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WESTIN, JiREV FRÅN C. O. ROSENIUS
273
well as to send out evangelists to preach the truth. You will, however,
find this more fully stated in the periodicals. Through the means of
these you will also see that three questions principally occupy all minds
not wholly taken up with their own affairs. These are:
I. The religious movements in the country, especially those called
sectarian.
II. The question of religious liberty, closely connected with
the former.
III. The Temperance question, on the proposition of Colonel
Hagelstam, to tax the fabrication of brandy. We have scarcely ever
looked forward to an assembly of the Diet with such serious questions
on all hearts as to the one now expected this autumn. May the Spirit of
the Lord move upon the waters, that the results may prove good and
blessed. Pray for us! I have not time to write more now. Salute
lovingly the brethren that surround you, and commend our country
during this important time to our common Lord and Saviour. May the
Lord bless and strengthen you, our dear friend. This is the sincere wish
of yours, in Christian love
C. O. Rosenius.
10.
[Odaterat.]1
I have never delayed so long to write to you as on the present
occasion, which I beg you to pardon. I am more hurried than ever, and
have now been occupied in overlooking a new translation of Pilgrim’s
Progress, an additional work, which is also the cause that I must give
you a shorter account than usual of myself and brother Ahnfelt. Nor
have I got much to say regarding us; we are, alas! unprofitable
servants. During the last four months I have been staying in some
country parishes in the neighborhood of Stockholm, partly for the sake of
gaining more time to write, partly in the hopes of being able to sow
good seed of the Word in those else neglected parts. The spiritual
darkness, together with the pestilential air of infidelity are no where
more common than in the immediate vicinity of the metropolis, a few
bright spots only excepted. I have been living in three different parts
outside Stockholm, and have read and proclaimed the Word of God to
the people in numerous other places whither I have journeyed.
Regarding the fruits, I am however often anxious, when I see so little of
1 Detta brev är infört i förut citerade tidskrift, april 1854. p. 176 f., under
rubriken Sweden. Det kan ingen tvekan råda därom, att Rosenius är dess
författare, ehuru hans namn ej återfinnes under brevet. Detta beledsagas i stället med
följande ord: »One of our Missionaries in Sweden writes as follows.» —
18 — 30573. Kvrhohist. Årsskrift ig30.
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