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 simple language suited to the capacities of all readers. Nevertheless the writings of the apostles are very good books for the Church, as they insist on the doctrine of charity and faith thence derived as strongly as the Lord himself has done in the gospels and in the Revelation of St. John."

Reviewing this whole question of the presence of the Lord in heaven and in the human heart, and the spiritual laws by which revelation is effected, and especially the true nature of the Divine Word, it becomes clear to the mind, how an unfolding, by divine commission and special illumination, of the spiritual sense of that Word, is a veritable Second Coming of the Lord. This is the means whereby the New Jerusalem, a compact body or system of spiritual truth leading to an angelic life upon earth, is "descending from God out of heaven."

How long will the professed church of Christ fail to recognize this stupendous blessing, of which Swedenborg has been only the passive medium? How long will it grope in the darkness of naturalism, adhering to the falsities of the past, and fail to discover the great light which is already streaming from the open heavens, and which will illuminate, in the Lord's time, even the darkest corners of the earth?