eep consideration
to the condition of the Christian Church, revealed in otherworld
judgment to be one of spiritual devastation and impotency. To serve in
the revelation of "doctrine for a New Church" became his Divinely
appointed work. He forwent his reputation as a man of science, gave up
his assessorship, cleared his desk of everything but the Scriptures.
He beheld in the Word of God a spiritual meaning, as he did a
spiritual world in the world of phenomena. In revealing both of these
the Lord, he said, made His Second Coming. For the rest of his long
life Swedenborg gave himself with unremitting labor but with a saving
calm to this commanding cause, publishing his great Latin volumes of
Scripture interpretation and of theological teaching at Amsterdam or
London, at first anonymously, and distributing them to clergy and
universities. The titles of his principal theological works appear in
the following compilation from them. Upon his death-bed this herald of
a new day for Christianity solemnly affirmed the reality of his
experience and the reception by him of his teaching from the Lord.

Swedenborg died in London, March 29, 1772. In 1908 his remains were
removed from the Swedish Church in that city to the cathedral at
Upsala, where they lie in a monument erected to his memory by the
Swedish Parliament.

WILLIAM F. WUNSCH.

_Documents Concerning the Life and Character of Swedenborg_
(3 vols.) 1875-1877, R.L. Tafel, is the main collection of
biographical material; _The Life and Mission of Emanuel
Swedenborg_, 1883, Benjamin Worcester, and _Emanuel
Swedenborg, His Life, Teachings and Influence_, 1907, George
Trobridge, are two of the better known biographies.

THE GIST OF SWEDENBORG

"At this day nothing but the self-evidenced reason of love
will re-establish the Church."--_Canons_, Prologue.

GOD THE LORD

"Believe in God: believe also in Me."

_John_, XIV, 1

"My Lord, and my God!"

_John_, XX, 28

ONE AND INFINITE

God is One, and Infinite. The true quality of the Infinite does not
appear; for the human mind, however highly analytical and exalted, is
itself finite, and the finiteness in it cannot be laid aside. It is
not fitted, therefore, to see the Infinity of God, and thus God, as He
is in Himself, but can see God from behind in shadow; as it is said of
Moses, when he asked to see G