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WESTIN, JiREV FRÅN C. O. ROSENIUS
311
The " Pietist" is, however, the most important of my labors, and
which most binds me to Stockholm. It ought not to be discontinued
as long as it has readers, and is my only source of income excepting
your friendly gift.
While speaking of this, I must mention that since a hostile
■clergyman gave the taxing committee the false statement that I receive,
through collections, a salary from my hearers, (and a great salary,
1,500 marc banco, about £125,) justice has not yet been done to me,
although I have appealed to the authorities and offered a great reward
to any one who has ever participated in any collection on my account ;
but the cause is still undecided. I am now taxed so, that I this year
Pa>’ 336 Rd. Rmb. to the Government. It is thus my exertions are
rewarded here. My reason for complaining to the authorities, was to
take from them the false idea that I tax the people.
But I have now spoken too much of myself: I should also say
something about the labor of brother Ahnfeldt. " The Evangelical
Troubadour in Sweden" still sings, on the whole, the same eternally
new song; but he has now began to touch a string which he before only
tried and tuned in private. This string is the separation from the
church. Brother Ahnfeldt has for several years had some scruples as
to remaining in the established church, especially with regard to the
sacraments; and the Norwegian clergyman Lammers, having now left
the church and formed a congregation of his own, Ahnfeldt experienced
such a feeling of sympathy, that he immediately went to Norway,
became acquainted with Lammers, and last summer he brought this
friend of his to Sweden, and with his assistance got some friends to
join them in these their peculiar views, in the little town of Carlshamn,
where Ahnfeldt usually dwells. Closely as Ahnfeldt and I have been
and still are united in Christ and as to the great truths of faith, I have
nevertheless been troubled and sorry on account of this step; fearing
especially that he will thereby have placed a hindrance in the way of
his most important activity, namely, that of converting souls to the
Lord. I have often in brotherly love argued with him on this subject,
and held up the example and teaching of Paul in 1 Cor. 9: 20, and the
example of the Christian church at Jerusalem, (Acts, 21: 20—26;) but
lie, on the contrary, insisted that one must begin by separation from
the established church, in order to have her bonds broken. My opinion,
however, is, that this will take place, at all events, when the time of the
Lord arrives, without those whose duty it is to sing to the souls of men
the song of Moses and the Lamb, raising obstacles against this most
important work.
This my fear has lately become stronger, since the King has now
sanctioned the new conventicle statute, which enacts that the preaching of
laymen shall be allowed only as long as they do not aim at separation
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