Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-08

tory 2sx44 feet. On the main floor will be
library 2Ox20 and a parlor 2Sx22. Up
stairs will be the Sunday school room, 2Sx
A feet, with class room.
H. Langford Warren of Boston, profess
sor of architecture in Harvard University,
is the designing architect. and Paul q.
Pelz Of this city is the supervising archi-
tect Spier & Co. are the builders and Lane
& Melnati the stone workers.
The official board of the Washington So
ciety comprises DR.. r. b. Donaldson, pres
ident; Charles F. Keefer, secretary; Job
Barnard, treasurer, who. with Charles q.
Smith, sr., and Dr. N. NJ Schooley. consti-
tutes the trustees. Mr. John Joy Edison
represents the national building committee
and Is in immediate charge of the work
here.
The pastor is superintendent of the Sum
day school and John s. harrington Is sec
rotary. DIR. Louis Carman is president and
Albert N. Prentiss secretary of the Young
Peoples Association. Mr.. John Joy Edison
secretary of the Ladies' Aid Association.
The pastor is chairman of the New Church
Evidence Society and Mr. N. Il. Sperry Is
secretary. Miss Bessie Edison is president
of the Kings Daughters of the Holy City
and Miss Elizabeth Sewall is secretary.
The Young Peoples Association maintain
a free circulating library of New Church
literature and a reading and sales room, in
charge of Mr.. A. N. Prentiss.
Meaning of the "Ncw Church."
his DOuy Is Cdileu the new SHuTcI,
or Church of the New Jerusalem" from
its belief in the prophecy in Revelation
that the"Holy City, New Jerusalem" is not
merely future state i'll heaven, but that
it comes down from God out of heaven,
and is now new religious state OF man
kind on earth. This making all things
new" is the result of the opening of the
inner and divine meaning of the Bible
which lies within the parable of the let
ter, differentiatiTg it from all other books
and constituting its true divinity and in
spiration. In the light of this internal
sense, interpreted by Swedenborg, the
fundamental doctrines of Christianity as
and practical form. and appeal to the well
disposed of all religions.
According to SwedenbOrg the three es-
sentials Of the church are a belief in, first,
The Divinity OF the Lord second, "in the
Holiness of the Word" and third, "in the
catholic charter. Ii Is believed that all to
whom a knowledge of the Gospel has come
may unite in new, universal church.
Jesus, in His glorified humanity, is regard
ed not as one Of three divine persons, but
as Himself the one divine person lin whom
dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead
bodily" His victory over hell was the re-
demption of the human race, and He Is the
only Savior because He is the one source
of spiritual life and incentive to good in
all, of all religions, who according to the
hest light they have, are endeavoring TO
lead life OF obedience to divine law, and
of charity with their fellow-man. The
spiritual world Is regarded as real world
Of spiritual substance in Immediate proX-
unity to this, and death is only the waking
real environment as its eternal home, and
the laying aside forever of the coarser en-
vironment of a material body and its COM
paratively gross plane of sense.