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MEDDELANDEN’ OCH AKTSTYCKEN
far surpassing what could be expected by the agents He has employed.
This is my feeling at present. In the same degree as the work proceeds
opposition also rises. Awakenings and persecutions: in those words
you have a short history of what we could tell you.
I have been expecting to hear the issue of the action against Mr.
Ahnfelt, to be able to communicate it to you, but it is not yet decided.
He has already appeared at three courts of law. In two of these the
judges were stern and unfriendly, but the third was on the contrary,
very mild and benevolent. A Christian brother who was present, writes:
" It might clearly be seen, that he found it painful to administer justice
in such a case as this. He gave Ahnfelt liberty to say all that he could
wish in the defence of our common cause, and to Ahnfelt was also given
grace to speak as a Christian ought to do. You will see it all in
the periodical, Evangelisk Kyrkovan, (the Evangelical friend of the
Church). I hope at a future time to be able to give you the account
of how it has ended.
I hasten to communicate to you various other signs of religious
movements. It is a very gratifying sign, that the interest for the Home
Mission, or as it is here called, the Inner Mission, has, during these last
few weeks made great progress. In the " Evangelical Christendom."
you probably see articles from Sweden now and then containing accounts
not only of the progress made on the subjects of religious liberty,
awakenings, persecutions, &c. &c. but also on those more intimately
connected with Christian work. In addition to what you may have read
there, it is however a pleasure to me to mention that during this last
winter a branch of the Religious Tract Society has been formed here,
which is in connection with that in London. It has commenced its
operations by publishing a translation of Newman Hall’s " Come to
Jesus," which is selling rapidly.
There is a question of removing the missionary school from Lund
to Stockholm. Mr. Fjellstedt should continue to be at the head of it, but
pupils for the Home Mission as well as for the Heathen Missions,
should be educated there. Two city missionaries for visiting the poor
have just been engaged, one a clergyman, the other a layman, both much
interested in the work, who are commencing with Ragged Schools, Bible
readings with the poor people in their homes, and such like.
Sunday-schools are rising in various parts of the town. Several young men
have been all the winter attending one kept by a lady who is
particularly-clever in the art of instructing the poor children. These young men are
now going to have schools of their own in various parts of the town.
None but those who know how young men of these lower classes have
been occupied formerly, can appreciate what a remarkable work of the
Lord it is when they come to the desire of thus devoting their Sabbaths
to His service and that of the poor.
Others who do not feel themselves able or called to work with the
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