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

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the every-day transactions against the Baptists.
Thus the external circumstances of the Baptists are
exceedingly trying. Some of our brethren have
been so pressed, that they have been obliged to
sell the little property they owned for one-third of
its value, so as to make immediate payment to
those who had demands against them."
It is pleasing to see that other modes, besides
fines and imprisonment, are to be tried for the
reclamation of the Baptists. It is a sign of better
things, when arguments from the sacred Scriptures
are employed to enlighten heretics. The following
extract from "Evangelical Christendom," of Dec.,
1859, will be read with interest in this connection:
"A new method of dealing with the Swedish
Baptists has been ordered by the King in Council.
In August last the Consistory of Westeras memorialized the Government, requesting instruction how
to proceed with the large number of Baptists found
in the parish of Hedemora; to which the Government have replied, that if the labors of the ordinary
clergy to reclaim these persons by serious, constant,
and loving instruction, are insufficient, the Consistory must immediately send to that parish a clergyman eminently gifted for this work, who will, for
the time, receive his support from the State,
and that a report of the result shall be sent to
Stockholm after six months have elapsed. It is
already known that the Consistories of Upsala and
Lund have represented to the Government the im