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in April, 1908, transported these remains in a Swedish frigate to their native land. There by vote of the Swedish Parliament they are to have their final resting-place in a suitable sarcophagus in a chapel of the cathedral at Upsal, near their early home. The general interest exerted by this public restoration in Europe and America, with the gratification of the Swedish people at the honors bestowed on their illustrious compatriot, may be mainly due to his increasing celebrity as a scientist and philosopher. But those who accept Swedenborg as their Divinely appointed teacher recognize in it an extending preparation in the world for his acceptance in that capacity.
Do we ask for a sign of the truth of Swedenborg's mission as the Divinely appointed interpreter of the Holy Scriptures, and as the harbinger of the new age of the Lord's Church, even that foreseen in vision by John as the Holy City descending from God out of heaven? The sign of this second coming of our Lord was to be the clear vision of the Son of Man in the clouds of heaven—that is, in the clouds of obscurity through which men looked toward the Sun of
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