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Show ,ed into active service. In the i 1 ol Imo iir .-i,j,,t'e:(-,i ili'o misioi, in Manitoba. Returning- homo he-was he-was set apart to net as Bishop over the Etna Wards, in whirl labor he vfas engaged at the time of his demise. Under his super vision the JQtna. wards, has grown and prospered, numerically numeri-cally and spiritually. their trials began to cease. The i children took a liking to the Mormons, and the brethren, took occasion to teach them the Gospel, Gos-pel, to pray and ask a blessing on their food. hen Christmas came the little folks asked their parents to allow them to invite jibe brethren to their party in-j in-j stead of anyone else. Their wish jwas complied with. Useful Career. The following brief biography of the late Bishop Niels Hansen of Cardston, Canada, was authorized author-ized a short time previous to h i death: Bishop Niels Hansen was born ! at Trostlop, in the far-away sunny sun-ny land of Denmark, August 11, j32, the sixth child of Hans Jorgenson and Marren Christina ! Petersen. He naturally inherit-led inherit-led from his honored parents j those sterling qualities which j have ever characterized the sttir-dy sttir-dy inhabitants of the Scandinavian Scandinav-ian peninsula and its neighbor island, is-land, Denmark. His parents were strict Lutherans, and he was only nurtured in the faith of his father When a child of seven he contracted con-tracted a skin disease, scrofula, which afflicted him for eight long years, and necessarily robbed rob-bed him of the education he might otherwise have obtained. The irritation was so severe that for some months his case seemed seem-ed entirely hopeliss, but he finally final-ly recovered at the age of fifteen. fif-teen. Although deficient in book learning his mind was active and remarkable for its retentive and concentrative faculties. When a lad of fifteen he was able to pass the Lutheran catechism, .ana at that early age was confirmed con-firmed a member of the Lutheran Luther-an Church winning praise and commendation from his reverend pastor. Being physically weak, owing to the affliction spoken of, he was apprenticed to learn tailoring. tail-oring. It w-as while engaged at tailoring that he met for the first time a Mormon elder Elder El-der Wm. Anderson. Elder An-: An-: derson had been introduced . by ! a letter from Niels' brother Jens ! who had received the Gospel in Copenhagen. Upon hearing the ' e!der preach he was convinced j of the divinty of his message it j came with a familiar sound as a j story long forgotten Elder An-j An-j derson returned to Copenhagen lacd reported the success of his j visit. Together with Jens he re-I re-I turned to Trostlop and iu De: j cember 3651 he went down into I At trie August conference m 1 Copenhagen, 1853. our worthy ' brother was ordained an Elder and set apart to preside over the :T.-ostlop branch. Here he re- mained about one year when he was sent to preside over the Hoi sen and Gray branches in Jiland. j In the fall of IS," 5 be was released re-leased from his labors to go to! j Utah the vales of the west. He j ! set sail from Liverpool Dec. 12, 1 1853. His vessel was eleven J weeks on the ocean, and providentially provi-dentially they were the means of 'saving a shipwiecked crew of i forty -two souls. The company j landed in New York and took a train for St. Louis, Missouri. At the April conference in 1S56 he wa3 called to go on a mission to preach the Gospel to some Norwegian settlers who had located lo-cated in Clay county, Missouri. He returned from his labor in Clay County and crossed the Plains with Knud Petersen.ariiv-ingin Petersen.ariiv-ingin Salt Lake City, Sept.20, 1856. In the spring . of 57 he went to Brigham City. When the call came from Prest. Young to move South he was found with the obedient wanderers During the fall of 58 and portion of 59 ha remained in Salt Lake City. He i went back to Brigham City in the i.fa'.l of 59 and remained there until 1861 then. he. went into! Cache County. -In the fall of '62 he was ordained 'a Seventy in the j 6-4 tli Quorum. His labors in Cache. County are closely' associated I mt: waters ui uitpuiam. ni patents pat-ents and several others also received re-ceived the Gospel. Former friends became bitter enemies, the priest raged and the people scoffed, but he, with the Danish back bone, never wavered, and never once denied the Gospel. The persecution was sc violent that the elders were forced to leave. In the spring of 1856 a branch was organized under the name of the Trostlop Kelp, and Jens Hansfen was called to preside. In i the same year Niels was oidain-jed oidain-jed a teacher under the hands of C.J- Larsen, presidenj of the Conference, and presided over j ' the branch in the absence of the other brethren. In 1852 he went to Copenhag-en Copenhag-en and received employment as a ! gardener." At the August con: 1 ference he was called to go on a j mission to Norway. He hesitat- ed not, but in company with C. I J. Larsen and other brethren! I left at once for his field of labor, j ' During the conference at! IVaderland he was ordained a' i priest and with Elders Folkman I and Munsou, Knudson and other? : !they returned to Inglesrod. This j time they were not so successful , but were arraigned before the; ! officials and sentenced to seven j I months imurisonment for preach- j with the construction of the j Logan Tabernacle;' and temple. Under the direction of Charles Ora Card, he spent many weeks I in the Carjyon, supervising the work of getting out, lumber for the above named edifices. When ! the Cache Stake was organized ' with Moses Thatcher. Wm.B. j Preston and M. D. Hammond in i the presidency, iie was ordained a High Priest and the same day :set apart a High Councillor in j the stake, j In Januar' 1889 he was called ! to preside over the Ward at Pro- j vidence, and was ordained a Bis- j ! hop under the hands of Apostle ' Uohn W. Taylor. He chose, for ! his Counsellors Melyin Hammond t and Rudolph Hockstrauser. It . was iu the same year (October) that he was arrested for IT. C. j Time and time again, he . was brought before .'the' courts but; each time was acquitted. I In 1889 he decided . to cast his lot with the saints in Alberta, Canada; and February' of that year he arrived in Cardston. In his usual, quiet unassuming way ' be plodded along, working' on the farm and with his stock. Success attended his efforts. The Canadian Canadi-an Saints were not long in perceiving per-ceiving the ability and integrity of the man and he was soon work- ing the Gospel of Jesus Christ. During the first period of their incarceration they were treated j severely, little or no food, and a! dark, uncomfortable cell. Their ( keeper, knowing that both mea. (Hansen and Folkman) were tail- j ors, and desirous of having a. new suit of clothes for Christ-1 ma3, requested thsm to take his measurement and make the clothes. They told him they would be pleased to do so pro-, viding a suitable room was provided. pro-vided. This the jailor consented to grant, and from this time |