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WESTIN, JiREV FRÅN C. O. ROSENIUS
339
be developed for their high call of going out as missionaries in a
heathen land.
In the meantime, as the residue from preceding years amounted
to 16,300 dollars, and the income of the year to about 11,000 dollars,
and as the Society wished as soon as possible to use this money in the
service of the Lord, they have sent large sums to foreign Societies, and
even appointed to support, as missionaries of their own, two young
Germans, who have got their missionary education at Leipzig and are
now working at Chata Nagpoor in India.
This may certainly appear very trifling to you, who. with the
wide resources of a large and rich country, free from every hindering
bond, and where the cause of missions has been known and embraced
with interest for so long a time—have done so much. But we must
of course look upon this work of our Finnish friends in a quite different
way, when we compare what they have done in the short time they have
enjoyed some religious liberty, with the little we—-free as we are—have
till now been able to do for missions among the heathens.
When I communicate to you this news from Finland, as a fruit
of the enlarged religious liberty, which even the Emperor of Russia
has felt himself obliged to give to his subjects, I cannot but remember
that I am writing to a man who has employed so much of his activity
to work out such a liberty by the monarchs of Europe. But all things
are of God, both the will and the power to work, as well as the fruits of
our work—and all will tend to the glory and praise of His name.
I am sorry not to have given you any news from us for so long
a time; but I will now really try to write once in three months, especially
as I see, through your letter, that you wish to have more frequent
communications from us, if they even be shorter.
Present my compliments to your respected Board. Your
affectionate and thankful brother in Christ
C. O. Rosenius.
3i-
[Odaterat.]1
As I wished this time to give you some news of the state of
religion in Finland, I have been obliged to postpone my letter, in order
to obtain more correct intelligence. Now that it has arrived, I hasten
to communicate to you a summary of the information which has been
given to me.
Speaking generally, it can certainly be said, that there has always
been a certain seriousness in the character of the Finnish people, a
1 Detta brev var infört i Christian World, dec. 1862, p. 377 fl.
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