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 Publications of

the Swedenborg

THE TRUE CATHOLICISM. Comprehensiveness

of

Pub. Association.

Revealing the Breadth and the New Christian Church.

By B. F. BARRETT. 177

pp., 4

X

6

inches.

Prict,

30 eta.

CONTENTS. I. Different rhases of Divine Truth. II. Basis of Christian Union. ITT. Ancient Ground of Church Fellowship. IV. Believers in Triperscn alism. V. Believers in Salvation by Faith Alone. VI. Further Illus trations. VII. Believers in Modern Unitarianisrn. VIII. Some may Drink Deadly Things with Impunity. IX. Truth not Truth with a!i X. The Gentiles. XI. Unity with Diversity. XII. its Receivers. Catholicism of the Gospel. XIII. Truth a Means, not an End. XIV. Conclusion.

An intelligent New-Church minister writes : —

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Whoever has been led to think that thereat New Church i& narrow in its spirit, bigoted in its character, or wanting in liv ing soul-experience, has but to read attentively this little vol ume to learn how great is his mistake. . . . All Christendom should read the book."

Other New-Church ministers have written in a similar vein ; and a probate Judge in a western district writes : —

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have just read your 'True Catholicism,' and consider it the crowning work of your life. There is no foundation left for my little pet notions of sectarianism. The great broad principle of charity fills the heart to overflowing, and we can recognize and fellowship the sincere believer in every land and in every denomination. . . Everybody should read this book.''

An Episcopal minister writes: — " I have this moment finished your ' True

Catholicism,' and I wish it was in the hands of every minister of both the Old and the New Church, and of every member also. ex pect to write some sermons in which I shall largely use your I am going to ask my brother of the Presbyterian book. ministry to read it. I am confident it is a work he will enjoy."

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A minister

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in the Church of the Disciples writes : —

read every word of your 'True Catholicism' with great pleasure, and can think of no more forcible expression of the effect produced by the reading, than this •. feel lifted up. I wish it could be put in the hand and heart of every preacher in the land. Could it be distributed as widely as its charity reaches, I doubt not the next Congress of Churches would urg« a 'movement all along the line.'

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