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 New-Church Messenger, would advise any such unreasanable, such absolutely idiotic, course as this.

And what of the wisdom or expediency of course No. 2? This is what we presume the Messenger editor would advise. Let us briefly consider it.

If the thousands of ministers who now receive the New-Church doctrines in a greater or less degree of fullness, and are quietly teaching them to their people, should openly say to their several congregations, "The doctrines we now believe and must henceforth preach, are not those formulated in the creed you have subscribed, but are the doctrines taught in the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg," what would be the effect of such an announcement? Why, in every congregation where there has hitherto been peace and harmony and a gradual learning of the new truths, there would at once arise disturbance, strife, and division. It could not be otherwise; for the name of Swedenborg is associated in the minds of most of them with religious folly and fanaticism, and in the minds of some with a species of monomania. Some have made but slight progress in learning the new truths, and very few are yet sufficiently advanced to see the unity and harmony of them and their agreement with reason and Scripture. Many facts, the existence of which cannot be denied, would combine to sway the minds of the majority against the retention of their minister