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MEDDELANDEN’ OCH AKTSTYCKEN

people. Latterly he had experienced considerable anxiety, but also great
joy, in the case of a poor peasant girl in his neighborhood, who seemed
to be quite out of her right mind. " I went there" he told us, " and
found that the cause of her unsettled mind was a fall. She had been
a worldly minded but prudent and circumspect woman, who wished to
avoid the enticements of sin and vice, and even used to read the word
of God, but through the means of a vicious man she had fallen a prey
to temptation. I spoke a few words to the surrounding family on the
danger of sin, and the misery felt by a sinner when his conscience
awakens. Some days after I was told that her sister also was mad,
and that I was looked upon as the cause of it, from having spoken
those words. It was Saturday evening. Sunday morning, on my way
to church, I went to see them. I found the second sister very sound in
her mind, and the presumed madness was merely anxiety caused by my
words. They had had the wished for effect to make her awake to a
sense of sin. I stopped with them instead of going to church, I read
and talked to this anxious inquirer, and visited her daily with the word
of God. God blessed it, so that she is now a believing and rejoicing
Christian. A clergyman had also been to see her. On seeing the Bible
he had cried, "Away with the books, you read yourself crazy." I told
her, " If he came back to show him to me, and I would answer him."
So far Count S * * *. Some such clergymen we have in Sweden, many
perhaps, but we must also thankfully remember that we have many good
and faithful ones. This does not exactly belong to my subject, but the
picture is a true one, and shows you how we are circumstanced, how
great evils we have to contend with, and what may be done in Sweden
through laymen.

I must now make haste to acquaint you with some of brother
Ahnfelt’s doings. He continues diligent at his work, and the Lord
apparently blesses his travels, his reading and singing. I told you some
time ago that the Consistory or Synod at Lund had shown great
displeasure when a clergyman had opened his church to the layman.
Immediately after, as if to evince their disapproval of the conduct of
the Synod, 6 other clergymen opened their churches for Ahnfelt, in the
province of S * * *, and the government of that diocese has not shown
the least symptoms of displeasure on this occasion. The Lord be praised,
He gains one victory after another. If our Swedes can accustom
themselves to this way of proceeding, so new to them, but in every way
reasonable and suitable, so that a servant of God who every where else
proclaimed the word of God with grace and blessings upon it, is also
permitted to let his voice be heard in houses built for that purpose, it
is a great step taken in advance, important as to the progress of the
cause of God in general in our land, and the free exercise of religion
in particular.

In the town of J * * *, Mr. Ahnfelt lately was accused, by the

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