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handlingar till george scotts verksamhet i sverige I 6 7
22. Till G. Stephens1
Stockholm, Feb. 6. 1839.
Mr. G. Stephens,
On receiving yours of the 4th I at first resolved to let it remain
unanswered, but on more mature deliberation I find duty must make
feeling give way.
I do then most sincerely and most unaffectedly record my regret,
if in my conversation with you at Mr. Hjertas, any expressions were
used needlessly irritating, or inconsistent with that charity which
hopeth all things. My deeply wounded feelings must plead some
excuse. When on Thursday evening I saw the painful attack, I said
instantly to Mrs. S.: »Could I conceive it possible that Mr. Stephens
would drag me thus before the public of Sweden, I would say,
judging from some expressions in this article, that he is the Author»
— but we both agreed that your doing any thing of the kind was
not to be thought of, and we went to bed with that conviction.
The sequel shewed how far it was correct, and the discovery of the
author gave tenfold bitterness to the attack itself.
You will of course retain your own opinion of the necessity
for, and propriety of bringing the matter at all before the Swedish
Public, but your better feelings tell you, I know, that you had no
ground on which to rest such a charge against me as that preferred;
the conversation at Mr. Bloomfield’s in presence of Mr. Netzell & Mr.
Owen, when the idea was suggested not by me certainly, could not
possibly be construed into an attempt, much less into »astonishing
attempts» to get the fund as a loan. And would you, — if even
the case were so, & supposing the security such as to satisfy the
proper parties concerned, would you interfere to provent this money
being lent on a Chapel here, which you know cannot be made the
property of the Conference in the sense in which English Chapels
are considered to be so? — You know, for that too was stated fully
to you, that the Conference authorities can not hold property here,
and that the only security for the proper appropriation of the
considerable sum contributed by English Methodists, which can be
obtained is a mortgage on the property which is of no value till all
other claims are discharged. A remark in Mr. Hjertas note, which
he must have been instructed to make, shews that the explanations
1 George Stephens, f. 1813 i Liverpool, d. 1895. Språkman, runforskare,
senare prof, i Köpenhamn. S., som var broder till J. R. Stephens,
metodistpredikanten i Stockholm 1826—29, kom till Stockholm 1834, där han sedan
vistades i flera år. Se Dictionary of National Biography, LIV, p. 173.
Detta brevkoncept finnes i Scott-samlingen.
12—27480. Kyrkohist. Årsskrift 1917.
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