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MEDDELANDEN’ OCH AKTSTYCKEN
You have, perhaps, already seen in the " Evangelical Christendom," a
periodical published in London, the sensation caused in Marstrand, so
that the authorities of the town would by force put a stop to our
religious meetings. The principal cause of this was, that some of the
most respected members of the town received the truth in power, so
that they began to bear witness thereof in their own houses, by word
and action, with an unconcealed anxiety about their souls. Among these
were even the daughter of the Burgomaster of the town, and the wife
of the physician of the place.
There prevails a remarkable hunger and thirst after the Gospel
011 the western coast of our country. The serious clergymen there are
of a certain stiff, moralizing school, who certainly lay a yoke 011 the
shoulders of their hearers, but do not understand how to lead the heavy
laden to the Savior—do not understand that just the foolishness of the
preaching of the cross is the power of God to salvation. In such a
place, however, the soil is plowed and prepared for the sowing of that
seed which gives life."
In Gothenburg I was invited by the clergyman of the Moravian
congregation to preach the word in their place of worship. The Gospel
was certainly not unknown there, but still I felt almost as among
hungry children. When I said to some souls seeking for salvation, and
who asked my advice, that they might come to Jesus just as they
were, with all their sins, before they had yet seen their efforts of
amendment crowned with the wished- for success, they answered with
exclamations of astonishment and a flood of tears; and soon fell to
their Savior’s feet, with the same happy results as the sinner whose
case is recorded in the seventh chapter of Luke. It was to them as
unheard-of news. They had believed that they first ought to find
everything well and good within themselves, before they could flee to
Jesus to ask full grace.
But the most joyful accounts respecting the blessing of God on
the sown seed of the word I have had from Norrkoping, a large town,
where the hungry souls, at my arrival, had 110 one to feed them with
the word of God but an engineer, who was there by chance. The great
crowd during the two days of my stay also caused them, at last, to
determine on procuring a larger house of prayer.
Experiences like these during my journeys, and the uniformity of
my usual engagements in Stockholm, where I have now worked for
eighteen years, often draw me’to different fields of labor. Here in
Stockholm my time is mostly occupied, first, with private visits, and
correspondence with troubled souls, who seek advice in various
questions, which, especially in these times of movement and disunion in the
country, are numerous and difficult; secondly, with meetings and
assemblies; thirdly, in editing my little periodical, " The Pietist," and
lastly, with preaching twice a week in the former " English chapel."
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