Nystrom, Johan Erik

Ph.D. (Upsala, 1866), General Baptist; b. in Stockholm, Sweden, Sept. 8, 1842; graduated at University of Upsala, 1866 was teacher of languages in the New Elementary School of Stockholm, 1867; in Greek and Hebrew in the Baptist Seminary there, 1867-72; secretary of the Swedish Evangelical Alliance, 1872-78; mi ionary to the Jews at Beirut, Syria, 1878-81. In 1871 he was a member of the Evangelical Alliance deputation to the Ru ian Emperor on account of the persecuted Luther ans in the Baltic provinces; in 1872 travelled in aid of the Baptist building-fund, through Germany, England, and Scotland; in 1884 was deputy of the Swedish Baptists to the Evangelical Alliance Conference in Copenhagen; in 1885 was elected a member of the Swedish Parliament for three years. He is the translator into Swedish of Sophocles' Anti gone, I. verses 1-383, with commentary (Ph.D. di ertation), Stockholm, 1866; Nicholl's Help to the Pleading of the Bible, 1866; Dr. Rudelbach on Civil Marriage, 1868; Lyon's Homo contra Darwin, 1873; Merle d'Aubigne's History of the Ref on nation in the Time of Calvin, 1874-77; Sankey's Gospel Hymns, 1876; Spurge on's John Ploughman's Talks, 1880; Spurge on's Clue of the Maze, 1884; and of other works; and is the author (in Swedish) of Bible Dictionary, 1868, 2d ed. 1883; Four Letters on Religious Liberty, 1868; Christian Hymns from Ancient and Modern Times, 1870; Lecture on the " Ldseri " (i.e., "reading," a nickname for living Christianity), 1872; Library of Biblical Antiquities, 1874; Letters to Brother Olof upon the Doctrine of Atonement, 1876; What is wanting in our Church, 1876; Spiritual Songs for Young Men's Christian A ociations, Sunday Schools, and Prayer-meetings, 1877 Illustrated Mi ionary News, 1877. O. o.