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WESTIN, JiREV FRÅN C. O. ROSENIUS
347
to give you some details from the history of a young lady of high
rank, who was converted some years ago, and who is most dear to us.
as she has through her zeal and activity, been the means of drawing
some young souls to Jesus. All her youth had been spent in the vanities
and pleasures of this world, during the winter in the capital, and in
the summer with wealthy relations at the country. As she was an
agreeable and cheerful friend, she was welcome everywhere. Of
religion she neither knew nor wished to know anything. All was joy
and happiness, and of trials and sorrows she had no experience. But
the faithful Father in heaven looked at the erring sheep, and began
to throw in her way afflictions and painful experiences; first the
sudden death of a beloved brother; and so the loss of the worldly
prosperity of the other. Then, some time after, she became herself
the innocent cause to the death of one of her acquaintances, a lady of
rank, when on a beautiful day she insisted upon her coming into a
boat to enjoy the fine weather on a calm sea, and the old lady, in
stepping into the boat, fell into the water, and was drowned. All these
painful things began to check her joy, and silently prepare her mind
for the wonder af grace, the Lord was to make with her. Her resistance
was nevertheless not yet broken, and when an intimate friend of hers
at this period became " lasare " (" reader," or Pietist, the mock name
given to the people of the Lord in our land,) she felt this still more
painfully than all the preceding trials, and when her converted friend
one day sent her a parcel of religious books, she immediately gave them
back, in order to show that she had not even taken the pains of reading
them. Thus she despised the means of knowing the truth. What could
than effectuate her conversion ? Look, here were the power and the
grace of the Lord! One day, when a friend of hers was telling her
news from the capital, she also spoke of the extravagances of the
" lasare," how one of them, a young lady, had sent to a highly
distinguished man a book called " Wheat and Chaff," and how after the
perusal of the book, had exclaimed, " I understand very well; she thinks
I am the chaff." This little incident excited in a high degree her curiosity,
and she felt a strong desire to read that book. Soon it was procured:
and when she had it in her hands, she, with her ordinary vivacity,
hastened to shut herself up in her room in order to read it quite
undisturbed. How little did she think, that this hour spent in her silent,
lonely room would thoroughly change her whole life! God was with
her in the lonely room, and made the words she read so impressive
upon her heart, that, before she had gone through the book, she was
quite convinced that, at the great day of the Lord, when He would
come to judge the whole world, she should be thrown with the chaff
into the burning fiery furnace. In her anguish she hastened to her
friend, threw herself into her arms, and, with tears, told her that she
felt herself lost and condemned, and finished this confession with one
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