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1844 December 9 . R[ichard] De Charms Partially printed ALS to Henry G[ardner] Foster; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania]

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Box 4
Abstract:
Letter written on printed Swedenborgian circular "To the members of the Central Convention, and others favorable to the cause of the New Jerusalem." Requesting correspondence, financial aid for the acting committee, and for people to join the church's general body and then form their own societies. Lists work currently being undertaken, primarily printing church literature, and advocates the distribution of Job Abbott to inform those "who are approaching the new church." Comments on recent converts, including "Rev. Mr. [ ], a young moravian clergyman," who was accused by his congregation of being a Swedenborg. "...having occasion to notice the Millerite excitement in this city, he preached on the subject of the Lord's second advent... while people were looking for the Lord yet to come in the material sky, he had come already as a glorious spiritual sense in the clouds of the letter of his Word, and openly avowed his belief that the advent had taken place through his servant Emanuel Swedenborg." Describes the Moravian reaction to his preaching and his training to become a preacher for the New Church. De Charms is going to preach in Baltimore, and hopes the new railroad being built to Ohio will make Baltimore "a radiating point of new-church light."
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4 pages

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