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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 12, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 3.

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VEILE, DENMARK.

By John G. Matteson

We arrived safely at Veile a week ago Wednesday. Everything connected with the railroad in this country is in excellent order. They do not jerk and slam the cars together, but start carefully. The baggage is handled gently. The express trains run about twenty miles an hour. They have four classes. Third and fourth class is much cheaper than traveling in America; second class costs a trifle less than three cents a mile.
The engines have no bell; the train comes up to the station very quietly; but the entrance to the railroad is shut at that time, and neither teams nor people are allowed to cross the track. My trunk with tracts and books, weighed over two hundred and fifty pounds. It cost nothing to Hamburg. From there to Veile, about one hundred and forty miles, delivered at my door, it cost $1.48. I had to pay 2½ cents in toll, after the officers had examined the contents carefully.
The next day we went out in the country to visit some Sabbath-keepers. We found Bro. Melkjar six miles from Veile. He is united with us in the faith, and was very glad to see us. Yet there is no call for labor in his vicinity. Friday we walked eight miles, and found three families keeping the Sabbath. Another, a Baptist family, was well disposed to us, and attended Sabbath meetings. I held three meetings here. Sunday forenoon, about thirty came together. All paid good attention. We will look after this little company again, and try to help them further.
These people are very plain, and live very economically. Health reform could not take away anything from their fare, but would add something more nourishing.
We returned to Veile Monday, after having visited several families. The printer is working on a small hymn book for me (64 pp.), which I have to look after next week. To-morrow, I go out to see another little company of Sabbath-keepers, twenty-four miles from here. I have calls from other places, where there is a prospect of a more permanent work.
This is a beautiful country. Our health is good. The Lord is merciful to us. We feel united with our dear brethren in America in the blessed truth.
JOHN G. MATTESON.
June 14, 1877.