right the author may eventually reap further benefit. However, such as it is, I offer it to the consideration of those who may be interested in the matter, with great good feeling. The names of the examiners or judges, and the conditions to be observed by the writers, will be duly published; as no communications will be expected before the 1st of December next.

I have selected the subject of "Marriage" because it is one that is not sufficiently considered and appreciated even in the New Church, although Swedenborg has treated the subject in so enlightened and holy a manner; and also because there is not among our publications any popular work on it at all calculated to recommend the important views of the church upon it to the reception of mankind generally.

Should this proposition be the means of inducing those who are competent-and there are many such in the church to direct their minds to the subject, and afford us the aid of their talents, a production worthy of the cause must be the result; and I shall be satisfied in having appropriated the interest of the sum now in my hands, in furthering the object of the now, it is to he trusted, happy donor. Yours,

Very sincerely in the cause,
JAS. S. HODSON.

Clifford's Inn Passage, London.
P.S. The volume I contemplate should
not be large-perhaps not so largs as that
of "The New Church Reader."

been addressing the First of their Divine Persons, for the sake of the Second, during the whole of the year; they find a failure of their petitions, and thereon they appear to have imagined that the Third Person has changed his character commonly assigned to him in the Tripersonality,that of being passively obedient to the commands of the First, and has set up an opposition to the First, and so they have determined to address the Third, on the presumption that as he has acted independently against them in withdrawing his conversionary influences, he will act independently in their behalf in restoring them, if directly importuned to do so.

Every Sunday extempore Tripersonal leaders of the prayers of the people address the First Person, and, when they please, they address the Second or Third Person. This exercise of discretion as to how much worship shall be given to each Divine Person-each of the three Objects of worship, is too notorious to be insisted on. In the Communion Service of the Established Church, there is a direction that on Trinity Sunday God the First Person shall not be so exclusively addressed as at other times; and hymns to God the Third Person are prepared, at the end of the metrical psalms, to be used at the discretion of the minister, especially at Whitsuntide!

When will the sensible persons who hold the Tripersonal doctrine open their eyes to perceive the anomaly of believing in three Objects of worship, one of whom is to be supplicated daily, and the other two at pleasure? Is it replied, that

TO THE EDITOR.

OF VIEW.

I have been credibly informed that the last Methodist Conference directed, in consequence of a falling off in the number of members in the connexion, that special prayer should be addressed to God the Holy Spirit, it being feared that the neglect of that Divine Person has caused him to withdraw his conversionary influences. I should be obliged by receiving from some friend, through the medium of your pages, if attainable, a copy of the Methodist Conference resolution. Certainly there is at present an appearance of (what is tersely called in the application of the phrase to common life) a playing-off of the supposed Divine Persons against each other. The Methodists, with their peculiarity of energetic importunity. had

imply the rest ? It is enough to say that we of the New Church, who once were Tripersonalists, know the contrary to be the fact. But surely the Methodist Conference have now settled this question conclusively. QUERIST.

A SINGULAR MISREPRESENTATION.

A work of considerable merit, entitled "A Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art," by Mr. W. T. Brande (of Her Majesty's Mint) was published in 1842. In this work the article "SWEDENBORGIANS" occupies a dozen lines, in which the public are informed, with how little truth our readers will feel as well as see, that "the Swedenborgians imagine that they can see mentally, and hold converse with spirits." The expense of this work (three guineas)

will probably confine its circulation to a certain class; still it appears desirable that, if any of our friends are acquainted with Mr. Brande, they should gently intimate to him that, if his science had stood on no better foundation than the above statement, his book would have been a mass of rubbish. He ought to have known that, although we believe that Swedenborg, for the greatest imaginable purpose, was admitted to "hold converse with spirits," there are none of his admirers who can boast of the same privilege.

DR. CHANNING'S VIEW OF HEAVEN. (Extracted from the American New Church Repository.)

"The true view of heaven, that which the Scriptures give, that which reason sanctions, and that which we can most powerfully realize, is, that it will not essentially change, but rather improve, our nature. We shall be the same beings as on earth; we shall retain our present faculties, our present affections, our love of knowledge, love of beauty, love of action, love of approbation, our sympathy, gratitude, and pleasure in success. We shall probably, too, have bodies not very different from what we now have, the eye to behold creation and receive its beauties, the ear to hear the voice of friendship, and to receive the pleasures of harmony, and even sense refined and purified. This we know, that Jesus, in a form like ours, ascended into heaven, and when Moses and Elijah conversed with him on the Mount, they appeared in the human form, differing from ours only in its splendour; and from these facts it would seem that our future bodies will bear a general resemblance to the present." Memoirs of Channing, Vol. II. page 22.

BRIGHTLINGSEA.-The quarterly meeting of this society, was held in the Temperance Hall, on Monday, January 1st. The friends assembled to tea at five o'clock, after which, the Rev. D. G. Goyder being called to the chair, opened the meeting with singing and prayer. He then read the passage which was to occupy the attention of the meeting, (Ezek. xx. 25.) on which he discoursed for about half an hour. The meeting was afterwards addressed by Mr. Maskell, Mr. Went, Captain Griggs, and Mr. W. H.

Griggs. Mr. Goyder then took a general view of the whole subject. The next meeting to be held in the Temperance Hall, on Monday, March 26th; the subject for consideratien Matt. vi. 14, 15. Thanks having been voted to the president, for his kindness in attending, and for the interesting manner in which he illustrated the subject, the meeting broke up at ten o'clock.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

A Catalogue of New Church Books, published or sold by James S. Hodson, Clifford's Inn passage, Fleet-street, London; with an Introductory Notice and some Account of the several Authors.

To facilitate the spread and reception of the doctrines and truths of the New Church, catalogues of books are indispensable. Every New Churchman is desirous not only to instruct his own mind, but also his children, in the principles of genuine truth. He is likewise anxious to be ready, at all times, " to give a reason for the hope that is in him." But in order to this, it is indispensable to have a New Church library. We are, therefore, glad to inform our readers that an excellent

catalogue, well arranged, has been prepared, at considerable trouble and cost, by Mr. Hodson, which every member of the Church should possess. We subjoin the following "notice," which gives an

account of the nature and uses of this general catalogue.

66

Twenty years have passed since a general catalogue of New Church works was issued. During this period several works have fallen out of print, and many new ones have been produced, rendering the publication of a new catalogue, on many accounts, important and desirable. this not being the business of any parti- . cular person, nor the object of any of the publishing societies of the Church, (except as regards their own books,) it has remained undone.

But

"The catalogue alluded to above, contained a description or brief notice of the works enumerated in it, and was published in 1828, at the joint proportionate expense of the London Printing Society, the Mancbester Printing Society, and J.S. Hodson, at the cost of near £40. for four thousand copies. New publishing-societies, or societies which embrace publishing in their plans, having since that period been

established, and additional publishers and authors having arisen in the church, it was conceived that by an united effort of these parties a new catalogue might be produced. For this purpose a letter was inserted in the Intellectual Repository for May, 1848, soliciting a union of action for the interest of the Church and of all parties concerned in the sales of the books. But various circumstances prevented this plan being carried into effect. Finding, then, that if a catalogue of New Church works be produced at all, it must be done at the cost of some individual; and knowing the importance and utility of this aid to the business of bookselling, as well as the facility it affords in giving information on the subject, J. S. Hodson has himself undertaken it, and now offers it to the Church. He has endeavoured to collect the titles of all the New Church books that are on sale, as well those of the Church societies, as of the publishers and private individuals. To give additional interest to the mere catalogue, J. S. H. has prefixed a slight notice of the authors of the several works named in it, who, however well known to the older members of the Church, may be little known to those purchasers of books who have not been long acquainted with the doctrines of Swedenborg. This catalogue is presented to the Church, in the hope that it may prove useful in its sphere; and the publisher of it respectfully solicits to be favoured with orders for any of the works contained in it; which shall be executed promptly; and any book named therein as selling at not less than 3s., will be sent into the country carriage free, if ordered from No. 2, Clifford's Inn passage, Fleet-street.

any errors pointed out, and to be favoured with the means of correcting them, and also to be informed of any cases in which his publications are reported, by country booksellers of whom they may be ordered, as 'not to be had' or 'out of print.'"

Remarks on Noble's Appeal in Behalf of the Doctrines of Swedenborg, pp. 84. London: Richardson and Son, 172, Fleet-street.

These "remarks," which have emanated from the Roman Catholic College at Oscott, near Birmingham, we announced on the cover of our last as having recently appeared, and we stated that a reply would be inserted in our present number. Since then it has been deemed advisable to publish the reply in a separate form, in order that more space might be available than could be obtained from this periodical, so as to meet more fully all the points, and to cause the Reply to move more directly in the track of the "Remarks, &c." whither this work might not, in many cases, follow the writer at Oscott. The Reply is being prepared by the Rev. A. Clissold, M. A., formerly of Exeter College, Oxford.

Mr. Joseph Wellings, to Miss C. Stamps,

inflamation of the lungs succeeding an attack of pleurisy; and, although he had been ill some weeks, most of his friends had so little apprehension of his disorder proving fatal, that the shock occasioned by his loss was augmented by its appear. ing sudden. In early life Mr. Brooksbank was initiated into a knowledge of the doctrines of the New Church by his late excellent father, and his still surviv. ing affectionate mother, both of whom it appears had received the principles of the New Dispensation previously to his birth. (See obituary in the October number of this periodical, 1843.) Mr. Brooksbank placed his son, the subject of this notice, in business at Manchester, in the year 1824, and then also commended him to the pastoral care of the present minister of the Salford Society, of which he became, when of age, a most active and useful member, particularly by the interest he took, and the exertions he made, in the Sunday school, and likewise as a member of various committees in connexion with the Church. Subsequently he became an efficient missionary preacher in several societies in the vicinity of Manchester, where his efforts are still remembered and occasionally adverted to with delight and gratitude. By a steady course of reading, inquiry, and thoughtfulness, he acquired an extensive knowledge of the truths of the New Church; he was distinguished for his clear and discriminating perception of their doctrinal and practical bearings, for his successful aptitude and frankness in presenting them to the notice of others, and not less so for his strict integrity and sound judgment in the ordinary concerns of life. In the circle of acquaintance to which business introduced him, he availed himself of any favourable opportunity for conversation on [religious subjects, and was thus instrumental in bringing several young persons into the Church, amongst whom was the late Mr. W. Bowdler, whose obituary appeared in the Intellectual Repository, September, 1847. Mr. Brooksbank continued to be a valuable member of the Salford Society until his

marriage, and consequent removal to London, where he soon became well known as a very intelligent member of the New Church. At one period, before the union of the societies of Friar-street and Burton-street, and the removal of the united society to Argyle-square, he generally conducted the religious services at least once on a Sunday, in one or other of the former places, and he was much esteemed as a preacher. He was very happy in his explanation and practical application of the spiritual sense of the Holy Word. He also served on the committees belonging to the different New Church institutions; but the time and attention demanded by his business prevented his taking that active part in the general concerns of the Church, which his great capability of usefulness seemed to render desirable. Having great delight, however, in fostering new societies, he found the means of frequently visiting those of Ipswich and Chatham, under the auspices of the London Missionary and Tract Society; and for such services he was well adapted by his skill in argument, and his extensive acquaintance with the writings of the "New Church Herald." He has left, not only a widow and one son, but an aged mother, to mourn his loss,-a loss which, humanly speaking, cannot be supplied. But they know that this is not their home, and that their loss is his eternal gain.

Died, at Heywood, December 18th, 1848, Mr. Charles Dawson, in the 33rd year of his age.

Died January 15th, 1849, in the 25th year of his age, of phthisis, John Thomas Goyder, oldest son of the Rev. D. G. Goyder, much respected and esteemed by all the members of the New Church at Ipswich, who, in their frequent visits to him, were much edified by his patient, humble, and resigned state of mind. He lived just long enough to be received into regular communion with the Church in Ipswich.