Two resolutions accompanied this report. These as modified by the Convention were passed in the following form:

He had sold 300 books at the South the lievers in the heavenly doctrines have last season. The President of the Con- been organized in Sicily. Valuable vention then introduced Mr. Robertson, and interesting statistics from Switzerwho, he said, had been engaged in an land were received. The Rev. Mr. interesting work in the South. Mr. Schiweck has continued his zealous and Robertson said that when the Saviour self-sacrificing labours in East Prussia. was in the world, and was about to There is renewed activity in behalf of leave His disciples, He said, "Go into the Church in Germany. In France it all the world, and preach the Gospel to is believed that important religious every creature." The missionary spirit movements are about to transpire. A was the life of the Church. If any long letter was read from Mr. W. people need, or are ready to receive, we Winslow with regard to his work for must minister to them. He would tell the Church in Copenhagen. The proshis experience that he might thereby pect for useful work in the future seems encourage others, and Divine success encouraging, although the dissensions would follow. His health would not among New Church people in that city permit him to remain at the North. As still continue." he must work, he went where he could labour among the blacks. He found their late masters knew not how to get along with the freedmen, nor could the "Resolved, That the Board of Misblacks care for themselves. He induced sions be authorized in their discretion the whites to sell fields to the negroes. to appropriate the sum of 150 dollars By this means 1500 families were each, or such other sum as they taking care of themselves. There was a may think proper, to the support of field in which to start churches. Twelve Signor Loreto Scotia, of the Italian Mischurches had already been started. They sion, the Rev. A. T. Boyesen, of Stockwere self-supporting. His object was to holm, Sweden, and to the support of encourage this people to their manhood. New Church worship in Copenhagen. The Sunday school was not so success- Resolved, That the destitute wife and ful; they could not get teachers. He children of the late Rev. Mr. Peisker, had tried to start a day school and had. of Vienna, are deserving objects of our succeeded. He had 265 pupils. If sympathy and immediate aid, and that New Church people wished to succeed, all who are disposed to contribute to let them go into this district to teach. their relief are requested to do so through "You have higher truths," said Mr. the hands of the Rev. L. H. Tafel.” Robertson, "and higher duties. 'Freely The work of preparing young men for ye have received, freely give.' You can- the ministry is chiefly conducted at not devote these truths to self. As you the Theological School, which was give so will you receive. It had been some years since instituted at Waltham. the great mission of the Lord to go into The report of the Managers of the such a field. These people will welcome School stated that “it is believed that any one who will come and explain the the school was never in a more prosper. New Church to them. Coloured people ous and useful condition than now. are a good foundation for this work. Yet much needs to be done, and the They have none of the intellectual diffi- work is most urgently presented to the culties that the whites encounter. The negroes would not have a high understanding of it, but they would do well as they understood."

The report of the Committee on Foreign Correspondence presented in telligence of the state of the Church in various parts of Europe at great length. "In Vienna, Austria, the brethren have suffered much persecution, and its recent pastor, the Rev. Mr. Peisker, has been removed to the spiritual world. In Italy six works of Swedenborg have now been published, and sixteen be

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support and attention of the Church." Questions are raised in the report as to the endowment of the school, the extension of its course of instruction, and the more perfect organization of its several departments. In moving resolu tions on these subjects, Rev. Mr. Reed said, "In order that missionary work should be done effectively we must prepare our men for the work. Selfappointed missionaries were not always the most desirable. Those ministers who have been properly prepared feel a selfsustaining force behind them whether

tributed 2000 copies of "Heaven and Hell" and 1000 copies of the “Life of Swedenborg," or a sum-total of 17,000 copies of "Heaven and Hell" and 4000 copies of the "Life of Swedenborg." In all, 53,000 volumes.

they act as pastors or missionaries. No "Apocalypse Revealed" have been sent one cognizant of the signs of the times out last year, making a total of 19,000 could fail to see the wonderful awakening copies of the former and 13,000 copies of religious inquiry. It was not confined of the latter since the work was comto any section. It was a universal menced. The Tract Society has disreaching forward to see, hear, inquire, and learn of spiritual things. This was a new era of the Church. To meet it, it was the duty of the Church to procure good, reliable, well-instructed ministers. The school has thus far done its work in a quiet, modest way, and yet very The Convention combines with the effectively, under the circumstances. transaction of its business a much larger Sixteen or seventeen of those in the amount of religious discussion than active ministry had received instruction from the school. One use that it served was not only to prepare men for the ministry, but also to withhold those not fitted for the work. Nothing was more common than for young receivers of our doctrines to feel called,' but the training shows their deficiencies. Cases of this kind had arisen. To prevent their beginning to preach prevents much harm. The Church had suffered from missionaries of this kind."

In relation to this subject the Convention passed the following resolution: "That the Convention recommends that the sum of 50,000 dollars be raised, to be invested as a permanent fund, for the benefit of the Theological School, by subscriptions, payable either immediately or in five annual instalments, no subscription be binding till the sum of 25,000 dollars be subscribed."

The German New Church Union of Philadelphia reported that "it has devoted itself primarily to the importation and publication of German New Church books for the use of the German New Church in America, the total sale of books last year amounting to 993 dollars. A new Liturgy has been published which meets with favour, 828 copies being disposed of in six months. The Union has also contributed eightyfour dollars to paying the travelling expenses of German missionaries. This part of the work of the Union is now under the charge of the Rev. F. W. Türk.

The Iungerich Trustees reported that in entering on the eighth year of their work, there seems to be no falling off in the demand for the writings of Swedenborg, and it does not appear likely that this work will soon cease. 1000 copies of the "True Christian Religion and 2000 copies of the

enters into the proceedings of our General Conference. The afternoon of the second day's proceedings was devoted to a discussion on "The New Age," when instructive and interesting addresses were given by several of the ministers. The Sunday's services were also of a more varied kind than is usual in England. In the morning a sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Seward, in the afternoon the sacrament of the Holy Supper was administered by the President assisted by five other ministers, and in the evening a Conference was held on the subject, "In Remembrance of Him." At this Conference four addresses were given on distinct branches of the general subject, such as the remembrance of the Lord in "His example in teaching," "in doing good," “in meeting evil,” and “in regard to death." The entire report shows that the Church in America is making steady progress, and performing a great work in diffusing a knowledge of the truth.

GENERAL CONFERENCE.

The seventy-third annual meeting of the General Conference is appointed to be held in the New Jerusalem Church, Bedford Street North, Liverpool, and to commence on Monday, the 9th instant, at seven o'clock in the evening.

The attention of the Conference will be called to the following business: The Society at Paisley applies for the ordination of Mr. Allbutt. The New Church Sunday-School Union applies for a grant from the Education Fund towards the expenses of carrying out the Local Scripture Examination Scheme instituted in 1879. The Governors of the New Church College apply for the usual grant towards the maintenance of that Institution and also for the appoint

ment of a committee to investigate the so far as was at present known, but it differences which have arisen between was thought this amount would be inthe College Council and the Committee creased; in the previous year £96, 14s. of the Students' and Ministers' Aid 64d. was received from the sale of books. Fund, and to recommend such measures During the year the colporteur had as may prevent difficulties in future. rendered assistance to the Societies at The representatives of the Society at Baildon, Barnsley, Barnoldswick, BatManchester will call the attention of ley, Embsay, Saltaire, Keighley, etc. the Conference to the action of the The report of the treasurer (Mr. Dyson) "Academy of the New Church" in showed that the year's contributions granting degrees, and will move a amounted to £102, 12s. 7 d., against resolution thereon. The representatives £105, 1s. 8d. last year; and the sale of of the Society at Birmingham will pro- books £90, 16s. 3d., against £96, 14s. pose, That a committee be appointed 6d.; a balance of £15, 10s. 2d. was to revise the Creed, with a view to left after the year's expenses had printing the same on some conspicuous been paid. The report and statepage in the Liturgy; and that the form of Creed submitted by the Committee of the Birmingham Society be referred to such Committee.

E. WHITEHEAD, Secretary.

YORKSHIRE NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH
MISSIONARY AND COLPORTAGE AS-

SOCIATION.

ment of accounts were adopted on the motion of Mr. Hanson (Bradford).— On the motion of Mr. Mason (Embsay) a committee was appointed for the year.-Dr. Goyder of Bradford, in moving the next resolution, "That this meeting believing that the reception of the doctrines of the New Dispensation will confer inestimable blessings, social, political, and spiritual, on the community, pledges itself to strive earnestly for the spread of a knowledge of them throughout the country," said that one of the glorious privileges of the New Church was expressed in the words Nunc licet, which implied that now it was allowable to enter into the mysteries of faith. True freedom had been born with the New Church and with the Second Advent of the Lord. The speaker urged on his hearers the work of providing the writings of the Church for the properly prepared minds around them through the instrumentality of such an Association as this.

CENTENARY OF SUNDAY SCHOOLS.

On Tuesday evening, July 20, the twentieth annual meeting of this Association was held in the New Jerusalem Church, Embsay. The meeting on Tuesday was preceded by a public tea, at which about eighty persons sat down. Afterwards Mr. G. Aspinall of Bradford presided at a public meeting. Friends were present from Leeds, Bradford, and Keighley. After singing and prayer, the chairman said that in opening that twentieth annual meeting of their Society, he did it with feelings of gratitude, from the fact that their labours in the past had not been in vain, but that they continued to prosper. In reviewing their past work, it was true they could not boast of very great things, nor would they even if they were able; One of the most marked features of but they could say with joy that their the New Age on which the Church has labours had been richly rewarded. They entered is the general attention given had planted and watered the seed of to the instruction of the young. A Divine truth, and they were certain century ago the masses of the people that in His own time it would bring were steeped in ignorance and vice, and forth still more abundant fruit. After the children of the poor utterly neglected. referring to the necessity that was Now the attention of all Christian now felt for another colporteur in communities is directed to the training addition to Mr. Stephenson, on ac- of the young. Noble buildings are count of the Association's extended erected in which the education of the operations, the speaker called upon the secretary to read the annual report. This showed that during the past year New Church literature had been sold to the value of £90, 16s. 3d.

rising generation can be conducted, and
tens of thousands of devoted men and
women voluntarily and cheerfully give
their time and devote their best energies
to this important work.
The work of

suppose that our thoughts may have arbitrarily occurred to us according to some laws of association, and uncontrolled by the great Power that guides the universe? Do you not believe that, when God has some great work to do, He as distinctly now as in the days of old puts it into the heart of some faithful servant to endeavour to carry on the work which his conscience suggests to him, he ought to undertake, as He told Robert Raikes to try?"

In some of the provincial celebrations the schools of the New Church were invited to join with the schools of other Nonconformist bodies, and form part of the general celebration. This was the case at Derby, Kearsley, and Heywood. At Kearsley the New Church Sunday school headed the procession, the place being determined by lot. At Heywood the schools took their places according to age, the place of the New Church being second, only one school, that of the The celebration in London was Wesleyan Methodists, having been longer attended by over 300 foreign delegates established. The procession, which conand visitors. A meeting was specially sisted of ten schools, numbered 5000 appointed for the reception of these teachers and scholars, each of the schools visitors, and several conferences on being preceded by a band of music. Sunday-school work at home and When all were assembled in an open abroad were also held. At these confer- ground, the several bands united and, ences carefully prepared papers were in addition to the singing of the children, read, and discussions took place which disclosed the state of Sunday-school education in many parts of the world. In these discussions many practical suggestions were offered, and it is probable that these consultations will give an increased impetus to the work of the Sunday school.

gave some choice pieces of music. At this town the schoolroom of the New Church was selected as one of two schoolrooms in which the public meetings of the celebration was held. These meetings consisted of services of song, a conference of teachers, and other meetings of instruction and entertainment. The celebrations of London were At the conference of teachers the extended to the provinces, and in some committee, consisting of members of the parts of the kingdom were carried out several Sunday schools, elected the on a large scale. "One of the most minister of the New Church to preside noteworthy of these gatherings took over the assembly. An ably written place at Cardiff, when about 12,000 paper on Sunday-school work was read children and teachers marched through by the Rev. W. O. Lilley, of the the town in procession. The streets Wesleyan Free Church, many of the were gay with streamers stretched across teachers present afterwards joining in from house to house, and with banners the discussion which followed. The projecting from the fronts of the principal closing meeting of the series was held in places of business. For rather more the New Church schoolroom in Horuby than an hour some of the thoroughfares Street. In seconding a resolution at of Cardiff were practically given up to the close of the proceedings, the Rev. R. the demonstration. All wore medals Storry referred to the harmony and commemorative of the Sunday-school mutual good feeling which had been centenary, and good order prevailed shown by all parties during these throughout. A very wise provision was centenary services, and which he bethat of brakes and waggons for the con- lieved would be the means of bringing veyance of the younger children. These, about greater unity among Christians thirty-nine in number, brought up the of all denominations. There were no rear of the procession. On arriving at sects among children. A well-filled bag the Cardiff Arms Park several hymns of marbles or other attractive playwere sung by the children, concluding things would unite in their amusements with 'God bless our Sunday Schools,' to the children of all parties. We needed the tune of the National Anthem. There as Christian people to get rid of the were subsequent meetings at the chapels, feelings which tended to produce and the engagements were continued on divisions, and to cultivate a childlike the two following days. On Friday sympathy with each other in the work of there was a breakfast at the Town Hall, promoting the moral and social elevation at which nearly 400 influential residents of the people. Another point which was were present.' pressing itself on the attention of the