NORWAY AND SWEDEN by J. G. Matteson

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 23, 1881

NORWAY AND SWEDEN.

By J. G. Matteson

We are laboring to build up the interest in Christiana, as well as to get our printing work in a good condition. We are losing Sabbath-keepers by the strong tide of emigration, but new ones are stepping into their places. The outside interest is improving. Between three and four hundred persons have attended the meetings on Sundays, and about one hundred and twenty on the Sabbath. Several keep the Sabbath and meet with us who have not yet been baptized.

I have purchased a cylinder press that can print a sheet 20x35, as well as smaller forms. It will turn out one thousand impressions in an hour. It cost $590. It has been used some; otherwise it would cost much more. We shall receive instructions and practice in using it six weeks before it is moved. We sold our home in America, and put the money thus obtained into this press, hoping that there will be work for it unto the end. We do not ask the mission some time to take this off from our hands, but beg the privilege of using it for the spread of the truth. To this the General Conference Committee have agreed.

In Sweden Bro. Rosqvist is laboring, and others besides him. In Grythytted, seven have been added to the church, and the outside interest is good. But the authorities have called Bro. R. before a church council, and we expect that they will stop his public work in that vicinity. We are waiting to hear the result.

May the Lord abundantly bless his own work and truth everywhere. J. G. MATTESON. Christiana, Norway, May 16.