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 have done the cause of truth by the amount of testimony you have gathered and published under the title of 'A Cloud of Independent Witnesses.' It cannot but do a most useful work in this transition period of church history. . . . It is instructive and truly inspiring to have the best thought of so many teachers collected into a single volume. I wish some wealthy 'lover of his kind' could be brought to see the good he might do by presenting a copy of this work to every minister of the Gospel in the United States. What a blessing it would be to have this broad outlook placed before them!"

A learned and eminent Professor writes:—

"I have read with great interest your late book of testimonials of eminent theologians, of different denominations, to their acceptance and advocacy of religious views wonderfully unlike doctrines called orthodox half a century ago, yet wonderfully in accord with the widely taught and rapidly growing religious sentiment of to-day. Whence the leaven that has so notably modified religious belief and practice, and manifests daily increased activity and results? From the venerable Clowes and the almost youthful Drummond the Heavenly Doctrines enunciated by Swedenborg are clearly manifest. These and hundreds of other conscious or unconscious heralds of the sublime truths formulated in The True Christian Religion, are not plagiarists, any more than are the planets which reflect the solar rays and influences . . . In scattering broadcast, like the seed-sower of the parable, the helpful, comforting, ennobling, soul-saving truths of Swedenborg, as widely and