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Rh end, which depends upon the quality of affection for truth.

The growth of the New Church, though slow, will be sure and permanent. For its increase is not from masses of people moved by persuasion, excitement or emotion to accept a statement of faith, but from the calm and resolute judgment made through enlightened reason and the insight into truth that comes from a love of its good.

Its growth depends also upon another factor, which makes it sure and orderly. A new church depends upon a new heaven which must be formed in the spiritual world to act as the soul of the New Church upon the earth.

Heaven is so related to the earth that as the Church in heaven increases by the addition of regenerating people passing from the earth, the Church upon earth will grow.

In reality there is but one kind of Church growth that is to be cared for, or