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 heavenly doctrines revealed through him will be diffused among the people on earth—the very way, be it observed, so fully illustrated by the facts recorded in "Independent Witnesses."

"The descent of the New Jerusalem, that is, the New Church," he says, "cannot take place in a moment, but only as the falsities of the former church are removed. For what is new cannot enter where falsities have been ingenerated, until these have been eradicated; and this will take place by means of the clergy [that is, through them as instruments], and thus with the laity," (T. C. R. 784.)

And this process has been going on rapidly for the last ten or fifteen years, as shown by copious extracts from ministers' letters in "Independent Witnesses." And what possible interpretation of this passage can be given, which makes it disagree with the recorded and well-known facts, and with the policy so sternly proscribed by the Messenger?

The Messenger regards it as wrong and immoral for a minister "occupying a denominational pulpit," and "professedly expounding the doctrines of Christianity from that denominational standpoint," to preach the doctrines of the New Church without telling his people that he is teaching them the New Christianity. But wherein lies the wrong? The minister was not ordained to preach Calvinism or Lutherism or Wesleyism, but the gospel of the