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 CHAPTER VI.

MONG the eminent witnesses to the truth, value and need of the new revealings through Swedenborg, we cite with much pleasure this distinguished author and estimable man. Dr. Bushnell was for many years pastor of an orthodox Congregational church in Hartford, Connecticut. He was a man of rare spiritual insight, coupled with great freedom and independence of thought, and one of the noblest men that ever occupied the American pulpit. All who have read or will read his "Life and Letters," prepared and edited by his daughter, Mrs. Cheney, cannot fail to see that he was one of the broadest, purest, humblest, and kindliest of men; and that the following testimony publicly borne by his intimate friend and successor, Rev. Dr. Burton, falls far short of the whole truth:—

"Dr. Bushnell's mind," says Dr. Burton, "was one of the rarest. What it was in his books, that it was in private, with certain very piquant and unforgetableunforgettable [sic] personal flavors added. It was original almost beyond