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his angelic associates are rejoicing. He has gone to the abode of the blessed, to a mansion prepared for him by our Lord God and Saviour, in His kingdom above. Yet, still, your beloved consort is near to all whom he loved upon earth. His loving affections are not destroyed, but purified. And we believe that your Majesty's devoted husband is still a medium of blessedness to your Majesty and your Royal children. 'He is not here, for he is risen.' Divested of his earthly covering, his natural body, he is still very near to you in his glorified body, which will never die. Deign to accept, most gracious Sovereign, our humble but heartfelt condolences. And permit us to add our prayers that your Majesty and your august family may live for ever, blessing and to be blessed, world without end.

must beg you to excuse me for not assuming the regular duty of a correspondent. On my part the correspondence can only be occasional, as it has been with our American brethren, through the New Jerusalem Messenger. I should otherwise fail in a primary duty towards my collaborateur, M. Le Boys des Guays, and the work we have undertaken, which requires the whole of our combined efforts, in order that we may even hope, with the Lord's merciful assistance, to bring it to a conclusion.

Our present undertaking is that to which M. Le Boys de Guays alludes in the preface to his general Index, and for which that book was a necessary instrument, namely, the coördination of Swedenborg's own Latin translation of the Divine Word, with references to the paragraphs in his works, his principal

"Signed on behalf of the council of variations being noted under each verse; the New Church College, by

"DAVID G. GOYDER, M.D.,

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"25th January, 1862. "Sir, I am directed by Secretary Sir George Grey, to acknowledge the receipt of the loyal and dutiful Address of the members of the council of the New Church College, Devonshire-street, Islington, on the occasion of the death of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, and to inform you that Sir George Grey will take an early opportunity of laying the Address before Her Majesty. "I am, Sir,

Your obebient servant, (Signed,) "J. HINE. "The Chairman of the Council of the New Church College, Devonshire-street, Islington.”

FOREIGN. FRANCE. BIARRITZ (Basses Pyrénées). To the Editor.

Dear Sir, I appreciate the kindness of your design to open, in the pages of the Intellectual Repository, a communication from the New Church in France with our brethren in England; but I

the text completed within brackets, on the basis of the Schmidian translation; and extracts given, in parallel columns, from the works on the spiritual sense. Between the verses in each column are notes within brackets, consisting principally of remarks on words in the original; indirect extracts on the spiritual sense; and in case of variations in the text, testimonies from the ancient versions.

The printing of the book of Isaiah is nearly completed, and M. Le Boys des Guays has made arrangements for publishing the volume, which will consist of about 350 pages. Compared with the highly estimable work of our brother the Rev. Mr. Smithson, it will be found to be less extensive in extracts from the writings, but to afford in another way, by the numerous references of every kind, a further supply of information for the understanding of the text in the light of the New Dispensation.

Such critical elaboration in reference to our author, we consider as the first step to every translation of the Divine Word; and, therefore, M. Le Boys des Guays prepared a similar work, to aid us in a new French translation of the Four Evangelists, which, at the request of our brother M. De Chazal, we are printing, and have nearly completed, in a small essay edition, with the Scriptural references.

Other books, Jeremiah and the Psalms, have besides been prepared by M. Le Boys des Guays. I am far behind in my part of the task, which leads me into

researches requiring much time; so you see I dare not withdraw a part of the time I can dispose of to assume new duties; I must even humbly beg to be excused for my having greatly neglected many an esteemed correspondent. We will endeavour to find you another for the Intellectual Repository.

I procured this periodical of late years through a commissioner bookseller in Paris; but I will be pleased to receive it directly from you. Please address the future numbers here, where I intend to remain till I join, I hope, M. Le Boys des Guays in a visit to the proposed meetings in your city, on occasion of the International Exhibition.-Iremain, dear Sir, yours truly, AUG. HARLE'.

SWEDEN.

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The following letter, which has been handed to us by the Secretary of the Swedenborg Society, to whom it is addressed, will be found to contain some very interesting and cheering information relating to the exertions of the members of the Church in Swedenborg's native land, where, although no society for worship exists, a regular association has been formed, with the view of doing for Sweden what our Printing Society has done and is doing for England :Dear Mr. Warren,-As to the Swedenborg Association, at Christianstad, of which you desire to have some intelligence, I may mention that this society is the only one that now exists in Sweden for translating and printing the theological works of Swedenborg. And it was for this society that Madame Ehrenborg took the liberty of soliciting the generosity of the Rev. Mr. Clissold. But the society itself does not stand at all under her auspices; she is only a member of it. The society has its own rules, which I have the pleasure of enclosing. It has a Committee, a chairman, a secretary, a treasurer, and about 60 honorary and ordinary members; but the majority of them have no abundance of this world's wealth. I enclose a list of them. The secretary, Mr. Sevén, is a learned man, who is extremely well versed in the writings of Swendenborg, and in New Church literature in general. He translates the original works from Latin into Swedish, or revises the former translations. But hitherto, the society, for want of money, has only been able to publish translations of "Sapien

tio Angelica," "Apocalypsis Revelata," "Summaria Expositio," and the first chapters of the " Arcana Coelestia." What the members of the society, or other benevolent persons, may be pleased to contribute to the common stock, will be employed especially to continue the translation and publication of the "Arcana Coelestia ;" and for this purpose the society accept, with the most hearty gratitude, the generous offer of £50. from the Rev. Mr. Clissold. I hope the society, which has the confidence of many good people here in Sweden, will be adequate to the work it purposes to undertake; and for my part, I will do all that is in my power to support and sustain the laudable enterprise. I have already engaged to pay the expenses for the printing of "Summaria Expositio." Such are the circumstances of our Society at present. May the Lord bless the undertaking!

I have received a kind letter from the Rev. Mr. Bruce, who wishes to have something from my pen for the Repository. As I suppose you meet with him pretty frequently in the Swedenborg Society, I take the liberty of begging you to remember me to him, and to intimate that it will be a pleasure to me to send him in a short time an article, not from my own or from any other feeble pen, but from the hand of Swedenborg himself. It is an authentic letter from him, which concerns, among other matters, the danger of being in open communication with the spiritual world, so that I hope this letter will be all the more suitable for insertion in that periodical in these days. May I desire you to give my affectionate regard to the good Mrs. Warren.-I am, dear friend, yours truly, ACH. KAHL.

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Lund, Jan. 20th, 1862.

TRINIDAD.

A leading New Churchman in this island writes to a correspondent thus:— "Dr. Bayley's discourse was in the Sentinel,' and a Roman Catholic gentleman called at my office, and asked me if I had sent it for insertion." I said, "Yes," and wished to know his reason for putting the question to me. replied, "You will not get any one to answer it." I said, "Why?" "Because it cannot be answered, without a denial of those clear and lucid quotations that Jehovah Himself is the Redeemer and

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Saviour." This is a happy confession; but the following item of intelligence contrasts very painfully with it. The Roman Catholics tell their Archbishop (recently arrived) that their church has been without a bridegroom ever since the departure of Spaccapietra. What a miserable knowledge, or rather ignorance, of the true Bridegroom of the church! The Trinidad Colonist has the following, on the reception of Dr. English,-"Good reason had the church and her clergy to rejoice, after a widowhood of nearly three years' duration. The hour of rejoicing was at hand, and no marks of honour and respect must be wanting to testify to the world the joy and gratitude a faithful flock felt, on the arrival of their long looked-for and ardently desired pastor."

Obituary.

Removed from this stage of being, on the 22nd June, 1861, aged 65 years, Mr. John Wild, of Crab-lane, near Blackley. He was for a great number of years the chief support of the New Church society at Rhodes, faithfully performing the important duties of superintending and teaching in the Sunday-school, as well as occasionally fulfilling the office of leader of the society, in which capacity he frequently officiated in the pulpit. Usefulness seemed to be the maxim of his life, for he was never so delighted as when he was fully engaged in the discharge of his Sunday-school duties. The strong attachment which he manifested towards the scholars, and the kind, earnest manner in which he expounded the New Church doctrines to them, made him an object of their reverence and esteem.

In his family circle he evinced all the qualities of a loving and devoted husband, of a kind and affectionate father; and although he was the only receiver of the New Church doctrines in his household, yet he never infringed on their spiritual liberty, but allowed them to follow the bent of their own intellects, being assured of the correctness of that principle which teaches us to "Seize upon truth where'er 'tis found. Among our friends, among our foes,On Christian or on heathen ground; The flower's divine where'er it grows,Neglect the prickles, and assume the rose."

Difference in opinion did not create antagonistic fellings; harsh truth was subdued in the harmony, peace, and love with which he governed his family; and his mild countenance was always expressive of contentment and satisfaction. Our observance of his character assures us that he has gone to realms of the blessed. May his spirit of devotedness rest upon his successors!

The above society has also been deprived of the services of another useful member, by the removal to the eternal world of Mr. William Hall, of Rhodes, who departed this life on the 29th of August, 1861, aged 29 years. He has left a widow and three children, who greatly bemoan the loss of their chief support. When we see our friends thus snatched away from us in the prime of their life, in the vigour of their manhood, in the acme of their usefulness,— how apt we are to make unwise reflections respecting the ways of Providence, forgetting that "His ways are not our ways, nor His thoughts our thoughts;" for the way of the Lord is perfect, but the understanding of man is prone to in the path of heaven, and be their error. May His light guide the bereaved comfort and their staff through the journey of life!

Yet

"Dark are the ways of Providence,

Whilst those that love Him groan; His reasons lie concealed from sense, Mysterious and unknown.

Some smiling hour may be at hand,
With peace upon its wings;
Give it, O God, Thy swift command,
With all the joys it brings!"

S. P.

Departed this life, February 1st, of disease of the heart, Mrs. Harvey, wife of Mr. Thomas Harvey, senior, ship builder, Wivenhoe, Essex, in the 68th year of her age. She was interred in the New Cemetery, at Wivenhoe,-the New Church Burial Service being read over the remains. A very numerous assemblage of her relatives and friends were present. "Her end was peace."

CAVE and SEVER, Printers by Steam Power, Hunt's Bank, Manchester.

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SECTARIAN division, indifference in matters of religion, and unbelief growing at once in the number and subtlety of its advocates, must be regarded with sad presentiments by all who comprehend the true interests of humanity. For religion is the salt that preserves from decay the social mass, and if that have lost its savour, how shall the purity of society be maintained? Let it not be supposed that social soundness and health can be preserved by action on the surface and from without. External progress may, for a time, proceed cotemporaneously with internal decay, and the dazzling achievements of modern science and civilization may be but the jewelled drapery that conceals the sin and vice that are eating into the heart of society. And if circumstance cut the bonds that restrain the demon of evil, it only becomes too terribly evident that the world is not necessarily nearer to heaven because it rejoices in poets and politicians, philosophers and inventors.

Nor is it unworthy of remark, in connection with the phenomena already indicated, that advancement in religion is not commensurate with our progress in other directions. While science is carrying its investigations into new regions, disclosing new principles, and ascertaining new laws; while art is compelling the principles that science has evolved into active service; while intelligence is growing in activity and power, and in its restless spirit of progress thinking nothing achieved while aught remains to be done;-religion alone remains stagnant and [Enl Series.-No. 100, vol. ix.] 10

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immoveable. For centuries certain ecclesiastical councils have superseded the individual reason, have determined the creeds of Christendom, have fixed the ultimate limits of our spiritual progress for the whole course of time. The world has too credulously believed the "ne plus ultra" which the councils presumptuously uttered some centuries ago. By the dim and doubtful light of their creeds, the Oracles of God have been interpreted, and such interpretation alone admitted as would confirm the dogmatism of the churches. Thus the childhood of the Past is permitted to legislate, in matters spiritual, for the manhood of the Present; and this age, failing to draw its creeds from the Bible, has made the Bible the servant of the creeds. As in the Past, so in the Present, men have affirmed that the Bible exhausted its whole mission in the teachings of its literal sense, and, building a brazen wall of literal interpretation that bars our progress in the Good and True, have coverted religion into a stagnant anomaly in an age of universal activity and progress.

True it is that so long as men accepted with unquestioning simplicity the declarations of the letter of Scripture, and so long as true reverence found its appropriate expression in steady obedience, no evil results could follow from this confinement of the divine teachings to the literal expressions of the Word. They perceived no discrepancy, were startled by no contradiction, science had not assumed its unbending attitude before things divine, and the Scriptures were still regarded as infallible and worthy of God. But in this modern age the case stands altered. That searching and questioning intellect now so universally active, has not allowed even the Sacred Scriptures to pass without interrogation and scrutiny. After a long and severe struggle with the theologians, science has pursued its course regardless of the anti-Biblical character of its results. Philosophy has pursued its inquiries under the tacit assumption that the constitution of the human mind is not declared in the Word of God; and as the result of this slavish adherence to the letter, it has come to pass that the Book which contains a revelation of the Will and Wisdom of the Infinite is passed by with tacit or rejected with avowed contempt. Its claims to infallibility are disallowed, the divine fulness of its inspiration questioned, and no greater reverence is accorded to it than to other high efforts of human genius. And this is so because they who affirm most loudly its sacredness and divinity are unable to show in what its sanctity and divinity consist.

Are we to admit, then, that in the Sacred Scriptures no provision is made for the indefinite spiritual advancement of the race? Have we

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