body having its ministry who teach, its societies for worship and the cultivation in liberty of its distinctive life, and all the offices of use appertaining to an organized Church.
To this end the New Church is organizing, educating its ministers, forming societies, instituting schools and colleges, and endeavoring to teach, to live, and to form the life according to the truths of the New Dispensation of Heavenly Revelation. The proclamation of the Second Coming of the Lord through the opening of His Word, the salvation of mankind through the power of the Lord in truth intellectually wielded, the presence of God face to face with man in the tabernacle of His Word, a heretofore unknown sanctity of His love in the heart, make the New Church different internally from any former church, and oblige it to have its distinct, external organization and form, similar outwardly to former churches, but internally different, from the quality of its faith and life that is to be developed and extended.
