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Denmark1993 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses
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The First Kingdom Publisher
A 25-year-old Danish-American, a shoemaker named Sophus Winter, arrived from the United States in 1894 and settled in Copenhagen, the capital. By that time Volume I of the Millennial Dawn series, written by Russell, and a few tracts had been translated. Toward the end of the year, Brother Winter could inform the Society’s headquarters office, then in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., that he had placed all the books he had brought with him.
Volume II of Millennial Dawn was issued in Dano-Norwegian in 1895, and from January 1897, Winter began publishing a monthly magazine called Tusindaars-Rigets Budbærer (Millennial Messenger). Interest was sparked, and in 1899 the Memorial of Christ’s death was attended by 15 persons in Copenhagen and 12 in the town of Odder.
Bible truth also found a foothold during the following year in the area around Fårevejle, a distant outpost with a train stop, in northwest Sjælland. Hans Peter Larsen, a religious man who first associated with the Inner Mission and later with the Baptists, learned the truth from Brother Winter and soon resigned from the Baptist Church.
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Denmark1993 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses
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Lüttichau had just returned from South Africa, where he had an accident and sustained a serious injury. Determined that if he survived, he would use his life in God’s service, he stuck to his promise and soon began working with Sophus Winter. Starting in 1900, they jointly published Zion’s Watch Tower under the Danish name Zions Vagt-Taarn.
However, Sophus Winter began drifting from the truth. He ceased publishing Zions Vagt-Taarn in the fall of 1901, and in the course of 1902-3, he fell into the darkness of false religion.
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