difference is increasing, and becoming more and more apparent.

"And thus it is that the New Jerusalem may be seen 'descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God.' Thus may the Lord Himself be seen coming anew to the churches in the spirit and power of His now unsealed Word. Thus do we behold Him breaking through and dispersing the mists of naturalism, and gladdening the hearts of his sincere followers with a new manifestation of Himself;-coming,' agreeably to his own prediction, in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.' Thus may a New Church be seen slowly forming, not as a new visible institution-not as a separate and distinct organization, but rather as a new spirit and life entering into the great heart of humanity and moulding it anew; comparatively as the earth, on the return of each new spring-time, receives a fresh influx of the solar rays, and so becomes a new earth clad afresh with verdure and beauty. A church not antagonistic to existing organizations, but cordially sympathizing with and reanimating them all."-The Golden City.

The late Rev. John Clowes, Rector of St. John's Church, Manchester, England, who for many years, without ever being required to sever his connection with the Church of England, openly and boldly taught the doctrines revealed through Swedenborg, and translated many of his works into English, says:

"Nothing, therefore, can be plainer, than that the New Jerusalem Dispensation is to be universal, and to extend uto all people, nations, and languages on the face of the earth, to be a blessing unto such as are meet to receive a blessing. Sects and sectarians, as such, can find no place in this General Assembly of the ransomed of the Lord. All the little distinctions of modes, forms, and particular expressions of devotion and worship, will be swallowed up and lost in the unlimited effusions of heavenly love, charity and benevolence with which the hearts of every member of

this glorious New Church and Body of Jesus Christ will overflow one toward another. Men will no longer judge one another as to the mere externals of church communion, be they perfect or be they imperfect; for they will be taught that, whosoever acknowledges the incarnate Jehovah in heart and life, departing from all evil, and doing what is right and good according to the commandments, he is a member of the New Jerusalem, a living stone in the Lord's new Temple, and a part of that great family in heaven and, earth, whose common Father and Head is Jesus Christ. Every one, therefore, will call his neighbor Brother, in whom he observes this spirit of pure charity; and he will ask no questions concerning the form of words which compose his creed, but will be satisfied with observing in him the purity and power of a heavenly

life."

What a glorious prospect does this New Dispensatior open to our race!

"The last great campaign of the kingdom of heaven upon earth is opening before us, and the inmost heart of Christianized humanity is beating in unison with the movement; while the utterances of the ancient prophets become the sacred watchwords of the hour, the inspired directions for the march, and the songs of holy joy that are set to the music of the camps." * * *

"All nations whom Thou hast made shall come and worship before Thee, O Jehovah, and shall glorify Thy Name." * * *

"The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. * * * "In the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom that shall never be destroyed; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever."

"And there shall be given him dominion and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve Him; His dominion is the dominion of an age which

shall not pass away, and His kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." *

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"The earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea." * * *

"After those days, saith the Lord, I will put My law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people; they shall all know Me from the least unto the greatest, saith Jehovah, for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."

"Thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken." "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men."

"I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven."

"Let us be glad, and rejoice, and give the glory unto Him,' that our lot is cast in these latter times; that we are permitted to live at the day in which all these things are beginning the march of their fulfillment, and that, in His merciful provision for human want, the Lord has caused to break forth from the bosom of His Word a system of theology and philosophy, not man-made but heavendescended, which leads-by a thousand years--the highest aspirations of human thought, fitted to the age-to serve as a lamp to the movement; the glory of God to lighten us, and to instruct us aright in these great themes."

"And let us, one and all, lend our hearts and our hands to this movement; working where we stand in aid of its fulfillment, and helping, as far as in as lies, to bring about in our time some of its blessed results."-Light on Last Things.

The sender of this pamphlet desires again affectionately and earnestly to call the reader's attention to the writings containing these new revelations, from our ever-blessed

Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Upon the last page of this work the reader will find an advertisement containing a notice of the very low price at which the different volumes of Swedenborg's writings, and some of the collateral writings, will be sent by mail postage paid. It is not to make money that the writings are sent at such a low price, and that the present volume is sent free to the recipient thereof, but to make known the glorious truths of a New Dispensation from God to man, which are so much needed to counteract the present tendency to skepticism. That the readers of this will obtain and read, and that the Lord may open their understandings and hearts for the reception of the heavenly doctrines of the Holy City, New Jerusalem, now descending from God out of Heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband, is the earnest prayer of every disciple of the New Dispensation.

It was apparently the opinion of Swedenborg that his writings would be read by the clergy, who would teach the doctrines therein contained to their congregations, and thus the glorious truths for this new era or crowning church, would be spread among the people; for, in speaking of the descent of the New Church or New Jerusalem, from God out of Heaven, he says it can only take place "in proportion as the falses of the former church are removed, for what is new cannot gain admission where falses have before been implanted, unless those falses are first rooted out; and this must first take place among the clergy, and by their means among the laity."

We thank the Lord for the abundance of evidence that this process is rapidly going on around us in all the churches, and to do what we can to hasten on this great and noble work, or to be humble instruments in the Lord's hands for aiding in its accomplishment, is our sole aim in sending these few words-a brotherly message to you. Not as sectarians do we send them, for the New Jerusalem, as we have abundantly shown in the preceding pages,

is not a sect, but a New Dispensation of divine truth for the benefit of all sects and all men.

XXXIII.

The Divine Promise to those who Receive the New Jerusalem at the Second Coming of the Lord.

(BY REV. WM. B. HAYDEN.)

"Remember therefore, how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent." * *

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"I know thy works: behold I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name."

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"Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is New Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name" (Rev. iii. 3, 8, 12).

The Lord Jesus Christ is at this day doing a remarkable work; in some respects one of the most remarkable He has ever performed. He is effecting His Second Advent, and is beginning to establish in the world His new and final church, which in His Word He calls the New Jerusalem.

He has caused the volume of His Word to be opened more fully to human apprehension, the prophetic portions of the Bible being explained as to their spiritual and heavenly meaning; while that pure and perfect system of True Christian Doctrine, which the angels of heaven derive from the Divine Word, has been revealed for our use and instruction, and written out in the language of men by Emanuel Swedenborg, a man specially illuminated by the Lord for this purpose.

This wonderful system of heavenly trnths He has caused to be printed and circulated in books, not only in Latin,