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WESTIN, JiREV FRÅN C. O. ROSENIUS 299
markable, the longing after the word of God is great and full of life,
the spirit of the Lord rests on the north country.
Thus, Brother Ahnfelt goes on writing, and his communications
are in fact verv striking, when we consider what the state of this
country was not many years ago. Another very interesting trait is the
daily progress of the schools, especially Sunday-schools. It is not
possible, but that the next generations must become more and more
acquainted with the Bible if such progress will be made as has been the
case now.
Sunday-schools are commenced in many places. We hear of new
ones almost every day. In most places they are conducted by ladies who
have undertaken the work voluntarily. In Stockholm there have been
two large schools this winter. In one, Mr. Palmquist is superintendent,
himself a member of the Tract Society of Stockholm. The teachers in
his school are mostly servants and young apprentices, a touching trait
in the spiritual development of a community when such come to give
their few spare hours to such a purpose. They have a meeting after
school, when they confer 011 the subject of next Sunday’s lesson. About
a hundred children attend generally.
Another school which has been attended by about seventy or eighty
children is under the care of ladies, some of them daughters of rich or
noble houses, but all warmly interested in the cause. It has been very
pleasant to think of them so employed. Every Saturday afternoon they
have met at the house of the superintendent and conversed 011 the subject
of next day’s lesson. These meetings have been blessed to the souls of
several of these young teachers; they have felt their own insufficiency
and been driven to the throne of grace. This school has been a sort of
training school for teachers. Several have gone or are going into the
country to the estates of their parents or friends, there to continue with
this work in the Lord’s vineyard; others have begun smaller schools
in more distant parts of the town; some are going to be married, and
it is to be hoped that they will reap advantage from the experiment
they have made in teaching, which may be useful in their own families.
In the country many Sunday-schools are at work. The little
peasant children trudge many miles through snow and ice to be present.
They are so delighted with the songs and the Bible lessons, and the
little books they get the loan of every Sunday. This leads to more and
more books being translated. The presents made to Sweden by the
American Tract Society and the English Sunday-School Union now
prove of much use to us. We are getting quite a new branch of
literature called forth by these Sunday-schools.
The spread of Tracts and Bibles is immense. One colporteur has
sold lately for a sum of nearly £80 within a short time. When the
low-price of the books is taken into account, this is seen to be a large sum.
The school for colporteurs has been going on all winter. In the
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