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 their true character, and that the fears of innocent and uninstructed people are altogether groundless. And this testimony is not that of pronounced Swedenborgians, which might be open to the suspicion of being prompted by a desire to strengthen and build up a particular denomination; it is, on the contrary, thoroughly independent, being the testimony of educated men who have studied both the Old and the New Theology, and are able, therefore, to judge of their respective merits; and not one of them was ever identified with the organization known as the New Church.

And this book is not only well fitted to sweep away the obstructions above named, but to awaken, in all who feel any interest in spiritual things, an earnest desire to know more about the New Christianity; and its wide circulation, therefore, cannot fail to greatly increase the demand for New Church literature.

Moreover, the facts and testimonies which the book records, and its cordial approval of the course which thousands of the most advanced and esteemed clergy in our land are at this time pursuing, are in complete agreement with what is taught in the foregoing pages of the present volume, and with Swedenborg's prediction concerning the effects of the Last Judgment, and the descent of the New Jerusalem. (See A. E. 1217; L. J. 73, 74; Contin. L. J. 12, 30; T. C. R. 784.)