Show THE WORK IN scandinavia 21 AVIA atavia president A it to tov the Mille millennial wital star from irom copenhagen en december 12 1884 gives tile the following follo account of the work lu in scandinavia we have a great many strangers visit our meetings meeting betit has been duil dull in the baptizing line here in this city for tor some time tonight to night we are arc going 1 r to baptize a young man and his sister and several more inore are arc coming coining so diligently to our meetings that I 1 believe they will ivill soon join us our young ladies ladles and toung young mens improvement associations had their first joint session last night it vvs was lys quite iu 1 le a success the first number of young 1 ladies ladles thoughts was read and was full of good things at stockholm they have bave forbidden on our r breth brethren ren fen who are laboring there to preach they threaten to tine fine them I 1 k r boners for preaching it will take some time nelore belore this could be tried triad at the different courts so the brethren are not discouraged but intend to obey god rather than man after our last conference in stockholm 1 im A 1 hedberg the champion tg tract acte seller seiler was appointed to go to finland lle lie lie ile has now for one year been sent to the hardest places in the mission when he gave in his report lie said he was willingto willing to go wherever he should be sent even if it were to finland ile he did not ba ve any idea of this being actually the place where he had been called I 1 told him to go over there and stay as long iong as he be could do something and when it vot got too hot over there to come back bacic to 10 S i ta u kellad we had plenty for him to up H B aia oia been there about two month ilo ilc io managed to take a lot of our bois boks boas and ami tracts with him lie writes lne lue iong long i letter giving his experience lie lia has held a number of meetings hoine home dds da das s as high at three the police havu havi been on his track the whole time but lie he has so far tar eluded them though one found him and read an order from front the governor in which he was ordered to leave they have seized his boo books and say they will tine line him at least goo marks if they catch him the people are anxious to hear him lie ile has already baptized seven ile he says lie has never felt better belter in his life lie ile thinks though he had bad better get away from there but several more are expected to join the church and be he feels he ought t to 0 8 stay tat tai until lie he has baptized them I 1 feel fel 11 anxious oil on his account as the russian authorities are rather severe on the mormons cormons Mor mons 1 the brother who was sentenced to 28 days bread and anal water t is expecting this treat at christmas it is ls considered almost eq equal bial 0 a penalty ofed of ideath eath still he leeis feels splendid brother ff hedberg edberg has visited him may god bless these our brethren |