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BIOGRAPHY. 69
Fredrika had determined not to mix in society or accept
any invitations, but to live in retirement at home, and de-
velop herself for what she now considered to be her mis-
sion and her vocation, namely, to become an authoress ;
and, enriched by experience of the world, to devote in a
double measure her talents to the comfort and succor of
the suffering and the unhappy.
Fredrika found and felt that she required to learn much,
and that she stood in need of a firm religious faith, which
she had not. The contradictions which she saw in the
Bible and in the world had long shaken her faith, and
raised doubts in her soul to such a degree that, at times,
with her reflecting and searching mind, they seemed to
darken her whole life.
The teacher or guide whom Fredrika had so much
yearned after, she found in Christianstad. The head-mas-
ter of the high school there, the Rev. Pehr Béklin, was
the man who, by his philosophical education, his clear
mind, his profound, truly Christian faith, imparted that
faith to Fredrika, and thus gave her peace of mind and
strength to proceed on that path in life which she had
determined to follow.
Elaborate and elegant biographies may be written, but
not often do we through them become intimately acquainted
with the inmost mind of the person described therein.
Fredrika showed me one day a letter from her teacher and
friend, and from it I have copied the following passage : —
“ Your mission is a beautiful one, Miss Bremer! Your
mission is the noblest in the world. Regardless of our own
cares and sorrows in life, to walk with heavenly comfort
through earth’s cells, so full of agony, is the lot of an angel.
May God’s finger appear to you and show you the right
way! Asa brother I will stand by your side, and, praying
and meditating, I will impart to you every ray of light that
may be vouchsafed to me!”
How clearly, from these simple words, do we not per
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