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 the Holy Supper. All but these were abolished at the Savior's advent. (T. C. R. 660; A. C 4904.) It is said in the Heavenly Arcana, that "representatives of the Lord and his kingdom ceased when the Lord came into the world." (9372.) All of which goes to show that the religion established at the Advent was a new and totally different religion from that of the Jews; and that the Christian church was by no means a continuation, revival, or re-establishment of the Jewish.

But can the same be said of the New in its relation to the Old or first Christian Church? Certainly not. On the contrary the New Church is still the Christian Church—and more truly Christian than the Old or former one. Its ritual is substantially the same as that of the Old; its ordinances are precisely the same; its form of worship is the same; three-fourths of its sermons (possibly seven-eighths) would be generally acceptable to almost any (so-called) Old Church congregation, if no mention were made of Swedenborg or the New Church; and about all of its hymns of thanksgiving, homage, love and praise are the productions of persons belonging to what is commonly understood and called by Swedenborgians the Old Church. The collection in the New Church liturgy now before me contains hymns by Wesley, Doddridge, Addison,