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Denmark1993 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses
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So when the Watch Tower Society’s first president, Charles Taze Russell, initially visited Europe, in 1891, Denmark was included in his tour. He reported: “Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, and especially England, Ireland and Scotland are fields ready and waiting to be harvested. These fields seem to be crying out, Come over and help us! and we know of no more hopeful parts in which to thrust in the sickle and reap . . . There is a great need for a Swedish translation [of Millennial Dawn] and also a translation which would serve both the Danes and the Norwegians.”
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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,
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Denmark1993 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses
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Then one evening they knelt down while the father prayed sincerely to God to open their eyes to the truth. The next morning a colporteur was standing on their doorstep with Volume I of Millennial Dawn!
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Denmark1993 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses
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When Anna Hansen—the seamstress who had visited the Reinseth family—came and offered Volume I of Millennial Dawn, Johanne Jensen obtained the book. Arthur read it with an insatiable hunger during the night. Nevertheless, he had to wait to satisfy his spiritual hunger further. Before he could pursue his interest, he had to travel to Copenhagen, but while there he was suddenly struck with typhoid fever. The resulting hospital stay gave him the time for spiritual feeding. He sent word to the office at Ole Suhrs Gade. He wanted every publication of the Society that was available.
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