The Baptists in Sweden. By Mrs. M.F. Anderson ...

MR. WIBERG IN AMERICA. 89
immediately, and let us know how soon you will
come. Take very good care of your health, that
you may not get sick. Come soon, dear brother,
for many are longing for you.
"I am sorry to say that some twenty of the
brethren in and about Norrk6ping have turned
back to the State Church. This has been for us
very painful indeed, and it has frightened some
from uniting with us. In Dalarna, however, the
Baptists have increased to nearly three hundred.
And in Norrland many are waiting for baptism.
You are needed here far more than in America.
For in America are organized congregations, but
here it is not so. And besides that, dear brother,
we are only a few laymen against a great number
of learned priests, and the whole State Church.
You know very well how it is.
"Fifteen of our brethren and sisters in Dalarna
have lately been imprisoned for a certain time on
bread and water, as a punishment for taking the
Lord's Supper out of the State Church. I have
just heard that they were very happy in prison.
They were liberated on the week of Christmas.
Brother Hejdenberg is now sentenced to twentyeight days on bread and water for having held
meetings and preached the Gospel in more than
twenty places. It will be some time yet before his
doom will be sentenced in the High Court. His
financial circumstances will not permit him to purchase his freedom, nor would he do it if he could.