In Good Ground

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

A SWEDE was recently coming into our country through Ellis Island. As he landed, a worker of the New York Bible Society stepped up to him, offering him a Swedish New Testament. The Swede stopped, apparently startled, and stared at the worker, saying, “Weren’t you here twenty-six years ago? I think you are the same man—yes, you are the same man.” The worker told him he had been engaged for twenty-eight years distributing the Scriptures to the immigrants, giving to each one a book in his mother tongue. “Well,” said the Swede, “twenty-six years ago I landed here a stranger, and you gave me a New Testament in the Swedish language, just as you offered me one now. I read it, and through reading it I became a Christian. After a few years I made up my mind to become a preacher, and for twenty years I have been preaching the gospel in Colorado. It all began with your giving me a New Testament.” “The sower soweth the Word.” Mark 4:14. This seed fell in good ground, and is still bringing forth fruit. This is only one of many interesting results of the work that is being done every day in the city and harbor of New York.—Christian Work and Evangelist.