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MEDDELANDEN OCH AKTSTYCKEN
help was applied for at the office a dispute was started whether it
was their duty to protect the »Methodist priest’s house». The
Mission family and others residing on the premises were naturally in
great alarm, but could do nothing else than simply cast their care
upon Him who cared for them, standing prepared for all He might
see good to permit. He was a refuge when promised human aid
proved a »broken reed». Nothing further occurred during that
week, for several nights a posse of Police constables were concealed
in the house, to seize any who might attempt unlawfully to come
in, but when all was put in order no disturbers came.
On Sabbath the 27th (Easter) the family of the Missionary was
engaged at evening domestic worship which in consequence of the
excited state of the populace was conducted without the usual
accompaniment of singing, that no occasion for an attack might be
given, when all were on their knees at prayer a stone as large as
an ordinary sized orange was thrown through the double window
with a violence which must have seriously injured any one it should
have struck. But by the good providence of God nothing beyond
the unavoidable alarm took place. On the 29th Sir Thos. Cartwright
forwarded a dispatch to London, the substance of which he read
over to the Missionary giving a full account of the establishment and
progress of the Mission as well as the disturbances which had taken
place and noticing the insufficient protection afforded, and the day
following the Missionary was sent for by the Police Master, with
whom he had a lengthened conversation, in the course of which he
declared that the law of 1781 never having been repealed would be
considered as now in force, a law which requires ist that the
Governor shall not allow any to attend divine service in a foreign
Church, excepting such as belong to that Church; and 2nd that the
clergyman shall not admit any who do not belong to his charge.
The Missionary told the Police Master that if he had kept the first
part of the law on Palm Sunday, and not allowed improper persons to
come in to the Chapel, we should not have had any disturbance, and
as he with all the resources of Stockholm could not keep out the
unprivileged, the Missionary had of course no power to prevent their
coming in. So that such a law could not be observed; it was added
that all the Missionary wanted was an official document on which
to found a representation to England.
During this conversation the Police Master very significantly
said, »You had better talk with the Editors of the opposing papers.
I know they will allow themselves to be talked to.» This mode
of doing evil that good might come was at once declined. But the
Missionary, deeply pained, that none of the rioters, or rather the
originators of the riot had been detected though the whole was well
known to be a preconcerted plan, offered on behalf of the
Conference a reward of £ 50 for the conviction of the principals; this
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