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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 13, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 7.

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CHRISTIANA, NORWAY.

By John G. Matteson

The past week has been full of interesting events to us. Our rooms are crowded at every lecture. About five hundred persons will come in, and nearly half of them stand up, while the rest, who come late, have to go home again.
Last Sabbath we formed a church under the law of dissenters in this country. We went before the authorities, and were by them acknowledged as a Christian church agreeably to law. Thirty-three persons had signed their names. Our Bible-class Sabbath afternoon was attended by about sixty persons, and was full of interest. There is a general desire to learn from the Scriptures.
I got a little sheet printed this week called the Signs of the Times, and intend to continue to print one every week. It is no subscription paper yet. We sell them by the piece. We sold about five hundred copies on Sunday. The people must have the truth in print, and our tracts are nearly all gone.
Sunday evening I spoke of the Sabbath of the Lord. About twelve hundred people were present, and many others went away who could not get in. Friday evening I attended a lecture by Professor Bugge in the University hall. He tried to establish some divine authority for Sunday. There is a great stir among the people. They seem determined to hear the truth. It is unreasonable the way they crowd together. There is hardly room left for me to stand.
The professors in the University and the bishop are preparing for a discussion. After the 15th of February I cannot have the large hall in the Latin school any more, and it is doubtful whether I can get any other hall of suitable size. I pray that God may direct the minds of our dear brethren in America so that we may have a tent and a man with it as soon as spring opens, and the weather permits us to use it, so that all in this city who desire to hear the truth may be given an opportunity.
JOHN G. MATTESON.
Osterhausgaden 12, Jan. 13.