RUSSELL & SONS, Photographers to the Queen, OF 199 BROMPTON ROAD, S.W., AND 29 UNION ROAD, TUFNELL PARK, N., DURING THE WEEK PHOTOGRAPHED THE MEMBERS IN TWO GROUPS. No. 1, containing Ministers, Leaders, and Representatives. No. 2, containing Ministers and Leaders. Price of each Group, Mounted with India tint, with title of Do. do. on thin Mounts, 8. d. , each 60 Smaller Photographs, on thin Mounts, without printed title, Extra charge for packing and postage, Id. for the large size; 6d. small size. Two or three can be sent for the same amount. Single Portraits of the following-Large Size, for framing, 7s. 6d. each; Cabinets, zs. each; Cartes, Is. each : Conducted by T. C. LOWE, B.A. Assisted by Highly Competent Masters, Resident and Visiting. Country Air, Commodious Premises, Beautiful Situation, Extensive Grounds, Cricket Field, etc. etc. PROSPECTUSES ON APPLICATION. EDUCATION FOR YOUNG LADIES. JESMOND LODGE, near Malton, York. - MRS. ABBOTT and her Daughters receive a limited number of Young Ladies to Board and Educate. The Course of Instruction comprises the usual subjects of a thorough and accomplished Education, grounded in the corresponding development of the moral and mental powers. The lessons in Music, Singing, Drawing, Painting, Dancing, and Calisthenics, are by eminent Masters. Experienced English and Foreign Governesses, highly qualified and thoroughly conversant with the principal Continental languages, reside in the House. The Session is divided into Three Terms: From 20th September to 20th December, 20th January to 20th April, 20th April to 20th July. Pupils prepared for the University Local Examinations, and the Royal Academy of Music. Price bd., by post 74d., MINUTES OF THE SEVENTY-SIXTH SESSION OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE, HELD AT CAMDEN ROAD, LONDON, AUGUST 1883. LONDON: JAMES SPEIRS, 36 BLOOMSBURY STREET. NEW CHURCH ORPHANAGE, Instituted in London, 1881. EXTRACT FROM THE RULES. HE design shall be to afford maintenance, clothing, and education (includ Ting instruction in the doctrines of the New Church) to children needing aid, and who have lost both parents, or their fathers only, and to provide them with situations where they may have the prospect of becoming useful in the world." Copies of the Rules and Regulations, and also of the Annual Report, may be had on application to the Secretary. Nine Orphans are now being supported by this Institution. New Church friends willing to undertake the adoption of orphan children are requested to communicate with the Secretary. Five guineas, the amount of the life subscription, and half-a-guinea, the minimum annual subscription which confers membership, may be paid to the Treasurer, Mr. E. H. Bayley, 82 Angell Road, Brixton, London. 15 Holland Villas Road, London, W. CLEMENT BRABY, MORRISON AND GIBB, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH. MAGAZINE Our Second Century No. 27, MARCH 1884. The Motion of the Brain as Discovered by Swedenborg: Its Necessity Letters on America. VIII. Denver to Chicago, Detroit, and Niagara New Church Preaching Rational Truths for the Men of To-day A New Church Library BOOK NOTICES. PAGE 105 109 116 124 131 135. 142 General Index to Swedenborg's Scripture Quotations. By Arthur Hodson The Tenth Commandment or Decalogue Explained as to its External and The Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem. By Emanuel Swedenborg. Journey in Palestine in the Spring of 1882. By John Worcester The Government of God, embracing Agnosticism, Evolution, and Christianity. By William Woods Smyth . Centenary of the New Church adelaide, South Australia . THE MONTH OBITUARY. Published for the General Conference of the New Church, PRICE SIXPENCE. Several Articles intended for publication are omitted, to give place to the Centenary Reports. Communications must be sent to the Editor the Rev. R. 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Ready shortly, about 400 pages, 8vo, cloth, THE SCIENCE OF CORRESPONDENCES ELUCIDATED. BY THE LATE REV. E, MADELEY. Subscribers' names, at 7s. per copy, received by E. MADELEY, The Hermitage, Boxley, Maidstone; and JAMES SPEIRS, 36 Bloomsbury Street, London. Price 6d., by post 7 d., MINUTES OF THE SEVENTY-SIXTH SESSION OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE, HELD AT CAMDEN ROAD, LONDON, AUGUST 1883. LONDON: JAMES SPEIRS, 36 BLOOMSBURY STREET. NEW CHURCH MAGAZINE. OUR SECOND CENTURY. THE history of our New Church Organization has closed its first century and entered upon its second. The future belongs. to the Lord, and we are not about to enter into any speculations as to the future of the New Church. The past is our inheritance, and with the advantage of its accumulated experiences we enter upon the duties of the present, and look forward in hope to the future. Two elements attend the progress of the Church. One, the good and truth, the life and light, coming in from her Divine Head; the other, the evil and error, the hostility and hate of the unregenerate nature of man. This latter element chequers her history and pains the minds of her most devoted members. It is overruled, however, by the providence of God, and made to contribute to purification and solid progress. But while we are about to enter into no speculations as to the future, it may be useful to consider our present position and opening duties. Numerous interesting and, doubtless, in many respects, most useful meetings have been held to commemorate the close of our first century. The speeches at these meetings have been chiefly expository. They have dwelt upon the inestimable privileges of the Church, and the incalculable value of the truths she possesses, and is commissioned to teach to the world. The progress of the past has been presented as a ground of hope for the future. The members assembled at these meetings have been brought into closer communion and sympathy, and made to feel a common interest in the reception and promulgation of the truth. Faith and VOL. III. NO. XXVII.-MARCH 1884. H |