| Show RELIGIOUS intolerance IN scandinavia IN SWEDEN prom FROM D den 1 N malte maite t president anthon anthem II 11 land of the scandinavian mis iUs slon sion waltin writing 0 from front copenhagen on the uit to president denba D 11 II wells liverpool gives the following account of affairs in that land some items of which will doubtless cause general surprise 1 I have now returned from my trip to sweden and norway we have had a splendid time n our meetings the saints feel well anti and tile the elders eiders work zealously to spread llie ilie truth A ali though they have not seen as many fruits of their labors this winter as they did the last still wu we are ari thankful to be able to report about Z 00 baptisms and a great reat many ir meetings betings have been held a among lond strangers af As a general thin thing the brethren have not inet met with any persecution in norway they have treated some somme of the bre brethren turen to the dreaded diet dict bread and water and while I 1 was in stockholm president oley olcy olson oison was called lup up before the court to meet the charge of having preached after having been warned by the church council not to do 10 so we considered it best for hm him not to meet tho charge in person but request leave to answer in writing this threw throw the burden of proof on the prosecuting attorney to night I 1 had a lettera roi Ii rother brother oison olson that as this they lacked evidence tie the prosecution harl hart asked to haird tuv the tile case postponed until the oth of june they had calculated to have evidence out of bro olson himself liv b asking askill him question but hut ills his not only oy by letter broiled their calculation this time A gentleman not noi in m the church has offered to conduct the case still there is not much chance chanca of get gettine getting tint off but if we can edin postpone th the e time until brother olson returns home be he will not care what their sentence is 13 here in denmark we have beenson been so secure having religious liberty that we have not considered they would do i anything ag against us by the law etwas it was therefore like a bomb in our camp when we heard yesterday that brother niels hansen hausen had been banished from front the country we have heard foursome for some time thad thai ahry y wanted to drive the elders froin from the country and we knew that something was bresin brewing breviu as they had bac I 1 called the elders up b before the pol poi police iee lee courts asking them a great ganv ques I 1 ions but we had na no idea that thit they do anything of the kind I 1 went to see a lawyer about this and he told me they could not do it as there was no law against preaching and he thought that brother hansen should demand a trial I 1 telegraphed him to that effect and felt quite assured that wc we would gain the case in the afternoon at yesterday st erday we had a still greater surprise we received a letter from brother valentine that he was con lined fined in one of th the 0 ce cells celis 1 I 1 3 in t the he courthouse here in it this city expecting to be sent awas away from the country tonight to night ile he bad advertised to hold meetings in bornholm and was then called up and told to leave forthwith or they would send him away by force he refused to go and aud nive five minutes after the appointed time two policemen ca came m e pointed lod for or 4 him and h he was sent here he r e to copenhagen with orders to send him to england I 1 went and saw the U S fa minister today to day I 1 asked him the question if american citizens could be banished f from rout the country without a trial lie lle said sald 1 I believe athey can there is some law that gives them arb arbitrary I 1 tr a ry power to expel foreigners lie them told old oid me we that hat he had bad tried to help mr sir frandson the preacher who was in uta utah about four years ago but they had banished bani sned him anyhow tills erand frand son had many influential friends but they could not move the authorities when I 1 saw that they had banished him I 1 woud wondered ered how long ions they would leave us alone the minister promised f we sent him a written statement and the bartys citizenship papers that lie he would go noto goto to the chief of the department of ustice justice and see what could b be e dolle done but he had very little hopes 0 our u r co counsel u usei usel had meanwhile been up to find out the tile grounds on which they banished brother valentine and found that it was not nut oil on account of religious belief or pr eachin but that they had construed or rather contorted a paragraph in the law concerning 1 foreigners to be applicable to our missionaries mi ss i fonaries on aries arles it was originally intended for socialists and political agitators but bog being very arbitrary in its wording aney can expel any foreigner who has not obtained the tile right t to be supported if the authorities have occasion to believe that he may mav become obnoxious sel sei said there was nothing to doas the judge who banished Brot brother hier fier valentine did it according to orders received from the attorney general had the initiative come f from rom the lower cour courts we mi might glit gilt have bad some chance 0 of 1 lighting it but as it came from the head we had none when I 1 saw there was no chance to bring b 0 the case bea before ore the courts I 1 tele telegraph telegraphed grap ed for brother niels hansen to come on brother valentine left here tonight iii lit ile lie was taken on board by one ol 01 the tho police it was with curious feelings I 1 baw sav brother valentine leave if he e is the first one that my my native land always so law revering has bani banished sheb shea from her shores for lor pr preaching aching the gospel of christ where will it end brother daniel K brown browh who wishes TO visit isit v relatives in en england land before goinz going 0 o home in june went by the same steamer brother valentine will go to liverpool to get orders from f rom you what to do if it meets your mind he might be sent to norway where we are short of missionaries ile he might labor in england as lie he talks english better than danish ile he has been in this mission a little more than a year and a half |
