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

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moved, and some of the young people wept bitterly, and said,'we are the chief of sinners.'" He
remained two days in this place, and before he left
many expressed an anxious concern for their souls.
On his return there, November 24th, he writes:
"Preached in the afternoon at Persnas. I found
that many had found peace in believing, since my
last visit a month ago."
At one place, where many appeared much affected by the preaching of the word, an aged Christian exclaimed: "Now the prejudices against the
Baptists will vanish." Strong prejudices against
them exist among the Lutheran separatists. In
two or three places, they persuaded the people not
to open any rooms in which Nas Per Person might
preach. But the people, in one place, when a
room was thus refused to him, followed him to another village, At Afvan a room was refused to
him, by five different families. At length a family
opened their doors; about forty attended. He
preached the next morning; a larger number came.
In the evening upwards of one hundred were present. The next morning he preached in another
house, in the same village, to two hundred people.
After service, a man stood up and thanked him, in
the name of the assembly, for what he had said,
adding, "we have never heard such gospel truths
in this northern region before." Many were now
willing and anxious that he should preach in their