Show THE GERMAN MISSION EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM ELDER 0 CARN organization OF A BRANCH OF TWELVE MEMBERS AT HAMBURG M 27 Rosen strass ha hamburg ambur g augusi ath I 1 1852 B 52 I 1 mr S W richards dear brother I 1 received your I 1 letter e ater dated july and I 1 now commence answering by saying that I 1 am well and feel first raw rate and the blessings of god are attending my labors I 1 commenced preaching privately until I 1 convinced a man of the truth he then opened his house for me ine to preach I 1 have preached six times and have baptized ten the people are coming daily to inquire there aro two or three more ready to be baptized last sunday of august I 1 organized organized a brandhof Branc hof ahe church of jesus christ of of latter day saints in hamburg of twelve members three weeks ago I 1 received a letter from a gentleman gen leman from flensburg about ninety mi miles lea from here requesting me to come and see thern them and baptize his wife so two weeks ago I 1 went to schleswig Sch leswig and flensburg when I 1 arrived at the first fi r a t place I 1 found an elder there by the name of jorganson sent from copenhagen lor for which I 1 was very glad the woman named above came to him to be baat zed but he canado cant do oo 00 much good there here on abc acc account of not being ing acquainted with the german language and that is not all the germans don dont like the D danes nes in in consequence of the late war between I 1 them A at t Sch schleswig leswig there is a small branch I 1 preached once and one was baptized f I 1 also visited some families the people are inquiring on the right and on the left they requested me to stay I 1 left schleswig Sch leswig wiz for flensburg stayed one cne day preached prea clied to a few people it had a good effect and I 1 told them that I 1 had been in the church for seventeen years and was acquainted with the prophet of the lord lard and knew the work to be of the lord and established it by the old and new T testaments stamens the people wept and were willing to hear more I 1 returned back to schleswig Sch leswig stayed one day in these two places is a door open for a good work to hamburg on my arrival I 1 was graciously d by my little flock they had met inet according to my ap appo po to hold a meeting and a person from newcastle england who belongs to the christian church of that place by the name of Dar darling linga a fluent speaker of eight languages met with them and commenced on them about polygamy false prophets and every thing ele ehe he ever heard odthe of the mormons cormons Mor mons the next sunday he made mad e his appearance again but when I 1 came we had a few words I 1 asked him a few questions and I 1 he soon found that he had wakened up the wrong I 1 passenger and left I 1 invited him to stay but lie he would not I 1 invited hin him to corne come and see me he accor accordingly did I 1 soon used him up that he could not say a word and confessed that mormonism was something very different from what he thought it was I 1 rebuked him for his wickedness he arn promised in ased faithfully that he would make himself acquainted with our doctrines so I 1 referred him to A M harmon I 1 also found that the p bests and editors had quite long pieces in the papers about mormonism that an apostle had come here and was preaching and baet z zing ms I 1 and that the people should be aware the baptist priest talked about amany many wives jo smith false prophet dont go to hear them or I 1 will cut you off from my church ac you see by this that the trula begins the old way I 1 told the people that if they believed in god thi thY y wl woula I 1 believe in his word and obey the s same a m e 1 and then they might know more than what th they e y d do 0 for the mysteries my dyste ies of the kingdom of god were only for those who belonged to the kingdom of god and if their priests could not fiot tell them they had better noti not talk about things they do not understand for ch i island and his apostles apos ties had spoken of a gathering ol of all the he honest in heart and of a washing and anointing and of a sealing and receiving the name of 0 god agod on their foreheads before babylon is destroyed and finally the marrying to the bridegroom I 1 told them these are things that nobody can understand d der without bet eving in god repenting of all their sins being baptized ty by a man who hords holds the priesthood and and receiving the holy ghost by tile the laying on of hands then they could di discern cern th ahn thing of the kingdom of god ac with many other words I 1 spa ke to them and it had a very good effect from what was in the papers against against me ine last week I 1 took th the opportunity of going to the police officer ard and told him that in donsel c ien cc i of such slanderous reports which had appealed in the papers I 1 came to him 2 inasmuch as he was the executive 0 of f hamburg to say that I 1 was an american cai citizen izen and came here to honor the law I 1 told fold him that I 1 sho ild ld be very happy to him with the he j punier panier and the book of mormon know our principles nei ples and if he wished to hear bear me I 1 should to address him HP he r div ed the present very very kindly yesterday I 1 was vas to have an answer but lie he was so busy that he had not read the papers he be politely invited me to go on monday I 1 think all will be well the mans wife wilom whom I 1 baptized first here was in the mad house for a I 1 long n g time she was possessed afan of an evil spirit ar for fourteen years he brought brou alit her home after she was baptized I 1 went to see her and conversed with her she told me thin than when the spirit is in her she can see and know every thing far and near she told me that at one time the manager and the police were outside of the house saying that they would have to confine her hed he and d she could see and hear them as well as if she was outside nf f the house I 1 asked her and her husband if they would do what I 1 would tell them they both covenanted so I 1 baptized her three weeks ago and she is as well as ever much more could uld I 1 say those people that I 1 have baptized are of the alie poor of this world I 1 baptized three persons belonging longing r to a certain nobleman not far from here the same saie whom brother erastus snow was talking of As soon as he h had a d heard that I 1 had taken some of his sheep he became came and wept over them finally we came together last sunday sunda y but we could co uld not hit he could not b bring r ig anything against our doctrines he said that chath he believed be in the gathering but he thought the time ti me had not yet come he blames us for taking up arms against our enemies I 1 told him that no christian would let a mob kill his bis I 1 I 1 wife and children he did not say much but thought he would iee see me again I 1 shall have every one of his flock who are honest and perhaps when they are come lie will come also there is a great grat work to do here and as you said with great care I 1 am well aware aware of it and it is all that I 1 can do but by the help of god and the prayers of the saints I 1 can do it I 1 shall ii now w stop and say brother samuel with the saints saint pray for me I 1 feel my weakness and the great responsibility resting mating on me yours truly in the bonds of the everlasting covenant DANIEL CAR CARS N |