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 nesses' with intense interest. It seems to be unique in its nature and use; and if it could have a wide circulation, it would do more than any other book to allay prejudice and stimulate a desire, especially among 'evangelicals,' to study the writings of Swedenborg for themselves. I am surprised at the large number of ministers in the old churches who are reading and teaching the heavenly doctrines. Their testimony has no uncertain sound. And the doctrinal instruction, with which the leading testimonies are replete, make the book doubly valuable.

"I am convinced that no open-minded reader can lay this book aside without a profound conviction that a great light has dawned upon the world. I wish that steps could be taken to give it a large circulation."

"So far as I am able to judge, your 'Independent Witnesses' is one of the best books for the field to be covered that I have yet seen. . . . It shows to those who think affiliation with the New Church [in its largest sense] means solitude and loneliness, that the thought is untrue, and that the larger outlines of the New Truth have found a lodgment in many heads, and will find lodgment in many more.

"We have so many fields and departments of New-Church work to cultivate, that I feel grateful for the thought, and the fact back of the thought, that the Lord gives you strength and wisdom to so vigorously preside over that part of the work which He has in His providence entrusted to your hands."

"Your new book came duly to hand, and I have read it with much pleasure. It is a work which, I