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322 MEDDELANDEN’ OCH AKTSTYCKEN
the country, where I found a plantation of the Lord, young, lively and
shining in the freshest spring verdure, in a place, where, in the memory
of man, 110 religious movement has been heard of. Here I was occupied
with preaching, and till låte in the night, with speaking to souls newly
awakened and concerned for their salvation. I met here with persons
living forty to fifty miles distant, and who, stimulated by the desire of
hearing the Word of God, had traveled this long way; though they
would not avail themselves of the facility of communication afforded
by the steamboat or railway. The instrument used by the Lord for the
revival in Haparanda, far from being a clergyman, fills a high place in
the Customs; he is one of " the few nobles which are called." He
obtained his station here four years ago. Among the persons living in the
vicinity of the town, who have come to the life that is in Christ, was
also a very learned doctor of theology. Never in my life have I met
with so warm a believing master of Israel. The hours I spent at the
house of this converted doctor, were perhaps the sweetest ones I enjoyed
during the whole of my journey. He has his home on the other side
of the frontier. As he was at this time sick, he wished me to call upon
him. which I did, and was received with the warmest expressions of
affection and joy. He said that he had read my works for three years,
and now wished to pour out his heart to me. He told me of his
conversion and of the blessed testimony of the spirit of adoption given to
him some years ago. But now he was deeply concerned by the fear
that he was deceived, that the change that had taken place with him,
was not a true work of grace; that he was as " the man at the wedding,
that had no wedding-garment "—and the cause of all these fears was,
that he still found in his heart so much that was evil and perverse.
Weeping bitterly he told me this, all of which sufficiently showed me
that the doctor had not his theology in his head, but chastising grace in
the heart. Not only here, but also in other places which I visited, it was
rejoicing to see that the conversion of souls was not only an exterior
one from a worldly and guilty life to a pious and virtuous one, but that
they were generally concerned for having the hidden life with Christ in
God—for having oil in their lamps.
But it will be too long to go on in the same prolix way of telling
you what I have witnessed. Haparanda was the first place in which I went
ashore, as well as the most distant (about 750 miles from the capital) of
those I visited. But in returning, all along the shore of my land, I
visited places where I had as rejoicing experiences. Crowds of people were
assembled everywhere, at our meetings for devotion and prayer; and we
had often the joy of seeing souls come either to a joy or to a sorrow,
which they had never before experienced.
In a preceding letter I gave you an idea of the work of the Lord
in our country, in stating the number of laymen authorized to work for
the proclaiming of the Word. This view cail be still more extended.
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