TIlE NEW JERUSALEM
REVELATION.
WEVIS'ED BY A COMMITTEE OF THiE GENERAL  CONVENTION.
CHICAGO:
PUBLISHED FOR THiE COMMITTEE.
1853.
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by
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PREFACE.
In preparing a New Book of Worship for the New Church, it may be
necessary to state the reasons that have induced the compilers to vary from
the former Book; as also to explain the reasons for the order and form which
is here adopted.
Since the New Church has come into an organized form upon the earth, a
necessity has been felt for having a Book of rituals and religious services,
adapted to its genius, character and doctrines, and several have been provided, both in England and the United States, to meet this want; these, with
the exception of two, have almost entirely disappeared, and these two, the
Liturgy, as now generally used in England, and the Book of Worship, as
adopted here, are alike found inadequate, as expressive of the true forms
and modes of public religious worship.
With the increase and extension of the New Church in this country, this
want has been more and more felt. Several years ago, the General Convention appointed a committee to report upon, or provide a New Book of Worship, but for various reasons nothing was done. Latterly, another committee has had this duty assigned to them, as the want of such a Book has
continued to be still more felt; and however defective the present effort
may be, it is, nevertheless, hoped that it will be found more generally
adapted, not only to supply that need, but also as being more fully in accordance with the laws of true order, and an external expression of true inter.
nal worship.
In general, no principle has heretofore been followed in the formation of our
religious services, and the course adopted has had no respect to the orderly
development of the religious feelings; this, however, it will be seen, has been
recognized in the present Book, and as far as that order was known, has been
made practical. Thus the exercises; which consist mainly of worship, by
prayer and praise, and giving thanks, and learning the Divine Commandments, hewing the Word and receiving instructions from it, (as will appear)
are arranged with a view to express the successive development of the regenerate life. Thus, as all regeneration is effected by the Lord alone in
man, during man's cooperation, it is necessary, as a first essential, to ac
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knowledge the Lord, and to acknowledge Him in His Word; therefore,
although it may be very proper for the organist to play. a voluntary on the
organ, whilst the congregation are gathering together, as having a tendency
to harmonize and soften the feelings, or prepare them for religious exercises,
yet the opening of worship should be by reading one or more passages from
the Word, in acknowledgment of Him to whom all worship should be offered, and with the Word of the Lord open before the congregation, in token
that it is from that opened Word tlat the truths of the New Church proceed, because the Lord himself is present therein; and for this reason also,
that in every act of worship, the face should be turned to that Word, as
expressive of the idea that it is thus that the face of the Soul is turned
towards the Divine Humanity of the Lord Himself. And when the Lord
has been thus acknowledged as the object of worship, as introductory to the
act of worship itself, it seems proper, in order that all may come into a
common state and act from a common principle, that the minister should
affectionately invite all who are present to unite together as one man, in
these holy and spiritual exercises, by explaining the ends, uses and means,
by which the Lord should be approached and worshipped, and invoking all,
in humility and self-abasement, to bow down and kneel before the Lord,
while the minister, as their mouth-piece, addresses Him in prayer.  From
this state of humiliation, denoted also by the act of kneeling, should successive advancements be made; the next step is the receiving instruction
from the Word, and that it may be more full, first from the Old Testament,
and afterwards from the New; but after reading the first lesson, a receptive
state being then more fully prepared, the second step or gradation in the
order of worship, may now be preceded with rejoicing for the mercies
of the first, and for preparing the way of the second. This second part
commences with the hearing the Commandments, but, like the first, should
be preceded by the acknowledgment of Him whose commands they are,
therefore, the minister says "To Jesus Christ be glory and dominion for
ever;" when the congregation rise and chant " lie is the Alpha and Omega,"
&c., and while they thus stand in acknowledgment, the minister reads each
Commandment of the Decalogue. to which the congregation respond in
token of obedience.
It will be seen that it is provided that these responses be said, and not
sung, as being more in accordance with that state of mind in which man
should stand before the Lord, and reverently wait to receive His Commandments, ready, as it were, to carry them forth into life, or to walk in His
ways, as thus commanded or enjoined. Then a lesson from the New Testament is provided to be read, as instruction for this second portion of the
service; after which, a chant or hymn may be sung, not only as expressive
of exultation or rejoicing for these mercies, to which the previous exercises
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have led, but also as conjoining the second state with the third in the act
of worship; which last exercise is that of more specific instruction, by
the unfolding of the internal or spiritual sense of the Word, which is done
by the minister in his sermon, in which that sense is opened, and thus the
congregation, as one man, is led by successive steps of ascent in worship, to
that which is highest or inmost in its character; the whole to be concluded
(when practicable) with the chanting of a Glorification by the choir and
congregation, or such Hymn of praise as is most in accordance with the
most elevated feelings of heart-felt worship, and then dismissed by the
minister pronouncing the emphatic and sublime Benediction, "The Lord
bless you, and keep you," &c.
These, it will be seen, are the general features and progressive order
which have been prepared, appended to which, however, as will appear, are
many responsive services, which are intended to make it a conjoint act of
worship on the part of the congregation and minister.
It will also be seen that in the act of prayer, not only is the Lord's prayer
provided, but also other forms, adapted to the states of those who have but
a very faint or obscure perception of the Divine Wisdom which is contained
in the internal or spiritual sense of the Lord's words, and also that the
Divine ideas contained within that holy prayer, may, in descending to our
finite states, take a form of expression there, in which its sentiments may
become more potent, and its several petitions more consciously appreciated
and understood. Swedenborg teaches us that as the Lord appears to every
one according to his state, so to the unregenerate man, the Divine Truth is
as thick darkness, in which he can see nothing at all; in which states, though
he may be unconsciously affected by it as to his will, nevertheless, in using
the Divine language, he does not pray with the understanding, or know the
meaning of the words he utters.
And although the Lord has given us a form of prayer, or rather said
"After this manner, therefore, pray ye," it does not at all appear that this
was the only way that men should pray, or the only form of words that
should be used, as frequently we find commands given to pray for various
things, when no form of words was provided, and when, as yet, the words
of the Lord's prayer had not been given.  Thus lie says, "Pray for them
that despitefully use you, and persecute you," (Matt. v. 44), and before He
came into the world, He taught us to "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem,"
and to "Pray unto Jehovah for it," (Jer. xxix. 7.), without giving any
form of words in which to pray. And even after giving us a form of prayer,
as in Mlatt. vi. 9, Hle says, "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that
He will lend forth laborers into His harvest," (Matt. ix. 38) which prayer is
enjoined in Luke, before the words of the Divine prayer were given, (Ch. xn
M),  lIany other subjects for prayer are also named in other places, without
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any form of words at all, as "Pray that your flight be not in the winter,"
(Matt. xxiv. 20) and "What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, ye shall
have," (Mark xi. 24), or, as in Matthew, "All things whatsoever ye shall
ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive," (xxi. 22). There are also other
forms of words given in the Word, in which prayers were offered dissimilar
in outward expression to that given in Matt. vi., as that of Habbakuk, "0
Jehovah, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: 0 Jehovah, revive Thy
work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in
wrath remember mercy," (iii. 2).  And Daniel says, "And I prayed unto
Jehovah, my God, and made my confession, and said, 0 Jehovah, the great
and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love Him,
and to them that keep His Commandments; we have sinned and committed iniquity," &c. &c., and concludes his prayer by saying, "0 Lord, hear;
0 Lord, forgive; 0 Lord, hearken and do, defer not for Thine own sake,
0 my God; for Thy city and Thy people are called by Thy name." Very
many other prayers are recorded in varying forms of expression, both in
the plenarily inspired Word, and in the Acts of the Apostles, and in the
Epistles; but many more cases are mentioned of prayer, in which no words
are recorded at all.  And  altlhough the Lord, in the  progress of His
glorification, passed through states answering to those of mlan in his regeneration, it is not mentioned any where that Ile ever used this form, though
many of His prayers are recorded in the gospels.  Thus, then, although in
the several petitions of the Lord's prayer are embodied the whole of prayer,
yet this can no snore imply that this is the only prayer to be used, than,
because the whole of the Decalogue is embodied in the two Coimmandments
of Love to the Lord, and the Neighbor, (Mark xii. 29 to 31), that therefore
the Ten Commandments should not be used; or because the Lord (on the
Mount) gave us the pattern of a sermon, that no other sermon should be
used.  Indeed, not only do the Scriptures, of both Old and New Testamnients, afford abundant illustrations that prayer, not only is the act of man
speaking with the Lord, (either individually or collectively) but also as
being presented inll expressions adapted to the general or particular states of
the supplicant, which it would seem is nmore in accordance with the laws of
order: i. e., that our own feelings should seek expression in our own words.
Even in heaven, Swedenborg informs us that the minister, in the act of
public worship, offered up a prayer to the Lord, which does not appear to
have been the Lord's prayer, or one of Divine composition; he also quotes
with much approbation, as proper to be used, a prayer of human expression,
in the Ap. Ex., No. 1148.  So he also says, "Prayers proceed not from the
mtuth, but from the heart, by the mouth, and all worship which is from the
heart, is from the good of love or charity, therefore it is said, "Set a watch,
0 Jehovah, before my mouth, keep the door of my lips; incline not my
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heart to do any evil thing," &c. (A. E. 325). Thus the prayer should be
the utterance of the heart-it should be the affection speaking from its own
feeling, and is, as our author says, "according to the quality of the man, as
to his life," for "every man, spirit and angel, is his own affection-wherefore, according to the quality of the affection, such is the prayer," (ibid).
On this account the form called the Lord's prayer, and other forms, both
general and particular, have been provided, to be used by those to whose
states they may be adapted, and to be used in whole or in part, as may be
thought best.
It may be proper ]*re to say a few words on the external forms, which
are the outward and visible acts in which true worship should be ultimnated;
for though the christian religion is an internal or spiritual one, yet as no
internal principles can long exist unless they go forth into act, or the internal flows into the external; and as internals are most potent when they go
forth into the form of the ultimate expression, therefore, it is desirable that
it should be kncwn, by the laws of Correspondence, what are the proper
externals in which each act of worship should be performed.  (See A. C.
1175, &II H. D. N.J. 125.) In hearing, or receiving instructionfro?n the Word,
sitting appears to be the most suitable bodily condition, as denoting that
state of tranquility and rest in which the mind can most undisturbedly
listen to the lessons of wisdom; it also denotes a state of affection willing
to receive instruction, and a condition in which the truth received may rest.
It was thus that Mlary sat at the feet of the Lord and heard HIis Mord;
and in Ezekiel it is written, that MAy people sit before Thee, and they hear
Thy words (33: 31); and in many other places. And in the act of prayer,
which is one of humility of heart, in wlhich man acknowledges his unworthiness, and supplicates the Lord to elevate him, by bestowing upon him
those blessings which will lift him  up towards Himself; in order that the
external may be one with the internal, and thus that this act of worship
may be in greater fulness, it is always desirable that it should be performed
upon the bended knees. Swedenborg says: " All internal efforts which are
of the will, thus which are of the love or aTection, consequently which are
of the life, have external acts or gestures corresponding to them, which acts
or gestures flow from the very correspondence of exteriors with interiors.
Holy fear, and thence humiliation, consequently adoration, has acts or gestures corresponding to itself; namely, the bending of the knees, the falling
down upon the knees, and also the prostration of the body even to the
earth: in that state if the adoration be from genuine humiliation, or, if the
humiliation be from genuine holy fear, there is a falling of the spirit, and
hence a falling down-of the joints in the confine, or intermediate, where the
spiritual is conjoined to the natural; thus where the knees are, for the parts
which are beneath have correspondence with natural things, and the part8
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which are above, with spiritual things: hence it is that bending of the
knees is a sign representative of adoration; with celestial men this act is
spontaneous, but with the spiritual it is voluntary." (A. C. 5323.) And
even when this worshipful feeling does not exist at all, when man desires to
cultivate it, and he performs these outward acts with this end in view, he
excites the external organic vessels so that they become a medium for the
influx of a correspondent affection, which may be constantly quickened and
strengthened even though it had been ready to die. (See also Doctrine of
Charity, No. 100 and following.) It is in accordance with this law of order
that we are enjoined to "Bow down, and kneel before the Lord our Maker,"
-and also Daniel kneeled upon his knees in prayer and supplication before
his God (6: 10). And after the dedication of the Temple, when Solomon
had concluded his prayer and supplication " He arose from before the altar
of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees, with his hands spread up to heaven." (I. Kings, S.) We read also that Paul, in the midst of the weeping
elders of Ephesus, knelt in prayer; and Stephen, though surrounded by his
murderers, kneeled down and prayed. And the Lord Himself, who became
our pattern in the glorification of htis Humanity,  "Kneeled down  and
prayed," for this is the proper attitude of prayer, and no true christian can
dispense with it, without impeding the outlets of the soul by denying the
expressive external act by which the internal emotion should be ultimated.
These remarks, it will be understood, apply to formal acts of devotion,
whether in private, in the family, or in public worship, but not to occasional
or incidental utterances of prayer in states of temptation or trials, when the
bodily employments do not admit of such outward forms, or when prayer is
not engaged in premeditatedly.
The expressive form of praise and thanksgiving, which is an elevation of
state, is by rising and standing. This act will also be spontaneous or voluntary when it is engaged in from delight, for the motions of the body correspond to the emotions of the spirit. Singing is the speech of the heart,
and the rising of the body is from correspondence an elevation of the heart
" To stand (says Swedenborg) is expressive of the life of the intention from
the will," and with the head and heart thus lifted up towards heaven, man
should pour forth the feelings of the soul in songs of praise and thanksgiving.  This is described as the attitude of those who in the spiritual world
sing the song of Moses and the Lamb. This also it has already been shewn
is the proper posture in which reverently to wait to receive the Divine com,
mandments, for, says Swedenborg, "by standing before God is signified, to
hear and do what he commands, as they do who stand before a King."
(A. R. 366)  And in which respectful attitude they respond to Iis com,
mandments, "All that the Lord hath spoken, we will do and hear."
The propriety of these outward observances cannot be too strongly en
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forced upon all who engage in public worship, not because the form itself is
any part of the worship, but because, as no substance can exist without its
form, so no internal worship can long continue unless it goes forth into
external act. And the more perfect is the external form, when adopted
from affection, it becomes a more suitable medium for the inflowing of a
correspondent quality of spiritual life. Not only does all experience prove
this, but the testimony of our author is very conclusive respecting it.
"Man (he says) during his abode in the world ought not to omit the practice of external worship; for by external worship things internal are excited;
and by external worship, things internal arc kept it a state of sanctity, so
that internal things can flow in.  Moreover, man is hereby imbued  with
knowledges and prepared to receive things celestial. Ile also is gifted with
states of sanctity, though he be ignorant thereof; which states are preserved
by the Lord, for his use in eternal life; for in the other life, all man's states
of life return." A. C. 1618S.
It has not been thoughit necessary to advance any reasons for the importance or propriety of public worship, especially on the Lord's day, for where
this is not acknowledged, the heavenly doctrines of the New Jerusalem
cannot be received; for if periodical stated  worship is needful for, and
practised, even by angels, in ieaven, (See It. & 11. 221 etc. and T. C. R.
750) howv much more important must it be for man, while on earth he is
endeavoring to become regenerate.   " For a person then, to profess those doctrines, and yet wilfully to neglect the public worship of the Lord, would be
equivalent to proclaiming, that, in his own estimation, he ranks higher than
the angels of the inmost heaven."  (Eng. Conf. Lit.)
We have not desired to infringe upon the rights, or the freedom of any
one, in providing this order, but rather to present to the understanding of
the devout worshipper, the principles of true order, believing, as we do, that
the brethren of the New Church will feel glad to be able to see in a common
light, and in their devotions to be actuated as one man, bef,re the Lord,
with a common form; and that in all their life, in their inmost feelings, and
in their outermost acts, they may be able to say, " Behold, h(ow good, and
how pleasant it is, for brethren to dwell together in unity."  Ps. cxxxiii. 1.
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While the people are assembling, a moluntary may be played upon the organ,
if convenient.
The congregation being seated, the mninister, opening the Word, will read one or
more of the following sentences.
THE LORD is in his holy Tenmple let all the earth
keep silence before him.    Hab. ii. 20.
ENTER into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his
courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his
name.- Ps. c. 4.
GIVE unto the LORD, 0 ye kindreds of the people, give
unto the LORD glory and strength.   Give unto the LORI)
the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come
into his courts.   0 worship the LORD in the beauty of
holiness: fear before him, all the earth.-  Ps. xcvi. 7, 8. 9.
EXALT ye the Lord our God, and worship at his footstool, for he is holy.- Ps. xcix. 5.
SEEK ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon
him while he is near: Let the wicked forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and
to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.-  Is. lv. 6, 7.
Here let there be a short pause for silent prayer and mental preparation for holy
worship.
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ORDER OF WORSHIP.
PASSAGES
From the Word, declaratory of the Unity of the Lord in his Divine Humanity;
in which alone he should be worshipped: two of which, as collated, to be read
by the Minister.
THUS saith Jehovah that created the heavens; God
himself that formed the earth and made it; I am Jehovah, and there is none else; a just God and a Savior,
there is none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved,
all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is
none else.- Is. xlv. 18, 21, 22.
JESUS saith, I am the Way and the Truth, and the Life:
no man cometh unto the Father but by me. Whatsoever
ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father
may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask anything in
my name, I will do it.- John xiv. 6, 13, 14.
IT shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we
have waited for him, and he will save us: this is Jehovah;
we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his
salvation.-Is. xxv. 9.
(Jesus   said) COIE unto me all ye that labor and are
heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart,
and ye shall find rest unto your souls. - Matt. xi. 28, 29.
THuS saith Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Jehovah of Hosts; I am the First and I am the
Last, and beside me there is no God.- Is. xliv. 6.
'I AM Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending,
saith the Lord, who Is, and who Was, and who Is to come,
the Almighty.- Rev. i. 8.
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THUS saith the High and Lofty One, that inhabiteth
eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and
holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble
spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the
heart of the contrite ones.- Is. lvii. 15.
BEIIOLD, I stand at the door and knock: if any man
hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him,
and will sup with him, and he with me. - Rev. iii. 20.
INVITAT'ION TO THIE WORESHIP OF THE LOIRD.
LET the words of my mouth and the meditation of my
heart be acceptable in thy sight, 0 Lord, my strength
and my Redeemer.- Ps. xix. 14.
CHRISTIAN BRETHREN:  The Lord in his mercy and
wisdom, having preserved us through another week, in
this our transitory home;  having given us our daily bread,
and provided for our earthly wants, hath now permitted,
as well as graciously required us, on this, his holy day,
to come into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his
courts with praise, that we may receive of that bread
which cometh down from heaven, and of that living water
w-hich satisfieth the thirst of the soul.  Here, then, let
all anxious and earthly cares be removed, and all holy and
heavenward affections awakened.   This is the day that
the Lord hath made, it is the day in which the Lord arose
fiom the natural to the spiritual, and it is the day in which
aie should also, in a more especial manner,  arise from
natural to spiritual affections and thoughts; from the cares
of the body to the concerns of the soul; firom the scenes
of time to the realities of eternity.  Thus will the day be
to us a Flessing.
[Instead of making the worship of the Lord a formal
task, instead of disturbing the states of our own mind
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by idle thoughts, or distracting the attention of others
in their devotions, we shall approach the house of the
Lord with reverence, as well as affection; we shall feel
that it is good for us to be here, to unitedly lift up our
thoughts in words of praise, and in obedience to the divine
commandments; whilst the pride of our own wisdom and
prudence will be humbled before the Lord, by whom alone
we shall ask to be taught, and to be guided.]
And when we pray to the Lord, when we hear his holy
Word, or when we chant forth our rejoicings for his
mercy and goodness towards us, our hearts will be warmed
with love, our minds enlightened with heavenly tritths,
our life renovated and strengthened, and our souls fed
with the food on which the angels live. And in all his
mercies we shall recognize the Lord as present, and the
glory of the Holy One beaming upon us from His opened
Word. "0 come, let us worship and bow down: let us
kneel before the face of the Lord our Maker."
Or the following
DEAR  BRETHREN:  The commandments of the Lord
are the utterances of the Divine Love, seeking the happiness of man, and all his requirements are for our eternal
good.   He calls upon us to worship him, that our hearts
may be conjoined to him, and he invites us to come unto
him, and to hear his Word, that thereby we may be
saved from the dangers and the evils which ever beset our
path. In his everlasting mercy, and in his tender love,
he calls us to him that he may give us eternal life.
But unless we comply with his gracious invitations, we
cannot receive the good which is offered, neither can we
receive it unless we come in a proper state of reception.
To be in that state, we must cast aside the pride of our
own wisdom, and come humbly;  we must come in the
trusting simplicity of an earthly child to its earthly father,
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and our Father who dwells in the heavens will then draw
near to us, and be present in our midst, and fill our hearts
with love and peace, while he will open to us the Scriptures
and teach us the words of eternal life. Neither must we
think that the Lord desires to be worshipped for the sake
of receiving homage or adoration. His desire for us to
worship him, is solely that in bringing forth our affections
into act, we may thereby open the doors of our soul the
more fully to receive his Divine Love and Wisdom; that
we may be in a better state to permit him to do us good.
And when the affections of many hearts are open, and the
thoughts of many minds united in these devotional services,
the angels of the Lord are present, and in the sphere of
such a worshipping assembly, the heavenly influx must be
more sensibly felt, and the weary and burdened soul, tried
and troubled with many cares, may find a more abundant consolation, divine assistance, and human and angelic
sympathy!  It is indeed good for us thus to assemble
together in the house of the Lord, to obtain these aids in
the progress of our regenerate life, to renew our strength,
and to be re6invigorated in our spiritual journey. Let us
then thus approach our Divinely Human Lord, let us
supplicate him for the mercies which we need. With a
common affection, and a united mind, as one man before
the Lord, let us seek conjunction with Him, and with one
spontaneous act, -" 0O come, let us worship and bow
down: let us kneel before the face of the Lord our Maker."
Or instead of the above, one or more of the following Passages from the Word
may be read, as introductory to Prayer.
AND after six days, Jesus taketh Peter, James and
John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apa-t, and was transfigured before them; and his
face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as
the light.  And behold, there appeared unto them Moses
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and Elias talking with him. Then answered Peter and
said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou
wilt, let us make here three tabernacles, one for Thee,
and one for Moses, and one for Elias. While he yet
spake, behold, a bribght cloud overshadowed them: and
behold, a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my
beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased: hear ye Him.Matt. xvii. 1 - 5.
TAKE no thought, saying, What shall we eat'! or, what
shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
For after all these things do the Gentiles seek: for your
Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these
things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his
righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto
you.- Matt. vi. 31 - 33.
AT that time, Jesus answered and said, I thank thee,
O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast
hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast
revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father: for so it
seemed good in thy sight! All things are delivered unto
me of my Father: and no one knoweth the Son, but the
Father; neither knoweth any one the Father, save the
Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
Matt. xi. 25-27.
THEN said Jesus unto his disciples, If any one will
come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his
cross, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life
shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake
shall find it. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain
the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a
man give in exchange for his soul?  For the Son of man
shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and
then he shall reward every man according to his works.Matt. xvi. 24- 27.
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AGAIN I say unto you, that if two of you shiall agree
on earth, as touching any thing that they shall ask, it
shall be done for them of my Father who is in Heaven:
for where two or three are gathered together in my name,
there am I in the midst of them. Then came Peter to
him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against
me, and I forgive him? till seven times?  Jesus saith
unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times: but
Until seventy times seven.- Matt. xviii. 19 - 22.
AND Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith of
God. For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall
say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou
cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but
shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to
pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore I say
unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray,
believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.
And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught
against any: that your Father also who is in heaven may
forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive,
neither will your Father who is in heaven forgive your
trespasses. - Mark xi. 22 - 26.
FOR I acknowledge my transgressions; and my sin is
ever before me. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot
out all mine iniquities.- Ps. li. 3, 9.
0 LORD, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall show
forth thy praise. For thou desirest not sacrifice; else
would I give it; thou delightest not in burnt-offering.
The sacrifices of GOD are a broken spirit: a broken and
a contrite heart, 0 GOD, thou wilt not despise.-  Ps. li.
15- 17.
BUT I say unto you who hear, Love your enemies, do
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good to them who hate you, bless them that curse you,
and pray for them who despitefully use you. And unto
him that smiteth thee on the one cheek, offer also the
other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to
take thy coat also. Give to every one that asketh of thee;
and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.
And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also
to them likewise.- Luke vi. 27 -31.
BUT love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend,
hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great,
and ye shall be the children of the Highest; for he is kind
unto the unthankful and the evil. Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.- Luke vi. 35, 36.
AND I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you;
seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened
unto you.  For every one that asketh receiveth; and he
that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be
opened. If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a
father, will he give him a stone? or if a fish, will he for
a fish give him a serpent? or if he shall ask an egg, will
he offer him a scorpion?  If ye then, being evil, know
how to give good gifts unto your children; how much
more shall the Heavenly Father give the HIoly Spirit to
them that ask him!- Luke xi. 9-13.
TAKE heed to yourselves!   If thy brother trespass
against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.
And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and
seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent;
thou shalt forgive him.- Luke xvii. 3, 4.
Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a
Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stooCL
and prayed thus with himself: GOD, I thank thee that I
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am not as other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or
even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give
tithes of all that I possess.   And the publican, standing
afar off, would not lift so much as the eyes unto heaven;
but smote upon his breast, saying, GOD be merciful to me
a sinner! I tell you, this man went down to his house
justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth
himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself
shall be exalted.-  Luke xviii. 10-14.
IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was
with GOD, and the Word was GOD. The same was in
the beginning with GOD. All things were made by him;
and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life; and the Iife was the light of men. And
the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us; and
we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of
the Father, full of grace and truth.- John i. 1- 4, 14.
FOR GOD so loved the world, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not
perish, but have everlasting life. For GOD sent not his
Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the
world through him might be saved. -John iii. 16,17.
BUT the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth:
for the Father seeketh such to worship him. GOD is a
Spirit; and they that worship him must worship in spirit
and in truth. - John iv. 23, 24.
AND Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he
that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. All that the Father
giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me
I will in no wise cast out.- John vi. 85, 37.
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MY sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they
follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they
shall never perish, neither shall any one pluck them out
of my hand. My Father, who gave them me, is greater
than all; and no one is able to pluck them out of my
Father's hand.   I and the Father are one. -John x.
27 - 30.
BELIEVE me that I am the Father, and the Father in
me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.  Verily,
verily, I say unto you, Hle that believeth on me, the works
that I do shall he do also: and greater ones than these
shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do; that the
Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any
thing in my name, I will do it.-  John xiv. 11-14.
I ASM the true Vine, and my Father is the I-Iusbandman.
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh
away: and every one that beareth fruit he purgeth it,
that it may bring forth more fruit. Now ye are clean
through the word which I have spoken unto you. Abide
in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of
itself, except it abide in the vine: no more can ye, except
ye abide in me.-  John xv. 1- 4.
I AM the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in
me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit:
for without me ye can do nothing. If a man abide not
in-me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and
men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they
are burned. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in
you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto
you. -John xv. 5 - 7.
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HEREIN is my Father glorified, that ye bear much
fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. As the Father hath
loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love;
even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and
abide in his love. - John xv. 8-10.
YE have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and
ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and
that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall
ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you. These
things I command you, that ye love one another.- John
xv. 16. 17.
VERILY, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall
ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto
have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall
receive, that your joy may be full.  These things have I
spoken unto you in proverbs; but the time cometh when
I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall
show you plainly of the Father. At that day ye shall
ask in my name: and I say unto you, that I will pray
the Father for you: for the Father himself loveth you,
because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came
out from GOD. I came forth from the Father, and am
come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to
the Father. - John xvi. 23 - 28.
FOR unto us a Child is born,
Unto us a Son is given:
And the government shall be upon his shoulder:
And his name shall be called
Wonderful, CGunsellor, GOD, the Mighty,
The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall
be no end,
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Upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom;
To order it, and to establish it,
With judgment and with justice,
From henceforth even for ever:
The zeal of JEIIOVAHII of hosts will perform this.
Isa. ix. 6, 7.
WHEREWITH shall I come before JEHOVAI,
And bow myself before the high GOD?
Shall I come before him with burnt offerings,
With calves of a year old?
Will JEHtOVAH be pleased with thousands of rams,
Or with ten thousands of rivers of oil?
Shall I give my first-born fortmy transgressions,
The fruit of my body for the sins of my soul!
HIe hath showed thee, 0 man! what is good;
And what doth JEIOVAil require of thee,
But to do justly, and to love mercy,
And to walk humbly with thy GOD!-  Mic. vi. 6- 8.
O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel
before the face of the Lord our Maker.- Ps. xcv. 6.
AN.,-D when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the
hypocrites: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may
be seen of men. Verily, I say unto you, They have their
reward.   But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy
closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy
Father who is in secret; and thy Father who seeth in
secret shall reward thee openly. But when ye pray, use
not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think
that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not
ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth
what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. After
this manner therefore pray ye: - Matt. vi. 6- 9.
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After which the Minister shall offer up one of the following Prayers, concluding
with the Lord's Prayer; or he may use either prayer singly: all kneeling:
at the end of this and subsequent prayers, the people answering and saying,
AMEN.
MOST adorable and ever blessed Lord Jesus Christ,
thou who art our Creator, our Redeemer and Regenerator,
our Everlasting Father, and the Prince of Peace; help
us, we humbly pray thee, to acknowledge and reverence
thy holy name, and to worship thee in thy works, and in
thy word, and above all, in thy Divine Humanity.   In
thy holy word reveal to us thy truth, enlighten us in
thy way, and reign in us by thy wisdom, till we become
thine image.   Warm  our hearts with thy love, fill our
affections with the spirit of thiy goodness, till all our inner
being is made into thy likeness. Help us; 0 Lord, to
bring forth thy will and wisdom into our daily life; may
they speak in what we say, and act in what we do; and
may our earthly nature become in all things subject to
thy heavenly influences.   MIay our souls be daily fed
from the table oi thy love with that spiritual food best
suited to our states; and enable us to look to thee for all
that is good, and all that is true.  Help us to receive most
gratefully, and use with all diligence. and care, thy many
mercies, that we may grow in grace, and in the knowledge
of thy truth. We confess our sins before thee, and earnestly entreat thee to forgive us.   0 Lord, remember not
iniquity against us;  but in thy mercy and compassion
help us also to become merciful and compassionate, until
w-c are enabled to forgive those that trespass against
us, and receive entire forgiveness from thyself.  Mercifully preserve us in all temptations and trials of soul,
through which it may be our lot to pass; suffer us not
to be tempted above what we are able to bear;  may all
the aflictions, either of soul or body, incident to our progress in the regenerate life, in the denying of self, and
taking up the cross, and following thee, be but the means
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in thy merciful hands, of loosening the hold of evil upon
us, and delivering us from it.
Our Heavenly Father, whatsoever things we have asked
for ourselves, we would also ask for others; for our rulers
and governors, for our nation and all nations, and for thy
Church and people throughout the world.   Especially
would we ask them for all who acknowledge thee in thy
Divine Humanity, as the only GOD of heaven and earth.*
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory,
for ever. Amen.
Or this.
O GOD of all mercy and goodness, supreme and only
LORD, who in thy Divine Humanity reignest alone in heaven, and in thy Church on earth; hear us when we pray;
and 0 do thou mercifully be pleased to teach us to pray
aright; may all our affections be turned towards thee,
and all our thoughts engaged in genuine worship. And
may we feel that thou art near to us, conjoining us to
thyself in Love and in Wisdom. Earnestly do we pray
that our hearts may be open before thee, to receive thy
quickening love, and that our understandings may be
illuminated by thy clearest light.  And in our prayers
may we remember one another before thee   remember
our brother with charity as we ourselves need the remembrance of thy mercy.   May we so love our neighbor as
to do him good and to teach him truth.   May the welfare
and happiness of thy Church be present before us, that
we may ever pray for the peace of Jerusalem, its happiness and prosperity.   Mlay kindness to all be impressed
upon our life and conduct; may the wanderer be restored
to the right way, and the wa)faring man instructed in the
truth. And may thy blessings be multiplied upon the
* This prayer is designed as a paraphrase upon the Lord's Prayer, and to
be used alone: but if the Lord's Prayer is used in connection, it should be
inserted before the closing sentence.
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faithful, and thy mercies, like the dews of heaven, descend
upon all, who forsaking all else, look to thee alone, as the
Sun of their spiritual firmament, and worship thee as the
Lord God Omnipotent reigning. Ament.
OuR Father, who art in the heavens, hallowed be thy
name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in
heaven, so also upon the earth.  Give us this day our
daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive
our debtors. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the
power, and the glory, for ever. Amect.
Rising, from prayer the Alinister and Congregation shall read alternately the
following sentences: all standing.
AIit. Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto
me, 0 my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and
I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
-Is. li. 4.
Cong.  The  entrance of thy words  giveth light; it
giveth understanding to the simple.- Ps. cxix. 130.
Or these.
3lii. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word
was with GOD, and the Word was GOD. -John i. 1.
Cong.  And  the Word  was made flesh, and dwelt
among us, and we beheld his glory, as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.- John i. 14.
Or these.
Min. Search the Scriptures; for in them ye think ye
have eternal life: and they are they that testify of me.John v. 39.                              3
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Coizg. Teach me good judgment, and knowledge, for
I have believed thy commandments.-  Ps. cxix. 66.
(fr these.
illin.  Give ear, 0 my people, to my law; incline your
ear to the words of my mouth.-  Ps. lviii. 1.
Cong.  I will hear what JEtIO0AII GOD will speak, for
he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints.
Ps. lxxxi. 8. —
Or these.
-Iiji. The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the
soul:
Coug.  The testimony of the Lord  is sure, making
wise the simple.
3Iit.  The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing
the heart:
Coing. The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlighteniing the eyes.
Mlit.  The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever:
CougA.  The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
olit. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than
much fine gold:
Cong.  Sweeter also than honey and the honey comb.
lIin. Moreover by them is thy servant warned:
Cong. And in keeping of them there is great reward.-  Ps. xix. 7 -14. 
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FIRST LESSON
From the Old Testament: to be read by the Minister:  the People sitting.
At the close of the lesson the -lf nister shall say, and the Choir and Congregation
chant or respond, all standing, the following
DOXOLOGY.
Min. To Jesus Christ be glory and dominion for ever
and ever.
Cong.  He is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning
and the End, the First and the Last; Who is, and Who
was, and Who is to come; the Almighty.
[Yhile the Congregation remain standing, the Minister shall read, (the Congre                gation responding audibly thereto,)
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
EXODUS XX.
Now therefore hearken, 0 Israel, to the statutes and
to the judgments, which I teach you, to do, that ye may
live, and go in and possess the land which JEHOVAII the
GOD of your fathers giveth you. Ye shall not add to the
word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish
from it,that ye may keep the commandments of JEHOVAH
your GOD which I command you.
And GOD spake all these words, saving,
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I.
I AM JEHOVAH thy GOD, who have brought thee out of
the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou
shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make
unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing
that is in the heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath,
or that is in the water under the earth: thou shalt not bow
down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I JEHOVAH
thy GOD am a jealous GOD, visiting the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto the
thousandth generation of them that love me, and keep my
commandments.
Holy, holy, holy, is JEHOVAH of Hosts;
His glory is the fulness of all the earth.
II.
Thou shalt not take the name of JEHOVAH thy GOD in
vain: for JEHOVAH will not hold him guiltless that taketh
his name in vain.
He hath commanded his covenant forever;
Holy and reverend is his name.
III.
Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days
shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh
day is the Sabbath of JEHOVAH thy GOD: in it thou shalt
not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter,
thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle,
nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days
JEHOVAH made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in
them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore JEHOVAH
blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
JEHOVAH is in his holy temple;
Be silent all the earth before him.
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IV.
Honor thy father and thy mother; that thy days may
be long upon the land which JEHOVAH thy GOD giveth
thee.
Thy hands have made me, and formed me;
Make me to understand, that I may learn thy commandments.
V.
Thou shalt not kill.
With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful;
With an upright man thou wilt show thyself upright.
VI.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure;
And with the froward thou wilt show thyself froward.
VII.
Thou shalt not steal.
Order my steps in thy word,
And let not any iniquity rule over me.
VIII.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
I have chosen the way of truth;
Thy judgments have I laid before me.
IX.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house.
Incline my heart to thy testimonies;
And not to unrighteous gain.                      --
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X.
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor
any thing that is thy neighbor's.
All that JEHOVAH hath spoken,
We will do and hear.
Or these.
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
DEUTERONOMY V.
HEAR, 0 Israel, the statutes and judgments which I
speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and
keep, and do them. JEIOVAlH talked with you face to
face in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, saying,
I.
I AMN JEIIOVAIt thy GoI), who brought thee out of the
land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. Thou shalt
have none other gods before me.  Thou shalt not make
thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that
is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that
is in the waters beneath the earth: thou shalt not bow
down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I JEIIOVAII
thy Gob am a jealous GOD, visiting the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and showing mercy unto
the thousandth generation of them that love me, and
keep my commandments.
lly, holy, holy, Lord GOD Alnighty;
Who was, and who is, and who is to come.
II.
Thou shalt not take the name of JEHOVAII thy GOD in
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vain: for JEHOVAH will not hold him guiltless that taketh
his name in vain.
Who shall not fear thee, 0 Lord, and glorify thy name;
For thou alone art holy.
III.
Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as JEIIOVAHI thy
GOD hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labor,
and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath
of JEHOVAII thy GOD: in it thou shalt not do any work,
thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant,
nor thy maid-servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any
of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates;
that thy man-servalit and thy maid-servant may rest as
well as thou. And remember that thou wast a servant in
the land of Egypt, and that JEIIOVAHII thy GOD brought
thee out thence through a mighllty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore JEHOVAH thy GOD commanded
thee to keep the Sabbath day.
This is the day which JEHOVAH hathlt made,
We will rejoice and be glad in it.
IV.
Hionor thy father and thy mother, as JEHOVAHII thy
GOD hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolongedl, and that it may go well with thee, in the land
which JEIIOVAII thy GOD givethli thee.
The righteous shall inherit the land,
And dwell therein forever.
V.
Thou shalt not kill.
Let thy mercies come unto me, that I may liveFor thy law is my delight.
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VI.
Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
Thy word is very pure,
Therefore doth thy servant love it.
VII.
Neither shalt thou steal.
Righteous art thou, 0 JEHOVAH;
And upright are thy judgments.
VIII.
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy
neighbor.
Through thy precepts I get understanding;
Therefore every false way do I hate.
IX.
Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbor's wife.
Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage forever,
For they are the rejoicings of my heart.
X.
Neither shalt thou covet thy neighbor's house, his field,
or his man-servant, or his maid-servant, his ox, or his ass,
or any thing that is thy neighbor's.
O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes.
Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
Or these.
THE TWO GREAT COMMANDMENTS.
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the
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teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye
pass over to possess it; that thou mightest fear JEHIOVAH
thy GOD, to keep all his statutes and his commandments,
which I command thee, thou and thy son and thy son's
son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be
prolonged. Hear, therefore, 0 Israel, and observe to do,
that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase
mightily, as JEHOVAH GOD of thy fathers hath promised
thee, in the land that fioweth with milk and honey.
I.
The first of all the commandments is, Hear. 0 Israel,
the Lord our GOD is one Lord, and thou shalt love
the Lord thy GOD with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength:
this is the first commandment.
Thou art worthy, 0 Lord,
To receive glory, and honor, and power.
II.
And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself.   On these two commandments hang
all the Law and the Prophets.
All the paths of JEHOVAH are mercy and truth
To those that keep his covenant and his testimonies.
And these words which I command thee this day shall
be in thine heart; and thou shalt teach them diligently
unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest
in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and
when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. And
thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they
shall bd'as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt
write them upon the posts of thine house: and on thy
gates.
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Behold JEntOVAH our GOD
Hath showed us his glory and his greatness.
And we have heard his voice out of the midst of the
fire;
We have seen this dlay,
That GOD doth talk with man and he liveth.
And JEIIOVAnAH commanded us to do all these statutes:
To fear JEHOVAI our GoD,
For our good alvays.
That he may preserve us alive, as it is this day.
And it shall be our righteousness
If we observe to do all these commandments.
Before JEIIOVAIt our GOD, as he has commanded us.
For thou hast created all things,
Anl for thy pleasure they are and were created.
Or the following Service may occasionally be used instead of the Command          ments; and the responses may be either said or sung.
THE TEN BLESSINGS.
MIATTIIEW V.
AND seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain:
and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him.
And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
I.
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
The Lord is nigh them that are of a  I broken I heart;
And sayeth such as I be-of a  I con-trite I spirit.
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II.
Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
This is my comfort in I my af  fliction;
For thy  word I hath re vived me.
III.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
The meek will he  I guide in  judgment;
And the  meek -will he i teach his I wvay.
IV.
Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
He shall receive blessing I from JEI HOvAH,
And righteousness from the I GOD of I his sal'vation.
V.
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
He that trusteth I in JE EIOvAH,
Mercy shall i compass i him about.
VI.
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see GOD.
Create in me a clean I heart, 0 I GOD;
And renew a  right I spirit'withlin me.
VII.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called
the chilren of God.
Behold, how good, and how I pleasant -it I is,
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VIII.
Blessed are they that are persecuted for righteousness'
sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
The salvation of the righteous is I of JE HOVAR;
He is their i strength in the I time of  trouble.
IX.
Blessed are ye, when they shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you
falsely, for my sake.
The angel of JE uovAn'enlcampeth
Around them that fear him, I and de'liver-eth I them.
X.
Rejoice and be exceeding glad; for great is your reward
in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets who were
before you.
Blessed be JEHOVAH I GOD of I Israel,
From everlasting and to everlasting: I A-men and I A men.
Or this.
TIIE NEW JERUSALEM.
I.
AND I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first
heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there
was no more sea. And I, John, saw the holy city, New
Jerusalem, coming down from GOD out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard
a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle
of GoD is with men, and he will dwell with them, and
they shall be his people, and GOD himself shall be with
them, and be their GOD.
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And GOD shall wipe away all tears I from their I eyes;
And there shall be I no more I death,
.Neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be I any-more I pain;
For the former things are i passed-alway.
II.
And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make
all things new.   And he said unto me, Write: for these
words are true and faithful. And he said unto me, It is
done.   I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning  and the
end.   I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain
of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall
inherit all things; and I will be his GOD, and he shall be
my son.
Andcl the Spirit and the I Pride say, I Come.
And let him that  I heareth*say,  I Come.
And let him that is a thirst  I Comie.
And whosoever will, let him take the water ofI life I freely.
III.
And there came unto me one of the seven angels that
had the seven vials fulll of the seven last plagues, and
talked with me. saying, Come hithler, I will show thee the
Brid(le, the Lamnb's wife.  And he carried me away in the
spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me that
great city, tlhe holy Jerusaleln, descending out of heaven
from  GoD. having the glory of GOD:  and her light was
like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone,
clear as crystal: and had a wall great and high, and had
twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names
written thereon which are the names of the twelve tribes
of the children of Israel.
IV.
And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and
in them the names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.
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And he that talked with me had a golden reed to measure
the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof
And the city lieth four-square, and the length is as large
as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed,
twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth
and the height of it are equal. And he measured the
wall thereof, an hundred forty and four cubits, the measure of a man, that is of the angel.
And the twelve [ gates were twelve I pearls;
Every several gate was I of one I pearl:
And the street of the city was I pure I gold,
As it were transpa-rent I glass.
V
And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord GOD Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
And the city had no I need-of the I sun,
Neither of the moon, to I shine in l it:
For the glory of GOD did I light'en I it,
And the light thereofI is the I Lamb.
VI.
And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in
the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their
glory and honor into it. And the gates of it shall not be
shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there. And
they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.
And there shall in no wise enter I into I it
Any thing  that de'fileth
Or worketh abomination or I maketh-a I lie:
But they which are written in the Lamb's I book of I life.
VII.
And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear
as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of GOD and of
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the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either
side of the river, was the tree of life, which bare twelve
manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and
the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of GOD
and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall
serve him. And they shall see his face; and his name
shall be in their foreheads.
And there shall be I no night I there;
And they need no candle, neither I light-of the 1 sun;
For the Lord GOD I giveth-them I light:
And they shall reign for I ever and I ever.
VIII.
And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and
true; and the Lord GOD of the holy prophets sent his angel to show unto his servants the things that must shortly
be done.  And behold I come quickly; and my reward is
with me to give every man according as his work shall be.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the
first and the last.
Blessed are they that  I do his commandments,
That they may have right to the  I tree of  life,
And may I enter  in
Through the gates  into-the 1 city.
IX.
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these
things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring
of David, and the bright and morning star.
He which testifieth I these things I saith,
Surely i Icome  quickly:
Amen.
Even so, I come, Lord I Jesus.
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SECOND LESSON
'rone the _\ew Testament: the Congregation sitting.
VVhenL the ordinance of Baptism is to be admini,tered, immediately after this
lesson is the most appropriate time.
I'he sin,iitg of a Selection or Hymn shall now be introdeuced by the Minister first
reading the same, and then alternately with the Congregation 7'repecating the
following sentences from the WVord.
Here let the People rise.
Aliu.  0 come, let us sing unto the Lord, let us make
a joyful noise to the GOD of our salvation.
Cong. Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
Min. Praise the Lord, 0 Jerusalem; praise thy GoD,
O Zion.
Or these.
Min.  It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord,
and to sing praises unto thy name, 0 thou most High.
Cong. For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised:
he is to be feared above all gods.
Min. 0 bless our GOD, ye people, and make the voice
of his praise to be heard.
The Selection or Hymn may now be sung.
After which is the most suitable time for giing notices of Meetings, or for taking
u  a Collection.
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SERMON.
After the Sermon, the Minister shall NAME a Glorification, Selection, or Hymn
to be sung, and then with the Congregation alternately repeat the following
sentences fromnt the Word: the Congregation standing.
Min. 0 magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt
his name together.
Cow g. I will  praise the name of GOD with a song: I
will magnify him with thanksgiving.
Mill. Praise ye the Lord.
Or these.
Min. Ye that stand in the house of the Lord, in the
courts of the house of our GOD, praise the Lord, for the
Lord is good.
Colig.  They  shall abundantly utter the memory of
thy goodness, and shall sirngo of thy righteousness.
Muit.  Sing unto the Lord, O  ye saints of his; give
thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
The Glorification, Selection or Hymn may now be sung.
BENEDICTION.
The Lord bless you, and keep you. The Lord make
his face shine upon you, and be gracious unto you.  The
Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you
peace.
Or this.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
Ameit.
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OCCASIONAL SERVICES.
BAPTIS AM.
The font or basin containing pure water being prepared, the Adult or Adults
being present, or the Child or Children being presented by their Patrents or
Guardians, the }l7'inister shall proceed to read the following Sentence from the
Word, and the Address: the Candidate standing: the Congregation sitting.
JESUS spake unto his disciples saying, All power is given
unto me in heaven and on earth. Go ye therefore and
make disciples of all nations, baptizing them into the
name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit;
teaching them  to observe all things whatsoever  I have
commanded you. -Matt. xxviii. 18, 19.
And when Children are to be baptized, also use the following.
AND they brought young children unto him, that he
should touch  them.   And his disciples rebuked those
that brought them.   But  when Jesus  saw it, he was
much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little
children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of
such is the kingdom of GOD. Yerily I say unto you.
Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a
little child, he shall not enter therein. And he took them
up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed
them. - Mark x. 13 - 16. 
BAPTISM.
ADDRESS,
ON THE INSTITUTION AND DESIGN OF THE ORDINANCE OF
BAPTISM.
Forasmuch as the order in which man was originally
created has been perverted by the abuse of his free will,
in consequence of which he is now born into the evils of
self-love and the love of the world; and since no one
can enter the kingdom of God except he be regenerate,
or born again of water and the spirit,-  that is, by the
truths of faith and a life according to them; therefore
Baptism was instituted by the Lord, to be a sign which
is perceived in heaven, that the person baptized belongs
to the Lord's Church; and also to be a memorial that he
is to be regenerated.   [And inasmuch as Baptism is for a
sign and memorial of these things, it is desirable that it
should be administered to infants as well as to adults.]
The water used in Baptism is a symbol of the truths of
faithI: and washing thereby is representative of pumification from spiritual defilements. By the waters of Baptism
are also represented temptations, or spiritual conflicts
against evils and false principles; for purification and regeneration can only be effected by means of temptations.
On account of this signification of Baptism, the Lord was
pleased to suffer himself to be baptized by John, because
he underwent a process of glorification, answering to that
of man's regeneration; and he submitted to the rite which
is representative of that process, that he migTht set an
example to be followed by his future disciples; and, as he
declares himself, because " thus it became him to fulfill
all righteousness;'" -that is, because no appointment of
Divin%Order was to be neglected by Him, who was from
eternity, and who became, even as to his Humanity,
Order itself, and Righteousness itself.
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[The first use of Baptism is introduction into the Christian Church, and
insertion at the same time among christians in the spiritual world.  That
introduction into the Christian Church is the effect of Baptism upon earth,
is well known: but its effect in the spiritual world is that infants are thereby
connected as to their spirits with the Lord's Heavenly kingdom; and angels
there are assigned them by the Lord to take care of them, by whom they
are kept in a state favorable to the reception of faith in him.
The second use of Baptism is, that the person baptized may know and
acknowledge the Lord, the Redeemer and Savior Jesus Christ, and follow
him. It is indispensably necessary for every one that is baptized, to take
care that this second use follow the first; and this depends upon his own
conduct. By the first use, he receives the name of Christian, taken from
the name of the Lord, and is considered as belonging to Christ.  But by the
name of the Lord in Scripture, is not meant his name only, but everything
Divine that proceeds from him; and on the part of man, an acknowledgment
of him, as being Jehovah in his Iultuianity, and thus as being the IRedeemer
and Savior; attended with obedience to him, and, at length, with saving
faith in him.
The third and final use of Baptism is, that the person baptized may
become regenerate; and this also depends upon his own conduct.  This is
the very and essential use of Baptismi, and consequently its final use; the
reason is, because a true Christian knows and acknowledges the Lord the
Redeenser, Jesus Christ; who, as hlie is the Redeemer, is also the Regenerator.
Of the Lord it is said that " IIe baptizeth  with the HIloly Spirit and with
fire," because by the IHoly Spirit is meant the Divine Truth of faith, and
by fire the Divine Good of love; and by means of these two, all rceg,eneration is effected by the Lord.  Thus]
It may now be seen that there are three uses of Baptism which cohere together as a one, and the last is the
end, for the sake of which the former exist.  For the
First use of Baptism is, that a person may have the
name of Christian, and be kept in a capacity of becoming
what that name implies: the Second is, that hlie may
know, by instruction, and acknowledge that the Lord
Jesus Christ, who is Jehovah in his Humanity, the only
God of heaven and earth, is the Redeemer, Regenerator
and Savior: and the Thirid is, that he may be regenerated.by Him; and when this is effected, he is actually
redeemed and saved. Thus by these words of the Lord,
" He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved, but he
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that believeth not, shall be condemned," is spiritually
signified, that whosoever acknowledges the Lord, and is
regenerated, shall be saved.  Be  it therefore known  to
every christian, that whosoever doth not believe in the
Lord, cannot be regenerated, notwithstanding his having
been baptized; and that being baptized is of no avail to
salvation, without a living faith in the Lord.
[The Lord directed the Apostles to baptize into the name of the Father,
and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, because the three Essentials of the  One
God, which are the Divine Love, the Divine WTisdom, and the Divine Operation, are so called in the Word.   But we find that the Apostles constantly
administered the ordinance in the name of the Lord Jesus only: the reason
is, because this name is truly the name of the Father, and the Son, and the
Holy Spirit being the iname of the Lord's Divine Ilunmaaitv, in lwhich is the
whole Divine Trinity, and which is the only Divine Principle, by  and ill
which  God can be aplproached and worshipped.   Nevertheless, it is well
to use the expiress words of the Lord, when it is knowvn  and acliiowledgcd
in the Chuch, that the Father, and the Son, and the Ioly Spiit, are not
three separate Divine Persons, but three Divine Essentials, constituting the
single Diivine Person of the Lord Jesus Christ.  Thus is conmm union  eflected
with the angels, who are in the same blessed acknowledgment, and the
ordinance is attended with all its spiritual benefits.]
To Parents or Guardians of Children.
You have now been instructed in the use and signification of the sacred ordinance of Baptism.  All who
are baptized are to be initiated into the knowledge
and acknowled,gmcnt of the
Lord,  the  Redeemer  and
Savior Jesus Christ, and to
follow him: and these thlings
are taught in the faith of
the True Christian Church,
the chief essentials of which
are these: First, That GOD
You have now been instructed in the use and sig-s
nification of the sacred ordinance of Baptism.
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To Ad,ults.
Let n-le ask, therefore:
Do you believe, That GOD
is One in Essence and in
Person, in whom is the Divine Trinity, of Father, Son,
and I-Ioly Spirit, and that
the Lgrd and Savior Jesus
Christ is that GOD 1
Ans., severally. I do. 
BAPTISM.
is one in Essence  and in
Person, in whom is the Divine Trinity of Father, Son,
an d Holy Spirit; and that
the Lord and Savior Jesus
Christ is that  GOD;  and
Secondly, That the Sacred
Scripture, or the Word, is
truth itself, Divinely inspired, and holy in every expressionr; and is thus the
Divine medium by which
men  are  consociated with
angels, and by which  men
and  angels  are  conjoined
with the Lord;  and Titirdly. That in order to salvation, men must shun evils
as sins against God, and live
a life according to the Ten
Commandments.
Let me ask, therefore:
Are you desirous of having this child [or these children] baptized into this
faith and life?
Ans. I am.
Mini. Are you desirous
of being baptized into this
Faith and life?
PRAYER.
By the Mfinister: all kneeling.
MOST merciful Lord Jesus, who dost baptize with the
Holy Spirit and with fire, and who dost invite all men to
come unto thee, that they may be made partakers of thine
eternal kingdom; bless, we pray thee, the administration
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Miii. Do you believe,
That the Sacred Scripture,
or the Word, is Truth itself,
Divinely inspired, and holy
in every expression; and is
thus the -Divine medium by
which men are consociated
with an(Tels, and by which
men and an(rels are conjoined with the Lord'?
Ans. I do.
Miii. Do you believe,
That in order to salvation,
man must shun evils as sins
ao,ainst GOD, and live a life
accordin,, to the Ten Commandments?
Aiis. I do.
Ans. I am. 
BAPTISM.
of thy holy ordinance, and graciously receive this person.
[or this child, or these persons or children] now about to
be baptized. Admit himnt, 0 Lord, into thy true Christian Church; embrace him with the arms of thy Divine
protection, and bestow on him the blessings of thy Holy
Spirit. Being enrolled by baptism in the number of those
who acknowledge thee to be the only GOD of heaven and
earth, the Redeemer and Savior of mnankind, may he
henceforth deny himnself. and take up his cross and follow
thee. [As he grows in stature] May he advance in the
knowledge and love of thee, and of thy kingdom. May
he renounce the evils of self-love, and the love of the
world, engage victoriously in the spiritual conflicts necessary for his purification, and live a life devoted to thy
will. So may he be cleansed from the impurities of his
nature, be established in love to thee and charity towards
his neighbor, and finally be raised into thy heavenly
kingdom. Amen.
THE ACT OF BAPTISM.
The Minister namning the person to be baptized, (or if an Infant, shall say to th,
Parents, or Guardians, NAME THIS CIIILD; then calling himn by name,) and
sprinkling water upon his forehead, shall say,
-, I baptize thee into the name of the Father,
and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
Then, taking the Person's right hand in his, the Minister shall say,
We  receive this person [or this child] now baptized
with water, into the Lord's Church on earth; as an earnest
that by the baptism of repentance and regeneration, he
may  finally be received into the  Lord's kingdom in
heaven.
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The A'linister, then putting his right hand upon the head of each Adult or Child,
shall pronoaince the folloiving
BLESSING.
The Lord bless thee, and keep thee: the Lord make
his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:
the Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee
peace.
After wthich the 3linilter shall address to the parties the following
EXHORTATION.
To  the  Parents or Guardians  of
Chil(lrcen.
I earnestly exhort  you,
to whom as his earthly parentt, the care of It,is ctild
is committed by his Heavenly Father, to  be faithful
to the trust commiiiiitted to
your charge. The, will of
the Lord is, that this child
should be trained for heaven;
andl he has appointed you,
as stand(linc in his place, to
the discharge of this sacred
employment.   Be  careful
then, so to conduct his education as may best promote
the great end for whlich he
was created: for what will
he be profited,  though he
should gain the whole world,
and lose his own soul?
See, therefore, that he be
You have nowv been admitted by the gate of Baptism, into the communiion of
the True Christian Churcllh,
and have taken upon youtrself in the rmost solemn manner, the name of at CIAO'istiau of the New Jerusalem.
This is the first use of Baptism, and results from the
mere administration of the
ordinance.   But remember
that Baptism includes two 
other  uses  also,  separate
from which, the first is of
no  avail.   These are, the
knowledge and acknowledgment of the Lord, into whose
name you have been baptized, attended with obedience to him, and with faith
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BE~NEDICTIO~N.
The  griace of ouir LordI Jesus Chri;'s,-t h,e withl you,ill.
-4i??ei.
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CONFIRMATION.
The Candidates presenting themselves standing before the altar, the Minister
may commence the Service by reading one or more of the following Passages
from the Word.
HEAR, 0 Israel: the Lord our GOD, is One Lord: and
thou shalt love the Lord thy GOD with all thine heart,
and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these
words which I command thee this day, shall be in thine
heart. And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy
children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine
house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou
liest down, and when thou risest up. Ye shall diligently
keep the commandments of the Lord your GOD, and his
testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded
thee. And thou shalt do that which is right and good in
the sight of the Lord, that it may be well with thee, and
that thou mayest go in and possess the good land, which
the Lord sware unto thy fathers.- Deut. vi. 4, 7, 17, 18.
THIE mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting, upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto
children's children; to such as keep his covenant, and to
those that remember his commandments to do them.Ps. ciii. 17, 18.
BEIIOLD, the days come saith the Lord, that I will
male a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with
the house of Judah. This shall. be the covenant that I
will make with the house of Israel; After those days,
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CONFIRMATION.
and write it in their hearts; and will be their GOD, and
they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more
every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying.
Know  the Lord;  for they shall all know me, from the
least of them. unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord:
for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their
sin no more. - Jer. xxxi. 31, 33, 34.
JoIN (l did baptize in the wilderness, and preach the
baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. And
there went out unto him all the land of Judea, and they
of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river
of Jordan, confessing their sins. And he said unto them,
I, indeed, have baptized you with water; but he that
cometh after me, shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit.Mark i. 4, 5, 8.
ADDRESS TO THE CANDIDATES.
By the Minister.
The Lord's Church is called a Fold, and its members
the sheep: and admission to that Fold is by the Door of
the Sheep-gate, at which there is a Pool.  The  Lord is
that Door, because thereby he opens the way of life, and
teaches us how to attain it; and the Lord is that Pool,
because he is the Fountain of the water of life, by which
we must be purified and cleansed from all our spiritual
pollutions. And before we can become his sheep, and
enter into this Fold, we must be baptized in that water,
and believe in those Truths, which are the Door that
opens to us the path of our regeneration, and that leads to
heaven.   And you who now present yourselves to be
recognized and acknowledged as the sheep of this spiritual
Fold, the Lord's true Church on earth, having already
been baptized with water, at which time your parents [or
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guardians] were admonished and exhorted to instruct you
in the Precepts and Doctrines of truth, which must constitute the life of those, who would hereafter entcr into the
Lord's Church in heaven;
Let me therefore ask you:
Quiestioni. Do you, nowi that you have arrived at a
riper age, and have come into a state of freedom and
rationality, declare your faith in these Doctrines, and the
necessity of living according to them?
Aisirei. I do.
Qite3. You were baptized into the name of the Father
andc the Son, and the Holy Spirit; do you desire to
have this baptism spiritually fulfilled in you, to receive
and understandingly acknowledge, that which is denoted
by the Father, the Son, and the Itoly Spirit; and do you
desire that the Lord Jesus Christ may abide in you, and
you in him, in order that you may be brought into his
image and likeness, and thus that you may  bring forth
the fruits of righteousness?
Ais. I do.
PRAYER.
By  the  Tlinister: all  kneeling.
OLUR Father, and our GODi, who in the glory of thy
Divine Humanity, art King and Lord in thy true Church,
in heaven, and on earth; we acknowleldge thee, and rejoice
in thy Love, and in thy Wisdom, as manifested in thy
Word and Commandments.   We would accept with joy
and gladness the ordinances which thou hast established
for the use of those who may come into thy Church,
cspecially, when in freedom and intelligence, the outward
act of Baptism is acknowledged to be one with its spirit
and its life.  May all who have entered by its gates, be
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purified from all natural, hereditary, and acquired defilements, and enabled to shun all evils as sins against thee,
and to live a life according to thy Commandments. As
thou hast taught us that "he that believeth, and is baptized, shall be saved," may these, thy servantts, who now
present themselves before thee, and who in childhood,
received the baptismal rite, now also come into the true
faith, that they may believe in thee, and trust in thee, and
live according to thy word, and thus be saved from all
fialsehood and evil. May they truthfully, and lovingly
receive thy life into both Will and Understanding, the life
of thy Love, and the life of thy Wisdom, and thus may
thy kingdom be built up within them for ever and ever.
Amien.
OUR FATIIER who art in the heavens; hallowed be thy
name.  Thy  kingdom come.   Thy  will be done, as in
heaven, so also upon the earth. Give us this day our
daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive
our debtors.   And lead us not into temptation;  but deliver us from evil.  For thine is the kingdom, and the
power, and the glory, for ever.   Amen.
The Candidates still kneeling, the Mfinister shall rise, and placing his hands
upo?n the head of each, pronounce the following
BLESSING.
The Lord bless thee, and keep thee. The Lord make
his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee. The
Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee
peace.
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THE HOLY SUPPER.
Unleavened Bread and pure Wine having been prepared and arranged upon the
Table, the Minister may commence the Service by reading one or more of the
following Passages from the Word: the People sitting.
AND thou, son of man, thus saith the LORD GOD;
Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of
the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; gather yourselves on every side to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice for
you, even a great sacrifice upon the mountains of Israel,
that ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. Ye shall cat the
flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of
the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks,
all of them fatlings of Bashan. And ye shall eat fat till
ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you. Thus shall ye be
filled at my table with horses and chariots, with mighty
men, and with all men of war, saith the LORD GOD.
Ezek. xxxix. 17 - 20.
IN this mountain shall the LORD  of Hlosts make unto
all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the
lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees
well refined. And he will destroy in this mountain the
face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that
is spread over all nations.   IIe will swallow up death in
vitory; and the LORD GOD  will wipe away tears from
off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take
away from off all the earth; for the LORD hath spoken it.
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have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the
LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and
rejoice in his salvation.- Is. xxv. 6, 9.
THEN came the day of unleavened bread, when the
passover must be killed. And he sent Peter and John,
saying, Go, and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.
And they said unto him, Where wilt -thou that we prepare? And he said unto them, Behold, when ye are
entered into the city, there shall a man meet you, bearing
a pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he
entereth in. And ye shall say unto the good man of the
house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?
And he shall show you a large upper room furnished:
there make ready. And they went, and found as he had
said unto them; and they made ready the passover. And
when the hour was come, he sat down, and the twelve
apostles with him. And he said unto them, With desire
I have desired to eat this passover with you, before I
suffer.  For I say unto you,  I will not any more eat
thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God. And
he took the cup and gave thanks, and said, Take this and
divide it among yourselves: For I say unto you, I will
not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingd(om of
God shall come.  And he took bread, and gave thanks,
and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my
body, which is given for you: this do in remembrance of
me.   Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup
is the New Testamient in my blood, which is shed for you.
- Luke xxii. 7 - 20.
Here the.Ninister breaks the Bread, and pours the Wine into the cup or cups;
then explains the Ordinance of the Holy Supper, and inuites to it, in the
f)llowing manner.
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ADDRESS.
HEAR now the Lord's own doctrine concerning his flesh
and blood, and concerning the bread and wine.
LABOR not for the meat which perisheth, but for that
meat which endureth unto everlasting life; which the Son
of Man will give unto you. The bread of God is he who
cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never
hunger: and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, Hle that believeth on me
hath everlasting life.  I am the living bread which came
down firom heaven. If any man eat of this bread. he
shall live forever: and the bread that I will give is my
flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. Verily,
verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son
of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
Whoso eateth my  flesh, and drinketli my  blood, hath
eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.  For
my flesh is meat indeed, and my  blood is drink indeed.
He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth
in me, and I in him.- Jno. vi. 27, 33, 35, 47, 51, 53-56.
Thus, my brethren, ye hear in this Institution and
Doctrine of the Holy Supper, that by the Lord's body,
or flesh, is meant the Biread of Life; all the good which
giveth spiritual life to man, which  coineth downi from
heaveii, being communicated  from the Lord to all who
come unto himl?, who worship him, and rely on his power
to save. Ye hear likewise, that by the Lord's blood, is
meant the Blood of the NeCI  Coreitant; the Divine
Truth proceeding from him, and effective of conjunction
between his children and himself.
And ye hear, further, that if ye spiritually, in will,
eat this flesh, and in understanding, drink this blood, ye
shall have eternal life; and thereby attain conjunction
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with the Lord; hlie dwellibzng it yout, by the good and
truth proceeding from his Divine body' and ye iz him,
by being in his mystical body, the Church, whose soul is
the Lord himself.
But, by the laws of Order, it is our duty to receive
Baptism, lbefore we receive the Supper,  because the spiritual works, which are represented by Baptism, precede
and prepare the way for those which are represented by
the HIoly Supper: for the evils and falsities which  come
up from  beneath, are opposite to the goods and truths
which come down from above; so opp)osite and contrary
that we cannot be under the influence of bothl at the same
time;  consequently we must be successively dcii\Terled
from the former, before we can receive the latter; and in
the degree that we resist, and put away lwhat is evil and
false, in that de,gree are we abl)le to receive what is good
and true: or in other wolrds, in the de,gree that we perform thle spiritual works, which are reprlesented by Baptism, in that degree are we prepalred to receive the I-Ioly
Supper, and the things which are represented by it.
Thus then ye see that the Lord's Supper is the most
sacred solemnity of all worship: it contains within itself
the most   exalted sanctities, and conveys, to those who
worthlily approach it, the most precious blessings.
The Ifoly Supper contains, and in it arc present, all
things of the Church, and all things of Heaven: for nothing whatever can have place in the Church, or in I-leaven,
-whichl has not relation.to the Lord, to his Love and Wisdom, and to Charity and Faith; and these are signified(
by his flesh and the bread, and by his blood and the wine.
From the Lord's Divine words it also is evident, that
in the Holy Supper the Lord himnself is entirely present,
both as to his Divinity, and his Glorified Ihumanity.
It thelce likewise follows, that he is present with the
whole of his Redemption: for, where hle himself is wholly
present, nothing, of his Redemption can be absent.  On
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this account, all who worthily approach the holy communion become, in an especial manner, his redeemed ones.  As
the Lord is thus entirely present in the Holy Supper, he
necessarily is present, and opens heaven, to those who
approach it worthily.   Consequently, further, they who
thus approach the sacred Table, are in the Lord, and the
Lord in them; and thus conjunction with him is likewise
effected by the Holy Supper.  Finally, the Holy Supper,
to those who receive it worthily, is a signing and sealing,
that they are children of God. The reason is, because the
Lord is then present, and introduces into heaven those
who are born of him, that is, who are regenerate. While
man is in the progress of regeneration, the Lord is indeed
present with him, and preparing him for heaven; but in
order to his actual admission. this Divine ordinance is provided as a means, by and in which. the Lord in his Divine
Humanity, is present with man; and the body of this
Humaniity is Divine Good, and its blood is Divine Truth,
which are given to man, and by which he is regenerated
and conjoined to the Lord.
Thus the Holy Supper is a signing, sealing, certifying
and witnessing, that they who receive it worthily, are the
children of God; and it is, moreover, as a key to their
home in heaven. where they shall dwell to all eternity.
Such, beloved brethren, are the benefits which are now
offered to your acceptance in this marriage supper of the
Lamb. The Bridegrroom himself invites you, and saith,
'; Come."   "Behold, (saith he again) I stand at the door
and knock; if any man hear my voice, and open the door,
I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with
me." Then hearken to his voice, and open the door, by
putting away from your hearts and minds whatsoever
obstructs his entrance.  Draw near his sacred Table in
faith and love. Fix your thoughts and affections steadfastly upon him.   Raise your ideas from the natural
elements of bread and wine, to the spiritual food, the
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Divine Good and Truth from him, which they represent;
and take this Holy Supper, to the nourishment of your
souls, in the spirit of humility and profound adoration.
Let us then humbly in prayer, upon our bended knees,
invoke the presence of the Lord, that he may be in our
midst, and that we may receive him worthily.
The fllowing Prciyer, or the Lord's Prayer, or both, shall be said  by  th,
Minister: all kneelin,g.
0  thou High and Hloly One, who inhabitest eternity,
who from love to man, wast pleased to appear in human
form on earth, for our salvation; and didst institute the
sacred ordinance of thy Holy Supper, as  a me(lium of
more intimiate conjunction  with thyself; thou  who art
the Bread of life, drawv near, we pray thee, and b.)less us
while we eIngage in this holiest act of worship.   We contess before thee, 0 Lord, that of ourselves we are only
evil,. and all unworthy of thy grealt goodness, and of the
manifold blessing,s we daily receive at thy hands.  Yet,
trusting in thy Divine mercy, and encouri,ged(l by thy
gracious invitations, we come, with humble  iand penitent
hearts, to preselnt ourselves before thee, and, in the way of
thine appointment, seek conjunction with thee.   Prepare
our hearts and minids, we entreat thee, for such heavenllly
communion.  May every evil affection, and fatlse sugg estion
be removed, and may love to thee, and charity towards
our neighbor, be impl)lnted in their stead; so that whlilst
our bodies are nourished by the bread and wine, our souls
may be strengthenedl and refiresicd l  y angels' food, by
love to thee and( to one another.  And may we thus realize
that in thy Holy Supper, thou art present with all the
benefits ef thv redemption.  MIay it be a signing, sealing,
and testifying that we are thy childreni, opening to us the
mansions of heaven, and conjoining, us more closely with
thee, for evermore.   Ameit.
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in theo lEie.  lo-,-(-,( I t)it0inito theo euid  An(I supper
I)eino~enei   the (leN7i1                   pitt iiito tie lie,oiit of
Jil4As  5~dT o   ~ iL 0~   ~mi.to T   it' i-,i hi    Jesus kniowiing,
tlwt tle I~te  ~(- C              ill tltinf-s, liiito hils hioun(s, a~i-i
that h,e ivzis  foioiioiu (,o,,  tin         ut to G-Od; lie riseth
fi-om  suplpi., anld I-tid(  as:-de  hiS'll'IlCtS   an(I took  a
tow~el.,)nd,,i-(Ied himself.   A~fter tl-a,t, lie pourethi wa,-ter 
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into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to
wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded. Then
cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him,
Lord, dost thou wash my feet? Jesus answered and said
unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou
shalt know hereafter.  Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt
never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee
not, thou hast no part with me.   Simon Peter saith unto
him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my
head. Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not
save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are
clean, but not all. For he knew who should betray him:
therefore said he, Ye are not all clean. So after he had
washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was
set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have
done to you? Ye call me Master, and Lord; and ye say
well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master,
have washed your feet; ye also ought to wrash one another's
feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should
do as I have done to you. Verily, verily, I say unto
you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he
that is sent greater than he that sent him.  If ye know
these things, happy are ye if ye do them. -John xiii.
1-17.
So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter,
Simon son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these?
He saith unto him, Yea, Lord: thou knowest that I love
thee.  He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.  He saith to
him again the second time, Simon son of Jonas, lovest
thou me?  He saith unto him, Yea, Lord: thou knowest
that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
He saith unto him the third time, Simon son of Jonas,
lovest-thou me? Peter was grieved because-he said unto
him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto
him, Lord; thou'knowest all things; thou knowest that I
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love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.John xxi. 15, 16, 17.
A suitable Glorification, Selection or Hymn may now be sung.
BENEDICTION.
The Lord bless you, and keep you. The Lord make
his face shine upon you, and be gracious unto you. The
Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you
peace.
Or this.
our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
The grace of
Amen.
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MARRIAGE.
The Bridegroom and Bride, and Friends, standing:  others sitting: the Sinister
shall say,
FORASMUCHii as              and              are desirous
of entering into the holy state of Marriage, they now
present themselves before the Lord and these witnesses,
that their mutual consent to be united together as Husband
and Wife, may be heard, witnessed, received, confirmed,
and consecrated according to the laws of Divine Order.
HEAR, therefore, the declarations of the Word of God,
concerning the Divine institution and laws of Marriage.
GOD created man in his own image; in the image of
God created he him; male and female created he them.
And God blessed them: and God said unto them, Be
fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue
it.- Gen. i. 27, 28.
JESUtS said, From the beginning of the creation God
made them male and female. For this cause shall a man
leave his father and mother, and cleave unto his wife; and
they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more
twain, but one flesh. What therefore, God hath joined
together, let not man put asunder.-  Mark x. 6- 9.
TEE Marriage of one man with one woman, is therefore
designed in our very creation, by him who made us. The
Love which brings them together, and binds them together,
flows into their minds from the Divine Love; from the
Love which hasoperated hitherto, and which now operates, 
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in creating and forming a heaven of human beings. In
its origin, Conjugial Love is the union of the Divine Love
and Divine Wisdom, -the union of the Divine and the
Human. In its operation it not only produces men, but
it produces everything human in men. It prepares them
for the reception of Love and Wisdom from the Lord. It
unites Goodness and Truth in their minds. It thus causes
them to acknowledge the Lord as the only source of Love
and Wisdom, and prepares them to live in the Celestial
Marriage Union with Him, forever.
And since Love truly Conjugial is derived from the
union of Divine Love and Divine Wisdom, and since it
corresponds to and leads to the Marriage of the Lord and
the Church, it is evident that Marriage is a most sacred
institution. It is the means of the most important Use,
in the Divine Kingdom of Uses. It is the recipient, the
image and the foundation, of every blessing in earth and in
heaven. But in order that our natural views and feelings
in marriage, and concerning marriage, may be converted
into spiritual, we must regard it as a Divine Ordinance;
we must regard the Lord himself as present in it, and we
must fulfill its duties in love to him, and in obedience to
his commandments. And therefore, in order that he may
now, by his presence and benediction, consecrate the work
of his own hands, let us in spirit and in truth look unto
him for a blessing.
Here shall be repeated the Lord's Prayer.
OUR FATHER who art in the heavens; hallowed be thy
name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in
heaven, so also upon the earth. Give us this day our
daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive
ouFdebtors.  And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.  For thine is the kingdom, and the
power, and the glory, for ever.  Amen.
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Then the Minister, addressing the Man, shall say, 
, dost thou take this woman to be thy Wife?
Answer. I do.
Thet addressing the.Vonian, he shall say,
, dost thou take this man to be thy IHusband?
Answer. I do.
7'he Bridegroomi and Buide will tet2n ji'iiz their right hajtds, and the Mi'niister
will say,
Do you now, in the presence of the Lord and of these
witnesses, declare your intention to perform your duties
faithfully, in the Marria,ge Covenant, according to the
Divine laws?
.Each will  atswer.   I do.
As a toklen of the declaration which you have now
made, a ring will be given and received.
Here the Bridegroom  rill place a plaini gold rinzg upon the fourth finger of the
Bride's lft hand.
Forasmuchtell as, and   -, have entered
into the Malrriage Covenant, and have mutually promised
to perform their duties to each other in this relation, I
therefore pronounce them to be Husband and Wife.
The Minister shall now say,
Let'Uis kneel before the Lord, and pray for a blessing
on the new married pair.
All kneeling, he shall repeat the following Prayer.
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MOST adorable Lord Jesus Christ, in whose Glorified
Person the Divine Love and Divine Wisdom are perfectly
united; from whom is derived the all of Conjugial Love
in heaven and the church, and by whom human pairs are
created to be its recipients; we implore thy blessing upon
thy servant and handmaid, now joined together in the
Marriage Covenant. Assist them duly to consider the
important relations and solemn duties upon which they
have entered; and enable them to sustain and perform them
with freedom and delight, because from willingness and
love.  May they unceasingly cherish a supreme love for
thee; and, looking unitedly to thee in sincere spiritual
worship, nmay their affection for each other continually
grow and be purified. Under its influence, may they
bear with each other's infirmities, and be partners of each
other's cares: may all their sorrows be diminished, and
all their joys increased. May the Marriage of Goodness
and Truth be more and more confirmed within them;
and may the delight of true Conjugial Love, inspired
from love to thee, be their increasing portion.   Give
them one heart, one mind, and one way.   May they
assist and encourage each other in the heavenly path of
righteousness and peace.   May they so follow thee, as to
receive from thee the choicest blessings that wait on the
marriage-state.   And  when they have completed their
walking together here below, may they enter fully into
the Heavenly Marriage in thy kingdom above; there to
enjoy the beatitudes of Conjugial Love in its purity, for
ever and ever.  Amex.
All rising and standing upon their feet, except the Bridegroom and  Bride, who
continue kneeling, the Minister shall place his hands upon their heads and
pronounce the following
BLESSING.
THE LORD bless you, and keep you: the LORD make
his face shine upon you, and be gracious unto you; the
LORD lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace.
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The service may be conmm?enced  wvith readinig  one or more of the following Pas                   sages from the ITIord.
LAY not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where
moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break
through and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in
heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and
where thieves do not break through nor steal: for where
your treasure is, there will your heart be also. -  Matt. vi.
19 - 21.
AND I say unto you, my friends, Be not afraid of them
that kill the body, and after that have no more that they
can do. But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear:
Fear him which after he hath killed hath power to cast
into hell; yea, I say unto you, fear him. Are not five
sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is
forgotten before GoD? But even the very hairs of your
head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of
more value than many sparrows.-  Luke xii. 4- 7.
LET not your heart be troubled: ye believe in GOD,
believe also in me.   In my  Father's house are many
mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go
to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a
place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto
myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. - John
xiv. 1-3. 
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JESUS said, I am the resurrection, and the life; he that
believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. -
John xi. 25.
Here the whole or a part of the following instruction may be read.
NOTIIING can be better calculated to give comfort and
consolation than the passages that have just been read, to
all who love the Lord, and trust in him, and are willing
to have himt take care of them.   Such persons, when they
are ab)out to leave this world, or when they are afflicted
with pain and suffering and sickness, or when they mourn
the earthly departure of relatives or fiends, are instructed,
from the words that have been read, that the Lord doeth
all It iig s wrell; that his wisdom and goodness and mercy
are providing for them all that they need to have done.
They are instructed that the Lord is endeavoring to
establish his kingdom within their hearts during all the
time that he keeps them in this world.
Those who love to receive instruction from the Lord,
love to learn what they can concerning the heavenly world.
They desire. above all things else, to be prepared for living
in that world.  Heaven is the home which they have in
view.  A happy and useful life in the kingdom of heaven
is that unto which their minds are continually directed.
One of the first lessons of spiritual life teaches us that
we ought to learn to submit our wills to the will of the
Lord, in all the events of life; that we ought to learn to
submit all natural things to spiritual things.  Our  spiritual welfare is more important than our natural welfare;
for spiritual life is far more important than natural life.
If, then, our love for our relatives and friends is spiritual
lovo, we should be more anxious about their spiritual, than
about their natural life.   We shall think more of, and
take a deeper interest in their life in heaven, than their
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heaven will be so great, that, when the Lord calls them
away from this natural world, we shall in all cases try to
make our natural feelings submissive, and even rejoice in
the hope that they are going to live henceforth in heaven.
To our natural views and feelings the separation of our
friends by death is a painful event. And so long as we
think and feel under the influence of our natural man, we
shall of course mourn. It is right, indeed, that we should
be properly affected by so solemn an event as death. For
death is, and must be, a solemn event to us all. It utters
the warning voice, Be ye also ready.
But in the Doctrines of the New Church, we are taught
that nothing, save the body of man dies.   And at the
death of the body, the man himself rises into the spiritual
world. At death man goes to sleep on earth, only to
awaken and to arise into a new and spiritual state of existence.  He carries with him into his new  state every
faculty, and sense, and capacity for enjoyment and happiness, and for usefulness, which hle possessed here on earth.
Hie has laid aside his natural body; but he is henceforth
to live in a spiritual body, which is suited to the world in
which he is hereafter to live, as his natural body was
suited to this world.  He also continues to live in the
human form, and is in every respect even more perfectly
human than he was before he left this world. His prevailing character remains the same; his ruling affections
and thoughts remain the same; and thus at death man
loses nothing, which would add to his happiness or to his
usefulness in the world to which he has gone.
From the Doctrines of the New Church we learn that
the spiritual world is not distant from the natural world
in time or space, but that the two worlds are very near
each other, and that angels and spiritual beings are most
intimately associated in spiritual ways with the inhabitants
of the natural world. Whenever we act from good affections, we are associated with good spirits and angels; for
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they are present with us in all good efforts, and in the
exercise of every good affection.  And those of our friends
who have gone into the spiritual world are not necessarily
thereby separated from us in spirit.  For we may still be
near one another, may feel an interest in each other's
welfare, may think much about one another, and thus still
live spiritually near together, We may often meet in
spirit as it were face to face, and may still spiritually
coo6perate together in the performance of all those uses
which are designed to promote the advancement of the
kingdom of heaven. They may affectionately love and
remember us, and sympathize with us, and we may remember and love them, and sympathize with them. Thus
we  may  each be as properly objects of one another's
affections and kind remembrance as we ever were. If
they are able to do less for our mere natural welfare and
comfort, they will be able to do doubly more for our spiritual comfort and happiness; will be able to minister
doubly more to our everlasting good. For we are assured,
that that degree of usefulness to which they attained, and
in which they became principled here on earth, will only
be increased by their removal to the heavenly world.
The Lord has a use to be performed by every individual
whom he brings into his kingdom. And they who go into
heaven are only taken there because they are qualified to
perform some heavenly use. Every angel, every individual member of heaven, has his or her own particular
use to perform. Thus, when a member of the Church on
earth is removed hence, it is but an outward sign of his
or her removal into a more interior state of usefulness
and of happiness. The spiritual use of the individual will
still continue to be performed, though in a more interior
and higher state of existence.
'In the light of the New Jerusalem, then, we are
taught not to mourn for our friends who have gone into
the spiritual world, as those without a hope.   We  are 
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instructed rather to suffer those affections in us which
have been chastened to be purified by the chastisement,
and raised up to heaven and the things of heavenly life.
Then will angels and those who are preparing to become
angels be near us, and be the means of filling our minds
with life and peace, and hope and joy. Then shall we be
entering unto their states of happiness, and be led to view
death as they do, as the gate of life, as the resurrection
into a new and truly living state of being beyond the
grave.
Were our spiritual affections for our friends strong
enough, we should never mourn the loss of their earthly
bodies.  It is because our natural earthly affections prevail
over our spiritual ones, that we mourn. Affection for,
and thought about, another, tends to bring him near to
us. Hence, when we love any one tenderly, we long to
be with him, that our souls may flow into each other, and,
as it were, embrace one another.   Spiritual affections
produce spiritual nearness. And were our spiritual affections for our friends strong enough, we should always be
spiritually - near together, and consequently we should
cease to mourn for our friends as if they had in any degree left us or been separated from us.
To our natural feelings and natural affections, the removal of our friends to the spiritual world gives pain and
sorrow. This is right, and hence Divine Providence permits it. For our natural affections are selfish. They
cling to this world and to natural things, and they need
to be chastened, tried, and purified. They need to die, in
order that they may rise again. And the natural death
of any of our friends is the death of our natural affections
for them.   It is the end of that form of existence of such
affections for them in our minds. Henceforth we must
have net, regenerated, purified affections, if we have any
enduring affections for them at all.   We  cannot  long
cherish a mere natural affection for those who have gone
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into the spiritual world.   We  must either have  new,
chastened, spiritual affections for them, or else suffer
them soon to pass entirely out of our affection and remembrance.
But if we feel right under the dispensations of Providence, we shall be willing to suffer our mere natural
affections for our friends to die, when the Lord sees that
this is best, and in the place of these earthly forms we
shall acquire living, spiritual affections. We shall thus
learn to love our friends, not from selfish affections or for
our own sakes, but for their sakes; we shall learn to love
in them what they are receiving from the Lord, and love
them as subjects of his kingdom. And when we remember them. and think of them, we shall think of them in
their new and better states of existence; think of them
as rising into new means of usefulness and new states of
happiness. Thus will our apparent bereavements under
Providence cease to make us mourn or feel sad, and will
give us but little pain and sorrow. For if we are willing
to live under the influence of such truths as these, when
we know that not a sparrow falls to the ground without
the notice of our Father in heaven, we shall also know
and feel that he is bestowing the highest possible good
upon man in every one of the acts of his Providence;
we shall know and feel that his apparently afflictive dispensations are also dispensations of mercy.
Natural death is an image of regeneration.   It is an
image of those states of mind in the process of regeneration in which our natural affections die. For during this
process these affections must all be brought into subjection
to spiritual loves and spiritual life.  And this is represented in death. To become followers of the Lord, we
are told that we must forsake our houses and lands, and
fether and mother, and wife and children, for his sake.
That is, from love to him we must learn to renounce our
natural selfish loves for our relatives, and friends, and
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property, and acquire spiritual loves for them; that is, we
must learn to love them as subjects of the Lord's kingdom
and as a means of use. This denial of self, this renunciation of our natural loves, this change of our natural
affections, is passing from death unto life: is passing from
a merely natural to a spiritual and heavenly state of mind.
We then learn to look down upon this world as they do
who have left it; learn to look upon it only in relation to
its spiritual design and uses; learn to regard it, and love
it, and value it, only as a place of preparation for heaven.
In one of the passages that have been read, the Lord
says, Let not your heart be troubled.   Int my Father's
house are many mansions.   If it w7'ere not so, Iwvould
have told you; Igo to prepatre a placce for you.  The
Lord here declares that he will prepare a place in his
kingdom for us. Now the preparation of this place consists not in the preparation of any external place without
us; but it consists in preparing our minds so that his
presence can dwell in us, and produce the very states of
heavenly life in us.   The  kintgdori  of God is within
you, says our Lord to his disciples.  Heaven  must first
be established within us, or we can never enter into it.
Our natural idea of heaven is, that it is a place of happiness; but a true spiritual idea of heaven is, that it is a
state of the heart and of the life. And to be in heaven,
in a true spiritual sense, is not to be here or there as to
place, but it is to be in a state of mind filled with love to
the Lord and love to the neighbor.  It is not a change of
place, or the lapse of time, that brings us near to the
Lord, or into his kingdom; but it is the exchange of our
natural affections for spiritual ones, the exchange of our
natural selfish loves for spiritual loves; it is laying down
our owunlife, that we may receive true life from the Lord.
We come near to the Lord, and into his kingdom, by
coming into those states o*f mind in which he can be near
us. and in which his presence can dwell in us and be
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manifested to us.  He  can be as really present with us
while we are in this world, as he will be when we go into
the spiritual world.   It is because our affections and
thoughts are far from him, that he ever appears to be far
from us, or that we appear to be out of his kingdom.
When these are set on him and the things of his kingdom,
we shall feel his influence, and manifestly perceive his
presence.   We  shall then be in his kingdom, for the
kingdom of God will be within us.
During all the time that the Lord keeps  us in this
world, he is continually endeavoring to prepare for us a
mansion in his Father's house. He looks not to our
temporal welfare or our temporal happiness as ends, but
to our eternal welfare and our eternal happiness. In all
the changes of this life, in prosperity and adversity, in
health and sickness and death, and in all the operations of
Divine Providence over us, he is seeking to form us into
his image and likeness; and if we yield to his instructions
and to his holy influences, there is no condition in life in
which we have any reason to let our hearts be troubled.
Adversity, and sickness, and pain, and suffering, and the
removal of our friends to the spiritual world, are events
permitted by his providence for our everlasting good. It
is true they cause us momentary sorrow and grief. We
cannot renounce our own loves, and lay down our own
life, without suffering and sorrow. But such trials need
have no lasting bitterness in them.   For we need to pass
through such states sometimes, or they would never have
been permitted by our merciful Father in heaven.   We
all of us need these chastisements sometimes: whom  he
loveth he doth chasten.  We  need to go through these
fiery trials, that our hard hearts may be softened and
subdued by  them.   We  need them, that we  may  be
taught by them not to set our hearts and affections too
strongly on any thing here below. We need them, in
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and broken up in us, and that heavenly things may be
brought near us, and be strengthened in us.
And when death itself approaches, what is there in it
to cause the good man to fear? Yea, though I walk
through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear
no evil: for thoue art with me; thy rod and thy staff
they comfort me. We are taught that, at the hour of
man's departure, the Lord himself is most specially
present; and the angels of heaven are present. They
surround and most affectionately watch over the departing
spirit. They stand waiting with open arms, to receive
him and conduct him up into the regions of immortal
life. These guardian angels take him out of this world,
and conduct him up into their world with inexpressible
delight and gentleness.  They welcome him with joy into
their blest abodes. They are ready to bestow upon him
every kind of good. In the place of death, they give
him life; in the place of weakness, they give him strength;
in the place of sickness and pain and suffering, they give
him health and joy and comfort.
Thus the goodness and mercy and providence of the
Lord continually follow us in prosperity and in adversity,
in health and in sickness, in life and in death, in this
world and in the world which is to come. When we shall
have come into the mansion prepared for us in our Father's
house, we shall have a living perception that the Lord is
good to all, and that his tender mercies are over all his
works.  We  shall see that he is our Father in heaven.
We shall see that all he has done for us, every event that
he has permitted to take place in relation to us, and every
operation of his providence over us, have been designed
and used for the simple purpose of preparing our minds
for his abode within us; - of preparing a mansion for us
above, where we may dwell for ever in his kingdom.
0 come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel
before the face of the Lord our Maker.
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The folloting or the Lord's Prayer, or both, may be used.
0 LORD, GOD of our fathers, most merciful Lord Jesus
Christ, in whose presence the living and the dead are
standing together, to whom all are alive, and with whom
there is no death, through whose tender mercy, in these
latter times, the day-spring from on high hath visited us,
to give light to them that sit in darkness and the shadow
of death, to guide our feet in the way of peace; give us
to see in this as in all the dispensations of thy wisdom, the
bright footsteps of an all merciful providence, which in
every act of apparent destruction, doth but further the
progress of an eternal creation, and through the death of
this life, doth bestow the life of a heavenly kingdom. O
cause, we beseech thee, that this solemn visitation may
deeply impress us with the uncertainty of our own perishable state, and the necessity of preparing for the concerns of an eternal world; and seeing that the axe is laid
unto the root of the trees, we may, without delay, strive
to bring forth fruits worthy of repentance.   Grant,  0
Lord, that we may watch as becometh those who know not
the hour in which the Son of Man  cometh, and that
following thee in the regeneration, when the cry shall be
made at mid-night, Behold, the bridegroom cometh, go ye
out to meet him, being ready, with our lamps trimmed
and filled with oil, we may enter with him to the marriage.
We ask this, 0 Lord, in thine own name, and for thy
divine mercies' sake. Amien.
OUTR FATHIIER who art in the heavens; hallowed be thy
name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in
heaven, so also upon the earth. Give us this day our
daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also forgive
our debtors. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the
power, and the glory, for ever. Amnen.
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A  Selection or Hymn may  now be sung, if convenient.
When the Minister attends at the grave, the coin being lowered into it, he may
read the following.
Thus will it be with us all; here we have no continuing
city, we seek one to come. Our earthly house shall also
be laid in the grave - earth to earth, ashes to ashes, and
dust to dust.+ But we have a house, a building of GOD,
a spiritual body, in which, after the earthly is dissolved,
we shall immediately arise and live for ever. Thus he is
is risen, he is not here. May it be a resurrection to
everlasting life; may the angels of the Lord receive him,
instruct him, and guide him to his rest.  And may the
Lord, our Father in heaven, mercifully lead us all so wisely
to spend our days on earth, that we also may enter into
his rest in heaven.
And I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me,
Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from
henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from
their labours; and their works do follow them. - Rev.
xiv. 13.
BENEDICTION.
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
Amnen.
* Whilst these words are being repeated, a handful of earth may be
thrown into the grave.
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AND CHILDREN.
T'he service may be commenced with reading one or more of the following Pas                   sages from the Word.
AT the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying,
Who is the greatest in the kir,ngdom of heaven? And
Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the
midst of them, and said, Verily I say unto you, except
ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not
enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever, therefore,
shall humble himself as this little child. the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.- Matt. xviii. 1 -4.
TAKE heed that ye despise not one of these little ones:
for I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always
behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.- Matt.
xviii. 10.
AND they brought unto him also infants, that he would
touch them: but when his disciples saw it, they rebuked
them.   But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer
little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for
of such is the kingdom of GOD.   Verily, I say unto you,
whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of GOD as a little
child shall in no wise enter therein. - Luke xviii. 15 - 17. 
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Here the whole or a part of the following instruction may be read.
WE are told in the Sacred Scriptures, that not a sparrow falls to the ground without the notice of our Heavenly
Father, and that the very hairs of our head are all numbered. From this we learn that the providence of the
Lord is most universal over man; that it has relation to
the minutest and most particular events of man's life.
The Divine Providence of the Lord watches over every
human being, from the first moment of his life to the
last; and nothing happens to him by chance, but every
thing that takes place is by the providence or permission
of the Lord. Every event of life is so ordered by infinite
love and wisdom, that, if rightly improved by man, it
will contribute to human happiness and human salvation.
Certainly, then, such an event as the removal of a person
from the natural to the spiritual world can take place
only under the Divine Providence of the Lord; can take
place only because Divine Love provides it, and Divine
Wisdom foresees that such an event will be for the everlasting, welfare of the person.   This is a consoling thought
in reference to the removal of those whom we love, from
external association with us.
This remark is specially true in relation to the removal
of infants and little children unto the spiritual world.
Their removal is indeed the severing of a tender tie between them and the little circle in which they moved.
The feelings, the affections which bind us to our infants
and little children, are of a peculiarly tender and delicate
nature.  Their smiles, their artless manners, the tones of
their voices, the sweet expression of their faces. their
dawning mindcls and tender affections, are all calculated to
take a deep hold of the tenderest affections of the human
heart.' They are calculated to awaken affections in the
mind of the parent, analogous to the paternal love of the
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pure and disinterested affection. Thus parents seem to
live for their children, and children for their parents.
There is a mutual interchange of happiness between them,
a circle of heavenly affections, innocence, and delights.
And it is hard for our natural feelings to sever the natural
connection between us and our children.
But in the Doetrines of the New Church we have much
consoling instruction given us, concerning death and the
state of infants and children in the other life. We are
taught that death itself is not the loss of life; it is only
a passage from life in this world to life in the spiritual
world.   The spirit of man is the real man, and this never
dies, for it derives immortality from the faculty and capacity of knowing, loving and serving the Lord.  When,
therefore, the body dies, or is dropped off, the spirit, freed
from its earthly tenement, goes immediately to live in the
spiritual world.
Hence we learn concerning the Resurrection, that immediately after the death of the body man rises into the
spiritual world; that he loses nothing or leaves nothing
behind which constituted any part of the real man. The
man himself continues to live hereafter, a human being,
enjoying all those faculties, capacities, and means of happiness which he possessed in the natural world.  He there
has a body and every sense which he had in this world.
But the body in which he rises after death is a spiritual
body, because the world in which he is henceforth to live
is a spiritual world. And the life, too, which he there
lives, is human life purified and happy, or depraved and
miserable, according to the character of the ruling love
which influenced him on earth, and the quality of the life
which he lived here.
But it is plain, that those who die in infancy and childhoed have not adopted either good or evil loves as their
ruling loves.   They have not confirmed themselves in
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faculties not yet developed, hereditary propensities  and
dispositions not yet made actual.  Their brief natural life,
therefore, has no other consequences, except the blessed
consequences  of  immortality.    Having  committed  no
actual sin, there is no imputation of evil to them. All,
therefore, who die in infancy and childhood, through the
Divine Mercy of the Lord, attain to salvation.
It is true, indeed, that children inherit from their parents an impure hereditary nature, in which  there are
dispositions, propensities, and tendencies to all kinds of
evils.   But inasmuch as those who  die in infancy and
childhood have not made their evils actual evils, have not
confirmed themselves by their life in any of their evil dispositions and propensities, have not voluntarily committed
sin against the knowledge and light of truth, therefore
their hereditary evil dispositions and propensities never
become active, so as to endanger their salvation.
Hence children are innocent.   They  are in states of
external innocence. They are humble, teachable, easily
pleased, and their infantile affections are tender and easily
directed in the right way. 
That all who die in infancy and childhood are received
into heaven is plainly taught in the Sacred Scriptures.
When the Lord was on earth, he said, Suffer little children
to come unto nme, and forbid them not, for of sitch is the
kitg(loii, of God.   Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of Goi) (is a little child, he shall not enter therein.
And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon
them, and blessed them. In another of the Gospels he
told his disciples that they must become as little children,
before they could enter into the kingdom of heaven.   And
again, speaking of little children, hlie said, Their angels do
alwvays.behold the face of my Father who is in Heaven.
We will nowv say a few things concerning the state of
infants and little children in the other life, which have
been made known to us in the Doctrines of the New
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It has been supposed by some that infants will remain
infants, and children will remain children in the spiritual
world. By others, it has been supposed that they will
instantly become perfect angels. Neither the one nor the
other of these views is correct.  But infants and little
children are born into the heavenly world in the same
state that they leave this world, and they gradually grow
up there, as they would have grown up had they continued to live in this world. Had they continued to live
here on earth, we know that their bodies would gradually
have grown, their minds would have become active, they
would have increased in knowledge, and all their faculties
would have developed to manhood or to womanhood.   So
in the spiritual world, they will gradually grow in wisdom
and in stature, their minds will gradually come to maturity,
and their bodily appearance will change, as their minds
advance in wisdom and goodness, till they are seen by
their associates and companions as men and women. For
in the spiritual world, the outward appearance always
corresponds to the inward state and character. The growth
of the mind goes on there as well as here, only in a more
regular and orderly manner; because those who have the
care and education of children in that world are far better
fitted for their work than parents and nurses and teachers
on earth are.
Infants and little children, as soon as they are born into
the heavenly world, are committed to the care of those
guardian angels, who, on account of their disposition and
character, are peculiarly qualified to take care of and educate little children. These guardian angels instruct the
children committed to their care, step after step in the
lessons of heavenly wisdom and life, they train them to
the performance of those duties and uses to which they
are afterwards to be appointed by the Lord, they initiate
them into the delights of heaven, and introduce them into
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and qualities of mind. The angels to whose care infants
are committed, are those who, when they lived in the
natural world, loved little children from a real desire to do
them good and to be useful to them. And these angels
all have as many children given into their care as they
desire, and are able to bring up in a proper manner.
Those who have the care of little children in heaven
act the part of mothers to these children, and they take
the place of their natural mothers whom they have left on
earth. To them these children look up as to their mother,
and they love and respect and are obedient to them. But
they are especially and constantly initiated into this state,
to know no other father, and afterwards to acknowledge
no other, but the Lord alone, and that they have life from
him.   They  are instructed  at once  that  he  is their
Heavenly Father, and that they must look to him and
regard him as their only Father.
Hence it is that they do not think of any earthly parents.   They do not know indeed,  but that they were
born in the heavenly world, not being conscious of ever
having lived in any other world. They do not ever, therefore, feel as if they were strangers in that world, or feel
the want or need of earthly parents.   They feel at home
where they are. They have every means around them
that can contribute to their happiness and to their future
usefulness. They have a mother, and brothers and sisters,
and companions and playmates. They have schools, and
teachers who instruct them in such things as are calculated
to make them grow wise and good.   They have playgrounds and beautiful gardens in which they can walk, and
lawns and fields in which they enjoy their childish sports.
Every thing that they see around them appears to be alive;
the verx atmosphere in which they live, and which they
breathe, sparkles with brilliancy and with life.
When we think of our children that have gone to live
in the heavenly world, we must try to learn to think of 
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them under the light and influence of the New Jerusalem.
We must think of them  as now living in a blissful state
above; think of the happiness which they enjoy, and how
much they have done for them; much more than we could
do for them were they with us here on earth.  We must
think of them as growing in knowledge and in the capacity
of becoming useful, as improving in mind, increasing in
stature, and being prepared soon to become angels. We
must not tliink of them in any manner as dead, but
as gone to live in another better and happier state of
existence.
If we look at the removal of children to the heavenly
world, and their state of life there, ill this manner, we
shall cease to mourn or to indulge in any inordinate grief
at their departure from us. We shall try to yield up any
selfish desires that we may have to keep them with us,
and be willing to have them go when the Lord calls them.
We  shall remember what  the Lord says, "Suffer little
children to come unto me, and forbid them not." We
shall endeavor rather to let our minds rise as they are
rising, that when we go into that world to which they have
gone, we may be better prepared to enjoy such society as
theirs.
When we look at the state of infants and little children
in heaven, and see the advantages of nurture and education
there over those on earth, we are constrained to see and
feel that it is well with our children that have gone there.
We ought not to desire to have our children removed from
us: on the other hand, we ought to do what we can to
preserve their life and health in this world; for this corresponds to the desire to do what we can for their spiritual
and eternal life; and Divine Providence has clothed this
love of their spiritual life with the love of their natural
lie, and  hence the depth and intenseness of parental
affection.   But when the Lord has taken them from us,
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that they should live no longer with us here, but be removed to the heavenly world, and when we are inclined to
feel sad on account of our loss, we ought to think how
well it is with our children; and if we truly love them,
we shall learn to be resigned to what is so purely for their
everlasting happiness.  We ought to take a living, elevated
view of their state, and even rejoice that they are where
they can be so much more happy than we could have made
them here on earth. In accordance with the Lord's words,
when he calls them, we should suffer them to go unto him,
and forbid them not. We should not let our natural feelings prevail so far as to oppose what he sees is best for
them.
From a knowledge of the education and state of children in heaven, we are led to see how important and
responsible are the duties of parents towards their children
on earth. He has shown us the states of those in heaven,
that we may learn to make earth itself more heavenly;
that we may make the home and family and education on
earth more like those in heaven.
It is our first and most important duty as parents, to
give the children committed to us a religious education,
to instruct them in the truths of the Sacred Scriptures,
to bring them up under the sphere and influence of the
Church, to teach them to live in love towards one another,
and to learn and keep the commandments of the Lord.
Especially is it our duty to withdraw our children as
much as possible from evil influences and evil spheres, and
prevent them from cherishing hatred and revenge, or any
evil feelings.  For by the indulgence of such affections,
mutual love and innocence are extinguished from the
mind, and thus our children are excluded from the sphere
and influences of heaven, where nothing but mutual love
prevails.
With regard to infants in heaven, we learn from the
Doctrines of the New Church that there is a region in the
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heavenly world specially appropriated to the reception and
instruction of infants and very little children, and that this
is called the heaven of infants.  With this heaven infants
on earth are associated, and receive from it that peculiar
influx which is adapted to their tender minds. To this
the Lord alludes when he says, "Their angels," that is,
the guardian angels of little children, "do always behold
the face of my Father which is in heaven."
That infants in this world are- subjects of peculiar influences from the heavenly world, must be manifest to all
who think rationally on the subject. For who that has
witnessed their smiles, or the sweet expressions of their
faces, or seen them asleep, or has listened to the tones of
their voices, has not often felt that the Lord and the
angels are near?
The heavenly influences too, that descend  into this
world through infants and little children, are some of the
most saving and redeeming influences of the world. They
are powerful for good. Infants have always formed a
sphere of heaven on earth, and been a connecting link
between heaven and the church on earth. How important
that this sphere of innocence and childlike humility should
be preserved in this world; in communities, in societies,
in our families, and in our own hearts.
Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted and
become as little children, ye shall not enter into the
kingdom of GOD.
0 come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel
before the face of the Lord our Maker.
The folloawing or the Lord's Prayer, or both, may be used.
t
0 BLESSED and ever living Lord GOD and Savior
Almighty, thou who art the resurrection and the life,.
who hast now been pleased to call the departed [little one,,
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or child, or dear one] from this transitory stage of being;
give us to see in this as in all the dispensations of thy
wisdom the bright footsteps of an all merciful providence,
which in every act of apparent destruction, doth but
further the progress of an eternal creation, and through
the death of this life, doth bestow the life of a heavenly
kingdom. O cause, we beseech thee, that this solemn
visitation may deeply impress us, who  remain, with the
uncertainty of our continuance here, and the necessity of
making timely preparation for that hereafter in which the
state of our life will be fixed forever. Seeing the frailty
of all things below, may we fix our hearts entirely on the
substantial reality of the things that are above. May
this dispensation be sanctified to the spiritual and eternal
good of us all, and especially to the afflicted family and
friends. In mercy comfort them with thy presence, and
strengthen them by the influences of thy holy spirit, so
that with sincere and humble hearts they may feel it good
to say, "Thy will be done." May they, and all of us
who are here present this day, receive and use so wisely
all the dispensations of thy providence, that the messenger
of natural death shall be to us the herald of everlasting
life. May our removal from earth be an admission into
heaven, and may our separation from friends according to
the flesh, be our consociation with spiritual kindred in the
world of bliss.  Receive us, 0 Heavenly Father, when
we go hence, into thy more immediate presence, to be fed
by thee at the fountain of living waters, where pain and
sorrow shall cease forever, where we shall again meet the
dear ones who have gone before us, and where thou thyself
wilt wipe away all tears from our eyes.   Amex.
OURI FATHER who art in the heavens; hallowed be thy
name.   Thy kingdom come.   Thy will be done, as in
heaven, so also upon the earth. Give us this day our
daily bread.  And forgive us our debts, as we also forgivQ
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our debtors.  And lead us     piato temptation; but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the
power, and the glory, for ever,. Amen.
A  Selection or Hymn  may now'be sung,, f convenient.
JVhen the  llinister attends at the grave, the cofst being lowerd into it, he may
read the follouing.
Thus will it be with us all; here we have no continuing
city, we seek one to come. Our earthly house shall also
be laid in the grave- earth to earth, ashes to ashes, and
dust to dust.* But we have a house, a building of'GOD,
a spiritual body, in which, after the earthly is dissolved,
we shall immediately arise and live for ever.   Thus he
is risen, he is not here. May it be a resurrection to
everlasting life; may the angels of the Lord receive him,
instruct him, and guide him to his rest.   And may the
Lord, our Father in heaven, mercifully lead us all so wisely
to spend our days on earth, that we also may enter into
his rest in heaven.
And I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me,
Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from
henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from
their labours; and their works do follow them. - Rev.
xiv. 13.
BENEDICTION.'
.The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
Amen.
* Whilst these words are being repeated, a handful of earth may be
thrown into the grave.
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