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 Day and other important events, which have been expected to happen at the same time with the destruction of the earth, must be looked for in the world of spirits, and that they will be known in the natural world only by their effects.

A somewhat lengthy section was then taken up in endeavoring to unfold and explain the nature of the spiritual world, and to show that while in its essential character, it is entirely unlike the natural world, it is nevertheless even more real and substantial. And as the design of the last judgment must be to bring to light the real internal character of every spirit, and to show whether heaven or hell is his destined abode, a section was occupied in endeavoring to unfold the true nature of these opposite spiritual states. And in the last place our attention has been directed to the nature of the Last Judgment, both in its individual and its general sense.

I must now leave this whole subject with the reader. I do so with the earnest desire and hope that he will give it that patient and faithful examination which its importance demands;—that he will not dismiss it with a hasty or even a careful perusal of this little book, but that he will seek for and thoroughly examine those highly important and interesting works, to which reference has so often been made. I have not endeavored to conceal from the reader, that my chief design in writing these pages, has been to awaken in his mind so much interest in this subject, as would lead him to sources from whence he can obtain much higher, clearer and more perfect views than I could possibly present. The few who have already become familiar with the works of our illuminated author, will have no occasion to read this little work of mine, unless for the purpose of determining whether it is suitable to be put into the hands of others. But it may be safely presumed that the most of those, into whose hands this little book will fall, have hitherto known very little of the works referred to. Those works have probably been heard of only through the prejudiced misrepresentations of