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MEDDELANDEN’ OCH AKTSTYCKEN
The thing however is done in many places every Sunday, and the king
has not as yet decided on making it a law or not. A petition is to be
sent to him praying him to refrain from confirming it.
You see how precarious our position is. If we look to facts we
cannot say that in Stockholm at present there is any persecution, but
this, next to the providence of God, we may ascribe to many causes,
which however may be easily removed, and then we may be exposed to
it to any extent, as present security is not grounded 011 law, but rather
on the private character of individuals in authority.
The spread of the Word of God is going on rapidly, indeed so
rapidly that Bibles cannot be printed fast enough, and the sale of tracts
and good books is astonishing for so thinly populated and poor a
country as Sweden. Colporteurs are -seen going about in all directions.
They do not always receive the best treatment, but they persevere, and
receive wonderful assistance from above. One of them shortly ago
had two churches belonging to the establishment opened for him to
speak in, and hundreds crowded to hear him. Another came traveling
on his way from one station to another, he saw a church open, went
in, nobody was there. They had left it open to be aired after a funeral.
He laid " Come to Jesus " on the altar, a good little tract called " a
drop out of the röck Christ," on the reader’s desk, and some little tract
in each pew. Who knows how the Lord will bless these stray seeds
thrown out in his name. Large flourishing Sunday schools are going
on in many places, and new ones are commenced daily. Here in
Stockholm more and more persons set their hand to this work.
Another field of labor which has lately been opened is the visiting
of prisons. Hitherto none but ladies have applied to be permitted to
visit them. Three of these have a sort of Sunday school at the Female
House of Correction, and some more are allowed to go to the prisoners
in the cells. Of course only to the females. This permission has been
granted by the king, always however subjecting the males to the will
of the different authorities under whose control the prisons are placed.
Here much opposition was of course expected, but it was the will of
Gocf that it should not take place, and all opposition vanished as vapor.
The prisoners are attentive, and seem to be pleased. It is to be hoped
that in connection with this effort to make the will of God known to
these poor fallen fellow-creatures, others will rise to try if possible to
assist them when they leave the prison, after having gone through their
punishment, and help to support the first feeble steps they take on
coming out again into the trying circumstances in which they are
generally placed. A Magdalen Institution was formed here some years ago,
and the lady who is at the head of it persists in her work, hard as it is,
and very often rewarded with ill success. Many other traits I could
give you of Christian life in Sweden, but you see them mentioned now
and then in Evangelical Christendom. These are particulars, but you
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