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...second coming. But for all his complex system of theology, he did not attempt to preach or found a sect. His New Church was to embrace all Christendom, revitalized by his revelations. It remained for one Robert Hindmarsh and other devotees to establish the Church of the New Jerusalem...
...Jerusalem now counts its population at 17,000, scattered through every sizable country in the world except China. The U. S. shelters 7,000 Swedenborgians with 100 churches. Because outsiders were inclined to confuse it with Judaism, members now refer to their organization simply as the New Church. The New Church patterns its services on the Episcopalian, its administrative set-up on the Congregational. In 1890 some members, deciding that Emanuel Swedenborg's revelations of the Scriptures' hidden meanings had hidden meanings all their own, began to incorporate his writings in their services. Result: a schism, creating...
...Jerusalem Artichokes are sunflowers which have a starchy, tuberous root. They flourish in semi-arid regions. Like yams in Southern States, corn in Prairie States, barley in Northern States, potatoes in Idaho and Maine, sugar beets in the West, sorghum in the South, sugar cane in Louisiana, Jerusalem artichokes can be turned into alcohol. If produced on a large scale such alcohol could be produced for from 7 to 10? a gallon, figured Dr. Leo Martin Christensen of Iowa State College. At that price it is cheap enough to mix with gasoline as a motor fuel, especially if any need...
...mountain, where the excavation work is proceeding. He remained three days, supervising the beginning of the work. At the end of that time, a lacerated kidney and internal hemorrhage, became so serious that he was rushed to a mining camp and later taken to a Jerusalem hospital...
...uncritical tourist comes out of Palestine with his mind cluttered with pious superstition." Furthermore: "To have Christianity presented to these tens of thousands of casual sightseers every year in an incredible and repugnant form will have consequences in our own country." Dr. Morrison's suggested remedy: let the Jerusalem Y. M. C. A. which is less Fundamentalist than other Protestant institutions in Palestine, take the lead in "guiding travelers . . . without provoking them to a mood if not to the language of profanity...