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meddelanden’ och aktstycken
12.
[Stockholm, the 20th June, 1854.]1
To the Rev. Dr. Baird, New-York:
Dear Sir—Your sincerely obliged and attached friends in Sweden
again come to give you account of proceedings there. First, however,
let me present to you many thanks from brother Ahnfelt and myself for
the salary which has been sent us, through our mutual friend, Mr. Scott.
I received it yesterday, and will take the first opportunity of sending
brother Ahnfelt his part of it. We request you to present our
expressions of gratitude to the Society which in this manner also benefits
Sweden, by trying to promote the cause of God there. It must be
agreeable to you to hear that your and our exertions are not in vain. I have lately
traveled through some of the southern provinces of our country, and saw
with my own eyes many joyful results of the labors of brother Ahnfelt.
They had been told me before, and in many letters I had read
encouraging testimony borne to them, but now I saw with my own eyes. It is
rather difficult for me to tell you of the fruits growing up from the
seed sown by the " Pietist," but with the grace of God, I can use the
Apostle’s words and say, that for his sake I had the sweet but
humiliating experience that I was received as if I had been an angel of God.
During this journey I saw many groups of living, true Christians,
lovely to behold, of whom partly they themselves, partly some faithful
ministers, testified that they mostly were the fruit of the labor of some
laymen, and among these Ahnfelt was mentioned in the first place. All
his accounts have never interested me half so much, or given me so
profound an impression of what God is working through him, as what I
now had an opportunity of seeing myself.
If it would not detain you too long, I should like to communicate
to you some descriptions of what I saw on my journey, but must content
myself with some words touching the most striking traits. In the town
of Jönköping I did not remain more than one day. It was a Sunday.
Early in the morning, at seven o’clock, I was invited to an assembly
1 Detta brev återfinnes i den citerade tidskriften, nov. 1854, p. 526 ff. Det
introduceras med följande ord:
" We begin with giving the following letter from Sweden. The Rev. George
Scott, of England, through whose hands all Mr. Rosenius’ letters come, and to
whom we are indebted for the translation of them, informs us, that he is
continually in the reception of letters from acquaintances and friends in that portion of
Scandinavia, which convince him that a great and good vork of grace is silently
making progress in that country. May our blessed Lord hasten it! The
regeneration of the Protestant countries of the Continent of Europe is a great
desideratum. Mr. Scott expresses the opinion, in many of his letters, that our humble and
excellent Missionaries, Rosenius and Ahnfelt, are doing much good."
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