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Rh "the power of truth and of faith, the force of ideas, the curative efficacy of thought, the ubiquity of mind." The power is not denied; but the power for good, that is permanent spiritual good, will depend upon the quality of the faith, ideas, thought. Is it the truth of the spiritual sense of the Word that is to exercise this beneficent power? If so, is it discerned by the Christian Scientist interpreting the Scriptures by a few Correspondences and many more preconceived notions? Any one who knows anything about it, will not mistake the fanciful speculations that are offered as the spiritual sense of the Word for the genuine truth. Swedenborg says that hereafter none will be permitted, even by a knowledge of Correspondences, to enter into the spiritual sense, except they be principled in genuine doctrine, lest it be profaned. Are these genuine doctrines known to Christian Scientists? Dr. Holcombe will scarcely claim that they are; and it has been shown that a great many notions to which he seems to lend his sanction are directly contrary to the genuine truths revealed by the Lord through His servant, Swedenborg.

But granting that genuine truths are known and acknowledged in their divine rational