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MEDDELANDEN’ OCH AKTSTYCKEN
my work so outgrown my strength, that I wanted his assistance; partly
have the demands for messengers of the Gospel from every part of
the country become so urgent, that I have considered it necessary, for
the furtherance of the cause of Christ, to have a person who can be
sent now and then to such places when most wanted. While I am
writing this, Mr. Flyborg is at a distance of more than seventy miles
in some parishes where his presence was much desired, and
notwithstanding the severity of the season, he is gone to satisfy the
spiritual wants of the people, inasmuch as the Lord will bless his work.
When he is in Stockholm he is constantly occupied in digging in the
vineyard in the same way as I do, and besides this, he for the most
part manages the editorial work of the Stockholm missionary paper.
He will, probably, take part in another branch of Christian labor
just now commencing. A school and home for colporteurs was begun
a twelve month ago, by Doctor Fjellstedt, but discontinued in
consequence of his various occupations and travels. The members of the
Tract Society, seeing the importance of bringing forward colporteurs,
and of having them under some control, have now taken up the matter,
and after due consideration, have decided on having such a little
" home," superintended by two respectable ladies, who will act as
matrons and keep the house, so that the young men who come there
will have every thing done for them in the most economical but orderly
way. They will have their food and lodgings there, while under their
course of instruction. This will be given them principally by Mr.
Flyborg ; occasionally, also, by Mr. Elmblad and myself; and we hope to
secure the valuable services of Doctor Fjellstedt, also, when he is in town.
The Tract Society, having taken this in hand, it will have a
sufficient guarantee that the young men who go out are tolerably fitted
for the work, and also in regard to the books sold by them. 1 do not
know of any branch of Christian work more promising at this moment
than that of sending out colporteurs in the wide and thinly-inhabited
regions of our country.
It has already shown forth such blessed fruits, though hitherto
conducted without any plan, merely depending on individual effort. One
exception as to method is, however, the Jönköping Tract Society, which
sends out two colporteurs regularly every year, and the consequences
have been very remarkable. In several parishes near that town, there
is such a number of anxious inquirers that it is difficult for the serious
clergyman of the neighborhood to satisfy the demands of these seekers
after salvation when they come to be further enlightened and comforted.
Whole parishes seem to be awakened in some places. The people come
together and read the word of God, and they also send and invite some
minister or experienced layman, to come and explain to them the word
of salvation. But there are large tracts of land as vet where no such
messenger of peace has come. We wish to be able, with the blessing
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