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WESTIN, JiREV FRÅN C. O. ROSENIUS
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away from the overcrowded room where we have met during these
last years, and whither they had come hoping to hear something
regarding their hopes of salvation. What my own feelings were, on again
entering that pulpit, I cannot describe to you. It was now nearly fifteen
years since I stood there, 011 the 19th March, 1842—-the day preceding
that on which the Rev. George Scott preached there for the last time,
when a riotous niob broke into the place and his life certainly was in
danger. With that scene of tumult and desecration the house of God
was closed, and continued to be so for years. At one time soldiers
dwelt in it, and preached with their bayonets.1 But the Lord kept his
eye 011 the place, and when it pleased him it was opened again for the
preaching of his word, but only by means of clergymen of the established
church. I never sought to speak there except at a few meetings of a
more special character, and never from the pulpit. But now again it
has been opened to the layman who in its earliest days stood at the side
of him who acted as pastor among a large flock, to whom he administered
the word of God at a time when it was rare to hear it preached in
purity and truth. Mr. Scott’s last sermon was 011 1 Cor. 11: 23—29;
and remarkable it seemed to me that this very place now came just in
the order for me to read and expound. How true, that where Mr. Scott
was interrupted, I have been called on to continue. Many dear old
friends were deeply affected on the occasion. The old pew-opener, an
excellent Christian woman, was the first to come and take my hand
warmly, and after looking at me in silence for some moments, she asked
what I thought of all this ? O, it is all of God! Think what a mercy
it is to see God, as it were!—to see him in the wonders he is working
amongst us! My heart rejoices and praises him for all that has been
painful and all that has been glorious, for we have certainly
experienced both.
It is wonderful when we think of how many places there are in
this capital where the word of God is now preached in truth and
sincerity ! Besides the church of Adolf Fredrick and the English chapel,
there are the two spacious meeting-houses of the Baptists, and also a
new house built in the southern suburb for me and my brethren. This
shows the hunger existing among the people, and that it is not merely
the novelty which attracts them, for this has now been going 011
for years.
If I come to speak about the work of God 111 the conversion of
individual souls, then I come on too extensive a field; yet I must tell
you a few instances that have occurred of låte. A few weeks ago I
saw a gentleman in a military uniform take his place opposite me at
the lecture or Bible exposition. He never took his eyes off me during
the whole time I was speaking. I afterwards heard that he is a teacher
1 This was at a time of political disturbance.
20 — 30573. Kyrkohist. Årsskrift 1930.
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