168 Historical Sketches of the Foreign Missions of the Seventh-day Adventists
required to pay a mark (25 cents) to one man for removing it from the
waiting room, a franc (20 cents) to another for standing guard over it,
and a franc to another for putting it in the car. This is an illustration of
what is to be constantly met in traveling in Europe.
We reached Basle, November 19, our homeward journey having
occupied four days. We were absent six weeks on this Scandinavian
tour, and traveled more than twenty-five hundred miles.
In all the meetings in Scandinavia as in Switzerland, my sermons
were spoken in English, and translated sentence by sentence into the
language of the people. Although this was hard work for the speaker,
yet the interest of the hearers was sufficient encouragement, it being
equal to that of any congregations we have seen in America. On some
occasions some who could not find seats would stand for one hour
without any sign of weariness.
Wherever we went, our people warmly expressed their gratitude
for the help which had been sent them and the interest manifested
in their behalf by the brethren in America. In the social meetings
nearly all spoke with deep feeling of their sorrow that we could not
understand each other’s speech. They knew that this barrier was the
result of sin, and they looked forward with earnest expectation to the
time when there would be nothing to prevent our communion with one
another.
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