Torsdagen den 9 maj 1940.
NYA SVENSKA PRESSEN
Svenska Lutherska Kyrkan
Hörnet av Princess Ave. och
Pender Street.
Telephone: Hlghland
3861.
NELS H. NORBECK,
Pastor.
THE NEW PASTOR WRITES A SHORT SELF BIOGRAPHY.
On request, I am happy to present the following brief autobiogra-phical sketch to the readers of the Swedish Press:
It has been customary for me, when asked as to my nationality to reply "Jämtlänning”, for, that is the province in Sweden where I • was born (Skärvangen the exaet] spot). I have been proud of that faet, for verily it is the place where God showered his choicest gifts of natural beauty in lavish abundance. I revisited my birthplaCe a year ago fast summer, and now I am more
Membership trea.
ants of
Send name,
The young Peoplea Club, conducted by “Farbror OUa”
Over 500 members. Membershlp open to all Swedish descend-
THE DIAJVIOHD
up to the age twenty.one.
In your full birthdate »nd addreas.
Helsingfors; Uno
Antskog, Kimito; Frans Josef Säll-
witched me?”	2	-
The cat opened his eyes a little, ström, Sibbo; Kurt Axel Appelgren, so that the green wickedness began Helsingfors; Kurt Alfthan, rlelsing-
to shine forth. He spun round and purred with satisfaction before he replied. "Shall I perhaps help you because you have so of ten grabbed me by the tail?” he said at last.
Then the boy was furious and forgot entirely how little and help-less he was now. “Oh, I can pull
your tail again, I can,” said he, and ran toward the cat.
The next instant the cat
was so
fors; Paul Georg Björck, Helsing-
•	May
’ Dear Farbror Olle:—
Alberni, B. C.,
6, 1940.
convinced than ever, that be it i
ever so fair, Jämtland is fairer. The | j prc assertion of a native of Skåne, that i
were up
I promised to
Mother made a
visiting Al-write some-
big surprise
,	, .	.	. , . ■ time. Mother made a bit
if they had mountains in his pro-1 for me R was on A n 25th Vincp fhPV WAiild havz»	mnr/» 1	'___ .	. yvti t
at 5:30 in the evening. When I
vince they would have beén more
He jumped to the floor and began to search. He looked behind chairs and -plxiards; under the sofa and in ihe oven, and he even
changed that the boy could scarcely animal.
believe it was the same
FRIDAY song practicc.
SUNDAY, MOTHERS
9,30 a.m. Sunday School Bible Class. . 10,10 a.m. wihen pastor Norbeck will
beautiful, more majestic, than in' Jämtland, has dampened my ardor' not a whit.
No doubt the place of my birth explains to considerable extent my
DAY. and adult Worship, speak on
"The Work of The Holy Spirit.”
7,30 p.m. Mother’s Day Service sponsored by the Luther League. "A Monument to a Mother’s Hope,” will be the subject of the pastor’s message. Several young people will participate in the service, which in-cludes the presentation of flowers to all mothers attending.
A social hour will follow the service, during which "kaffe med dopp” will be served by the lea-guers. Young and old alike will want to coirJe and join in a tribute to mother.
"Mother, when I think of Tbee
It is but a step to Calvary.
T hy gentle hand upon my brow
Is leading me to Jesus now."
Thursday evening at 8 p.m. the Ladies Aid will meet in the church pärlors, Mrs. John Sultan, hostess.
Friday, 8 p.m. Choir rehearsal.
Pastor NELS H. NORBECK. love an enthusiasm for British Co-
came home from my music lesson there were 21 girls waiting to surprise me with the mrist beautiful present. I had a largc three tier birthday cake which was very nice decorated. The table was lovely de-corated with spring flowers.
I like to give the names of the girls who where there: —
Elsie Shyome, Muriel Fernette, Alice Maeddle, Joyce Maeddle, May Kataja, Kay Ärnet, Joy Magee, Bette-Jean Williams, Victoria Hoch-comb, Lillian Doran, Dorothy Fernette, Ivy Woodward, Alice Wood-ward, Beverly North, Burrie Copt-man, Mona and Betty Patterson, Dorothy Burgess, Myrtle Dhblar, Valia Beneton, Margaret Eaves,
I was very surprised to come in the door and see all these girls. Mom promised I could come to the Summer Camp this year.
Yours Truly
Henny Fredrickson.
Happy birthday to
Ivan Lindquist, Lily Ost, Bernice Rundquist, June Carlson, Bruno Johnson,
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May May May May May
IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH
(Corner 11 th and St. Andrews) New Westminster.
Service next Sunday at 11,30 a.m. Rev. Nels H. Norbeck will preach. Soloist Miss Margaret Clark.
Skandinaviska BaDtistmissionen 261 East Cordova St.
CHARLES SUNDSTRÖM, pastor. Telefon: TRin. 4669-R.
I kväll torsdag ungdomsmöte som blir på engelska. Fredag skandinaviskt möte, då vi betraktar profetiorna. Lördag Morsdags-program. Flera förmågor medverka i programmet, som lovar att bliva rikhaltigt. Förfriskningar serveras.
Söndag två möten. Kl. 11 f.m. gudstjänst, och aftonmötet kl. 8, evangelistiskt med mycket sång och musik.
Vill också säga tack till alla som bidrog till att göra vår Majfest så vällyckad som den blev. Alla utförde sina nummer väl och det hela såg ut till att vara till allas belåtenhet. Igen, ett hjärtligt tack.
Onsdagen den 15 maj kvinnornas månadsmöte. Som vanligt komma de att bjuda på vacker sång. Goda förfriskningar serveras. Alla välkomna!
Bethel Evangelical Free Church
449 Éast llth Ave. Olai Urang, pastor.
FAir. 2477-R.
Sunday School downstairs at Scandinavian Service at 11. Evangelical Service at 7,30.
11.
Young Peoples Meeting at 5.
Prayer and Bible Study Thurs-■day at 7,30.
Scandinavian Radio Program every Thursday night at 9:30 over CKMO.
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lumbia. From the very room where Sixten Lindberg,
I am writing these lines I look up Anna Mona LyKegard, 8 on May to the mountains bordering this fair Agnes Marsnas, city, and I am reminded of the ’’	” '
Vera Nordstrom,
psaimist: "I will lift mine eyes to Ruby Rundquist, the mountains, from whence my' Härold Helin,
help cometh.”
At five years of age my parents
emigrated to Canada
and settled
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ON TUESDAY.
near Broadview, Sask. My earliest
recollection of words
encouraging!
me in the direction of the holy min-1
I said last week that we would have a Diamond party on Friday, but we have to change it till Tues-
istry, was a remark made by my j day> as it proved th~t the hall is father when I was a little boy. He; n0(- aVailable on Friday. You see, had held my book while I repeated...........................
lesson in preparation for Sun-1
my
day school. Atter reciting my les-
son
he handed the book back to me,
and, turhing to mother, he said:' "Ja, Nels han ska’ bli präst.”
Perhaps that is how God planted
the first seed, which created in a certain restlessness that I was able to escape till the decision fully made. It was not an easy cision to make even apart from
me un-
the board of directors give us a cheap rate for our Diamond par-ties, but we have to take a night when no one else wants the hall.
So Tuesday is the day, definitely, and the time is 7 p.m. Come pre-pared for a big time and a good time. We will have games, music,
dancing, singing, moving pietures, was refreshments etc., in other words: de‘ a great heap of good fun.
the
spiritual struggle. Financial resour-ces were very limited. Vfe had no
high school in our community, and
PARENTS TOO.
And this time, let’s also invite the
that meant,
“ «ur cuuiuiuuHy, auu nts BecauSe after aU said and mcluding college and, < are ■ . ... _ ...	.
seminary, eleven years away from! home with continuous monetary out-lay. But somehow I got through with the sacrificial help of my parents and working during school. I did janitor work, washed dishes, peeled potatoes, painted houses, —' anything I could get hold of. Dur-j ing holidays I warked on construc- j tion, in harvest fields in the south,
done, they are just kids too, although
bigger in size, and they can have just as much fun as us younger kids. And maybe mother will take along a cake or cookies or a few sand-wiches. I will bring coffee, cocoa, sugar and cream. Rémember, next Tuesday night, 7 p.m. at the Swedish Hall.
AND DON’T FORGET
in offices, selling, served congrega-'	.	.
tions on our Canadian mission fields, ^°. rea<a “*e story now running in and many other occupations. :	pap^, Wonderful Adven-
My high school course I took at'tures °f Nils.
the North Star Academy, Warren, Minn., graduating valedictorian of my class; my college course at Gus-1 tavus Adolphus, St. Peter, Minn.' My extra curricular activities in col-' lege, aside from the religious, in-! cluded debating, as a result of which | I was elected member in the Pi j Kappa Delta National Forensic Fra-' ternity. My theological studies were pursued at the Norwegian Seminary in St. Paul, and Augustana, Rock Island. I was graduated from the latter with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in the spring of 1932. I was ordained immediately afterwards and assumed charge of the Salem Lutheran Church in Flint, Mich., where I served till I accepted the call to become pastor of the First Swedish Lutheran Church in Vancouver and the Immanuel Lutheran Church in New Westminster, B. C. And now. together with my wife, who was born at Langdon, Sask., I am back in the land of m,y choice, where I want to do all I can, by the grace of God, to further the cause of our church and the extension of the Kingdom of our Lord in the hearts of my fellowmen.
NELS. H. NORBECK.
FARBROR OLLE.
— Un va flickor ha lätt få soldater i sitt garn.
— Hur så?
— Genom att sticka ylletröjor åt dem.	U
crawled down holes—but he the elf.
And while and prayed
into a couple of rat-simply couldn’t find
he sought, he cried | and promised every-
Every separate hair on his body stood on end. The boy didnt want to let himself be scared by a cat so he took a step forward. Then the cat made one spring and landed
thing he could think of. Nevermore would he break his word to any one; never again would he be naughty; and never, never would he fall asleep any more over the ser-mon.
Suddenly he remembered that he had heard his mother say, all the tiny folk made their home in the cowshed; and, at once, he decided to go there, to see if he couldn’t find the elf. It was a lucky thing that the cottage-door stood partly open, for he never could have reached the bolt; and opened it,
right on the boy, knocked him and stood over him — his paws on his chest, his jaws
cown fore-wide
apart over his throat.
The boy felt how the sharp sank through his vest and shirt into his skin; and how the sharp eye-
claws
"Look at Nils Holgerson Thumbietot!” cackled the hens.
but now he slipped through with-out difficulty.
When he came out into the hall-Way, he looked around for his wooden shoes; for in the house to be sure, he had gone about in his stocking feet. He wondered how he should ever manage with these big clumsy wooden shoes, but just then,
teeth tickled his throat. He shrieked for help as loudly as he could, but no one came. He thought surely that his last hour had come. Then he felt the cat drew in his claws and let go the hold on his throat.
"There,” he said, "that will do for now. 1’11 let you go this time, for my mistress’s sake. I only wanted you to know which one of us two has the power now.”
Wjith that the cat walked away, looking as smooth and pious as when he first appeared on the scene.
The boys unhappiness was simply frightful! No one in all the world
was so unhappy as he. He was no longer a human being — but
a
freak.
Little by little he began to com-prehend what it meant — to be no longer human. He was separated from everything now; he could no longer play with the other boys, he could not take charge of the farm
after his parents were gone; certainly no girl would think mjarrying him.
(To be continued.)
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FÖRENINGSNOTISER.
and of
INSAMLING av guldföremål försiggår överallt i Finland. För det mesta är det förlovnings- och vigselringar som doneras till staten, men även andra smycken gives i stor mängd. En fru i Helsingfors
he happened to see a pair of tiny kiloeram .1______ka ' O
shoes on the doorstep. When he
observed that the elf had been so thoughtful as to bewitch even the wooden shoes, he was more troubled than ever. It was evidently the elf’s meaning that his affliction should last a long time.
On the old plank-walk in front of the cottage, hopped a gray spar-row. It had hardly set eyes on the boy before it called out: "Teetee, Teetee! Look at Nils gooseyboy! Look at Thumbietot! Look at Nils Holgerson Thumbietot!”
Instantly the geese and the chick-ens turned and stared at the boy;
and then they set up cackling. "Cock-el-i-coo,” rooster, "good enough Cock-el-i-coo, he has
comb.' right!'
"Ka, ka, kada, cried the hens;
that they kept up a
a fearful crowed the
for him! pulled my serves him
and with continuous
cackle. The geese got together in a
tight group, stuck
gether done /his?”
But
and asked: this? Who
the strangest
the boy understood
donerade en guldtacka vägande ett
their heads to-"Who can have can have done
of all was, that what they said.
S. A. K. hade i söndags ett mycket välbesökt och intressant möte. Arbetarklubben ligger flitigt i med sin kurs i konsten att tala offentligt, i vilken Mr. M. Eliason är instruktör. Alla deltagare tyckas både finna det intressant och göra avsevärda framsteg.
THE WONDERFUL
ADVENTURES 0F NILS.
(Continued from page 1.) several times, to see if there wasnt a little man hidden behind it, but he found no one there; and then he began to shake with terror. For now he understood that the elf had i bewitched him, and that the erea-
ture glass
whose image he saw in the was — himself.
THE WILD GEESE.
The boy simply could not
He was so astonished that he stood there as if rooted to the doorstep, and listened. "It must be because I am turned into an elf,” said he. f,This is probably why I understand bird talk.”
He thought it unbearable that the hens would not stop saying that it served him right. He threw a stone at them and shouted: "Shut up, you pack!”
But it hadn’t occurred to him before that he was no longer the sort of boy the hens need fear. The
DEN ORTODOXA KYRKAN i Finland har genom fredsfördraget förlorat egendom till ett värde av 500 miljoner mark.
DIREKT SJÖFART har nu vidtagits mellan New York och Petsa-mo. Den 1 maj avgick "Mathilda Thorden” direkt till Linhammar från New York. Den 4 maj avgick "Marissa Thorden” från New York, även den till Linhammar. Till att börja med skola dessa tvenne fartyg sköta om trafiken mellan Finland och Förenta Staterna.
FINLANDS nuvarande minister till Sverige Eljas Erkko kommer att avgå och i hans ställe har utsetts professor Jarl Wasastjerna.
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I MORGON FREDAG möter Föreningen Svea. ♦ ♦ ♦
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whole him,
med Kotka som huvudstad, skulle omfatta de kvarblivna narna av Viborgs län och de talande socknarna av Nylands
henyard made a rush at .
and formed a ring around m,ljon mark.
Länet sock-finsk-iän.
A.-B. L. M. ERICKSON har till staden för Helsingfors skyddskårs-distrikt donerat en miljon mark. Vasa Ångkvarns A.-B. har till de stupades efterlevande donerat en miljon mark och till krigsinvaliderna en
Fredag och lördag nästa vecka, gästas Vancouver av ett av Förenta. Staternas mest distingerade teatersällskap, som uppför Robert E. Sher-woods mästerverk "Abe Lincoln in Illinois”, med ingen mindre än Raymond Massey i huvudrollen.
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"Raymond Massey has a spark of genius in a great play.”
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him; then they all cried at once: | "Ka, ka, kada, served you right!!
himself believe that he had been I transformed into an elf. "It can’t be
make Ka, ka, kad. served you right!”
The boy tried to get away, but It can’t be] the chickens ran after him and
anything but a dream, — a queer' screamed until he thought he’d lose
fancy,” thought he. "If I wait a । his hearing. It is more than likely few moments, 1’11 surely be turned tV t L- ------------- —,J 1  -----------------
back into a human being.”
He placed himself before the glass and closed his eyes. He opened them again after a couple of minu-tes, expecting to find that it had all passed over — but it hadn’t. He was — and remained— just as little.
No it would do him no good to stand still and wait, of that he was certain. He must*try something else. And he thought that the wisest thing he could do wns to try to find the elf, and make his peace Wjth him.
that he never could have got away
from them if the house cat hadn’t come along just then.
Immediately the boy ran up to the cat. "You dear pussy!” he said, "you must know all the corners and hiding-places hereabout? You’11
be a good little kitty and tell where I can find the elf.”
"I know well enough where elf lives,” the cat said in a voice, "but that doesn’t say that going to tell you about it.”
"Dear pussy, you must tell where the elf lives!” pleaded
me
the soft | I’m
me
the
UNDER KRIGET hemsöktes Åbo av inalles 65 bombardemang med sammanlagt 3,195 nedsläppta bomber. 48 civila personer dödades och 145 skadades. 310 hus ha fullständigt förstörts. 207 hus ha dessutom skadats mer eller mindre. Hamnanläggningarna och stadens viktigaste industrier ha sluppit relativt lindrigt unran bombardemangen.
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