PREFACE.
The object of the following biographical sketches is to endeavour to preserve the remembrance of those worthy men who, though they have not stood in the first rank as Apostles of the New Dispensation, have yet been distinguished for such faithful, steady assistance in the diffusion of New Church Truth, that we would willingly keep their fresh and green.
They are of the class of which it is written, “They that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened and heard, and a Book of Remembrance was written before Him, for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon His
memories
They
Name.
And
hosts, in that
they shall be mine, saith the Lord of
day when
I
make up my
jewels.”
We have not confined
our regard for these worthy fellow-labourers to England, nor indeed to Great Britain, for our desire was to give some information of the manner in which stream after stream was
opened for the flow into other lands of those truths commencing with the One Saviour, the Father
that,
in the Son, God in Christ, in whom dwells “ all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,” will bring into loving unity all the nations of the earth “ I in them,” as the Lord Jesus said, “and Thou in me, that they may be made perfect in One” (John xvii., 23). could not aim at being exhaustive in a small could only hope to afford spework like this. cimens and recollections we would not willingly let die, which may stimulate us all to diffuse truths which will brighten the intellect, animate the hope,
We
We
and for
direct the steps of those
who
strive to
prepare
heaven by becoming heavenly.
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