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WESTIN, JiREV FRÅN C. O. ROSENIUS
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when I also tell you the number of houses for devotion, built only for
religious meetings, which have arisen during these two years. Where
there are true and faithful clergymen the churches are also used for
peculiar worship and Bible-reading, which the awakened religious life
feels in want of. Most of our religious assemblies take place in private
houses; but beside all these places for devotion, before available,
awakened and believing souls are now erecting separate houses for devotion,
larger and smaller, according to the want of the neigborhood. Some of
them are so large that they are capable of containing one thousand
people, and even more. Of these privately erected prayer-houses we
lately counted more than thirty, known to me and Br. Ahnfelt. The
number of them must of course be still greater, as there are parts of
the country which we have not yet visited.
Brother Ahnfelt has recently been in Stockholm 011 his return
from Norway. This last summer he has been almost continually
traveling in Sweden and Norway, and since the month of May he has
traveled about 4,000 miles. Among the many experiences which he has
made of låte, he often speaks with emotion of an event of last winter,
when he was wonderfully rescued from an imminent danger. He was
returning from a long tour, and had come near his home. He went in
a carriage with two horses and had to go down a steep hill. Here the
road was filled with ice, and of course very slippery, and when the
carriage was descending the steep, it glided to the one side, lost the
balance, and carriage, horses and all plunged into a precipice of seven
yards. Down in the deep there were large stones upon which the
carriage, horses, and two men fell with such a violence that the pole
was broken into four pieces and both the seats were crushed, and
nevertheless, neither men nor horses had a single bone broken, nor was
there shed a single drop of blood. What a wonder of the providence and
power of the Lord !
I give you here a translation of what has been newly read in a
Norwegian newspaper. This may give you an idea of the manner in
which Ahnfelt’s activity is considered in Norway. It runs as follows:
" Christiansand, Sept. 1, i860. In going to and returning from Bergen,
Mr. Ahnfelt, an evangelical preacher from Sweden, has twice visited
our town, and preached eight times here. The prayer-house in
Queens-street has been opened to him, as the Direction felt assured that nothing
but the pure Gospel was to be preached, and we very much wished to
hear the Word proclaimed by a man so pious, highly gifted, and
renowned, from many places. The large and commodious hall, capable
of containing 1,500 people, was crowded at every meeting. Mr. A.
opened and terminated his preachings with singing one or two of the
religious songs, which he has himself collected and published. These
he accompanied with his guitar or harp, for which cause many came
to hear him out of curiositv."
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