III. Spiritual Surroundings. — As the renovation of the material world, and of the corporeal and incorporeal parts of man's nature, will alter all the conditions of what we should call from our present standpoint man's existence and work in the world, so also it will alter those of his existence in the Chuixh, since among the revelations of that future life which -were made to St. John there was a special one of a "New Jerusalem com- ing do\vn from God, out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband" (Rev. xxi, 2). We are all familiar with the glorious things Avhich are spoken of this city of our God. Inwrought with our habitual de- votions as they dwell on the future arc such words as
" With jasper glow thy bulwarks. Thy streets with emeralds blaze ; The sardius and tlie toi)az Unite iu thee their rays."
But we are probably disposed to dwell on these glorious jiictures of the holy city without a sufficient recognition of the fact that they represent a development and new creation of the religious life, and especially of that part of it which is associated with divine worship. For this renovation of the religious life and of divine worship is also the glorious climax of our Lord's incarnation ; and therefore the coming down of the New Jerusalem from God is followed by " a great voice out of heaven," which recalls to our mind the fact that our Lord's incarnation was a tabernacling of the Deity in the humanity. " 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" (Rev. xxi, 3). That same presence of God, therefore, which has been at once the great power of the religious life and the great object of divine worship in the Church militant, will be the same in the Church triumphant. As God is now with his people in worship, the virtue of which is derived from the incarnation, so will he be with them in a direct presence, the power of ^vhich will be to them a perpetual light and an inexhaustible life ; and as now God is in his holy temple, and thither we gather that before his altar we may bow down in adoration of his mystical presence, so then, when there shall be no tem- ple in the holy city — " for the Lord God Almiglity' and the Lamb arc the temple of it" (Rev. xxi, 22) — the glo- rious and visible presence of him that sitteth on the throne will be that before which the elders will cast down their crowns, and the vast multitude of the re- deemed sing forth their hallelujahs.
Thus the Cliurch militant will develop into the Church triimiphant; Christ's first and his second ad- vent will prove to be two stages in the mighty work of new creation. The former things that are to pass away — a degenerate world, a fallen man, an imperfect religious life, a halting worship — all these having de- rived what good there has been in them from the first stage of the new creation, that good will still remain, even though their distinctive characteristics of evil, weak- ness, and imperfection will have been burned out and annihilated. But God is pleased that there should be a degenerate world, and a fallen man, and an imperfect
religious life, and a halting worship no longer, and there- fore the second stage of the mighty work of the incar- nation will be attained in the complete fulfilment of the words, " Behold, I make all things new."— Blunt, Diet, of Thtolofjij, p. 507-510.
Nevy Divinity. See Edwards, Jonathan; Pkesbvterianism; Theology (New England).
Newell, Ebenezer Francis, a pioneer preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Brook- field, Mass., Sept. 1, 1775 ; joined a Methodist society iu St. Stephen's, New Brunswick, June 29, 1800; was li- censed as a local preacher, and appointed to Centre Harbor Circuit by the Loudon Quarterly Meetmg March 23, 1806; was licensed as a travelling preacher July 25, 1807, and successively held the following appointments: Pembroke, March 20, 1806 ; Centre Harbor, 1806; Lan- daff, 1807; Tuftonboro, 1808; Hallowell, 1809; Nor- ridgewock, Vt,, 1810: Danville, Yt., 1811; Barre, Vt., 1812; Barnard, Yt., 1813; Pittstown, Me., 1814; Bristol, Me., 1815; Durham, 1816; Keadfield, 1817; St. Croix, 1818. Located, 1819: Thomaston Circuit, 1821; Nor- ridgewock, 1822; Pittstown, 1823; Dennisville, 1824. In 1825 he was made supernumerarj^, and emploj-ed as Conference missionary in behalf of Maine Wesleyan Seminary, resuming work again in 1826-7, and was ap- pointed to Bethel, Me. ; Kennebunkport, 1828-9 ; Kit- ter}', 1830; Brookfield and Belchertown, 1831; North- bridge and Uxbridge, 1832; Brookfield and Belcher- town, 1834; Spencer and Leicester, 1835; Hopkinton, 1836 ; Marlboro and Harvard, 1837 ; Harvard and Leo- minster, 1838; North Brookfield, 1839; North Brook- field and Paxton, 1840 ; Charlton and Springfield, 1841-2. He was finally superannuated in 1842, and died Blarch 8, 1867, at Johnsville, S. C, where he was staying with his son.
Newell, Harriet, the wife of Samuel Newell (q.v.) and daughter of Moses Atwood, of Haverhill, Mass., a celebrated American female missionary, was born Oct. 10, 1793, and received an excellent education. She was naturally cheerful and unreserved, possessed a lively imagination and great sensibility, and at a very early age evinced a retentive memory and a taste for reading. Before the age of thirteen she received no particular or lasting impressions of religion, but was uniformly obedi- ent, attentive, and affectionate. In the summer of 1806, while at a school at Bradford, she was the subject of those solid and serious impressions which laid the foundation of her Christian life. At the age of fifteen she made a profession of religion. When Mr. Newell, along with jMessrs. Judson and others, offered himself a missionarj- to the General Association at Bradford, and was about to sail for India, he asked Miss Atwood in marriage. Her own heart was prepared to quit her native land, and to endure the sufferings of a Christian among hea- then people. She therefore readOj' determined to go, antl sailed June 19, 1812, for Calcutta. Finding on their ar- rival that the Bengal government would not grant them permission to reside within their territories, the mis- sionaries chose different places of destination, and Mr. and ]\Irs. Newell proceeded to the Isle of France, Aug. 4 ensuing. There she employed herself assiduously and with earnestness in the promotion of her Redeemer's cause, and by her conduct and advice became an honor- able and truly valuable member of society. The uni- form piety and seriousness of her mind are forcibly dis- played in her letters to her young friends and in her diary. Her health was delicate, but she bore imlisposi- tion with that calmness and submission to the dictates of Providence which always signalized her character. She complained much of the want of humility, and la- mented her deficiency in that Christian grace: "she longed for that meek and lowly spirit which Jesus ex- hibited in the days of his flesh." ]Mrs. Newell died of consumption Nov. 30, 1812. She departed in the peace and triumph of an eminent Christian. Her Life, written by Dr. Woods, to which are appended several of her let-