Page:Swedenborgs Maximus Homo.pdf/178

 brous heap of old errors from the minds of the clergy, and in the substitution of the new truths in lieu of them. And how can this be better done than by furnishing the clergy with some of the luminous works of the New Church or with works calculated to whet their appetites for the new revealings? And this is the very work now in operation, and has been for fifteen years or more, and its success and efficiency are becoming more and more apparent every year.

The agencies employed are clearly of Divine appointment, and have been moved by a wisdom and power not their own. No intelligent New-churchman can for a moment doubt that the Divine Providence moved the heart of Mr. Iungerich to make the bequest he did, and for the purpose above named. And equally plain is it that the same Divine influence moved the heart of Dr. John Ellis to send free to the clergy more than a hundred thousand of Swedenborg's smaller works; and the heart of the President of the Connecticut New-Church Association to send free to them (except cost of postage) the many thousands of Madeley's "Science of Correspondences Elucidated"—a work still in progress and rapidly increasing. And in continuation and enlargement of the same blessed work, the heart of another receiver of the New Christianity has been moved by the same merciful Providence to send to ministers