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WESTIN, JiREV FRÅN C. O. ROSENIUS
327
May God strengthen you more and more, and pour out upon your
Society His richest blessing, as a reward for your zeal and Christian
love to us ! Help us with your prayers.
Yours, most respectfully
C. O. Rosenius.
28.
Stockholm, Aug. 2d, 1861.1
In writing again to the American and Foreign Christian
Union, I am very much pleased to address my letter to my old friend,
Dr. Baird, as I have seen by the note of Rev. A. E. Campbell, that you
have re-entered into your old place in the Board. I wish again to give
you some news from us here in Sweden, and I am indeed sorry to have
delayed this for so long, but do not like to take up the time with
relating what could well excuse this delay. I will only mention, that
since I last wrote, I have twice been sick, probably in working beyond
my forces.
Since my activity has got a more fixed form, there is not much
to tell about it. My preaching in the Bethlehem Chapel, the writing of
my periodicals, and my correspondence with souls inquiring and
concerned for their salvation, all this has, with the help of the Lord,
continued in the same manner as before, and I must praise the grace of
God, that He still pleases to use this miserable instrument. With regard
to the work of the Lord in our country, I consider myself more and
more as a mere spectator, as this work is now so widely spread, and as
God lias raised up more youthful and energetic laborers into this harvest.
By the correspondence of the Evangelical Fatherland Institution,
with its many agents and colporteurs I have occasion to look over this
work of the Lord, and, praise to his name, speaking generally, we may
say of it, it continues to advance. We are repeatedly informed of new
awakenings here and there, and we have rejoicing testimonies that,
under the care of the Great Shepherd, awakened and believing souls
are supported and preserved, if even the wolf now and then catches a
sheep out of the fold.
During this last year the Evangelical Fatherland Institution has
spread 227,597 books and tracts and 144,000 separate numbers of " The
Messenger;" the subscribers to this periodical last year amounted to
11.000, and this year to 14.000. Another monthly written for little
children, and published by the Evangelical Fatherland Institution, had
2.000 subscribers in i860, and 3,000 this year. From the beginning of
1 Detta brev publicerades i ovan citerade tidskrift, nov. 1861, p. 335 ff.,
under rubriken »The Work of God in Sweden».
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