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 last fifteen years three or four of the more important works of Swedenborg have been sent to some 30,000 ministers in our country at their own request, the ministers themselves paying the cost of transportation; and some of the smaller works have been sent to more than 80,000 of the American clergy. It is also known that some hundreds of these ministers have become full receivers of the heavenly doctrines and are quietly teaching them to their people, who generally receive them with joy and gladness. And there is reason to believe that there are not less than five thousand ministers in our country, posssibly twice that number, who now accept and teach, to the great satisfaction of their hearers, the fundamental doetrines of the New Church.

Now, if it is the duty of one of these ministers to withdraw from his denomination, it is the duty of all of them. Think of these five thousand or more ministers voluntarily withdrawing from fields in which Providence has placed them, and where their services are so acceptable and so useful! And what shall they do after they have withdrawn? The organized New Church could not furnish a paying employment for half a dozen of them, and they would be compelled to seek some other occupation for which they have little or no fitness, as a means of livelihood. Surely no sane man, not even the editor of the