The following is the heading of one chapter on this subject : "The globule of the red blood contains within it the purer blood and the animal spirit, and the latter the purest essence of the body, that is to say, the Soul; whereby the red blood is a spirituous and animated humour.'-And the heading of another chapter is, 'There is a common and obscure life in the red blood.' "The same distinguished chemist (M. Dumas), in a course of lectures delivered a few years ago in the College of France, and since published under the title of 'Chemical Philosophy,' distinctly ascribes to Swedenborg the origin of the modern science of Crystallography. He says,'It is then to him (Swedenborg) we are indebted for the first idea of making cubes, tetrædes, pyramids, and the different crystalline forms, by grouping the spheres; and it is an idea which has since been renewed by several distinguished men, Wollaston in particular.'" B. MARRIED LIFE. Deceive not one another in small things, nor in great. One little single lie has before now disturbed a whole married life. A small cause has often great consequences. Fold not the arms together and sit idle: "Laziness is the devil's cushion." Do not run much from home. One's own health is of more worth than gold. Many a marriage begins like the rosy morning, and then falls away like a snowwreath. And why? Because the married fair neglect to be as well-pleasing to each other after marriage as before. Endeavour always to please one another; but at the same time keep God in your thoughts. Lavish not all your love on to-day, for remember that marriage has its to-morrow likewise, and its day after to-morrow too! "Spare, as one may say, fuel for the winter." Consider, my daughters, what the word wife expresses. The married woman is the husband's domestic faith; to her hand he must be able to confide house and family; be able to entrust her with the key of his heart, as well as the key of his house. His honour and his home are under her keeping; his well-being is in her hand. Think of this! And you, sons, be faithful husbands, and good fathers of families. Act so that your wives shall esteem and love you.Frederica Bremer. EMIGRATION AS A MEANS OF ADVANCING THE CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES. A pamphlet on this subject, by James Macara, Esq., at Edinburgh, has lately appeared. The condition of the working classes should be a subject of deep interest to all; since from them the substantial uses of life chiefly emanate. Our food, clothing, habitation, and all the bodily comforts we enjoy, are the results of their labour. Society will morally and intellectually advance in proportion as a deep interest is felt in the well-being of all these classes, and the health, comfort, and happiness of the race will be promoted. The mental uses performed by what are called the higher and more educated classes, such as the uses resulting from the professions of theology, law, medicine, and education,— for education is now becoming, as it ought to be, a dignified profession,- all these uses will be far better appreciated by the working classes, and be far more effective in their application, if the so-called higher classes take an interest in the physical comfort and well-being of the lower. We have been led to these remarks by the pamphlet mentioned above. The author recommends emigration, especially to America, both to Canada and to the United States, as a door opened by Provi dence for the amelioration of the physical resources and comforts of the working and industrious classes. That emigration is the most natural means of relieving population of its surplus is evident. The laws of nature, which are also the laws of Providence, point this out very clearly, especially in the case of the migratory orders of animals, as the bee, the ant, the beaver, &c., which from year to year migrate and form new colonies. If we take a survey of the earth's surface, and see the immense space abundant in all kinds of resources for the support and comfort of the human race, we must come to the conclusion, that the habitable globe, compared with its really cultivated and inhabited parts, is nothing but a vast wilderness, inviting the children of men to come and settle on its bosom, and promising to yield to the hands of industry every support and comfort that mankind can enjoy upon earth. The valley of the Mississippi alone, it is said, can support a population as numerous as the entire census of Europe, and yet this magnificent valley is as yet comparatively but a wilderness. When we hear of the Dorchester labourers earning on an average only seven shillings a week, and of many of our weavers a still less sum, we could wish, from a real love to our race, to see them transplanted into that valley, or settled on the plains of Canada, or domiciled in the ever verdant fields of Zealand, where they could enjoy the fruits of their own industry, sitting under their own vine and their own fig tree, and no pauperism making them afraid, or debasing them and their children into the dust. Without a proper amount of bodily subsistence, comfort, and independence, there is no plane for the cultivation of intellectual life and of moral and spiritual good. Now, Mr. Macara's pamphlet is intended to supply, from the purest philanthropic motives, and from the most authentic sources, a variety of information extremely useful to emigrants, and as such we recommend it to all whom it may concern; it may be had for a trifle of any of our New Church booksellers. AMERICA. The New Church in America has had lately to sustain attacks from Dr. Woods, of Andover, and Dr. Pond, Professor in the Theological Seminary, Bangor. Of the respective characters of these two works, the Rev. B. F. Barrett (in a forcible and long letter to the editor of the New York Tribune, of more than two columns of small print,) enables his readers to form an idea, by remarking, "We had occasion to notice another work lately published against Swedenborgianism, from the pen of another D.D. (Dr. Woods, of Andover,)—a much more commendable work, however, in point of dignity, fairness, and Christian spirit, than this of Dr Pond." Dr. Pond is a writer of the Pike school, and Mr. Barrett exposes some lamentable instances of his wilful misrepresentation, in a very happy strain. This learned doctor professes to have given all the writings of Swedenborg, and sundry works of New Church writers, forming together a list of 170 works (which he recites), "an attentive perusal," and "with the deepest attention of which he is capable." As evidences of the accuracy of this statǝment, Mr. Barrett points out the same work mentioned twice in the list (because the title of two editions differed a little) as two distinct works (the Intercourse between the Soul and Body), and he justly exclaims, "What an attentive perusal he must have given this work, not to know the second time he read it, that he had read it before under a little different title." Mr. B. also mentions that he had ascertained that the Doctor had despatched-or, as he says, "attentively read," nine volumes of the Arcana, about 4,500 pages, in a single week! The Doctor's falsification of passages is most disgusting; but this is generally the treatment the New Church has to undergo. Dr. Pond considered well whether Swedenborg was an impostor or a maniac, and he rejects the former idea, and adopts the latter; for he is determined that, as a matter of course, Swedenborg shall be either the one or the other. this selection Mr. Barrett pointedly remarks as follows:-"Here, then, we find a learned Doctor of Divinity, occupying the principal chair of Theology in one of our Theological seminaries of some note, gravely setting himself at work to write and publish a book of about 300 pages— and for what? Why, to overthrow the System of Theology propounded by a man bereft of his senses!! Whoever heard the like before, of a learned theologian, occupying the high and distinguished position which Dr. Pond holds, seriously undertaking to confute the babblings of a Bedlamite, and thereby prevent multitudes of sober minds from receiving them as the utterances of wisdom. Really, if crazy men can discourse so much wisdom as to require of wise and sober ones such days and months of toil to prove their wisdom folly, we shall begin to think there is little to choose between wisdom and folly, sobriety and madness.” On but without just grounds, that it is interesting only to those who educate their children at home. OPENING OF THE NEW JERUSALEM PLACE OF WORSHIP AT FAILSWORTH.On Sunday, April 25, 1847, this neat and commodious place of worship was opened by the Rev. J. Bayley, of Accrington, who delivered two discourses explanatory of the doctrines of the church, which were listened to by highly intelligent and respectable audiences; the day was extremely favourable for the occasion, and the handsome sum of £18. 16s. 4d. was collected. The total cost of building and furnishing amounts to £234. Money received, amounts to £121., including the collection, which leaves a debt of £113. Marriages. Married, at the New Jerusalem Church, Winchester, April 13th, 1847, by the Rev. T. Chalklen, Mr. Samuel Rhodes, to Miss Olive Taylor, both of the Isle of Wight. On the 26th of April, at the New Jerusalem Church, Birmingham, by the Rev. E. Madeley, Thomas, eldest son of Mr. T. P. Bragg, of Spring Hill, to Catherine, second daughter of Mr. F. Johnstone, of Handsworth. salem Church, Peter street, Manchester, by the Rev. J. H. Smithson, Mr. Thomas Parkinson, son of Mr. Parkinson, of Preston, to Miss Frances Broadfield, daughter of Mr. Broadfield, of Manchester. Married, on Sunday, the 16th of May, at the New Jerusalem Church, Crossstreet, Hatton Garden, London, by the Rev. Samuel Noble, Mr. Samuel Parsons, to Sophia, eldest daughter of Mr. J. S. Married, May 12th, at the New Jeru- Hodson, London. Obituary. Died, at Derby, on the 26th April, 1847, aged 70, Mr. Robert Davidson. He was a native of Paisley, and in his younger days attended the Scottish Kirk. Subsequently he was for twelve years in connexion with the Wesleyans. When residing at Derby, he attended the first meetings held by the late Rev. Edward Madeley, senior, in a room in Full-street, where, becoming convinced of the truth of the doctrines of the New Church, he became a member of the church, and continued so till his disease, namely, for twenty-seven years. He was an exemplary Christian; a regular attendant on worship and at church meetings; a good husband and judicious father, training up his children by his example, and the use of family worship, in the paths of righteousness. He was frequently visited in his illness by the minister and deacons of the society, who uniformly found him full of confidence in the Lord Jesus Christ, according to those heavenly doctrines by which he had become known to him as "God over all, blessed for evermore. He found great delight in spiritual conversation and prayer, and seemed not unacquainted with those interior Cave and Sever, Printers, 18, St. Ann's-street, Manchester. WHAT a gracious provision is the institution of a day of rest from bodily labour ! Such must be the conviction of the majority of the world at the close of a week's toil, but, unhappily, it is not always the close of that which wears the bodily frame and spirits more than labour,- -a week's anxiety! To furnish an antidote to this anxious and excessive care for the morrow, which is the special torment of all who are not Christians indeed, the Sunday must not only be a day of earthly rest, but a day of heavenly rest, a day of rest from mental anxiety and inquietude, as well as from bodily labour. It is in vain to seek a refuge from worldly care, by making Sunday not merely a day of earthly rest, but a day of earthly pleasure. Sorrow of heart may by this means be banished from the consciousness for a short time, but it is only to return again with increased inability to bear up against it. But let Sunday be made, what it was intended to be made, a day for invigorating the spiritual and moral affections, and awakening the highest powers of the soul; a day to enjoy some foretaste of heavenly peace and joy, and then, when Monday returns and brings with it the cares and the woes of life, they will be met with renewed patience, fortitude, and serenity, grounded in a well-established, because rational conviction of the reality and universality of the superintending Providence of the Most High, and a well-founded confidence in the goodness and mercy of all its dispensations. Now, Reader, you have first to choose whether you will regard and spend Sunday as a day of earthly rest, or heavenly rest; whether you will spend it as a man born to die like the beasts which perish, or a man born to live for ever as an angel of light in heaven; whether you will spend it after the manner of a brute animal, content with the pleasures N. S. NO. 91.-VOL. VIII. T |