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 think, will arrest the attention of all into whose hands it may fall. You wisely sounded the true key of the New Gospel when you announced in your preface that the book 'was not written in the interest of any particular sect or denomination.'. . . A very useful book would this 'Cloud of witnesses' be for circulating libraries and for ministers and theological students, and I hope it may be widely distributed among them."

"Since I wrote you last I have finished reading the 'Cloud of Witnesses.' It is a very satisfactory work. One feels fresh courage after seeing the gathered proofs of the appreciation of Swedenborg's teachings. I think the book will be very useful. I hardly need tell you that I do not regard Swedenborg as a source of truth, but as one who has led me to the Source in the Word; and if I find truth there, and try to help others see it, it matters little whether I speak of the guide who brought me to it or not."

These letters are from some of the most intelligent and highly esteemed ministers in the New Church General Convention. And a number of the most intelligent laymen in that body have written in a similar vein. To cite here the words of two or three of them—for they are all of the same general tenor. The President of one of the New-Church societies on the Pacific coast writes:

": Your 'Cloud of Witnesses' I have read with the deepest interest, It is a revelation in two directions. In the [orga-