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Publications of the Swedenborg Pub. Association. HEAVEN

REVEALED.

Being a Popular Presentation

of

Swedenborg' s Disclosures about Heaven, with the Con

current

Testimony

Witnesses. 883

pp., 6J

of

a

few

Competent and Reliable

Br B. F. BARRETT.

X 7 inches ;

large type ; fine cloth ; price, 75 eta.

CONTENTS. the Chosen Instrument. —Objections Answered. — The Origin of Angels. — The Essential Nature of Heaven. —Character of the Angels. — Verdict of Reason and Experience. — Testimony of Scripture. — The Sure Way to Heaven. — Light and Heat in Heaven. — Practical Tendency of this Disclosure. —Environment in Heaven, and What Determines It. — Societies in Heaven. — The Human Form of Heaven. — A Heaven for the Non-Christian World. — Are Eanhly Relationships Continued in Heaven?— Meeting and Recognition of Friends in the Hereafter. — Personal Appearance of the Angels. — Rejuvenescence and Growth in Heaven. — Houses and Homes in Heaven. — Garments in Heaven.— Children in Heaven. — Sex and Marriage in Heaven. — Conjugial Love; its Nature. — Practical Considerations. —Work in Heaven. — The Three Heavens, and How Related. — Eternal Progress in Heaven. — Consocia tion of Angels with Men.

Swedenborg

"It

would seem impossible for any sincere person to read this book without great benefit and satisfaction." — Mount Joy Herald. "Singularly pure and beautiful and rational is the spiritual atmosphere pervading the book, a perpetual invitation to cherish the good and rej'ect the evil." — Boston Herald. " The beautiful yet thoroughly practical teachings of Sweden borg concerning the future life, are clearly and concisely given within this fair-sized volume — and a most readable and instruc tive volume it is." — Boston Evening Transcript. " Ministers of the gospel and religious teacherB of all'grades and denominations will find this book delightfully interesting and instructive." — The Bellefontaine Examiner.

A

Baptist minister writes

have examined Heaven Revealed with the deepest interest and with great delight."

"I

A"Presbyterian

minister writes of it

Anything so suggestive of noble spiritual ideals as this book is, should be gratefully welcomed by every one who is working for humanity s uplifting and regeneration." I Address Swedenboro Publishing Association, Germantown, Philadelohia, Pa, » r