p. 18 | Norway by N. C. Bergersen

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 11, 1909

Norway

By N. C. Bergersen

SINCE my last report to the REVIEW, we have held a canvassers' school, with good results. About thirty were present, and besides these we have about ten or fifteen other canvassers in Norway. They received instruction daily in the Bible, bookkeeping, and many other studies. All left the school with good courage, feeling that this was the best time in their lives. They are now in the field, going from house to house, and have received many orders; so the book sales are now on the increase in Norway.

Some time ago two of our workers met a woman who has kept the Sabbath for fifteen years. She did not know there was a Seventh-day Adventist in the world. She believed in baptism, and several other denominations offered to baptize her, but a voice always told her to wait. Our workers asked her how she began to keep the Sabbath and to believe as she did. Her answer was, “I learned it all from the Bible.” She had been praying for fifteen years that God would send some one to her who kept the Sabbath, and now her prayers were answered. It is impossible for us to express how she felt when she found out that these two workers kept the Sabbath, and that there were over eight hundred Sabbath-keepers in Norway. She is a sister to one of the leading Lutheran priests. Several priests have done all they could to get her to keep the first day of the week, but without result. The sister had never read any of our books or tracts. She learned it all from the Bible. She had great opposition in her home community; but she was firm in the truth. She was generally called a Catholic, but her husband said she was a Jew.

We are holding public meetings at several different places this winter, with good results. Many have given their hearts to God, and some have already been baptized. In Christiania and Bergen we have from four hundred to six hundred people coming to the meeting.

MEMBERS OF THE CANVASSERS’ CLASS IN NORWAY

In Stavanger we have from seven hundred to two thousand people out to hear the last message of warning. We expect to receive a great harvest from this meeting before spring.

Four months ago I found that we had about twelve hundred copies of “Christ's Object Lessons” on hand. Our workers and brethren generally united to sell these, and the entire number is now disposed of.

Will the readers of the REVIEW please remember us before the throne of mercy?

N. C. BERGERSEN.