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 work would cost, to be given to ministers and theological students. In answer to this brother's inquiry I sent him the figures at once; and not many days thereafter I received from him another letter ordering a thousand copies printed, and enclosing his check for the cost of the edition. And in this letter he says: "I wish some one else would send enough to make the edition 2000 instead of 1000. But if not, perhaps by the time the 1000 are distributed, I may be able to pay for another edition."

Our brother particularly requested that no publicity be given to his name in connection with this transaction. This, viewed in connection with his well-known blameless and Christian character, proves that it was no selfish or worldly consideration, but a Divine impulse which moved him to this generous and benevolent deed. One would hardly suppose that a bad book, or a book that counsels ministers to pursue a course which is "essentially dishonest," would receive such a signal token of the Divine approval as the "Cloud of Independent Witnesses" has received in the incident here recorded. It is much easier and much more reasonable to believe that the worthy editor of the New Church Messenger has "erred in vision and stumbled in judgment," than to believe that the Lord ever makes a mistake