p. 14 | LETTER FROM SWEDEN

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 13, 1876

LETTER FROM SWEDEN.

BRO. SAWYER furnishes us with the following translation of a letter he has just received from Sweden:—

DEAR BROTHER: I have received your letter, for which I heartily thank you. It was so much the more welcome because it was so long coming, and because it came, too, after I began to think you cared but little about writing to me. You ask what I am doing. The same as I was when I wrote to you before. I teach school, notwithstanding I am an offense to both the people and the ministers. Because they have not yet obtained any other teacher, they are keeping me; but it will not be long before I will have to leave, and I know not what I shall do. Were my condition such that I could, I would devote my time to giving lectures and conversing with the people concerning the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. I here send you a translation from the REVIEW into the Swedish to show you my understanding of the English.

I will now say something concerning what the people express in regard to your writings. Some hold the same prejudice as the warning of Lot caused in his relatives, when “he seemed to them as one that mocked.” I will not say so of all. Others say, “What will this babbler say?” And again: “Much learning doth make thee mad.”

The doctrine of the soul’s mortality they do not tolerate. They teach and believe that man is a being of eternal existence. They cannot conceive that God alone has immortality.

I thank you for the publications you send me.