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...William P. Rivers, Raymond Duncan, Proverbs, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, John Bunyan, Robert Briffault, Dora Russell, Mme Blavatsky, Mary Baker Eddy, Humbert Wolfe, Francis Bacon, Solomon, Dr. Johnson, Tolstoy, Cardinal Faulhaber, Kathleen Norris, Prince von Bülow, Martin Luther, Arthur Davison Ficke, Erdman Harris, The Spirit of Lord Northcliffe, Swedenborg, Joseph Choate and countless others-all out of one of the most remarkable memories and most capacious files in existence...
...would be difficult to find in the writings of any two religious leaders greater differences in premise and conclusion than in those of Swedenborg and Mrs. Eddy. . . . The claim that this daughter of an almost fanatical member of the Congregational Church was sent to Sunday School at a Swedenborgian church, or even that there was such a church in either of the tiny New Hampshire villages where she grew to womanhood, is as ridiculous as it is untrue...
Sirs: In TIME, July 1, under the heading of Religion, p. 21, appeared a more accurate account of Swedenborg and the New Church than usually appears in the public press. . . . I must call your attention, in the interest of accurate reporting, to one essential error. You stated that in 1890 "some members, deciding that Emanuel 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...
More to the point, Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of Christian Science, had considerable contact in her childhood with the teachings of Swedenborg, while attending a New Church Sunday School. Her Science and Health is obviously the garbled result of her acquaintance with Swedenborg, and her utter lack of understanding of his theology...
...birth control, last week's 114th General Convention of the New Church in Detroit stuck strictly to routine business. A few delegates lamented the Church's failure to proselytize the 40,000 persons who last year bought 5? copies of Heaven and Hell from its loosely affiliated Swedenborg Foundation in Manhattan...