Word: athyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...church, presided at the Manhattan Swedenborg banquet to which President Roosevelt sent a praiseful telegram. In Boston, Swedenborgians dined in their Church of the New7 Jerusalem on Beacon Hill. In Philadelphia, Episcopalian Joseph Fort Newton spoke at a Swedenborg gathering in the University Club, while in nearby suburban Bryn Athyn, Swedenborgians of the schismatic General Church of the New Jerusalem held a dinner in the assembly hall of their slowly-building cathedral. These Swedenborgians have a bishop-George de Charms-whereas the main body of U. S. believers, from which they split in 1890, maintains a congregational form of government...
...firing and blowing of the glass to assembling a mosaic of 2,850 variously colored pieces in the two 10-ft. windows. The clear, simple details were added later with a needle-fine brush. In his big, cluttered studio and furnace, a converted barn at Huntingdon Valley near Bryn Athyn, Pa., Artist Saint has 1,500 color formulas based on chemical analysis of glass going back 700 years. He has made 300 shades of blue. His formula for ruby, heart of all good stained glass, covers eight typewritten pages, can "go wrong in 40 ways," comes out striated with layers...
...building of the Bryn Athyn Swedenborgian Cathedral was started by Raymond Pitcairn as a medieval craft centre. Lawrence Saint worked enthusiastically on its stained glass for eleven years, studied his subject more & more deeply, often wished he could completely approximate 13th Century windows by making his own glass instead of using the "stock" colors of commercial furnaces. Then one day he chanced to see in a yellowed newspaper clipping a photograph of the architect's model for the National Cathedral...
...Swedenborg's revelations of the Scriptures' hidden meanings had hidden meanings all their own, began to incorporate his writings in their services. Result: a schism, creating the General Church of the New Jerusalem which now has 2,500 members and the No. 1 Swedenborgian academy at Bryn Athyn, Pa." The real basis for the schism lay, not in any hidden meanings within hidden meanings, but rather in the belief that the theological writings of Emanuel Swedenborg were Divinely inspired and are, in fact, the Word of God, constituting the Third Testament. The schism was in reality an adherence...
...Swedenborg's revelations of the Scriptures' hidden meanings had hidden meanings all their own, began to incorporate his writings in their services. Result: a schism, creating the General Church of the New Jerusalem which now has 2,500 members and the No. 1 Swedenborgian academy at Bryn Athyn...