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 aged and very intelligent receiver of our doctrines, from which I make the following interesting and pertinent quotation:—

"Rev. Mr. of the   Church [one of the prominent 'evangelical' churches] of this city, is desirous of subscribing for your 'Swedenborg Library' and has given me the inclosed $5.00 for the purpose. . . . Mr.  largely a New Churchman, and is very much pleased with the idea of having the books in question. His congregation is the largest in the city, and no Sabbath passes that he does not give his hearers a dose of the truth, and that in large measure. And the beauty of it is, they all swallow it with avidity and pray for more of the same sort."

Nor is the case here described an exceptional one, or by any means rare. We should find, if the whole truth were known, that there are literally hundreds of the same sort in our own country; else the gratuitous distribution of "51,500 volumes of the writings of Swedenborg" among "clergymen and theological students" within the last few years, and which is reported as among the encouraging signs of the new times, has been a reckless waste of money which we ought rather to mourn over than to rejoice at. And, strange as it may seem, even the chairman of this very committee, and presumably, therefore, the author of the document under review, in another paper (his