Religion: For Swedenborg

Poet Edgar Albert ("Eddie") Guest, Helen Keller, Mrs. Frank Arthur Vanderlip, Boston's onetime Mayor Malcolm Nichols, Glass Manufacturer Raymond Pitcairn, the family of Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, the shades of the elder Henry James, the late Financial Publisher Clarence W. Barren all hold one thing in common — a belief in the theological doctrines of Emanuel Swedenborg. They find solace in the Swedenborgian service, which resembles the Anglican, in the Swedenborgian belief in immediate judgment after death, and they experience exhilaration in contact with one of the most versatile scientific minds...

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