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 any reproof to the Iungerich trustees, nor intimated that they were doing anything which merited reproof. It has allowed them to go on for ten or fifteen years encouraging—yes, aiding and abetting—this multitude of ministers in a practice which it considers "essentially dishonest," without uttering a syllable of dissent or reproof, or intimating that they were doing anything reprehensible; yet the editor must know that the aiders and abettors of wrong are quite as blameworthy as the wrong doers themselves. We leave others to explain, if they can, this singular inconsistency. Possibly our esteemed Orange brother can himself explain it.

Near the conclusion of the last great work he wrote (T. C. R.), the herald of the New Jerusalem says:—

"The descent of the New Church cannot take place in a moment, but it takes place as the falsities of the former church are removed. For what is new cannot enter where falsities have previously been implanted until these are eradicated, which eradication will take place [first] with the clergy, and so [i.e., through them as instruments] with the laity." (784.)

From this it would seem that the principal work to which the receivers of the heavenly doctrines should devote themselves to-day, is, or ought to be, to aid in the removal of the cum-