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WESTIN, JiREV FRÅN C. O. ROSENIUS
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out her hands and begged me to take off the chain. She also expressed
a great desire to follow me in order to hear the Word of God. A friend
of mine who was with me, offered to take her to his house. I then
spoke to the parents, and though they were at first most unwilling, they
at last consented to let her go. In the house of this pious friend of
mine, God has operated a great change in the poor woman. They have
tended her most kindly, they have read to her the Word, they have
prayed with and for her, and the Lord has blessed these efforts, and
given her soul and her body more and more strength. She has now
even been able to work, and when I saw her again, I could hardly
recognize her. God be praised for this wonder of His grace!"
I end here this brief sketch of the proceedings of the Evangelical
Fatherland Institution, and give you an extract of a letter from one of
my friends, in which he informs me of the conversion of a clergyman
and his wife, known to me by some of their relations, who are believing
souls. Every conversion is indeed a wonder of the Lord, and we rejoice
and praise Him for every soul thus brought from darkness to light;
but this joy is doubled when the Spirit of God has won one of those,
who are called to teach others. The particulars connected with the
conversion of this clergyman are, besides, so interesting that I wish to
communicate it to you.
One day, in the beginning of this summer, one of our colporteurs,
Mr. M., arrived at the house of that clergyman; his wife was alone at
home, and was very glad thus to get an opportunity of speaking at her
ease with this humble servant of the Lord. She had for sometime been
concerned for her salvation, but had never ventured to speak of it to
her husband, and he also had felt much anxiety as to the real state of
his soul, without being able to reveal these uneasy thoughts to his wife.
The conversation with M. was of great benefit to the lady, and she
wished very much to invite him to spend a day or two at her house,
but fearing the displeasure of her husband, she desisted from it. On
his return she told him of M.’s visit and of a meeting appointed for
the following morning at a distant place, where M. intended to speak
to the people. She was very much astonished to hear her husband
express some regret not to have been at home, and also a wish to hear
M. preach on the following day. Early in the morning he really set
out for the appointed place, and as the roads were bad, he was obliged
to go on foot a considerable way off. He promised to be at home at
twelve, as he had a pressing work to do, but it struck twelve, two, four,
eight, nine, and he did not come back. His wife, far from being uneasy
at this unwonted absence of her husband, took this rather as a sign
that he had taken interest in what he had heard. In the meantime she
tried to quiet her own soul and gain for herself certitude and light.
She sat down to read a declaration of Rom. 4: 6—8, and as she read,
scales fell from her eyes, God let a glimpse of His light into her heart,
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