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 not allow the name to mislead us into thinking that it is the genuine article. The Memorial nowhere objects to this.

But the specific and real New Church, according to Swedenborg, consists of those and those only "who believe in the Lord and live according to his commandments in the Word." (A. R. 925.) Only the Lord Himself knows just who and where these people are. But we cannot doubt that they are widely scattered. We cannot doubt that some of them are in all the Christian churches of to-day—though it is to be hoped that a somewhat larger percentage, and a somewhat better quality than the average, is to be found in the organized New Church. But that by far the larger portion of the New Church is now outside of the organization bearing its name, is plain from Swedenborg's explanation of the meaning of that "great multitude". (Rev. vii, 9) which he says are "in the Lord's New Heaven and New Church," but composing the external thereof, which is to the internal about in the proportion of the body to the head.

But what are the central principles of the New Church?—They are all contained in the Word of God, and the essentials of them are, therefore, accessible to all who read and reverence the Word. For "the Word in its literal sense," we are told, "is like a man clothed, whose face and hands are naked. Everything in the Word,