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 both the word and the works of the Lord are true and faithful, and where any apparent disagreement is found, it must be charged to its true cause—to the darkness of our own understanding. Such, we are happy to believe, is the present position of a large portion of the religious world in regard to the Mosaic account of the creation and the known facts of geological science. They cannot deny the truth of the latter, and they will not deny or doubt the truth of the former. They are thus becoming prepared for a light from heaven to flow into their minds and reveal the true spiritual meaning of the word of the Lord. Such a heavenly light is already flowing into the minds of multitudes, through the medium of the divinely illuminated writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, revealing a most beautiful and perfect harmony and consistency between the word and the works of the Lord. And we have no doubt there are vast multitudes more, who will thankfully receive light and instruction through the same heavenly medium after a few more ineffectual attempts to solve those mysteries by their own self derived wisdom.

But while we behold with gratitude the progress of rational truth in regard to the past history of our earth, we recognize with equal delight the beginning of a similar change of opinion in regard to its future destiny. In these changes we behold the religious world rapidly preparing to receive a system of doctrines which will at once most beautifully harmonize spiritual and natural truth—will demonstrate that the word and the works of the Lord are from the same divine author. We already behold the dawning of that day when a pure and spiritual theology will be united to a rational and consistent philosophy; both of which will unite in leading the human race upward towards the per fection and happiness of heaven.

With the hope, therefore, of contributing in some slight degree, to the diffusion of more rational views in regard to the future destiny of our earth, I will briefly present the