Title Unspecified 1881
NEW CHURCH LIFE.
[Entered at the Post-office at Philadelphia as second-class matter.]
PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY, 1881.
No. 1.
NEW CHURCH LIFE.
A FEW years ago, about thirty of the young people connected with the New Church in Philadelphia, formed a Club for intellectual and social culture. In the fall of 1879 they began a Manuscript Paper for their own use. In its contents, the paper was somewhat miscellaneous, treating of topics doctrinal, literary and social. Some of the articles were intended to instruct and others merely to amuse. Of the later numbers of the periodical, manuscript copies were made and sent to friends in other cities. The paper met with so favorable a reception that its continuance was called for. This led to the conclusion that its sphere might profitably be enlarged so as to embrace the Young People of the New Church generally. Measures were accordingly taken to print and publish the paper, and as the result, we herewith present the first number of "NEW CHURCH LIFE." Devoted to the interests of the Young People of the New Church, our journal will, we hope, satisfy a great want in our literature. The NEW CHURCH LIFE will be very similar in its character to the manuscript paper; only that the Department of Correspondence and Church News will be greatly enlarged. As formerly, contributions will, for the most part, be from the young people themselves.
The NEW CHURCH LIFE is to be thoroughly and distinctively a New Church paper, designed to promote the culture of the Young People in the doctrines and life of the Church; thus, if possible, leading them to embrace fervently the Heavenly Doctrines of the New Jerusalem as the only means of becoming true men and women.
And, finally, by bringing the Young People into closer relations with one another, the NEW CHURCH LIFE, it is hoped, will become an ultimate of that bond of love which must always exist among those whose one great aim is to become useful members of the New Church which, in heaven and on earth, is "the Crown of all Churches."