SWEDISH LETTERS | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 20, 1876

FromThe Review and Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 47, No. 16.

SWEDISH LETTERS.

[THE following letters were received by Bro. James Sawyer, of this Office, who translated them for the REVIEW.]

WOLLSJÖ, SWEDEN, FEB. 7, 1876.

DEAR BROTHER: I will state how your publications are received here. Some read them readily and acknowledge the truths which are taught in them, especially what pertains to the Sabbath. Farther than this they have not gone; yet I believe there will be fruits here in time.

Have your people decided upon any one yet to come here? I met a teacher three weeks ago to-day who asked me if I was continuing to read the American papers. I answered heartily, Yes! He said he had obtained a letter from his brother in America, in which he warned him to take care of the false doctrines of the Seventh-day Adventists, for they intend to send a preacher to Sweden.

You see there is nothing new under the sun. The old serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, keeps men in darkness. They are so drunken with the wine of fornication that it is almost impossible for them again to be made sober. They have covered themselves with a self-made vail of righteousness, which they neither can nor will take from their eyes. They have made a covenant with death, and with hell are they at agreement. Isa. 28:15. But what use of painting before you this scene? You knew it before.

Let the peace of the Lord be with you. J. E.

NEW SWEDEN, ME.

DEAR BROTHER IN CHRIST: May God's peace be with you, and may he bless your work. His people shall be rewarded when the great Prince cometh.

Some say, “My Lord delayeth his coming,” and are following their own imaginations. These are perilous days; for many profess to be servants of God, while they are hearers of the word only. They are deceiving themselves. When their attention is called to the commandments of God, the cry is: “We are not under the law, and if we are under the law then we lose Christ.” This is truly a time to put on all the armor. “If God be for us, who can be against us?”

When the HAROLD was first sent us, it was said that it must be sent back again; for it was Antichrist. One, however, had courage to send for the paper when he found that it was free to the poor. I borrowed some of the papers, and after reading them awhile found that I stood on a wrong foundation in respect to God and his word. As soon as I became enlightened in regard to the commandments and obtained grace to accept the promises of God, my heart went out for others, that they might also receive the same light.

There are now five families that meet on the Sabbath to read from the Bible, converse, and pray. We hope others will join us soon.

I have great reason to thank God for the good which has been done by means of the HAROLD. One family in particular were sunk in darkness and indifference respecting God's word. I visited them a few times with the paper, and conversed with them. They are now happy, and the Bible and prayer are precious to them. N. T. C.