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TESTIMONY OF MR. SERVANTE. 103
had endeared him, they cannot fail to blend the tear of
tender regret, with their sincere congratulations on his
advancing state. He was amiable in his life, and ex
pired with little or no previous illness, as in the sweetness
of sleep, without a struggle or a sigh.
" Mr. Servanté was descended from a respectable family
in the south of France, a branch of which fled to this
country, on the revocation of the edict of Nantz, to
preserve the freedom of their religious sentiments. He
had himself been from his youth a sincere seeker after
religious truth, and had undergone severe anxieties in
consequence of not being able to obtain the satisfaction
which he wanted : but at length meeting, by apparent
accident, with one of those parts of the second volume of
the Arcana, which were published in English at the same
time as the Latin original, his former doubts were in
stantly removed, and the light of truth shone at once into
his mind, bringing with it a clearness of conviction which
was never afterwards obscured, but was more and more
illustrated to the day of his decease. The reader may
also feel an interest in being informed, that he was one of
the last remaining individuals who remembered the person
of Swedenborg, though at the time he saw him he did
not know him. He was once passing along St. John’s
street, London, in the neighbourhood of which Sweden
borg lodged, when he met an old gentleman of a dignified
and most venerable appearance, whose deeply thoughtful
yet mildly expressive countenance, added to something
very unusual in his general air, attracted his attention
very forcibly: he turned round, therefore, to take another
view of the stranger, who also turned round and looked
again at him. Some years afterwards, when Mr. Servanté
had received the truth in the manner above stated, he
called on Mr. Hindmarsh for some of the writings ; when
seeing in that gentleman’s parlour a portrait of the author,
he instantly recognized in it the venerable stranger whose
appearance had so much interested him. The portrait
which he saw was copied from the print engraved by
Martin, representing Swedenborg in advanced age, the
fidelity of which is thus singularly proved,"
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