MISSIONARY TALKS

ON SUBJECTS OF

NEW CHURCH DOCTRINE

BY THE

REV. J. E. BOWERS

MISSIONARY OF THE CANADA ASSOCIATION OF THE

NEW JERUSALEM

" By asking . . . and by giving and receiving . . . is meant the communication of heavenly things, which are the knowledges of good and truth"—A.C. 9174.

JAMES SPEIRS

36 BLOOMSBURY STREET, LONDON 1889

TO MY FRIENDS

THE

ISOLATED NEW CHURCH PEOPLE

OF THE

UNITED STATES AND CANADA,

WHO, DURING MY

MISSIONARY TRAVELS

HAVE SHOWN ME MANY KINDNESSES, AND HAVE CHEERFULLY AIDED THE DISSEMINATION OF THE TRUTH,

THIS LITTLE VOLUME

IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.

Table of Contents

PREFACE. 3

I THE NEW JERUSALEM. 5

II. DEATH THE CONTINUATION OF LIFE. 12

III. THE SECOND ADVENT OF THE LORD. 19

IV. THE END OF THE WORLD. 24

V. THE INSPIRATION OF THE WORD. 27

VI. THE SCIENCE OF CORRESPONDENCES. 33

VII. THE ORIGIN OF EVIL. 40

VIII. THE WAY OF SALVATION. 45

IX. THE HOLY SACRAMENTS AND THEIR USES. 53

X EMANUEL SWEDENBORG, THE PHILOSOPHER. 63

XI SWEDENBORG, THE THEOLOGIAN. 71

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