Vandalia Whig and Illinois intelligencer. [volume] (Vandalia, Ill.) 1832-183?, 1833-08-21

-'From thick films shall purge the visual ray,
And on the sighhess eyeball pour celestial day.,'
From the Presbyterian.
SwEDENBoRGIANs.--The following ex-
tract from one of the letters of minister
of New England, may be amusing, per.
haps incidentally instructive to some of
our readers. The doctrines to which it
alludes, will be recognized as the tenets
of the Swedcnborgians. Emanuel Swe-
denborg, the founder of the sect, was a
Swedish Baron, who was born at Stock.
holm in 1853. His education was good,
and his learning extensive. In 1743, he
had his well known remarkable vision,
and from that date. he tell us, his spiritual
eyes were opened, so that he was con.
SANITY able to see and converse with an
gels and the spirits Of departed men,
Most OF his writings which abound in the
marvellous, were published subsequently,
to the date Of bis vision. Among other
strange notions, he maintains that the last
judgment actually took pluce in the spir-
itual world, in 1857. The Swedenborgi-
ans in this country are organized into
general convention. In 1929, the num-
Der of their ministers was twenty. nine.
and they bad regularly organized places of
worship in twenty eight towns. But to
return TO the extract, it is as follows:-
Speaking of Swedenborgianism, the wrl-
ter says:
81 have just been conversing for two
hours, with one of the converts TO this
system Of fanaticism. He knows that
there is God because it has been re.
vealed TO him. Millions of angels and
spirits OF departed men, are around him
every day; and he sees them. 1t has
been his great busiess and delight for Sc
ven years to talk and sing with Them
He has conversed with all the kings of
England, with all the great men Of an.
tlqulty that he has read of, and even with
the giants Of patriarchical times. The
winged spirits of little children too, are
among the mulltudes, and what is not at
all strange, they sometimes read in Dill
worth's spelling book, in classes, as at
school. These spirits are all dressed in
white; they come in rows as if strung IN
strings; and when they first come into
sight, they generally repeat the Lords
prayer. They delight in prayer as much
as we do, and he guesses, much MORE
when pray in the family he interprets
my words 10 them, for which they seem
very grateful as the meaning comes very
hard to them in consequence of passing
through two. They visit him at night,
and make his room as light as day; and
what is odd enough, they often tuck up
his bed, as no mortal ever tucked it up
Sometimes those appear who have been
asleep so long that they forget their own
names; and so he has to tell them, They
often give him a message to theirrelatives
and nelshbo's who are yet in the flesh;
but he never delivers it, because he is a.
iraid that people will think him insane or
under the influence of diseased imapin.
atIon' which, according TO his frequent as
surance, is in no degree the case, And
the man really appears perfectly rational
on every other subject, and very intelli.
gent and pleasant withal, and while con-
versing on this subject he appears so SIM
cere and serious, that you could not have
the heart to laugh in his face"
RAIL RoADs.--A meeting has been cal
led in Athens, Georgia, to take measures for
the construction of rail road from that
place to Augusta; and another has been held
at Greenville, s. c. to provide for connect
ing that district with the Charleston and
Hamburger road.
We learn from the Charleston Patriot of
I'd INST. that shares in the rail road to Hams
burgh were selling at sos, and in demand :.
he ironing" of % miles of the road being
all that is now requisite to its completion.
GRAMMATICAL PUN.----''Jelf," cried Cum.
berland, "tell me. in word, if duty we're
lald on all my peccadilloes and irrerulari.
lies, what pant of Murray's grammar would
such an lmpost resemble2" sStn-tax,' an
severed the intellipent iaoar