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 of the church on earth akin to that of the church in heaven, it cannot be denied that the new organization, so far as it is faithful to the revealings it accepts, is leading all the others. That this is so, is abundantly evident from passages like the following, which are of such frequent occurrence throughout its authorized Writings as to form one of their most characteristic features. The teaching of these passages, as the reader will sее, is not only in perfect accord with the new doctrine of the Grand Man, but is all involved in it, and grows legitimately and necessarily out of it.

There are three essentials of the church: an acknowledgment of the Lord's Divinity, an acknowledgment of the holiness of the Word, and the life which is called charity. . . . If these three had been held as the essentials of the church, intellectual differences would not have divided but only varied it, as light varies the colors of beautiful objects, and as a variety of jewels constitutes the beauty of a kingly crown." (D. P., n. 259.)

"Heaven exists wherever the Lord is acknowledged, believed in, and loved. Variety in the worship of Him arising from the variety of good in different societies, is not injurious but