3. Its Growth
Other Churches have come and gone, but the New Church is the final Church. It will never pass away or be superseded because unto it there is the revelation of all truth which gives access to all life. In it the Lord will be worshipped as He is in heaven, and the increase of His government will know no end through the spiritual development and regeneration of men and women who are of it.
The growth of the New Church will be slow, because its growth is not accomplished merely by the addition of numbers, but by the development of spiritual thought, affection and life. Nor can the efforts of man alone extend it, for its healthy increase is founded upon the opening of the mind to comprehend intellectually the things of heaven and God. The Lord alone does this as He sees that man can be kept in the life of heavenly enlightenment to the
