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 turned, which seemed alike unjust to me, to the readers of the Messenger, and to the cause of truth to which that paper is devoted. For all those readers are still left under the totally false impression that Mr. Barrett, in his old age, has written a book that is highly discreditable to the New Church, since it encourages and counsels ministers of the gospel to an immoral and wicked practice. It is to be hoped that our brother will ere long see the injustice of this, and hasten to undo it.

A brief record of the following incident may not be an inappropriate conclusion (or part of it) to the foregoing chapters, and may be of interest to all who are interested in the widest and speediest promulgation of the doctrines of heaven.

Since the foregoing pages were prepared and more than half of them in type, I received a letter from a devoted Newchurchman in relation to the "Cloud of Independent Witnesses." And after speaking of the great pleasure with which he had read the work, and expressing his deep sense of its importance, and its value as a New Church missionary, especially to the clergy, he wished to know what an edition of a thousand copies of the