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 will be satisfied that such a report of the world beyond has actually been made. And he has himself derived so great satisfaction and spiritual help from the disclosures to which he here invites attention, and is so anxious that others should share what has been to him such a rich repast, that he feels like making personally a large discount from the price of the present volume, to every minister and theological student in our land, who will promise to read it with close attention and a sincere desire to know the truth.

On several of the subjects treated in these pages, the author is fully aware that most of the churches of to-day have outgrown and rejected the views that were entertained a hundred years ago; such, for example, as "Work in Heaven," Sex and Marriage in Heaven," "Children in Heaven," "A Heaven for the non-Christian World," etc. And the fact that the views commonly held and taught on these subjects to-day, are in substantial agreement with those revealed through Swedenborg, should be taken as presumptive evidence that his disclosures on other subjects also are true.

And if a minister's ecclesiastical relations to-day, are in no wise affected by his open rejection of the old dogmas of the damnation of some infants and of all the Heathen, and of incessant oral prayer and psalm-singing in heaven, or by his acceptance of the new and more rational views on these subjects, there is no rea-