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 ings in the hands of such persons in their present state.

There is another class, however—a considerably smaller class, it may be, but steadily increasing—in whom the spiritual consciousness has been awakened, and who are prepared to receive and understand spiritual truth. They are not satisfied with the sensuous interpretation of Scripture, nor with the irrational doctrines formulated in a dark age, and taught them from their childhood for Bible truths. They long for some definite knowledge of the spiritual world, of the nature of heaven and hell, of the laws of the soul's higher life—a knowledge, in short, of that complete system of religious truth, of the very existence of which they are at present altogether ignorant. This is the class of persons who are capable of receiving and being greatly blessed by the truths of the New Dispensation, and whom we desire to reach with our literature. But there are obstructions to be removed—a general disinclination on the part of this class of persons to read our books, arising from one or the other of the following causes:—

1. Total ignorance of the real nature of their teaching, and of the priceless value of the truths they contain.

2. The prevailing prejudice against them, arising from this ignorance and the current misrepresentation of the character of their teaching.