p. 17 | Power of the Word

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 18, 1916

Power of the Word

As a Swede landed in this country, 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.” The word of God is still “quick and powerful.”—Selected.