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CHAPTER 11. TESTIMONY OF REV. EDWIN P. HOOD.

THIS distinguished clergyman, though classed with the English Independents or Nonconformists, was cordially welcomed to all orthodox pulpits in America at the time he visited this country a few years ago. He is the author of several interesting works — among others, "A World of Anecdote," " Lamps, Pitchers and Trumpets," and " Swedenborg: A Biography and an Exposition." This latter, according to the author's own testimony, was written purely in the interest of spiritual truth and true religion. A friend (as we are told in the preface) hearing that he was writing such a book, said to him: " Then, of course, you are a Swedenborgian." To whom he replied: " I am *no more a Swedenborgian than I am a Bunyanist, a Howeist, a Bernardite, a Franciscan, a Moreist, a Behmanite, or a Lawite. The sayings and thoughts of all great and true men are precious to me; and I hope I can both receive them and retail them without parting with myself"

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