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MEDDELANDEN’ OCH AKTSTYCKEN
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Stockholm, Dec. 24th, 1852.1
To the Rev. Dr. Baird, New-York:
My clear and Rev. Sir,—In my last letter I spoke mostly of
myself and my own experience and very little of my brother Ahnfelt. This
time I will take a contrary course and let him speak. My occupations
in Stockholm continue the same, but they constantly increase in number,
from the continual increase in the number of visitors, correspondants
and persons coming to seek advice—while our Meetings have been so
crowded that I have been obliged to divide the people who came to hear
me into classes, giving them different hours and different localities. I
begin with giving you the extracts from Mr. Ahnfelt’s letter of the 3d of
December.
" In the beginning of September I returned from my journey to
Scania, and Denmark, and came home to Carlshamn, where, as usual, I
had meetings every week. The last seemed to be particularly blessed,
by the impressions it left on the minds of three young girls, who up to
that time had been deeply engaged in all the vanities of this world. One
of them almost immediately commenced a life of faith, which according
to later accounts seems already to flourish and bear fruit. She has gone
succesfully through a severe temptation. The other two are seriously
engaged in seeking the Lord. Towards the end of September I went to
Smoland, where I remained some time with the good old Baron W.
Rappe. Many of his tenants and of the neighbors came to be present at
our meetings. The eldest daughter of the Baron, Ingeborg, gave me great
cause of rejoicing. She seemed just to want the Gospel word of
freedom, and rejoiced in the mercy of Christ. How wonderful, when we
consider how cold and indifferent she was to spiritual things when we
saw her in Stockholm ! The Lord can bring about great changes !—From
Tagel I went to Herrestad to the excellent old Mrs. Peterson, a German
lady, who is very active in spreading the knowledge of the Gospel, and
in all good works. There we had delightful meetings, and I praise the
Lord for what I was permitted to see there, and for His sending me,
as I believe, in an accepted time. At the missionary meeting I spoke on
what has sometimes been called the little Bible—the words, " God so
loved the world" etc. and the Spirit of the Lord moved our hearts with
might, and brought down many blessings. The chief source of rejoicing
was, that a clergyman, Mr. Davidson, a good man. came to life and
faith in Christ. He was so " anointed with the oil of gladness " that it
1 Brevet finnes infört i den citerade tidskriften, april 1853, p. 180 f., och
maj 1853, p. 228 f., under rubriken: Sweden. — A letter from our Missionary,
Mr. Rosenius. Den vanliga rubriken över breven var Mission in Sweden eller
bara Sweden.
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