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Show MORMONS IN DENMARK. Over One Hundred Missionaries Now nt Work In That Country Making Converts Correspondence Assoi lated Press 1 Copenhagen, Monduy, Teb 1 The Mormons uro making strong efforts to gain a permanent foothold In Denmark. Den-mark. It Is notorious that this little country has furnished a large quota of emigrants for Utah, wheio there are thousands of Danish Mormons. Some of the must prominent leaders of this cert aro Dines Dsnlsh missionaries who have been sent to work In their native Und have not been well tccelved In Denmark Most of them have boon banished from the country ns soon us It was discovered discov-ered that they were herp to gain converts con-verts to their religion and to encourage people to emigrate to Utah For this leuson their work has often been carried car-ried on eecretl) The authorities of the Mormon church seem to hava decided recently that Denmark Is nn exceptionally good field for their operations, nnd thero are now over n hundred Mormon missionaries mission-aries In this countr), under tho direction direc-tion of n superintendent nt Copenhagen. Copen-hagen. The missionaries publish an organ In this city and distribute thousands of tracts, and a piece of prop-rty In tho best part of Copenhagen has boon purchased, on which they Intend to build a Mormon temple Money for this purposo Is belnif collected nmong the Mormons rff the United Stales. About 500 Danen are Induced to emigrate emi-grate to Utah every yeir The Danish press Is aroused, and It Is the tight that steps will be taken to lucvent u Mormon temple from being built In the capltnl of Denmirk nnd lo rid the country of Mormonlsm and Its propigandlsts |