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Show UTAH BOYS IN A BERLIN JAIL j A vivid description of the personal experienced of one of the elders who was among those un whom the Prussian Prus-sian ro'if'f descended while holding a meeting lti T?erlln on .Inly 21. which was coCTd 1y the Associated I'ress dispatches, is container! In a letter fr.iru Elder Rmlcer Clawnnn. son of Mr. and Mrs. Speucer Clawaon, lo hU mother, dated Berlin, July 22, p'il liHhcd in the Deseret News. Tho j meeting was broken up by the police, and the missionaries were placed In jail for the nUht, hut released next day, with orderR to leavo the city an.l not return under penalty of fine and Imprisonment Following H an extract ex-tract froin Elder C'lawsnn's letter: "My I.ar Mother lust a line to say that I reached Uerlm yesterday afternoon, and will leavo for Rotterdam Rotter-dam In the rnornlDg, giving nie just a day and a half in one or tho finest and most attractive cities In Europe. And alack-aday! I'm afraid I shall not set? Berlin again for a l'tn; time to come. This Is how it happened: We were holding meeting here in a nice liftll with a largo attendance of Saints and strangers. Tho services were opened with a spirited song and prayer. pray-er. A short address wa.s y,lven by one of tho elders in German, followed follow-ed by a quartet, of male voices. At this prdot I was introduced and proceeded pro-ceeded to fpeak in English, Elder Clayton. (e?n of Nephl Clayton) president pres-ident of thf branch, translating me. My text was the principle of sacrifice. sacri-fice. I gave several illustrations showing show-ing that sacrifice brings forth tho blesslni'3 of heaven. Referring to the Savior. 1 remarked that lie Drougni to the world a message of love, of peace, of) Joy, of salvntlon, and in return re-turn was' met by a spirit of hatred and persecution. Enter the Police. "Just as I reached this point, tho police entered the rr-m and interrupted inter-rupted the meeting. They talked rap-Idly rap-Idly and excitedly. I didn't know Just what tbey were saying, but I seemed to know what was going on. They ordered all the women to leave the room and the men to remain. Of the men present, the missionaries, some 21 In number. Including President Thomas McKay and myself, were arrested ar-rested and taken to police headquarters headquar-ters and locked up for the night "So you see my first night in Berlin Ber-lin was spent In Jail The one redeeming redeem-ing feature of thU experience was a clean bed, otherwise it was extremely extreme-ly unpleasant, but theu you know I'm quite used to that Rrt of thing; but to those brethren who hl never had a similar experience, It came as a heavy 'Jolt.' "The following day, after about IS hours' confinement, we were released and banished from Prussia, being given giv-en three days to 'get out' We can visit other parts of the German empire, em-pire, but Eerlin never, unless the banishment ban-ishment order is rescinded. If wo return to this city a p'easant reception awaits us line and imprisonment. I am leaving today for Itotterdam. "We went to jo II without supper, ond came away without breakfast or dinner. The prison breakfast I 'passed 'pass-ed up.' When they handed me a j ploce of coarse, strong bread and a cup of coffee much resembling dish water, I accepted It. r.f course, with a smile. b"t upon closer Investigation I was not so hungry as I thoutht I was, The fare was so renngnnnt that 1 already al-ready had a feeling of 'fulness.' and waited until I got out of prison before be-fore eating." |