The blessings which I have received through the hallowing influence of Truth are so great that it is but meet that, like the one grateful leper, I should return and give God thanks. I had been a great sufferer all my life as the result of an accident in childhood, but am now perfectly well and strong. The awakening of a sheep from the fold of Emanuel Swedenborg, has not been reported recently to the Journal, and I shall therefore ask for a little space in its columns, in the hope that my experiences may help others.
My father had prayed long and earnestly to know where to bring up his children that they might find the Truth, for he realized with prophetic vision, that we were entering upon a new era in the world's history, and in answer dreamed on three successive nights that we were en route for America.
"It must be God's will, and He will show us the way," he said to mother. With a large family to be brought up according to certain well-defined family traditions, with an income which, in this country, would represent a mere fraction of its value, and fond relatives and friends never to be seen again, who can fail to appreciate the bravery of that mother heart as she replied with quivering lip, "I will do anything for the children's sake, anything that they may find the Truth!"
