Otherwise, if the end were here--if we were to be covered over and tucked in with the Thirty-nine Articles or the like, and good-night to us for a sound sleep in 'sound doctrine'-- I should fear for a revealed religion incapable of expansion according to the needs of man.

What comes from God has life in it, and certainly from all the growth of living things, spiritual growth cannot be excepted.

But I shun religious controversy--it is useless.

I never 'disturb anybody's mind,' as it is called--let those sleep who can.

If I had not known that _your_ mind was broken up rather broadly by truths out of Swedenborg, I should not have mooted the subject, be sure.