7/43 He was my senior by a few years, but not by many. Nicholson was a man of very extensive reading and of profound Biblical learning. It may be deemed surprising by others, as it was, and is, to me, that such a man should have been an earnest and thoroughly convinced Swedenborgian--but such was the case. And I can conscientiously give this testimony to the excellence of that creed--that it produced in the person of its learned north-country disciple at least one truly good and amiable man. Dr. |