Don't Forget Your Foreign Neighbor by HANSIGNE STRUNGE

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Jan 2, 1908

Don't Forget Your Foreign Neighbor

By HANSIGNE STRUNGE

TO-DAY it is our privilege to work for the salvation of others. We are granted the privilege of bearing this blessed truth to all nations, kindreds, tongues, and peoples. It is this work that we as a people are doing now; but O, how much there is yet to do!

A wide field is open for us in this great country. There are large cities and many smaller places into which this truth has never entered, and we who have the heavenly light are the ones to light up such places with the truth. You may perhaps have neighbors who do not know anything of what you believe. They are strangers in this country. You can not speak understandingly to them, nor they to you; and even though they have been in this country for a few years, and may understand English to a certain extent, this truth can not be truly appreciated by many of them unless brought to them in their mother tongue.

Suppose, dear American brother and sister, that you had gone to a foreign country, had learned to speak the language of that country, so you could just get along; which language do you think would always be the dearest, sweetest, and most natural to you? And if you had to decide important matters, do you not think you would want them presented to you in your own language, so that you could clearly comprehend all? I know you would; and so likewise with your foreign brother and sister.

We are going to have them settle a matter of eternal importance, one which embraces both heaven and earth,—the matter of this precious truth, on which all our lives depend. We want to bring it to the thousands of our fellow men in this country who do not understand English very well. They can not experience that real joy and happiness which should follow this message unless they have the opportunity of studying it in their own tongue. For that reason we extend a hearty invitation to all our American brethren and sisters to help us in our work. We Danish-Norwegian workers are anxious to reach all of our nationalities. Will you stand by us? If you can not speak understandingly with them, try to get our good Danish-Norwegian paper Evangeliets Sendebud, and hand it to them. In some neighborhoods there may be quite a number of Danish-Norwegian people. If you can not induce them to subscribe for the paper themselves, it would then be a good idea for you individually (if you can not get others to join you) to take a club of the Sendebud with which to do missionary work among such neighbors. In other cases you could do a good work by paying for one or more subscriptions. If you do not feel able to do that, and if you still want to do something for your foreign brother and sister, please send us their names and addresses, and we will try to do what we can.

Now is the time to work. The long winter evenings have just begun. This week our special number will be issued, giving you the best opportunity to introduce our paper. After this begins a new series of very attractive articles with beautiful illustrations. They will be of great interest to every Danish-Norwegian man and woman, and we expect our dear American brethren to help us in taking hold of this work. Many of them did nobly with our summer series, which proved a great success; but while we have been doing our very best in the past for our papers, our improved facilities now enable us to make our papers the best they have ever been; so please give them a wide circulation. Our price is as usual, $1.25 for one year, and 65 cents for six months. In clubs of ten we give a good reduction. Let all, both young and old, take some part in this blessed gospel work for our foreign brothers. Address International Publishing Association, College View, Neb.

HANSIGNE STRUNGE, Secretary Danish-Norwegian Work.