p. 166 | GUSTAF A. CARLSTEDT by Gustaf A. Carlstedt

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 22, 1877

GUSTAF A. CARLSTEDT

By Gustaf A. Carlstedt

Benona, Oceana Co., Nov. 15.

I HAVE been laboring since my last report in New Era and the settlement of Claybanks. I gave eight lectures in New Era; but the interest was not sufficient to warrant my staying, so I left for Claybanks and this place. One lady became interested in the truth in New Era, and I gave her reading matter. I visited some families in the settlement where I had previously lectured, and found four Swedes who had decided to keep the Sabbath, and others who, I expect, will yet decide in favor of the truth.

I have given four lectures in Benona, and preached a funeral discourse. The interest is good here, so far. A great many have been out to the meetings. I had some opposition, after two discourses, from some that attended. One evening the school-master tried to prove that Christ came at the destruction of Jerusalem, and the other evening a U. B. preacher presented some objections. He had rather confused ideas, and I had no difficulty in showing their wrong positions.

Three Swedish families live at this place, and one of them is very much interested in the truth.