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LETTER FROM SWEDEN

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 24, 1879

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 17.

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LETTER FROM SWEDEN.

The following is from a brother in Sweden to James Sawyer:—
“DEAR BROTHER IN CHRIST: To-day I received yours of Feb. 16. I greatly rejoice that the brethren in America have an interest for me. I will give you some account of my relation to the cause.
“I have long had a determination to preach the word of God to my fellow-men, and have even attempted to make this my calling. I once was a laborer among the Lutherans. After I was baptized, I labored among the Baptists; but since I have embraced the Sabbath of the Lord, and have been expelled from that church, my way has been so closed up that I have had to work at my trade to sustain myself. To the Lord will I look, and if it is his will that I should labor for the glory of his name, I feel sure he will open the way before me. It is my desire still to meet Bro. Matteson in Norway. I am yet very ignorant in a knowledge of the truth, and need some Aquila and Priscilla to instruct me. If the Lord will, and I live, I shall go to meet Bro. Matteson. For a long time I was alone here, but now there are five Sabbath-keepers, and more are convinced of the truth.
“I thank you for the addresses of the Sabbath-keepers which you sent me, and if my time permits, I shall write to them. I have corresponded with Bro. A. O. Decker in Njurunda, and he says there is an open door for the truth in that place.
“I am personally acquainted with Fernholm, who publishes a paper called ‘Tidens Tecken,’ Signs of the Times. When I was expelled from the church, I wrote to him. In a letter to me he said: ‘It is clear from the testimony of the whole Bible that the Sabbath has not been changed by divine command. The apostles kept the seventh day. There are many in our land who begin to understand it.’ Two years ago he expressed himself to a friend thus: ‘At home, in Kristianstad, we have desired to form a church of Sabbath-keepers.’
“There was also a Baptist from Göteborg, who visited the Conference at Stockholm last summer. This man had learned something about the Sabbath question, and he spoke of it in the Conference. Bro. Fernholm corresponds with him. A Baptist minister told to me that Fernholm keeps the Sabbath.
“Yours, etc., L. G. Olson.”