The Sower, the Seed, the Results.
THE New York Bible Society is working especially in New York City, and among the sailors and immigrants. Among the last-named class, 17,000 volumes of scripture were distributed last year. Here is an instance of seed-sowing years ago, and its fruit, showing the power of the word: "A Swede was recently coming into our country thru 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 and 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 thru 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 harbor and city of New York." The treasurer is James H. Schmelzel, and the secretary is Rev. G. W. Carter, 66 Bible House, New York City.