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Show HI I j APOSTLE EUA3TUS SNOW. AT THE GENERAL CONFERENCE HELD IN SALT LAKE CITY, OCTOBER C, 1849, APOSTLE ERASTUS SNOW AND ELDER P. O. HANSEN WERE CALLED AS MISSIONARIES TO DENMARK AND ELDER JOHN E. FORSOREN TO SWEDEN. APOSTLE SNOW ARRIVED IN COPENHAGEN ON THE 14TH DAY OF JUNE 1850. IN COMPANY WITH ELDERS FORSOREN AND JJYKE, P. O. HANSEN HAN-SEN HAVING PRECEDED Tl EM ABOUT FOUR WEEKS. THE FIRST PUBLIC MEETING WJ8 HELD ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF JULY, AND THE FIRST HAT ISM IN DENMARK WAS PERFORMED PERFORM-ED BY APOSTLE SNOW ON THE 19th DAY OF AUGUST, 1850, HE HAVING LEARNED SUFFK NT OF THE LANGUAGE TO PERFORM PER-FORM THE CEREMONY IN DANISH. ELDER FORSOREN, WHO UPON HIS ARRIVAL AT COPENHAGEN, HAD IMMEDIATELY DE PARTED FOR GEFLE. SWEDEN, WHERE ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF JULY, HE BAPTIZED HIS BROTHER l'E'ER FORSGREN THIS WAS THU FIRST IIAITISM PERFORMED IN THE HCtNLl-NAVIAN HCtNLl-NAVIAN COUNTRIES IN THIS GENERATION. FROM THAT MEAGRE BEGINNING, AND DESPITE THE TREMENDOUS OP'ii SIIION OF ORTHODOX CHR.STIAM1Y, A CR1- -T X. ' NY T'!0' SANDS OF PEOPLE RECEl ED THiS UNPOPULAR DOCTRINES OF "MORMONISM," AND HAVE IMMIGRATED TO THIS COUNTRY AND BECOME HONORED Cl 1ZENS OF O'JH COMMONWEALTH. MNY OF THEA- IN THE FOREMOST RANKS OF OUR RELIGIOUS, RE-LIGIOUS, SOCIAL, FINANCIAL AND POLITICAL LIFE. TODAY'S CELEBRATION IS IN COMMEMORATION OF THE IN TRODUCTION OF THE GOS1 EL OF CHRIST BY APOSTLE ERASTUS ERAS-TUS SNOW, AND HIS CO-L BORERS IN SCANDINAVIA IN THE YEAR 1850. |
