Show f i I 1 I 1 s 1 l 0 n ary ex experience p e fience li ve we extract the tho following from a private letter from elder B H now laboring in holland it details some interesting experience aa small hali hall which my nay predecessor cessor had hired and occupied for some home sometime time was used for worship mornin morning 9 and evening where a few of the amsterdam saints and a very few strangers str angers angels came camb together after a few months of my sojourn in this thia land having visited the thel scattered sa saints I 1 ants and held meetings jn in their houses with occasionally a few strangers I 1 returned to amsterdam and advertised the me meetings st which brought more strangers though as yer yet y pt but little acquainted wit with h the language I 1 was enabled with the help of the german germac language to make myself understood to pretty nearly all and rree free to speak spen upon the principles of gospel calling them unto repentance and baptism for the remission of sins bins and warning them hem of the judgments to come and the approach of the second advent of our savior upon the earth this stirred up the devil de vil and I 1 felt with each eh succeeding meeting that the time of public speaking in that bail hail at least was vas getting short advertising was no more necessary neca the ahe papers had lying articles about our meetings and khe the was much too small to admit those who desired to get in by fart far th greater great t r portion coming only on from fro curiosity to see bee as they ex expected acted someone being baptized bap tizel the papers stating that this was done in a tub filled with mud after several beveral meetings causing the smashing of windows and one bench the proprietor refused to rent the hall any longer for our meetings meeting 4 the police whose assistance I 1 had sought not rendering the necessary ad ald it was very evident that while the the police ce commissioners commissio missioners ners proposed to be willing wilting to r ender render all aid needed the aid sent sent rent was ws mere aham they in their feelings feell foell rigs being one with witti the people in irk my I 1 life ifo before did I 1 notice so plainly the wor hinca kinza of the devil in the tha breaking up 0 of our meetings and the tho threats abr eats of oralo violence against m me e the enemy now paving accomplished d the shutting up ip of the hall was wason on the watch to hinder linderme hin derme me from speaking elsewhere as all ali 11 my by advertising for another hall ball in vain and when a placer for meeting was to let it was refused to me being a mornion mormon and ah d housen homen homeowners owners were woke afraid of uproar she q enmity wat wal wa as ai s manifest nani fest test and as universal as ase I 1 bave havo over ever dver over been seen and felt before I 1 went to zaandam andam Za bub but fouad the same game bitter spirit there as in amate amsterdam being rejected rejeb ted in overy every house housel I 1 called at the king coming to town for si a weeks stay on oil the both of oft april and it being customary there thele for receive petitions of bil all al I 1 bort sorts from a societies und individuals I 1 2180 also drew up a petition to him setting my inability to obtain a hall for the preaching of the gospel Pe AVink lying him a copy of df my commission mission iii as us representative of the church of bf jesus christ of latter day saints offering kofl ering him enlightenment on the prin principle 1 elpie ciple of the gospel as taught by jei jek acius ul and our ef derland ders dera and asking to kindly let me have the tho usef if one oney of his hia military halls haw were unoccupied and 0 ally used for voting oti purposes A few new day daya ago ngo I 1 hecei received v ed an answer neither granting my request nor wishing g to hear bear anything of the gospel besides this I 1 tried to get an opportunity to deliver dellver anad an address to the students of the theology olgY at the tho university here but was refus ed edi edl 3 have now again been in the e country for two weeks and found a fen few fow T willing to listen but none as yet jet baye baxa hokd the courage to come coine out from fraul amons among their heir ungodly friends and acquaintances and take the name of christ upon them I 1 ther the most fearful ignorante co unfed with dishonesty and an u unwillingness n dg ness s appear different in an their worship to others beems seems to tile the people back eo much so that even en many of those pOw now claiming membership of the church ch have never realized the importance ot the work so vly very few faithful saints are fo tp be found in 16 holland |