Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1909-03-04

| One of the most interesting features
Of the Northern Games in Stockholm
was the long distance ski run.s The
distance was about SO (English) miles
and the start was made at. 8 O'Clock
In the afternoon. At first there were
20 competitors, but several lost their
way and soon returned The first one
TO finish the race was G. A. Anderson,
who arrived at the goal at TIA III
the next morning, averaging about
six miles an hour for the whole dis
lance. r. A. Fredericksson arrived at
7.18 Sd and Carlstrom at 7:5411a. Mr..
Linder came out as number five, but
his record was really the best, for
he broke one of his skis so that he
had to travel on one and q half skis
for more than half of the distance.
| His endurance is looked upon as some
| thing marvellous. All those who dis
tinguished themselves are connected
| with the Swedish army.
Anton Nilsson, who was mainly re-.
sponsible for the throwing of a bomb
! at the Amaltea, a ship on which were
lodged some English strike breakers
in the harbor Of Malmo, was sentenced
to death because an Englishman was
killed by the explosion. Ninety-four
members Of the riksdag have signed
a petition to have the death sentence
commuted, and the backing Of the petit
TONERS seems to be growing stronger.
The king granted an audience to Carl
Romames, Anton Missions attorney,
and the king said that he would surely
commute the sentence if the supreme
court fayors such move. The utter
ances of the king made on this occa-
sion prove him to be a very humane
and conscientious ruler. He commit
ted himself to the principle of capital
punishment, pointing to France to
prove that even those who formerly
approved it are now admitting its prac-
tical necessity. The brief argument In
favor of Nilsson is, that he is not an
ordinary criminal, but visionary who
went to extremes in social struggle
Of national, and even worldwide,
scope.
I P. p. Waldenstrom, the head OF
the Swedish Mission Covenant, has
taken umbrage at certain statements
made by Bishop Eklund At church
convention held in Gothenburg the
bishop said that the time of the free
church is past. To this assertion
Waldenstrom answers in Svenska
Morgonbladet: "Now we shall have
a peoples church embracing the whole
people. But what is it that we have
had for centuries past if 1t is not q
church embracing all Sweden, not only
the pious but also infidels, blasphe-
mers, inebriates, swearers, fabrica'
tors, harlots, ETC.? All those who are
kept in our jails for divers crimes
belong there. Prof. Wicksell and other
} blasphemers, Prof. Ohrwall and other
materialists are members OF the
church of Sweden, and she is 80 anx,
ious to keep them that IL they ask to
be let out she answers no." Walden
strom next mentions several teachers
and preachers in the state church who
do not mind the creeds Of the church
and who deny the inspiration and d.
vine authority of the Bible. The
church authorities, he says, are not
doing anything to remedy this, but at
the same time they are always worry.
ing the free church people who are
trying to save and gather the believ.
ers in order that they may remain
faithful to the end. He further says
that the free church people are Civ
ing more literally than ever to their
church work, In spite Of the fact that
they are paying taxes to the state
church. The article closes with the
following characteristic words: Il
| better close now, for my inside will
soon be boiling II I keep on any
longer"
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