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 expositor, and in conformity with the unfolding reason and increasing spiritual wants of our race. It is, in short, such an advance on the Old, or rather such an unfolding of its real character so long overlaid and concealed by the falsities which ecclesiastical councils had superinduced upon it, as justly to merit the designation of a New Christianity.

But only very imperfectly has this New Christianity as yet been embodied in any considerable number of people. Only very feebly and faintly have its surpassing beauty and rationality and catholicity been illustrated, even by those most familiar with its doctrines. But its ultimate triumph over all that is false and evil in human souls and human society is sure; for its source and centre and abiding inspiration is Infinite Wisdom and Love.

the foregoing chapter we showed that the relation of the New to the Old or former Christian Church is very different from the relation of Christianity to Judaism. While the New Church is not a new and different religion from the Old,