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object of the following biographical sketches is to endeavour to preserve the remembrance of those worthy men who, though they have not stood in the first rank as, have yet been distinguished for such faithful, steady assistance in the diffusion of New Church Truth, that we would willingly keep their fresh and green.

They are of the class of which it is written, “They that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened and heard, and a Book of Remembrance was written before Him, for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon His

memories

They

Name.

And

hosts, in that

they shall be mine, saith the Lord of

day when

I

make up my

jewels.”

We have not confined

our regard for these worthy fellow-labourers to England, nor indeed to Great Britain, for our desire was to give some information of the manner in which stream after stream was

opened for the flow into other lands of those truths commencing with the One Saviour, the Father

that,

in the Son, God in Christ, in whom dwells “ all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,” will bring into loving unity all the nations of the earth “ I in them,” as the Lord Jesus said, “and Thou in me, that they may be made perfect in One” (John xvii., 23). could not aim at being exhaustive in a small could only hope to afford spework like this. cimens and recollections we would not willingly let die, which may stimulate us all to diffuse truths which will brighten the intellect, animate the hope,

We

We

and for

direct the steps of those

who

strive to

prepare

heaven by becoming heavenly.

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