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flourishing condition for several years ; owing, however, 

 to some defect in the charter, and the pecuniary resources 

 of the trustees failing, it was suspended.* 



Among the first teachers of this institution was WiUiam 

 Reichenbach, a native of Saxony, a man of classical 

 attainments. In 1785, he left Germany; immediately on 

 his arrival at Lancaster, was appointed professor of 

 mathematics and German literature. About the same 

 time Henry Von Buelow, a native of Prussia, a German 

 nobleman, who had in his juvenile years adopted the 

 military profession, visited America and spent some time 

 in Lancaster. Buelow had embraced the peculiar views 

 of Em. Swedenborg,t and \vitli a view to disseminate 



*See chapter XI on education., 



jTheso views being so pecuhar and not generally known, 

 we here devote a small space to presenting the leading doc- 

 trines of the New Jerusalem Church. The founder of this 

 church was Emanuel Swedenborg, son of a bishop of Skara. 

 Emanuel was born 1689, at Stockholm. He was, it is admitted 

 by all, a learned and pious man. He died in 1772. 



The following twelve articles are received by the New J era* 

 salem church : 



I. That Jehovah God, thq Creator and Preserver of heaven 

 and earth, is Love Itself and Wisdom Itself, or Good Itself and 

 Truth Itself: That he is One both in Essence and in Person, 

 in whom, nevertheless, is the Divine Trinity of Father, Son, 

 and Holy Spirit, which are the Essential Divinity, the Divine 

 Humanity, and the Divine Proceeding, answering to the soul, 

 the body, and the operative energy in man: And that the 

 Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is that God. 



II. That Jehovah God himself descended from heaven, as 

 Divine Truth, which is the Word, and took upon him Human 

 Nature for the purpose of removing from man the power of 

 hell, and restoring to order all things in the spiritual world, and 

 all things in the church : That he removed from man the 

 powers of hell, by combats against and victories over them ; 

 in which consisted the great work of Kedemption : That by 



