Show THE WORK IN HOLLAND the that labors labore of the elders eldera of the cb church of jems aekus christ of latter day aay bainte lu ID that small email but thrifty part of the european mission known as the netherlands have received mention in these columns though probably every other field of mission ary work on the gl globe be has baa been more generously generou aly noticed in our publications than this generally speaking the branches of the church there have been small and the utah elders laboring in them few in number furthermore the latter have seemed very modest about seeing their names and operations in print and have ap ape areu disinclined dis inclined to acquaint their friends at home except by personal pera onal letters with their experiences and the measure of their success succeed A few days daya ago however the NEWS published an interesting ter te resting eating communication from one of the brethren labor laboring ilig there and louhy knowing koo the deep I 1 in la deleat felt elt at home in the progress of the work in those tight llyde itil lands as aa well as an in other parts paria or the world we make use uee of a just juat published in the millennial star toy by elder A H lund president pre eident of the european mission who recently returned to liverpool from a brief visit among some of the continental branches of the church he guys aye on our return from the scandinavian mission we enjoyed a pleasant visit with the saints at rotterdam and amsterdam the headquarters ot of the mission is ia at the first named place where we met with the saints on sunday october 22 in a nice commodious hall ball which was well filled with saints and strangers several of the local elders spoke quite fluently and an excellent spirit prevailed the sin sinding einai ing Qing accompanied by an organ was waa tine fine the saints in this mission have a small collection of our hymns printed in dutch durch but not sufficient to give them thein the variety they desire so they use also a hymn book not published by bi ns no the selections from this book during the meetings we attended were mainly from the psalms of david set met to metre it would be very desirable for some of our poetical saints who understand dutch to increase the collection of our hymns in that language we went to amsterdam the next day where a large congregation met in the evenin evening g and we had an enjoyable time the elders reporting their labors said eaid they felt much encouraged in their endeavors to spread the truth in those lands and during the year they had met with much success over seventy members having been b baptized sized the netherlands Tet netherlands herlands mission comprises the two countries holland and belgium both enjoy religious liberty the population of belgium is catholic while three fitilis of the population of holland are Protes the labors of the elders have been mainly in holland the people there receive the brethren kindly many come to the meetings and quite a number investigate the principles of the gospel most of the saints live in holland there is also a branch of the church in belgium on his last laai visit vis vit it to that country one elder reported having baptized tour four persons the greatest difficulty which the brethren find in laboring in belgium is their being una to spoken there french walloon and flemish the latter however is merely a dialect of the dutch language differing tiff ering from this perhaps as an much as norwegian from danish like these the dutch and flemish have adopted the same orthography which makes the modern landisi iob or dutch du ch the language of seven million people elders who could speak walloon a patois of french and flemish would find belgium a promising field the netherlands mission numbers between tive five and six hundred saints and is divided into fourteen branches branche 4 of which the ibe largest are amsterdam rot and arnheim |