| Show DEATH OF P BJORKLUND copenhagen sept 8 1893 it becomes my painful duty to lo say something in regard to the death of one ol of our elders while out in the field preach haf the gospel goepel of christ you have no doubt already been informed of this thin lb through rough a telegram neut nem from here on the of august rider elder P Blar bjorklund klund was sent to scandinavia as a missionary in november 1891 he arrived in this city december and was BP pi I 1 hinted to labor in confer nee of n D while there he labored energetically although a man in his bis sixty second year he walked long distances distance aud and held a good many meetings and accomplished a great deal of god goi d in company with elder ludvig hanson he we w nt out tu to hold bold a meeting on august after which he complained that he did not feel V w ell they decided to rest for a day or two till he be got better F failing ailing in realizing this hope they boarded the train for Holo ingborg arriving there he still continued to feel III and concluded to go to the hospital on the it is supposed that the doctor advised him to under undergo sto ao an operation which he did on the and when his companies came to visit him on the lath he was dead the news came to me on the and immediately I 1 went over to hel sing borg where he be def I 1 telegraphed to all the elders in the conference and next dext clay aay most of them had arrived we dressed our dead brother at once after securing a nice we bought bousel lat a grave lot in the new cemetery we had some bother with the who wanted to bury him according to via ceremonies of the lutheran church but to this we would not give our oui consent conson son t we finally decided to bury him I 1 against their protest which we did we held bold a small matting at the grave and after dedicating the same mime an aa a rt rest ing baoe so for abla h 0 the servant of the lord to blaed reet r in n fur r a while we filled it up ad placed a f few w flowers on its ita top the sympathy of the elders is extended to his aged wife who was thus called upon to lo lose her husband this was a sorrowful experience for me as aa well as aa for the rest real of the elders here anu ano causes us ua all to vt r fleet on the ways of god and hla hill dealings with the children cn ildren of men there are two or three more of the elders in this ibio mission alon who are not in the beat of health with kaid regarda to my frien friends dp C A CARLQUIST |
