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WESTIN, JiREV FRÅN C. O. ROSENIUS
261
make the coming year one rich in mercy, and grace to all His people
here with us, as also in your country.
Yours sincerely, C. O. Rosenius.
6.
Stockholm, i ith June, 1852.1
The Rei’. Dr. Baird, New-York:
My dear and Rev. Friend,—Since I wrote my last, I have had
the pleasure to receive a letter from you, together with the sum so
kindly granted to Mr. Ahnfelt and myself for our support, for all
which we most heartily thank you. To the glory of our blessed Lord
and Saviour I can say that your zeal and love for our country is not
without fruit. The Lord continues to bless our exertions. I could again
give you fresh instances of this from my daily experience during my
feeble efforts for the good of souls in this city. My labor principally
consists in editing my little periodical Pietisten, which seems to bear
fruit in a way that often fills my heart with rejoicing. Yesterday such
an instance occurred which I must communicate to you. Every soul
is equally precious to God, and He is no respecter of persons. I have
with tears of joy seen the conversion of some poor despised inhabitants
of Lapland, but as general experience corroborates the words of Paul,
that not many nobles, not many carnally wise are called, I cannot deny
that it causes me especial joy when some one of that class comes to
the life and the secret wisdom of God in Christ. Six months ago I
began to observe among those present at my meetings, three young
ladies, daughters of a Count. I soon received visits from them, when
they confided to me their anxiety on the subject of salvation. I heard
from them of their uncle, a young rich Count in * * * *, who seemed
to have an unusually fervent love for the Lord. I soon got a letter from
him, in which he requested to get a large number of copies of my
periodical, and wrote some words expressive of his gratitude for the
mercy he had experienced from reading it. Yesterday this same
gentleman entered my apartment together with his nieces, and full of ardent
love and joy he embraced me, acknowledging that the Pietist had been
the means in the hand of God to the salvation of his soul. They were
all moved to tears on hearing him tell us all he had gone through in
striving against sin and unbelief, till he through the above mentioned
means was brought to know the truth as it is in Christ. He narrated
several instances of the success which had attended his feeble exertions
to bring other souls to Christ. This had been his intention in taking
so many copies of the Pietist, which he had distributed among his
1 I American and Foreign Christian Union, sept. 1852, återfinnes detta brev
å p. 295 ff.
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