Thank you for your good letters which I received today. I am sending you the profits from the cash sales of Prayer. We still have a lot of books here. The Danish stamps are for a book that was unable to be delivered and that got returned.

Tomorrow I will receive orders as a transportation leader to Bergen, and I will probably leave next Monday. Tomorrow several friends will be coming here, and some want to be baptized. It’s clear that the schoolmistresses will have to count the cost themselves, so that they don’t start to waver later on. They need to be reconciled to the fact that baptism is the same as a final farewell. Once they have made up their own mind, nothing will be able to shake them any more. If they are weak or wavering, then I would advise them to wait before being baptized, since everyone needs to be fully convinced in their own mind.

Kristiansand is a city in a sorrowful state. They call us slaves, and that’s an honorable title. But where the slaves of Christ take liberties, what shall we call this kind of liberty? Their utter lack of the knowledge of God testifies against them—or rather about them—that their fellowship with God in the Spirit is far from being in order. By now they should have many spiritual children and thus be fathers in Christ; but at this point, the fathers and the children are all at the same stage, struggling with the elementary principles. Therefore we cannot speak to them as spiritual people, but as carnal.

I wrote to Br. Mikkelsen, from the Huth Customs Station near Fredrikstad, and asked him to invite you to visit Porsgrunn on your way home. There is a man named Karl Knutsen who lives with his family in Tolnæs, near Porsgrunn. Both he and his wife are unusually radical, but I can’t vouch for how spiritual they are. Mikkelsen’s sister lives nearby. Perhaps you have already left for Denmark.

Greetings to those at home. Greet Br. Hansen and the friends. Isa. 22:22-25.

Greetings in Christ Jesus.

Your brother,