CONFERENCE IN DENMARK

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1880

CONFERENCE IN DENMARK.

O UR first Conference was held in Hellum, May 30, 31. Nine brethren were received as delegates: from Hellum, two; Tylstrup, two; Dronninglund, two; Alstrup, two; Aarhus, one. These, with two preachers,—Matteson and Brorson,—made up the members of the Conference. All brethren present were invited to partake in the deliberations. Seven churches in Denmark united to form this Conference: Hellum, with thirteen members; Alstrup, seventeen members; Tylstrup, nine; Dronninglund, fourteen; Jested, six; Nortvig, seven; Uhe, ten. The scattered brethren near Aarhus also united with the Conference. No delegates were present from Uhe and Nortvig. Letters were read from Nortvig and Ringsted, Sjalland. The whole number of Sabbath-keepers in Denmark was shown to be one hundred and twenty; members of churches, ninety-one. Bro. Matteson was unanimously elected chairman.

Our position in respect to diet was discussed freely, partly for the sake of our members, and partly because our opponents try to injure us by presenting us as extremists and fanatics.

The question of systematic benevolence was also considered.

The treasurer's report showed, received, Kr. 280.55 (about $75.00); paid out, Kr. 135.31; cash on hand, Kr. 145.24.

Bro. Brorson's report showed that he had labored forty-eight weeks, and held, on an average, four meetings a week. He had traveled principally on foot, and visited families, and scattered books. Distributed and sold about fifty thousand pages of tracts and pamphlets, baptized twelve persons, received nineteen members into the several churches, while sixteen others have commenced to keep the Sabbath and follow the Lord. (In this country the law forbids all colportering.)

It was resolved that this Conference express its heartfelt thanks to our brethren in America for the help which Bro. Matteson has been enabled to bring us, not only at these meetings, but also by his former labors in Denmark, and the more so because we are not yet able to help sustain him, on account of scarcity of means; that, on account of the great need of proclaiming the truth in Denmark when Bro. Matteson went to Norway, we do hereby express our joy on account of the labors of Brn. Brorson and Jasperson, and our gratitude to our brethren in America inasmuch as they have sustained them.

C. C. HANSEN, Secretary.