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London on the 29th September, and preached on Sunday morning, Oct. 3rd, at Cross-street Church, Hatton Garden, to a goodly congregation of about 150 persons, and in the evening at Argylesquare Church, to a full house. It is several years since I preached in London, and the great pleasure I enjoyed in mingling with my friends there can be much better felt than described. I dined with the Rev. S. Noble, at his residence in Kentish Town, and spent a few hours with him most pleasantly, but was much grieved to witness the bodily affliction of our much-esteemed and tried friend. May the Lord in his mercy bless the remainder of his days here. From London I went to attend the anniversary of the opening of our church at Tiverton, near Bath, where I preached twice on Sunday, October 10th, and in the afternoon I baptized five adults and four infants. On Monday, Oct. 11th, was the anniversary meeting, when 85 attended at tea, and about 130 afterwards. After I had finished my opening address, on the present state and future prospects of our cause in that place, the meeting was addressed by the Rev. J. W. Barnes, Messrs. Pitman, Beale, and Bush. Several pieces were sung in the course of the evening. Much harmony and heavenly feeling prevailed, and our church here seems to be on the increase. While in this locality, I visited several of our friends in Bath.

On Friday, October 15th, I went to Bristol, where on Sunday, the 17th, I preached twice to most attentive congregations; and all that is to be regretted here is the small and very contracted place of worship in which our people meet. On Monday, the 18th, was the anniversary, when forty-five attended at tea.

This number, with a few others, quite filled the place. We had a most intellectual meeting, when, in addition to my opening address, the company was gratified by the addresses of the Rev. J. W. Barnes, Messrs. Bragge, Dimmock, Beedle, and others. The society here is on the increase, and nothing is wanted but a more commodious place. On Tuesday evening, Oct. the 19th (the very day that the Millerites had fixed for the burning of the world), I gave a lecture explanatory of our doctrines, after which there was a general conversation on the subjects. Some strangers were present, and several questions put and answered,

which threw a lively animating spirit into the meeting. Upon the whole, this was a most delightful time, and I am sure that nothing but good to our heavenly cause can be the result. During my absence from home, the Chalford society was visited by the Rev. D. T. Dyke, Messrs. Dimmock, Larkin, and Keene, by whose discourses the little flock in the vale was nourished and refreshed.-Yours truly, THOMAS GOYDER.

Chalford, Oct. 29.

REPORT OF THE NEW CHURCH SOCIETY
AT ST. HELIER, JERSEY.

The annual social meeting of this society was held on Wednesday, 8th Sept., 1847, at the Temperance Coffee House, Conway-street, when forty members and friends of the church took tea together. The evening was devoted to mutual edification. The 14th chapter of the Gospel according to John having been read, the doctrines of the Divine Trinity-the Glorification of the Lord-Redemption-Regeneration and Salvation, as deducible therefrom, formed the substance of the speeches addressed to the meeting. All appeared interested with the exposition of the Holy Word on these important subjects, and to render the meeting still more agreeable, hymns and anthems were sung at intervals. The 18th chapter of the Prophet Jeremiah was chosen for the consideration at the next anniversary, and the meeting reluctantly separated at ten o'clock. On the 17th of October, 1847, the above-named society held its annual general church meeting in their place of worship, and from the report then read by the Secretary, it appears that the society is gradually increasing in numbers, several worthy natives of Jersey having recently received the doctrines, and now regularly attend divine worship. This circumstance affords joy of heart to those who love Jerusalem, inasmuch as to all human appearance the future stability and increase, and consequently the usefulness of this society, will be effected in proportion as the doctrines are received by those who are fixed inhabitants of the island. On this occasion it was decided upon to resume the public weekly meetings during the winter season; and Mr. A. J. Le Cras kindly offered to give publicity to them, by inserting gratuitously the subject of each meeting in his valuable and widelycirculated journal, the Guernsey and Jersey

News. May this effort be blessed with success to the glory of our Saviour God!

THE CONVERSION OF THE JEWS.

To the Editor of the Intellectual Repository. SIR, A lady having solicited me to contribute to the funds of the Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, I took time to consider the matter, and wrote to her as follows:

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MADAM, I return you, with many thanks, the 35th report of the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, and am sorry that domestic affliction and severe indisposition have caused me to keep it so long.

"I have read the bishop's sermon * with much pleasure, and admire it, but I am not convinced by it. I think that there is much more need of a society for promoting righteousness among Christians, than for promoting Christianity among the Jews, and am really so little interested in their conversion from their ancient faith to the faith now prevalent in Christendom, that I would not give one penny to accomplish it. I am satisfied that Christians, as a body, are not so good a people as the North American Indians * Charles James, London, on Rom. xi. 1.

were before Christians robbed them of their land and poisoned them with their vices; nor are they so good as the Mexicans and Peruvians of the times of Pizarro and Cortez, before Christians murdered them by thousands, pillaged them without shadow of mercy, and planted, by most atrocious conquest, a horrid and corrupt civilization among the descendants of a purer and simpler race; nor are they so good as the Negroes were before Christians bought and sold them as slaves, and slaughtered tens of thousands after tens of thousands by the filthy suffocation of the middle passage.

"I am satisfied that there are abominations as foul and vices as rank and universal among Christians as are any where to be found on the face of the earth, and as all this is plainly traceable to the fact that our preachers teach a faith in Christ which is not based upon the keeping of his commandments, and as this faith is what is meant by Christianity now-a-days, you will not wonder, perhaps, that I feel as I do about the conversion of the Jews.

"Allow me to repeat my thanks for your kind loan of the " Report," and to subscribe myself, madam,

Obituary.

Died, January 31st, 1841, at Berbice, British Guiano, aged 70 years, Miss Martha Piggott, a native of Barbadoes, who received the doctrines of the New Church from Mr. Abraham Blatchley, about the year 1801, while in a state of deep mental affliction, occasioned by the loss of several of her relatives, to whom she was warmly attached. She was a

"Your faithful servant,

"H."

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INDEX.

ESSAYS, &c. &c.

Adam and Eve, Correspondence of, 209 Adult Baptism, the respective uses of, 361 Brethren, Unity of the, 1

Behmen, Jacob, and Mr. Hindmarsh, 328 Behmen, Jacob, 385

Canaan and Egypt, the Lands of, 419

Christmas Day, the Lord manifested, 13 Colours, on the Hyacinth, &c., 30 Corruption of the Jews, 67

Common Perception in Human Minds that Man rises immediately after Death, &c., 139

Christian World, Causes in the, why Men
have not believed in the Resurrec-
tion, &c., 142

Charity, Life of, in Man, 143

Mind, 52

Music, as applied to the Science of Cor-
respondence, 18, 106, 143, 299
Moabite in the Church, 202

Culture, Materials for Moral, 57, 134, Moral and Religious Training of Children,

211, 295, 407

Christian Martyrdom, 166

Children, Training of, 218, 257, 340
Church, the Moabite in, 201

Church Music, 173

Chamber of Imagery, 401
Darkness, Light in the, 302
Divine Faithfulness, 256

Educational Discrimination, &c., 41
Elasticity of Opinion the, under the Sof-
tening Influence of the Love of Good-
ness, 449

Emerson R. W., Esq., Great Claims of
Swedenborg upon the attention of the
Public, advocated by, 455
Extempore Prayer, Misapplication of, 87
Extension of the New Church, Suggestions
for, 102

Extracts from Swedenborg's Diary, 109,
142, 143, 225, 226, 262, 336, 423,
424

Fall of Adam and Eve, 209

Fall of Man, 127

Fasting, the Day of, 161

Fasting, the Spiritual Meaning of, 224
Freedom, Human, 93
Friend, Letters to, 286
Fortitude, 331

Faculties of the Mind, 372

How Man is Saved, or Spiritual Life Ac-
quired, 10

Human Freedom, 93

Hints, Friendly, to Choirs, 22
Heart and the Head, the, 415
Human Minds, the Common Perception
in, 139

Inconsistency of Modern Expositors of
Scripture, 61
Instinct and Intellect, 81

In your Patience possess ye your Souls,
326

Infant Baptism, the Respective Uses of,
361

Imparting Instruction, the best Modes of,
&c., 372

Imagery, the Chamber of, 401

Infidelity, the Safeguard against, 411
Instruction and the Life indispensable to
Salvation, 337

Jews, Corruption of the, 67

Lord's the, Reply to Herod's Message,

380

Mammon of Unrighteousness, 121

or hints to Parents and Teachers,
218, 257, 340

Man's Connexion with the Spiritual
World, 303

Metaphor derived from Correspondence,
343

New Church, Perpetuity of, 5

Suggestions for the Exten-

sion of, 102

Passages of the Word Explained, 215
Prayer Extempore, Misapplication of,
87

Practice perfected by Prayer, 470
Prospective Use of the Swedenborg As-
sociation, 182

Remarks on the Science of Correspond-
ences, as applied to Music, 18, 106,
143, 299

Remarks on Matthew x. 5, 6, 25
Respective uses of Infant and Adult
Baptism, 361

Roman Catholics and Swedenborg, 97,
187

Rending of the Vail in the Temple, 185
Suggestions for the Extension of the New
Church, 102

School, its efficiency in promoting the
establishment of the New Jeru-
salem, 321

Science of Correspondence, as applied to
Music, 18, 106, 143, 299

Singing with the Understanding, 248
Spiritual meaning of Fasting, 224
Spiritual World, Man's Connexion with,
303

Sunday well spent, 241
Swedenborg Association, prospective use
of, 182, 193

Swedenborg's Spiritual Diary, Extracts
from, 109, 142, 143, 225, 226, 262,
336, 423, 424

Swedenborg's Claims upon the attention
of the Public as a Theological Writer,
468
Swedenborg's Letters to his Brother-in-
law, Bishop Eric Benzelius, 441
Swedenborg and the Roman Catholics,
97, 187

Thoughts of Pascal on the Word, 191
Truth and Water, 334

True System of interpreting God's Word,

411
Unity of the Brethren, 1

Materials for Moral Culture, 57, 134, What is Prayer? 384

211, 295, 407

What is Life? 281

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Annual Meeting of the New Church So- Lectures on Swedenborg, by G. Dawson,

cieties in Scotland, 399

Announcement Bills, 438

A Sketch of the Progress of New Church
Doctrines at Failsworth and Wood-
houses, 150

Baptism, a Difficulty Explained, 156
Bible and no Bible, 197

Church of England Weighed in the
Balance of the Sanctuary and Found
Wanting, 37
Conference Hymn Book, 38
Conference, Fortieth General, 352
Conversazioné of the Swedenborg Asso-
ciation, 116
Chalford, 157

Dawson's, George, Lectures on Sweden-
borg, 80, 110

Examination of the Day Schools of the

New Church in Manchester, 237
Emigration a Means of Advancing the
Condition of the Working Classes,
238

Founders of Infant Schools, 437
History and Progress of Phonography, 436
Ipswich Lectures, The, and the Inquirer,
115

Inquiry respecting the Increase of the
Romish Church, 155

Intelligence from Manchester, 197

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80, 110

London New Church Junior Mutual Im-

provement Association, 277

Man the Recipient and Channel of Divine
Mercies, 317

Manchester and London Tracts, 319
Manchester and Salford New Church
Essay and Discussion Society, 357
Married Life, 238

Meeting of the General Convention in
America, 318

Melbourne Society, 158
Missionary Intelligence, 475
New Church Quarterly Review, 79
Donation for the Benefit of

the, 475
Newcastle-on-Tyne, 400
New Publications, 320, 358, 439
Opening of the Place of Worship at Leeds,
116

Opening of the New Jerusalem Place of
Worship at Failsworth, 240
Presentation of a Token of Esteem to a
Sunday School Teacher, 156
Queries, 80, 158, 240

Quarterly Tea Meeting of the Salford
Society, 155

Report of the Labours of the Rev. T. O.
Prescott in Edinburgh, 435

Report of the West of England Branch
Missionary Society of the New
Church, 357

Report of the New Church Society at

St. Helier, Jersey, 476
Right Tracts for the Times, 438

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LONDON MISSIONARY AND TRACT SOCIETY, 32, 113, 149, 273, 434
LONDON NEW CHURCH FREE SCHOOL SOCIETY, 355
LONDON NEW CHURCH SUNDAY SCHOOL UNION, 153
MANCHESTER MISSIONARY SOCIETY, 35

MANCHESTER NEW CHURCH TRACT SOCIETY, 234

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