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 its doctrines. And when a person accepts these doctrines and connects himself with some New Church society he is spoken of as a new acquisition to the New Jerusalem, or as having come into the New Church.

A similar idea of the New Church is found in a well written paper by Rev. Frank Sewall, read at the conference of New-Church ministers in Wilmington, Del. (May 19th, 1891), subsequently published in the Boston New Jerusalem Magazine Mr. Sewall says:—

"We may lay down as a principle, that with a new church there arises a new ministry, with directly new commission and new authority—dependent in no wise on any transmission from the old or former church."

And after referring to the apostles of our Lord and their "commission and illumination by the Holy Spirit entirely regardless of any contact with or derivation from the priesthood of the Jewish Church," he proceeds:—

In the same way we must regard the ministry of the New Church as under the Divine auspices inaugurated entirely independently of any succession of power or authority from the former Christian Church."

From which it may be fairly inferred that Mr. Sewall considers the Apocalyptic New Jerusalem