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Doc. 265.] TESTIMONY COLLECTED BY HINDMARSH. 549
quit the lodgings to make room for you. " On his return, he
told him, that they were willing to accommodate him; and
what is very singular, they immediately removed without further
notice, and gave up their apartments to Swedenborg that very
day, though a perfect stranger to them. This information I
had from Shearsmith’s own mouth.
4. On one occasion Swedenborg desired the people of the
house where he resided to shake his carpet, which usually
had a surcharge of snuff upon it, and in the operation of
cleansing excited considerable sneezing. It happened to be
Sunday, of which he did not seem to be aware. Mr. Shear
smith observed to him, that it was the Sabbath, and he would
prefer having it done the next day. "Dat be good! Dat be good!”
immediately replied Swedenborg, and most readily assented to
the proposed delay.
5. A certain professor of religion, hearing that Swedenborg
did not pay that formal attention to particular days, which
others are in the habit of doing, observed to Mr. Shearsmith,
that on that account he could not be considered a good
Christian. To which Mr. Shearsmith replied, that "to a good
man, like Swedenborg, every day of his life is a Sabbath."
6. Mr. and Mrs. Shearsmith both informed me, that when
the day of his departure [into the other life] arrived (which
he had foretold a month before it took place), he asked them
what time of day it was : and when he was told that it was
nearly five in the afternoon, he replied, "Dat be good! Me
tank you, God bless you." He then bade them farewell, saying
his time was come ; and in a few minutes after he calmly
resigned his breath.
7. Mr. Shearsmith informed me, that after the decease of
Swedenborg, Mr. Lindegren¹¹7* came to his house and claimed
the property left by Swedenborg, for the purpose, as he said,
of transmitting the amount to his surviving relations in Sweden.
There was in Swedenborg’s pocket-book a bill for £ 400 sterling,
drawn upon the house of Mr. Hope, a banker in Amsterdam.
This bill was delivered into the hands of Mr. Lindegren by
Mr. Shearsmith, who yet doubted in his own mind whether
Mr. Lindegren had a right to demand it. But as he had no
* See footnote to Document 264, no. 1.
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