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MEDDELANDEN’ OCH AKTSTYCKEN
Institution in various provinces of Sweden. A school for colporteurs
is intended to be begun at Stockholm the first of October next.
Many persons have, in the provinces, undertaken to be agents
for the Society, and are actively employed as such, collecting money,
assisting the colporteurs, and so forth.
Such, dear sir, are the news which we, thanks be to God, can
give from Sweden, Certainly, we would not assert that there are no
shadows in the state of the country, far from it. The world has a
great ascendancy, and even among Christians we are sorry to say that
there are, now and then, dissensions that are painful; but on the whole,
we have so much reason to be thankful, that certainly we must not be
discouraged. The sympathy of Christian brethren in other lands, too,
is a very great source of comfort to us. Their assistance and their
prayers strengthen our hands.
I must now conclude for this time, dear sir, wishing you every
blessing from ’the Lord of all grace.
Yours sincerely and gratefully,
C. O. Rosenius.
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Stockholm, 5th March, 1857.1
Rev. Dr. McClure:
Dear Sir,—As usual, I have to make excuses for my long delay
in writing, and as usual, my reasons are the same—work, incessant
work, which seems to be growing upon me every day. At this time of
the year especially, when all the subscriptions come in for the Pietist,
I have such numbers of letters to answer and acknowledge that
sometimes I scarcely know what way to turn. But it is all of the Lord,
and ought only to fill our hearts with exceeding thankfulness. I am
daily more and more filled with wonder and admiration at what the
Lord is doing among us. For my own part, I sometimes fancy my work
must be at an end, for I advance in age and lose strength; but my field
of labor is constantly being enlarged, instead of diminished. My spacious
meeting-room, of which I have often boasted, is now too small, and the
committee who hold in their hands the disposal of the English chapel,
as it is still called, where Mr. Scott and I used to preach in former
times, have kindly opened it for my Bible expositions, so that we have
not now the painful feeling of seeing hundreds of people obliged to go
1 Publicerat i tidskriften i juli 1857, p. 219 IT., med följande introduktion:
Our readers will read with delight the following letter from Mr. Rosenius.
It is translated from the Swedish by an intelligent English lady at Stockholm, and
forwarded to us, as he says, " with unfeigned pleasure and devout thanksgiving
to God," by the Rev. Geo. Scott, now of Preston, Lancashire. England.
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