Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-12-01


In common to the lot of ALL
A blemish, q sense impaired
Are crimes so little to be spared.
Then farewell all that must create
"he comfort of the welded state;
Instead of harmony, tits jar,
And tumult and intestine war.
Swedenborgians
The followers of Emanuel Swedonborg, a
Swedish nobleman, born at Stockholm in
1859. He appears to have had good educa-
ton: for his learning was extensive in almost
every branch. He professed himself to be
the founder of the New Jerusalem Church,
alluding to the New Jerusalem spoken of in
the book of the Revelation. He asserts that,
in the year 1743, the Lord manifested him
self to him by personal appearance, and ut
the same time opened his spiritual eyes, so
that he was euablcd constantly to sec and con
verse with spirits aud angels. From that time
he began to print and publish various won
dcrful things, which, he says, were revealed
to him, relating to heaven and hell, the state
of men after death, the worship of God, the
spiritual sense of the Scriptures, the various
cafths ~ the universe. anu their Inhabitants;
with many other strange particulars.
Swedenburg lived and died in the Luthe-
ran communion, but always professcd the
He carried his respect for the person and di.
vinity of Jesus Christ to the highest point of
vcncration, considering him altogether as
Good manifest in the flesh, and as the full
ness of the Godhcad united to the n,nn Christ
Jesus" With respect, therefore, to the sa-
cred Trinity though he rejected the idea of
three distinct persons as destructive of the
unity of the Godhead, he admitted three dis
ipln ,.1,o
listing in it: namely, the divine essence or
character, in virtue of which he is called the
Father or Creator, the human essence. princi-
pie, or character, united tn the divine in the
person of Jesus Christ, in virtue of which he
is called the Son and Rcdcemcr; and lastly,
the proceeding essence or principle, in virtue
of which he is called the Holy Ghost He
farther maintains, that the sacrcd scripture
contains three distinct senses, called celestial.
spiritual, and natural, which are united by
correspondence aud that in each sense it is
divine truth accommodated respectively to
the angels of the three heavens, and also to
men on earth This science of corrcspon-
dcnccs Git is said) has been lost for some
thousands of years, viz, ever since the time of
job, but it is now revived by Emmanuel Swcd.
cnborg, who uses it as key to the spiritual
or internal sense of the sacred scripture CIV.
cry page of which, he says, is written by cor
rcspondcncc, that is, by such things in the
natural world as correspond unto and signify
things in the spiritual world. He denies the
doctrine of atoncment, or vicariuus sacrifice
together with the doctrines of predcstination.
unconditional election, justification by faith
alone, the resurrection of the material body,
&c, and in opB o;plon thereto, nalnc,iiss, dat
man is possessed of free will in spiritual
things; that salvation is not attainabie with
out repentance, that is, abstaning from evils.
because they arc sins against God, and living
life of charity and faith, according to the
commandments that man, immediately On
his decoasc, rises again in spiritual BODY
which was enclosed in his material BODY. and
that in this spiritual body he lives as a man
to eternity, either in heaven or in hell. accor.
ding to the quality Of his past life. That all
those passages in the scripture generally sup
posed to signify the destruction of the world
by fire, and commonly called last Judgment
must be understood according to the above.
mentioned science of correspondence, which
teaches that by the end of the world or con-
summation of the age, is not signifed the de-
struction of the world, but the destruction or
end of the present Christian church. both
among Roman Catholics and Protcstants. of
every description or denomination and that
this last Judgment actually took place, in the
spiritual world in the year 1867 from which
era is dated the second advent of the Lord,
and the commencement of now Christian
church, which, thcy say, is meant by the new
heaven and new earth in the Revelation, and
and the New Jerusalem thence descending.
They use aliturgy, and instrumental as well
as vocal music, in their public worship.
! QUEEN VIcToRIA's PRUDENCE. The Lon
don correspondent of the New York Sun
says:
was told the other day, an anccdotc of
the Queen, which illustrates her good sense
ana real desire opromote the welfare of her