JOHN HOFFMAN by John Hoffman

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Sep 24, 1903

JOHN HOFFMAN

By John Hoffman

From Finland

I WISH to call the attention of my brethren and sisters to our paper, Aikain Vartija, of which we intend to print an extra this coming October. This extra will contain sixteen pages besides the cover, and will be sent to America in large or small clubs for five cents a copy, postpaid. Some have already sent us their orders, but we hope to receive many more. By this paper you will be able to reach your Finnish-speaking neighbors with the message. Orders accompanied with cash should be sent to Aikain Vartija, Jagaregatan 2, Helsingfors, Finland, or to your State tract society.

Night after Monday, August 17, I was on the train all night coming to Helsingfors, and on the same train were three hundred emigrants on their way to America. Quite a number had tickets to Duluth, Minn., others to Northern Michigan. The emigrant agent was also

on the train, and I asked him how many on an average left for America every week. He said: “From four to five hundred.” Now we ask you to help us give these people the message. We will try to do what we can here, and our canvassers have already this year placed more than three thousand dollars’ worth of reading-matter with the people. Seven have been baptized, and others are interested. One of those baptized is a man who keeps a little store. He learned the truth last winter, but did not obey it then. A few weeks ago he came nearly three hundred miles to be baptized. Thus the Spirit of God is working on hearts even in this country.