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1320 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
We now quote from the Committee’s Circular dated January 10,
1860 : "On August 2 the second Meeting of the Committee was held.
At this Meeting, Mr. White presented a written communication
refusing to accede to the Committee’s request. Upon this refusal the
Committee gave him notice that, at the expiration of six months,
his engagement with them would be terminated.
"The third Meeting of the Committee was held on October 4,
when the Chairman pointed out to Mr. White the folly of his setting
himself in opposition to the Committee; and after considerable dis
cussion,-in the course of which Mr. White stated that he had already
withdrawn the objectionable publications from the window and table,—a
Paper was drawn up, and signed by Mr. White, of which the follow
ing is a copy, as entered in the Minutes :
" Mr. White acceded to the wishes of the Committee, and under
took that the objectionable spiritualistic works will not be exposed
for sale at the Society’s house; and he, moreover, stated that such
works have not of late been so exposed. Mr. White also undertook
not to publish any more works of Mr. Harris, or any other spiri
tualistic works, and that he will not increase his present stock of
such works.
(Signed)
"The Committee thereupon withdrew the notice which had been
given to Mr. White for the termination of his engagement; and
Mr. White withdrew his letter to the Committee, so far as it had
reference to his refusal to comply with the request of the Committee.
"The Committee did, in fact, believe, at this Meeting of October 4,
that a genuine truce had been effected, and hoped-and were led
by Mr. White to expect-that the subject, at least so far as he was
concerned, would be allowed to rest during their year of office, and
then be referred to the Annual Meeting."
’
W. WHITE.’
In what follows we shall give a minute documentary history of
the difficulties between Mr. White and the Swedenborg Society, be
cause this case has been misrepresented lately, and because in a
certain sense it constitutes the antecedents of the "Life of Sweden
borg" which Mr. White published in 1867, and which we are now
discussing, and the facts of this case will enable the general reader
to form an idea of the state of mind in which Mr. White was when
he wrote that book. The authorities which we have consulted, and
from which we shall quote, are 1. The Minute Book of the Sweden
borg Society; 2. The Records of the case of Spurgin v. White, be
fore the Court of Chancery, and the case of White v. Bayley and
others before the Court of Common Pleas ; 3. The Pamphlets published
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