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WESTIN, BREV FRÅN C. O. ROSENIUS
I/-
Stockholm, April 12, 1856.1
Dear Sir,—Some time has elapsed since my last letter, and I wish
to give you some news from Sweden. As regards Mr. Ahnfelt and
myself, our position is nearly the same as when I wrote to you. My
work goes on uniformly, but it much exceeds my strength. The assistant
whom I mentioned to you has not been so useful to me as I hoped, not
having the advantage of an easy style of writing and composition. He
only translates some articles for the Missionary paper, and has been
engaged as tutor in a private house. The Lord has, however, helped
me hitherto, and will continue to do so hereafter.
The Lord be praised! In the same proportion that I see myself
incapable, and not useful as I should wish to be, I see him bringing
about wonderful effects through others, or through the instrumentality
of the Spirit alone giving life to the word, and making it powerful
almost without any human means.
During last month, or rather Easter week, I paid a visit to the
town of Gefle, and staid there six days. It was refreshing to see how
the Lord makes his word attractive and powerful. The believers who
dwell in that town have built a meeting-house which holds about 600
persons even before the galleries are built. It was not only filled, but
many were obliged to go away for want of room, and this
notwithstanding we had meetings twice a day. Two churches were offered
to us in the neighborhood. In one of those parishes a remarkable
awakening had recently taken place. A shoemaker from Gefle had been
the humble instrument the Lord had chosen in that instance. But I can
not enter into details. They would be too many. We can only say:
" Glory and praise, glory and praise be to the Lord!"
I hasten, however, to tell you something about Brother Ahnfelt.
His field of labor seems to grow in extent, and his labor to become
more and more blessed just in proportion as persecution seems to be
1 Brevet publicerades i förut nämnda tidskrift i juli 1856. p. 213 ff., och
hade följande introduktion:
The following letter from the Rev. C. O. Rosenius. Missionary of the
Board, at Stockholm, addressed to the Secretary for Foreign Correspondence gives
a most encouraging view of our work in Sweden. The divine spirit accompanies
the preaching of the word in a signal manner, and God seems to give his cause
prosperity through the means employed by opponents with special design to hinder
it. Under the labors of our Missionaries, extensive revivals of religion were
enjoyed in various places during the past winter, and even yet they are bestowed,
as this letter will show, in towns and districts where they continue to labor. But
we submit the letter, rather than our comments upon it. It will be read with
interest by all Christians.
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