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Doc. 265.] TESTIMONY COLLECTED BY HINDMARSH. 553
gave it to Mrs. Marsden,* who presented it to me a few years
ago. It has the cipher E. S. engraved upon it in a foreign
style: but on examination it does not appear to be gold, but
copper, which was probably gilt so as to have the appearance
of gold. The stick itself is a painted thorn, and not a cane.†
13. It cannot be said that the members of the New Church
are particularly fond of being possessed of relics, like the
members of the Old Romish-Christian Church, whether they
be old bones, old sticks, or old boards. But I must acknow
ledge, that a little spice of that taste adheres to myself, as
well as to some others of my friends of the New Church. And
first of all, it shews itself in my attachment to the walking
stick before mentioned [in no. 12 ], which I prize, not for its
real value, but merely because it was once a kind of support
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to the hand of that great Man, whose works I can never
think of without the most intense admiration, and gratitude .
for the benefits they confer.
14. In the next place, I must suppose, that my friend,
Mr. John Barge, of Manchester, has a similar feeling of
admiration for the works of the same great Man, because he
purchased, at more than treble its value, an old table, formerly
* "The widow of Mr. G. B. Marsden, a member of Mr. Hindmarsh’s
Society, Bolton Street, Salford." -E. Madeley.
This cane is now in the possession of Mr. H. Bateman, F. R. C. S.
14 Canonbury Lane, Islington.
"Besides the walking stick here mentioned," says Mr. Madeley, "of the
genuineness of which there cannot be any doubt, the Rev. S. Noble had
a cane presented to him, by the late Mr. Holder, of Highbury, also said
to be that of Swedenborg’s,—which he left, with his other property, to
the Cross Street [now Camden Road] Society, and is now in its library.
Upon investigation and inquiry, as well as from a recollection of Mr. Noble’s
opinion respecting it, this also may have belonged to Swedenborg. It has
the initials J. L. engraved on the head. The conjecture is, that it was
presented to Swedenborg by John Lewis, the Bookseller, who appears to
have had a great veneration for him, and who may have taken this as one
way of manifesting it. It is not altogether unusual for the donor’s name to
be engraved on such presents. This cane is a genuine Malacca, and has a
metal head, called gold, but is most likely a metal then known as pinch
beck, which was much in use at one time as a substitute for gold. Malacca
canes, at the period in question, were comparatively rare, and this would
have been of the value of twenty shillings, without the mountings, so that
it would not have been a very unsuitable present."
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