| Show THE 1111 POOR roon SAINTS IX IN EUROPE SY ily a letter which we have received from elder fider jessen jesse N smith president of the I 1 mission we learn icam of the progress ress of the tile work of god in norway and denmark speaking of the iNn lumbers ibers of the church there be he says s t the r yare yaro are certainly good hearted saints attel attil aclaro ara very zealous but their ideas do liei ildi nex expand in proportion to the length of min mir experience as do those of our people popie who enjoy the privilege of gathering to the mountains the tinges tunes are much hard harda ber fer than formerly and means for emigrating purposes is not so easily procured ili iii intact fact about the only hope lor for for nine tenths of the saints ever emigrating from these countries coun tries trica is that their friends will send the means for their deliverance it is not enough to merely pay their passage money but the most are destitute of clothing and are more or less in debt to their employers in this way their necessities compel them to become the slaves of the latter who shrewdly advance means to those e they employ and thus have claim upon their service I 1 until no longer able to endure dorethe the strain upon their powers the poor working man and his family sink into the living living grave called the poorhouse I 1 think efti k many of our forehanded fareh scandinavian farmers in utah could lend a helping hand to gather the poor saints from these countries if the case were rightly presented before them I 1 know that some do all that can be re required but I 1 fear that the majority have almost forgotten the pit from whence they were 1 11 the testimonies of all nil the elders who are now abroad and who have had any previous experience in operations erat ions in Europe agree with this statement of elder smiths respecting the increased difficulty the people have in obtaining funds with which to emigrate this is not only the case in scandinavia but throughout great britain also the want of means with which to pay for emigration is severely felt in all these lands and the prayers of the people c continually 0 liy ascend unto the lord for deliverance it is a subject that all ail should keep before them and feel interested te in and if every one would do so and make such donations from time to time as he can spare many hun dred deeds s r might ight be delivered if a family should come to the conclusion to pay half a passage a whole passage or two three or more passages and keep the subject belore themselves and their children the results would surprise them they would accumulate the amount with an ease they would not think possible in the beginning the present is a very suitable time in which to agitate this subject as funds to be available this year should all be laid bald in within a few weeks it is a subject upon which it would be difficult to feel too much interest for it involves the temporal salvation of large larke numbers of P people whose chief desire in of miny many I 1 instance sis is to build king dom of god h |
