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MEDDELANDEN OCH AKTSTYCKEN
sion, it is the desire of the Missionary to put the Committee in
possession of all the facts necessary to a right understanding of the
whole case, assured that the Committee will then be guided to such
decisions as shall best promote the honour of Him whose we are
and whom we serve. The following statement is not to be
regarded in the light of a defence. If the Missionary in all his ways
has acknowledged God, and has by Him been directed in his steps,
no such defence is needed, least of all in the presence of men of
God who seek to judge all things in the spirit of love and a sound
mind. If on the other hand the Missionary has erred, ignorantly
or wilfully, and by his error involved an important Mission in
difficulties which may be found to be inextricable, then it is most
de-sireable, that the error be detected, exposed and subjected to the
punishment which is meet; this is most desireable for the
Missionary’s own sake, that conviction may lead him to the fountain
opened for sin and uncleanness, and for the sake of God’s holy cause,
that the discovered error may form a beacon to warn subsequent
labourers. With such impressions the Missionary proceeds in the
fear of God to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the
truth, so far as appears necessary to the elucidation of this painful
subject.
In order to concentrate the attention of the Committee on the
main question, and yet furnish such collateral information as may
throw light upon the present position of affairs in Sweden, the
proceedings of the leading public prints will first be noticed, then a
few testimonies from impartial persons, after which we may be
better prepared to understand the course of events since the return of
the Missionary from America, and what is now to be done for the
Stockholm Mission.
The opposition of the Swedish Newspapers is no new thing,
as regards the proceedings of your Missionary at Stockholm. Long
however he was deemed quite beneath the notice of those papers,
and the occasional jibe thrown out against vital and practical
godliness, was too general in its application to be considered directed
against him, though it plainly shewed what manner of Spirit guided
those journals, and what might be expected should the work of God
revive in the land. During the year 1838 when the question
whether the Chapel should be erected with or without any
restriction regarding Swedish service, was pending, all the Journals
espoused the cause of religious liberty, and warmly opposed the
Consistory for seeking such restriction but at the same time, they
entered their loud and solemn protest against being considered
favourable to Methodism as such or even the proceedings of the
Methodist at Stockholm.
It was during the sittings of the Diet of 1840, that the new
Chapel was opened. And at that Diet a Motion was made affect-
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