rusalem to receive baptism at
their hands. Since 1815, conferences have been held regularly in various
towns. Conference has for its organ the _Intellectual Repository and New
Jerusalem Magazine_.

The faith of the new Church is briefly this:--

"That there is one eternal, self-existent God, who is Infinite Love
and Wisdom, the Creator and Sustainer of all things.

"In the fulness of time and for the redemption of man, He took upon
Him human nature by birth of a virgin, and became God manifest in the
flesh in the person of Jesus Christ, in whom dwelleth all the fulness
of the Godhead bodily.

"The Lord Jesus Christ is the one only true object of Christian faith
and worship, and in Him is centred the Divine Trinity of Father, Son,
and Holy Spirit. The divinity of the Father being the soul of the
Son, and the humanity of the Son being the body of the Father, whence
proceeds the Holy Spirit to regenerate and save mankind.

"The Lord became our Redeemer by subduing the infernal hosts, and
glorifying His humanity, without which no man could have been saved,
and by which all men are capable of being saved by belief in Him;
such belief implying a faithful obedience to the Divine laws, as the
means of receiving the gifts of salvation.

"The Sacred Scripture is the Word of God, and contains within its
external or literal sense an internal or spiritual sense, being thus
Divine.

"On the death of the natural body, man rises again in a spiritual
body, and according to the quality of his life here, lives in
happiness or in misery hereafter.

"Now is the time of the Lord's second coming, not in person, but in
the power and great glory of His Holy Word, to establish a new and
permanent Church, testified in the Revelation by the holy city--New
Jerusalem descending from God out of heaven."

As a philosophy Swedenborgianism is the exact opposite of Materialism.
Everything in nature, Swedenborg tells us, exists first in spirit. "We
are created by the Lord, so that during our life in the body we may
converse with spirits and angels, as indeed was the habit of the people
of the most ancient times." During his worldly life "he (man) is not
seen in spirit, because he is immersed in nature." God is in
everything--is the life of everything. In heaven all is love--in hell
all is selfishness. There is besides a spiritual world