. Historical sketches of the foreign missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church : from the origin of each to the end of the year 1880, with a map of each mission. n 1835, was filling an appointment in the extraordinary zeal and great power of endurance were well known,and he was looked to to undertake a mission enterprise among his fellowcountrymen in the city of New York. David Terry, the RecordingSecretary of the Missionar> Society, w^as the chief instigator and pro-moter of the proposed movement. Peter Bergner, an earnest Swedishconvert, was ready to co-operate. A subscripti
. Historical sketches of the foreign missions of the Methodist Episcopal Church : from the origin of each to the end of the year 1880, with a map of each mission. n 1835, was filling an appointment in the extraordinary zeal and great power of endurance were well known,and he was looked to to undertake a mission enterprise among his fellowcountrymen in the city of New York. David Terry, the RecordingSecretary of the Missionar> Society, w^as the chief instigator and pro-moter of the proposed movement. Peter Bergner, an earnest Swedishconvert, was ready to co-operate. A subscription was started amonggenerous laymen, and a ship, which lay at a pier in the North River,amid the Scandinavian shipping, already fitted up within for purposes ofworship, was purchased and named the John Wesley. This, as alsothe new ship which succeeded it in 1857, became Pastor Hedstroms Bethel Ship, the chapel of the North River Mission, to which he wasappointed by the New York Conference of 1845. He became a watchfuland providing father to his people, both in a spiritual and temporal thousand Bibles and Testaments were distributed from the ship. NORWAY MISSION. 63 yearly; the converts were numerous. Germans and people of othernationalities, besides the Scandinavians, shared in the benefits of thrsMission. The converts carried their religious zeal with them in migrating west-ward, and Scandinavian missions sprang up in that direction. Hedstrom, (the Pastors brother,) Erickson, Willerup, Neuman, andothers were zealous preachers. By 1855 there were 24 missionaries ina widely-extended field, with 1,074 members and some church 1S80, the work had expanded into two distinct conferences, the North-west Norwegian and the North-west Swedish, in which there were86 preachers in charge, 6,937 full members, with 831 probationers, and 104church buildings. There are besides other Scandinavian districts con-nected with English-speaking conferences. A Swedish
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