Show FROM A missionary IN A GERMANY WE have been favored with the perusal of a couple of ot private letters recently received from F 31 lyman jr from which we make the following extracts the first is dated mannheim baden germany feb 17 we are enjoying our labors very much although the they y are confined to small limits and alto aito altogether ether private in this district as meetings were forbidden about two years ago here we have some very goody good people eople but very poor living from hand to mouth some are laboring very ver hard to emigrate but very little is being being done by way of baptizing but some are investigating our principles if we should preach emigration gration we could baptize a great number er but we are hunting the honest in heart and they are scarce I 1 brother musser was allowed NO REST EEST IN BAVARIA davania he obtained his passport in and went to munich where he met brother biesinger from lehi and was advised to come over to wurtem burg which he did and is now here with brother and myself ido I 1 do not know whether irwill it will be required of him to return but we shall await the directions of president schoenfeld who is now in saxony visiting his relatives I 1 suppose you read R of his hid arrest he was to have paid a nine fine of fr not 0 as published and be imprisoned 40 days but the swiss officials have to collect their money and to imprison their man they gave him perfect liberty and sent him the sentence sen tence tenca afterwards expect expecting ing inz him to come and pay his line fine and crowd himself behind the bars just because he was a mormon I 1 have just read another report in the NEWS irom from brother str assef that t sat their fine line was fr each but it is an error which he made in reding reain re ding the document they have sent t to berne for tor the fine nine which was not paid and I 1 do not know whether it will be safe e f for or brother schoenfeld choeff eld eid to return or not we TRUST IN tile THE LORD who sent us and know all things will go as they should it was brother Ss arrest that brought brother smith to berne and from there we started on our TRIP TO ROME it is a remarkable littrell litt lell leil history ie of the different circumstances that bro brought four of us together in berne brother broth er smith from liverpool just before his return home prof monch from irom home brother from constantinople stantin ople opie as it were and me from my field in southern germany prest smith and I 1 if you remember read the last days of pompeii together while on a trip through idaho and then to see the very old ruins climb old mount vesuvius and stand stand on the hot lava until our shoes dried gave it life and poetry we saw the seil seli sea from the mountain of which such a terrifying description is given the rumbling tumbling immediately beneath us steam and smoke rising all about us and the great volumes of smoke and red hot lava forced from the crater just j above us gave us a a good opportunity of realizing to a small degree the feelings ot the terror stricken inhabitants of the cities which were completely destroyed by the forces immediately surrounding us 11 the thu second letter is written from the same place and dated february esth isso isk in it he says 1 I am in the best of health and spirits although 41 in n disagreeable d 1 dable eabie circumstances cum stances you will no doubt be surprised at hearing that I 1 iam lam am BANISHED FROM ta tue THE IE GRAND DUCHY BADEN 1 I was taken from among the saints in Wein weinheim helmi heimi accused of holding a meeting and preaching reaching mormonism and was there therefore dro Ere locked up over night in a filthy room with a sack back of straw and a blanket on a bench for a bed I 1 had bad to remain there until 12 the next day wednesday feb when I 1 was taken before the justice and find questioned asto as to my business busl ness there I 1 stated that it was to teach the people on bein hein being asked it I 1 had bad held any meetings nie fie I 1 replied pil edNo no when asked how I 1 lived 1 I bald with the people who receive me ile he then told me I 1 could accept his punishment or appeal to the court at mannheim and said if I 1 did that he would prose prosecute clite me roe for fon vagrancy I 1 concluded to let him settle the matter and avoid raising raisin a howl at mannheim by which brother musser might be banished as well as myself I 1 was then ADJUDGED GUILTY of prea preaching phing doctrine which was against the laws I 1 explained that I 1 did not teach nor practice an anything y thing which is forbidden but was told that made no difference I 1 bore my testimony to him his clerk and the police I 1 was then condemned to one days lays imprisonment and banishment from baden I 1 demanded a copy of the complaint and judgment but was refused refuse either I 1 was taken to jail where I 1 was treated very well by the jailors jailers jai lors wife until she found out I 1 was a mormon and then she was very disagreeable with me I 1 was then LOCKED UP with three other young men with whom I 1 labored trying to get them to take an interest in the gospel soup 83 and bread were plentiful I 1 had a sack of chaff a sheet and a good blanket for abed a bed feathers were given us to pick b but ut they stunk and hung to my clo cio clothes so I 1 let iet out the job at 10 minutes minutes to 9 am on feb I 1 was PERMITTED TO GO MY WAY A good sister met me at the gate with her pockets full of food for me but was overjoyed when she found that I 1 could go with her the saints did not know what had become of me until a short time before I 1 was released I 1 then visited the saints again aga inand and left the city shaking the dust f from rom mr my feet as a testimony against it while e on my way one of the highest officials came along in a fine tine buggy and invited me to ride with him which I 1 did how strange that he should invite such a vagabond va abond to ride with him the fact is he re did not know that I 1 was a bior mormon brother S W musser is here at present and will remain until advice iro fro from m prest schoenfeld is received imy my conscience is 19 clear I 1 have done no one a wrong knowingly and I 1 am no vagabond but can bear all such names dames for the gospels sake for I 1 know it is true I 1 feel well la my labors although they are limited our brethren a applied 1 applied for the privilege of holding meetings here yesterday but were refused again acain I 1 leave bleave here next monday most 1110 ilio likely and shall go into inte wurt W urt I 1 they will get me out of germany if they keep going at that rate I 1 do dislike that thing but as the lord permits it I 1 guess it is all right you need not think I 1 have suffered anything more than inconvenience I 1 rejoice and am glad to be worthy of I 1 bearing shame from the world for the he lords sake 11 |