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TESTIMONY OF REV. JOHN CLOWES. 27

He says, * Then shall ye see the sign of the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory! — Matt, xxiv: 30."

And in his autobiography, or narrative of his religious experience, written when he was seventy-five years of age, and after he had experienced the enlightening and comforting influence of the truths of the New Church for nearly half a century, he says:—

"The author cannot conclude his narrative without offering up to the Father of Mercies his most devout and grateful acknowledgments for the extraordinary privilege and inestimable blessing vouchsafed him, in having been admitted to the knowledge and acknowledgment of the truth and importance of the doctrines unfolded by Swedenborg from the Word of God, as the genuine doctrines of Christianity. For what worldly glory, gain, or happiness can stand in competition with this, — to know Jesus Christ to be the only true God, and to be allowed to approach and worship Him in His Divine Humanity; to be delivered thus from all perplexity as to the proper object of worship; to see, at the same time, the divine volume of Revelation opened; its interior treasures displayed; its evidence and authority thus

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