After Meetings there he proceeded to Sundsvall, a city from which point his Journal reads:-- "At the conclusion of the evening Meeting the dear Soldiers flocked to the station, crowding the platform and expressing, as far as opportunity served them, their love for me, and their desire that God should bless me.

I spoke to them for a few minutes; then came the signal and the start, and then as we slowly moved off handkerchiefs were waved, volleys of 'Amens' were fired, the Band played, and away we were borne out into the darkness.

All this was like a dream to my comrades, as neither the railway officials nor the police had hitherto allowed a word to be spoken or a note of music to be played outside our Halls.
"All that night and all the following day we travelled to Stockholm, which we reached at 6 p.m.Crowds awaited our arrival.
The Soldiers had come down in force, wearing sashes on which the words, 'God bless The General,' 'Welcome,' and other devices had been worked.

The police had come too.

There were 200 of them--some mounted and some on foot.