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HANDLINGAR TILL GEORGE SCOTTS VERKSAMHET I SVERIGE I 6 7
But while the struggle is going on, it is painful although the victory
is certain. Your bitter antagonists do give the best & fullest
evidence that ungodliness is prevalent, at least in the Capital; and that
the little you have said of Sweden abroad, is a mere nothing
compared with what they do exhibit before all the world. In the
meantime while you stand exonerated before all right & soundminded
men, I tremble when I anticipate the judgements which will
inevitably fall upon poor Sweden, beeause of the injustice, ingratitude
& hypocrisy of so many of her sons. There is a wrath to come
even in this present life, and little do men think of the consequence
of their wicked actions.
I should like to know, how your old friends among the chiefs
in state & church act towards you, & how they shew themselves in
this respect in the face of your enemies. The fear of men is a
besetting sin with many a person who may be & even desires to
be sincere. Wor[l]dly policy always weakens the hands in the days
of spiritual warfare. We have now got ourselves entangled in the
meshes of controversy, and religious party spirit — and I fear the
more we labour in this way, the surer will the net close upon us.
Wonderful times! While England is pestered with Romanism —
Sweden fs to run the gauntlet of infidelity. There can be little
doubt, but that a conspiracy is lurking somewhere, against our
present gov[ernmen]t; & that in order to sap the foundation, the nation
must be made irreligious. This is one thing I fear. But the other
is this that the causing any kind of disturbance to take place has
its ultimate & first moving spring in the same quarter whence the
present troubles from which Britain just now is suffering and agitated
come. The Mother of harlots is at work; and who can tell but
that she is working even in our cold region. — The way is now
every where preparing for the Son of perdition.
The Arch-Bishop wrote the Missionay as follows: »That our
Church is not what it ought to be I deeply and painfully
acknowledge. Warnings and awakenings are needed from all sides, and I
believe him to be her friend who tells her the truth. Your pamphlet
I would therefore gladly see circulated widely in this country. But
that its contents were communicated to churches abroad, who could
not be edified thereby and only moved to compassion, this I have
great difficulty as a Swede in approving, but with equal sincerety I
assure you of my continued regard for your good services in
benefitting our land.»
A Layman, brother of the Rev. C. Rahmn låte of London, and
one of the Judges of the High Court Jönköping writes: »The
persecution of the papers is only political. I have heard by the
unguarded prate of radicals here, that your operations and the increase
of pietism are feared as interposing a hindrance to the spread of
the new ideas of freedom, and as leading to what they call ser-
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