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like manner all difficulties and doubts were removed respecting the sacred Scriptures, or Word of God, through the bright and heretofore unseen manifestation of their spiritual and interior contents, by virtue of which discovery apparent inconsistencies vanished, apparent contradictions were reconciled; and what before seemed trivial and nugatory, assumed a new and interesting aspect; while the whole volume of Revelation was seen to be full of sanctity, of wisdom and of love from its Divine Author, and also to be in perpetual connection with that Author, who is its inmost soul — its essential Spirit and Life!'

Such is the account which Mr. Clowes himself has given of his conversion to the New Christianity, and his intense and steadily increasing interest in the New Jerusalem verities.

HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER.

And what was the character of the man who relates this remarkable experience? What reputation did he bear among his contemporaries and acquaintances? The fact that he was Rector of St. John's Church for more than half a century, and retained for this whole period the affection of his people in a manner almost without a parallel — and this, too, notwithstanding his known interest in the doctrines of the New Church,

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