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 nized] New Church it will be like a new star of hope. From the small visible effects upon the world, the heaven-born truths received by us in joy, and scattered abroad for the coming harvest, appeared to many of us as if they had fallen upon the highways of human thought and were trodden under foot. When well-nigh despairing, in our outward feebleness, of the blessings and promises of God, your beautiful book has come with its glad news. The seed was not wasted, but has come up in unexpected places and is bearing its blessed fruit.

"Outside of the [organized] New Church the new truths have been listened to by many congregations, . . . and they have seen with wonder the dawn of the New Day. To them your book will also be a revelation. In reading it they will see how silently these wonderful truths have come among them and found a lodging place.

"May the blessed day soon come when, both within and outside the [nominal] New Church, the loving mercy of God will be seen and recognized—that now, when Christendom is longing for more light, it has been given to the world by God's watchful providence."

And another, who has been a receiver of the New-Church doctrines for more than forty years, writes:—

"Your 'Cloud of Independent witnesses' is a book worthy of all commendation. The arrangement, selections, and comments are all so good—no better could be made. The experience and testimony of so many educated men and independent