Among the Swedes by Charles Lee

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 23, 1874

Among the Swedes.

By Charles Lee

I LEFT Lansing the 13th of May, and arrived at Hook’s Point, Hamilton Co., Iowa, the 16th, where I have been laboring for three weeks. Here I found one Swedish brother keeping the Lord’s holy Sabbath in a colony of about four thousand Swedes. With his wife and neighbors against him, he has struggled on in hope that others about him might see and love the truth. The Lord has blessed us greatly together since I came here. Six more have decided to obey the truth. Among these are our brother’s wife and the leader of the Lutheran church and his wife. They were buried with Christ in baptism on Sunday, the 31st of May. The Lutheran priest has become very much offended at this strange action of his deacon and fellow-servant, and has strictly forbidden his audience to receive this “apostate,” “soul-sleeper,” &c., into their houses or salute him on the street. I am in hopes that this kind of treatment will open the eyes of truth-lovers among his congregation.

By request of the friends, I organized a church, known as the Hook’s Point church. Systematic Benevolence pledged for the year, amounts to $25. May God strengthen and lead these friends on in the light of his precious truth, that they may exemplify by a living practice what they believe in their hearts. CHARLES LEE.