Show letter from a traveler Tra veer to his brethren in the valley copenhagen sept 25 1851 deir BRO ban WILLARD your letter of the last of june together with one from bro heywood and another from bro 0 westover and wife came to hand near three weeks since all of which I 1 can assure you I 1 perused with much pleasure and gratitude every word is precious that comes from that land of joy and peace which to me seems more and more precious cious as I 1 become more and more acquainted with the awful state of europe from actual observation horvat 1 if a single creature creat ure there is in that eth earths s paradise who feels ungrateful or who is discontented because they cannot in a moment me it e enjoy n j 0 Y all the luxuries of the older states or because they are admonished for their sins I 1 could wish that such might have one glance at the misery and wretchedness of europe the abominable tyranny and religious and political intrigues the insolent goddings goa dings of soldiery and police that eliat throng every n nook ok an and d corner of europe who are the pliant tools of 0 and tyranny the groenings groan ings of the masses under t their heir almost insupportable burdens and yet their awful corruption and filthiness moral and 11 y bacal and their utter recklessness fecklessness buiel shiely ly eod god is not in all their thoughts 0 my heart sickens bickens when I 1 contemplate it and my soul cries within me how long 0 lord shall such wickedness abide upon the tha face of the eartha ilow how long shall thine anointed be compelled to witness such scenes and yet buried in this mass of corruption liy lay many precious gems to search oat cleanse and reone ros these is the gracious mission of the elders of israel 0 lord impart grace and patience unto thy servant that he may endure the contradiction of sinners and faint not neither his soul slacken its energies because of the wickedness of man I 1 have much consolation in the reflection that my my brethren do not forget we me when they abear appear before the lord and I 1 can truly siy say t that 1 can feel the effects of their craters pr aters ers I 1 hope you you and my family and friends will continue writing to me through the winter if it is possible to send them I 1 expect ho however weer that this may may be the last of my communications that will reah reach you yon before another Fp spring ring my health is quite good at present and all in my brethren who are in this land brother fors forsa gren is is now gone on a mission to the island 0 oj Falz fakter ter at my list advises advices from him he wa making quite a stir among among the people eople as ho he if i sure to do wherever he gobs goes we he had the pleasure of baptizing 0 his ad old father a little before he left hero here who came about miles from froia sweden to see him j bro dikes took a mission fi fb so BOOT I 1 after our conference in august but after short stay lie he took his departure lor for home am 3 I 1 suppose he is now in england n lie ile is a tea of himself and himsel himself Y the driver I 1 havi hav lately returned from a tour in the province 0 Jutt land his former field of labor where th saints giai e been much persecuted their in me mortal morial to the kin kins kings s minister has given rise t a p partial artial investigation of the matter which i now pending an elder has lately been sent I 1 acain there is partial toleration and I 1 ho hop P I 1 soon to hear bear that the kingdom 0 is pian planted i v that state the work is advancing I 1 steadily i ij this city and vicinity and in the other parts S the countey so far as heard beara from many li haf been baptized since conference I 1 last sunday bro hanson was married t to 0 i sister koford who has a brother in the chu chuoc 1 in amel Amei america ica probably in in the valley A monthly paper in danish is just starting about the size size of the Mill millennial ormial star the firs no is in its title is suyeme Siy SLy loine eme 11 I 1 enclose my prospectus ros to you which yoa will have tho the kindness tila duess to read t to your friends and obtain as many subscriber subscribe as possible if the lord will elder S means to try to tak a tour into sweden soon and procure a wor translated and published which was prepared pre paret r 0 for circulation circus in the swedish long language alij repa tha 4 seems about the only moans means at present of g get et ting our testimony among that people aud and in ii that much wisdom will be necessary the revelations in the doctrine and covenants will i ill soon boon be completed in the danish but whether to publish them entire the ensuing winter is not fully determined tho the book of mormon and tracts which have been already published create such a tempest in this Lu therian country con that it may not be wisdom to publish the doctrine and covenants so soon the number baptized in denmark is about four hundred but of these there are as usual many who have either apostatized or ought to though they mostly are good saints 1 brother nhen shall ve meet again my spirit begins to reach out after home 1 I 1 hive be heard ard nothing direct from our brothers in the states since I 1 left although I 1 have written and also sent thern them the star I 1 received a chebi cheeling ing n letter from bro gates a few days since |