164 Timchri. 



After speaking of an advertisement inviting Swedenborg readers to 

 unite, he said — 



"This brought James Glen, a Scotchman, who was on his way to settle 

 at Demerara, South America. He related how the Captain of a ship in 

 which he had sailed back from a previous voyage to South America, had 

 presented a copy of ' Heaven and Hell ' to him, which had filled him with 

 astonishment first at the nature of the information given, and second at 

 the goodness of the Divine Providence in opening his mind to such a 

 flood of spiritual truth. 



" So Mr. Glen sailed for America, full of gratitude and happiness, to 

 become the pioneer missionary of the Lord in His Second Coming to the 

 new world of freedom — of democracy — and in this peculiar sense perhaps 

 the new earth prepared to receive the New Jerusalem now descending 

 from God out of heaven. On June 5, 1784 at Bell's auction room and 

 book store he gave the first public proclamation of the New Church in 

 America, if not in the world, and succeeded in so interesting Francis 

 Bailey, a printer . . . and one or two others, that they soon became the 

 nucleus of the New Church in Pennsylvania. He delivered two more lec- 

 tures in the same place, and then went to Boston and lectured with similar 

 results. Discouraged that so few sympathized with him in this great gift 

 of heavenly light, he sailed for his new home in Demerara, where he 

 established the first society of the New Jerusalem in the western hemis- 

 phere. After his departure a box of books from Mr. Hindmarsh arrived 

 for him at Philadelphia, which being unclaimed were sold at public auction. 

 They fell into the hands of Hetty Barclay and others, and directly and 

 indirectly made many more converts than had the voice of the missionary 

 himself. — J.K." 



Tercentenary of Ralegh's Execution. — The year 161S saw the end 

 of Sir Walter Ralegh's career and we need no excuse for mentioning it 

 eve though we are not likely to have any commemoration. The Stuart 

 Kings made many mistaken, but probably none so disgraceful as the 

 execution of one of the greatest men of the Elizabethan period. Our 

 debt to him as the revealer of Guiana to the world is very great for even 

 the Dutch used the results of his own explorations and those of his cap- 

 tains in their early voyages. The story of his failure to get gold from 

 Guiana.'which appears to have been the real cause of his execution, is 

 painful even now, and is so well known that it needs no repetition. Ralegh 

 had grand ideas, and might have developed Guiana as a British province 

 had he been supported by the Government of his time. Queen Elizabeth 

 favoured his ideas but James I. spoiled much and damped the ardour of 

 British pioneers in Guiana as well as in Virginia. Our part of the conti- 

 nent was neglected but what is now the United States is largely due to 

 the initiative of Ralegh. Commemorations have become almost too 

 common of late years, but there is still room here for a river or street 

 name to keep us in mind of the greatest pioneer of our country. It may 

 be noted that the Orinoco was renamed Raleana and the Essequebo 

 Devoritia (after the Earl of Essex, Devereaux) by some of the followers of 

 the grand Knight, but these names are not retained. — J.R. 



