"The Other Swedes"
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Rev. Bror Carlsson
(of Sweden)
(1901-1967)
~ Tracing Värmland's Rev. Olof Olsson's church life in Sweden
and in
Swedish America with the Augustana Lutheran Synod
(of Sweden)
(1901-1967)
~ 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 in Swedish of November 4, 1955, on Rev. Dr. Olof Olsson (1841-1900), spiritual founder of Lindsborg and on the Swedish Lutheran Augustana Synod never made it to a publishing house. The title of the manuscript was Jag sökte icke mitt translated, I Did Not Seek My Own.
Decades later his son Mr. Alf Brorson saw to it that it would be translated from Swedish to English by the Rev. Martin Ringstrom (1908-2009) an Augustana Theological Seminary graduate who retired in Lindsborg with his wife Louise Segerhammar. Rev. Ringstrom's translation made the way for Mr. Brorson to publish a very condensed version of I Did Not Seek My Own in 2001 with the English titled He Gave God Glory " "The Story of Olof Olsson."
Here are the words of how this began by his son Alf Brorson in the Foreword regarding his father's determination to tell the story of this remarkable humble servant of the Lord, Rev. Dr. Olsson, 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 and direction coming directly from members of the Swedish Augustana Lutheran Synod, founded in 1860.
Decades later his son Mr. Alf Brorson saw to it that it would be translated from Swedish to English by the Rev. Martin Ringstrom (1908-2009) an Augustana Theological Seminary graduate who retired in Lindsborg with his wife Louise Segerhammar. Rev. Ringstrom's translation made the way for Mr. Brorson to publish a very condensed version of I Did Not Seek My Own in 2001 with the English titled He Gave God Glory " "The Story of Olof Olsson."
Here are the words of how this began by his son Alf Brorson in the Foreword regarding his father's determination to tell the story of this remarkable humble servant of the Lord, Rev. Dr. Olsson, 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 and direction coming directly from members of the Swedish Augustana Lutheran Synod, founded in 1860.
"He Gave God Glory " "The Story of Olof Olsson"
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"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.
Alf Brorson
"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.
Alf Brorson
Jag sökte icke mitt
translated
I Did Not Seek My Own
finished
November 4, 1955
translated
I Did Not Seek My Own
finished
November 4, 1955
Bust of Rev. Dr. Olof Olsson organized and financed by Rev. Carlsson
by
Bror Carlsson
Bror Carlsson
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Go HERE 2001 "He Gave God Glory" - "The Story of Olof Olsson" ~ Alf Brorson's condensed version of his father's, Rev. Bror Carlsson's, 1955 manuscript, "Jag Sökte Icke Mitt," "I Did Not Seek My Own"
Go HERE to "He Gave God Glory" ~ The Story of Olof Olsson ~ Contents & Illustrations
Go HERE to "He Gave God Glory" ~ The Story of Olof Olsson ~ Contents & Illustrations
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~ restoring lost local histories ~
reconnecting past to present
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