| Show IN conference SWEDEN malmo may 2 1898 the readers of the news have been without a letter from conference for so long that some of them may think it no longer exists the truth is that though small no conference in scandinavia shows greater vitali vitality tr than this i two years ago only three arles were laboring here the aea prevalent that all the honest seekers after truth had been gathered fut but fortunately elder C N lund thought otherwise in the fall of 1896 several mission missionaries arief were appointed to labor in this conference and malmo alone had fouw fou energetically canvas canvassing ing the city several mem members bers of the salvation army began investigating and soon their leading musicians and singers were as aa to make the meetings of the A saints interesting sister alma lofstrom led the way through being baptized by an authorized servant of god on march mah ma h 7 1897 and she was followed by thirteen other members of the army who are today good faithful latter day taints the officers of the army soon prohibited the members from going to the mormon hall but this brought nearly every member here and a i large proportion of our audience nearly every sunday Is ie from the salvation army y A week ago our semi semiannual annual aarm conference was held in this city elder hanson reported eighty four bap clems in conference during tb the baat las t twelve months and ninety five per I 1 cent were grown persons A reporter attended one of the meetings in g 4 am and d the next day published a long piece ridiculing us that very piece did its share in drawing a large crowd the following sunday i at the close of a meeting anan aban came forward and announced himself as rev daleen after getting permit permission sion of elder hanson to ask a few questions he very earnestly stated that he did not believe mormonism because it was a false doctrine founded on a stolen novel that revelation now was contrary to the scriptures that the mormons cormons in utah were terribly immoral and still practiced polygamy we modestly contradicted his statements and asked for some proofs he said he had some letters from utah that he had haa left at home he would bring them though to our next meeting elder hanson then began reading some passages of scripture that promise revelation in our day but mr daleen suddenly left us we have a kind friend in salt lake who labors zealously to keep up the peoples interest in mormonism by sending free numbers to people here of a little sheet in which the statements made regarding the saints are so startling that they cause many people who would otherwise be indifferent to come and hear us this spring the editor of the sheet published a pitiful letter in the malmo papers praying for financial aid and stating that twenty thousand countrymen in utah were suffering tor for the want of spiritual food and he only had one pastor to assist him in relieving this terrible famine |
