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 unchristian and hurtful attitude—hurtful alike to itself, to other Christians, and to the great Cause which it professes to love! In view of all this, is it strange that other denominations should refuse to recognize Swedenborgians as "evangelical," and should sometimes refuse them the use of their halls and churches when asked for the purpose of promulgating New-Church doctrines? Our attitude certainly does not reveal much of an evangelical spirit. The thing which seems to me far more strange, is, that a minister of the Convention should ever ask or accept the use of such halls or churches, or that it should ever be granted when asked for such a purpose.

True, "a tri-personal trinity, a vicarious atonement," and other kindred errors are yet to be found in the creeds, and are sometimes set forth in religious publications, and taught from the pulpit. But the committee are much mistaken if they suppose that these things form the staple of our present pulpit or journalistic teachings. They are equally mistaken, too, if they imagine that the churches which still hold these things in their "standards," were organized or exist mainly for the purpose of propagating them. The pulpit and the press of to-day touch these subjects infrequently, and then very briefly and cautiously, as if they would be glad to avoid them altogether if they could. And if there are some who still