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Show NOTED CHURCHMAN OF SWEDEN IS DEAD STOCKHOLM, Sept. 1. One of Sweden's umst-wirUily-known nissentlnc churchmen and politicians, Paul Better Waldenstrom, has just died, in Tils seventy-fourth year. I He was well known in certain relitrious I circles in America, which he visited a mi in her of times a? a student of the free churches, and also as founder of the Swedish Missionary association. He received re-ceived the du-rei; of doctor of theology from Yale in 1 I He was a forceful and ready orator and of iintH llinc wit and humor. Many anecdotes ;i re told b v the press to i!il us-;ra:e us-;ra:e r.is quickness of answer. To a young student ul;.i had ventured to doubt The s:ry of Balaam's ass. Waldenstrom said: "I have heard many a man talk like an ass; why may not an ass at one time have talked like a man?" |