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MEDDELANDEN OCH AKTSTYCKEN
orden äfven strömmade ned på hennes hjerta, och som strålade af
glädje hvarje gång hon ankom till Nora.
Frälsaren hjelpe oss alla efter af idel nåd och förbarmandel
Den ringe Brodren
„ T. Kerfstedt.
D. 6 Maj 1841. J
53. Till The Christian Advocate and Journal
Dear Brethren,
Allow me through your columns to convey to the Christian
public of this country the deep sense I entertain of the unfeigned
kindness with which I have been received by the disciples of Christ
of various denominations, and of the interest with which my simple
statements regarding the state and prospects of religion in Sweden,
the purely catholic character and the very important objects of the
mission under my charge, and the necessity for increased liberality
in pursuing that mission, have been listened to. The experience of
the past fully assures me that Christians in America, under all the
financial difficulties of the present time, would cheerfully and soon
contribute the sum (£ 10,000) necessary to relieve the mission
premises at Stockholm from a pecuniary embarassment, which greatly
hinders the progress of the good work, if an opportunity of doing
so be offered to them. Such opportunity is generally considered to
consist in a personal application for aid. Now, however willing I
might be to do this, and however gratifying I might feel it to
enlarge my circle of personal acquaintances with the lovers of Jesus
of this land, an extended system of personal calls is utterly
inconsistent with my time and health.
Under such circumstances it will at once appear impracticable
for a stranger to find out even in this city of New York all those
who may be waiting for an opportunity of contributing, of finding
them out to make as many personal calls as the case may demand.
It has therefore been peculiarly gratifying to receive several kind
contributions spontaneously sent by Christian people in aid of the
Stockholm church — thus evidencing not only a desire to relieve
the difficulty, but an amount of Christian principle which ought
generally to operate on all such subjects; for assuredly it is a duty
to give aid in any good cause. Christians ought not to delay until
the impulse of a personal application is brought to bear upon their
* Detta var en metodisttidning i New York, grundad 1826. Se Geo. P.
Rowell: American Newspaper Directory, New York 1869. Brevet var infört i
tidningen den ,6/é 1841. Det här publicerade är en avskrift därav.
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