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Rh Word opened, whereby it is seen to be a repository of infinite, divine truth and the means of conjoining men and angels to the Lord forever. Third, for the entry intellectually into the things of faith, life, heaven, and the Lord. Fourth, for the Second Coming of the Lord as already having taken place in the world through a new revelation of all, divine truth and of the Lord in the Word. Fifth, for the final church promised by the Lord, named by Him "the New Jerusalem," and described by John as "the New Jerusalem descending from God out of heaven."

Such stupendous claims as these, with a declaration of the Church that it has the actual, rational, and spiritual evidence of its assertions, ought not only to arrest the attention of one here and there, but to move every one having a remnant of affection for the truth to a thorough, impartial, and prayerful investigation of the facts.