Show LETIER FROM GERMANY written by a missionary from in this county count observations Observation a and experiences on the trip and among the te prussian people work of the church of jesus of litter latter day saints EDITOR JOURNAL before leaving logan I 1 inoke to you about sending me THE JOURNAL while I 1 stay in this laud and I 1 would write you a few lines at different times please send to me at present at 5 kronen str hannover germany and oblige I 1 have learned ft a lew things since I 1 left home end and may be able to 6 give you a few items item which may be of some interest to your readers if you see gee fit to pub publish lih them when I 1 had been nearly six six away from my iny home in in I 1 utah having spent my time in in I 1 traveling and teeing n abat I 1 could 1 on the night on oil sept letb I 1 reached frankfurt on main this is the first city in germany that I 1 have had the privilege 0 of visiting it is a very vary pretty place and carries on some very active business indeed it is one of the great commerce ce centers liters of germany here I 1 found a very nice branch of the church of jesus christ of lat 1 ter day saints I 1 was very much surprised and I 1 may say eay much pleased to lind find so much religious 0 lie edom meetings here are held open and are sometimes even an bounced in the newspapers when they have a special one this and other thing attracted my attention and I 1 made some inqui iniquities ties and I 1 learned that they had bad tha greatest liberty here to be found in all germany abood A cooj work is being done dona in this place there are four elders here from frankfurt P a M I 1 came to hannover I 1 purchased a fourth class ticket I 1 therefore had a chance to ride cheap and see everything thin 0 concerning the kai ers tern lem of railroad raili oad I 1 found laborers cfall of all classes came on the train and would ride a few miles harvesters carrying their lails flails or tick click and a half women with quilted skirts evidently farm hand others with baskets and in fact many classes of labors appeared here I 1 could not help but think that this system of railroads was a fire fine thing il ifa a man has plenty of money he can ride first class and the first class cars are elegant cle an t second class cars are as good as v we e usually have at home and much better thau than some we have tho the third class does not diller differ much from our carst cars which carry os ex curon curion parties frum from I 1 salt lake city to the lake in ac I 1 como dation but bui much cheaper cheap er in in price while the poor man mail who has bas but a fcc cents that lie he can spare and who can ill afford aft ord to walk his bis 1 journey of twenty five live or thirty miles can find as a fourth class passenger pas enger well dressed ride fourie class hore here tho the fare is very cheap as you may see by the fact that for eight hours ride and we traveled quite faba too I 1 paid aule fome less than two dollars U S money while I 1 saw some things which did not exactly accord with in roy Y american pride I 1 saw many things which ifould I 1 could admire the people 1 were ere very cordial and altho although Zigh I 1 can only murder the german language whenever I 1 open my mouth yet they very kind to me and whenever I 1 remembered any politeness they did nut forget theirs and I 1 more mor e than once I 1 was wished a plea ant journey however severely we may ariti else cise sonic some customs in german ci ermany y we must say eay that with all tb they are N cry exact in their code of politeness I 1 in handover Han cover rover I 1 found a email branch of the church but here they are not getil such freedom as in ili frankfurt on the maine is much enuch work to ile be done here the they speak a ver very good german I 1 am told and I 1 hope soon to be fible able to talk better than I 1 can at present ent with best wishes to all the people at home war Z HANNOVER ilan boven kronen st no ko 5 germany |