Show I 1 correspondence I 1 extracts of a letter from elder willard snow bauw to his brother Eras erasta Br astus tw copenhagen july aih 1852 after I 1 parted with you in L niolon I 1 went directly I 1 ay to the he east of england and sailed from hull on the me alst and arrived in copenhagen on the 26 th of april i I 1 found br hanson in the office br jensen had bad just arrived from hamburgh and br fosgreen from Pr Fredri edrich cb who soon came in in and we had a 4 season of joy and rejoicing the bi ethren athi ethi en had been anxiously looking ana ana dreaming for me to come and my presence seemed to inspire them with increased I 1 and courage which was about all the good coulee cou lodo lej br john fosgreen had been a little lime cast down in his mind it seemed in in consequence of the heavy responsibility you rolled i of ta ro his shoulders when you left lef t and felt fat his as lie looked up tip and found himself alone aloie aa were with no one to lean leaa on oa J I 1 took him int into my iny room and talked with him comforted luva and prayed with and for him and blessed him and ami lie now feela first rate I 1 faid he is a abood inan as you yoa told me ma lie be was an and d is doing in and has been all the tune and has doo done a eat and good work for which I 1 f fael ael thankful thanks ul arid and feel to ty pray tor for him with all my heart that he may inay lead many souls out with him as the fruit fi uit of his labors and andresi with them in in zon zion and also with his hi family agaid again before long same excitement had got up tip in consequence optye I 1 official report of those fugitive officers eis at the initia m atiga z ration I 1 0 of some apostates a and nd priests ind caling hostility j ap against dinst th office but nothing serious senous I 1 felt celt my spi api rit nt hover over it a litile as it if I 1 was ill in the right place and we have not been insulted in in it since since I 1 dream once in in a while of holding the plo agh r and in wheat but the he ground seemed to be very ery rooted looted fik hac it be in in old hemn vermont mt where br zera zeia and I 1 to harrow hanow on the hill alone with willi the red steers before perhaps ei haps you do not remember so iong long ia I 1 believe it was beffie you was a preacher the large arge hill you mccu occupied pied for foi your conference ID i hindi wha th t h ma aho alinus f ta h lai hw W tapal ni p i thi I 1 season in in the heart of the city has been refused refined them under pre tenee of fear of its being molested by vio violence and damage by tile the populace we have also hired another but before the were lawfully sil signed ned the lady who owned the ha hall ll 11 called upon the P policeman diceman li ceman who you yoa will recollect notified I 1 B hw I 1 soni sol that he could co ild not protect you yo i if you attempted to hold another little meeting in the grove groe near the aliel I 1 kings palace at the tim tija you ou organized organ zed ed the church I 1 on oil ile toe of august and add he told the L ay ly such a 4 stoff she dare not sign sig n tile the writing thou though li slie she after i vt regretted calling on oil the police and so ho cfall hall st stands inda i empty we have applied fui for the baptist meeting t house as is about givin it up but tile the pro critor dare not or will not let us hive it and so we are at present without any other hill than the one olle you have always had bad b but it I 1 do it know perhaps it is all a 11 right A for the lie pies pre sont though a bundled hund r ed or 01 two of saints sa i ailts are deprived of attending public preaching for want of room several of ahe th elders have been taken tae the country under different pretexts such as vagrants impostors im and the like arid and atter after being bein bamboo sled about from place to place in in custody and aria confinement arid ald abuse have been reported to the captain of police 11 in copenhagen arid and then let them go with this advice to go and aut preach mormonism to their own countrymen and as one of them happened to be a sweed we have taken up with their advice and sent bi johnson into sweden the place of B johnsona John faia ilae for it appears that the seed he be sowed bowed there has sprung up little bendar blades ud and although they succeeded in darivin him out of i his county they canerot prevent pi event the people I 1 from bt believing lieving the words he spoke while there any more than the people of nephi neptun could prevent the peo I 1 ale of alma aldia from believing the words of abinadab Ab inada after he be had suffered death by fire fi e by the hand of the priests of king noah you know mormonism is is 11 bad stuff to put out if it once gets fairly to burning it burns es and breaks out in I 1 1 before d ore one is is aware of it F I 1 11 it dead yet he speak eth B fos 4 t fels 9 in in sweden and I 1 am inform 11 elt 11 f is is not pleased with the ban we W 41 it 0 of his own subjects as B I 1 aar grei le s either without his di inot ot t think i strange if in in time the I 1 i aad L ibi of 1 out dut many souls frob aiom that land we lave receive in I 1 letter from froin B br r Fos greena greens father brother and friend informing us ua or of br bi johnsons arrival I 1 must mist m not forget however to tell you that we sent two elders over on to the southern shote of sweden who were driven out by the tty ane e W re nave j i received A bote A om elder davis to the following effect from alburgh alburah Al burgh that in in attempting to hold a little meeting in in the afternoon in in a farmers house in in Ven sessell he was molested by a set of rude follows fellows who wha C commenced oln r 1 e k him with awls and after breaking up u the meeting gee t ing arte rte he succeeded in in getting gett out but they flowed him out caught him and iced beat him w th sticks and dabs clubs he however got into a house with his back well reeking m in blood when br thompson Tn Ta ompson washed him anointed and blessed him and got 1 him into bed 5 and the rest of the brethren having escaped they returned to the house where he lay tore the sheets and dragged him out into the field IP tending intending to throw him into the stream of water but seemed to lie ba frustrated Vust rated by the power of god so left him naked there thiais not the first time that this promising young man has bas suffered violence and abuse by hie hands of his countrymen for preaching the doctrines of the gospel and as the saints went anywhere beachm the word after their persecutions anciently we thinie of sending him into iceland as the elder you antrup intrup st ed with the Ice landish mission has apostatized denied the faith and finally been drowned and so end ed his career and cut short his work in in I 1 suppose in in wickedness we have however got another good letter from gudmundson the young man who accod named him there which 1 I informs us that he has many mends friends and some that wah to be baptized but there is is no one hazing having authority ut bority in in that land to baptise and administer t the he ordinances for foi them we at one time aime almost concluded to let abr 33 r fosgreen go but you know ow the they y are so afraid or 41 him and so particular about passports and the like we gave hitup it up the they y have also been trying to pelt down Mormonism mim in ill again near where they beat elder runner so unmercifully A number perhaps not of the baser erfort sort with a policeman at the head of the gang 17 I 1 am told with a sword girded on entered the dwelling house of br Thom thompson pion aud under ler pretence predence pre tence of huntin hunting g mormon missionaries or something of 0 that sort ana and threatened his libei life he however got out and hid and they finally left without doing any other damage damage than breaking king in the windows it appears from dais m s and other caus cases that the police sustain about the he ame relation 14 IV to the latter day as the wolves on the ma mountain do to the rest of the animals on oil the plains that is devour all who will not join the gang your petition fell through without much effect bat we shall get it up again again in as good stile as we can with some important ad addition an and present it anew to aha itee ensuing session baere has been I 1 quite I 1 an influential man and his wife from fi om norway revived the work and was baptised baptized sed in this city wid and has written an excellent letter back since since his bis I 1 I 1 at aarn arg atel there seems to be quite an opening there and he ewall is all alive in in the spirit of the woj k bi B jenson and br and B folkmann are now vi in norway we fui furnished mashed them with a supply su PP I 1 Y W of books but have haie not imd had time to open up the work woric there to any very great extent yet but I 1 am much pleased with tham there is is a slow but gradual in increase of members and spi spread ead of the work in in different directions in bornholm some toty forty to ty have lave been lately baptised baptized sed and nearly the same number in in at al burgh conference but bit B it you know they progress against heavy opposition it is sometimes dangerous to bip faze and if i it is is found out that a servant is is dav they ai are e frequently turned away or proscribed As emigration there are many or qa quite te a cumber that wish to go this fall and I 1 am a little at A loss what to do abut about letting them go it if kad a good american or a confidential englishman to accompany them and look out for them I 1 think I 1 should let them go on to the bluffs and prepare for foi those who come on next january but I 1 feel a littly blittle aike the surest plan or in in other words wait and I 1 win eaon of the ice here heie freezing up in in the waters NA a thao than it in in the mississippi g going i W p ta the e river ja te there is 13 a company formed an and bays vow jow an aa agency in in this city that propose ship gsg 14 on this daae e emigrants direst to orleans and I 1 think thin kat at present bids fair to succeed eed it if so it may save eave us qs the he trouble of going through gagland which f X think flunk would be preferable thy ugh i should like to 0 go o out and join the english em to ration and iee sec 9 samauel a muel t rate and pr shall do so yet br hanson I 1 at reu elland nd doing well he has mentioned about send his wife with the emigration which I 1 think ini indicates 4 a desire to return himself if I 1 could promise I 1 wm he could go home in in one year he would not feel I 1 hah 1 very bad about it I 1 think I 1 have read your danish w mormon mon sag boig as you called it through and you better believe I 1 am quite a danish scholar I 1 can read pronounce and understand what I 1 read quite well out of the book of mal maimon mon because I 1 understood it before but it plagues me to understand what others speak for you know you have to pucker up your mouth month into the shape of a capitol as you call it and let the sound come out with a screw like the english juanel going under the thames at london the starts star Is on oil the he increase a little several periodicals have lave copied some important pieces from it 1 but it offers a poor prospect to discharge the debts that lay so heavy on oil the office let alone supporting itself but I 1 have thought some of proposing to the geneval general conference in august 0 to o print it twice a month it possible oil oh I 1 like to forget to tell you they have got you pictured out in dip th prints avil with li n nineteen i nele p wives ives one very cry fine one indeed seemingly the t e delight ol 01 IW of delights with all the other eighteen pointing the finger of jealous scorn at her I 1 have i of otten ten thought lit of the remark you boti anade to me that you staged hei heie e about as long as you could it is quite likely that people are more virtuous in this I 1 country I 1 hope yu you will reform in br wilson Wils at cucuta Cl cuta has baptized or I 1 and the work seems to run rtin ake wild fire among some of the native bit the I 1 lie say there that mor I 1 lonisin isuke the moslem or and all ae a e obliged to have an lost host ot of wives and that joe smith sinith baright bought i three hundred thousand mormons cormons with the gold mines mil I 1 es lie he found in california arid and so I 1 think we ve had all better come back home for the further falther fal ther off we get the worse off wi wa are arc I 1 have written to but have not received any answer ats so I 1 know nothing 0 of br ir D carns cams though thourl f have heard that br dykes lias has gone to england if any nian man can be put pat on to tile the rack of torture without beelin feelings r s then a man can be placed where you have been without beins being I 1 exercised with and experiencing rie cin mental labor if ever I 1 wanted to talka talk it t is now I 1 wish to relate a circumstance and ask y your our counsel upon u pon it I 1 am credibly informed that there is a respectable sister in tins this country that thai lims lias committed comin in bitted an unlawful sin sill she it appears is is a good nurse and believes in nourishing the sick with all tenderness tend and has really been so foolish as to nurse some with herbs and mild food and proceeded so far as to cur curea cure a persons leg after several eminent physicians had determined to cut it off and what is is still more done all this without a license as a practical scientific physician for which she lias has been arrested tried and condemned to thirty days I 1 hard labor in in the poor house and suffered tile the penalty of her transgression by legal authority she lias has done more for foi while in court some friend called on lier her for advice about purchasing some medi ined i cines cines at the apothecary b t for a rich person she v was as observed t to 0 tell them and it also has been proved on her fur for she would not or did not respect the laws ot of tier her country arid and hold her tongue therefore I 1 she is is under a second arrest and condemnation the I 1 penalty of which is is one years imprisonment and now she wishes to gut got off by paying liying the money but she is is of tho th poor class and all these things have been substantiated against her by eminently professional men and yet this poor woman is is fellowship ped by many and almo almost S t all the church here notwithstanding it is is plainly written in in the book of covenants covenah ts that in in keeping keeling the laws of god ye have no need to break the laws of the land will nt such lawless women if let alone and run at large proceed lurther further and pray for and la lay y their hands upon people in the name of the lord without a license from the king and our nation be overthrown by the romans or cormons mormons Mor mons niona these are serious matters considered either in a political or religious point of view and deeply interest people of learning and statesmen odthe of the ago age who enact such things I 1 find that 1 am not learned in the law at all and am puzzled to know how to get along with such things and ten thousand others of almicar a similar kind you can understand all this if you understand danish and I 1 know you yon do without any interpretation we think the woman who has been guilty of such mortal hin unlawful lawful sin as administering herbs and a nd mild food to td the sick and thereby healing those whom the learned physicians had pronounced m incurable will learn by a years imprisonment to keep the law of god and never again be caught breaking the law odthe land such sine sins such auch awful sins are not bof to be winked at in a christian community until quite recently the torrid sin of giving such a thing as a cup of ginger pepper or catnip tea to a sick friend without a license J from the M D s was not permitted in christian united states slates without being followed with 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