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 judiciously as your hundred or more grateful correspondents have, whether labeled as his or not, you have well served your Divine Master and benefited your brother man."

We make these few quotations from the many letters received since the publication of "Independent Witnesses," for reasons which New churchmen generally will understand and appreciate, especially those who read the New-Church Messenger—although it is not probable that many of this class will ever see them. And not a word has been received essentially different from the foregoing extracts. And all the letters quoted are from intelligent and esteemed ministers and laymen—most of them in organic connection with the N. C. General Convention. And in the same commendatorv terms have the independent New-Church journals, such as the New Jerusalem Magazine, the New-Church Pacific, and The New Christianity, spoken of " Independent Witnesses." The only adverse criticism of the book which has ever come to our notice appeared in the New-Church Messenger. The editor of that paper occupied a full column mainly in trying to prove that this book counsels ministers to pursue a course that is "essentially dishonest," and that it is therefore to be considered a bad book, and one which ought to be everywhere spoken against. That this is an utterly groundless and mistaken