The Swedes in Maine

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 2, 1875

The Swedes in Maine.

[Extract from a letter written by a Swedish friend in Portland, Me.]

DEAR FRIEND: I thank you for your letter and postal card of the 19th inst., which informed me that you sent the Harold to my father in Sweden as I desired you. I have also received the tracts. As soon as I can, I will send for five dollars’ worth; for it is my desire to give some to the American brethren in the church where I belong, to the pastor as well as to others.

You ask if I can send tracts and papers to New Sweden in Maine. Certainly I can. I designed the last of my tracts for New Sweden; for I have acquaintances there. I have a comrade who sent the Harold to his father there, and afterwards asked him what he thought of such papers and such people. The man is meek and honest, and he answered his son by letter, and said: “I think well of them, according to their writings; but the Lord sees the heart. Purity is the adornment of the house.” He says there are many intelligent and pious brethren in New Sweden. I would gladly, if you wish, send a part of the publications there, and have them distributed.

There are about two hundred Swedes in the city of Portland, and some more of the Danish and Norwegian nationalities. We are here a band of brethren, twenty-one in number—Baptists. Eleven are married and ten single. Two years ago, eight of us were brought under conviction at one time by the preaching of a Methodist minister.

When you wish to have anything done in New Sweden, I am willing to act.

Yours most sincerely,

J. P. S.