Show 11 V 8 3 it i 1 I 1 I 1 FOREIGN MISSIONS Mn LENIAL STAR is received to sept I 1 I 1 th which we extract the following I 1 FROM scandinavia I 1 COPEN copenhagen HAOEN july lath 1852 dear bro S W richards I 1 feel to bless and thank the english saints for all their sets acts of kindness to me during my four months stay with them for I 1 11 have not forgotten them though separated from them I 1 shall long remember the winter I 1 spent in the church in the british islands and especially our general council uncil on the ath of april at london when I 1 parted from all the brethren who speak english and left the english shores I 1 began to feet feel in no small degree whit what a blessing it was to enjoy the society of affectionate saints with whom I 1 could pray sing and associate and converse in my own native tongue reinI was born I 1 it seemed almost like going from home after I 1 parted with you and all the brethren at london I 1 went direct to hull took the first sl steamer eamer and left on the of april I 1 crossed the german ocean and landed at copenhagen on the A april ril I 1 found elder P 0 hanson in the office E elder J forsgren had bad just returned from aalborg and fredricia ana elder ff P jenson from hamburg the brethren had been anxiously looking out oat for me to come and I 1 met wi 11 such a warm reception that I 1 almost forgot I 1 was in a land of stra strangers era we had a joyful meeting my presence seemed to inspire them wi h increased st stron gb and courage elder forssgren Fotss Foras gren it seems had felt seriously the heavy responsibility that elder eras Era snow rolled I 1 upon his shoulders when he left I 1 took him into in my room prayed with and for him comforted and blessi blessed him acco according iding to his bis desire he feels first rate now and is doing well and has been all 0 the time he has done a gr great eat aai and good work in this land for which I 1 feol feet thankful and feel to pray for him with all my hear that he may lead out many saints with him and rejoice with them in zion as the fruits fraits of his labors some excitement had been got up here as well as in other lands in consequence of the official reports of thosa fugitive defunct judges of utah urged on as usual by apostates and indicating hostility against this office but not serious tile large hall in the heart of the city in which elder erastus erastas snow held his last conference and which the saints expected to occupy during the season was bo however wever refused them under pretence predence pre tence ol of feir fear of i a being molested and damaged by the populace if the mormons cormons Mor mons were suf suffered fared to preach repentance and remission of sins sine in it we hired another and had the W writings icings made out but before the lady who owned the hall signed them legally she happened to call on a policeman who told her such each a pitiful uldale ul tale that she dare not accept the money and put her signal signature are to them though she afterwards regretted calling on the police so her hall stands empty I 1 we also applied fo the bap ests meeting hoise ho ise as mr monster was about giving it up aud breaking up his congregation but the proprietor ator seemed little I 1 s inclined to let us have it so we are without any other hall than the one we always occupied but perhaps it is all right ut at present it cannot be helped anyhow I 1 but the consequence is a couple of hundred saints are deprived of hearing public preaching on the sabbath for want of a hull hall sufficiently large several g of f the elders have been taken up by the police under dif different farent pretexts such as vagrants im in posters and the like and after being car aed about from place to place and hold held in custody and imprisonment I 1 for several days have been sent to copenhagen at last to the captain of police and then lot let go again wih this advice to go and prea calf to their owai own I 1 countrymen As one of blem brother happened to be a swede we have taken their advice ana aaa sent him into sweden to the place of brother Forss grens nativity and former labors labori for it 4 appears the seed he sowed bowed there is 13 springing and ing up tip for although they succeeded in driving him out of the country he has many drinids there and they could not prevent them af er lie he was gone from bei the words he spoke to them I 1 am ain informed thattie th atthe the king of sweden himself is not in ili favor of banishing out of 4 his country his own na ive born a subjects as bro Forss forssgren grou was for preaching i emission of sins to the people in the name of jesus chrisa nor of ahir being punished without his sanction and if this matter gets fairly out it may be difficult to persuade him to spare those priests always I 1 would not ahik it s strange range if in time the lord brought many souls out of that land wih wib a high hand and an outstretched arm we have received an excellent letter f om bro I 1 Forss grens father and friends since brother broer johnsons arrival among them the b anch there though small is is increasing and the prospect is is fair I 1 pry pr ay iy that they m ay iy be armed with righteousness and go forth with wilh the power of god we sent two other young elders over to the boulb sou hern shores of sweden they were very soon hurried out by the priests assisted by thep the police the fruit of which is is a young oung man I 1 d da not recollect collect le his name who is is left there has since baptized several pera persons ons and has organized a little b anch they haiie also been trying again to put down clown mormonism in in the island of fal faster lster where brother forssgren Forss gien was once mobbed and near the same place where elder bruhn was so cipully beaten last winter YOU yon know the spirit of mormonism is is bad stuff to put out if it fairly gets to blazing it is like fire shut up in ones bones or a torch in in a sheaf of stubble lu in fac fact I 1 believe the prophet says the stubble shall be burned up by it and i sometimes breaks out and burns unawares and burns alu fingers of many A anu number ber of rada lawless fellows with ith a policeman chairing a sword girded on lus his thigh at tho the head of the gang entered the dwelling of brother thomp son the other day in the pres crice of his family the policeman brandished brandishes bran dished his sword and threatened thiea ened brother thompsons Thomp sons life he however eluded their grasp grabp and made ins his escape out of the house and hid the pretext for this out outage ago was that there were mormon moi mou missionaries se secre creed ed in ili the house or something of that s rt blit b it finding none they findly finally lef doing liale li tie else than breaking in in the windows window s of his house and insul in suling ing his family from this and some soma other more recent cases it would appear to a mountaineer moun ameer that the police of the north sustain about the same relation to the latter day saints as the wolves do to the more peaceful anin als on the plains we have just received a note from aalborg from I 1 elder V D s to the following effect while he was holding a little meeting one afternoon at a farmers house in in Vea he was molested by a set of lawless fellows who came into the house aud and commenced p packing bicking him with awls broke up the mee feeling me eling ing drove nim mm oui ou 7 of the housa followed him out r in after him and beat him with sticks s icks and clubs having got away from thorn them with his blood running down his back he entered a ho iso where he was washed aboin anointed ted bles secand got to bed by brother thompson the rest of tho the brethren brei hren and sisters having escaped after about f one hour the mob returned to the bouse where he lay r in m bed tore the sheets dragged him chiai out into the field in intending Anding to throw him into the creek but seemed to have been prevented pie vented by the power of god I 1 similar to what those four ruff itris ins were prevented alfrom from buting cut cu ting ing off josephs head after ho he was shot at carthage C and they left him there thare n naked aed on the field fild this is is not the first time this promising young man has been insulted abused and roughly ro highly handled by b his I 1 own countrymen for preaching to them faith repentance baptism for the remission of sins sins and the layng laying i on of hands As I 1 have just learned that the elder d er that elder erastus snow in trusted wih wi h the ice apostatized and been drowned I 1 think of sending brother D s there to take his place as I 1 am quite as anxious for the gospel to be preached in iceland as in south america or india I 1 have just received another letter from bro goodwinson who accompanied the brother spoken of on the iceland mission and he wants some one to go over and aad help him he says he is surrounded with many friends who are believing and some like the good old of cornelius wish to be baptized and are wai ing i u for some one to come with authority from ga I 1 I 1 god od to babize them with water and the spirit for I 1 there is no one there holding the priesthood at present I 1 pray the lord of the harvest to send more faithful laborers into the field for the harvest is great the fields are white and the laborers are few our norwegian mission has met with a very friendly I 1 kusber reception at brevig at Frederi eckstadt and at oster Pru where a small branch of the church has haa been organized consisting of half a dozen members elder H P jensen to whom it is is in trusted is now there and with two other brethren br eren elders and d falkman Fal kinan and a supply of books from this office ix is opening the work in diff different lerent directions we ree received ived a letter a few days since from them also one from quite an influential man there who with his wife was baptized in this city sometime before I 1 carew cam he informs us that though he has many friends there is considerable excitement there and the people are opening their eyes a little to see what these things mean I 1 |