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1188 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
following additional particulars respecting him: "Mr. Servanté was
descended from a respectable family in the south of France, a branch
of which fled to England, on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes,
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 instantly 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." Mr. Noble then describes
his meeting with Swedenborg, as contained in Document 265, p. 552 ,
and says in addition, "Mr. Servanté, as a member of the New Church,
was, in London, one of the earliest promoters of its doctrines having
been, many years since, engaged in the publication of the ’ New
Jerusalem Magazine,’ a work which contains much interesting and
useful information."
Respecting his share in conducting that Journal, Mr. Servanté
wrote, on February 16, 1804, in a letter to Mr. James Glen of
Demerara, South America (see "Monthly Observer" for 1857, p. 213),
"As a recipient of the inestimable Writings of the Lord’s faithful
scribe and messenger, Emanuel Swedenborg; and impressed with a
due sense of their vast importance, I have endeavoured according to
the best of my ability to make known the glad tidings of the Lord’s
Second Coming ; for which purpose, about the year 1790, I was
appointed by Mr. Tulk,228 Mr. Wadström,36 and other co-recipients,
to act as managing Editor of a periodical Work, entitled, "The
New Jerusalem Magazine."" On August 15, 1805 (p. 313),
tinues: "In the publication of this work I was much opposed by
several both clergy and laity ; but I was determined to persevere as
long as I was able, and I deem it as one of the most satisfactory
events of my life that I was enabled through the Divine Help in
consociation with a few others, to become a humble instrument in
disseminating the truths of the New Dispensation in various parts
of Europe, America, Sierra Leone in Africa, and I believe in Bengal,
in the East Indies."
Mr. Servanté was closely befriended by Mr. C. B. Wadström,36 of
whom in another letter dated London, June 1 , 1806 (p. 418), he gives
the following sketch: "His person was above the common stature,
his manners and address amiable and engaging ; he wrote and con
versed in several languages, understood music, and in drawing and
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