Show I 1 I 1 ELDERS WR RE t I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 EXTUM of a letter from elder willard snow ir to the presidency dated copenhagen peb feb 16 ISS our voyage was to io be by steamer from C copenhagen to keil froni from keil by railway to hamburg from humburg hamburg humi hami I 1 r by bv steamer to hull from if hull ull by rafi cars to 1 liva livera boland from liverpool by a first class american or english emigrating sait sail ship to new orleans our provisions provision sto to be furnished and cooked on board the ship nd our expenses paid so long as wo we were in hamburg and liverpool before shipping pursuant tb this our brethren and sisters kisters assembled from dif farent parts of the country and mr ballin one of the az proprietors loorie tors of the company arrived arri vedon on ho he december with a fine steamer from wismar wid and wolf shipped on board a any v I 1 disturbance 66 or wius unusual ilif excitement against us arid left the city in ili iriving ying colors on the ath myself I 1 and bro P 0 6 hanson accompanying them and I 1 I 1 never felt bettor better the es were lined allind with spec I 1 assembled with astonishment to lo see the I 1 MORMONS move out toward their promised land such another sight never was witnessed in this vrn hivel hive before we moved outi singing the moun tain taia standard dard in Q answer to the loud buzzas from the shore midst a fine gale of wyid wind which continued to inci increase ease all the afternoon and during the ithe night until about day light when the copt thrust the ship into a small email harbor between two points of land neat near the island of falster cherp dejay at Anch anchor orall all that day and tile the next night as safe as aa a mouse in a mill while the raging baltic I 1 maspn avas an continued pheni sheet of jv whitened hi toned foaming billows the next dav we loosed and the 21 same eye aing found oars ourselves elvos I 1 safe in ili kei where we found jound an extra t train rain prepared prep ared which took its us into 11 hamburg amburg af i U i isa the next 0 of our oui detention dining daring the storm on the bakic the arch which had been engaged to take us to HullIe hull left ft before we arrived so we w vera ero dot detained dined another day aay in hamburgh and had to take the iho steamer lion which I 1 proved roved to ill baa a much larger stronger and finer boat and commanded by capt cruger the samo same man that took bro Erast erastue lis and the elders to this coq country at the tha first and also took the little company that emigrated with bm our cond coming ngoa on board seemed almost providential provIden tUl ashe as he justly remarked and I 1 found him not iao t only 64 a gentilman gant gen tieman leman in th the strict stricter ea I 1 sense of tho the wod vod but I 1 judge from what followed an pc i 1 ou oil reab reaching hing the month of the he elbe river the wind wina proved coulm contrary ry aud and blow blews such a gale that the capt dared not gentl tro out into tile the ocean and so we jay at anchor another day and aad night when wo we again loosed and for throe days during tile the and i ath we were buried in such a storm never bei 1 fore witnessed on tile the deep and never er wish to again tile the sea washed the deck fore and aft bill burst st in the bulwarks bulwa swept off or destroyed much freight filled the hold with six feet of water vater all tho the hatches had to be closed upon our brn brethren hren to prevent the ship from filling r with waterland wat water erand and sinking the capt himself told me he had followed the seas twenty five years but bt never before witnessed a storm so severe we however all arrived safe in hull hall on the evening of the and the next day found ourselves in ili liverpool new years day we shipped on board the forest monarch for new orleans but tile the wellbor weather con so bad that she had 1 to lay in the r about coliver two weeks and consequently could not leave until anti the 16 h of jan when t they hey sailed out from the har barsin bor in fine weather aleather under the charge of their much beloved bro J C corsgreen Fors Fori green with songs of joy and thanksgiving and ate now on oil the bosom of the great deep with their faces zion ward and I 1 recommend them to you and bro erastus whom they love in the lord and pray for in exceed exceeding int faith knowing that they will be pretty well used up as to means before they reach the gruen green valleys galleys of yonder mountain sand stand in need perhaps pir haps of a little assistance at tho the last end of their journe jo and I 1 know that you ou will not fail to reach out a friendly lund land towards them I 1 after ing tile the conferences of manchester and birmingham resting myself a few days I 1 return pd 0 to liverpool where I 1 found brt jacob gates and C Q V spencer before the golconda sailed andon and on the 21 st lot let t for hull H all expecting expect ling to accompany bro orson S p ancer back to hamburg but he and his brethren had left tile the day before I 1 arrived but ifland Ifo bound and bro P 0 hanson awl and elder georga percy bercy waiting for me ma whom you have sent to my assistance in ili our labors in this land and we left hull on the to return home we had a pleasant voyage vo uge over the german ocean and ou on re reaching itching fl hamburg amburg we found that the senate lied had finally succeeded iu m driving bro daniel carn cam out of hamburg he had bad taken a passport to go to but hud not yet yel left deft altona aitola he lias has pred preached ched mormon doctrine out oat of the bible and baptized some thirty or forty persons and organized them into a branch bianch and alla they I 1 believer hav e proved it upon lurn him or at bast a part of these hese grave charges charge si they are therefore determined detor mined not to permit milhim aitta to stay there any longer and I 1 have just received a note irom him informing me that bro orson spencer onus hs been rejected at berlin 1 and returned with bro houts hout to england the steamers iners had stopped running cwm hamburg hambur g to C copenhagen open hagen a and a d we were under the necessity ot of taking the tho railway and stage and travel overland through gh schleswig Sch leswig maun to copenhagen whore where w arrived on the ath feb in m good health and spirits but rather whary weary and tired of 1 on the br bro I 1 0 cnute canute peterson peters n and erio eno d 14 hogan arrived here her i e whom youhana you have I 1 appointed on a missi mission onto to norway a and iid I 1 can assure YO ou a rejoices upon receiving the timely assistance afaese ot friese threet brethren to help us ia our labors 1 I 1 I have just atiat received cettei 3 the ath of feb from those elders eldera who w are wei e imprisoned aped ip in norway last I 1 g the or of baptism at or near jr ind id i am lorry sorry 0 say they are all yet ef ih in 1 confinement and have ben for tou months except i elder I 1 bee akston who has been libera liberated tell iii as I 1 learn upon COD conditions d it ions of not preaching the doe trAne they bave ye been examined ja court over aej an I 1 over again a 9 ain tilt till they know know not what to do and seem I 1 to be i IF do lit and perplexed what to do next and and I 1 many think chink they had better let them alone in in the fit st t place I 1 lace some of the pl who seem to lo have been the instigation ot of their ar rest are aie nov now calling out for them to be apt icet out that they m bizay ay iy have the opportunity of putting down the delusion openly and i sincerely hope they wll will have the chanc chance to do so bf before fore iong lon i an many y are ready read and waifung to te f e baptized as soon goon as ai it becomes comer laiful laiI ul for morz coinon on elders ciders to aj ad minister the ordinances ordinance 1 and it will become lawful as soon as the state murp church ise department De pai ant decide that latter day sain a I 1 I 1 il wisiana Wisia nf church I 1 em am in m toiled however that their cage case ads gode from froin the church department depa to the kins kinge and will wih finally be acted acte dupon upon before i m n all ah I 1 probability pro ro bablity it is is really realY amusing to me to see professed christain Chri stam nations try 13 so hard to make it out treason to 10 baptize in the name ot jesus Jecus and banish and imprison men for do doir 1 I I 1 it t for tear of being 0 deluded by false fale teacher but bu t 80 it it t IS is I 1 I 1 for the last coir to ir or five days it has been very cold stormy wea weather weal bei tile the ground i is mp lety roze up and it ahas dhas has been remarked that there t hiie has hag not been a colder time in in copenhagen for tile the last twenty barsi bros peterson and hogan will therefore therdore bp be 0 it liged to stop heselor here for the present pre sni as 6 abon oon as the weather will y permit erml 11 r shall send ahrin on to Norv jorwa vay bro bio percy will reman and labor in in denmark win ib ns there tha has baa been quite an among the people eq 1 I iii belati relation on to aurl conr ibo movement emigration during 13 my v absence they cannot account for it ho bow w k I 1 it is is that respect dle farmers farmere ironi the country chur ry will believe the doctrine and nd sell out their farma V pd R go off to cormons mormons yi toab p a and ad leave lave their native land eland boyell so veil tl hitpas t as t beep been published in 14 the pacers papers all aver the ie country anh ana iii in germany ard aej has reached the chii united ite artates ag states tates arid back afa again n A TO england I 1 rr may justly aay ay 1 is 9 fu bullof I 1 I 1 of 6 conjectures on jec t tures ares about the motions of t the he some soma lee say ay thing and some another it has been rumored thit I 1 was comi comingo fig back to establish a new colony s some oine where in this country tor those mormons cormons who did not wih to emigrate I 1 find on returning home and looking wound aund about me mea a little that mormonism Jor monism is is still alive iti m scandinavia va a I 1 and the leaven continues to work in in more e than th three rea measures of 0 meal ineal I 1 and has fias broke out in HI some more places notwithstanding all the efforts to smother it in ili ig tp re has been a new naw branch organized organ led since since f chave have been id m england Z consisting consist ipg of A 27 members in in this part pait of th the countr country y ney ha hole bein been very jealous and the police here seemed to take every pi precaution pie caution to 10 the elders fram traveling and preaching mg the gospel in the fie counti countey y and some have been sent out and elder je it while on husway from bambu hamburg r to ia this place and e called ailed to see his bis wife who resides ahw the agn anly ly bad time to baptie them andrt them m abe po police lice wet acie e tw for hul tying ain out oa 0 the place th there e have I 1 also about fifty been aap iad d iu 11 cop copenhagen e alil since since I 1 have been gone so akal the he braa bi auh 41 tew ip numbers as many it not more moi e laan it did before the emigration willave we have got a large arid and respectable hall to preach in the art sabbath sabbath after I 1 got hoi home e we had I 1 believe belie e tile the largest argot congregations A 1 1 hii have e ever witnessed tsien dince since I 1 have been en in the city and last sunday we had a splendid Vish hah cf laah t hros brog hogan Hog anand peterson Pet eisOn i preached d naria nari a I 1 1 bro peicy 3 tarro 11 while w hile bro P 0 halkol nd id jenson pure al danish I 1 suppose mine was iwas a little mix mixed d but we had a spit edid inee tint etnere habte alodeen alo been about twenty baptized in Fal Fai steer the same hame numbers num berm jn anti the same number in in fredrich Fred arid and fifteen etteen F more ore in bomhold Boin Bom holm I 1 have jus received aj a letter the he Pies idin elder alder bornholm and lie he biform f 3 us as that abe they have nave had another mobbing adape there P ae the I 1 particulars particular ot of which 1 do not fiat deem necessary to I 1 trouble y 01 oil I 1 witt wilra suffice it 6 to sa say y the that they ahey EPcie ted t themselves V and upon the house where the saints were holding a meeting broke up the beat ind and br bruised the ty and they hall had to lee ilee tor their hyes arld and hide themselves ui in the 0 vi woods I 1 ll 11 I 1 I 1 WA W however lio wever jiahe kept kep A constantly on n hall hana 14 a sap supply of ali the boa bo of moimoi Mor moi ind covets as we well 11 as all other ot her ki that tha have hitherto been published in ill the dani danish 46 lor for sale a and nd been able to s supply ahtye all atie calls thus fir fai but have not beer able to publish nany many new V aik oik the godlier does riot biot s seema diio to Js spread pread very enuch ili 0 e den adert b hi we have sent another i alliy elder to stockholm a and n 1 s several other elders haap been and aad acre are labolia labeling 1 in in directions with wilh some but ahe the 1 law w is ajeh cef cannot publicly preach a ana tid baptize without i being cn transgressors of it II ast soon fisit as it is J but bur thel elders which we sent to iceland were imprisoned in r ed with kith ih the rest of th ih beldt alders rg in int in T jorwa norway ar and ao i of df course haaf not reached flie ret 1 have een thee or 0 tour four who have cota from efrom iceland alib icons icon dinue to tc info in me that there axe mapy waiting for an elder tp ta come who are anxious to be baptized i ed and I 1 think I 1 shall i nake make one more effort it to s send hd an elder there ai as as eral conference is 13 over on the 6 h hot of ai annl i I 1 but I 1 find that the field Is great anti and faith fil il laborers are tc few com comparatives yara t ivey s speaking eakins I 1 va WILL LARD ARC A SNOW OW |