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Sim Swedish Institute of Mission Research Publisher of the Series Studia Missionalia Svecana & Missio Publisher of the Periodical Swedish Missiological Themes (Smt) SIM SWEDISH INSTITUTE OF MISSION RESEARCH PUBLISHER OF THE SERIES STUDIA MISSIONALIA SVECANA & MISSIO PUBLISHER OF THE PERIODICAL SWEDISH MISSIOLOGICAL THEMES (SMT) This publication is made available online by Swedish Institute of Mission Research at Uppsala University. Uppsala University Library produces hundreds of publications yearly. They are all published online and many books are also in stock. Please, visit the web site at www.ub.uu.se/actashop Nelly Hall uppburen och ifrâgasatt STUDIA MISSIONALIA SVECANA XCII Gunilla Gunner Nelly Hall Uppburen och ifrâgasatt Predikant och missionar i Europa och USA 1882-1901 Uppsala 2003 ABSTRACT Gunner, Gunilla 2003: Nelly Hall: Esteemed and questioned as a Preacher and a Missionary in Europe and the United States 1882-1901. Studia Missionalia Svecana XCII. 270 pp. Uppsala. ISBN 91-85424-83-8. In 19th century Sweden women preached in the popular revival movements as they did in the other Nordic countries, in Great Britain and the United States. One of the most famous preachers in Sweden was Nelly Hall (1848-1916). Internai and extemal evidence of her public life is the main focus of the study, and in this way it seeks to uncover the origin of her inspiration and to specify her connection to the spiritual movements of the time, at the same time that it analyses the reception and the debate of women as preachers in the period wh en she was active. Nelly Hall studied at the Royal School for Women's Higher Teacher Education and worked as a teacher for ten years before she decided to enter into the ministry of preaching. She was influenced by the Anglo-American Holiness movement and had close contacts with the Salvation Army in London. From 1883 she travelled in the southem parts of Sweden. Thousands of people listened to her and as part of her ministry she practised faith healing. She went on preaching tours to Finland, Norway, Germany and the United States. When the Swedish Holiness Mission started as a small mission society in 1887 it was to sorne extent a result of the preaching work carried out by Nelly Hall. She was elected a member of the first board and worked as a mission secretary for ten years. Around 1900 there was a shift in her theological thinking and she became more absorbed by apocalyptic ideas. In 1901 she went for the second time to the United States and lived there un til 1916 when she died in Brockton, Massachusetts. Little is known about the last fifteenth years ofher life. The ministry of Nelly Hall and other women raised considerable public interest and in the Swedish context her time of ministry coincided with the emerging movement for the emancipation of women. Many were against women preaching in public and the discussions often occurred in the press. Parts of these discussions as weil as several pamphlets in favour ofwomen's preaching are analysed in this study. Keywords: Nelly Hall, Women Preaching, Women History, Revival Movements, Church History-Sweden-1882-190 1, Swedish Holiness Mission, Salvation Army, Swedish Americans, Holiness, Faith Healing, Apocalypticism Gunilla Gunner, DepartmentofTheology, Uppsala University, Box 1604, SE-751 46 Uppsala, Sweden. © Gunilla Gunner 2003 ISSN 1404-9503 ISBN 91-85424-83-8 Cover design: Boel Aigulin. Background picture: Letter from Nelly Hall to P. P. Waldenstrôm 24.04.1876. RA, Waldenstrômska slaktarkivet, Brev 1876-1878 vol. B:2. Photographed by Kurt Eriksson Typesetting: Helena Riihiaho, Department of Theology, Uppsala University. Editorial Office, Uppsala University Printed in Sweden by Elanders Gotab, Stockholm 2003 Distributor: Swedish Institute of Mission Research, P.O. Box 1526, SE-751 45 Uppsala, Sweden Till Rebecka, Daniel och Frida lnnehâll Forord 11 Kapitel 1. En outforskad ledargestalt 13 Âmnesvalet 13 Utgângspunkten 15 Syfte, avgdinsning och frâgestallningar 17 Teoretiska overvaganden 18 K vinnor och predikan 21 Tidigare forskning och litteratur 24 Svensk vacke1se- och kvinnohistorisk forskning 24 K vinnohistoria och predikan 25 Tidigare bilder av Nelly Hall 29 Att finna spâren efter en manniska 39 Materialet 39 Arkiven 42 A vhandlingens disposition 50 Kapitel 2. Fran undervisning till bon for sjuka 51 Uppvaxt 51 Studier 53 Lararâren i Goteborg 55 Kjellbergska flickskolan 55 Sigrid Rudebecks skola 57 Josephine Princell en viktig informator 62 Andligt uppvaknande 64 Andliga vagvisare 69 Lord Radstock 69 Mary och William Boardman 70 Till England 73 "Underverk i nittonde ârhundradet" 78 Kapitel 3. "Vern Han vill utrustar och sander Han" 83 Den andlosa debatten 83 Inspirerande exempel 86 Fralsningsarmén - andlig fristad for kvinnor 86 Hanna Ouchterlony 86 Fredrik Franson 93 Stallningstagandet i Sverige - ett antal inlagg 96 Kvinnors ra tt att predika 97 Profeterande dôttrar 101 John Ongmans skrift 105 "Med enfaldig lydnad gor man i langden mera gagn" 107 Kapitel. 4. Den helgade rorelsen 115 Nelly Hall och Helgelsefôrbundet 115 Bildandet 116 Namnfrâgan 120 Torpkonferensema 121 Styrelseledamoten 124 Missionssekreteraren 126 Missionsekonomi 130 "Manniskoatare vunna for Kristus" 132 Missionar?! 13 3 Boxarupproret 13 5 Utesluten eller sjalvvald sorti? 138 Jubileumsskriftema 139 Kapitel 5. Pa resande fot 143 Resepredikant 143 Resrutter 144 Publikrusning 148 Reskamrater 149 Âktenskapsforslag 152 1 ôsterled 15 5 Kritik och forsvar 157 Debatt om kvinnor och predikan 160 S:t Petersburg 161 Besôk i broderlandet 162 Tyskland 164 De problematiska kvinnoma 167 1 Moodys och Sankeys fotspar 169 Vasterut 172 Kvinnor och predikan - en debatt pâ bâda sidor Atlanten 17 5 Skilda vagar 178 Nelly Hall och hennes sângfàgel 179 Pâ egen hand 180 Âter i Sverige 182 Kapitel 6. Scenbyte 185 Apokalyptisk aktor 185 Emigration elier flykt? 186 Den svarta missionen 188 Oppna forklaringar 192 Andrade âsikter 193 Russellian? 195 Charles Taze Russell 196 "A Gospel not to be ashamed of' 197 Konferens om profetior i Chicago 203 Svaret pâ frâgan 206 De sista aren 210 Fors alj are i hals a 210 Slutorden - om att ata boken 211 Nekrologema 213 Kapitel 7. Den sammansatta bilden 217 Summary 229 Biografiska riktmarken 236 Bildforteckning 236 Bibliografi 237 F orkortningar 260 Personregister 261 Figur 1. Nelly Hall Faro rd Att skriva avhandling ar en modosam resa. Det vet alla som gjort den. Men den underlattas av goda foljeslagare. Jag har haft ett antallangs vagen som lyssnat, talat, formanat och stottat. Nar den egna tilliten sviktat har andra bi­ statt med sin. Forutom handledare, kollegor, familj och vanner har jag tagit spjam i Bengt Nermans koncentrerade tilltal: "Den varld jag beskriver ar darfor alltid en konkret varld: den utgor en praxis. Det ar en varld av sammanhang, av tid och historia. Och j ag forsoker ïanga in den pa punkter dar den blir synlig, darfor att nagon elier nagra just da har mast tas med den". (Ur Om erfarenheten, s. 21) Nermans ord sammanfattar min egen forstaelse av varfor jag valde att skriva om Nelly Hall. Det var overtygelsen om att hennes liv var en tid och historia som hade glOmts elier skymts av annat. Nelly Hall hade mast tas med denna historia och jag ville bade ater­ beratta och forsta. Daremot har jag aldrig velat reducera henne till ett medel for min uppgift. Tvartom skulle hon sta i centrum. 1 vilken man j ag lyckats i min foresats overlamnar j ag at lasaren att bedoma. For mig ar hon fortfarande markligt anonym som om j ag in te na tt fram till henne. Âr det nagot att forvanas over? Knappast. Men varfor har jag inte natt fram? Antagligen for att jag inte finner nagot tvivel hos henne, inte det minsta. Ingen glipa som ïar mig att ana vad som rorde sig bakom allt det trosvissa. Trosviss ar samtidigt fel ord. Hon framstar snarare som solid, kontrollerad, overtygad, som en manniska som hela tiden gick rakt fram och aldrig vajde, kompetent och saker i sig sjalv. lbland spelade hon sarad hjal­ tinna. Kallade sig liten och ringa men det var den tidens religiosa retorik. Sjalv uppfattade hon sig inte som liten. Hennes var anspraken, de varlds­ vida. Grandiosa. En hel varld lag for hennes fotter. Den skulle bara fraisas. Varldsskeendet malades i starka farger och mitt i allt detta levde hon och drev pa. Varlden skulle bliva ny. Detta tanker jag i varsolen om det anstrangande projektet att folja en kvinna i sparen. F orskningsarbetet har i allra hogsta grad underlattats av de handledare som foljt mig under aren. Ett djupt erkant tack till er alla for stüd och upp­ muntran. Nar jag for snart tio ar sedan atervande till forskarstudiema i Upp­ sala halsades jag valkommen av professor Carl Fredrik Hallencreutz. Utan hans nyfikenhet och stilla optimism hade det inte blivit nagon forskning for min del. Efter nagot ar tog docent Sigbert Axelson vid och ar den som mest ingaende foljt de olika turema i mitt arbete. Han har pa ett framsynt satt stott mitt arbete och stimulerat mig skriva efter eget huvud. Nagot som varit ovarderligt for mig. Tack for lasning, tilltro och oraddhet. Professor Alf Tergel har aldrig sviktat i sin foresats att hjalpa mig att fora detta projekt i hamn. J ag tackar for ali respekt och uppmuntran. Min lokale handledare pa Mitthogskolan, lektor Thorbjom Kjolstad, var oerhort vasentlig i att skapa tid och utrymme for forskningen och under de forsta aren fick jag ett gene- rost och sjalvklart stod av min bitradande handledare professor Ann-Sofie Ohlander. Jag vill rikta ett tack till Bjom Ryman och Valborg Lindgarde vars las­ ning av manuskriptet i slutfasen bidrog till att fordjupa innehâllet och ge klarhet i analysen, till detta bidrog ocksâ Torsten Bergstens genomlasning. Stort tack till mina kollegor pâ olika hâll, Lars Wolf, Ewa Warmegârd, Yasmine Lindstrom, Torbjom Nystrom och Torgny Astrom. Ett sarskilt tack till Eva Soderberg och Carola Nordback med vilka jag delat oro men lika mycket gladje och till Anders Olsson som pâ ett excellent satt korrigerat min engelska text och till personalen pâ Sambiblioteket i Hamosand.
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