Swedenborg's Maximus Homo/Memorial to the General Convention/Chapter 1

MEMORIAL

TO

THE GENERAL CONVENTION.

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I.

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.

The following Memorial was sent to the "General Conventien of the New Church in the United States," at its session in 1880. It was drawn up under the authority and by the direction of the Board of Managers of the "Swedenborg Publishing Association," and was signed by 94 persons, most of whom belonged to societies in connection with the Convention. Many more signatures might have been obtained, if the Memorial had been more widely circulated. For it is estimated that more than two thousand (possibly more than four thousand) receivers of the heavenly doctrines in our country, are to-day in cordial sympathy with the views and beliefs herein expressed.

But while many receivers of these doctrines on both continents cordially accept the views of the Memorialists, the "Swedenborg Publishing Association," under whose auspices and direction this document was drafted, is, we believe, the only organized body of professed New Churchmen, that stands openly and squarely on the platform outlined in this Memorial.

At the end of each paragraph will be found references to the works of Swedenborg wherein the expressed beliefs of the Memorialists are plainly taught. In the pamphlet edition of the Memorial published several years ago, the full text of all these references is given, filling more than thirty pages. A few copies of this pamphlet are still on sale by the Swedenborg Publishing Association:—price 6 cents, post-paid.