The Scandinavian Union Conference by J. C. Raft

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 16, 1910

The Scandinavian Union Conference

By J. C. Raft

THE four conferences and two missions, including Iceland and Finland, grouped under the Scandinavian Union Conference, send a cheering report by Elder J. C. Raft, the union conference president:—

Scandinavia, too, is desirous of having a part in sending workers to the great and needy fields in distant lands. Experience has taught us that the more we as a field sacrifice for others, the greater blessings we receive from God.

GROWTH IN THE NORTHLAND

During the past year, 253 souls have been baptized, and sixty-four received by vote. Tithes and offerings have increased, and also book sales. One new conference has been added to the union, that of Finland. We have also begun work in the Faroe Islands, belonging to Denmark. We have finished the erection of a substantial building at Skodsborg, Denmark, to be utilized as a union mission school by Denmark and Norway. Here we have an enrolment this year of forty-one students. A chapel has been erected also, serving both the school and our Skodsborg Sanitarium family for the public services. We have thirty-five students in another missionary school at Nyhyttan, Sweden. Those attending these schools are, almost without exception, planning to enter gospel work.