Show 1 GERMANY I 1 I 1 arrest imprisonment I 1 t trial T I 1 bab L ib abet of elders riser and nielson Niels cn in hamburgh liverpool 1 pool sopt 13 1854 F P 6 16 cl 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 diar dear brodber Broth cr il arrived d at this ibis paca froin I 1 at live five oil Satur jav evening j the isis DIS it woudie woud be of incest to your yo ur readers us wall as gratia ing to naif ny a yi if f I 1 jaive wi wn itan tile the report of the tha c closing of mv mission missi oi to n hamburg on 0 a tile the of july 1 te ole ants in boit az ff 11 e i pu oil my return to ham bureau lie ilia ean ing of the lie sine dv d vv I 1 was unformed hv by one of the th e who lne met me attebe at the rl ro rod ad station that of tile apostates apost tes were waiting ailing iv for me olit outside side il order to have me ine arf arfester ested hy by tile he po police I 1 ice according to his desire I 1 went with aln by un an Ills 11 way which led out bf tiie the station HP he then informed toe mp th that it some conle or of the apostates with their f friends bends had brolien broken up tile the sr of day by read reading ilig r a letter jett from st louis filled with all manner of lies ies about brother diniel daniel carn and thestine tile sill 8 in that city brother 13 other ni ahsen lieu hid to flee flea for his lif ail and d IWA I 1 himself hir and I 1 was to tb have the ben fit fil of a god go d flogging flog gili gine z I 1 arrived arri vedi be delivered over to tile the I 1 the these be ice compelled rne me to leave brother john JF germer ermers I 1 hied been boarding ard holding meetings dud and 10 lo go to aliona to mr thielle Tl neles I 1 hid badiny airty card caid of ies duce tice oil the of july I 1 met with the 1110 saints being molested in ili tile the af pf acost I 1 we went t to xa 1 in hit 19 1 9 JP pie ol 01 abdiu with tile the 19 ills athe qt the chouse of brait br piT batz on oil WY iffy ajr ivl I 1 was in 1 f that 0 our ii efemie WIK for me ip ii ile fhe stielf ond and the lie I 1 S apilita is wished dm me e tago tio po bark 0 to o affini wit alich ch I 1 consented to do cociu eiltz their tp to cott conme mue the 04 meeting in aeeti f IcV r 1 tided I 1 who roade inquiries q for alpe aie alfter te vw over I 1 on 01 lie 6 h we of tile alie sacrament torether arether fr at and d I 1 spoke on on the principles or of eternal lest life in ili d brother brother belzl si giouse house ouse i without vit hout being be i ng molest 0 i tiie lite I 1 aliu 1 it we lisett likewise ise enjoyed hotl ier meet mer a in peace on oil the I 1 wept again ain to himburg hamburg to hold a wit with I 1 all the sain saints IT i at te ten 1 am felt relah and in sant phit aid after opening i alip lile meet Mig lv by prayer irray er as a i usi usiel lall I 1 look my i tt 11 for we wrestle riot not a 1 1 I flesh ind blood bit but t against 11 dinst 91 principalities 1 1 t powers against the ili rulers r of tile the darkness dir kness of this world aar ld agai nil spiritual fual wi wh kd ness in ill high 1 ROS dwi vi vi 12 after speaking about fiji p hour I 1 bijur ilia police I 1 sudden alvo P 1 the abol t 0 dk PO of mv books which I 1 biad with me and ma celip d vl e if ind and brother nielan Niel seii tn the 9 general int ral police oli boffl office e e 1 however H vr before hl I 1 iffa I 1 told tile lie saints to be liet arid and fah i ll kv ark oil 04 our oli I 1 arrival lit the police idali office ha used the aie roost most abusive ahn sive Itin language guage towards us S us of set 1 I aing ing tile the people pe in wilh our ad docene ine I 1 1 told tod I 1 them I 1 torild 1 be obliged if they fould show I IVA said id draone aone sa I 1 or ani anything thin to disturb ahe e eo pleM fd found mid it of ittle 61 us to talk alile they were afif 1911 cill an all excited P thon called into exercise clial 9 0 patience pat I 1 e nce alad I 1 ai ad abl a n 1 I sd u t little I 1 1 nielson niels n was in marched a ached to his h boarding place pince after ilia his things ih ings ahry tok me a to altona aoud and abt ined permission from fr emie me police of that place 0 46 o take my passport and ad thin jars clr oiher thielen Thiele 11 I 1 aph 8 fab permission tile the morning before ti ey arlist arl pst me by I 1 giving rne me it a I 1 bad character C har Acter accusing me of stealing ad this I 1 was told my by the ajtony after j my arrest by these mairs our things pe all I 1 taken possession of byrhe by the hamburg police at two we were taken to prison ozi and confined td re i in s separate sep arite rooms room there were in each room seven s or echt pe persons of the most degraded character and covered and vermin ir if I 1 this was wast not hell bell I 1 thought it must be close clo clovelly selly by I 1 felt to rejoice M J that I 1 was counted worthy to I 1 1 11 1 0 fer far for the sae ke and felt to ta forgive my 1 enem es in their and degradation the next day the keeper odthe of the prison took me aside and told me trie that I 1 would be pot ut in p ison bon t u bitte e yu where 1 t l woud fiot see da daylight and remarked we wl see W f your god vill ill deliver y you on fro fronery fro n nere ij er aj 4 theford th the lord eLord showed me ae that sa sut ing I 1 i f abut he had something pr for me 0 A higgin ili prison mr er bromberg the Ami american rican consul visited me on oil tile the lath he felt to sympathize with me I 1 in it iny condition ana assured me that re KS would use all his influence to obtain ply my deliverance as soon as possible I 1 thanked nun bim for his kindness aud d requested hirn him to lo call and see roe ige agn agin he suied ae me that lie nt fejt it his dt as well as a leasure pe asure ti to randa arfie hit all the ilia assistance it jn his power i i at eleven a am m of the lath I 1 was as brought before the magistrates for n he me how I 1 came to got get into i such a 4 afi culty cully 1 I told him it was for vr p what I 1 knew to b the ruth aruth I 1 took the liberty to tell him how I 1 came ill possession of these truths that I 1 was acquainted with joso josoph joseph ph smith through whom the lord had biad set up nis his kingdom and that joseph anil and ills hia brother hyum were antrA matters yra to lo the cause of truth SAW and I 1 knew it he ha asked me if I 1 had spoken against tile tiie authorities ties aff hamburg or tile the presta I 1 viat not ind aud had nothing against larem only that they alley hadnot had not sufficient truth tp resto a them hack to their maker consequently the lord h hid id set et up wis ills kingdom according to the predictions of tho old P rop liets arid and it was tile the duty of all to tome corne into it and submit tonto to its go control in he in I 1 organized upon tire earth at the present time lime he asked trie me ir if ive we belle believed ved in ili it i plurality of wives vives 1 f answered that after tile people were gathered to Zi zenaid and hrad ibon and ii id reduced chehi to practice if th the lord loid saw fi 11 through i his servants to give gevea a inan anif ail more moret than luin one wife we it to be right he asked me ano why we did id not believe in ili a plurality lity of hus bus nand bands 3 as well as of avs I 1 ansA answered vereil that it abnot was not in ili accordance with mth alie ahk laws of nature that it would ilgner aie and nd instead of multiplying posterity tV would increase disease and 1 ahat adt the object i act of tile lie iu ili stil tillon was flie restoration bf man both tem po aly in nd spin to ally he H asked askea ne ine why I 1 did not t report myself when whan i I 1 camle to hamburg if 1 I 1 no was as not afraid that if I 1 diaso did so they they would send me off as they did mr cum carn I 1 wd told him hum that 1 I as wol well as iny myat i sends friends was aras rather afraid of that I 1 tod win him that I 1 knew that the dod doctrine tiline we preached would doall trina mckind kind good if rec received Rived md and reduced A lo 10 pr practice aliee that as we ive had find nothing iK thing hut alie tb off r tile the people wo ve ran tile risk of heing persecuted and put in prison soi that I 1 had borne my hy own expenses from suit salt lake city to hamburg Hatt iburg and loft h my to take carlof themselves that I 1 might tench teach these heavenly hei hon venly principles the magistrate inquired if I 1 had not persuaded 9 u ached OUT members t to 0 give i we ni e in money mey abr my support sup I 1 loid him bim t thail lie rive iliad biad n not ot hut had eften refused men money ev cheb offered b by them knowing that they needed it themselves and aliat they did give was voluntary the judge found some fiat I 1 told liim him th that atthe alie stat slat mentis me n it anthe le letter ater from st louis were raise false that a ninn n inn who had lain in paison fr for and suf frel irea himself lihn self anil ff mily to be driven about from rom to state aid abid from pity city to cit city v and had left iel bia farni family ly 4 tp p g 9 k fiorigi I 1 1 missions pis as s lie had it at hafg bawn e Jpe iHie must mi t lie ervery a very differ different onit ch cliar aCler imm from that which the diftler k ater stated liioi to b be I 1 tol lot t tile magi inagi irate strate eliut I 1 had leen aithar Aith mi Mr curti cam for mony many years aud that I 1 linew knew him tp p bo ea a aj virtuous mil aia high funded iwed man I 1 ilie he magistrate recorded these with many more which I 1 have I 1 not iet room 1 1 to me mention antion here heie 1 I 1 asked aae liberty for tl tle a mission mission to continue arid and told the lite authorities s that if they r rejected j dated in me and the th e mission thoy they rejected tile the work of f the lord after they heard eliy my testimony I 1 was wa taken auken backs back to jr pr sou son and brother nielsen ws sell sent ifor for to be examined at two pm of tile the 1 esth mr bromberg vi aw itea tile me cain when he fie informed I 1 amed ine me hat that lie hid had written w it ten a letter to mr F I 1 D of liverpool concer concerning ning my I 1 fy situation and thal that lie he was vs efing tile the nearly every q axy on oil athis aliis dav also mr berl li n zi a mei chant and d brath wee 1 I 1 I 1 J r tle ion w where rewe we were confined 14 to zi a more comfortable one A ai six rix i ju u lle I 1 they h ey I 1 dine with willi one or of tile and a nd a caringe carr car riTel 1 and took iok us its both boll I 1 to Winser boum prison I 1 was as put in ill a clear clean room avith 1 a youie g ge gentleman who iw hid plade made arone about his passport I 1 aporA 11 he a appeared ippe arf d pleased mith my illy company h d mb alir lie nv ap a going to america but did rot know khow here I 1 introduced our principles to him and nil lold nin him that Zion was ilia place for llie ilie honest at guhe allia t to 0 he seemed to bo 40 much p pleased I 1 eased biti quallia tU ith our dietr lies on 0 ll 11 tile llie I 1 was brought before tile the samo same 1 0 or o r doctor is such are cah d iii it hain baug ill W with i tit brother niu ison a number numb b r of f tile saints Sai tits and seven or eight of our oui enemies ar apostates some strangers vere ere also file sent by tile tie lime out our enemies hu hud d told all the fulst floods they wanted to 0 o all about out 11 us all the lyie g sate wits vs tired and was but bui little chance to have outside our side of alie question investigated e d but the saints present testified that wh t the alie others had fiad said was nearly all false and eliat abid r had piea died elied nothing but ilia trull trot 6 aud they knewitz I 1 asked the lie donfor if lie would be hind enough to io ask all present if the knew aej thing 0 against dinst my iny character clia so lie he put pirt the juo sig and at they all 11 answered that hat they aliey had nothing against me its as a nian man I 1 only bilk agu ilist tile spiritual dordine that I 1 and broiher bro liei turn cam had been preaching caching pr which they could not believe lucli eve not nor carry 0 olt lt 11 1 I before lic doctor ab oll we marched hade to thi the pris prison 11 I 1 I 1 on oil merily t tile he brollier brot lier M I 1 my scalf f were brought brough t afore the ilia doctor docto r I 1 aga iii this tin time e they took particular ahins fa gith g ith fr r up 11 p all aiu r enla mies most t of the cerep er P 1 se 11 t au doctor docter e x s fir first b t us before and they all began I 1 to 0 talk lk vt at once ce har corn thema kheiri tt be still arid to vf fit er hul bill it il tha tIre could not lot control them cheru so some of the wanted to interfere ellef heaird tham rill clale tta fe so any til ledr came from nor myself ase U nor xit kripl l si il I 1 spoke to tile the sai ats to tak take e it alf ei iEly and to let thein sav all they to puy pay after tins abere was d 1 little order orak i cheit got through I 1 asked the doleto t to 0 give givel i s le hunce of speaking he replied that it did not hot purlieu pt efly depend dr and upon po li W we 6 tauelia tau elit klit but I 1 cm 1 our I 1 hili without vilna and aeu ther we bad talea e 1 go salt SA anke whether vii etli er we had s id all any w V tm ahing ng against the th a i ats s t 9 or I 1 the authorities of harneit Harn bIT anybody toive us money or baptized alie people over agaid 1 I t ikid 0 ld tile the doctor that if that WAS am all he wanted lie itaf with tile the rest hid bad S spent penta a 11 good d deal dal of lime fur ditl bathing ig I 1 gave ili him in lond to u that 1 I gasn w wasn a a stranger er in ili a iteli illge arid to rp rf present rese lit I 1 the t 11 a ark of I 1 io lord ard aid hiat il rag I 1 asafa ke 9 of hi will was iv di to tb da d ni a he would wish to tb he done ader the DB stances he hiie me to 1 r sp lie eili 11 1 I answered statements of our enemies con conr or of and d taid aid that where two live I 1 lied had been married together ath pure ir A iotes v es previous ions to th of the arl priesthood st J and the ilia aga Gosp 0 gl Alif jel if arst 1111 st ds as venord P d in I 1 file the scriptures 1 it WIS was I 1 alf al right that where there wit wasa no law there was 11 no candera ration abere here there I 1 was mue muoi lh I 1 agven there was much required ld and ana where re there was wa s little dittli given ivan f nolte ill 1 was required i but that since tiie llie Kingdom nf god had birtt tat lip up 4 vry ry ones duty duly to repent taid ai t ae tap t i z M edg fi n I 1 I 1 f th e v had belah been once and be married over again by I 1 hie lie which his iad upon tipon his I 1 apostle baig 11 jn y pung as s in flie d lys ofa peter brother neils Ml elsei testified t ot I 1 my bpi ll 11 ng sent of god ar ard d that I 1 ahad had pre preace prea ahe hecl 4 ae truth that which donld save maui mau i kiad if ree the saints likewise testified heiti fi ed to co the barfie same I 1 itskin asad the for to ta put to tomy my accuser sera the baab oa as lie he did dd on the whether ei they knew anything against my iny character he bep replied lied that lie he did not thlick it necessary neb essary I 1 told him that I 1 considered it of great importance he remarked that if any present knew anything I 1 0 against mr risers character i arthey night might speak spead 1 but no one opened his month 0 ut 7 1 I after detaining us a 8 boul bon two to figurs fi brother nielsen and myself ru were aril conducted by a police mein back 1444 to the abo prison into a room to oar elv BI 1 1 ta t 4 I 1 1 1 1 1 I 1 1 1 abc acc according 0 to at Bib I 1 walid leand some 0 f elder aldero or I 1 for so we passed off the time very praying atthe same time that tb I 1 mr the aonda likewise the authorities of ambur might deaf justice a and ua anere mercy to us tl aiva anthe the mission and it 06 s to a 1 of the lord to kiv give ciberey libert f adut ue uw but in ili con of our oui dreams in tit tl t vei deiy y little wilt faith it io obtaining if ibella mission to continue though we also fal felu had bad the 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