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MEDDELANDEN’ OCH AKTSTYCKEN
in schools, both established in Stockholm. From the Deaconesses’
Institution many faithful maid-servants of the Lord have been sent to
different parts of the country; and with a living experience of the work
of Grace upon their own hearts, they have had to sow, in schools, the
seeds of eternal life in the hearts of the children, or to take care of
poor and lost ones gathered up in little homes for such poor things, or
even to take care of the sick and bear the bread of life to them and
to the dying, both in hospitals and in the cabins of the poor. The number
of the deaconesses now amounts to sixty-three, working some within
the Institution and others without it, at thirty-three different points.
Who can count or know the fruit of the work of these faithful
young women ? How many children receive, through them, the
incorruptible seed of the Word in their hearts! Perhaps I may relate to you
one instance of the blessed work they are permitted to do. A poor little
girl, that has been taken care of at the Institution for some time, has
recently become a wonder of Grace. When she was first taken up, she
showed a very wild and hard temper. She was always dissatisfied,
contradicted every one, and quarelled with her little companions. The
deaconesses, who took care of her, in vain tried to work a change in
the child, and finally resolved to send her away. This they told the
little girl. But now the moment was come when the Lord was about
to win a new victory, and the heart of the child must melt. The little
creature, with tears, exclaimed, " Do not send me away; do try to
keep me one day at least, but one day." And from that day she became
quite changed; she listened to the Word, began to read it herself, and
to pray. One day when she was at work together with two of the
" sisters," she heard them rejoice at this promise of the Lord: " I, even
I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and
will not remember thy sins." These words sank down into a well
prepared soil. The child nevertheless did not then say a word, but
finished her task, and no one had the least idea of what the Holy Ghost
had worked in her heart till some hours later the " sisters " heard her
at once, with the most deepfelt joy and exultation exclaim: "The Lord
has pardoned me all my sins; the Lord has taken away all my sins:
this is really true—the Lord himself has said it." Her whole appearance
was changed; the sad and sullen expression of the face had given place
to the most beaming joy. Afterwards she often said: "That day and
that sentence of the Scriptures I never can forget." But the Lord who
had found that little lamb, watched over and protected it to the last.
The cross and naughty child had become a meek and lovely one, living
of the grace and growing in the grace of God more and more. Some
months later she grew sick, and the Lord very soon came to fetch
her from this world of sorrow and temptations to his everlasting joy
and grace.
From the before-mentioned Christian seminary, under the direc-
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