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 The New York Christian Union says:

"Certainly no man living up to the spirit of the tenets of Swedenborg, should be other than a sincere, humble and sweet-minded Christian."

The New York Evening Post says:

"It is safe to say that Swedenborg's system has produced a very profound influence upon modern religious thought. It has materially changed methods of presentation of old and almost universally accredited truths. Its influence has been all the more potent because silent and unrecognized. Certainly he who desires to understand the religious convictions of the present age, cannot afford to be ignorant of the contribution which Emanuel Swedenborg has made toward them."

The Pittsburg Gazette says:

"No system of religion in these latter days has awakened so much interest as that of Swedenborg; and with it, a desire to understand its deep mysterious workings."

The Chicago Evening Journal says:

"There is not a reflective person in the world whom Swedenborg's writings will not interest. Count him a visionary, a man maddened with 'too much learning,' or a 'spiritualist;' and yet there is that in his philosophy, however we may treat it under the prejudices of our early training, which makes us wish that his writings were true, or that we dared to adopt his belief."

Similar opinions have latterly been expressed by many other journals scarcely less prominent than those here quoted. And they indicate the remarkable change