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MEDDELANDEN’ OCH AKTSTYCKEN
at the Royal Institution for the Blind and Deaf and Dumb. He is a
Lieutenant Klingspor [ ?], and is himself quite deaf, but has the talent of
seeing every word the speaker utters by reading the movement of his
lips. This was the cause of his never averting his look from me. He
came again and again to our meetings, and soon became one of our
dearest friends. He often with tears praises the Lord, and says that he
can never do enough for the great mercies he has experienced in the
faithful leadings of the Lord. A week ago he took me to the above
mentioned Royal Institution at Manilla, in the Royal Park, to speak to the
blind, and it was one of the most interesting moments in my life. Besides
three of the teachers and their wives, there were none but blind people
present. I could find no more suitable text than the Gospel appointed
by our church for the following Sabbath, which was Luke, 18: 31—43,
where the blind man at the wayside sought and found his sight,
notwithstanding the opposition made; found his Savior, and afterwards
followed him, praising God. One blind youth and two blind girls
seemed to be powerfully touched by the word. One of these cried much
and said that it had been such a joy to her again to hear my voice. She
had been present at many of our meetings some years ago, though I
knew nothing about it. She could play the piano, and sing hymns very
nicely, so that we were much affected.
The following day a young Christian student, Mr. B., came and
gave me a message from a prisoner who is under sentence of death.
Mr. B. had been to see him in prison. I was not aware of having been
the means of conveying to him the faith and hope of salvation which
now warms his heart. It seems, however, that a number of the Pietist,
given to him by a friend, had been blessed to him. This is still more
affecting when I tell you that this poor man, by the influence of the
Spirit, had been drawn to hear the word of God, and came to our
meetings many years ago, but has since so lost sight of all relating to
God that he committed a murder, but is now again awake and drawn
to the Lord Jesus. When he did not obediently walk according to the
truth which he knew, he was " delivered unto Satan for the destruction
of the flesh, that the Spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus."
i Cor. 5: 5.
But leaving the prison, let us go to the palace. There also we
have some brethren and sisters in grace.
[Considerations of prudence require us to hold in reserve certain
parts of a most interesting character, going to show that now, as of
old, there are " saints of Csesar’s household.]
You see by this how the Spirit of the Lord is acting upon high
and low in our land. All that we hear from the country, too, fills us
with joy. It is really so that I can only praise and exalt the doings of
the Lord! More especially so when I reflect 011 the state of our country
twenty years ago.
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