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Helsingborg their future home. Providence had,
however, decided otberwise. As he never had felt
at home with the exacting social and political forms
of his homeland and having heard of the
indepen-dent and free life in America, to which many of
his eountrymen emigrated, he emharked for the
New World in 1870 with Florida as his ultimate
goal. Having together with several friends started
a colony in Central Florida, he went to Brooklyn
and became engaged in the Passenger Department
of the Anchor Line, then he bought a Swedish
Weekly becoming both its owner and editor, while
he also acted as translator to his great countryman
John Ericson of Monitor farne. Mrs. Henschen who
had found life unendurable in the colony joined her
husband in Brooklyn, and both being deeply
religions they sought nourishment to their spiritual
life by hearing some of the greatest preachers in
the city. Finally they joined Dr. Cuyler’s church
in Brooklyn. In the meantime Dr. Henschen had
made the acquaintance of Dr. Albert Ericson, pastor
of, the Immanuel M. E. Church. This man
recog-nizing the gifts and spiritual graces of the young,
learned doctor, urged him to affiliate with the M.
E. Church and to enter its ministry. In 1875 he
was received in the Central Illinois Conference
and ordained a Deaeon by Bishop Wiley. His
ap-pointment was to become editor of “Sändebudet”,
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