Show scandinavian MISSION extracts of a letter to president ent H C kimball Kimbal lj arom P 0 hanson COI copenhagen jan ath 1854 since bro van cott arrived here he has had as much to do as a man could endure as he has to act through an interpreter he has shipped towards seven hundred saints a few days ago the first three hundred I 1 hope have loft left liverpool but the rest I 1 understand are stopping on the river river elbe on account of ice bro van cott is with them on his way to england with the tithing and cattle money it looks rather bard but we will hope for a change in the weather in sweden and norway it looks at present as though every door was closed against the servants of the lord but he is able to burst barriers and remove obstacles when it is time in denmark the work is moving on as usual notwithstanding it has many enc enemies inies on thursday the of december when the first three hundred emigrants had 1 left eft this place I 1 was assailed by a mob of four or five persons who calling me a soul seller k knocked me down aryed to get me into the water and one wretch struck me on one side of my nose with a cane so I 1 bled considerably but the lord preserved me so I 1 suffered bred no harm why should not my blood be shed in this city the police are a mean set and a man is not noc safe in his own lodging and we have even had to hide ourselves and change clothes to not be so readily known I 1 am satisfied that the doctrine of guardian a angels in Is ll 11 is is true arid and also that the prayers of the righteous ous have been answered upon my head notwithstanding my manifold fallin failings and weak |