ir lives, which is much to be admired. I
should fancy the artist Blake was a Swedenborgian. Amongst the active
Swedenborgians of the past I find such names as John Flaxman, sculptor;
William Sharpe, engraver; the Rev. Joseph Gilpin, curate to Fletcher of
Madely; and James Hindmarsh, one of Wesley's preachers; Charles Augustus
Tulk, a friend of Joseph Hume, and M.P. for Sudbury in 1821; Samuel
Crompton, the inventor of the spinning-mule, of whom it was truly
remarked by his biographer, "Few men, perhaps, have ever conferred so
great a benefit on their country and reaped so little profit for
themselves." In our time Swedenborgianism was represented in Parliament
by Mr. Richard Malins, now Sir Richard, and a Vice-Chancellor. Mr. Hiram
Power, the American sculptor, is a zealous missionary of the
Swedenborgian faith. The chief of the living Swedenborgian literati in
this country are Dr. Garth Wilkinson, and the Rev. Augustus Clissold,
formerly of Exeter College, Oxford. Other well-known names in connexion
with the sect are Mr. Isaac Pitman and Mr. George Hartly Grindon.

The Society shows signs of life. In Islington there is a college for the
education of young men for the ministry. Mr. W. White, no friendly
witness,--he was driven from the community on the question of
spiritualism,--writes on the testimony of Her Majesty's
inspectors:--"There are no better schools of their class in England than
those maintained by the Swedenborgians of Manchester and Salford, in
which about fourteen hundred children are educated." The Swedenborgians
have besides a national missionary institution, with a very limited
income, and two societies for the production of tracts, one in London and
the other in Manchester. The London Missionary and Tract Society of the
New Church had in 1865 an income of 209_l._, and circulated 32,000
tracts. The Manchester New Jerusalem Tract Society had the same year an
income of 154_l._, and circulated 100,000 tracts; their chief society is
that for printing and publishing the writings of Emmanuel Swedenborg,
established in London in the year 1810. "For half a century," writes Mr.
White, "this society was the happy meeting place of all who had any
lively interest in Swedenborg, whether citizens of Hindmarsh's New
Jerusalem, or Churchmen like Clowes, or Quakers like Harrison, or
unattached like Tulk." In 1845 the Swedenborg Association was formed in
London to promote the sale of Swedenborg's writings, w