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MEDDELANDEN OCH AKTSTYCKEN
thodism acting under directions from other quarters and in consent
with the conclave; she acts from her own independant view and
conviction of paramount duty and is entitled to claim the respect
you also demand for following out your solemn convictions, and I
have no doubt you as a polished gentleman will know how to treat
even the failings of a Lady. Unless I am griveously misinformed
regarding the moral state of the lower orders in Fahltm, (of course
I do not include those under your care), they are not likely to be
made worse by Miss R:s enthusiasm than they are already; we of
course differ greatly as to the happiest state of man, we who
receive the Bible argue that man was created to find his happiness in
(lod, and that every attempt to derive a happiness worthy an immortal
being from sensual pleasures, as a vain effort to find in earthly
things a compensation for the absence of heavenly, or the seeking
»in 10,000 objects the bless we lost in one»; we consider that in
the truths of the Scripture we have a joy as superior to all earthly
as heaven is to earth; and we claim in a land where freedom of
conscience exists the liberty of seeking such recreations as we find
most pleasing & advantageous, leaving to all others to use the same
liberty, a claim which all who contend for freedom of thought must
surely yield, for is it not despotic to say: »You shall use my
pleasures, or you shall not have peace in using yours. See book of
Wisdom, Chap. 2.
44. Till P. A. Huldberg.
Min gode vän,
Inneliggande från Brodern Sefström tagit en omväg öfver
Stockholm, emedan han önskade jag skulle visa M.S. åt någon härstädes.
Jag förmodar S. har gifvit dig alla de uplysningar om tryckning som
behöfvas. Gud wälsigne den lilla boken, den måste werka godt.
Nu förolämpas jag på Stockholms offentliga gator tack ware
Allehandas upmaningar till »Molestation». Allt hvad Herren tillåter är
godt för mig, och jag känner ett obeskrifligt lugn, och en alltjemt
ökande kärlek och håg att här werka, desto flera och hårda de
swå-righeter äro, som hopa sig på min wäg.
Brådt som vanligt
Din i vänskap
Geo. Scott.
Stockholm, Jan. 25. 41.
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