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MR. WHITE. 1321
by both parties between July 5, 1860, and July 4, 1861, and especially
the "Circulars addressed by the Committee to the Members and
Friends of the Swedenborg Society," in November, 1860, and on
January 10, 1861 .
"On October 13, only nine days after Mr. White’s apparent re
conciliation with the Committee-a Requisition was sent to the
Chairman for a special General Meeting, for the purpose of altering
the Laws of the Society, in order to make Mr. White independent
of the Committee-the Agent independent of his Employer; in point
of fact, practically independent of the Society.
"On October 22 the Committee were convened to take this
Requisition into consideration, and quite willing to take the advice
of the Society upon the matters in dispute, passed a Resolution in
compliance with the Requisition, to call a General Meeting for Monday,
November 12. At this same meeting of the Committee, a Sub
Committee was appointed to examine the list of Members, and to
prepare a revised list of those who were eligible to vote. This was
necessary, in order that the notices for the General Meeting might
be properly issued. But it was the more important, because it had
been ascertained that Mr. White, without any authority, and without
the knowledge of the Committee-and, as he declared at this meeting,
upon his own responsibility- had cut down the List of Subscribers
in the printed Report, nearly one half .... The Committee had
reason to believe also, that besides the reduction of the old list of
Members, many new ones had been added. Accordingly at
a meeting of the Sub - Committee, held a day or two afterwards,
Mr. White- knowing of course, that the facts must come out at the
General Meeting, when the new votes came to be used, if not be
fore-seemed to have decided that there was no sufficient motive for
further concealment of his new list of subscribers. At that meeting,
he laid upon the table two of his own receipt books, one entirely
filled, and the other more than half filled, with the counterfoils of
receipts to new members. He handed in with these books, a list
which he had prepared, of the subscriptions he had receipted for,
and having done so, immediately left the room, saying he had
business in the City." Up to 1860 the number of the members of
the Swedenborg Society had been "200 or there abouts ;" the names
of 85 of these Mr. White on his own responsibility struck from the
list on the plea of their not having paid their subscriptions.
"From an examination of the Society’s books it was ascertained
that between July 5 and August 6 there were added 165 new names
to the list of members-125 on one single day-nearly all of whom
were strangers hitherto to the Society, and all but three, at 10s.,
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