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MEDDELANDEN OCH AKTSTYCKEN
afterwards conducted family worship in Swedish and found the Psalm
in course the 56th most seasonable. For some days subsequent to
this many calls were made at the Mission house, reports of violent
proceedings having spread far and wide. On the 26th the
Missionary was sent for by Sir Thos. Cartwright the British Minister,
and warned against going out after nightfall, as there was an
intention on the part of not a few to do him an injury, and the
following day the Governor General Möllerhjelm sent for the Missionary,
requesting that he would avoid as much as possible all irritating
expressions in his services, and he would see to it that he had
sufficient protection. The promise on both sides was honestly given
and faithfully observed. No disturbance of any serious character
took place so long as General Möllerhjelm was able to attend to
the duties of his office as Governor of Stockholm. One pane of
glass was broken on the 28th in the bedroom window of the
Mission house, and a leaden bullet was found in the inside, the fracture
in the glass intimated that this had been shot, and yet if this had
been the case more mischief would surely have been done. On the
5th December the service was painfully interrupted by what at first
appeared to be an arranged plan, but probably was only the
forget-fulness of all decency shewn by one unfortunate drunkard. The
legal investigation which followed this case however, shewed as the
Missionary subsequently learned that the inferior court did not consider
the Chapel a sacred place in the same sense as the other Churches.
On the 11 th the Missionary had a further trial, on going up to take
his place in the Direction of the Swedish Temperance Society, the
President the Hon. Mr. Hartmannsdorff, the same who as Secretary
for Ecclesiastical affairs opposed the Royal sanction to the Chapel
in 1838, refused to allow his remaining; this arbitrary act was
however afterwards discountenanced especially by Baron Berzelius
and an attempt to exclude the Missionary’s name proved abortive.
Such was the growing ferment towards the close of the year,
that the Missionary deemed it only prudent to hold the Watchnight
at 7 instead of 10, this step, however wellmeant had nearly brought
on what it was designed to prevent, for between 9 & 1 o a crowd
collected composed of many who from the recollections of former
years hoped to enjoy a season of Divine service, and others drawn
by mere curiosity; all however went away quietly about midnight,
and the most eventful year of the Missonary’s life closed in peace.
Nothing beyond the daily abuse in the papers and consequent
increasing fermentation took place till the 3rd February 1842, when
the Minister for Ecclesiastical affairs addressed the following letter
to the Consistory of Stockholm.’ The reply of the Consistory forms
1 C. letter appended. [Se Kyrkoh. Årsskrift 1924, s. 300.]
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