Evening star., 1923-05-10
NEW JERUSALEM
CONVENTION OPENS
1G2d Annual Session of Fol-
lowers of SWedenborg
Begins Here.

The I02d annual session of the gem
eral convention of the New Jerusalem
in the United States. with affiliated
bodies, began in this city today at
tho National Church, 18th and Cor
coran streets. The morning was Civ
en- over to an executive session of the
council of ministers, which has been
meeting for the past two days in
Wilmington, Del. This afternoon
there Will be a meeting of the Amer
lean New Church Sunday School AS
sociation, followed by public meet
ing of the same association this
evening.
Tomorrow there Will he meetings Of
the National Alliance of New Church
Women, the American New Church
League. and also a meeting of the
managers of the New Church Theologi-
cal School. The opening session of the
general convention proper viii be held
Saturday morning, when services will
be conducted by Rev. j. Paul Dresser
OF Bath, Me, and an address of well
come Delivered by the Rev. Paul sper-
rE, pastor of the Washington society
OF the New Church.
Vandcrlip to Speak.
One Of the principal features of the
convention Will be the address Satur-
day at the convention luncheon at the
City Club by Frank A. Vanderlip of
New York Mr.. Vanderlip's subject
Will be The Moral Obligation of Ma
tions, and his address will be based
upon his recent observations in Eu-
rope.
The entire theme of this years
meeting of the general convention of
the New Jerusalem, followers of
SWedenborg, is to be reiteration of
the divinity of the Christ The pro-
gram of the present convention an
nounced that it would concentrate
its thoughts upon the meaning of
the divine humanity. The Lord
heaven will hold uppermost place in
the addresses and prayers" saws the
announcement Effort will be made
to understand Him better and to see
more clearly present day responsible
ity to Him. World unrest is closely
related to Widespread uncertainty
about the nature and purposes of God
and the kind of human order He
wishes, both individual and social.
The New Church will seek to CON
this central problem of the present
day.
DIR. King Speaks.
THE new churchman," said DR..
King in his address to the council of
ministers last night, while he does
not presume to know all the mysteries
involved in the wonderful process by
which God took human nature upon
Himself yet he does know that God
is life and that a finite soul is gen
Grated by the finite father, that it is
an offshoot from the finite fathers
spirit that God fills and animates with
His own creative life. The new
churchman sees that the divine life
itself was the very soul of the child
born of Mary. His soul was divine
and as God is one and indivisible,
therefore Jesus as to His inmost was
Jehovah, who filled in him the region
of life occupied in an ordinary man
by the human internal.
This divine capacity by which God
relates Himself to finite beings is
called, in the theology OF the New
Church, . the Divine Humanity. The
Divine Humanity, however, is not
something separate and outside God
but is a region of divine human feel
ing and thought lying within the cir
conference of Gods personality-the
Only Begotten Son in the bosom of
the Father. Here then in the divinely
revealed theology of the New Church
we have the explanation Of the two
opposing lines Of teaching concern
ing the Divine Being"