The Baptists in Sweden. By Mrs. M.F. Anderson ...

108 THE BAPTISTS IN SWEDEN.
fact that he was a recent and remarkable example
of the power of Divine grace. A young girl, he
told us, in the farm service, first spoke to him of
the way of life. He treated her, he said, with scorn
and rude contempt; she, however, meekly persisted
in her work of mercy, and at length God rewarded
her Christian zeal. He became a convert, and not
a convert merely, but a confessor and sufferer for
Christ. He had persecuted the little maid, but he
had himself endured severer persecution since, having been imprisoned fourteen days on bread and
water. We asked him if he did not feel it hard to
be shut up in a dungeon, and treated as a criminal?
His answer was worthy of a Christian.'Not so
hard,' he said,'as to feel that I could not always
trust in Christ.' Such men may be branded as
fanatics, but assuredly it is the fanaticism of apostles and martyrs."*
During the stay of Dr. Steane and his colleague,
the ordinance of baptism was administered on two
occasions. On this subject Dr. S. writes as follows:
"Their baptisms have to be stealthily administered on some lone sea-shore, or in a hidden nook
of some inland lake, where no hostile eye may see
them, and no lurking policeman spring upon them.
Some have been baptized since we have been here;
but the blessed deed, as though it had been the
perpetration of a great crime, was done at midnight,
* Notes of a Tour in Sweden, pp. 57-59.