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TESTIMONY OF REV, JOHN CLOWES. 23


MR. NOBLE'S ESTIMATE OF HIM.

Rev. Samuel Noble, a distinguished New Church writer, who was an intimate friend of Mr. Clowes, speaks of him as the " principal instrument " in ex- tending the knowledge of Swedenborg's teachings throughout the kingdom of Great Britain. He com- pares him with the illustrious seer, and thinks he stood to him in a relation similar to that of Aaron to Moses. He says :

"To Britons, and to all who speak the language of Britain, he stood in a relation toward Swedenborg analogous to that which Aaron bore to Moses. But for him, or some other person raised to fill the office which he discharged so well, Swedenborg must still have been, to almost all, both in a natural and spirit- ual point of view, as Moses says of himself, * slow of speech, and of a slow tongue; ' — unintelligible to the generality, not more for the learned language in which he wrote, than for the elevated and abstract character of the divine truths which he delivered. But in Mr. Clowes he found a genuine 'brother,' — a kindred spirit, eminently qualified, as another Aaron, to be his

  • spokesman unto the people.' This character he sus-

tained not only by the translation of his works from Latin into English, which any other learned man

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