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MEDDELANDEN’ OCH AKTSTYCKEN
This may be enough for to-day. May God bless you and forward
your work in the Lord! Yours very sincerely,
C. O. Rosenius.
27.
Stockholm, February 13, 1861.1
As your letter of December 18, i860, contained a draft, I ought
to have answered it immediately; but I hope you will excuse me, when
1 remind you of the many letters from subscribers to my periodicals,
which I have to receive and to answer during the first months of the year.
In the first place, I very heartily thank you for that letter of
yours and the enclosed draft of one hundred dollars, and I hope you
will consider these lines as an acknowlegement on my part of having
received your remittance. I also wish to communicate to you what I
know of the progress of the Lord’s kingdom in our country. And, praise
to the Lord, his work appears to be continually advancing in every
part of the land, if even some little spots of the large field are
occasionally drying up. Through the many letters which I have received
these last months, for the sake of the above mentioned subscription,
I have had fresh and rejoicing evidences of the fact, that the number
of awakened souls, inquiring and concerned for their salvation, is
increasing everywhere in our land. As our country, before these last
twenty years, was wrapped up in a general, spiritual lethargy—excepting
only some few limited places where God had his chosen ones—and as,
in the earlier times, very few knew anything of a true and living work
of the Lord, but religion consisted in the observance of empty and dead
forms, the soil had of course become so dry that when the Lord "■ caused
his showers of blessing to come clown in his season," the vegetation
which they called forth has been particularly fresh and lively. The
heart of man is certainly always and everywhere the same, carnal
and earthly-minded, and does not care for the Kindom of God: but
I think that the above-mentioned case will nevertheless make some
difference. I very well remember an expression of a brother from
England, Dr. Steane, who visited our land two years ago. He said:
" The spiritual vegetation in Sweden reminds me of Spring, of May
and June; but in England we have rather autumn, August or September."
Besides what I every day hear from the provinces, of the facility
with which the sparks of Divine light take fire in places where all
before were plunged in darkness and death, I have newly had an
example of this spiritual receptivity, so interesting and so charming to
my heart, that I wish to relate it to you:
1 I Christian World, juli 1861, p. 209 ff., offentliggjordes detta brev.
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