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 evening and night compared with morning and day." (Contin. L. J. 12.)

From all of which plain teaching the inference is legitimate and inevitable, that the influx of the new light and life from out the new angelic heaven, must be at this day into a far greater number of persons than the little band of professed Newchurchmen. We may reasonably conclude that there are hundreds of thousands in the various Christian organizations, and doubtless many outside of all organizations, whose souls are open to the influx of the new light and life, and who are therefore in interior and blissful conjunction with the Lord, and in association with the New Heaven of angels. And if this conclusion is well founded, then the New Church of which Swedenborg speaks cannot be a visible body distinguished by its doctrines, but is wider and more comprehensive than any existing organization—as wide, indeed, as the Lord's kingdom on earth.

Furthermore, the rites and ceremonies of the Jewish church were altogether different from those of the Christian. Its worship was of the most external and sensuous kind—purely representative. Its priesthood and all its belongings represented the Lord and the things pertaining to his kingdom. And none of those representative Jewish rites were continued in the Christian church—or only the two ordinances, Baptism and