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HIS little work consists of a series of lectures delivered by the author in the New Jerusalem Temple in San Francisco, in the spring and autumn of 1878. They were well received at the time of their delivery, and a considerable number of persons who heard them, have since expressed a desire to see them in a printed form. They are therefore given here substantially as they were delivered, in the hope that they may, in their present form, reach a somewhat larger audience, and thus become more extensively useful.

The work lays no claim to doctrinal originality, nor does it pretend to be an exhaustive treatise on the sublime subject whereof it treats. It has been the author's desire and purpose simply to present in an intelligible and compact form, the rational and Scriptural argument in support of the more prominent beliefs and teachings of the New Church