"The Other Swedes"
~ Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Smoky Valley Writers ~
~ Honoring Them and Remembering Them ~ The Smoky Valley Writers ~
Rev. Bror Carlsson
~ Tracing Värmland's Rev. Olof Olsson's church life in Sweden
and in
Swedish America with the Augustana Lutheran Synod
~ Tracing Värmland's Rev. Olof Olsson's church life in Sweden
and in
Swedish America with the Augustana Lutheran Synod
It is quite sad that Rev. Bror Carlsson's finished 350-page manuscript of November 4, 1955, on Rev. Dr. Olof Olsson, spiritual founder of Lindsborg and on the Swedish Lutheran Augustana Synod never made it to a publishing house.
Decades later his son Mr. Alf Brorson and his grandsons Jerker and Petter Brorson saw to it that it would be translated from Swedish to English and that, at least, a very condensed version of it was published in 2001 titled He Gave God Glory " "The Story of Olof Olsson."
Here are the words of how this began by his son Mr. Brorson in the Foreword on his father's determination to tell the story of this remarkable humble servant of the Lord Swedish leader, who brought his flock of Värmland Swedes to the Kansas Smoky Valley to establish the Swedish Lutheran Bethany Church in Lindsborg in 1869, with its support coming directly from the Swedish Augustana Lutheran Synod, founded in 1860.
The Forward of He Gave God Glory " "The Story of Olof Olsson." by Alf Brorson:
My father, Bror Carlsson, was a pastor of the Church of Sweden. At the time of his death he left a manuscript dedicated to "the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church with Gradtitude and Respect." The manuscript entitled I Did Not Seek My Own contains 350 pages of typewritten material and deals with "The Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church in the U.S. A. during the years 1860-1900 with particular attention to a Värmland native, the pioneer pastor, Olof Olsson."
My father had the opportunity to trace Olof Olsson's life both in Sweden and abroad. He had become interested, as a pastorial colleague expressed it with astonished reservations, in "the career of Pr. Olof Olsson, the remarkable pastor from Värmland."
My father finished his work on the manuscript on November 4, 1955, at the Jösse Ny parsonage, Värmland. After that, various circumstances prevented its final editing and publication. I have tried many years later to complete my father's work. I have retained the original design of the manuscript as nearly as possible but have condensed its contents.
As a result, I Did Not Seek My Own (In English as He Gave God Glory) has become the portrait of a genuine human being, Pr. Olof Olsson.
He could have been my father.
Decades later his son Mr. Alf Brorson and his grandsons Jerker and Petter Brorson saw to it that it would be translated from Swedish to English and that, at least, a very condensed version of it was published in 2001 titled He Gave God Glory " "The Story of Olof Olsson."
Here are the words of how this began by his son Mr. Brorson in the Foreword on his father's determination to tell the story of this remarkable humble servant of the Lord Swedish leader, who brought his flock of Värmland Swedes to the Kansas Smoky Valley to establish the Swedish Lutheran Bethany Church in Lindsborg in 1869, with its support coming directly from the Swedish Augustana Lutheran Synod, founded in 1860.
The Forward of He Gave God Glory " "The Story of Olof Olsson." by Alf Brorson:
My father, Bror Carlsson, was a pastor of the Church of Sweden. At the time of his death he left a manuscript dedicated to "the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church with Gradtitude and Respect." The manuscript entitled I Did Not Seek My Own contains 350 pages of typewritten material and deals with "The Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church in the U.S. A. during the years 1860-1900 with particular attention to a Värmland native, the pioneer pastor, Olof Olsson."
My father had the opportunity to trace Olof Olsson's life both in Sweden and abroad. He had become interested, as a pastorial colleague expressed it with astonished reservations, in "the career of Pr. Olof Olsson, the remarkable pastor from Värmland."
My father finished his work on the manuscript on November 4, 1955, at the Jösse Ny parsonage, Värmland. After that, various circumstances prevented its final editing and publication. I have tried many years later to complete my father's work. I have retained the original design of the manuscript as nearly as possible but have condensed its contents.
As a result, I Did Not Seek My Own (In English as He Gave God Glory) has become the portrait of a genuine human being, Pr. Olof Olsson.
He could have been my father.
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Go HERE to "He Gave God Glory" ~ The Story of Olof Olsson ~ Contents & Illustrations
Go HERE to Rev. Dr. Olof Olsson (1841-1900) ~ The Spiritual Founder of Lindsborg ~ "He Gave God Glory"
~ The account by Rev. Bror Carlsson and son Mr. Alf Brorson
Go HERE to Rev. Dr. Olof Olsson (1841-1900) ~ The Spiritual Founder of Lindsborg ~ "He Gave God Glory"
~ The account by Rev. Bror Carlsson and son Mr. Alf Brorson
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"Let Us Remember Them"
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Swedes: TheWayTheyWere
~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
* * *
All color photography throughout Swedes: The Way They Were is by Fran Cochran unless otherwise indicated.
Copyright © since October 8, 2015 to Current Year
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