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WESTIN, JiREV FRÅN C. O. ROSENIUS
335
you some further news of the work of the Lord here. But I wish to
tell you at once that I have no uncommon things to relate. The
conversion of a soul from darkness to light is certainly always a great
and most wonderful work of the Lord, and I am happy to witness such
wonders of the grace of God everywhere; but, to the praise and glory
of the Lord, we can say that such things are not uncommon among us,
as they occur almost every day in our country.
The most glorious and rejoicing fact I can state to you is, that
the awakenings, the hunger and thirst after the living Word of God,
appear not only to continue, but also, in some parts of the land to
increase. Besides the reports of the colporteurs and my own
correspondence, which give me evidences of this fact, I have had, since I last
wrote to you, an occasion of seeing it myself, during two excursions
which I have made this autumn. On the latter journey especially, which
was more particularly a missionary one, I was almost day and night
besieged and quite exhausted by the concourse of inquiring souls. Twice,
and sometimes even three times a day, I preached the Word in churches,
school-houses, and other localities. One day when I had to go forty
English miles on the railway, I was obliged to preach twice, as I first
stopped at one station situated midway and preached to a large
congregation there assembled, and then, four hours later, continued my way,
and on arriving in the afternoon at a little town, Fahlun, there again
found a crowd of people desirous to listen to the Word of the Lord. I
had never before visited this town, but as my periodicals have for many
a year been much spread in this district, this may perhaps explain the
eagerness with which my arrival was looked for. From many
neighboring parishes crowds of people had come to hear the Word and speak
to nie, some with the ordinary inquires of the newly awakened concern
for the salvation of the soul, and others to get light in that occasional
darkness, which conies over those who have for a time wandered from
grace. The want of faithful and enlightened ministers is here very
much felt. I have spoken of this more particularly as the desire of the
people to hear and to learn was here uncommonly great. I would
nevertheless give you a very false idea of the work of the Lord among
us, if I spoke in this way only of one point of the country; but in
places where those who hunger and thirst after the truth, have richer
occasions of getting their spiritual wants satisfied in hearing those who
preach the gospel, their desire of hearing must of course be less visible
and prominent than in those darker spots where a proclaimer of the
truth is a more rare thing.
When in i860, (April 13th,) I gave you an account of the number
of laymen employed by the Lord for his work in Sweden, I quite forgot
to speak of the many female instruments engaged in his service, who
are instructed and prepared for their holy calling, some at the
Deaconesses’ Institution, and others at a Christian seminary for female teachers
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